Star Trek Blog

Star Trek Blog


The media that I want to talk about is the TV series Star trek from the late 1960’s.
This show is one of the main science fiction series and many offshoot movies that still today have a very big following. From the first Star Trek series four decades ago many movies have been made with the original cast. The Star Trek saga did not end there either. There have been many television shows and movies, including Star Trek the Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, and some others.
The original show captures your attention within the first few minutes. Either something bad happens or Kirk, our captain, has a new love interest. No matter what happens in the beginning, you always want to see how it resolves, your interest is caught and then held right on to the end. The show had some very good writers that not only told great stories but also put in deep messages about the character of man, both good and evil. Many shows nowadays have no substance to them at all, and do nothing but degrade the audience that chooses to watch them.
There are many relationships of Star Trek, between Jim Kirk the captain, Spock the 1st officer, McCoy the doctor, Scotty the chief engineer, Ohura in communications, Sulu the defense controller, and Checkov in navigation. All of the aforementioned characters are the main cast of the show and are, everyone of them, excellent actors. They are all very believeable and to me that is good acting. Captain Kirk ia the ideal captain. He is wise, smart, fair, and cares not only about his ship the Enterprise, but also has great fatherly concern for every member of his crew. He always tries to do what is best for everyone. Kirk is also single, and many of the shows introduce a love interest for the captain. Sometimes it is an old flame of his from out of his past, and sometimes it is a new and exotic woman from the space frontiers that they are always exploring. Whoever they are they are always gorgeous and add alot to the story as they are most often gifted in many other ways as well. Often it is part of the mystery of the episode, who is this lovely creature they have come across in their space travels and what is she doing in the story and how is her interaction with Captain Kirk going to affect the future of our spaceship.
Yes, did I neglect to mention that this show is about a crew of men and women who belong to a federation of peacekeeping and exploring humans way out there in the future who fly around in a very large spaceship called the Enterprise. They seem like ordinary men of our day in their speech and actions but they are very smart in their own particular area on their starship, as they call it. They visit new and exciting planets all the time, meet some very strange and incredible beings and get themselves into some of the riskiest situations you can imagine, when they are exploring. You often wonder why they always take the greatest risks possible and seem so fearless, yet I think that is one of the secrets to why people are still fans of theirs almost 50 years after the show first came out in the late 60’s! We all have obstacles in life to overcome, though not in deep space for most of us, so to see some very likable characters who work together well as a team week after week encounter tremendous obstacles and then put their combined efforts and various talents together to solve them is kind of like life lessons in problem solving our own adventures and difficulties. After all most of us have near ancestors who were very adventurous and came over to this country out of great bravery and difficulty to explore this new world. Likewise the theme mentioned at the beginning of each episode of Star Trek is to explore the galaxy and search out new worlds and go where no man has gone before. The Theme music is quite fantastic I am sure you will find it fits with the futuristic theme. I think you will like the show, here is a small clip for you to enjoy!




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