Lost's pilot is one of the best things television has ever made, instantly getting us hooked on the science-vs.-faith struggle between Jack and John Locke, as subsequent episodes would introduce us to the series' dense and inspired mythology centered on flashbacks, DHARMA stations, Smoke Monsters and time travel. Now, on paper, this premise sounds like the mileage is limited how dramatically satisfying can a sci-fi version of Cast Away be? Very, as it turns out. Abrams' successful Trek reboot gave us a space worth calling the Final Frontier, TOS gave us a reason to want to explore that Frontier in the first place.Ī plane crashes on an Island, and those who survived the crash try to survive in a place governed by random monsoons and occasionally stirred by a monster's mwrrrroar. Several spin-offs and symptoms of franchise fatigue later, Trek manages to weather the fickle tastes of fandom better than most. The production values don't quite hold up, but the heart behind the storytelling does. The show lives and dies on the strength of Kirk, Spock and McCoy's interactions, with a few "Givin' ya all she's gots" from Scotty and some Tribbles in between. Kirk's phaser-first, talk later approach needed McCoy's passionate Country Doctor Ways and Spock's half-human, half-Vulcan logic to work, and in doing so helped make the characters of this triumvirate some of the genre's most iconic. Kirk, (and more importantly, the Shatner!) and his two best friends: Dr. Now the OG Enterprise crew may not have delivered the best drama with every one of their original 79 missions, but they inspired a generation with their Comic-Con friendly adventures, challenged the way networks can bring science fiction to the masses just as NASA was taking men to the moon, addressed Civil Rights issues with tact, challenged the Vietnam-sensitive time without preaching and laid pop-culture bedrock in the process. In 1966, Gene Roddenberry's warp-fueled vision set the standard for sci-fi TV: Fill your shiny, iconic spaceship with a diverse and complex crew and boldly go on "missions of the week," with some serialized elements. Trek is the reason why so many ship-based sci-fi shows exist.
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