Stephen L. Carter, Columnist

'Star Trek' Was Silly, Grandiose and Preachy. That's Why I Loved It.

Confessions of an unrepentant Trekkie.

September 12, 2016 at 5:34 PM UTC

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”

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Despite all of last week’s hoopla, true “Star Trek” wonks know that the 50th anniversary of the premiere actually falls this week. In the parlance of the era, what aired on Sept. 8, 1966 was called a preview -- an appetizer to increase the audience for the actual premiere, which, in the case of “Star Trek,” came the following Thursday.1473693875974

Serious Trekkers care about things like that.