Star Trek: TOS ... progressive and regressive. By Lyle Bateman Contributing Writer, [GAS] The original version of Star Trek, the 3 season show from the late 60’s that introduced us not only to Spock, Kirk, and McCoy, but an entire universe made up of Kilngons and Romulans, Star Fleet and Warp drive, has been hailed by many TV historians as a ground-breaking series that shattered many taboos and stereotypes of 1960’s TV and America at large. And rightfully so … Star Trek was decades ahead of other programs in the area of racial integration and harmony as the first TV program to regularly include black actors (and, shock of shocks, a black woman no less) as integral parts of the cast.
And even if the circumstances render the effect less powerful than it might have been, ST:TOS must also be hailed for the first ever inter-racial kiss on television, from the episode “Plato’s Stepchildren.” But there’s another area that TOS tends to fall a bit short on the progressive scale, and that involves religion. Timeline of historic inventions. The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions. Note: Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a more practical form.
Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first known working version of the invention is used here. Prehistoric[edit] Note that the dates in the Paleolithic era are approximate and refer to the earliest discovered use of an invention, and are likely to change as more research is done and older sites are found. 1st millennium BC[edit] 7th century BC[edit] 6th century BC[edit] With the Greco-Roman trispastos ("three-pulley-crane"), the simplest ancient crane, a single man tripled the weight he could lift than with his muscular strength alone.[30] 5th century BC[edit] 3rd century BC[edit] 2nd century BC[edit] Torchwood. To date all four series have been aired overseas in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America. Owing to the early popularity of Torchwood various tie-in media were produced, including audio dramas, and novels and comic strips. From its inception, the BBC invested in a heavy online presence for the series, with an alternate reality game running alongside the show's first two series, and an animated web series running alongside its fourth.
Production[edit] Early development[edit] Although Torchwood was originally intended to be Sci-Fi aimed at adults, the character Captain Captain Jack Harkness who had previous been introduce in Doctor Who proved popular with young audiences. Russell T Davies decided to edit second series "child-friendly" removing kissing, sex, and swearing. These edits to the shows enabled it to be broadcast at 7 pm (pre-watershed).[14][15] The first three series of Torchwood were produced in-house by BBC Wales. Later development[edit] Writing[edit] Crew[edit] Starship Enterprise. The Enterprise or USS Enterprise (often referred to as the "starship Enterprise") is the name of several fictional spacecraft, some of which are the main setting for various television series and films in the Star Trek science fiction franchise. Development[edit] According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia, the registry number "NCC-1701" was devised by Matt Jefferies, art director of the first Star Trek series, inspired by an old science fiction cover that Gene Roddenberry liked, with a starship flying through space.
Jefferies, who was a pilot, based NCC on 20th century aircraft registration codes. In such 20th century usage, an "N" first letter refers to an aircraft registered in the USA. A "C" for a second letter refers to a civil aircraft. In an interview with the BBC, Jefferies explained that NC was a US designation for commercial vehicles. Star Trek: Phase II[edit] Depiction[edit] Pre-Federation era[edit] Three spaceships with the name Enterprise predate the United Federation of Planets.
Stargate Atlantis. Expedition Atlantis is the name given to the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean made by five Argentines in 1984, leaving from the port of Tenerife in the Canary Islands and 52 days after arriving to La Guaira in Venezuela. The aim was to prove that 3500 years before Christopher Columbus, African sailors may have accidentally reached the shores of America led by specific ocean current. The boat was a raft of 13.6 meters long by 5.8 meters wide, built of logs, rudderless and with only a candle. The crew consisted of Alfredo Barragan, Jorge Iriberri, Horacio Giaccaglia, Daniel Sanchez and Felix Arrieta Magariños.