Blog 3840 – 05.28.2026
A Five Year Mission Cancelled, But Only Post Postponed
As a teenager I was a big science fiction fan and when the NBC TV series Star Trek first aired in 1966, I and many others found its depiction of “Space, the final frontier” totally fascinating. After only three seasons in to their five year mission NBC pulled the plug, but fortunately wiser people saw Gene Rodenberry’s vision of a Wagon Trail to the Stars worth investing in and the Star Trek franchise has dominated screens in re-runs, movies, prequels, sequels, and so many spin offs that it has made our heads spin ever since.
I saw the attached picture posted on Facebook today and had to laugh for so much of what we know of space comes from Star Trek. I am old enough to remember when NASA named the first shuttle after Star Trek’s Enterprise. Flip phone cell phones reminded me of the communicators the Star Trek landing crews used.
How often science fiction has become science fact. Over the sixty years since the original Star Trek series first aired we have learned much about outer space. Gene Rodenberry’s vision of world wide and even galaxy wide cooperation among differing races and species still seems to allude us.
And yet like this two hundred and fifty year old experiment, this democratic republic that we call the United States, we are not done yet trying to “form a more perfect union.”
Like the song New York, New York says if we can make it here we can make it anywhere, even in outer space.
Your friend and fellow traveler,
David James White
Theme From New York, New York (2008 Remastered)
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