Star Trek

1966

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8.4| 0h30m| TV-PG| en| More Info
Released: 08 September 1966 Ended
Producted By: Paramount Television Studios
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://intl.startrek.com/shows/star-trek-the-original-series
Synopsis

Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen led by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.

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Rijndri Load of rubbish!!
Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
simonthenixon This is still one of the greatest shows to ever hit tv. It was deeper than a lot of stuff that was around then, and that lasts longer than production values ever will, even though the production values make me laugh, and I love that. The reason it stuck around is because it has big thoughts and big ideas, and that's worth more than any of that other stuff. It broke boundaries and pushed limits that don't seem like a big deal now, but were back then. I love Star Wars, but it's weird how much more recognition that gets than this.
Johnny H. The Original Series broke new ground for not only future film and TV scifi projects in Hollywood and abroad, but Gene Roddenberry's magnum opus also inspired generations of scientific innovation! Without this show, we wouldn't have had the breakthroughs of smartphones, discovering the possibility of warp-speed travel, and the ever-so-close realization of theoretical teleportation like that in the Starship Enterprise! The characters, Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Scotty, 'Bones' McCoy, Chekov, Sulu and many many more classic characters that have inspired millions of viewers the world over. It's amazing just how vast the scope of Star Trek's influence really is. Its philosophy is PERFECT for the space-opera setting, and the breaking-down of the human condition is still captivating to this day. Time travel, tribbles, parallel universes, Khan, super-humans, robots, cowboys, the list is endless. Even without the sequels the stories in the original series alone are exceptionally diverse and creative.If you are a scifi buff and haven't watched any Star Trek in your life, what the hell are you doing!? Watch it whenever you can! This is pop-cultural history incarnate! And it's fun! Space-exploring fun!
aramis-112-804880 Over-hyped, overpraised. Trekkies (or Trekkers, as they sometimes prefer) may adore this series, which probably takes the place of actual lives. But in the main "Star Trek" (created but thankfully not much written by that dreadful lack of talent called Gene Roddenberry) is tedious, repetitive and po-faced.Yes, the last accusation may be unfair. A series like "Star Trek" has to take itself uber-seriously or viewers will notice how creaky it is. With its spaceship hallways the size of tennis courts and the girth of its out-of-shape Captain who never works out shoved into his uniform like he was squeezed in it from a tube. Unless it took itself serious as death and taxes the (necessarily) cheap sets with the phony red or yellow backlighting for planets, and cheesy props that might fool a first-grader ("This stick is a gun 'cause I say so") would stand out more.But it's also po-faced because it pretends to take on issues. I don't like shows that pretend to address "issues" because it usually ends up with a preachy sermon from some hack writer who thinks he knows better than the rest of us. I.e., in this case, that mantle best fits the preachy hack Roddenberry.Star Trek has a few good episodes. Having yawned through the series more than once just to say I saw it, I like experimental pieces like "Hour of the Gun" and humorous bits like "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "I, Mudd." Also good is the rapport everyone has in space. As I understand it this was not Roddenberry's idea; and, indeed, once his brainchild was launched by others, he came back to make the atmosphere unpleasant for everyone. Still, the friendship depicted between Kirk and McCoy seems real enough. And though some characters have flaws (such as Chekhov's outrageous accent) they mollify them by tidbits such as Chekhov believing his beloved Russians invented everything.Chekhov is not the only bum actor in the piece. William Shatner's Kirk is famous, even among Trekkies, for his overacting. Nimoy's Spock is emotionless because . . . well, have you ever seen Nimoy in anything where he emotes? He gave better performances in "In Search Of . . ." Sulu looks like he was carved, and acts like it.Poor writing, poor acting, tedious and repetitive stories ("get along with us or we'll blow you up"), lousy props and sets. Man, I'm glad I'll be dead by the twenty-third century, if it's anything like this pile of dingo's kidneys. Fortunately for the future, "Star Trek" already looks incredibly dated (watch how they fight, with those wide punches and the Laurel-and-Hardy law that states you can't do anything to me while I'm hurting you, and we'll take turns throwing punches).But the worst aspect of the show is its I-know-better-than-you preachiness. I hate being preached by by know-it-all Hollywood types. Or by people who wear pointy ears to conventions. I'm fine with people being fans. I'm a fan of some things myself (not just one thing). But I never dress up. I enjoy what I enjoy, then put it back in its box and get on with life. And if I lived "life according to Star Trek" I'd be a basket case. See it once through just to say you have then leave it to the pocket-protector types who live vicariously through it. Overall, lots of hooplah, but as MacBeth might have said, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
TxMike I recently came across this old 1960s Star Trek series on Netflix streaming movies. I did what any reasonable person would do, I watched the "pilot" first, a 63-minute episode. I enjoyed it, it brought back good memories of a time long ago.But afterwards I found out a strange fact, this pilot, with a 1964 copyright, had never actually been aired. And that might also explain why it had no captain Kirk, instead it has a captain Pike played by Jeffrey Hunter. But it had other major characters, like Spock.I found out later, Jeffrey Hunter decided to drop out of possible future Star Trek work and that is why captain Pike was replaced by captain Kirk when the series actually began. Who knows, William Shatner might never have become so famous if Hunter had stuck with the series.The pilot is interesting, the crew of the Enterprise get a signal that a strange planet, with 0.9 the gravity of Earth, plus an atmosphere with oxygen and nitrogen, has signs of survivors of an old spaceship crash. So they decide to be beamed down for a rescue mission. What they find are an alien race with small, weak bodies and very large, bald heads and the ability of mind control. There had been only one survivor of that crash, a woman, and they were trying to find a male to mate with her and continue that race. Then most of that unaired pilot was incorporated into episodes 12 and 13 of the first season, with a new Captain Pike story.Over 50 years ago the special effects were nothing like what has been developed since then, and the sets looked like sets built on a sound stage, and not very authentic. But none of that matters, it was a groundbreaking TV series at a time when the viewing audience were hungry for space-exploration stories. I now need to watch a few of the regular episodes that were actually aired and with captain Kirk.

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