This week in Star Trek history: The Original Series premieres

Star Trek “The Man Trap” premiered on September 8, 1966

This week’s history should be one we all already know by heart!

It was this week, 54 years ago, in 1966, that Star Trek first aired to the public. On September 4th of that year, creator Gene Roddenberry showed the episode “Where No Man Has Gone Before” to the crowd at the World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago. This was also the same convention where later, he first screened a black and white version of “The Cage”, the original Star Trek pilot that had been rejected by the studio and wouldn’t be aired in its entirety until a 1988 television special.

It was just four days after Roddenberry screened “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, on September 8th, 1966, that the Original Series pilot “The Man Trap” would premiere on NBC network television.

Please join me in celebrating a great 54 years of Star Trek.