… where no MAN has gone before.

I’ve been watching the first season of Star Trek (the 60’s series) in my free time at the NTU Media Resource Library. Last year, what I did was to request one episode at a time. I don’t know why it never occurred to me earlier to just borrow the whole DVD set, which I did this time around. Thanks to this brainwave, I’ve managed to watch several classic episodes that have impressed, inspired and illuminated science-fiction fans for the past four decades.

For example, “Charlie X” talks about the identity crisis and romantic crushes of male adolescents that are perennial and timeless. “The Enemy Within” talks about balancing compassion and courage within oneself. “Balance of Terror” is simply an example of great storytelling - a World War II story about a US destroyer and a German U-Boat updated for the 23rd century.

I may have adopted The Next Generation as the Star Trek of my youth, but it was Kirk, Spock and McCoy who were my first Star Trek heroes in my childhood days, and it’s like a homecoming to be able to watch these episodes for the first time.