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<text id=94TT1658>
<title>
Nov. 28, 1994: Cover:Show Business:The Timeline
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
Nov. 28, 1994 Star Trek
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
COVER/ARTS & MEDIA/SHOW BUSINESS, Page 74
Star Trek: The Timeline
</hdr>
<body>
<p>Text by David E. Thigpen
</p>
<p> 1964: Desilu Studios tries to sell Star Trek to CBS, which declines
and decides to air Lost in Space instead.
</p>
<p> Sept. 1966: NBC broadcasts first episode, The Man Trap: Kirk
outwits a vampire-like alien who has eyes for McCoy.
</p>
<p> March 1967: McCoy says, "Dammit, Jim, I'm not a bricklayer,
I'm a doctor!" First variation of this phrase.
</p>
<p> 1967: Even at its ratings peak, Star Trek ranks No. 52, behind
such shows as Mr. Terrific and Iron Horse.
</p>
<p> Dec. 1967: Trouble with Tribbles, peak of Star Trek humor.
</p>
<p> Summer 1968: NBC announces cancellation of series but receives
1 million letters of protest and renews it.
</p>
<p> Nov. 1968: TV's first interracial kiss, between Kirk and Uhura.
Censors insist "no racial overtones," no open mouths.
</p>
<p> 1969: After 79 episodes NBC cancels series.
</p>
<p> Feb. 1972: First Star Trek convention is held in New York City.
Sci-fi guru Isaac Asimov attends.
</p>
<p> 1976: After reveiving 400,000 letters from Trekkies, NASA names
space-shuttle prototype Enterprise.
</p>
<p> 1976: Leonard Nimoy writes I Am Not Spock.
</p>
<p> Nov. 1979: Star Trek: The Motion Picture released. The franchise
lives.
</p>
<p> Dec. 1982: Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan released; it features
Kirstie Alley and Ricardo Montalban's cleavage. Spock dies.
</p>
<p> June 1984: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Spock lives!
</p>
<p> 1986: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. In 1980s San Francisco,
Spock and Kirk save the whales.
</p>
<p> 1986: In Saturday Night Life skit, Shatner tells convention
of Vulcan-eared Trekkies to "get a life".
</p>
<p> 1987: Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series debuts with Shakespearean
actor Patrick Stewart on the bridge and an android riding shotgun.
</p>
<p> Oct. 1990: With 80th episode, TNG surpasses original series.
Classic Trek fans aghast.
</p>
<p> 1991: Gene Roddenberry dies.
</p>
<p> March 1992: "Star Trek the Exhibition" opens at the National
Air and Space Museum and becomes the most heavily attended exhibit
ever.
</p>
<p> Jan. 1993: Spin-off series Deep Space Nine debuts. Alien soap
opera.
</p>
<p> Nov. 1994: Star Trek Generations. Kirk dies. Really
</p>
<p> Jan. 1995: Star Trek: Voyager premieres. Lost in space.
</p>
<p> 24th century: Star Trek forgotten; cult forms around Shatner's
'80s cop show, T.J. Hooker.
</p>
</body>
</article>
</text>