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- <text id=94TT1658>
- <title>
- Nov. 28, 1994: Cover:Show Business:The Timeline
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Nov. 28, 1994 Star Trek
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- COVER/ARTS & MEDIA/SHOW BUSINESS, Page 74
- Star Trek: The Timeline
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Text by David E. Thigpen
- </p>
- <p> 1964: Desilu Studios tries to sell Star Trek to CBS, which declines
- and decides to air Lost in Space instead.
- </p>
- <p> Sept. 1966: NBC broadcasts first episode, The Man Trap: Kirk
- outwits a vampire-like alien who has eyes for McCoy.
- </p>
- <p> March 1967: McCoy says, "Dammit, Jim, I'm not a bricklayer,
- I'm a doctor!" First variation of this phrase.
- </p>
- <p> 1967: Even at its ratings peak, Star Trek ranks No. 52, behind
- such shows as Mr. Terrific and Iron Horse.
- </p>
- <p> Dec. 1967: Trouble with Tribbles, peak of Star Trek humor.
- </p>
- <p> Summer 1968: NBC announces cancellation of series but receives
- 1 million letters of protest and renews it.
- </p>
- <p> Nov. 1968: TV's first interracial kiss, between Kirk and Uhura.
- Censors insist "no racial overtones," no open mouths.
- </p>
- <p> 1969: After 79 episodes NBC cancels series.
- </p>
- <p> Feb. 1972: First Star Trek convention is held in New York City.
- Sci-fi guru Isaac Asimov attends.
- </p>
- <p> 1976: After reveiving 400,000 letters from Trekkies, NASA names
- space-shuttle prototype Enterprise.
- </p>
- <p> 1976: Leonard Nimoy writes I Am Not Spock.
- </p>
- <p> Nov. 1979: Star Trek: The Motion Picture released. The franchise
- lives.
- </p>
- <p> Dec. 1982: Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan released; it features
- Kirstie Alley and Ricardo Montalban's cleavage. Spock dies.
- </p>
- <p> June 1984: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Spock lives!
- </p>
- <p> 1986: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. In 1980s San Francisco,
- Spock and Kirk save the whales.
- </p>
- <p> 1986: In Saturday Night Life skit, Shatner tells convention
- of Vulcan-eared Trekkies to "get a life".
- </p>
- <p> 1987: Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series debuts with Shakespearean
- actor Patrick Stewart on the bridge and an android riding shotgun.
- </p>
- <p> Oct. 1990: With 80th episode, TNG surpasses original series.
- Classic Trek fans aghast.
- </p>
- <p> 1991: Gene Roddenberry dies.
- </p>
- <p> March 1992: "Star Trek the Exhibition" opens at the National
- Air and Space Museum and becomes the most heavily attended exhibit
- ever.
- </p>
- <p> Jan. 1993: Spin-off series Deep Space Nine debuts. Alien soap
- opera.
- </p>
- <p> Nov. 1994: Star Trek Generations. Kirk dies. Really
- </p>
- <p> Jan. 1995: Star Trek: Voyager premieres. Lost in space.
- </p>
- <p> 24th century: Star Trek forgotten; cult forms around Shatner's
- '80s cop show, T.J. Hooker.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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