STAR TREK (STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES)
Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and its crew. It later acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series. The ship and crew are led by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), first officer and science officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and chief medical officer Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley). Shatner’s voice-over introduction during each episode’s opening credits stated the starship’s purpose: “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” (More from Wikipedia)
Then there are the celebrities (mostly movie and TV stars) who decide that the country just has to hear them sing. While I have never been able to bring myself to purchase a record by one of the Star Trek duo – William Shatner or Leonard Nimoy – I actually own one by Telly Savalas, Telly.
(March 2013)
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“Starship” is a word that was gaining currency in this time period – not least because of the Star Trek television program that ran from 1966 to 1969 (now known as Star Trek: The Original Series) – and Jefferson Starship represented an appropriate updating of the original band name, Jefferson Airplane.
(June 2014)
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In February 1972, one of the members of Andraé Crouch and the Disciples, Sherman Andrus broke the “color barrier” in gospel music when he was brought in as the first African-American lead singer of a “mainstream” gospel group, the Imperials. Adopting the famous slogan of Star Trek, Andrus joked that he would “boldly go where no black man had gone before”.
(July 2014)
