Happy Star Trek Day!
Sep. 8th, 2020 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coryleaToday is the 54th anniversary of the first broadcast of Star Trek.
1. If anybody's reading "An Embarrassing Savior," I uploaded Chapter 5 today. I had intended to refrain from posting updates to this story until it was complete, but I had Chapter 5 ready on Star Trek Day and just couldn't manage to sit on my hands. :-)
4. I wish people didn't celebrate the anniversary of TOS by watching "The Man Trap," which is neither the first episode made, nor the strongest episode, nor the most representative.
1. If anybody's reading "An Embarrassing Savior," I uploaded Chapter 5 today. I had intended to refrain from posting updates to this story until it was complete, but I had Chapter 5 ready on Star Trek Day and just couldn't manage to sit on my hands. :-)
2. CBS is having events all day, including panels for all the shows and streaming episodes; you can find out more at www.startrek.com/day. It's kind of weird that NBC was the network that bought and broadcast TOS, but today Star Trek -- including TOS -- is owned by CBS. But then, a lot can happen in 54 years...
3. On Sept. 8, for every person who tweets #StarTrekUnitedGives, CBS will donate $1 to organizations who champion equality, social justice and scientific progress. Organizations include the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI).
3. On Sept. 8, for every person who tweets #StarTrekUnitedGives, CBS will donate $1 to organizations who champion equality, social justice and scientific progress. Organizations include the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI).
4. I wish people didn't celebrate the anniversary of TOS by watching "The Man Trap," which is neither the first episode made, nor the strongest episode, nor the most representative.
The first episode made was "Where No Man Has Gone Before," which is a totally worthy episode. (Yes, I know "The Cage" was made before that, but since it features an entirely different set of characters, it IS Star Trek, but it's not representative of TOS.)
Most people agree that the strongest episode of TOS was "The City on the Edge of Forever," though I, personally, disagree.
And I think the most representative episode of TOS is "The Devil in the Dark," which has just as relevant of a message today as the day it was made, and has a far lighter touch with the message than most episodes of TOS -- or Star Trek in general -- managed.
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Date: 2020-09-08 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-08 10:34 pm (UTC)CBS even put "The Man Trap" in their line-up of Star Trek Day pilots as the TOS pilot, which it isn't. There are only MILLIONS of TOS fans; I don't know why CBS can't run stuff like this by an advisor so as to get them right!