The Big 4-0

Tomorrow's one of those days that just plain makes the old people (read: the generation above us) feel old- at 8:30 tomorrow night, Star Trek will have been around for four decades. I almost wonder what it must have been like, sitting on the couch in Fall 1966, watching TOS's "The Cage". It would be great to go back and watch it at the time, knowing that it would become such a huge franchise, and knowing that these characters would become such classic icons in science fiction. In a time when television entertainment, especially science fiction televison entertainment, was in such an infant state, Trek blazed the trails that many shows, not only scifi, followed for years to come. It started a form of entertainment that lasted forty years, and hopefully will go forty years more. It's certainly a time to embrace, as TOS symbolized the complete unity that "Bandwagon to the Stars" hoped to achieve. In short, I don't know where we'd be without Trek.

Remember Gene Roddenberry!

Oh, and anyone that's interested- I currently have "The Trouble with Tribbles" with me, and I am totally watching it tomorrow. Oh, and I am so doing all 79 episodes for the 50th in 2016.