{"id":13316,"date":"2011-11-10T10:27:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T18:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=13316"},"modified":"2011-11-10T10:27:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T18:27:26","slug":"trek-nation-promo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/11\/trek-nation-promo\/","title":{"rendered":"Trek Nation Promo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short promotional video for the forthcoming <em>Trek Nation<\/em> special by <em>Rod Roddenberry<\/em> has been posted online.<\/p>\n<p>Airing on November 30 on the Science Channel, <em>Trek Nation<\/em>, produced and narrated by Rod Roddenberry, is a documentary about <em>Star Trek<\/em>, the people involved with it and the story of how <em>Star Trek<\/em> changed lives.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/120209RodRoddenberry.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13318\" title=\"120209RodRoddenberry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/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>, including 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<\/strong>, Jr. talked\u00a0<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 \u2013 for women, minorities, the handicapped and many more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Trek Nation Exclusive Promo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E6NLATn2h2g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short promotional video for the forthcoming Trek Nation special by Rod Roddenberry has been&#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-13316","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":"2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13316","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=13316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13319,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13316\/revisions\/13319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}