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The way we were: Poonam Saxena looks back on the magic of Star Trek

Updated on: Sep 23, 2023, 16:54:12 IST
By Poonam Saxena
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PREMIUMThere was a sense of people being the best they could be, on board the USS Enterprise. As Captain Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and the others travelled through space, there were a number of firsts on board too, including the interracial kiss between Kirk and communications officer Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) in 1968.
There was a sense of people being the best they could be, on board the USS Enterprise. As Captain Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and the others travelled through space, there were a number of firsts on board too, including the interracial kiss between Kirk and communications officer Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) in 1968.
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The Original Series sparked such a frenzy when it was aired on Doordarshan in 1984, that crowds gathered before public TV sets on Sunday mornings.

It was the first science-fiction show on Doordarshan. Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS; 1966-69), beamed into Indian living rooms in 1984, the same year as our first homegrown soap opera, Hum Log.

It was set in the 23rd century, with the crew of the starship USS Enterprise on an epic five-year journey to “explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before”. As this team traversed the

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Poonam Saxena

Poonam Saxena is the national weekend editor of the Hindustan Times. She writes on cinema, television, culture and books

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