50 Years Ago, One Forgotten Sci-Fi TV Show Briefly Became The Next Star Trek

50 Years Ago, One Forgotten Sci-Fi TV Show Briefly Became The Next Star Trek

ShutterstockWhile the 1960s gave the world the innovation and brilliance of Star Trek, Doctor Who, and The Outer Limits — along with groundbreaking books like Dune — it wasn’t until the 1970s that all that science fiction truly jumped to the mainstream. Star Trek was largely to thank for this shift; the show hit syndication in the early 1970s after its cancellation in 1969 and spawned a fandom larger than the literary geeky establishment of the …