FANCAST streams all the old TV shows to you (and also new ones) and this is the future: video on demand, where ever you are when you want it. Old shows and new shows, side by side with no more TV guides and no more waiting for the show to air; just video on demand. It's a feast and it's "all you can eat" at every sitting.
Although some of you may not be Star Trek fans or may not be familiar with the original series, you now have a chance to see the show that started it all.
"Menagerie" was the first Star Trek show Gene Roddenberry produced. Roddenberry, not William Shatner, changed the world with his writing and his visions. Shatner, a mediocre actor, was just lucky enough to be the star of the series and to outlive Roddenberry. The critics of the day called him a "ham" but Shatner's real skill was that he survived every time and kept re-inventing himself. Most actors in a role such as this are type-cast and the public remembers them only in their most famous role; they can never find work in any other genre.
Star Trek is terribly "dated" since it was conceived and made in the early to mid 1960's. Entering production with a very small "TV budget" for the small screen when most people still had B&W TV sets, it has many flaws that make it seem silly by today's standards. Much of the dialogue, the computers, the props and the sets seem second and third rate. They are unconvincing to our eyes because our reality is so far advanced, but you cannot deny the intelligent thoughts and concepts that went into the majority of the screenplays.
While I was never a "Trekker" or a "Trekkie", I was a dealer who made a good living traveling the country and selling to the fans. I was lucky enough to meet Gene and his wife, Majel, several times. I had seen Star Trek episodes before when they first aired, but I could never comprehend why his fans considered Gene a living God. Not until I looked at the episodes again years later with no expectations and with new eyes...
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