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One Cool Thing 1-19-2021 Star Trek recruitment video for Nasa
In a NASA recruitment film, Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols and astronaut Alan Bean visit the shuttle simulator at Johnson Space Center, March 1977. pic.twitter.com/0ymg0SfqXL
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One Cool Thing 1-7-2020 DIscovery season 3 ends
One Cool Thing 12-5-2020 Star Trek KFC
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One Cool Thing 11-5-2020 Star Trek
One Cool Thing 11-5-2020. #startrek just being Star Trek doing good work full of hope and inclusivenes even in times of fear and anxiousness. Tonights episode was a trill story but what it really was is a love story between two Trans actors. Just a great episode doing what Trek does best. #StarTrekDiscovery
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One Cool Thing 10-15-2020 Star Trek Discovery season 3 starts today!
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One Cool Thing 8-6-2020 Lower Decks Premiers
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Star Trek has been expanding rapidly since launching CBS All Access, showing that CBS believes Trek is key to much of their subscriber base. Along comes Lower Decks an animated show from one of the creators of Rick and Morty. It won’t be for everyone and I can see some older Trek fans just shunning it completely but I enjoyed it for a fun half hour romp during the Next Generation era of Star Trek.
It’s silly, crude and a little bit not Trek, but then it deals with things on a Starship and contact with other species and adds some levity to it. It is Star Trek in one major way, its boldy attempting to go, where no Trek show has before. The first season consists of 10 episodes starting tonight and for the next ten Thursdays on CBS ALL Access. Enjoy.
Star Trek at 50
I was around eight years old when I first stumbled upon Star Trek. We lived in an area that only received a few channels and none of them happened to be the ones rerunning episodes of the series in syndication.
A friend of our mother asked if we could feed their cats during a summer vacation. The first day we went into the house we did what curious young boys do and explore the rooms. When we hit the basement office space I laid eyes on her for the first time. A nice foot long scale model of the Enterprise.
“Cool a spaceship”.
Little did I know what impact that would have on my life. The next day was a hot one. The house was cool and while I was feeding the cats my younger brother suggested we hang out for a while and watch a movie. We looked at the wall of Betamax tapes carefully trying to find one. Then I saw that same ship.
“Star Trek? Let’s watch this.” I suggested.
And welcome to a new world, a new universe. Kirk. Spock. McCoy. Adventure. It was my first introduction to science fiction and that youthful love carried into adulthood as it did for many others. As I grew older so did Star Trek, it changed with the times but always at its core was about something better. I’ve been lucky enough to hear many of the original actors talk. And we’ve lost many of them, one by one. Star Trek was a small job over long careers for many of the writers, directors and actors involved in its creation but its influence will be around long after everyone alive today is gone.
That is a legacy worth celebrating.
Happy 50th Star Trek.