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00:00No other TV series has such ideologically committed fans.
00:04For those of you still unsure what all the fuss is about,
00:06Star Trek Story now voyages through the Federation's mighty legacy.
00:30The Starship Enterprise has become an arc of hope to a new generation.
00:39Star Trek offers us a vision of what it is to be fully human,
00:45to explore our universe with a band of brothers and sisters,
00:50to live out a kind of cosmic monasticism.
00:54I believe it is a glorious new mythology,
00:58a wonderful addition to our ancient holy books.
01:02Star Trek, live long and prosper.
01:12This Star Trek franchise, which exists here in this studio at Paramount,
01:18has to date been worth almost $4 billion to the studio.
01:24I mean, that's more than the gross natural products of a lot of countries, isn't it?
01:29The joke about, beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life here,
01:32I suppose has traveled around the world by now.
01:36Live long and prosper is in the culture.
01:38People understand what you're talking about.
01:39People recognize this as a symbol of an icon.
01:43Astronauts became astronauts because of Star Trek.
01:47Movie makers became movie makers because of Star Trek.
01:50It affected people's lives in a very minor way,
01:55where they had to take a Tums after dinner
01:58because they were watching it during dinner
02:00and didn't chew their food properly,
02:02or it changed a life and sent it in another direction.
02:08I think it's better than a religion, if I may be so bold.
02:12It's a cultural uplifting that all peoples can feel connected to.
02:24At the edge of the universe,
02:29400 men and women are probing the immeasurable blackness of space.
02:33Their leaders are an Earth man with no fear
02:36and a stranger with no heart.
02:40Worlds beyond imagination lie before them
02:42in Star Trek,
02:44every Thursday on the NBC television network in color.
02:53I had known about Roddenberry a bit
02:56because he had a series on NBC.
02:58I had known he was a former police officer
03:01with the Los Angeles Police Department.
03:04I had known he was a former pilot with Pan American.
03:07And I figured,
03:08hey, this is a stand-up,
03:10straight-backed,
03:12aggressive,
03:14hustling man.
03:15The door opened,
03:16and this kind of
03:17tall, badly-dressed,
03:20muttering man walked in
03:23with a piece of paper in his hand,
03:24saying,
03:25I have this idea
03:27for a television series.
03:29I call it Star Trek.
03:32Gene Roddenberry was very complex,
03:34very talented.
03:36He had a very strong
03:37and wonderful passion
03:40that had to do
03:41with the potential of mankind.
03:46He did say one thing to me once
03:48that I found incredibly peculiar.
03:50He said,
03:51you know,
03:51Data has
03:52a Christ-like naivete.
03:56And I thought,
03:58hmm,
03:59was Christ naive?
04:00I'm not sure.
04:01I, you know.
04:05He had the reputation
04:06of being a real son of a bitch,
04:07and nobody wanted to work with him.
04:09I was the youngest,
04:10tenured person on the staff,
04:12so I got the job.
04:14Gene would borrow things
04:16from people,
04:16ideas,
04:17concepts,
04:18what have you,
04:18and Gene would never mention
04:21where they were from.
04:22He would not say
04:23that they were his ideas,
04:26but he would lead you
04:27to believe they were.
04:29People worked in it.
04:30They had,
04:30they brought ideas,
04:31they brought thoughts,
04:32they brought expertise to it.
04:34But as far as the idea
04:35of the show is concerned,
04:36that was Gene Roddenberry's.
04:38And I resent anyone
04:39who comes along
04:40and tries to take
04:41that away from him.
04:43There was this
04:43very tall,
04:45weird person
04:46on the set,
04:48this man
04:49in a
04:49tweed overcoat
04:52and a
04:53hat
04:55and a hawk nose.
04:57And he kept walking
04:59up behind me,
05:00and he was so creepy.
05:02And I was getting ready
05:03to really let him have it
05:05when I realized
05:05that I went,
05:08Mr. Roddenberry!
05:12Gene,
05:15oh,
05:15future visionary
05:17Gene,
05:20you gave me tears
05:22and laughter,
05:24Gene,
05:26you shine the starlight
05:29on my dream.
05:32A daring flying hero,
05:42Gene,
05:44you always soared
05:47with eagles,
05:48Gene,
05:50your universe
05:52was meant to be,
05:56Gene,
05:58Gene,
06:00great bird
06:05of my galaxy.
06:10I wasn't quite sure
06:12that the American audience
06:14was ready for this.
06:15I mean,
06:15we had our Buck Rogers
06:17and we had our Flash Gordons
06:19and we had our Space Patrols.
06:21But Gene had one thing
06:22that I thought
06:22was really,
06:23really special.
06:25And that was that
06:26Gene set the whole thing
06:27as a naval ship.
06:31It was something
06:32that we,
06:32the audience,
06:33could easily understand.
06:35It was Yeoman
06:36and Porton,
06:37Starboard
06:38and Admiral
06:39and Captain
06:40and such.
06:41And it wasn't weird names.
06:43It wasn't
06:43Spaceship X-9
06:44and such.
06:45And I thought
06:46that was really great.
06:47The Starship Enterprise
07:03made her maiden voyage
07:05in a pilot
07:05for the NBC television network.
07:08There were few familiar faces on board.
07:10Only one character
07:11was to survive
07:12to the first series
07:12and even then
07:14his survivor
07:14looked uncertain.
07:16Check the circuit.
07:17All operating, sir.
07:18Can't be the screen then.
07:22Definitely something
07:23out there, Captain.
07:23Hit it this way.
07:24NBC was worried
07:26that Spock
07:27was perhaps
07:27too devilish
07:28and frightening
07:29and off-putting
07:30for,
07:32for the viewers
07:33and potential buyers
07:34of a series
07:35and they decided
07:36to humanize him
07:38to eliminate
07:39this,
07:39this
07:40Mephistophelian look
07:42to eliminate
07:43the,
07:43the pointed ears
07:44and to some extent
07:45to straighten out
07:46the eyebrows.
07:48That's interesting,
07:49thought I.
07:51And, um,
07:52fortunately,
07:54Gene prevailed.
07:56They didn't want
07:56the character
07:57in the series.
07:57They were nervous
07:58about the character.
07:59They're on the air
08:00like four weeks
08:01and NBC calls
08:02and says,
08:03hey,
08:03can we get more
08:04of those Spock shows
08:05on quickly?
08:07I said,
08:07what are you talking about?
08:08He says,
08:08well,
08:08the phones are ringing
08:09off the hook,
08:10the mail's coming in,
08:11the affiliates are thrilled,
08:13the sponsors are happy.
08:14We, we, I mean,
08:15we got a big star
08:16on our hands.
08:17NBC did a total turn around
08:19and said,
08:19well,
08:19we have to have
08:20more Spock.
08:21We knew all along
08:22that this would be
08:23a wonderful character
08:23and give us more to Spock.
08:25Just have Spock
08:26on screen
08:27all the time.
08:27I fail to see
08:33what they find
08:34so amusing.
08:38What do you call those?
08:39I call them ears.
08:43You belong in a circus,
08:45Spock,
08:46not a starship.
08:47You pointed-eared
08:48hop goblin!
08:51Why can't I blow off
08:52just one of his ears?
08:53He was exotic,
08:54interesting,
08:55mysterious,
08:56unique.
08:56Hit me!
08:56Harder!
09:00Again!
09:02That will be quite enough.
09:05Thank you, Doctor.
09:06Fun,
09:07clever,
09:08intelligent.
09:10They tell me,
09:11sexy.
09:12I love you.
09:14I don't know why,
09:16but I love you.
09:16I do love you.
09:17There was an explosion
09:19of interest
09:19in the Spock character.
09:20I said,
09:21please don't tell Spock
09:22that I said
09:22he was the best
09:23first officer
09:24in the fleet.
09:24why,
09:26thank you,
09:27Dr. McCoy.
09:30You've been so concerned
09:31about his Vulcan eyes,
09:32Doctor,
09:32you forgot about
09:32his Vulcan ears.
09:33I've been involved
09:34with a particular character
09:36for 30 years,
09:37and I think it's fairly reasonable
09:41to expect that that character
09:42would take on an identity
09:43within mine
09:44as part of my own
09:46and I think it's reasonable
09:48to understand
09:48that I hear a voice
09:50sometimes
09:50that is more Spock-like
09:52than my own.
09:53I don't always talk like him.
09:54I don't act like him.
09:56I don't necessarily think
09:57or experience things
09:58in the way that he does.
09:59but every once in a while
10:01in a given situation
10:02I might hear a voice
10:03that says,
10:04do you really think
10:07that this is
10:08the approach
10:09you want to take
10:09to this problem?
10:12Oh,
10:14maybe you're right.
10:15Maybe I should rethink this.
10:17And that rational voice
10:18is the voice of Spock
10:19sitting on my shoulder
10:21sort of watching
10:22and occasionally commenting
10:25on my process.
10:26Fascinating.
10:30Back in the 60s
10:32there was a fierce amount
10:33of censorship
10:35that was going on
10:37and you couldn't talk
10:39about things.
10:39You couldn't talk about war.
10:40You couldn't talk about
10:41black-white problem.
10:43You couldn't even talk
10:44about mother love
10:45and I'll never understand
10:46why for that.
10:47But there was a whole list
10:48of taboos
10:48and Gene always wanted
10:50to tell people
10:50how he felt about it.
10:51He didn't care whether
10:52they did or not
10:54but he'd like to kind of
10:55set an example
10:55and talk about it
10:56and he wasn't allowed to.
10:57So he figured,
10:58well, maybe if I put
10:59these people in funny costumes
11:01and stick them out
11:02into space
11:03I can get by the censors
11:04with it
11:05and by God he did.
11:06Many of our best stories
11:07grew out of the reality
11:09of what was happening
11:11in the world at that time
11:12and particularly
11:12in the United States.
11:14The civil rights movement
11:14for example.
11:16The various assassinations
11:17that had taken place
11:18and some of our best episodes
11:20were drawn from those issues
11:22so they were relevant.
11:24That was in the late 1960s.
11:26Apparently, Captain,
11:28so are we.
11:34What?
11:35I was growing up
11:36in the South
11:36in a segregated community.
11:39I went to segregated schools
11:40and when I first looked
11:42at SturTrack
11:43what I saw there
11:44was a phenomenal representation
11:45of a utopian society
11:48which was governed in part
11:49by multicultural principles.
11:52I would have seen
11:52the first interracial kiss
11:54on American television.
11:55I would have seen
11:56Russian crewmen
11:58aboard a U.S.-based spaceship
12:00in the midst
12:01of the Cold War.
12:02I would have seen
12:03black and Asian-American characters
12:05represented on American television.
12:07As an Air Force chaplain
12:08I saw actual hydrogen bombs.
12:11I learned we could blow
12:12our world apart
12:13and I started looking
12:14for an alternative
12:15that was life-giving
12:17rather than life-destroying.
12:20And one of these alternatives
12:21that appeared on television
12:23shortly after I left
12:24the Air Force
12:25was Star Trek.
12:26We had a crew
12:27made up of different races
12:29and sexes
12:30cooperating
12:31and not fighting each other.
12:32What a wonderful vision
12:34I thought.
12:35And finally I decided
12:36to preach a sermon about it.
12:37And now
12:38ladies and gentlemen
12:39the President
12:41of the United States.
12:43It was on one hand
12:44a story about JFK
12:45about John F. Kennedy.
12:47I think Kirk
12:47is very much modeled
12:48after Kennedy.
12:49The youngest Starfleet captain
12:50the young PT boat captain
12:52who became
12:53the youngest American president.
12:55A lot of the rhetoric
12:56was about
12:56I think in some levels
12:57one can see Starfleet
12:58as the Peace Corps
12:59in outer space.
13:00We set sail
13:02on this new sea
13:03because there is
13:05new knowledge
13:05to be gained
13:06and new rights
13:08to be won
13:08and they must be won
13:11and used
13:11for the progress
13:13of all people.
13:15For space science
13:16like nuclear science
13:18and all technology
13:19has no conscience
13:21of its own.
13:22Whether it will become
13:24a force for good
13:25or ill
13:25depends on man
13:26and only if
13:28the United States
13:29occupies a position
13:32of preeminence
13:33can we help decide
13:36whether this new ocean
13:38will be a sea of peace
13:40or a new terrifying
13:43theater of war.
13:45Space
13:46the final frontier.
13:53These are the voyages
13:55of the starship Enterprise.
13:58Its five-year mission
13:59to explore
14:00strange new worlds
14:01to seek out
14:02new life
14:03and new civilizations
14:04to boldly go
14:07where no man
14:07has gone before.
14:09I have a theory
14:10that you can really
14:12get sort of a glimpse
14:13of America's
14:15state of mind
14:16by looking at
14:17Star Trek.
14:19They were always right.
14:20They always knew
14:21exactly what to do.
14:22They would go in there
14:23with guns blazing.
14:24The prime directive
14:25the non-interference
14:26directive
14:27was the thing
14:27that Kirk quoted
14:28right before
14:29he always then
14:29ignored it.
14:31Now,
14:31Captain,
14:32what are you going
14:33to order your men
14:34to do?
14:35Concentrate your
14:36phaser fire
14:36at what appears
14:37to be its head.
14:38Kirk continually
14:39intervenes.
14:40He continually
14:40disrupts
14:41and destabilizes
14:42governments.
14:43Photon torpedoes,
14:44fire.
14:45Commence firing
14:45and maintain.
14:46Your orders
14:47are shoot to kill.
14:48Oh,
14:49but there's that
14:49prime directive
14:50in the way again.
14:51Can't it appear?
14:53He seems to embody
14:54the Vietnam War
14:56era idea
14:57of America
14:58as a policeman
14:59who interferes
15:00in other people's
15:01business.
15:02Klingons
15:02call you
15:03a tin-plated,
15:07overbearing,
15:08swaggering dictator
15:09with delusions
15:10of godhood.
15:11Is that all?
15:12No, sir.
15:12They also compared you
15:13with that Danabian
15:14slime devil.
15:15I see.
15:16And then they said
15:16that you were...
15:17I get the picture.
15:18The Enterprise
15:19went out into space
15:20and kicked ass
15:21and took names.
15:22That's what
15:22the show was about
15:24because that's
15:25what America
15:25was about.
15:27Touch it!
15:32All this power
15:33surging and throbbing
15:34yet under control.
15:39Are you like that,
15:40Captain?
15:45You can count on it.
15:47Star Trek made
15:48things like space
15:49and exploration
15:50look pretty darn sexy.
15:58You had Captain Kirk,
16:00the hound of the universe.
16:04You had the unreachable
16:05Mr. Spock.
16:07Your face is wet.
16:08Most women
16:09basically looked at him
16:10and said,
16:11well, give me five minutes
16:12with him
16:13and he'll be
16:14a lot more reachable.
16:16So Star Trek
16:17is a very sexy show.
16:18Well, Gene had wanted
16:20very, very much
16:21to show women
16:22in a more positive
16:23point of view
16:24and women
16:25that were stronger
16:25because he said
16:26they exist in the world.
16:28But that failing,
16:30then he kind of
16:31pulled back a little
16:32and said,
16:32okay, so there
16:33are pretty things
16:34and that's why
16:36we ended up
16:36with little short skirts
16:37and big bouffant
16:38hairdos
16:39and, you know,
16:40it was a very sexist
16:41thing to do,
16:43but he did it.
16:44Gene Roddenberry
16:44would drop everything
16:45he was doing
16:46when it came time
16:47to approve
16:48a costume,
16:49especially if it was
16:50a costume on a female.
16:54He had an eye
16:55for the ladies.
16:56It didn't matter
16:57what it was,
16:57a story conference,
16:59cutting a film,
17:00the daily rushes,
17:02whatever,
17:02he would stop
17:03and he would
17:04immediately proceed
17:05to make it better.
17:08And by making it better,
17:10one means that
17:11making it
17:12more revealing
17:13and less voluminous.
17:17Am I more presentable now?
17:22A bit.
17:23There is something
17:25subversive
17:26about costumes
17:27which show
17:27the entire side
17:28of a woman's body
17:29or that show
17:30a cross-section
17:32of her breasts
17:33but not any parts
17:34that will get it
17:35censored,
17:37yet those are
17:38always done
17:39in the service
17:40of turning women
17:41into sexual objects.
17:42Kiss me.
17:43There was that
17:53gravity-defying
17:54element to the costumes
17:56that made them
17:57very painful
17:58for us
17:59in the real world
18:00trying to live up
18:00to those standards.
18:01I'm sorry, Shannon.
18:13Both Beverly Crusher
18:14and Yeoman Ran
18:15in the series Bible
18:16are described
18:17as walking
18:18with a natural poise
18:19of striptease artists
18:21and I think
18:21and I think
18:22that language
18:22evokes the ways
18:23in which
18:24Roddenberry
18:24saw women
18:25as equals
18:26in miniskirts.
18:27Lieutenant Uhura
18:28of Communications.
18:29Ah,
18:30a Nubian prize.
18:35Take it on
18:36one of your raids
18:37of conquest,
18:38no doubt, Captain.
18:39No doubt.
18:40She has the melting eyes
18:42of the Queen of Sheba,
18:43the same lovely color.
18:44I stood up
18:45to meet a fan
18:46and turned
18:47into the face
18:48of Dr. Martin Luther King.
18:51I was speechless
18:52and he told me
18:56that Star Trek
18:57was one of the only shows
18:58he and his wife
18:59allowed their little children
19:01to see
19:02and how much
19:03they loved the show
19:04for the concept
19:05of the show
19:06and how much
19:07they loved Uhura.
19:08Excuse me,
19:09Captain Kirk.
19:10Yes, sir.
19:11Mr. Scott.
19:12What a charming negress.
19:15Oh,
19:16forgive me,
19:17my dear.
19:18I know that
19:18in my time
19:19some used that term
19:20as a description
19:21of property.
19:22But why should I
19:23object to that term, sir?
19:25You see,
19:26in our century
19:27we've learned
19:28not to fear words.
19:29He said,
19:30your being there
19:32changes the face
19:33of television
19:34forever
19:34and you've
19:36opened a door
19:37that must not
19:38be closed,
19:40must not be allowed
19:41to close.
19:43Whoopi Goldberg
19:44said to me
19:45the first day
19:46she ever came
19:46to work on our series
19:47because one of the
19:48curious things
19:48about The Next Generation
19:49was that this
19:50quite successful
19:51movie star
19:52asked if she could be
19:53on a syndicated
19:55TV series
19:55and she didn't need
19:56to be doing this job
19:57and she said
19:58that when she was a child
19:59growing up
20:00in New York
20:01she had watched
20:02the original series
20:03and there
20:04on the screen
20:05was this
20:05black woman
20:07who seemed
20:08to have a position
20:09of authority
20:09and was respected
20:11and was sexy
20:12and attractive
20:13and had a good time
20:15and was always
20:16in the center
20:16of things
20:17and at that time
20:18Whoopi's a young girl
20:19said to herself
20:20well,
20:21one of us made it.
20:22She said
20:23when she was
20:23nine years old
20:24she turned on
20:25the television
20:25she's living
20:26in the project
20:27she screamed
20:27through the house
20:28come quick
20:29there's a black lady
20:30on television
20:31and she's not a maid.
20:33Open the channel
20:33over here.
20:34Frequency open, sir.
20:37People felt
20:38Ahura made an impact
20:38simply by being there
20:40that's what
20:40Martin Luther King
20:41said
20:41that simply
20:42seeing Ahura
20:43on that ship
20:43gave representation
20:45of the fact
20:46that his dream
20:46for integrated society
20:48had come true
20:49at least by the
20:4924th century.
20:51On the other hand
20:52she was simply
20:53a glorified telephone
20:54operator
20:54who said
20:55over and over
20:55hailing frequencies
20:56are open
20:57captain
20:58Try GSK783
21:00subspace frequency 3
21:01Sir, that's a call
21:02assigned for
21:03private transmitters
21:04I'm very well aware
21:05of that lieutenant
21:06Try it
21:06No program
21:07on American television
21:08has promised so much
21:09and delivered so little
21:11Star Trek's promise
21:12of a utopian society
21:14which draws on
21:14many traditions
21:16of utopian fantasy
21:17in science fiction
21:18a world where
21:19of tremendous tolerance
21:21of infinite diversity
21:22and infinite combination
21:24as the Vulcan philosophy
21:25would place it
21:26and yet a world
21:27which continually
21:28fell back
21:29on stereotypical treatment
21:30of race, gender
21:32and increasingly sexuality
21:34a world that reflects
21:35the fantasies
21:36of a liberal
21:37LAPD cop
21:39So it is a utopia
21:41for yuppies
21:44for mega corporate America
21:46for the lovers
21:49of the military
21:50and folks who live that way
21:52people who are satisfied
21:53with superficial
21:55tokenistic representations
21:58of gender equality
21:59racial equality
22:00multiculturalism
22:01it pays some lip service
22:03to those things
22:03it seems to feel
22:04it needs to
22:05Star Trek is just as fallible
22:07as anything else
22:08I think that the reason
22:08it's been so attractive
22:11to audiences
22:11over 30 years
22:12is that it
22:14unlike a lot of science fiction
22:16it offers a future
22:19that's better
22:20than the one
22:20that we're living in
22:21I think Star Trek
22:22has always been about
22:23a group of characters
22:24that had a family-like quality
22:26to them
22:26that people wanted to go
22:27and visit every week
22:28yet in the late 1960s
22:32not enough people
22:32were visiting
22:33Star Trek was not thought
22:35to be a big enough hit
22:36and after three seasons
22:38and a mere 79 episodes
22:39the series was cancelled
22:41no one felt anything
22:44would ever happen
22:45with Star Trek again
22:47when it went off the air
22:49I believe it was
22:50in June of 1969
22:52it had half of what
22:56its rating had been
22:57I had mixed feelings
22:59when the series was cancelled
23:00at the end of the third season
23:01I was relieved
23:03to some degree
23:04because I was distressed
23:06about the direction
23:07the stories were taking
23:08I was not happy
23:09with the quality
23:10of the work
23:10we were doing
23:11I thought by and large
23:12we were on a downhill slide
23:14I guess we weren't
23:16sufficiently entertaining
23:19Star Trek just faded away
23:21and no one felt
23:23there was any future
23:24to it at all
23:26we put on
23:29a pretty poor show
23:29didn't we
23:30if only I could forget
23:36it might not have proved
23:37its mass appeal
23:38but it was acquiring
23:39cult status
23:40with a rapidly expanding
23:41number of passionate devotees
23:43space
23:44the final frontier
23:46these are the voyages
23:48of the starship Enterprise
23:50its five year mission
23:52to explore strange new worlds
23:54to seek out new life
23:57and new civilizations
23:58to boldly go
24:00where no man
24:01has gone before
24:02be true
24:03bring peace
24:05and love
24:06with you
24:08be free
24:11for that is your nature
24:14believe
24:16though others say
24:19it's only pretend
24:21and your star trek
24:24will never end
24:27I was aware
24:28of the
24:29there was
24:29a phenomenon
24:30there were trekkies
24:31there were people
24:32that you know
24:32were really obsessed
24:33with it
24:33trekkers
24:34really
24:35you gotta be PC
24:36trekkers
24:36okay
24:37trekkers
24:38don't ever do that again
24:41okay
24:41Star Trek embodies
24:51a way of life
24:52it helps you to
24:54try to make the world
24:55a better place
24:56by starting
24:56in your own backyard
24:57it doesn't make us
25:01look like we're freaks
25:02or something
25:03enjoying a science fiction show
25:05together we're kind of like
25:07the oddballs
25:08but yet we're for the future
25:10and it's changed my life
25:11a lot
25:12I can remember
25:14from when I was 10 years old
25:15I was only allowed
25:16to watch certain tv shows
25:18and Star Trek
25:18was one of the only ones
25:19after my grandfather
25:20had watched it the first time
25:22he says
25:23okay
25:24just as long as you
25:25don't wear the ears
25:25when you meet other
25:28Star Trek fans
25:29you kind of bond
25:30with them
25:31almost immediately
25:31my first Star Trek convention
25:34these people didn't know me
25:35from Jack
25:36but yet everybody was here
25:38you know
25:38guiding me here
25:39and guiding me there
25:40my new family
25:41literally started
25:42that day
25:43a lot of people's lives
25:49have been affected by it
25:50I mean people who
25:51have made life choices
25:53because of their exposure
25:55to Star Trek
25:56people who saw
25:57opportunities presented
25:58or ideas presented
25:59that motivated them
26:01in a positive way
26:02I think I've sensed
26:04quite a bit of that
26:05well the headline news
26:13from the Whitewater trial
26:14today occurred
26:15outside the courtroom
26:16when Judge Howard
26:17dismissed an alternate
26:18juror from her
26:19responsibilities
26:20the woman raised
26:21eyebrows at the
26:22federal courthouse
26:23when she appeared
26:23each day in a
26:24Star Trek uniform
26:25she is the Whitewater
26:27juror everyone
26:28has ridiculed
26:29I decided to go
26:30in my uniform
26:32because the
26:32uniform of course
26:34represents the
26:34Trek principles
26:35and the Trek ideals
26:36and that is
26:37personal liberties
26:38personal freedoms
26:39and of course justice
26:41and so for it to be
26:42worn in a courtroom
26:43of course is appropriate
26:44since day one
26:46of the trial
26:47she's attracted
26:47nationwide attention
26:49attention that
26:50eventually got her
26:51thrown off the jury
26:52Wednesday
26:53Adams was caught
26:54giving a TV interview
26:55to the tabloid show
26:56American Journal
26:57when Judge Howard
26:58learned she talked
26:59to the media
26:59he dismissed her
27:00from the trial
27:01I answered questions
27:03about why I was
27:04wearing the dress
27:04of my uniform
27:05because the media
27:07was making such
27:08a circus out of it
27:09I thought if I
27:09answered their
27:10questions they
27:11would go away
27:12so we won't see her
27:14around the federal
27:15courthouse but she
27:16does have a message
27:17they'll live long
27:18and prosper
27:19adding an even more
27:20it's not that it's
27:22an obsession
27:23or something that
27:24totally consumes my
27:25life
27:26but certainly the
27:27ideals of Trek
27:28are ideals that I
27:29live by
27:30and so I'll stand up
27:31for those
27:32every day
27:3324 hours
27:34a day
27:34be it known
27:39to all members
27:40of the Federation
27:41Alliance
27:41and the fleet
27:42Lieutenant Bobby Adams
27:44be promoted
27:45this day
27:46she will attain
27:47the rank
27:48of Lieutenant Commander
27:49with the duties
27:49and privileges
27:50therein
27:51may I present
27:53Lieutenant Commander
27:55Barbara
27:56Bobby Adams
27:57the media has
28:00tended to have
28:01an image of
28:02Star Trek fans
28:02as a fat
28:03geeky guy
28:04with pimples
28:05rubber Spock
28:06ears and a
28:06velour uniform
28:07sort of stretched
28:08over his
28:09bulging stomach
28:10that image
28:11includes sort of
28:13notions of the
28:14fan as infantile
28:15and still living
28:16in his parents
28:16basement
28:17as overriled up
28:20with television
28:20and with its
28:21place in culture
28:22get a life
28:23it's only a
28:23television program
28:24of not being able
28:26to distinguish
28:26between fiction
28:27and reality
28:28fans are presented
28:29as aliens
28:30as otherworldly
28:31it's like they're
28:32beamed down
28:32from outer space
28:33I think that's
28:35an odd perception
28:36if we look at
28:37the fact that
28:3853% of the
28:39American population
28:40according to
28:41Harris Poll
28:41are Star Trek fans
28:42I became a Klingon
28:46probably when I first
28:48seen them on
28:48the original series
28:50but when I seen
28:51them with the ridges
28:52in their head
28:53and their uniforms
28:53on the next
28:56generation series
28:57I was hooked
28:58we get away
29:03with a lot of
29:04things there
29:04at the convention
29:05and I think
29:06it's mainly
29:06because we are
29:08expected to
29:09mine needs to be
29:10sharpened
29:11we act a certain
29:12way as long as
29:13we don't hurt
29:13anybody and we
29:14try never to
29:15scare children
29:16I had to get
29:17completely naked
29:17to do my entire
29:18potty
29:19I've been there
29:19I've been the
29:19slave girl before
29:20I know what
29:21that's like
29:22we have a lot
29:31more fun than
29:32the other
29:33groups
29:33the party
29:36doesn't begin
29:36until the Klingons
29:37arrive
29:38what fans
29:49are doing
29:50is treating
29:50television culture
29:51as if it were
29:52a traditional folk
29:53culture
29:54they've taken
29:54the series
29:55that was produced
29:56you know
29:57and has become
29:57a major franchise
29:58the Mickey Mouse
30:00of Paramount
30:00and they take
30:01that material
30:02and they make
30:02it the basis
30:03for their own
30:03grassroots culture
30:05there is a
30:06monastery in
30:07New Mexico
30:08where you can
30:09go to learn
30:10to be Klingon
30:11from the inside
30:12and then
30:14until you learn
30:15it
30:16let me give you
30:17a little secret
30:18if you say
30:19something mad
30:21at somebody
30:21and you say
30:23it
30:23sounding a little
30:25bit like German
30:26who's to say
30:28that it's not
30:28Klingon
30:29beats me
30:33I don't know
30:34what it means
30:34but it sounded
30:35good
30:35didn't it
30:37what I'm doing
30:47right now
30:48is cutting
30:50a female
30:51it's a panty liner
30:53and that's why
30:54you don't see
30:55Klingon sweating
30:57it goes right
30:58inside the headpiece
30:59and it's the most
31:00absorbent material
31:01that we could find
31:03you put on
31:05the final
31:05crowning touch
31:06which is
31:08what gives us
31:09our ridges
31:09in our hair
31:10and actually
31:12our attitudes
31:12we put on
31:15crowning glory
31:17which is our
31:18Klingon
31:18headpiece
31:20and pull the hair
31:23across
31:24and here we have
31:26the schmach
31:27Damesha
31:29I think that's
31:30what fans do
31:31they enact
31:32those roles
31:32they imagine
31:33themselves to be
31:34Klingons
31:34or Indorians
31:35they write stories
31:36they compose songs
31:38they paint pictures
31:39they're the most
31:40creative force
31:41in relation to
31:42American television
31:43that's out there
31:44and they've turned
31:46what was
31:46what was
31:47a minor
31:49failure
31:49on network television
31:50into a deep
31:52and rich folk culture
31:53that is central
31:54to American
31:55cultural identity
31:56in the 80s and 90s
31:57there was always
31:59this nagging issue
32:00of Star Trek
32:01because all through
32:02the 70s
32:03there was this
32:03voracious
32:05demand
32:07for reruns
32:09and finally
32:09when
32:10our audience
32:12had had enough
32:12of that
32:12there was this voice
32:14that kept saying
32:14give us more Star Trek
32:15more Star Trek
32:16we want Star Trek
32:18we want Star Trek
32:19we want Star Trek
32:23and after about
32:26a decade and a half
32:27Paramount kind of
32:28sat there and said
32:28you know
32:29maybe we should
32:30give them Star Trek
32:31we don't know why
32:32we just have this
32:33sort of dull ache
32:34in our face
32:35that leads us to believe
32:36that maybe they might
32:38be interested in Star Trek
32:39fan power
32:44helped resurrect
32:45Star Trek
32:46the original cast
32:47was reunited
32:48in 1979
32:49for what would become
32:50a blockbuster run
32:51of feature films
32:52but Gene Roddenberry
32:55had been relieved
32:56of much of the
32:56creative control
32:57of the films
32:58instead
32:59he directed his energies
33:00into getting a new
33:01incarnation of Star Trek
33:02on TV
33:03a series
33:05that would conform
33:06to his singular vision
33:07of Star Trek's future
33:08space
33:10the final frontier
33:12these are the voyages
33:15of the Starship Enterprise
33:17its continuing mission
33:19to explore strange
33:21new worlds
33:22to seek out new life
33:25and new civilizations
33:26to boldly go
33:29where no one
33:30has gone before
33:31the most important
33:35rules to think about
33:36were that Gene
33:37believed when he created
33:39the next generation
33:40even more so
33:40than when he created
33:41the original series
33:42that he wanted
33:42very little conflict
33:43within his core group
33:46of characters
33:46he felt that
33:4724th century man
33:48had gone beyond that
33:4924th century man
33:51did not bicker
33:52did not develop
33:55conflicts with his
33:56fellow man
33:57some problem Riker
34:00just hoping this
34:02isn't the usual
34:02way our missions
34:03will go sir
34:03oh no
34:04number one
34:05I'm sure most
34:07will be much
34:07more interesting
34:08let's see what's
34:13out there
34:13engage
34:16I was startled
34:19to hear
34:20that they were
34:20planning on
34:21another Star Trek
34:22television series
34:23with a whole new
34:24cast
34:24and I was
34:25on a very personal
34:26level
34:26I was taken aback
34:28because I thought
34:28is it possible
34:30that a new series
34:32could be successful
34:34without us
34:35there were a lot
34:36of people before
34:37the show went on
34:38the air that said
34:38you know how can
34:39you replace Kirk
34:40and Spock
34:41these are like
34:42venerable
34:43mythological
34:44heroes
34:45this is Captain
34:47Jean-Luc Picard
34:48of the USS Enterprise
34:49Jim you can't
34:50hand over the
34:51Enterprise
34:51we're resolute
34:53we're determined
34:53your help is not
34:55required
34:55I'm in command
34:56here
34:57get off my ship
34:58in their own
35:07particular way
35:08fans vehemently
35:09debate the
35:10controversy
35:10which is the
35:11best
35:12classic Trek
35:13or TNG
35:14now what's this
35:15I hear you think
35:16Picard is loved
35:17more than Kirk
35:18impossible
35:19they all love
35:20Picard
35:21Picard
35:22a Frenchman
35:23with an English
35:24accent
35:25and this outfit
35:26Kirk never
35:27went for the
35:28kinky jumpsuit
35:29look
35:29Kirk couldn't
35:30get into
35:30a kinky jumpsuit
35:31besides
35:32Picard can speak
35:33all kinds
35:34of alien languages
35:35including fluent
35:36Klingon
35:37Klingon
35:38Klingons never
35:39even had a word
35:40for surrender
35:41until they've
35:41met Kirk
35:42besides
35:43your chief security
35:44officer running
35:45around your ship
35:46with a ponytail
35:47that would never
35:47happen on Kirk's
35:48ship
35:48Kirk's chief of
35:50security would
35:50never live long
35:51enough to grow
35:52one
35:52I know this is
35:53hard for you
35:53but everyone
35:54loves Picard
35:55especially the
35:56women
35:56women
35:58you're kidding
36:00unlike Picard
36:02Kirk has sex
36:03more than once
36:04a season
36:04sex with Picard
36:06is worth
36:07waiting a whole
36:08series for
36:08I have only
36:09three words
36:10make it so
36:12I have three
36:13words for you
36:14have more tea
36:15I think I have
36:16become a marginally
36:18better listener
36:19as a result of
36:21playing this character
36:21because it's one of
36:22the things that
36:22Captain Picard
36:24does quite well
36:25he's very good
36:27at paying attention
36:28to others
36:29and asking for
36:31and listening
36:32to other opinions
36:33it's one of the
36:34characteristics that
36:35set him apart
36:35from James T. Kirk
36:39intrigues me
36:40this Picard
36:42in what manner
36:44sir
36:45remarkably
36:46analytical
36:47and dispassionate
36:48for a human
36:49when I announced
36:51at a couple of
36:51Star Trek conventions
36:52that I as Spock
36:54would be appearing
36:55in an episode
36:55of The Next Generation
36:56I was hit by a
36:57wall
36:58of emotion
36:59and sound
37:00a wall
37:00just came at me
37:01like a roar
37:02of approval
37:03and I realized
37:05that my appearance
37:06in The Next Generation
37:07was going to be
37:08a sort of a
37:08healing
37:09of a
37:10family schism
37:11interesting
37:12I had not
37:14considered that
37:14Data was a
37:16pretty well developed
37:17role
37:17when I got it
37:18basically there was
37:19a line
37:20in the pilot episode
37:22where
37:22the character of
37:23Riker
37:24calls Data
37:24Pinocchio
37:25and I thought
37:26ah
37:27that's the hook
37:28that's who he is
37:29of course
37:30he's the
37:30you know
37:31wooden boy
37:33who wants to be
37:34human
37:34you know
37:35and that's
37:36that's the catch
37:37what are you
37:42I am Data
37:43an android
37:44I am many things
37:46intriguing
37:49scholar
37:49lover
37:53you are fully
37:54functional aren't you
37:55genius
37:57I think Data
37:58and I are very
37:59different creatures
37:59and
38:00I would love
38:03to be Data
38:03Data's pure
38:05and incapable
38:06of cruelty
38:07and unkindness
38:08vamoose
38:08you little varmint
38:09was that funny
38:11no
38:12knowing Data
38:13as I have
38:14over the nine years
38:15hasn't made me
38:16any better a person
38:17I'm afraid
38:17you know
38:18there was a young
38:20lady from Venus
38:21whose body
38:22was shaped like
38:23a
38:23captain to security
38:24come in
38:25did I say
38:27something wrong
38:27I don't understand
38:29their humor either
38:29the Klingon character
38:30was probably the most
38:31special character
38:32the newest
38:33and freshest character
38:34excuse me
38:35there had been
38:35Klingons before
38:36there had never been
38:37an empath before
38:39I wonder why
38:41she was the freshest
38:43newest character
38:44if we're going to get
38:45down to this
38:45you're worried
38:47with reason
38:51I think
38:53it is perhaps
38:54best to be ignorant
38:56of certain
38:56elements
38:57of Klingon
38:58psyche
38:58I started out
39:01with him
39:01a certain
39:02you know
39:02very angry
39:03and very intense
39:04surly
39:05he was surly
39:06Klingons do not laugh
39:08oh yes they do
39:10absolutely they do
39:11you don't
39:12but I've heard
39:13Klingon belly laughs
39:14that would curl your hair
39:15I do not laugh
39:17because I do not feel
39:18like laughing
39:18and he was a joy
39:19to be around
39:20alright
39:21not the first year
39:22because he lived the part
39:23that first year
39:24I did
39:24I did live the part
39:25Gene came home
39:26one day
39:26he said
39:27Majel I've got
39:27a great part for you
39:28this isn't the next generation
39:29he says
39:30a fantastic part for you
39:32you don't have to act
39:33oh let me talk to them
39:34I'm sure I'm more
39:35articulate than that
39:36that's how the mother
39:37from hell was born
39:38mother
39:39please don't do this to me
39:41do what to you
39:42little one
39:43oh
39:44sure look
39:46what naughty thoughts
39:48but how wonderful
39:50you still think of me
39:51like that
39:51I love her
39:54I've had women
39:55yell at me
39:56across parking lots
39:57in supermarkets
39:58saying you've done more
39:59for women over 40
40:00than any movement
40:01in America
40:01the next generation
40:03was created in the
40:04mid 80s in America
40:05and you can see
40:06some subtle
40:07mirroring there
40:09for instance
40:10the presence of
40:11a psychotherapist
40:12on board
40:12even when I was
40:13a child
40:14I always had
40:15a dreadful fear
40:17that if ever
40:18I was
40:19dematerialized
40:20that I would
40:22never come back
40:24again
40:24whole
40:25I always thought
40:26it was a little
40:27peculiar
40:27particularly because
40:28these heroes
40:30as Gene
40:30devised them
40:31were flawless
40:32they were
40:3324th century
40:34human beings
40:35without petty
40:36jealousy
40:36or any petty
40:37emotions whatsoever
40:38or hang-ups
40:39I know
40:40sounds crazy
40:41it's not crazy
40:43at all
40:43you are being
40:45taken apart
40:46molecule by
40:46molecule
40:47Red you're not
40:50the first person
40:51to have anxiety
40:52about transporting
40:53I feel if anything
40:55makes the next
40:57generation
40:57or will make
40:58the next generation
40:59feel antiquated
41:00it will be the
41:00presence of a
41:01therapist
41:01people will say
41:02oh how quaint
41:02remember when
41:03psychotherapy was
41:04popular
41:04we look at
41:06the Russians
41:07as the communists
41:08as the enemy
41:09and my take on it
41:15was Cleons
41:15are the Russians
41:16because they
41:17are looked on
41:18as a particular
41:19type of race
41:20all through
41:22I don't know
41:22how many years
41:2320 years
41:24or however long
41:24it was
41:25they were these
41:26wild
41:27you know
41:27the enemy
41:28the mean guys
41:29the bad guys
41:30to kill on sight
41:31and Kirk had
41:32all these problems
41:33with them
41:33and all that
41:34type of thing
41:34and we have
41:35come to find out
41:36that they are not
41:37they are people
41:38goodbye
41:42that image
41:44that we have
41:45with them
41:45is totally wrong
41:46there is a part
41:47of them
41:47yes
41:48that is that way
41:48but all society
41:50is violent
41:51I mean you look
41:52at you know
41:53we look at
41:53Klingons as barbarians
41:55how many times
41:55in the original series
41:56did Kirk say
41:57he's going to level
41:58a planet
41:58if they didn't
41:59give him back
41:59a couple of guys
42:00you know
42:01I'm going to
42:01destroy your whole race
42:03if you don't
42:03give me back
42:04Scotty
42:04captain's log
42:07we have been attacked
42:08without provocation
42:09by an alien race
42:10which Guinan
42:11calls the Borg
42:12you can't outrun them
42:14you can't destroy them
42:15if you damage them
42:18the essence of what
42:18they are remains
42:19they regenerate
42:22and keep coming
42:22eventually you will
42:24weaken
42:24they are relentless
42:27with the Klingons
42:29neutered
42:29the new foe
42:30were a race
42:31of cyborgs
42:31complete with
42:32chilling catchphrase
42:33you will be
42:34assimilated
42:35fascinating
42:36I'm not sure
42:39the genesis of the Borg
42:40why they were created
42:41the notion of them
42:43is really quite brilliant
42:45and I think it works
42:46so well
42:46because as Americans
42:47particularly
42:48who cherish
42:50the myth of individuality
42:51are terribly frightened
42:56of the idea
42:56of losing that individuality
42:58and being consumed
42:59by a collective consciousness
43:02we are Borg
43:04you will be assimilated
43:08the word dependent
43:10in America of course
43:10is like an obscenity
43:12but in fact
43:14many if not most cultures
43:16on this planet
43:17are very codependent
43:19or independent
43:20for instance
43:20a culture like Japan
43:21but to Americans
43:22it's the pits
43:24and the Borg work
43:25I think very well
43:26on that level
43:27they're unstoppable
43:29they're unbeatable
43:30they adapt to every weapon
43:31and they just look cool too
43:33after Gene's death
43:38and with a new
43:39senior executive producer
43:40the series
43:41to its benefit
43:43got more of an edge
43:45to it
43:45it became
43:47tougher
43:48in taking
43:49a stand
43:50on certain issues
43:51and
43:52in the same way
43:53that I have seen here
43:54in America
43:55and have
43:55learnt about
43:57because I've really lived away
43:58from England
43:58for ten years
43:59the disillusionment
44:01that followed on
44:02that euphoria
44:04of the
44:05for many people
44:06the Thatcher and Reagan years
44:07the disappointment
44:09and the anger
44:10and irritation
44:11that has grown out of that
44:12also was reflected
44:14in certain aspects
44:16of Star Trek
44:17but it'll be interesting
44:18I mean that'll be
44:19that'll be for the
44:20the cultural sociologists
44:22of the 21st century
44:23to examine
44:24they'll have a lot
44:25to work on
44:25with Star Trek actually
44:26I think it is just possible
44:30that a few hundred years
44:31from now
44:32Star Trek
44:33might be seen
44:35as the Iliad
44:36and the Odyssey
44:37of a world culture
44:38the common mythical base
44:40referred to
44:41in the moral arguments
44:42of the day
44:43like the Jesus
44:45of the Gospel of Mark
44:47Roddenberry affirms
44:48that we are all
44:49sons and daughters
44:51of God
44:51I believe there is
44:53enough stuff
44:54particularly
44:54in Star Trek
44:55The Next Generation
44:56in terms of moral tales
44:59and substance
44:59to excite people
45:01about what
45:02the moral struggle
45:03for human life
45:04is all about
45:05I believe it's
45:06a wonderful new story
45:08that's presented
45:09to us here
45:10in which each
45:11of the episodes
45:12has some moral fiber
45:13for us to chew on
45:14I look at
45:16Captain Picard
45:17as sort of a Moses
45:18played by the English
45:20actor Patrick Stewart
45:21leading us into
45:22the promised land
45:23of the future
45:24I truly believe
45:27that people
45:29look at
45:30each episode
45:32and read something
45:33into it
45:34for themselves
45:34I think people
45:36find things
45:36in there
45:37that we never
45:38intended
45:39to be there
45:40we didn't write
45:42them in
45:42we didn't act
45:43them in
45:43we didn't score
45:44them in
45:45we didn't cut
45:45them in
45:46they are just
45:47there
45:48and people
45:48look at
45:49the episodes
45:50and find
45:51something for them
45:52and when they
45:53find something
45:54for them
45:54they take it
45:56they enjoy it
45:57they pass it on
45:58and it becomes
45:59what it is now
46:00Star Trek
46:02has spawned
46:03many cultural
46:03manifestations
46:04one of the
46:05strangest
46:06being slash
46:07fiction
46:07Spock could
46:09hear the music
46:09from halfway
46:10down the long
46:11gravel driveway
46:11which led up
46:12to the sprawling
46:13ranch home
46:13and as he
46:14approached
46:15the unexpected
46:16sight from an
46:16increasingly predictable
46:18source became
46:18clearer
46:19Jim was in drag
46:21slash writers
46:23write about
46:24love
46:26romantic
46:27cartoon
46:29pretty sickening
46:31mushy
46:31romantic love
46:32and they write
46:33love poems
46:34and what they see
46:35in each other's eyes
46:35there are whole pages
46:36devoted to
46:37Kirk's eyes
46:38the incredible
46:39color of his
46:39hazel eyes
46:40that kind of thing
46:41now one way
46:41to think about
46:42slash
46:42is to remember
46:43a scene
46:44that many
46:44Star Trek fans
46:45would have been
46:46deeply moved by
46:47the scene
46:48in Star Trek
46:48The Wrath of Khan
46:49where Spock is dying
46:50and there's a moment
46:52there
46:52where Spock is inside
46:53this glass chamber
46:54and he's dying
46:55and Kirk comes
46:56racing down there
46:57they have
46:58one last exchange
46:59with his friends
47:00and Kirk is literally
47:01pressing his hands
47:02against the glass
47:02and Spock is on the
47:04other side of the glass
47:04pressing forward
47:05and Spock says
47:09I have been
47:10and always shall be
47:12your friend
47:14the closest Spock
47:16has ever been able
47:17to come
47:17to an emotional
47:18statement
47:19of his true feelings
47:20for Kirk
47:21Kirk's machismo
47:22has never allowed him
47:23to express how he feels
47:24towards Spock
47:24Spock's Vulcan stoicism
47:26doesn't allow him
47:27to express his feelings
47:28and they're pressed
47:29against the glass
47:29and we all recognize
47:30the ticking clock
47:31the fact that they
47:32can never come in
47:33contact with each other
47:34what Slash does
47:35as a fantasy
47:36is takes away the glass
47:37the ensemble was garish
47:39even to Spock
47:40who had seen much
47:40in his time
47:41but the yards
47:42of swirling rainbow crepe
47:43accompanied by
47:44the grinding rhythm
47:45Jim called neo-disco
47:46was simply more
47:47than the travel
47:48and shock weary
47:49Spock could handle
47:50if you can put
47:51Kirk in drag
47:52or if you can
47:53show him
47:54in a disempowered
47:55position just for
47:56a few minutes
47:56where Spock's
47:57the one in control
47:58there is some
47:59pleasure in that
48:00because Kirk
48:00is just so
48:01incredibly offensive
48:03his utter
48:04lack of need
48:07for anyone
48:07or anything
48:08other than
48:09his technology
48:09his extended
48:11phallus ship
48:12and ordering
48:14everyone about
48:15you want
48:17I feel
48:18this desire
48:19to pull him
48:20down a peg
48:21or two
48:21or three
48:21or ten
48:22so it does that
48:24but of course
48:25there's also
48:25an attraction
48:26there's also a
48:27I wish I could
48:28have him
48:28I wish I could
48:29be him
48:30I've decided
48:31Jim said
48:32out of breath
48:33I want to go
48:34to all those
48:34ambassadors receptions
48:35and this
48:36hell they'll probably
48:38all want to dance
48:39with me
48:39Spock tried to join
48:41in
48:41I'll never let
48:42them of course
48:43I just love it
48:45when you get jealous
48:46the Star Trek
48:50franchise continues
48:51two new
48:53incarnations
48:54are now beaming
48:55simultaneously
48:56onto American
48:57televisions
48:57first came
48:59Deep Space Nine
49:00set on a
49:01frontier space
49:02station
49:02two years on
49:06Paramount launched
49:07the latest
49:07Star Trek
49:08Voyager
49:10I have no doubt
49:20that its popularity
49:20will diminish
49:22at some point
49:23perhaps it's
49:23already diminishing
49:24I don't know
49:25I'm much too
49:25immersed in it
49:26I hope not
49:28but I think
49:29it's only natural
49:30because that's
49:30how things go
49:31they become
49:31very popular
49:32and then people
49:33get sick of it
49:34and it wanes
49:35for a little bit
49:36but something
49:37tells me Star Trek
49:38is going to be
49:38around for a
49:40very long time
49:41A because it
49:42has been around
49:43for 30 years
49:43and B because
49:45it's so elegant
49:46and simple
49:48a premise
49:49it's just a group
49:50of people out
49:51seeing what's new
49:52and particularly
49:53in America
49:54since we've
49:55kind of conquered
49:56America
49:57we've found America
49:59America is here
50:00it's been explored
50:01there is an
50:02unquenchable thirst
50:03for a new frontier
50:04and it was
50:05a brilliant phrase
50:06that Gene put in there
50:07it is the final frontier
50:08beyond the rim
50:19of the starlight
50:23my love is wandering
50:27in star flight
50:29I know he'll find him
50:33star-clast and riches
50:35love strange love
50:40a star woman teaches
50:43I know his journey ends
50:50forever
50:51his star trek
50:54will go on forever
50:58but tell him
51:02while he wanders
51:04his starry sea
51:07remember
51:08remember me
51:13star trek's brand new crew
51:24are on screen
51:25later tonight
51:26this time there's a woman
51:27sitting in the captain's chair
51:28and it's not
51:29Kirk in drag
51:30who is she to be making
51:32these decisions
51:32for all of us
51:33she's the captain
51:34the tri-coval devices
51:38are ready
51:38we're in position
51:40fire
51:47fire
51:48fire
51:52fire
51:54fire
51:58fire
52:00fire
52:02fire
52:02fire
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