{"id":12859,"date":"2011-09-09T07:57:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=12859"},"modified":"2011-09-09T07:57:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:57:34","slug":"trek-nation-documentary-to-air-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/09\/trek-nation-documentary-to-air-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Trek Nation Documentary To Air In November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rod Roddenberry<\/strong>&#8216;s documentary, <em>Trek Nation<\/em>, will be airing on the Science Channel in November.<\/p>\n<p><em>Trek Nation<\/em> was produced and narrated by Roddenberry, who is the son of the late <strong>Gene<\/strong> and <strong>Majel Barrett Roddenberry<\/strong>. The documentary has been eight years in the making.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/120209RodRoddenberry.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12860\" title=\"120209RodRoddenberry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/120209RodRoddenberry.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Roddenberry interviewed those who knew his father, including<em> Star Wars<\/em>&#8216; <strong>George Lucas, J.J. Abrams<\/strong>,and others, as well as with fans of <em>Star Trek<\/em>, which include athletes, models, celebrities, politicians and even a king.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Trek Nation<\/em>, fans will hear of &#8220;amusing and powerful accounts of how<em> Star Trek<\/em> has affected and even saved lives. We&#8217;ll hear stories of how videotapes of the show were smuggled through the Berlin Wall. We&#8217;ll learn of a woman, blind since birth, who has seen every episode of <em>Star Trek<\/em> and how<strong> Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/strong> talked Lt. Uhura (<strong>Nichelle Nichols<\/strong>) into staying on the show. We&#8217;ll come to understand how close the ties are between science and science fiction, NASA and<em> Star Trek<\/em>. And we&#8217;ll see how<em> Star Trek<\/em> created cultural breakthrough after breakthrough &#8211; for women, minorities, the handicapped and many more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Trek documentary will include &#8220;never-before seen pictures and video clips,&#8221; as well as personal photos and video photos from the Roddenberry family.<\/p>\n<p><em>Trek Nation<\/em> will air on Science on November 30.<\/p>\n<p>Exclusive footage can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/treknationmovie.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Roddenberry&#8216;s documentary, Trek Nation, will be airing on the Science Channel in November. Trek&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2416],"tags":[2561,3217],"class_list":["post-12859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","tag-rod-roddenberry","tag-trek-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/fandom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Fandom<\/a>","tag_info":"Fandom","comment_count":"5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12861,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859\/revisions\/12861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}