Kirk is the audacious, impulsive, and womanizing Enterprise commander. My compliments to the late Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek's creator. The series has an innocence about it unmatched in the later ones. As for myself, while I find some of the Next Generation plots compelling and enjoy the dangerous drama of Voyager stranded in the Delta Quadrant, there's nothing quite like the characters from TOS. My husband will stubbornly watch only TOS, while my teenage son feels nostalgic about TOS, but secretly prefers Voyager. In our household we are all Trekkies, so the ongoing adventures of the Federation Star Ship Enterprise constantly enthrall us. The 79 (eighty if including The Cage (1966)) episode television series, which was produced from 1966 to 1969, has now cult characters and has fans all over the world.

The series is known for looking at then (1960's) hot topics such as sex, war, God, religion, politics, and racism and other things that make up the human condition through a lens of the future. We see the Enterprise and her crew battle aliens, megalomaniac computers, time paradoxes, psychotic murderers, and even Khan Noonien Singh ( Ricardo Montalban). The series follows them as they confront strange alien races, friendly and hostile alike, as they explore unknown worlds. They, along with a crew of approximately four hundred and thirty, including helmsman Lieutenant Hikaru Kato Sulu ( George Takei), navigator Ensign Pavel Andreievich Chekov ( Walter Koenig), communications officer Lieutenant Nyota Uhura ( Nichelle Nichols), and chief engineer Lieutenant Commander Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott ( James Doohan). second-in-command) from the planet Vulcan, and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kirk's two best friends are Commander Spock ( Leonard Nimoy) (last name unpronounceable to humans) the ship's half-human/half-Vulcan Science Officer and First/Executive Officer (i.e. The Enterprise is commanded by handsome and brash Captain James Tiberius 'Jim' Kirk ( William Shatner).

Enterprise, representing the United Federation of Planets (including Earth) on a five-year mission in outer space to explore new worlds, seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no one has gone before. A 1960's science fiction action adventure series set in the twenty-third century based around the crew of the U.S.S.

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