Star Trek: The Original Series
Cast & Key People
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Our Review
Where it all began: 1966-1969, three seasons, and cultural DNA so deep that sixty years later we’re still remixing it. Roddenberry’s wagon train to the stars. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and the Enterprise’s 430 souls, was the first show that took sci-fi seriously as allegory: Balance of Terror (submarine warfare with Romulans), A Taste of Armageddon (war as computer simulation), The City on the Edge of Forever (Harlan Ellison’s time travel tragedy, the best episode of the series), Space Seed (Khan’s debut), Mirror, Mirror, The Trouble with Tribbles, Amok Time.
Yes, the effects are cardboard and-velour; yes, the third season collapsed; yes, Shatner. But you’re watching television learn what it could be, and the first interracial kiss on American TV happened on this show. Everything since is a descendant.
Verdict: Watch it, for history, for the chemistry, for the bones of everything.
