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<blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 2751415" data-attributes="member: 9037"><p>I have seen a lot of younger people who did not see TOS when it was first on or in its big heyday of reruns in the 70s accuse the show of being badly wrirtten or cheesy or not up to the standards of the shows that followed. </p><p></p><p>I don't think they realize just how ground breaking the show was. I grew up in the south and we still had water fountains that said "white only" and yet on our tv screens we had a beautiful black woman who was an officer and just as respected and any other officer. Trek showed had the first interracial kiss. We also had an Sulu who did not play the sterotypical oriental. Checkov a russian while we were still in the grip of the cold war. The show was about hope. Hope that we did not something as stupid as blow ourselves to smithreens.</p><p></p><p>When I was young we had drills in school for when the bombs got dropped. I often had nightmares of nuclear war. Yet as corny as it sounds watching Trek gave me hope.</p><p></p><p>My family is a bunch of bigots some are proud to be members of the Klan. Yet I am not like that I truly believe that watching trek as a child and a teen had something to do with that.</p><p></p><p>I know that it was trek that introduced me to my love of reading SF and Fantasy. I mainly read gothics as a teen then they came out with the Trek novels written by James Blish I read them and noticed that they were called SF novels so the next time I went to the bookstore I looked in that section. I found Red Planet by Heinlien and was forever hooked.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elf Witch, post: 2751415, member: 9037"] I have seen a lot of younger people who did not see TOS when it was first on or in its big heyday of reruns in the 70s accuse the show of being badly wrirtten or cheesy or not up to the standards of the shows that followed. I don't think they realize just how ground breaking the show was. I grew up in the south and we still had water fountains that said "white only" and yet on our tv screens we had a beautiful black woman who was an officer and just as respected and any other officer. Trek showed had the first interracial kiss. We also had an Sulu who did not play the sterotypical oriental. Checkov a russian while we were still in the grip of the cold war. The show was about hope. Hope that we did not something as stupid as blow ourselves to smithreens. When I was young we had drills in school for when the bombs got dropped. I often had nightmares of nuclear war. Yet as corny as it sounds watching Trek gave me hope. My family is a bunch of bigots some are proud to be members of the Klan. Yet I am not like that I truly believe that watching trek as a child and a teen had something to do with that. I know that it was trek that introduced me to my love of reading SF and Fantasy. I mainly read gothics as a teen then they came out with the Trek novels written by James Blish I read them and noticed that they were called SF novels so the next time I went to the bookstore I looked in that section. I found Red Planet by Heinlien and was forever hooked. [/QUOTE]
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