Happy Anniversary! 50 years ago a “wagon train to the stars” began a mission to explore the Human condition in a post-scarcity universe.

A man who was not a part of the television world would take his aberrant idea and bring it to an industry not known for taking risks.

To make it more challenging, he would insist on roles feature people of every color, shade, personality and dare to create aliens who would superior to us in every way. This man was Gene Roddenberry.

This show which came into existence through a strange confluence of forces, would live and die filled with controversies, struggles, and ambitions equal to those of the cast of characters.

Star Trek, now called the Original Series, would exist for a brief moment, as the best and the worst of all things science fiction. What we could be, what we could create, what we could envision, in direct conflict with greed, profit and personal aggrandizement.