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a story
A chapter in the book Random Rhyme and Petty Prose
Star Trek Fan
by Bill Schott
Billy sat down on his uncle Ed's couch facing the television. He remembered the last time his family visited, the television was in another room. Ed's favorite show, Lassie, was playing. Billy remembered how amazing the show was in color. This was the first color TV he had been in the same room with. That was a neat experience, watching Lassie running in the super green fields under a super blue sky.
Now, however, it wasn't Lassie on the tube. Instead, an episode of a new show called Star Trek was showing. Nothing like it had ever crossed his eyes before, and it was in color.
The episode was called The Menagery. This one show, he later found, was a mashup of the current series cast with the unseen first pilot episode, The Cage, and the cast that NBC had nixed. In a stroke of genius, in need of an additional episode that would be cheap to make, the series creator made two episodes out of one. That classic move has reached from 1966 to 2022, as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the latest iteration of the half-century long scenario, returns to those characters who never appeared in the original series more than that one time.
Only Star Trek fans would know or care about this latest addendum to the phenomenon of a television show about a utopian future, where all of Earth's problems had been solved, unlike the messy scene of the 1960s, or today, for that matter.
Back in 1966, all Billy knew, at the age of eleven, was that the starship Enterprise was on a five-year mission to seek out new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man had gone before.
Billy sat down on his uncle Ed's couch facing the television. He remembered the last time his family visited, the television was in another room. Ed's favorite show, Lassie, was playing. Billy remembered how amazing the show was in color. This was the first color TV he had been in the same room with. That was a neat experience, watching Lassie running in the super green fields under a super blue sky.
Now, however, it wasn't Lassie on the tube. Instead, an episode of a new show called Star Trek was showing. Nothing like it had ever crossed his eyes before, and it was in color.
The episode was called The Menagery. This one show, he later found, was a mashup of the current series cast with the unseen first pilot episode, The Cage, and the cast that NBC had nixed. In a stroke of genius, in need of an additional episode that would be cheap to make, the series creator made two episodes out of one. That classic move has reached from 1966 to 2022, as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the latest iteration of the half-century long scenario, returns to those characters who never appeared in the original series more than that one time.
Only Star Trek fans would know or care about this latest addendum to the phenomenon of a television show about a utopian future, where all of Earth's problems had been solved, unlike the messy scene of the 1960s, or today, for that matter.
Back in 1966, all Billy knew, at the age of eleven, was that the starship Enterprise was on a five-year mission to seek out new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man had gone before.
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