• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: 17,500 Entries on All Things Sci-F

    From Internetado@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 28 10:42:56 2018
    What turns people into science-fiction fans? Many enter through the
    gateway of Star Trek, an early 1960s television series "set on the
    worlds visited by a giant Spaceship, the U.S.S. Enterprise, and on the
    ship itself. Its crew is on a mission to explore new worlds and 'to
    boldly go where no man has gone before.'" Though "not particularly
    successful in the ratings," Star Trek nevertheless "attracted a hard
    core of devoted fans, 'Trekkies,' who made up in passionate enthusiasm
    what they lacked in numbers." Perhaps creator Gene Roddenberry's
    signature "blend of the mildly fantastic with the reassuringly
    familiar, and his use of an on the whole very likeable cast, attracted
    viewers precisely because its exoticism was manageable and
    unthreatening." [...]

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  • From Jerry Brown@21:1/5 to internetado@alt119.net.invalid on Tue Aug 28 17:53:53 2018
    On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:42:56 -0300, Internetado <internetado@alt119.net.invalid> wrote:

    What turns people into science-fiction fans? Many enter through the
    gateway of Star Trek, an early 1960s television series "set on the
    worlds visited by a giant Spaceship, the U.S.S. Enterprise, and on the
    ship itself. Its crew is on a mission to explore new worlds and 'to
    boldly go where no man has gone before.'" Though "not particularly
    successful in the ratings," Star Trek nevertheless "attracted a hard
    core of devoted fans, 'Trekkies,' who made up in passionate enthusiasm
    what they lacked in numbers." Perhaps creator Gene Roddenberry's
    signature "blend of the mildly fantastic with the reassuringly
    familiar, and his use of an on the whole very likeable cast, attracted >viewers precisely because its exoticism was manageable and
    unthreatening." [...]

    Certainly worked for me.

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