{"id":690,"date":"2013-09-06T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/?p=690"},"modified":"2020-11-14T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T15:00:42","slug":"happy-birthday-star-trek-47-years-and-still-going-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Star Trek &#8211; 47 years and still going strong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In one of those overlooked footnotes in history, Star Trek The Original Series (TOS) actually made its world premiere on Tuesday, September 6, 1966. That evening, CTV aired the episode &#8220;The Man Trap&#8221; throughout Canada. Star Trek was actually a good fit for CTV for all the same reasons it was a good fit for NBC: CTV had just switched from black-and-white to color broadcasting just a few days earlier\u2014starting September 1, 1966. So all the bright wacky colors of Star Trek would be a real draw to Canadian viewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two days later on Thursday, September 8, 1966 at 7:30 p.m., NBC aired &#8220;The Man Trap&#8221;, in the United States during &#8220;Sneak Peek Week.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So whether you celebrate Star Trek&#8217;s &#8220;birth&#8221; as September 6 when it was first shown on television or September 8 when it was first shown on U.S. television on NBC, a happy birthday to Star Trek!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We like to thanks <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startreknewvoyages.com\/?p=4041\" target=\"_blank\">Star Trek Phase II<\/a> to make us aware of this news fact. Even here we didn&#8217;t know that Star Trek originally started on September 6th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"530\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-691\" data-id=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tos_mantrap1.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tos_mantrap1.jpg 694w, https:\/\/stnet.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tos_mantrap1-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-692\" data-id=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tos_mantrap2.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tos_mantrap2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stnet.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tos_mantrap2-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"530\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-693\" data-id=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tos_mantrap3.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tos_mantrap3.jpg 694w, https:\/\/stnet.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tos_mantrap3-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"><\/a><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of those overlooked footnotes in history, Star Trek The Original Series (TOS) actually made its world premiere on&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/?p=690\" class=\"bwp-excerpt-more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archive","bwp-masonry-item","bwp-col-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/news-archive.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stnet.nu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}