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Star F**king Across The Universe
It’s over 50 years since Star Trek first hit American TV screens and it reached the BBC in July 1969, just a week before Neil Armstrong took humanity’s first steps in its own wagon train to the stars. In those 50 years-ish, the whole franchise has been at the forefront of making history and pushing all sorts of boundaries. From the famous first interracial kiss to being an inspiration to real-life astronauts, Star Trek can likely lay claim to being the most aspirational umbrella of speculative fiction in history. There have been some truly outstanding attempts to show the whole of humanity’s potential, whether directly such as the inclusion of the Russian Chekov during the real life Cold War, or through analogy like Sisko’s Prophet-induced vision in Far Beyond the Stars . It’s also been a genuine inspiration to real life events – the very first Space Shuttle is called Enterprise , although it never left Earth’s atmosphere, and this idea came full circle when Enterprise’s ficti...
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