Featuring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy & Nichelle Nichols. The Star Trek portions of The Pioneers of Television Science Fiction episode. The dramatizations of Gene Roddenberry selling Star Trek and the Plato's Stepchildren filming were great.
@amaxamon You're misinterpreting the context of the documentary. It's called "Pioneers of Television" for a reason. It's part of a larger work about the ins-and-outs of television in the Golden Age. There's accompanying docs about Westerns, Sit-Coms, Late Night, and Variety shows.
This is about sci-fi on TV in the 1960s. That's what it covers. It's not about the complete history of sci-fi, nor does it pretend to be.
I love Roddenberry, but this program is ridiculous. Science-Fiction was almost 100 years old by the time "Trek" aired & it was as out-of-date as any other schlock on tv. It was just well written & thought out. But we'd had everyone from Wells to Bradbury to Lem by that time. SF was *not* pulp magazines & Marvel monster comics in 1966!!!
so, where is the next optimistic vision of the future? That's the most lacking point of science fiction today, and part of it's deteriation in popularity :-(
I want my child to be as optimistic as i am about the future, but I'm aware ST played a big deal for that.
Will Kids growing up today still be curious about alien life, or will they just be frightened of all these invasion-based Stories?
@amaxamon You're misinterpreting the context of the documentary. It's called "Pioneers of Television" for a reason. It's part of a larger work about the ins-and-outs of television in the Golden Age. There's accompanying docs about Westerns, Sit-Coms, Late Night, and Variety shows.
This is about sci-fi on TV in the 1960s. That's what it covers. It's not about the complete history of sci-fi, nor does it pretend to be.
40thCapeRifles 1 week ago
I love Roddenberry, but this program is ridiculous. Science-Fiction was almost 100 years old by the time "Trek" aired & it was as out-of-date as any other schlock on tv. It was just well written & thought out. But we'd had everyone from Wells to Bradbury to Lem by that time. SF was *not* pulp magazines & Marvel monster comics in 1966!!!
amaxamon 3 weeks ago
so, where is the next optimistic vision of the future? That's the most lacking point of science fiction today, and part of it's deteriation in popularity :-(
I want my child to be as optimistic as i am about the future, but I'm aware ST played a big deal for that.
Will Kids growing up today still be curious about alien life, or will they just be frightened of all these invasion-based Stories?
Phonomatic 1 month ago
thanks for the upload of this fantastic docu
georgemargaris 2 months ago