{"id":53310,"date":"2020-09-15T09:29:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=53310"},"modified":"2020-09-15T09:29:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T16:29:58","slug":"star-trek-receives-tca-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2020\/09\/star-trek-receives-tca-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Receives TCA Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Television Critics Association (TCA)<\/em> awards were announced yesterday, and <em>Star Trek<\/em> was one of the winners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our <em>Heritage Award<\/em> winner honestly needs no introduction,&#8221; said the<em> TCA<\/em> via their <em>Twitter<\/em> account; &#8220;but let&#8217;s try anyway. It&#8217;s perhaps the most significant sci-fi series in American TV history, and it spawned a massive, sprawling franchise that continues to this day. But everything goes back to the original <em>@StarTrek<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Below is the official announcement from<em> TCA: &#8220;The Television Critics Association (TCA)<\/em> was proud to bestow the<em> Heritage Award<\/em> upon <strong>Gene Roddenberry<\/strong>&#8216;s landmark 1966 sci-fi epic <em>Star Trek<\/em>, in recognition of the groundbreaking series which brought the future to life \u2014 illustrating a unique vision that is equal parts hopeful and cautious as it explored issues such as bigotry, religion, politics, sexism, and human rights through timeless stories of love, war, intrigue, and adventure in outer space \u2014 with the help of a strong cast that was among the first to feature an African-American actress in a significant leading role.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the past <em>Heritage Award<\/em> winners include <em>The Simpsons, 60 Minutes, The Sopranos, M*A*S*H*, Cheers, All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em>, and <em>Deadwood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rod Roddenberry<\/strong> accepted the <em>Heritage Award<\/em>. A video of that can be seen at <em>StarTrek.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Television Critics Association (TCA) awards were announced yesterday, and Star Trek was one of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9631,2421],"tags":[2484,10119,3683],"class_list":["post-53310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-star-trek-tos","tag-award","tag-heritage-award","tag-tca"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/TCAHeritageAward091520.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/TCAHeritageAward091520-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/TCAHeritageAward091520.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/TCAHeritageAward091520.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/TCAHeritageAward091520.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/TCAHeritageAward091520.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/TCAHeritageAward091520.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/TCAHeritageAward091520.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/TCAHeritageAward091520.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/TCAHeritageAward091520.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/awards\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Awards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53310","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=53310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53312,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53310\/revisions\/53312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}