Star Trek, My Love (In My Life)

"Why do you like Star Trek?" people ask. Here's one set of reasons. (The Gorn just didn't fit.)

PHOTO TIMELINE & SOURCES.

1974: U.S. president Richard Nixon resigns.

c. 1970: Feminists Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes. Photograph by Dan Wynn.

1975: "Vietnam Final Escape," Saigon, by photographer Hubert Van Es

The girl is actress Kim Darby, from the Star Trek episode "Miri."
[You all know Leonard Nimoy plays Spock and William Shatner plays Kirk, right?]

1977: Release of "Star Wars" (May) and "Saturday Night Fever" (December).

1979: U.S. president Jimmy Carter, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, and their wives, Rosalynn and Jehan. Photograph by Wally McNamee.

1980s: Painting of Leonid Brezhnev kissing Erich Honecker, communist East Germany's last leader, by Dimitrij Vrubel (from a 1979 photo). Inscription reads: "God, help me survive amidst this deadly love."

1981: David Roader shouts with joy as he arrives with other U.S. hostages from Iran at a US Air Force base in West Germany, on January 21, one day after the inauguration of President Reagan. (BBC News)

Ronald Reagan (actor and U.S. president, 1981-1989), stars in "Bedtime for Bonzo" (1951).

1981: Pope John Paul II embraces Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's Solidarity Movement and later president of Poland.

The red ribbon is an international symbol of the fight against AIDS, first reported in 1981.

1989: June 5, Tiananmen Square, China. By Jeff Widener (The Associated Press).

1989: November, Fall of the Berlin Wall, near the Brandenberg Gate.

1990: February 11, Nelson Mandela, Walking Free, South Africa, from the Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg).

1991: Kuwait Oil Fires. desert-storm.com

1995-1996: Monica Lewinsky with U.S. president Bill Clinton.

1999: Brandi Chastain, of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team, after making the winning goal in the Women's World Cup soccer final, from the Cincinnati Enquirer.

2001: World Trade Center Towers, New York City (Reuters)

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[LukeSkywalkerInMe]

Oh that was so touching! I cry everytime I hear about people whom STAR TREK helped through a crisis. Because that is what the show once did for me, too. STAR TREK saves lives!

[frescadp]

Hear, hear.

Thanks for commenting!

[yourmothaq]

What a beautiful video. Thank you for sharing.

[frescadp]

And thank you for saying so!

[NancyLL3]

Beautifully done! I wonder if these guys know jsut how much influence they've had on lives; impressive young people look up to them, lonely girls fall in love, and they always did what was right. I still love them, and I'm glad you found someting to cling to.

[leeadamaa]

star trek = the forefather star wars = the force Battlestar TOS = A new era of sci fi Battlestar TNS = better than anything the world has ever seen

[DEROCK72]

your video is awesome,and well put together.im sad that you had some ruff times.glad you`re doing better though..i never realized star trek was inspiring to people...i never really got into it

[phantomphan28]

0:27 you and me both!!!

[8088samjam]

This is beautiful. I love the show too... in the short time I've been watching it, star trek has meant a lot to me -- if only to help me through being a teenager.

[YTEdy]

That was very cool.

[gforce4all]

A+ job.Would make any trek fan proud!

[22jace22]

Thank you , Fresca. That was great. I , too, relied on the Trek to help me through questionable times as a teenager trying to raise my girlfriend's two children far away from home in Orlando , Fla. I'm from Philly. It was on in the a.m. when i was done my stockboy shift at Albertson's. Before her and the kids awoke. Helped me to relax and deal. God, I was young. Too young to be raising someone else's children. 18... But..shit..those kids grew up ok..no drugs and finished school..God I was young

[miladynana]

omg, I got goosebumps all over

[redeem147]

You made me cry. That was so beautiful. Kudos for taking the pain in your life and showing how to deal with such grace and humour. Thank you.

[Atlanta23410]

Beautiful...simply beautiful story :')

Made me tear! Kirk and Spocks relationship is like no other...nothing will ever replace it.

And yes, Star Trek does save lives!