Word: treks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...producers of television shows can make such boasts with any accuracy, but as creator and producer of Star Trek, Roddenberry is well aware of the power of his show. Before cancellation by NBC in 1969, the show received unprecedented critical acclaim including an Emmy, an International Hugo Award and the Image Award from the N A A C P. When NBC announced cancellation of Star Trek, over a million letters poured in demanding that show be kept...
Even though Star Trek is now shown only in reruns, it is more popular than ever. "When we threatened to drop the show, we received two bomb threats," said a beleaguered employee at WPIX, the station that airs Star Trek reruns in New York. "The reaction to the show is absolutely wild." Three thousand miles away, an official at KCOP in Los Angeles said, "When the program is on schedule and we pre-empt it for a special, that's really when the fans come out of the woodwork. We receive maybe several hundred letters a week...
Recently, when The Detroit Free Press took a poll on whether Star Trek should be brought back, it drew over 6000 responses--second only to the busing issue--with fully 83 per cent of the respondants in favor of returning the show. The show has plenty of fans in New England, and Star Trek is one of the most popular offerings of Boston station WKBG...
...reaction is the same in the 100 U.S. cities and 55 foreign countries in which Star Trek reruns are shown. TV viewers from Argentina to Zambia have seen Captain Kirk and his crew, and in Germany and England the show is among the most popular aired. Dubbed in Spanish, Portugese, French, German and Japanese, it is hard to believe that anyone within range of a television set hasn't seen at least one episode of Star Trek...
...23rd Century, Star Trek revolves around the adventures of the Starship Enterprise and its interplanetal, international, interracial crew. There's the Waspish Captain Kirk, played in a father-like manner by William Shatner; communications expert Uhura portrayed by the black and beautiful Nichele Nichols; Sulu, the oriental helmsman played by Walter Koenig; Dr. McCoy, the pacifist, depicted by DeForest Kelley; and of course the one and only Mr. Spock, half-Vulcan and half-human, portrayed by Leonard Nimoy. The crew becomes involved in a variety of intriguing tales, all of which make some comment on today's society. The shows...