Standard Orbit: A Star Trek Original Series Podcast
Sep 23, 2026 · 53 min · 11 segments
Star Trek and “The Man Trap” 60th-anniversary reflections Six decades ago, Gene Roddenberry invited the world on a wagon trail to the stars with a salty start that would lead to one of the greatest…
C Bryan JonesHost
Matthew RushingHost
Watching Star Trek, the original series, in reruns on the TV in their living room, which was one of those classic grandparent TVs at the time, which looks like a piece of furniture.
And I would just sit in there, and Star Trek would come on, and I would just watch that, and I just got hooked on it.
And it was in university, high school, but then university where that's the element of Star Trek that really pulled me all the way over.
You know, when this franchise used to be seated in like actual science that's extrapolated out a few hundred years.
Watching Star Trek, the original series, in reruns on the TV in their living room, which was one of those classic grandparent TVs at the time, which looks like a piece of furniture.
And I would just sit in there, and Star Trek would come on, and I would just watch that, and I just got hooked on it.
And it was in university, high school, but then university where that's the element of Star Trek that really pulled me all the way over.
You know, when this franchise used to be seated in like actual science that's extrapolated out a few hundred years.
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