Original subtitles

Standard orbit around planet,

definitely class em,

somewhat similar to Earth. Similar,

I think I can pick up something visual for news broadcasts

using a system I think they once called Video,

television was the colloquial term,

but it's on the screen

not because they are easy,

but because they are hard we then fail on it.

Because there is no knowledge gained,

and the right to be one and only one

and all the progress of all mankind

here's a tall ship and a star,

the stereo

I knew that we had something very unique,

something very special television is not known for respecting quality.

And I predicted that with luck at best,

we'll have two seasons so enough, you're trying to be funny never.

We were making the show for entertainment.

But at the same time, the shows were about

so they were about the Vietnam War.

Or they were about any number of things that can be said in science fiction,

and sometimes can't be said and straight drawn.

I'm a doctor. I'm a doctor, not an escalator. Not a bricklayer.

I always laugh when people asked me

if I felt exploited and wearing the Mini Skirt.

That was an expression of women's liberation.

All this power surging and dropping. Are you like

I kept it? I didn't think I had it me

the most significant thing that can be searched

ditch if you are involved in Star Trek,

don't wear a red shirt

there's great adventure, great human themes,

loyalty, decency, kindness, ethical questions being dealt with every episode.

Hopefully we've touched on a number of ideas

that will grow on you if you watch the episodes several times over your life.

You're the captain. You have a right to be vulnerable in the eyes of the crew.

You're fascinating for shame captain would have been

glorious

that was in the late 1960s. Apparently captain,

so are we.

Welcome, I'm William Shatner.

In 1964. Gene Roddenberry had a simple idea,

a wagon train to the stars, new pioneers exploring a new frontier.

He had a vision of the future where mankind had overcome many of his problems

and desired nothing more than a peaceful quest for knowledge.

Well, with more imagination than money.

Star Trek was a ratings failure.

In fact, I think Variety said it wouldn't last

and it only lasted for three short seasons.

Yet, the ideas embodied in Star Trek inspired such a passion and its fans.

They would not let it die.

Tonight, we'll look back at the original series,

there's a familiar sight.

Hear from the people who made it and

explore the Star Trek phenomena

and its future

The space of final frontier.

These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise

for the enterprise and it's crew

These words were a call to adventure,

and the adventure again hear about your field.

It was a journey of discovery to explore strange new worlds

and seek out new life and new civilizations

to boldly go where no one had gone before.

This is Captain James Kirk of USS Enterprise.

We are on a peaceful mission.

We mean no harm to you or any life for please communicate with us.

We're all 1000 planets and spreading out.

We cross fantastic distances and everything's alive.

Life everywhere we estimate there are millions of planets intelligent life.

We haven't begun to map. I'm in command.

I could order but I'm not.

Because Dr. McCoy is right in pointing out

the enormous danger potential in any contact with life

and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this,

but I must point out that the possibilities the potential for knowledge

and advancement is equally great.

Risk is our business.

That's what the starship is all about.

That's why we're aboard her.

Roddenberry inspired by Captain Horatio Hornblower

created Captain James T. Kirk, a courageous explorer, a lover

Oh yes. A skilled diplomat and

a warrior philosopher

that one man in a million could do what you and I have done.

Man the starship

100 decisions that do hundreds of lives.

They don't you're making every one of them right.

A red alert. Fireface banks.

I get my hands on the headquarters genius that assigned me a female Yeoman.

tomato jam. Don't you trust yourself?

I've already got a female to worry about an MC enterprise.

I think we're due for a pickup.

I miss Karidian has been transported aboard ship

she requests permission to see you

Oh you know this lady was coming aboard.

I'm the captain. All this power at your command.

Get the decisions that you have to make

come from a very human source

Are you Captain human?

You can count on

all this power to Caesar of stars

and Cleopatra to worship Him

unfortunately not all alien life forms understood

the peaceful nature of our movement

all right Sparco cover

I listen sweetheart, the Federation's moving in

with taken over you play ball will catch him for a piece of the pie.

You know you're out all the way out.

You know what I mean?

Find that painful.

The character of Captain Kirk very often had to carry

the fraid of of rigidity and self righteousness.

The Super responsible person.

I thought it was a difficult position for him to be in.

Your ship must be destroyed.

We've airport ran to 10 Earth time periods

known as minutes to make preparations.

Something to do something I've overlooked.

Chess was outmatched.

The game is over.

Checkmate

by chess Mr. Spock?

Poker ship to ship as the captain of the enterprise.

Since the early years of space exploration,

Earth vessels have had to incorporate it into them as SUBST

Once known as CORBA

might, if any destructive energy touches our vessel,

our reverse reaction of equal strength is created, destroying

minutes,

destroying the attacker.

Death has little meaning to us.

If it has none to you well attack us now

54321.

Very interesting game.

It does have advantages over chess.

The enterprise's First Officer, Mr. Spock

was half Vulcan, and half human.

As a Vulcan, he was guided by logic, as a human.

He had to live with his emotionalism,

most illogical.

I thought it was gonna be very interesting character,

for an interesting challenge for an actor to play this,

this character with an internal conflict like that

being happy to have him

it's true. Mr. Spock, you're the most cold blooded man I've ever known.

Why thank you, doctor. It's what makes you write in a trained psychiatrist wrong?

Because she feels I don't.

All I know is logic. Fascinating.

Fascinating. Fascinating. Don't say it's fascinating.

No, but it is

interesting. It's also a very human condition.

Most humans deal with this, this internal issue all the time,

this control of emotion or living with emotion or dealing with emotion

versus what Spock of course, would call logic or the intellect in general,

he was turned command over to somebody else.

Only you can give your father the blood transfusions

that he needs to live.

cannot dismiss my duties.

Duty, your duty hit your father.

I know.

This must take precedence.

If I could give the transfusion without loss of time or efficiency,

I would say Eric understands my reason.

Well, I don't It's not human.

Health it's not a dirty word.

You're human to let that part of you

come through your father's dying.

Mother, how can you have lived on Vulcan so long?

Married a Vulcan raise the son on Vulcan without understanding

what it means to be a Vulcan?

What if this is what it means I don't want a no means to adopt a philosophy

a way of life which is logical and beneficial,

we cannot disregard that philosophy merely for personal gain.

Nothing is as important as your father's life.

Being Vulcan is more important to you.

When you stand there.

Speak speaking rules and regulations from Star fleet in bulk and philosophy.

I met your father died and hit you for the rest of my life.

Either go to him now, please.

I cannot.

That was a logical responsible thing to do.

But from the human emotional position, it was very, very difficult and painful,

great source of drama, what to do.

What's the right thing to do?

And use Eric, would you also say thank you to your son?

I don't understand. For saving your life.

Spark acted in the only logical manner open to him.

One does not thank logic, Commander.

Logic, logic. I'm sick to death of logic.

Do you want to know how I feel about your logic?

Emotional? Isn't? Sure there's always been that?

Indeed. Why did you learn here at the time,

it seems the logical thing to do.

When we return, we'll see how Star Trek

envisioned cultural diversity in our future.

infinite diversity in infinite combinations.

The right of peaceful coexistence for all beings is one of the Star Trek's guiding principles.

And what better place to have this happen

than on the bridge of the enterprise.

In many respects, the Starship Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth.

And when you saw the bridge of the enterprise,

you saw Are the makeup of all of the various kinds of people

that populate the starship earth.

You saw an African woman, an Asian man at the helm.

You heard a Russian accent.

A Scottish accent.

An American Southern accent.

My name is McCoy.

I'm a doctor

I'm just a country doctor,

stimulants.

Doctor, you are essentialist

you bet your opponent here as I am.

I think that when you when you look at McCoy on the screen,

he happens to be representative.

The most human person really they're the ordinary guy

that's in a bizarre kind of a situation.

Watch just once. I'd like to be able to land someplace

and say Behold, I am Dr. Angel Gabriel.

Resident central as Dr. McCoy could always be counted on

for a quick and accurate diagnosis on pure

speculation.

Just an educated guess I'd say that man is alive.

stench. He's dead. He's dead.

Well, it got to a point where I was trying to say it in so many different ways.

You know? He's dead. Jim is dead.

Is Dead Captain is dead. I'd switch it around.

Sometimes I'd say Jim is dead.

He's dead. She's dead is dead.

She's dead. or dying is dead.

She's dead. Is Dead captain. The captain is dead.

And I think that's probably gonna be on my tombstone.

He's dead.

It was worse than dead them on bones. What's the mystery?

Brain has gone

helmsmen engine room standing by all decks alert.

We're gonna try pulling away. I recognized right away

that Sulu was a breakthrough road or an Asian character.

Because up until that time,

television had always characterized

Asian characters in stereotypes.

And here was the character of super that gene was describing to me

a member of the leadership team of the starship.

I was blown away by that

Romulans approaching from both sides and doesn't answer

we can't you either lead this

Bob bloodied or with my blood on your thoughts

phasers, men and ready sir.

I've been wanting to get you in a place like this for a long time

of what can I do kept and you know,

we're always supposed to maintain good relations with the natives.

They were looking for somebody who would attract the same kind of audience

that the people on the monkey's head and in actuality,

they were looking initially for a young English person.

I think Gene prevailed at that point, and said,

you know, the Russians were the first people in that space

the cosmonauts and some recognition should be made of that fact.

So let's let's bring in a Russian

will have the appeal the monkeys,

no debris, no residual particles, no traces.

We are programmed to function as human females

Lord, You are

Yes, my lord.

This place is even better than

I can give you a word much longer Mr. Spock

These engines are beginning to show signs of stress.

If we keep the speed will blow up any minute now.

If I push these impulse engines to harden the condition

they're in they'll blow apart the Emergency Bypass

control of the matter antimatter integrator

is fused or Oskari. Are you've done it?

The haggis is in the fire for sure.

I think the Scotsman are great engineers.

You know, let's face it, they invented the steam engine,

the telephone, you know radar, just about everything that is vitally important to us these days

that Gene Roddenberry asked me which act

and I liked for an engineer and I said hey,

you better be a Scotland

my poor

paternal Devorah trying to contact that ship

captain I'm picking up the alien signal again

horror was a wonderful character to create

not only a woman on that bridge as part of the command crew,

but a black woman and people could look on that screen

for the first time and see quality without hitting you on the head with it.

The fact that I'm there was the statement.

Frequency, sir, all languages have been attempted no response

security. The alert. Condition three

all sections go to alert condition

three progress report.

It's very delicate work, sir.

I can think of no one better equipped to handle it Mr. Hora.

Please proceed.

The mixture of the enterprise's crew was immediately popular with its fans.

One of the most popular crew members was my friend Nichelle Nichols,

who wanted to leave the series, feeling that her character wasn't fulfilling its potential,

I had given a careful thought.

And I went into Gene Roddenberry and,

and told him that after the first year,

I intended to leave the show.

And he was very upset.

That very weekend, I went to an NAACP fundraiser.

And someone came to me and said, Miss Nichols,

there's someone who wants to meet you.

He's a great fan of yours.

And I expected to turn around and see some young person.

And I turned around into the face of Dr. Martin Luther King.

And I was stunned. And he said,

Yes, I'm, I'm a big fan of yours.

And I said, thank you very much.

I'm very happy about that. And of course,

I'm leaving the show, after this first year, and he said,

You cannot. And I was taken aback.

And I beg your pardon. He said,

Don't you know who you are? Don't you know what you have?

You have created a character with dignity,

and beauty and intelligence. He said,

Your most important input is for everyone who doesn't look like us,

who sees us for the first time, as we should be seen as equals, as equals.

In peaceful exploration, nutshell, you cannot leave.

And I was simply chilled. And I said that

Thank you, Dr. King. And that Monday, when I went back to tell Gene Roddenberry what Dr. King had said,

and I said to him, if you still want me to stay, I'll stay.

The real statement made by that weekly exposure to that pluralism was that

that was our strength, that we have to recognize

that diversity not as a problem or something that's going to divide us

but as the very thing that makes it possible for us to survive.

We'll explore how Star Trek use the 23rd century

to address the issues of the 20th

When we returned, in a turbulent decade,

as the nation dealt with war, civil unrest and social revolution, something started.

Gene Roddenberry believes science fiction and television could be tools to communicate ideas

and affect change in his world.

There's an ancient Chinese curse, which says

May you live in interesting times.

And we had them in the 60s.

And we have them now to hasn't stopped.

But it was an extremely chaotic, difficult time.

And, and a very fertile ground for picking up metaphoric drama ideas.

I think our writers captured a lot of those ideas extremely well.

They were very sensitive to what was going on at the time,

and tried very much to bring to bear in Star Trek and 23rd century stories,

stories that had to do with something that was happening on Earth today

that people could recognize. And it's obvious,

the most simple minded that loci is an inferior breed.

The obvious visual evidence, Commissioner is

that he is of the same breed as yourself.

As you blind

Commander Spock of Look at me.

Look at me, you're black on one side and white on the other.

I am Black on the right side loci is white on the right,

so all of his people are white on the right side.

Do you remember the 20th century brush wars on the Asian continent?

Two giant powers involved most likely Klingons and ourselves.

Neither side felt that they could pull out Yes,

I remember when on body year after bloody year,

what would you have suggested

one side arm its friends with overpowering weapon.

Mankind would never have lived to travel space if they had.

And I think that what was being said touched a chord and the lives of a lot of people

that were able to relate to and understand it.

And to say, Gee, that still exists today.

Or it's still going on?

Or will it be that way? In the future?

The troglodytes are well, workers captain, oh,

surely you must be aware of that.

They mind Z night for shipment till the solar

those things cannot be done here.

In other words, as they perform all the physical toil necessary to maintain strutters

that is their function in our society,

but they are not allowed to share its advantages.

How can they share what they do not understand?

Like, do you insist on applying human standards to non human cultures?

I remind you that humans are only a tiny minority in this galaxy.

There are certain absolutes Mr. Spock and

one of them is the right of humanoids to a free and unchained environment,

the right to have conditions which permit growth.

Another is their right to choose a system which seems to work for them.

This isn't life. stagnation,

the beautiful thing about Star Trek to me really is

that also had a moral and

maybe that's why Star Trek has lasted so long,

because everybody likes a moral story everybody

No, no, I won't kill

you surprise me. I sparing your helpless enemy

who surely would have destroyed you.

You demonstrated the advanced trait of mercy.

Something we hardly expected.

We feel that there may be hope for your kind.

Therefore, you will not be destroyed.

It would not be civilized.

Star Trek's writers consistently tackled difficult issues.

One of our most controversial moments came in an episode called Plato's stepchildren.

beings with telekinetic powers forced the crew to perform for their amusement.

And in the process, Star Trek made television history. I'm sorry,

Friday, we hardly thought anything about it.

The first interracial kiss on television

because the races have been kissing since time immemorial.

This was just the first time they admitted it on television.

And we received more mail on that episode

than we had ever received before.

And Gene sent me a letter and the letter was from a man from the South

who said I don't believe in the mixing of the races.

But anytime a red blooded American boy like Captain Kirk

gets a gallon his arms that looks like Lieutenant Orhora,

he ain't gonna fight it.

So, so much for the big concern over the first

perhaps audiences connected so strongly with Star Trek,

because it was about very human carry their friendships,

and a deep sense of loyalty to one another.

Amok Time was the first episode in which we were going to deal with the Balkan society,

see some of the culture see some of the rituals of the culture.

And the plot dealt in a rather complex and very interesting dramatic way

with this issue of loyalty and friendship.

Spoke our ceremonies for our twirlers,

they are not out worlders they are my friends.

The thing that spark needed was to be taken to his home planet to mate

and Spock in his terrible plaque tau condition

which is a totally distraught and out of control condition

when he's going through this process on Vulcan

is forced into a physical fight fight to the death with Kirk

you're gonna have to kill him

kill spy

that's not working to be careful,

sound medical advice

right God

Get your hands off haven't Spock is finished,

is dead.

I agree with the

and one of the most poignant moments that I ever got to play on the ship.

Was that in which I say to tip how to live long and prosper?

Live long and prosper.

Live long and prosper. Well

I shall do neither.

I've killed my captain and my friend

doctor, I shall be resigning my commission immediately.

Of course, there can be no excuse for the crime of which I'm guilty.

I intend to offer no defense. Furthermore,

I shall order Mr. Scott to take immediate command of this vessel.

Don't you think you better check with me

for Captain Jim

I'm pleased to see you captain.

You seem uninjured.

I am at something of a loss to understand it, however,

blame a coin. That was no Triax compounding shopping with

he slipped in a neural paralyzer knocked me out simulated death.

Did the audience saw his underlying great friendship?

That was then

there's comradeship.

I think that Star Trek touched a chord with them showed him

that there was some place to go.

There is a great future ahead of its

I think Star Trek did an awful lot of good.

There's just one thing Mr. Spock, you can't tell me

that when you first saw Jim alive that you weren't on the verge of giving us an emotional scene that

would have brought the house down.

Merely my quite logical relief that Starfleet had not lost the highly proficient captain.

Yes, Mr. Spock, they understand. Thank you good.

Of course Mr. Spock,

your reaction was quite logical.

Thank you, doctor

and a pig's eye

come on Spock. Let's go on the store.

The last original Star Trek episode aired on June 6 1960.

When we return, we'll see how what appeared to be the end

was only the beginning.

Even though Star Trek was only on the air for three seasons, can you believe it?

Its influence would be felt for years to come.

Gene Roddenberry strove for accuracy,

and was in constant contact with people on the cutting edge of technological development

I heard even a claim.

As a result, Star Trek predicted the development of many of the technologies commonplace today,

Star Trek was right on the money with flip flops,

desktop computers and diskettes CD ROM players,

electronic notepads and even the military stealth technology.

You remember the readout that was behind the hospital bed

that just commonplace today, at the time that was far off?

Star Trek's popularity finally exploded in syndication.

As growing numbers discovered its message of hope.

My mail was getting heavier. The phone was ringing with requests for interviews

about Star Trek more and more appearance requests.

And then this phenomenon of the conventions and hundreds would show up.

When hundreds were expected 1000s showed up.

The show was finding an entirely new audience

that it had not found in the in the 60s,

live long and prosper.

Gene Roddenberry made numerous attempts to bring the show back

as either a feature film, TV movie or weekly series.

Finally, in 1979, with the support of its devoted fans,

Star Trek moved to the big screen once again, I said

in the characters

the movies not only carried on the traditions of the original series,

but went quite a bit further in that

we now had a much larger canvas to work.

With. The movies stayed true to Star Trek's original ideals

and themes of friendship, duty, honor, and loyalty.

Instead, Star Trek to Khan Noonien Singh, a nemesis from the original series

returned to force these issues in a powerful way.

I split my

warp speed in three minutes or all day

no response after Scotty get us out of here

the good of the many versus the good of the one was a thematic idea

that we dealt with a number of times in various episodes

and in the films and

this became an issue of loyalty

thinking about Henry Ford we few

We Happy Few we Band of Brothers for he

that sheds his blood with me today shall be my brother

being there so vile this day shall gentle his condition

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out of danger

Yes

Don't breathe just logical needs of the many

outweigh the needs of the few or the one

shall be

your friend.

Have my friend economics of this of all the souls

I have encountered in my travels

this was the most human

right in Star Trek three, our commitment to friendship compelled us to find a way to bring Spock back

because the good of the one sometimes outweighs the good of the men.

From the sales that you have been my friend,

you came back for me?

Yes. Jim.

name is Jim

gets

one of the issues Star Trek addressed during the 60s

was the Cold War with the Klingons representing the Soviet threat.

Only the Klingons couldn't make luck.

As far back as 1967 Star Trek predicted we would have to make peace in order to survive.

You have no right to dictate to our federation or our empire,

how to handle their interstellar relations. We have the

right to wage war captain to kill millions of innocent people

to destroy life on a planetary scale.

Is that what you're defending?

Oh, eventually you will have peace,

but only after millions of people have died.

It is true that in the future, you will

the Klingons will become fast friends who will work together

never. Star Trek six was literally torn from the headlines of the crumbling of the Berlin Wall

the breakdown of the Cold War and

are being forced to make some kind of piece of rapprochement.

Two months ago a Federation starship monitored an explosion on the clean on moon practice.

They will have depleted their supply of oxygen

In approximately 50 Earth years, at the behest of the Vulcan ambassador,

I opened a dialogue with gorkon. Chancellor McLean on High Council,

you Captain Kirk, are to be our first Olive Branch.

They are dying.

And then to discover that the enemy isn't always out there,

that sometimes we may find it within ourselves as well.

You said it yourself that was logical pieces worth a few personal risks

they're a great one for logic.

I'm a great one for rushing in where angels fear to tread.

We're both extremists.

Reality is probably somewhere in between.

Couldn't get past the death of my son.

Broken had to die before I understood how prejudiced I was.

Is it possible that we to

you and I have grown so old

and so inflexible

that we have outlived our usefulness,

Kirk finally realized that a cold warriors greatest challenge

was not only to make peace with his enemies, but also with himself.

Some people think that future means the end of history. Well,

we haven't run out of history quite yet.

Your father called The Future The Undiscovered Country.

People can be very frightened of change.

You've restored my father's faith

and you've reached restored myself.

It's funny now that this struggling

television series unhappy

and has been transformed into the opening chapter of a far bigger tale

and astonishing tale that is unsurpassed in the history of entertainment.

Nothing is more certain than the fact that Star Trek's mission has just begun.

The journeys of the enterprise continue in Star Trek Generations,

captain of the anagram.

We tell you so don't don't let them promote you.

Let them transfer you don't let them do anything.

takes you off the bridge of that ship. Because while you're there,

you can make a difference. backwardly

restocks make a difference again,

who am I to argue with the captain of the Underground's?

I take it the odds are against us and the situation is grim.

You could say that

Spock were here he'd say

that I was irrational,

illogical human being or

taking an initiative like that sounds like fun.

My final log entry is captain of the enterprise when we return.

The 25 years since the original series went off here

Star Trek has spawned seven feature films

and three more television series The Next Generation Deep Space Nine and Voyager.

If this keeps up your grandchildren might be watching Star Trek.

Star Trek was everything that I had hoped

to be involved with as an actor in my life.

Wonderful character to play a wonderful ensemble work to do

and great ideas to deal with.

I think it's very important that philosophy not remain just an ideal out there,

but we incorporate it into our lives and act on it.

And certainly that's part of the message of Star Trek to have been

at Edwards Air Force Base that they their roadmap enterprise.

It's a Marine Band playing you know, the Star Trek theme

while this huge shuttle comes out.

I looked at Gene Roddenberry and I like it all

I was there with the tears streaming down very emotional moment.

What Star Trek really stands for is

man's ability to face and overcome his problems.

And better is world.

Captain. I have orders from Starfleet Command.

Were to put back to space

stop immediately to be decommissioned.

Of

course hitting captain,

second star to the right

and straight on to a more

Captain's Log stardate 95 29.1

This is the final cruise of the Starship Enterprise under my command.

This ship and our history will shortly become the care of another crew to them and their posterity

But we commit our future they will continue the voyage as we have begun

and journey to all the undiscovered countries

boldly going where no man or no one has gone before

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