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Subj : Re: Star Trek TV is 39 years old today!
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : The Merry Piper
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 15:36:41

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:31:32 +0200, "Wouter Valentijn"
<liam@valentijn.nu> wrote:

>Steven L. wrote:
>> Crazy About TV wrote:
>>
>>> The premiere episode of the original Star Trek series titled, "The
>>> Man Trap", aired on September 8, 1966.
>>>
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>>>
>>> http://www.crazyabouttv.com/startrekorig.html
>>
>> Yep.
>> I even remember the promos that run during the late summer ("A
>> spaceship as big as a city!"), and the advertisements in the local 
>> newspapers:
>> "The First Adult Space Adventure!").
>
>I saw a clip of it during a special I think.
>"Four hundred men and women...."
>
>>
>> Those newspaper ads were the infamous ones with Spock's ears
>> airbrushed out.
>
>Now that's just silly!
>They considered the Spock ears to be offensive? Sheesh....

The brass were worried Spock looked Satanic with the pointy ears.  One
exec was quoted as saying "Loose the guy with the devil ears."  

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