Star Trek Sci-Fi TV Show
The best Sci-Fi TV Show that I have ever watched was “Star Trek”. I was just a 10 year old boy growing when I started watching it. Star Trek really fired my imagination as a kid. I wanted to study Aeronautical Engineering and even become an Astronaut after watching Star Trek.
Captain James T. Kirk was the ultimate space adventurer and human being for me. He was ably supported by Mr. Spock. It was always a wonder to me in the 1980’s how an alien like Mr. Spock, with long sharp upwardly turned ears, could work well with a human being like Captain Kirk.
Every member of Federation Starship Enterprise was exciting in his or her own way.
With their tricorders (sort of a cross between smartphones, and pocket-sized fruit machines / ATM’s) in hand, they walk around on a planet’s surface, scanning for life. Many episodes showed how Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk, with their combined alien and human intelligence, avoided collision course between asteroids / flying planets / flying objects and Starship Enterprise. One episode even showed how Mr. Spock, the alien, had developed human feelings and almost fell in love with a woman crew member, Uhura.
I can also never forget how Captain Kirk and Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy would get beamed down onto planets and planetary stations in outer space. They would then get beamed back up into Starship Enterprise by Montgomery “Scotty” Scott. I simply loved the famous line of Captain Kirk, which was “Beam me up, Scotty”, and it was spoken into his remote mobile phone to Scotty who would be seated in Starship Enterprise.
Most of the things that I saw in the 1980’s TV show have become realities today. For example, most of the countries of the world are in the Space Exploration arena. We have sensor based doors which open when a person goes near the door like in Starship Enterprise. We have mobile phones, and we also have aliens visiting our Planet Earth in the form of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO’s). To imagine that such great Sci-Fi ideas were conceived as early as 1966 and are a reality in 2010 is a wonder in itself.
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