Its 50-year mission: to explore strange new worlds...

[robkelk]

Happy birthday, Star Trek!

For your reading enjoyment, four stories on The Register:

• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/07 ... the_films/]Star Trek film theory: 50 years, 13 films, odds good, evens bad? Horta puckey!
  
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/07 ... _the_odds/]Forget Khan and Klingons, Star Trek's greatest trick was simply surviving
  
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/08 ... rns_fifty/]Star Trek's Enterprise turns 50 and still no sign of a warp drive. Sigh
  
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/08 ... ts_beyond/]Hello, Star Trek? 25th Century here: It's time to move on
  

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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Pyeknu]

Wikipedia's definitely celebrating it. Go see what today's "Did You Know..." entries are.

[robkelk]

(blows dust off thread - it's a perfectly good thread, still got lots of life left in it)

So... Star Trek Discovery is slightly closer to being a thing. They aren't at the "casting extras" stage, so anything can still happen, but they've started casting major roles.

And the choice they've made already has a Creator page on All The Tropes!
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni60498228
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012