Celebrating 40 Years of Star Trek

Kahplah’!

Just recently, hundreds of Star Trek fans trooped over to the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle to celebrate the 40th year of one of the most-beloved science fiction television programs of the century, Star Trek.

Boasting six television series, 10 full-length feature films and numerous novels, comic books, video games (including titles for the next-gen consoles and handhelds!) and various merchandise, the official birthday of the Star Trek franchise is on the 8th of September, when it aired its first episode and enthralled audiences everywhere in 1966. Forty years later, the mark of the Enterprise and all the people and races who have ever boarded it remains strong.

The Star Trek 40th Anniversary Gala Celebration & Conference was a three-day event where fans, actors, scientists and entrepreneurs gathered to pay homage to Gene Roddenberry’s creation as well as marvel at how Star Trek may have changed the world. For one thing, one of the attendees was the man who watched a Star Trek episode who was so inspired by the show that he later on came to invent the thing that we now know as the cellular phone.

Having ingrained itself so deeply into society, the influence of Roddenberry’s fictional universe in real life is undeniable, as everyday, inventors and creators work to try to achieve or emulate something that they may have seen in the series: badge communication devices, a gadget that one can scan over a person to do a complete medical analysis, maybe even an actual, functioning tricorder. In a way, they are the people who seem to have taken the mission to “go boldly where no man has gone before” to heart.

With games such as Star Trek: Legacy for the Xbox 360, as well as the MMORPG Star Trek:Online on its way, truly, there’s no stopping this title just yet as fans still clamor for more and more each time, and each time, developers (who are most likely fans themselves) are more than happy to oblige.

So, take that bat’leth off the wall, stand tall, stand proud, and don’t let any p’tahk convince you otherwise.

Kahplah’!

Just recently, hundreds of Star Trek fans trooped over to the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle to celebrate the 40th year of one of the most-beloved science fiction television programs of the century, Star Trek.

Boasting six television series, 10 full-length feature films and numerous novels, comic books, video games (including titles for the next-gen consoles and handhelds!) and various merchandise, the official birthday of the Star Trek franchise is on the 8th of September, when it aired its first episode and enthralled audiences everywhere in 1966. Forty years later, the mark of the Enterprise and all the people and races who have ever boarded it remains strong.

The Star Trek 40th Anniversary Gala Celebration & Conference was a three-day event where fans, actors, scientists and entrepreneurs gathered to pay homage to Gene Roddenberry’s creation as well as marvel at how Star Trek may have changed the world. For one thing, one of the attendees was the man who watched a Star Trek episode who was so inspired by the show that he later on came to invent the thing that we now know as the cellular phone.

Having ingrained itself so deeply into society, the influence of Roddenberry’s fictional universe in real life is undeniable, as everyday, inventors and creators work to try to achieve or emulate something that they may have seen in the series: badge communication devices, a gadget that one can scan over a person to do a complete medical analysis, maybe even an actual, functioning tricorder. In a way, they are the people who seem to have taken the mission to “go boldly where no man has gone before” to heart.

With games such as Star Trek: Legacy for the Xbox 360, as well as the MMORPG Star Trek:Online on its way, truly, there’s no stopping this title just yet as fans still clamor for more and more each time, and each time, developers (who are most likely fans themselves) are more than happy to oblige.

So, take that bat’leth off the wall, stand tall, stand proud, and don’t let any p’tahk convince you otherwise.