Star Trek

In 1964, former Air Force pilot and Los Angeles police officer Gene Roddenberry unveiled his concept for a science fiction series - a show about a group of characters who would travel each week to worlds similar to our own. Roddenberry set the show “somewhere in the future”- close enough to our time for the audience to be able to identify with the continuing characters, but far enough into the future for galaxy travel to be thoroughly established. When Star Trek debuted in 1966, no one could have imagined the cultural impact that this weekly “space opera” would have on multiple generations of viewers. Interest has never waned as demonstrated by more then ten Star Trek motion pictures and five additional television series. Over the years, Star Trek has inspired people of all races and nationalities to strive toward a future where all of mankind’s ills could be healed, where technology worked for the good of everyone, where the unknown was something to be curious about rather than something to be frightened of.