Transporters, shuttlecraft, phasers on stun, warp engines, dilithium crystals: they are all there, right from the beginning. Its first viewers, if they didn’t flip channels to watch something else, will have discovered a world, or maybe universe, that had already been imagined in some detail. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” And the theme tune, even then sounding a little creaky and old-fashioned, roared in. “These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. “Space: the final frontier,” the voice-over intoned, as a curiously shaped vessel whooshed past. On 8 September 1966, a new weekly drama series made its first appearance on American network television.
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