On September 8 , 1966 , precisely 50 years ago today , the very first episode of Star Trek aired on television . More than just skill fabrication , it dared to opine a future for humanity where it had go preceding war , inequality , and poorness , replacing them with allowance , exploration , and Bob Hope . And it ’s not an exaggeration to say that Star Trek changed the man .
Star Trek has had many incarnations over the long time — there have been six boob tube shows , 726 total episode , 13 movies , and one reboot — but its master delegacy has stick around the same . The consequence is a serial that won infinite awards ( 31 Emmys ! ) but has also fostered a monolithic fandom that include actor , political leader , and more . It ’s a show that created and made famed many of the tropes that science fabrication uses all the time now . It ’s a series so influential that an real ballistic capsule was make after the fancied spaceship endeavour . scientist have spent age working to turn the fake engineering seen in the series into a reality . President Barack Obamais a buff .
On - screen , it helped popularize diversity in popular entertainment . It made all its looker experience included and inspire . A beautiful example is Leslie Jones telling the tale of see Whoopi Goldberg on idiot box for the first meter and being so thrilled to see someone who looked like her . And that connects back to Goldberg , when she saw Uhura on Star Trek at age nine . “ I look at it and I went squall through the sign of the zodiac , ” shesaid , “ ‘ Come here , mummy , everybody , come quick , come quick , there ’s a black lady on television and she ai n’t no maid ! ’ I knew correctly then and there I could be anything I wanted to be . ”
It ’s a show so ground - breaking that it gets reference for thing it was n’t even the first to do . Kirk and Uhura ’s kiss was n’t the first scripted mixed kiss on television , but everyone remember it is . But that myth is still part of the influence of Star Trek , and it ’s a myth light to believe because of how laborious Star Trek like to promote the boundaries , to ( boldly ) go whether other series and movies so seldom do , to reveal what humanity would look like at its most accepting , its most optimistic , and its most noble .
It seems impossible now , but back in 1966 , the original Star Trek was not an easy sell — it had two fender and a major mould change before run low on the zephyr — and it was canceled after three seasons , due to low ratings . But thanks to syndication , a truehearted fandom arose , one that has only grown over the last five decades . Now it ’s an institution . And it ’s an institution that will stay , as the series finally returns to video next year with Bryan Fuller ’s extremely anticipated Star Trek : Discovery .
Here ’s to you , Star Trek . And here ’s to the next 50 years .
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