Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before!
These are the words that William Shatner says at the beginning of Star Trek. The rhetorical origins of these words is complex, as is the textual history.
X personality Subcommander Tal shares earlier drafts of the narration by Bob Justman, John D.F. Black, and Gene Roddenberry. They reflect different visions of what the story, originally conceived of as a "wagon train to the stars" would become. Personally, I'm glad that Captain Kirk engaged in little commercial inspection and customs enforcement.
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