The final frontier

摘要

As a child of the space-age '60s, I grew up with William Shatner portentously intoning 'Space: the final frontier' on our valve-operated television set of an evening. In fact, Star Trek was the very first programme I watched in colour, prompting the epiphanic realisation that crew members' tops were colour coded: yellow for officers, blue for scientists and red for technicians. Family viewing in the early 70s didn't get much better than this, crystallised by Shatner's perpetually split infinitive 'to boldly go…'.