{"id":40435,"date":"2015-04-07T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T17:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=40435"},"modified":"2015-04-07T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T17:08:45","slug":"shatners-trek-fiftieth-anniversary-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/04\/shatners-trek-fiftieth-anniversary-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner&#8217;s Trek Fiftieth Anniversary Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40437\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/StarTrek50-040715.gif\" alt=\"StarTrek50-040715\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next year,<em> Star Trek<\/em> turns fifty, and <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> has an idea about how to commemorate it.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner shared his thoughts with the audience at<em> 2015 Fan Expo in Vancouver<\/em> last weekend.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;I started thinking about a fiftieth anniversary celebration,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I went to the <em>SyFy<\/em> network, which hasn&#8217;t given me their final answer, but I broached the idea that the fiftieth anniversary show would be about the ideas that <em>Star Trek<\/em> dramatized.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the topics could be based on shows that aired in the original series: &#8220;Race relations [as in <em>Let That Be Your Last Battlefield<\/em>]&#8230;do an eight minute capsule of race relations in this country,&#8221; said Shatner, &#8220;the effect that those shows had on the public, people who were affected by seeing those shows, in terms of their opinion about race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Computer warfare, where the country never knew the slaughter and the blood and the guts of war, but war by computers&#8230;they never knew the horror of war (<em>A Taste of Armageddon<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each one of those ideas for an hour and a half show&#8230;would be a good idea,&#8221; said Shatner.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f8kGKrJInGc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next year, Star Trek turns fifty, and William Shatner has an idea about how to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[8414,2414],"class_list":["post-40435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-50th-anniversary","tag-shatner"],"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\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40435","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=40435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40438,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40435\/revisions\/40438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}