I never really got into Star Trek, but I have read something kind of interesting about him: when they started making Star Trek toys, they ran into a shortage of Spock figures. Because they were so popular that people were buying them all? No- because the figures were made in China, which had different rules for exporting human vs non-human figures, and Spock was only half-human. I believe that's what inspired a change in that rule.
I am a lot older than most of you. I saw Star Trek in the 1960s and remember when the animated series came out. I was 10 through 12 when the animated ("cartoon") series was on Saturday mornings in 1973-74 and 1974-75 TV seasons.
Back then, newspapers printed the TV listings for the day. In the New York Daily News, they highlighted "Outstanding" programs by printing them in boldface. Star Trek was the ONLY Saturday morning cartoon show that I ever saw that had that boldface highlighting. I think perhaps that's because it wasn't mindless crap but actually fit for adults as well.
Star Trek was on then syndication reruns all the time. You could watch Star Trek 7 times/week in the NYC area on Channel 11 WPIX. It was on every night at 6PM and sometimes twice a week some weekend days.
Because of this constant syndication on broadcast TV on the independent (*) stations, Star Trek grew to what it would eventually become.
(*) An independent TV station was a broadcast TV station not affiliated with a network. From the dawn of PBS until the Fox network came on in 1987, there were only the 3 "Big 3" commercial networks: ABC, CBS, NBC with PBS being the public commercial-free TV network. Independent stations broadcast lots of syndicated reruns of programs that originally ran on the Big 3 networks. Star Trek, originally an NBC show, was such an example.
I DO NOT care for the remastered Star Trek. The only place where you can watch Star Trek in its original form is, I believe, with an Amazon Prime TV subscription where you have the option to watch original or the remastered horseshit.
I will never forget when Spock died in Star Trek II. I saw Star Trek II on the morning of Friday 04 JUN 1982; the first showing on the day of its release. I wanted to see that movie before movie reviews were in the newspaper. It was very emotional and everyone was silent as we watched what was history being made.
The same can be said when we watched the Enterprise self-destruct in Star Trek III. I saw that movie on its first showing on F 02 JUN 1984 for the same reason. Even though we all saw what looked like the Enterprise blow up in trailers on TV, actually seeing it - and thus being certain it was the Enterprise and no other ship - left us all speechless. We were all mesmerized as the ship blew up and burned up in the atmosphere of the Genesis Planet.
Kirk says "My God, Bones, what have I done?" "What you had to do. What you always do. Turned death into a fighting chance to live."
Great stuff. Lots of quiet tears in the audience because it was like losing a family member. Just like there was during Spock's funeral.
‘Star Trek’ Returning to N. B. C. As a Saturday Morning Cartoon
By Albin Krebs March 23, 1973
“Star Trek,” the National Broadcasting Company television series that developed a cult of devoted followers after it went off the air several seasons ago, will be back in the N. B. C. line‐up next season —as an animated cartoon Saturday mornings.
It is one of seven new series in the children's schedule on N. B. C., which will also include an animated version of the nighttime “Emergency!” series, to be called “Emergency Plus 4,” featuring dramatic stories of rescue and life‐saving techniques.
Another old nighttime series, ‘The Addams, Family,” will also serve as the basis for a children's show, but unlike the old show, which featured actors, the new program will be an animated cartoon that sticks close to the visual style of Charles Addams, the cartoonist for The New Yorker.
Also on the Saturday schedule Will be “Go!,” designed to take advantage of a new lightweight mobile TV camera. It will be used to tape program segments worldwide.
Other Saturday children's programs include “Sigmund,” a live action series created by Sid and Marty Krofft, the puppeteers; a live action and cartoon show featuring a new rock group, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, and a new comedy cartoon series called “Inch High Private Eye,” from Hanna‐Barbera Productions.
The Menagerie (the two-parter, for the unintiated) is the one that I watch the most. Not so much because of the scenes from "13 years ago" (the footage from the failed pilot), but because of the scenes involving Kirk's time. It's humanity and empathy combined with a stylish ending too which illustrates how you can integrate music, class, and style into a wonderful production...
Something to note that is somewhat important... If we remember, Vena was left on Talos IV while Pike left. The "and more" was originally for Pike and what we saw was Vena holding Pike's hand as they head back to the elevator to the underground. That was Vena's illusion that the Talosians mercifully gave her - the illusion that he stayed with her and she could love him. In "The Menagerie", we see that same Vena-with-Pike scene shown to Kirk as if this is what Pike is now experiencing... and presumably it was.
I liked the series but Next Generation was better, in my opinion. It would have been an entirely different show without him and probably not as long lasting. Kirk was a womanizer and probably a dick in real life also.
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Even more than just his character, it was the dynamic of his interactions with Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) and of course James T. Kirk (William Shatner). Comic relief in the midst of drama situations.
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