Beam Me Up, Scotty

"Space...the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission...to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before!" How ingrained in our collective memory is that? "Star Trek" (the original series) premiered on this date in 1966 and came close many times to cancellation before it finally happened after only three seasons. Highly illogical. The show became the definition of a cult classic, and 50 years later is still revered by Trekkies the world over. Live long and prosper.