A rare letter from Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Star Trek: Voyager's holographic doctor, Robert Picardo, also serves on The Planetary Society Board of Directors. However, he is not the first connection between Star Trek and The Planetary Society. In 1980, the creator of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, wrote a letter and sent it out to a Star Trek fans mailing list. In the letter, Gene invited his fans to join us on our mission to explore the cosmos.
Hear the letter as read by Robert Picardo, listen to his Jean-Luc Picard impression, and see inside Bill Nye's office for more Star Trek artifacts on hand at The Planetary Society.
Read the letter here:
www.planetary.o...
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"Subscribe to our CZcams Channel: planet.ly/ytsub...
Follow us!
Facebook: / planetarysociety
Twitter: / exploreplanets
Instagram: / planetarysociety
On the web: www.planetary.org
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Join us: www.planetary.o...
Stay in touch with our monthly e-newsletter: www.planetary.o...
About The Planetary Society:
The Planetary Society has inspired millions of people to explore other worlds and seek other life. With the mission to empower the world's citizens to advance space science and exploration, its international membership makes the non-governmental Planetary Society the largest space interest group in the world. Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray and Louis Friedman founded the Planetary Society in 1980. Bill Nye, a longtime member of the Planetary Society's Board, serves as CEO."
"World citizen" has a peculiar ring to it. Gene was a real life phenomenon
I _often_ wonder if Gene really was from that Undiscovered Country in the future.
Beautiful, touching and well done! I shed a tear for Roddenberry and for Sagan 😢. I’m already a member of the Planetary Society but I will share this link with my Star Trek fans 🖖
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There's one word that I can use for this idea, " Fascinating. "
proud member for nearly 40 years
Where can we watch the whole thing and hear the audio at the end do you know?
Excellent job my friend. I enjoyed your reading of the letter from Gene Rodenberry. Thank you very much for the tour of the Planetary Society today with my wife Diana. We enjoyed your company and that of Bill Nye.
Best wishes Michael C.
Jon Alexandr
Being both a Star Trek fan and a charter member of The Planetary Society, I was happy to be reminded that I share my birth day, September 8, with Star Trek Day. It seems particularly fitting that Star Trek Day is on the 8th, as “8” is an infinity symbol positioned vertically. May we all “live long and prosper.”
Totally awesome I love seeing people using their star power for good.
Beautiful, thank you Doctor!
Robert Picardo doing the Picard voice. I'm satisfied with life.
Live Long and Prosper.
Trekkies would love this video!
Thanks Doc :)
He was totally great in Voyager. I loved the doctor from the original 60s Star Trek too. They were both perfect for their given ships. I like anything Star Trek but the original series & Voyager are my personal favorites.
This was great, thank you for sharing this! :)
Absolutely Sir! Thanks.
Brilliant ! What a great treasure the letter is too. Nicely done Dr. ♥
Very nice piece. For me, no audio (aside from music track) from 2:55 to 3:38 with Bill Nye. Otherwise, wonderful.
Bill Nye's audio got cut out!! Oh no!!
Beautiful.
I would love to take a tour around the planetary society building someday and see all the cool stuff there!
Gene would have been thrilled by the revelations of the JWST yesterday.
Rusty-1-A.N.S. Very good. I will join The Planetary Society. And Robert Picardo is one of My favorite actors, especially in Star Trek!!!⚡ENERGIZE ⚡
I signed up immediately after this video.
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's reality! Much of it has already come true.
Much of Bill Nye's audio is cut out but if you turn on captions you can read what he said!
The Patrick Stewart-impression needs some work to reach the same level as Brent Spiner but it is a good start! :-)
Gene Roddenberry would be proud of The Doctor and Voyager but would hate PIC & STD
Great stuff!
He will still alway be "The Cowbow" in my books. lol
Beautiful
3:32 - not if Kurtzman has anything to say about it.
I wholeheartedly support the idea of exploration of our solar system and even perhaps one day, the stars. But we must first learn to take care of the planet on which we now live. The birthplace and cradle of all humankind. As we take our first baby steps towards other worlds, let us vow not to export our bad habits, but endeavor to only send forth the best of humanity.
Glory to the great bird of the galaxy
Digitise it. Digitise it now :)
Hole heartedly agree funny
This is the Star Trek we know and loved but sadly on TV today it doesnt share the same values as it used to be :(
Wild. Love it!! 🚀
Meg Mucklebones is looking pretty good these days.
Nebraskans for the Advancement of Space Development
Who wrote the MUSIC IN THIS..Please tell me.
Fuck!!!! What a find
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hmmmmmmm everything in that box is suspiciously crinkled and that is an extreemly crisp paper i so not believe that letter was in that box
Bill nye the star trek guy....no surprise there.
Audio goes dodgy about 3 minutes
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Now Star Trek (Discovery) is about promoting feminism, diversity, minorities and LGBT+++. No longer about space exploration.
Our man bashir... Was a ds9 episode, you, as zimmerman, wanted to update your hologram image, only for bashir to turn out to be genetically altered...
@Barnaby ahhhhhh
The correct episode was "Doctor Bashir, I Presume".
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@@phonotical Our man Bashir: A transporter accident replaces the characters in Bashir's secret agent holosuite program with the physical forms of the station's senior staff.
Doctor Bashir, I Presume: Doctor Lewis Zimmerman arrives on Deep Space 9 to use Bashir as the model for his new Long-term Medical Hologram, but his plans could unveil a dark secret that Bashir has carried since childhood.
SPACE FORCE!!!!
Rare as in, he never wrote many letters... Being a writer or rare in the sense of that there is only one copy?
It's a nice sentiment but sadly one that no longer really applies to Star Trek. The new shows lack the complexity and nuance for sci fi it once had. Nevertheless great video with a good tone. I wish the shows could do as good as this.
Emergency Medical holographic program!!!!🖖
cordially Yours, greetings from Konrad Marek.
in the 1960s it was: "Come to Houston, we are going to the moon!"
now it should be: Go for 1A/'Oumuamua ( see i4is.org )
if it contains metallic resources, it could be the basis for NCC 1701 to resupply, enlarge the ship on the go, and then dash on!
What year will it be? if only we wouldn't lose track of 'Oumuamua in 2020.
Roscosmos/NASA/ESA/JAXA have to send a space-probe to find it again, which isn't easy, because of 'Oumuamua's non-gravitational velocity-component.
Bill Nye is an actor not a science guy how embarrassing at least an actor says he's an actor
I strongly dislike this cynical idea that mankind's spiritual development can now only come from multi-billion dollar space programs.
Accidentally disliked! I love Star Trek and the letter.
It's okay. Discovered if you hit like it will undo dislike. Hooray!
ENDORSING SPACE FORCE!!!
Sadly CBS is pissing on Genes Heritage!
In my eyes Star Trek is dead, long lives the Orville!
Nico Steffen no they’re not. No it’s not. And I hope it doesn’t. Besides, boreville will never get a season three. DSC, however, is. And several spin offs. Now, off you run, manchild.
Beautiful.