Star Trek is 40 today!!... stills lives in parents' basement, dateless

[underpants]

:bounce: :cry:

1966: Star Trek appears on TV for the first time.

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=17576#6

[datasuspect]

1. star trek theme lyrics

Beyond
The rim of the star-light
My love
Is wand'ring in star-flight
I know
He'll find in star-clustered reaches
Love,
Strange love a star woman teaches.
I know
His journey ends never
His star trek
Will go on forever.
But tell him
While he wanders his starry sea
Remember, remember me.

[Richardo]

2. Funny, under the end credits it always sounded like:

"oooooo OOOO....
ooo ooo ooo oo oooooooo
ooo ooo OOOOO
ooo ooo ooo oo oooooooo..."
etc etc

:D

[underpants]

4. That's because it is so hard for the Trekkies to talk to women

except, of course, for the their mothers

[datasuspect]

5. spock kirk romance

fan art:

http://www.thyla.com/fan-art.html

[kay1864]

6. Those lyrics are bullshit

And by that I mean "invented by Gene Roddenberry because he's a greedy bastard"

Why do I say that? Because even if those lyrics were never performed, he got half of the composer's royalties. Every single time that theme song was played, anywhere, half the check went to him.

For lame, unsingable lyrics.

[datasuspect]

7. it was his "property"

as they say in hollywood circles.

i kinda like, kinda catchy, you know?

[kay1864]

8. Well, not really IMHO

"Star Trek" was his property, and he made millions off of it.

The *theme* from Star Trek, OTOH, was not his, but rather composer Alexander Courage's. Roddenberry just made sure he jumped on the bandwagon with his "lyrics" and stole half of Courage's profits.

He also made sure he was listed as co-author of "The Making of Star Trek" (which sold millions of copies), even though Stephen Whitfield did all the research and writing.

[datasuspect]

9. oh i don't know that much about it

but money just loves more money.

so does power.

[kay1864]

10. Yes indeed

Too bad he couldn't be satisfied with the millions he had, but had to also steal it out of the pockets of composers, authors, and script writers.

[Deja Q]

12. GAAAAAAHHHHHH!!

:scared:

I'm so glad they were never used.

[jus_the_facts]

3. I SAID..."Live Long and Prosper!" Dammit....

:D :hi:

[tigereye]

11. we were watching some of the old ones with my son

and it was interesting to see how melodramatic and "Actor's Studioish" they were. I had forgotten that.

[patcox2]

13. Has high hopes for fantasy football team, though.

He calls them "The wookies."

[jrandom421]

14. Speak for yourself!

I work at a company as a senior software engineer that was founded by an unabashed Star Trek (Scotty) fan. I married a hard core Star Trek girl who loves writing, AND we just bought a killer 3200 sq ft home in Seattle WA at 30% below market on a 15 yr fixed mortgage that I can pay off in 5 years! So take THAT, underpants!

[underpants]

15. Welcome to DU

:hi:

You have a little something (points to shirt)...there on your shirt

(flips hand upward into nose of the guy who fell for it)