#star trek 50th anniversary

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happy star trek day! featuring space's best guys

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In a semi-hidden corridor at my office

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Happy Star Trek Day! (September 8)

Formally created back in 2020 to salute NBC's pioneering sci-fi TV series' first broadcast episode "The Man Trap" on September 8 1966, Star Trek Day is a time of remembrance for creator Gene Roddenberry's "Wagon Train To The Stars" that presented Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) and the intrepid crew as they crisscrossed the galaxy aboard the starship U.S.S. Enterprise.

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Star Trek: The Animated Series 50th Anniversary Episode Review

Episode: The Time Trap

Season: 1

Episode: 12

Stardate: November 24, 1973

Original airdate: 5267.2 – 5267.6

Written by: Joyce Perry

Directed by: Hal Sutherland

Music by: Yvette Blais and Jeff Michaels

Executive producers: Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott

Studio: Filmation Associates

Network: NBC

Series created by: Gene Roddenberry

Cast:

Captain James T. Kirk (voice by William Shatner)

Mr. Spock (voice by Leonard Nimoy)

Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy (voice by DeForest Kelly)

Lt. Uhura, Devna, Magen, Kali (voice by Nichelle Nichols)

Lt. Hikaru Sulu, Kuri, Klingon #1 (voice by George Takei)

Eng. Montgomery Scott, Kaz, Kor, Xerius, Gabler (voices by James Doohan)

Nurse Christine Chapel (voice by Majel Barrett)

Synopsis:

The crew of the USS Enterprise was assigned to survey a sector of the galaxy known as the Delta Triangle. More precisely, to research about the mysterious disappearance of a high number of starships on the region from ancient times.

Once there, the ship had a massive failiure of its sensors and to make the situtation worse, they were received by a squadron of three Klingon battlecruisers, Captain Kirk orders Lieutenant Sulu to fire phasers to the IKS Klothos. The shoots made point blank on the Klingonian vessel but it disappeared, not destroyed.

One commander of the remaining two Klingon ships blamed Kirk, but the captain decides to move forward to the same place the Klothos was at maximum warp speed. As closer it gets to the place, the ship's crew felt very dizzy by the effect of an ion storm. Suddenly, they were in a place the captain describes as “an interstellar Sargasso Sea” filled with a lot of centuries-old alien starships. One of them, the USS Bonaventure.

The Entrerprise had another encounter with the Klothos, but right at the moment both of the captains orders to attack their foes, they were suddenly transported to one of the ships. The one that gathers the Ruling Council of the area named Elysia. That council is composed of 123 races that learned to live peacefully over one thousand years. Every act of violence is punished severely. It is not a parallel universe, is a place with no stars nor planets, a place where time ceased to move, a pocket in the garment of time.

Captain Kirk and Captain Kor are facing charges of committing acts of violence and they are both facing a sentence of a hundred years of immobilization of their ships and crew. The council's leader, a Romulan named Xerius pardons both of the captains due to their ignorance of Elysia's law. They were turned back to their respective ships.

At the Ruling Council, an alien female with psionic powers named Magen perceived both of the crews from the Enterprise and the Klothos are planning to escape. Another of the Ruling Council members, an Orion slave girl named Devna was opposed to that idea because she deemed they will die and appealed to Xerius to stop them but the council's leader told her it does not infringe any of the Elysian's laws to try to escape from there.

At the Enterprise, Kirk tries to find the way to escape from there. He has to do something quickly before the disintegration of the dilithium crystals. The Klingons tried first, but they were unsuccessful. Spock devises a formula based on the failure of the Klingonian ship. He proposes Kirk a solution by linking both their ship and the one of their foes using both warp drives together as one.

During the gathering of both captains and first officers aboard the Klothos, Spock showed very friendly with the Klingons. It made Doctor McCoy very suspicious about the welfare of their first officer. He asks Kirk to talk with him about the subject and he agrees. Spock tells the captain that he felt the thoughts of the Klingonian officers and knows that although is not clear for him, they are planning something evil.

The Elysians celebrated a party for both Federation and Klingonian crews. After performing a dance, Devna told to the federation captain that she wanted to be on her home planet again but she thinks it is impossible to move out from this place and begs Kirk not to try. He told her that his home may not be perfect as Elysia, but it is his home no matter its imperfections. Also, during the feast, a Klingon officer started a fight with McCoy. Both ships' captains were on trial by the ruling council again as responsible for the conduct of their crews.

This time, Kirk begs pardon for Kor and his crew because they need them so much for their escape plan. Xerius understood Kirk's intentions and granted the way out of the punishment to the Klingons. During the trial, a female Klingonian officer named Kaz, put an explosive capsule in the warp drive control computer system of the Enterprise.

As the launch of both of the ships' begins, Magen perceived the sabotage to the federation's ship by their counterparts. And the council sends the message to Kirk. Spock throws out the capsule out of the ship before it explodes at warp 8. Both of the ships made their way out of Elysia. Kor takes all the credit for their success, but it is unimportant to Kirk.

Fascinating Facts:

This episode was written by actress and writer Joyce Perry. It was inspired by legend of the Bermuda Triangle. A region located between Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico. According to the myth, there was a lot of mysterious disappearance of ships and airplanes in that area. An urban legend very popular in the second half of the 20th century. It was the source of inspiration for many science fiction and fantasy works of that time.

Also, it is a mention of the Sargasso sea. A region in the north of the Atlantic Ocean that has an abundant brown seaweed called sargassum. It also bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre.

This is the second time the Klingon character, Kor has appeared in a episode. The first time was in a season one episode, “Errand Of Mercy”. It was played by actor John Colicos. He was not available at the time this episode, the voice for Kor was played by James Doohan. Colicos returned to the Kor character years later for three episodes of Deep Space Nine.

This is the last time the Klingons made their appearance with smooth foreheads. Years later, their appearance changed for the 1979 film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

This is the episode were Nichelle Nichols played the most characters in a single episode. A total of four: Uhura, Devna, Magen and Kaz.

Most of the designs for the starships stuck in the area of Elysia were unapproved designs for the insectoid pod starship from the pilot episode, “To The Farthest Of The Stars”.

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Released for the 50th anniversary of Star Trek: The Animated Series. The grandaddy of both Lower Decks and Prodigy.

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I’m having way too much fun with this Barbie movie poster generator. Especially with the 50th anniversary Star Trek Barbies.

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Who wants to buy me Barbie® Star Trek™ 50th Anniversary Mr. Spock Doll. The original Spock but Barbie. Barbie Spock. Please. Please someone buy this for me. I will draw things for you. Anything

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Star Trek is doing one of those things where it goes completely insane again. Old school TAS returns, in 5 short minisodes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Animated Series.

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STAR TREK 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION - MUSICAL RARITIES FROM ACROSS THE STAR TREK UNIVERSE: LIMITED EDTION (4-CD SET)

while searching for something I came across this album which has some music from the Star Trek soundtracks that I couldn't find anywhere else

this is not a link to the google drive folder with all four cd's uploaded there

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Space: 1999 Stars Barbara Bain & Nick Tate Goes Board Documentary About Sci-Fi Show’s Legendary Spacecraft

Actress Barbara Bain, star of the British sci-fi series Space: 1999, is preparing to board an upcoming documentary about the Eagle, the famed spacecraft at the heart of the show that ran from 1975-1977.

Bain will appear in The Eagle Has Landed as will Nick Tate, her cast mate from Space: 1999. The documentary includes the participation of several other notable figures: Apollo XVI astronaut Charles Duke Jr., Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Bill George (Blade Runner, Star Trek), and Brian Johnson, the VFX artist on Space: 1999 whose work is said to have influenced Star Wars. The film is being directed and produced by Jeffrey Morris, who also hosts the documentary. 

The Eagle Has Landed “explores the cross-generational impact of the iconic vessel” in the series that also starred Martin Landau. According to a press release, the film “showcases never-before-seen archival footage” and will be released in time for the 50th anniversary of Space: 1999’s debut, in 2025.

“Space: 1999 appeared on TV a few short years after the world watched Neil Armstrong take the first steps on the moon,” Morris noted in a statement. “The show’s unforgettable Eagle inspired a generation to envision a future in space and is still doing so decades later. The question we explore is ‘why?’ What is it about this imaginary craft that has captured and held imaginations for nearly 50 years?

Morris’s FutureDude Entertainment is producing the documentary in partnership with Zero Point Zero Production Inc. Anne Marie Gillen is a producer on the project, along with Morris. The film is written by Morris and Fredrick Haugen. Morris is represented by Espada Entertainment.

Space: 1999 ran for a total of 48 episodes, with Bain and Landau in all of them as, respectively, Dr. Helena Russell and Commander John Koenig (the actors were married to each other at the time; they had previously co-starred together in Mission: Impossible).

The show revolved around the denizens of Moonbase Alpha, scientific researchers living on the moon whose existence was threatened by a nuclear explosion, which rocketed the moon out of Earth’s orbit. Tate, an Australian-born actor, played pilot Alan Carter on 42 of the show’s 48 episodes. Originally, his character was to be killed off in the premiere episode, a casualty of the nuclear explosion, but producers Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson liked his work and expanded his role.

“Hovering above the Moon in one of Alpha’s Eagle spacecraft, Alan Carter is an observer to this holocaust, watching helplessly as the Moon spins out into space,” according to a synopsis published by the Catacombs.Space1999.net website. “Sacrificing his only chance to return home, Carter decides to give chase to the runaway Moon, joining his friends on the endless intergalactic journey.”

Tate told the website, “I didn’t have to dig too deeply with this character. Alan Carter was all the things I was as a young man: friendly, happy-go-lucky, someone who loved adventure and accepted a challenge.”

Ian McShane, Joan Collins, and Leo McKern were among actors who appeared in single episodes of Space: 1999.

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I have not seen suicide squad, but did Beyond really deserve an Oscar for hair and makeup when Spock's hair looks like... well, the way it does?

I don't have any problem with that wig though, and rest of Beyond has amazing prosthetics. Plus, they created 50 new aliens because Beyond was released on the 50th anniversary of star trek & covered Jeff Bezos in so many layers of prosthetics that you couldn't even tell it was him in the movie.

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The Daily Dad — May 1, 2024

Things you might want to know:

Programming language BASIC is 60 years old 💭 I used to be embarrassed by my love for BASIC… real programmers used —depending on the era— assembly, or PASCAL, or C++, or Java, or whatever. But to this day, I’ve never used a more productive development environment than GFA BASIC in the ‘80s.

Welcome to the Ancient Roman Festival for Sex Work ❝ Floralia was a celebration of spring, flowers, and so-called prostitution.

Streamer Builds Hilarious Skyrim Mod That Lets Twitch Chat Voice NPCs ❝ Content creator Blurbs has given his chatters the means to voice NPCs in Bethesda’s 2011 fantasy RPG

Account compromise of “unprecedented scale” uses everyday home devices ❝ Credential-stuffing attack uses proxies to hide bad behavior.

Gérard Depardieu: French actor to be tried over sexual assault allegations ❝ French actor Gérard Depardieu will appear in court in October, prosecutors say.

'Vanderpump Rules' Editing Finds Drama in Everyday Moments ❝ 'Vanderpump Rules' editing requires a team of "eagle-eyed" people, executive producer Alex Baskin said of the hours of footage shot each week.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fourth season ❝ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is coming back for more adventures, but Lower Deck will end with season five.

‘Fallout Shelter’ New Update Out Now Brings In Characters and Locations From the ‘Fallout’ TV Series With a New Quest – TouchArcade ❝ To celebrate the Fallout Amazon Prime series, Bethesda has special updates and discounts live for the franchise on multiple platforms.

Eleanor Coppola, Hearts of Darkness director and matriarch of famed filmmaker family, dead at 87 | CBC News ❝ Eleanor Coppola, a writer and director who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola's iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of Apocalypse Now, and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87.

The OJ Simpson trial gave us the modern internet ❝ The media circus then looked a lot like social media now — even though the World Wide Web was pretty tame at the time.

Fallout’s Pip-Boys Were an Asymmetrical Workout for the Cast ❝ The new Fallout TV series took a lot of the video game’s most iconic objects from pixelspace to the real world. Sure, the Pip-Boy looks cool, but have you really thought about how tired your left arm would get?

Saving the Scio Kolache ❝ A local take on a Czech pastry is fading along with the community that birthed it.

Sacha Baron Cohen & Isla Fisher Split After 13 Year Marriage ❝ After over twenty years together, Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher split, ending their marriage of 14 years. What went wrong?

THE CRUSH HOUSE is a new thirst-person shooter where you shoot a trashy reality show ❝ The latest project from the always-clever technology artist Nicole He (previously) is The Crush House, a thirst-person (sic) shooter video game that plunges into the shoes of a reality TV…

New AI music generator Udio synthesizes realistic music on demand ❝ But it still needs trial and error to generate high-quality results.

David Lynch: Depression Kills Creativity ❝ David Lynch is not having any of that “you need to struggle or be tortured in order to be creative” stuff.

Pink Floyd goes dark side and chooses AI video for Dark Side Of The Moon anniversary competition ❝ 3D artist Damián Gaume's AI-generated video for "Any Colour You Like" was one of 10 winners in a video creation contest for the album's 50th anniversary

Slay the Spire is getting a sequel ❝ Deck-building roguelite Slay the Spire is getting a sequel.

Brittany Cartwright reacts to Jax Taylor 'liking' comment about how he should've married Stassi Schroeder instead ❝ Taylor dated Schroeder during the first two seasons of “Vanderpump Rules.”

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Anniversaries I’m excited to see:

The 700 year anniversary of the bubonic plague (~2037)

The 100 year anniversary of Star Trek (2066)

200th year anniversary of Custers death (2076)

The 700 year anniversary of the printing press (also 2037)

50th anniversary of the Rubik’s cube (2024!!)

50th anniversary of Bohemian Rhapsody (2025)

100th anniversary of the discovery of penicillin (2028)

50th anniversary of Miku (2057)

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Star Trek: The Animated Series 50th Anniversary Episode Review

Episode: The Ambergris Element

Season: 1

Episode: 13

Stardate: 5499.9 – 5506.2

Original airdate: December 1, 1973

Written by: Margaret Armen

Directed by: Hal Sutherland

Music by: Yvette Blais and Jeff Michaels

Executive producers: Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott

Studio: Filmation Associates

Network: NBC

Series created by: Gene Roddenberry

Cast:

Captain James T. Kirk (voice by William Shatner)

Mr. Spock (voice by Leonard Nimoy)

Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy (voice by DeForest Kelly)

Lt. Uhura (voice by Nichelle Nichols)

Lt. Hikaru Sulu (voice by George Takei)

Eng. Montgomery Scott, Lt. Clayton, Cadmar, Cheeron, Domar (voices by James Doohan)

Nurse Christine Chapel, Rila, Aquan females #1 to 3 (voices by Majel Barrett)

Lemus, Aquan harvester (voices by Lou Scheimer)

Nephro, Aquan male, Aquan guard (voices unknown)

Synopsis:

Argo, an Earth-like planet in anicient times, had suffered a transformation on its surface submerging most of its dry land into the deepest of its seas. The crew of the USS Enterprise was assigned to investigate the phenomenal seismic activity in hope to save millions of lives on a Federation planet similar to Argo.

An away team has been assembled. It is composed of Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy and Lieutenant Clayton. They await to be launched in a special shuttlecraft mounted on a catamaran, the aqua-shuttle. Engineer Scott is in the shuttlebay ready for the launch.

Upon their arrival, the team had an encounter with a sea monster. It is called a sur-snake, a creature not found on previous surveys. The beast hits once the shuttle and captain orders to his first officer to shoot to stun with the small ship's phasers. After knocking down the creature, Kirk orders Clayton to submerge the vessel to make research on the oceanic beast. McCoy found it has a dual respiratory system and Spock also found its skeleton structure it is very similar to the one of the Denbian whales.

Suddenly, the giant monster regained its consciousness. The captain orders to shoot the creature again but this time, the phasers do not respond. Kirk orders Scott to beam them up. The sur-snake took the aqua-shuttle with its jaw and threw the ship against a pile of rocks. Only McCoy and Clayton were beamed up to safe place. But Kirk and Spock remain on the planet. Their whereabouts it is unknown to the rest of the crew.

After five days of an intense search, the captain and his first officer have been found –along the wreckage of the aqua-shuttle-- at a rock mass above the sea level. They were still alive, but with their metabolisms changed. Making them uncapable of living in the air. Also they have no memory of whatever happened to them after the sur-snake incident.

On the starship, they were put in a water tank. After 48 hours of being rescued, Dr. McCoy have only found an unknown substance on their bloodstreams. Their internal structure had changed so much that even they have now second eyelids like those from fishes. Bones have found no information on the Federation computers about any kind of such procedure. All the efforts to change them to their normal structure were useless.

This made them to conjecture about intelligent lifeforms on the depths of the oceans of Argo. The only shuttlecraft available to reach such place was destroyed by the sea monster. Both Kirk and Spock realized it is useless to spend more time inside the aquarium and decided to went to the deepest of the seas by themselves.

The first encounter with the Aquans were made while some of them are gathering food. They were hostile to who they call air-breathers. They warn them to go away. They also tell them that the young ones were those who saved them and they do not leave, they will not save them again. After this, they left. Kirk and Spock will follow them.

After both of the Enterprise's officers went into an ocean rift and a tunnel, they have found a fantastic underwater city with a surprising architecture. Spock made a guess that the Aquans may found the ugly and grotesque as the reason for running away from them. Next, they were trapped into a fishnet.

Kirk and Spock are brought to a chamber were the Ruling Tribunal of the Aquans. Domar, the High Tribune accuses both officers of espionage. According to the anicient records, air-breathers never came in peace. A female Aquan, Rila intercede for both officers of the Enterprise along with her fellow young tribunes. They want the High Tribune to give the captain and his first officer the chance to revert the process.

At the planet's surface Scotty awaits for Kirk and Spock. He received a message from the main ship telling him a seaquake so strong to change the topography of Argo it is going to happen within four hours. The engineer have been hurry to find the captain and the first officer as soon as posible.

Just when Kirk and Spock came to an arragement with the High Tribune, all was turned down officers of the Enterprise coming down to the surface. Both officers are sentenced to death by suffocation.

Rila came to their help again by telling Officer Scott where Kirk and Spock are located. After they have been rescued, They want the female Aquan to help them to find the ancient medical records on how to revert the mutation process. At first, Rila was hesitant on helping them, but she finally decided to do so.

With the medical archives on hand, Doctor McCoy have found a substance similar to the ambergris element found in Earth's whales. Kirk and Spock are brought back to Argo to find that substance. They wanted the help of Rila and the young tribunes after resisting for a short time, they agreed on finding the sur-snake to extract the venom from its fangs.

Once they got the element from the giant sea monster, Bones is ready to process it to get the antitoxin to get both Kirk and Spock to their normal metabolisms again. The captain was the first to receive doses from antitoxin. After a couple of reactions from the shots, Kirk was turned back to his normal condition and then Spock.

Rila and Domar are beamed up to the starship to be witness of the procedure to save their civilization from the seaquake. The Enterprise shoot phasers to an abandoned place to change the seaquake's epicenter. As a result, the Aquans's city was saved and the underwater ruins are back to the open air land.

The Aquans are so grateful of the Federation efforts to save them. In exchange, they gave the Enterprise's officers all the ancient archives for their study. The young Aquans wants to live in open air, but the all ones do not. Kirk gives an advice to Domar: that the old ones no lose contact with the young ones. The High Tribune agrees to change the old codes to new ones that forbid the isolation from the old Aquans living underwater to the young Aquans living in the surface.

Fascinating facts:

This episode was written by Margaret Armen. Previously, Armen worked as writer for The Original Series season two episode, “The Gamesters of Triskelion”, season three episodes “The Paradise Syndrome” and “The Cloud Minders (script only). And for The Animated Series episode “The Lorelei Signal”.

James Doohan made six voices for this episode (Scott, Arex, Clayton, Cheeron, Domar), very close to his record of seven voices for the episode “Yesteryear”.

Producer Lou Scheimer also had done voice acting for this episode as both as Lemus and an Aquan harvester.

This episode introduced two vehicles to be used on water, the aqua-shuttle and the scouter-gig. The aqua-shuttle is the first armed shuttlecraft in Star Trek. Those two small vessels appeared for the first and last time.

The ambergris is a waxy substance that originates as a secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale, found floating in tropical seas and and used in perfume manufacture. It is illegal in some places.

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StarTrek.com is saddened to report the passing of John G. Trimble, who passed away the morning of April 19, 2024, as confirmed by his daughter Lora Boem in a post.

Star Trek and fandom as we know it all stems from the efforts and passion of John and his wife Bjo Trimble, the couple who launched a grassroots letter writing campaign to Save Star Trek following NBC’s cancellation of the Original Series, resulting in a third season. With enough episodes then, Star Trek was able to enter syndication, propelling it into a phenomenon that warranted an animated series in 1973 and big-budget feature in 1979.

John and Bjo Trimble, in 2016, were brought on stage at Star Trek Las Vegas in celebration of the 50th anniversary, and the Star Trek franchise team surprised and honored them with a painted portrait of them by artist JK Woodward.

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Happy Star Trek Day! On September 8th, 1966, the original series that so many know and love premiered on TV. Exactly 7 years later, Star Trek: The Animated Series debuted, making today its 50th anniversary.

Are you celebrating today with a marathon of your favorite series? Maybe donning your best Star Trek cosplay? We'd love to see and hear about it in the comments!

As always, to learn more about our charitable mission and how you can help nerds in need, please visit our website at www.operationhammond.com