This is the first of a series of posts celebrating the 60th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series. I have recently written a series of posts celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Batman television series. Though I know I'm not alone, I just cannot even believe I was so fortunate to have grown up at at time to experience originally broadcasted episodes of Batman and Star Trek. For me, it was my golden age of television to be sure.
Star Trek: The Original Series affected me in many ways. While I was watching wacky villains on Batman each week – a show where nothing was taken seriously – Star Trek dealt with very serious issues. Yes, there were intentional moments of levity like the "The Trouble with Tribbles" episode (Season 2 Episode 15), there was also the unintentional hilarity like the episode when someone stole Spock's brain (Season 3, Episode 1).
Overall, both Batman and Star Trek shaped the malleable putty that was my young brain. Batman helped me learn not to take life too seriously, while Star Trek guided me to evaluate the world in a more serious way – even though I was just a little kid I knew that Star Trek was at a higher level of thinking and that was a good thing.
So, over the weeks ahead, I will be posting about different aspects of the TOS as we move toward September 8, 2026, which is the true 60th anniversary of the first episode airing in in 1966.
I hope that you will join me on this journey of exploring the TOS – Gene Roddenberry's visionary series that started it all. Until then, Live long and prosper!
Please watch this video about the 60th anniversary!
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