Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Trek: The Original Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and its crew, led by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), first officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and chief medical officer Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley), in the 23rd century. Shatner's voice-over introduction during each episode's opening credits stated the starship's purpose:
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.The series was produced from 1966-67 by Desilu Productions, and by Paramount Television from 1968-69. Star Trek aired on NBC from September 8, 1966 to June 3, 1969.Although this television series had the title of Star Trek, it later acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series (Star Trek: TOS or TOS) to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began. Star Trek's Nielsen ratings while on NBC were low, and the network canceled it after three seasons and 79 episodes. Nevertheless, the show had a major influence on popular culture and it became a cult classic in broadcast syndication during the 1970s. The show eventually spawned a franchise, consisting of five additional television series, 11 theatrical films, and numerous books, games, and other products.
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Nimoy has written two volumes of autobiography. The first was called I Am Not Spock (1977)
and was controversial, as many fans incorrectly assumed that Nimoy was
distancing himself from the Spock character. In the book, Nimoy conducts
dialogues between himself and Spock. The contents of this first autobiography
also touched on a self-proclaimed "identity crisis" that seemed to haunt Nimoy
throughout his career. It also related to an apparent love/hate relationship
with the character of Spock and the Trek franchise.
The second volume, I Am
Spock (1995), saw Nimoy communicating that he finally realized his years
of portraying the Spock character had led to a much greater identification
between the fictional character and himself. Nimoy had much input into how Spock
would act in certain situations, and conversely, Nimoy's contemplation of how
Spock acted gave him cause to think about things in a way that he never would
have thought if he had not portrayed the character. As such, in this
autobiography Nimoy maintains that in some meaningful sense he has merged with
Spock while at the same time maintaining the distance between fact and fiction.
| “ | I went through a definite identity crisis. The question was whether to embrace Mr. Spock or to fight the onslaught of public interest. I realize now that I really had no choice in the matter. Spock and Star Trek were very much alive and there wasn’t anything that I could do to change that. | ” |
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