At 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 8, 1966, NBC aired the premiere of a new series called Star Trek. The episode was 鈥淭he Man Trap.鈥� The star date was 1513.1, in case you鈥檙e interested in that kind of thing.
I am not interested in that kind of thing.
The Star Trek canon encompasses 10 television shows 鈥� 811 episodes, so far 鈥� and 13 movies. I鈥檝e just never been into it. I tried to get into it for this show, but it didn鈥檛 work.
But here鈥檚 the thing: It doesn鈥檛 matter. 鈥淏eam me up.鈥� 鈥淟ive long and prosper.鈥� 鈥淩edshirt.鈥� 鈥淰ulcan.鈥� 鈥淜lingon.鈥� The English language鈥檚 . Regardless of whether or not you鈥檙e a fan of Star Trek, Star Trek is a big damn deal, with nearly boundless influence.
鈥�Star Trek is more than pop culture; it鈥檚 20th century mythology,鈥� . This hour, a look at some of the more than 36,000 minutes 鈥� more than 25 days 鈥� of television and movies that is Star Trek.
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- Sam Hatch - Co-host of on WWUH
- Timothy Sandefur - Author of The Permission Society: How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms Into Privileges and What We Can Do About It; he wrote
- Caroline Siede - Freelance writer
- Linda Wetzel - Associate professor of philosophy at Georgetown University
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Colin McEnroe, Rebecca Castellani, Greg Hill, Chion Wolf, and Alan Yu contributed to this show, which originally aired September 8, 2016.
