GA Podiatrist Celebrates 50 years of Star Trek
The first episode of Star Trek was broadcast 50 years ago this week, on Sept. 8, 1966. The TV series was only on the air as long as a Red Shirt’s career in Starfleet, yet it has somehow endured, evolving into six (soon to be seven) TV series and 13 motion pictures. Resistance to its cultural impact has been futile.
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Dr. Gary Fields (Photo: Melanie Boyd) |
Dr. Gary Fields, a Carrollton podiatrist, remembers when the show was first broadcast. As a kid growing up in New York City, he had already spent a lot of time watching scary movies about space aliens. When NBC began promoting the show in the fall of 1966, he was looking forward to the first broadcast. From the start, he said, the show was unlike any other science fiction he had seen. “It involved human beings for the most part intermixing and developing relationships,” he said. “Not just with other cultures, but with other beings from other planets, with different thoughts, different ideas, different concepts.”
Source: Ken Denney, Times-Georgian [9/3/16]
