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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