On September 8 1966, the first episode of the television show Star Trek aired on NBC. Gene Roddenberry’s influences in creating this series included the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, C.S. Forrester's Horatio Hornblower novels and the television serial Wagon Train. Star Trek was cancelled after only two seasons, but an intense fan letter campaign brought the program back for one more year. The Sci-Fi show that wouldn’t die, it gave birth to five more TV series, eleven films (so far), and countless parodies and novels. I was just a little kid, but I can still remember how much it thrilled me the first time I heard, “These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
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