SEPTEMBER 1966
SEPTEMBER 1966
SFX’s time machine hurls us back to a random month once again
WORDS: NICK SETCHFIELD
Strange New World
8 SEPTEMBER 1966 “Welcome aboard the United Space Ship Enterprise,” declared the ad in the Los Angeles Times, the day Star Trek beamed down to American television. “Where it goes, no program has ever gone before…”
Potential viewers might have suspected a pinch of hype, but it was a promise that held true. Logging the first stardate in what would become a sprawling, vividly-imagined future, opening episode “The Man Trap” launched a pop-culture marvel that celebrates its 60th anniversary this year.