Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is the Classics Set in the XXIII century, the original series follows the adventures of the starship Enterprise and its crew, led by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), his First Officer Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and the Chief Medical Officer Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley).
William Shatner’s voice served as the introduction for each episode in the opening credits, which established the objective of the ship:
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of law firm the starship Enterprise ” in a mission that lasted five years, dedicated to the exploration of unknown worlds, the discovery of new life and new civilizations, to reach places where nobody has been reached.
When Star Trek will debut in 1966, was not an immediate success, the ratings were low as well as advertising revenue. Even before finishing the first season, he had called the channel to cancel it for its low ratings.
While Roddenberry by continuing the series as executive producer, moved away during the third season of the show as producer. chosen to receive the College of Arts and Science Distinguished Service Award in May 2009 is is an active member on a number of Boards, including the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Refugees International, UN Watch, The Seton hall University School of Diplomacy, the New York City Parks Foundation, the New York City Opera, and the American Hospital of Paris, where the nursing services have been named in her honor At the end of this season, the series was canceled, with a total of 79 episodes. However, it became extremely popular and a cult series when the program step by syndication in the 1970s. The success of the series was followed by five television series (one of which was animated) and eleven films, the most recent released May 8, 2009. Guinness World Records went on original Star Trek series as the one with largest number of spin-offs in television history .
Creation, development and production
Being a fan attorneys for a long time science fiction, Gene Roddenberry in 1960 submitted a proposal to make Star Trek television series attorney aboard a great ship dedicated to exploring interstellar space. Roddenberry had extensive experience in writing stories of the West that were popular at that time and sold the program to the channel as “Wagon lawyers Train to the stars”.
Gene Roddenberry in 1978
In 1964, Roddenberry assure an agreement by three years of development with the independent TV production company Desilu. In its original conception, the hero was Captain Robert April’s “SS Yorktown. Eventually the character became the Captain Christopher Pike. The first pilot episode The Cage was produced in 1964, with actor Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike, the first election after Roddenberry, Lloyd Bridges, had been rejected.
At a time when racial segregation was firmly entrenched in several areas of the United States, Roddenberry envisioned a multiracial crew and gender diversity, based on his hypothesis that racial prejudice and sexism would not exist in the XXIII century. Also included a recurring character of an alien race, Spock (half human, half Vulcan), united under the flag of the United Federation of Planets.
Other Star Trek innovation involving basic solutions to production problems. The idea of traveling faster than light through the warp engines, was not new to science fiction, but facilitated the development of the stories, allowing the Enterprise travel through space so fast. The theme of the teleporters, allowing characters to get from one place to another, saving the cost prohibitive and excessive landing for each episode. The famous communicator was introduced as a device to place characters in situations of risk for damage, being stolen or lost, or out of range. This communicator was copied to the mid-90s for the design of several cell phones.
The concept of Star Trek was initially offered to CBS, but the channel is rejected by the production of Irwin Allen’s Lost in Space (Lost in Space). Then, Star Trek was offered to NBC executives, who rejected the first mate, saying it was too cerebral. But NBC executives were impressed with the concept and took the unusual step of asking for a second driver that was titled “Where No Man Has Gone Before”.