I saw this as a 12 year trekkie in 1996! Can't believe we're only 2 years from the 60th anniversary special now. I got into Frasier based on the Voyager sketch
I hated A Piece of the Action. It was so campy with Kirk trying to sound like Bogart in the scene shown. My favorite episodes were The Changeling and The Devil in the Dark. Nothing like a Horta between friends,
Thanks to Star Trek I went into creative writing mode for a while very influenced by the episode A Private Little War. My main character was influenced by Nona from that episode and the Hill people became my make believe tribe of women warriors. Ran out of ideas though in 2013. Still have those stories. Thanks Star Trek for helping me learn to write my short stories thanks to that one episode. Watching Star Trek taught me how to do dialogue and scene changes and character development.
I believe that opening quote was from the Ultimate Computer as M-5 took Kirk’s place for a while and he thought he lost a job. He was having a drink with McCoy. I didn’t see Star Trek to 1972. I changed from a Chekhov fan to a Spock fan. Had a friend who was a big Dr. McCoy fan.
wow i was like 7 or 8 when star trek was on our black and white tv in london. for me and my friends at school it was the greatest. dr who was 2nd and later we had ufo. the inveders was a bit of a drag because you almost never saw a saucer. anyway star trek is still the greatest.
I remember watching this live. Would love to see a ceremony with all living cast members from the crews of the shows and films at the next milestone in 2026.
I didn't get into Star Trek through the original show but through the movies. On the small screen, TNG and Voyager were my shows. I didn't get to really properly watch the original until a rerun in 1999 when I was 11, where it was paired with new episodes of Voyager (at the time the fifth season in my county). My first episode was "Devil in the Dark" and I was amazed how nuanced and just well written it was (though I wouldn't have put it that way back then as a lad). I was intimately familiar with the big screen adventures, but that was quite an introduction to my heroes' early years. It's the kind of show where you discover new things every time. After film school and my own time spend watching and researching old movies, knowing what films at the time looked like, again gave me a new perspective on the show in the late 2000s. Star Trek is just my favorite for its varied and of ten though provoking stories, great characters and the optimistic future I know we are capable of reaching a semblance of. Even the new shows still carry that in their hearts... more or less.
I can't thank you enough for preserving this on RU-vid. The thematic connection to the Space Program, the skit with my favorite sitcom cast, almost all the actors/actresses from the golden age of Star Trek, and of course the theme music from DS9 make this one of my fondest Star Trek memories.
don't know when this was made, but it's interesting to hear William Shatner describe George Takei quite positively and in detail, despite his current claims that he doesn't know the guy!
I think its disgusting and so off-putting for quite a few of these people to, at one time, talk of William Shatner in somewhat glowing terms and then, when its beneficial for them to do so for greedy reasons, will then shit on the man!!, a guy who never really did anything to them OR FOR THEM, which is probably more at the root of why they harbor their petty and inconsistent grudges, because he really was the only one to go on and be quite successful way beyond Star-Trek, which none of the others in the Star-Trek cast ever did😮
10:35 The UK BBC Sci-Fi TV series Doctor Who had its 60th anniversary in 2023, Doctor Who is the world's longest-lasting science fiction TV series at 61 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_television_shows_by_category
I finally discoverd when the spark of inspiration for Galaxy Quest arose. Perhaps. Ben Stiller's one man skit about his boyhood watching Star Trek from that 1996 Star Trek celebration.
This is so nice and warm and comforting to watch, while making me sad. I enjoy the new Star Trek shows and I adore the Kelvin Timeline crew, but Star Trek doesn't really seem to carry the same cultural weight at the moment that it did during that 30th anniversary salute to the franchise.
Later this year it’ll be 30 years since this first aired on TV. Great documentary. William Shatner is one of my favorite celebrities. By the way the scene at 3:51 shouldn’t count as a red shirt death because that was Spock doing the Vulcan Neck Pinch on the Lieutenant which only knocks one unconscious for a little bit.
Hampshire and 14, I saw it through a video boxset of the first 8 movies on video that came with the 30th Anniversary evening gala and instantly fell in love with his music.
I don't know how I've never seen this though I've seen clips of them standing up their at the end and for some reason Beltran getting up from his chair is a gif lmao! Loved seeing all the Voyager cast there! so cool! what a fab celebration, they should do one for the 60th in 2026!
