Hey let me just take a second to ask you what do you know about the history of the star ship named USS Enterprise? or who, are the Borg? and who was the first captain of the Enterprise?, Please will you join me on a tour of A Sci-Fi legend known as STAR TREK.........
As everyone knows I am a BIG SCI FI NERD or geek whatever you wish to call me by I'm fine with that. I have loved scenic fiction as I've said before for a very long time, I love it in comic form
like superheroes, or even a form of cartooning known as Anime my all time favorite is a series from the late seventies to revival a movie series known as simply STAR WARS
and you all know the history of STAR WARS or at least I hope you would in some way or other? So what is the anime that came out around the same time that I was referring to was called STAR BLAZERS. 
It like all science fiction series of the time following a decade earlier were set in someway or other to the format of a science fiction series known as Star Trek. Star Trek when first conceived in the mid sixties by a fellow known as Gene Roddenberry as "A Wagon Train to the stars" as he put it. Who was this guy named Roddenberry and how did his television history come about your wanting to know right? Gene Roddenberry was born in 1921 on August 19th
(GR,B:AUGUST19th,1921-D:OCTOBER 24th,1991) to Eugene Edward Roddenberry & his wife Caroline "Glen" Roddenberry in El Paso Texas. After high school he took courses to be like his father a police officer while completing the courses in 1940 he became interested in aeronautical engineering and obtained a pilot's licensee. In 1941 he enlisted in the United States Army Air corps which in that same year was renamed the United States Army Air Force. He flew eighty nine missions altogether but his first was on a B-17E flying fortress named "Yankee Doodle" from Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides when mechanical failure cause it to crash during take off. He was awarded the Distinguished flying cross when he left the Air force in 1945. He then went to work for three years time for Pan American airways. He then decided to get his foot in the door in the 1950's but while waiting he went on to become a Police officer in Los Angles he wrote some scripts while on the force for "Highway Patrol" and "Have Gun, will Travel" then he left the police force in 1956. After a few years of being a freelance writer Gene in 1960 tried his first attempt at creating his own work called APO923 but no network would buy it. His second attempt worked only shorty but got his foot into Hollywood it was a series called "THE LIEUTENANT" (Which by the way on Memorial day weekend at Best Buy I saw on DVD), it was set in the Untied States Marine Corps with future Star Trek star Nichelle Nichols in the first episode that was in 1963.
Roddenberry developed Star Trek in 1964 thinking it as a combination of science fiction series like Buck Rogers
and
Flash Gordon. The first Pilot of Star Trek was called
"THE CAGE", it was about a space ship and her crew the ship was known as a earth vessel called the Enterprise.
It was on it's way back from Rigel VII to Vega Colony to get the personnel who were mortally wounded help, and to replace those who had been lost during whatever had happen on the planet, this had distributed the ship's commanding officer Christoper Pike when it
received a call for help from human scientists on a class-M planet known as Talos IV. When they arrived on the planet's surface they learned it had been devastated centuries ago by nuclear war and the captain Christopher Pike was captured by the inhabiting race of that world known as the Talosians.
The Talosians were a race that could only communicate by telepathy and they had a human female named Vina who was the only survivor 
of the S.S. Columbia expedition which crashed on Talos IV in 2236. The Talosians put out a distress call into outer space as bait for any spacecraft passing into their solar system for an experiment. Christoper Pike not knowing of what the experiment was surprised when he sees in his holding cell Vina herself with him and was now even more confused by the Talosians thought process why would they want him or anyone from his ship to help them and what was it they were wanting perplexed him. Still the crew of the Enterprise never gave up on trying to get Pike back they used their phasers 
to try to blast the rocky cliff where they see one of the Talosians taking an unconscious Pike to who knew where? on this very strange planet. As these tests that the Talosians were using on Pike were conducted Pike learned one thing that whatever the test was the girl known as Vina was with him each time.
The first test was from on the last planet the ship was at known as Rigel VII where Pike had to protect her during a fight with a violent war like beast as she ran towards 
this castle. When Pike had killed the attacking beast he had realized he was still in the cell of the Talosians with Vina as he started thinking of how to get answers from questions from Vina she was gone , and standing in front of him was a Talosian wanting to offer him nourishment. Yet when Pike refused to cooperate in consuming his nourishment he 
was punished. Meanwhile above the planet on the Enterprise the crew was trying to think of a way to get the captain back, when Mister Spock suggested that buzzing around on the planet's surface may cause more harmful to both their commanding officer and the ship they still decided to chance it. So with a very powerful laser cannon known as 
a energy weapon they tired blasting the mountain cliff of where these aliens held their captain.By this time Pike had given up trying to talk his way out of escaping (although that wasn't really his intentions) he talk about a Husband and wife type relationship with the Talosian who had just punished him, come to find out he next
sees Vina and his horse Tango in his place of home Mojave. The Talosians had finally realized themselves that human thoughts belie even a human's own thoughts and decided to see how Pike would realize this too by preforming one last test for this man Vina had wanted as her "ADAM". The next test was one of seduction/temptation by the Talosians in which Vina
was a Orion slave girl, Pike finally realized that these aliens had him where they wanted him to start a race of human beings with this girl from a crashed ship from eighteen years ago. The Enterprise was getting ready to beam down a landing party to once again try to find the captain only when the transporter chiefs tired to send the party of six down, 
only two left the ship the captain's yeoman and the first officer. When Vina sees the other two females she protested that it be her as Pike's choice, there happens to be a very funny line between Vina and the First officer (more on that next time...). The crew of the Enterprise prepares to take the ship outta Talos IV orbit, when Pike catches one of the 
Talosian, trying to kill the two new females?, to assure that they have a human male to make human salves to make machines to help the Talosian race thrive once more. When Pike fights the Talosian in a form of a alien ape, the alien says he or any of the other Talosians can make the crew of the Enterprise press "ANY" wrong button and blow up the space vessel without knowing it, Vina confirms that the Talosian isn't at all lying, this is when Pike fires one of the phaser's of the other two captured officers at their holding cell
only to see that the Talosian was still trying to keep at least Pike to bring their plans to fruition, when Pike threaten to blast his head off the alien revealed what the Phaser had truly done. All of them head to the planet's surface ready to leave the planet for good, when the first officer notices that everything seems to be an illusion where they exit to the surface and the Talosian pleads one last time for Pike to remain when the other Talosians appears to tell him that they must all die from the star ship, the first officer sets her phaser to explode since death is the only way out, realizing this the Talosians let the Enterprise crew go since they are so fearful/resistance to being controlled at all. Pike invites Vina to come with them back to the ship when she refuses he still doesn't understand till her form changes completely to the way 
,the Talosians tried to fix this young woman from eighteen years ago. Pike finally realizes what Vina had wanted all along and ask the aliens to give her back her youth, which they do and more with a illusion of himself at her side. Then the ship continues on to the Vega colony to help it's injured personnel from Rigel VII. So did the networks get what was promised them a Space western?, NOT AT ALL, but at least one of the heads of the network saw something that made it worthy of maybe a second chance! Was Gene ready if a another such chance did present itself?, truly only time could tell.......To be Continued......
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