Across the UK, across continental North America, and around the world on the internet, by webcast

and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the return of the unexplained.

Well, we're almost at mid-summer as you hear this, and I thought we'd maybe have a little

bit of a treat this time, maybe something that you can listen to on your summer holidays

that's not too heavy. And it's quite fun. We're going to be talking on this edition of the

Explained about Star Trek, the original series, the people who made it, the impact it had,

and how it was able to become the phenomenon that it did become, both sides of the Atlantic,

and even for years and years after the first series aired. We'll dispel a few urban myths about it, I think,

along the way. Now, we're going to be talking about a number of things that come together here in the persona

of Vic Mignona, the man we're going to be speaking with on this edition of the unexplained

hope, I'm around that right. He's made a series that picks up from the original series in which he plays

Captain Kirk. You can find that online, but we'll talk about it when we get talking to Vic in the US.

He has also been involved in the audio book version of the book by Mark Kushman to do with Star Trek.

As people both check out Mark Kushman and Vic Mignona, both heavily involved in the Star Trek franchise one way or another

and both tremendous devotees and officionados of it. So I thought it is 50 years since the Star Trek phenomenon

give a take a few months or years began, depends on how you calculate the pilot series and when it went into

this indication and when it aired in the UK and the US and all the rest of it. But let's say 5th of all,

part 50 years here for something to survive and be revered for as many years as Star Trek has is

extraordinary in its various guises. But on this edition, we're talking about the first series and we're

talking about William Shatner, Leonard Neymoy and the original team, the people who went where no man had gone

before and explored new frontiers and strange new worlds. I remember the original series of Star Trek airing

almost continuously on the BBC through the 70s when I was at school and that for me was the era of Star Trek

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