The intro above is undoubtedly one of the most well known television show starters, at least around these parts. Let’s take a look at a little bit of behind the scenes back and forth that let to this oh-so-familiar refrain. A few weeks before the season premiere of the show, the producers decided it needed an intro, and contacted Gene Roddenberry and asked him to come up with a voice over to be recorded by William Shatner. Roddenberry, Bob Justman, and John Black exchanged these memos in early August of 1966, although the final draft was written by Roddenberry on the 10th, an hour before the recording session.
Images courtesy of Star Trek Prop Authority, via lettersofnote.com and nerdcore.
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/hyperventilates and falls on the floor.
I've had a little while to think about this but I just can't get my head around the fact that they went back and forth with memos like this. I mean seriously, sending GENE FREAKIN' RODDENBERRY a written memo saying hurry up, no do it like this, and get off your butt and get this done? Wow.
No comment on signing an interoffice memo "Love and kisses, [handwritten] XXXXX"?
Star Trek was the show with those cuddly Ewoks, right, or am I confusing it with something else?
Yeah, I don't get that. Many nuances of human interaction escape me though. Maybe it's like '60s for JK.
By the way, you spelled tribble wrong.
<img src="http://trekmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/tribbles/kirk_tribbles.jpg" width="300">
Well, it's a good thing they would never give up, never surrendered, in their Galaxy sized Quest, for the perfect opening line.