Old one is the best one by far. Sure, it was campy and cheesy, and the actors werent the best... but so what? Its the best, and if you disagree than you are wrong, plain and simple :)

The worst cast of actors on any Prime Time US TV show.And the same for every spin-off since. All the actors who were total unknowns that became known through the show, got next to ZERO parts of anything close to good after the show ended( Maybe a guest star on a cop show,or medical show ),and if they got any movie roles,they were totally forgettable sci-fi/horror/suspense schlock.Why? Because they can't act! It's as if Roddenberry deliberately chose actors with no range whatsoever.Ever see them try to do comedy?Pathetic! And ever see them in interviews ,from the '70s up to today?( I did,growing up, seeing them on talk shows and other entertainment shows )It's as if they really are from another solar system, they're so clueless,yet are so maudlin at the same time! And as the show itself: the only way that was "innovative",was of the grossly preachy/Leftist,Politically Correct propaganda,about other cultures,losing your "racism" will bring all the races together,the most pretentious philosiphies,"tolerance",etc,etc.Spare me.Again,same for every spin-off.

Ground Breaking Sci Fi. The characters had life and lives.

do not like at all ....but will watch if had to.

They should of had a show with a spaceship full of lesbians land!

As CanadaSucks mentions, it was most definitely a groundbreaking series, but I've never really been able to get into it, even now. Part of that is because I'm not and never have been a big fan of sci-fi. Part of it may be that it came out when I was a very young child and it was beyond my comprehension or interest. Still, watching the re-runs as an adult really hasn't done much for me. In some ways, the series was a throwback to the combat movies of the 40's and 50's--  the mythology of "rugged individualism" and intergalactic Manifest Destiny (gotta wonder how much of this stuff Dubya watched as a kid?). The combat movies of that era always had a superficial egalitarianism, and every platoon had a Kowalski, a Maggio, a McFadden, a Whyte, a Rabinowitz, etc.; Star Trek, in turn, had a Spock, a Sulu, a Uhura, a Chekhov (would have really been interesting if it had had a "Trotsky"), etc. There are episodes that have stayed with me and evoke a certain nostalgic pleasure. I always enjoyed the one where Kirk was alone in a desert battling a Gorn (I think that was the name of the creature). Or the one where Spock had acquired human emotions and was weeping copiously. Or the one with the alien hippies led by a Mansonlike Skip Homeier. Or the one where a green Yvonne Craig (she was my earliest heart-throb and in her autobiography remembered Shatner as an arrogant, insufferable jerk) danced enticingly for Kirk, or the one where a statuesque Anqelique Pettyjohn (she ended up doing low-budget Filipino horror films and porno movies before bravely overcoming addiction problems and dying prematurely from cancer) played an alien gladiator-- come to think of it, maybe I need to re-watch some of those episodes again and re-evaluate the whole thing from the vantage point of middle-age. Just so long as I don't have to sit through any of those interminable and excruciating spin-off series...

Despite bad acting and cheap production, one cannot deny this was a groundbreaking series. . .

What can you say about a revolutionary, ground-breaking series? I still watch re-runs, and I have a great chuckle over the cheesy props and sometimes preachy themes. Anything, however, that establishes a genre, gets a 5.

Excellent show when it aired. Closer to three and one-half stars today. You must remember it was very low budget and struggled to stay on the air in the 60's. Adults didn't want sci-fi and the target audience was too busy to be watching television. Probably watched more in syndication than originally.

absolutely worst acting costumes an props on television. but great stories. i was totally hooked in reruns. too old for my tastes when the episodes originally aired.

"Star Trek" is truly a classic. Roddenberry and company did the unthinkable-producing a mature, hour-long science fiction television series back in the mid-1960's. Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the Enterprise crew are all television icons. Some of the finest sci-fi writers of the day contributed to the show.

Dated suprisingly well and more watchable than TNG. Writing, characters and even acting still holds up after all these decades.

The high water pants and old-fashioned style of acting is a little too much for me, but this show had some cool ideas. 2 and a half stars

"Star Trek" was the first science fiction series that I can recall which used the theme of a brighter future in which humanity had progressed. For the uninitiated (and there must be very few), the concept for "Star Trek" is a virtual city in space (i.e. a Starship) which is on a five year mission of exploration. The crew is multiracial (e.g. Nichelle Nichols as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura) and multinational (e.g. Walter Koenig as Ensign Pavel Chekov) which suggests that most of the current social conflicts had been eliminated by the time in which the series was set; however, many of the same problems were encountered in space (e.g. racism and Cold War adversaries) which suggests that these issues may be part of life's condition. The special effects were ambitious, especially given the technological and budgetary limitations. The bottom line is that notwithstanding some weaker and now dated storylines and obviously budget minded special effects, "Star Trek" became and remains an institution which has now become part of the common human experience as evidenced by the pop icons and lexicon that were generated by the series (e.g. phaser, "beam me up," and "live long and prosper"). "Star Trek" was originally broadcast from 1966 to 1969.

Yeah yeah yeah, the dialogue and acting were downright atrocious at times. But a lot of the plots were intriguing and the show was WAY ahead of its time. Like it or not, this show is a TV classic...

"Space, the final frontier..." "Captain's log, stardate..." "I'm givin' her all I can Captain!!" OMG, the original and, in spite of now cheesy special effects, still the best.

One of my favorites.

Mundane pigs in space science fiction with a cast full of scenary chewing hams. It's ongoing status as a cult phenomenon is one of the greatest shames of Western culture.

The sooner you get past the special effects and 60's style designs the sooner you will start enjoying this masterpiece of television. Intelligent, cerebral and entertaining. Yes, there were a few painfully bad episodes, but no one bats a 1.000.

Star Trek is responsible for keeping SciFi on TV for the past 30 years. The Classic Trek is just that, a classic, it may not be holding up well but the spin offs have kept it and will continue to keep the franchise going. There are two kinds of people in the world Star Trek fans and the rest of you.

Star Trek is to televison, as the Beatles are to music, both were far ahead of their time...in a turbulant time in our country...Star Trek gave us a glimpse as to what the future may hold...people of all races working together for the good of all people...some thought it was merely a science fiction series...for those of us who got it...realized that the episodes were morality plays...tackling the important issues of the time...war, polution,equality for all...where other shows couldn't or wouldn't touch such topics...Star Trek did...It made us think and inspired imaginations...and can anyone really say that for any of the shows rated higher?? Green Acres? I Dream of Jeanie?? its like comparing Shakespeare to graffiti ...

I guess this show was just to complicated for me...and boring...Oh and believe me, I tried to watch it. I really did. Maybe a cool thing about it is the characters. Luv Uhura and Spock.

Awesome classic sci-fi show...special effects weren't that good but the message came through...a product of its time...wish Scotty,Uhura, Sulu, Chekov, Chapel had more to do...

it took me awhile when i was younger to get past the 60's dress and special effects, but once i did i really like the show. the only thing i didnt like in the show was how every episode seemed to be about kirk, kirk, and kirk. not that i didnt like kirk, i just wanted a little more of some of the other characters. some of the best TV story telling around.

Star Trek isn't bad but the scenery looks cheap, the colours are horrible (it is the 60's) and the special effects look very, very basic. The good acting is a saving grace and it has managed to get a cult following. Some of the episodes were interesting, though.

Even with all the klunker episodes (and there are a surprisingly large number of them), this remains perhaps the single most re-watchable show ever. There aren't many fictional shows that you really *wish* were true and *wish* you could be a part of.

simply the BEST SCI-FI series ever. great writers.

The original Star Trek series was one of many, many great shows that came out of the 60s! Compare that to now, when about the only good shows are new cartoons or the occasional sitcom that is a glitter in the rough. Anyway, Star Trek was a great idea. Having the unique position of being able to sell a second pilot after the first one was rejected, the original show was the start of an incredible television legacy. The acting, all across the board, was great. William Shatner has a certain prescence. Leonard Nimoy was perfect as the logical Vulcan Spock (after Martin Landau turned down the part) and the other cast from Nichelle Nichols (one of the first african-americans to be an equal in a television show, also supplied the first interracial kiss) to James Doohan were great. Certainly better than overrated actors like Robert DeNiro and Ashton Kutcher. The concept was brilliantly creative and original, with an optimistic future and humanity evolving beyond strife to unite in the gallant cause of exploring the final frontier. The writing was always solid, from D.C. Fontana to Gene Roddenberry himself. And, although the budget was limited, the sets were still very unique. The plots were always intersting, and typically mananged to throw in a moral as well. While the theme song itself is a bit annoying, the in-episode was music was bombastic and very emotiional. Even though it was never high in the ratings, and was cancelled three years into its five-year mission, dedicated fans ensured that Star Trek would live on in the hearts and minds of humanity to this day...and into the future!

A great show for the first two seasons..seemed like a real ship to me. There's a story in the book written by Bill Shattner about a new director. Seems this director was telling Sulu ok when this happens just press this button over here, pointing to the panel where Sulu sits..anyway Sulu yells at him don't you know anything?,if I press that button the ship will blow up! Anyway he was dead serious and finally the director said ok don't press that button!

This is some wierd sh*t. I don't get it.

All time Classic. The whole cast of actors made a great team.

The most innovative and progressive television of its time. That's possibly why it was on the air for only three seasons. Had it come out during the 70s it would have probably stayed on the air as long as it wanted to. Think about it: this program had an African-American in a leading role, different nationalities in leading roles, the first kissing scene between an Anglo man and an African-American woman-just too much for folks of that time to handle. The themes of many programs were socially challenging. Characters did not smoke because it was not healthy-noticeI haven't even mentioned the sci-fi element of the programs which set the standard for years to come. What a program, and there are just too few of them to enjoy as a big fan. THE ultimate sci-fi program!

Hands down the greatest TV show ever produced.

You're not a red-blooded American male if this show didn't appeal to you on some level. As a 8-year-old scifi buff, I was blown away by Trek. THat was in 1976, and while it's admittedly dated, this show was really ahead of its time in content. I can't count how many adult themes were touched on. Sure, it was sexist, but there was truth in much of these scenes. They explored our good and bad sides. Their best episodes: Spock horny, their time travel to the 1960s and sighting as a UFO by the Air Force, their encounter w/ Belok, their time travel to the Depression w/ Joan Collins, their spy mission against the Romulans, their encounter w/ Khan, the mirror universe, the Doleman of Troyius, and the planet killer. Even at their worst, they often had a grain of thought behind their work. The worst episodes were Spock's Brain and Turnabout Intruder. Spock's Brain had no redeeming value other than hot babes, but Turnabout is impressive for addressing the feminine side of Capt Kirk. For a 1969 episode, that was damn impressive. All of the technical science is sound - the concept of transporters, food materializers, and warp speed are still "fascinating". Spock and Kirk are definitely seminal TV characters, like Ralph and Norton! I never get enough Trek!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA DONT MAKE ME LAUGH! STAR TREK IS ABOUT AS GOOD AS MY BIG FUC*ING HEMROID I GOT FROM WATCHING ONE EPISODE. WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU AS*HOLES OUT THERE? STAR TREK SUCKS AND ALWAYS HAD SUCKED. END IT ALL...IT IS TERRIBLE. NOBODY LIKES IT BUT FAT GUYS WHO EAT DORITOS ALL DAY TAKING WACKING BREAKS TO INTERNET PORN. NOT THAT I DONT LIKE PORN, BUT THEY DO IT TO KLINGON MEN. THATS RIGHT, MEN. ANYONE WHO SPEAKS KLINGON IS AUTOMATICALLY A JACKAS* IN MY BOOK. STAR TREK WILL DIE...I OWN YOU

a true classic

Star Dreck is more like it. Goose drippings. Hard to believe this crap spawned like three later spinoffs, one just as crashingly dull as the other. I can't imagine the lack of cerebral event necessary to enjoy this show, but there's countless dullards out there drooling over this nonsense and its offspring at this very moment. Frightening.

Either you got it or you didn't. I got it...and loved it.

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy made a great team. I have a lot of the Original Series (that was the only one that was good). Live Long and Prosper!

To comment on any STAR TREK incarnation is to risk Holy War, these shows are so venerated--and zealously argued over--by so many. But I will go so far as to say that this, the original series, is the most important, and in certain ways most successful, of them all. Obviously, without it there would have been no NEXT GENERATION, DS9, etc., but it's bigger even than that. STAR TREK was a seminal event in television history. It literally redefined a genre, as HILL STREET BLUES did for cop shows and BUFFY did for fantasy/supernatural fiction. Before STAR TREK, science fiction on TV was strictly kid stuff. Gene Roddenberry redefined it as legitimate adult fare -- and emphasized the "adult" part by making his Captain Kirk a first-class horndog who had out-of-wedlock sexual liaisons--pretty racy stuff for its day. The series also pioneered racial diversity (including the first interracial kiss on television), the use of women as authority figures, and the use of SF storylines to explore contemporary social issues. Of course, this topicality now tends to date the shows; the acting and production values, too, are cheesy by modern standards. And its stabs at gender equity were undercut by the revealing costumes its female characters were obliged to wear. But remember that SF imagery of the early 20th century envisioned spaceships controlled by levels and dials like those found on steam locomotives. In this way, futuristic fiction can come, over time, to say more about the time in which it was created than the future world it speculates. Thus STAR TREK has become a fascinating time capsule of manners and mores in prefeminist, Cold War America. And, withal, a show whose influence on its genre and on television in general was far greater than any of its offspring, notwithstanding their improved acting and jazzier FX.

i absolutely hate star trek even the newer ones. it is boring, irritating and i don't know how anyone could stand it.

The best in its genre...the original Star Trek is phenominal. The story lines were reflective of the issues of the times without being made to feel that you were being preached to. It was a shame that Gene Rodenberry was thwarted at every turn by NBC...he actually sold it to the network as a "wagon train to the stars". The best set on the series was the bridge...I bet most of the budget was used there...you could see the rest of the sets were actually all recycled. I think what is enduring about Star Trek is the imagination of its creator and how the actors personified the roles. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelly are Star Trek...even the supporting cast of characters (who could have been utilized more than they were)...Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) James Doohan (Scotty) George Takei (Sulu)etc...helped to humanize the Enterprise crew. A great show that will be around for years to come.

this is a great show. i really like it and it the best

hello, i just thought that i would let you all know that star trek is the absolute best t.v. show. i think that it is the most exciting, as well as entertaining show on the air. i dont go any where every weekday and 6 oclock, so that i can sit down and enjoy a very exzuberating si-fi drama t.v. show.

A great show of it's time! Now it seems cheap. But it still has great story lines if not realistic aliens, planets, and acting.

It's so colourful and creative- I always love to see the outrageous costumes they've made for the aliens and monsters. It can be taken seriously, too. A vibrant and classic show.

the next generation has better writers and better acting

Way ahead of its time and of its viewers. I didn't appreciate it in its day, only later when my mind matured. Technically everything about the show is possible and this was before a man set foot on the moon! How far have we gone!?! A FEMALE BLACK WOMAN on the bridge!? A RUSSIAN and AN ORIENTAL!!? SPOCK!!!? Like 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY, groundbreaking.

Star Trek is and was the only good show set in outer space ever made. William Shatner was excellent in his role, and the show was just so good and exciting, and always leaving you wanting more.

Live long and prosper...this show started a cult following that has endured for years. How many shows can say that?? And Trekkies are some of the scariest people I have ever seen!! Although I am not really a fan of the show, I give it a 5 because it spawned decades of weirdness.