Party like it's 1966!

[Tallguy]

I looked around for a similar thread and didn't find one. If I just did a bad job searching please let me know!

In many ways we've been dipping into the 50th anniversary of Star Trek for a couple of years now. The anniversaries of the delivery of the 11 foot Enterprise model, the filming of The Cage, Where No Man Has Gone Before, casting the leads, getting picked up for series, etc have all come and gone. To be honest, I've missed just about all of these.

Well tomorrow will be the 50th anniversary of recording the score to The Man Trap. In a few weeks will be the airing of The Man Trap itself.

My own 50th anniversary activities will be listening to the scores on their recording anniversaries (because I'm a soundtrack dweeb) and watching the shows on their air dates. I think I'll also go back and listen to the Mission Log podcasts each week and I might dig up the Blish novel adaptations. It will be a three year project, obviously!

How about you folks? Other than you so and so's who went to Vegas, or restored the Enterprise for the Smithsonian, or are making Discovery, what are you doing?

 

[alensatemybuick1]

I will watch "The Man Trap" at NASM in DC on the evening of Sept. 8th, after seeing the 11 footer for the first time since its latest restoration.

I'll probably attend the other events NASM is hosting on the days that follow.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I'd mentioned in another thread sometime back that I tentatively plan to watch the episodes on the anniversaries of their airdates. Fun fact: The days and dates align the same this year as in 1966, so if you do that, you'll be watching on the same night of the week as well.

 

[Green Shirt]

Fun fact: The days and dates align the same this year as in 1966

Is that because it's 50 years, or just a random freak happening of the calendar?

 

[The Old Mixer]

Trying out calendars for some other random years that are 50 apart, it appears to just be a coincidence this year.

Another fun fact that I discovered when putting episode names on my electronic calendar..."The Menagerie, Part II" aired on Thanksgiving.

I also realized that I'd totally missed the 50th anniversary of Revolver a couple weeks back...hence bringing back the avatar.

 

[Elder Knight]

As 2016 is a leap year but 1966 was not, January's and February's days did not line up, but the rest of the year will do so.
I count 13 leap years between 1968 and 2016. So we have (50 x 365) + 13 = 2,609, which divides exactly by 7.
This wouldn't work for 1866 and 1916, or for 2066 and 2116, because those century years (1900 and 2100) aren't leap years, thus there are only 12 extra days in the interval.
Many other 50-year gaps, like 1965 through 2015 would also fail, having but 12 leap years in there instead of the requisite 13.

I'll systematically test this via a program. This is Microsoft Visual Basic 6, and you can run this routine as a macro in MS Word or MS Excel or MS Access. You can change the starting and ending dates and the interval as you wish. You can see a pattern in the results.

[Edit: Rewrote the variable names. The CODE format item is interesting, but has some quirks, so the indentation is vague.]

The code:

Sub NYearGap()

'First year as a constant; increment as a constant
Dim iyFirst As Integer, iyIncr As Integer
'Key date as a constant
Dim strKeyDate As String
'First and last years as variables
Dim intYrX As Integer, intYrY As Integer
'Weekdays of both dates, derived from function
Dim intWkdayX As Integer, intWkdayY As Integer
'String representation of both dates
Dim strDayX As String, strDayY As String

'--- Change this as desired ---
intYrFirst = 1900
intYrLast = 2000
intYrAnniversary = 50
strKeyDate = "September 8"

'Loop through the range specified, testing Septrember 8 each time
For intYrX = intYrFirst To intYrLast

  'Compute the last year from the first plus the interval
  intYrY = intYrX + intYrAnniversary
  'Create the two dates as strings
  strDayX = strKeyDate & "," & Str$(intYrX)
  strDayY = strKeyDate & "," & Str$(intYrY)
  'Use the MS function to get the weekdays as a number 0-6.
  intWkdayX = Weekday(strDayX)
  intWkdayY = Weekday(strDayY)
  'If a match, output the results
  'Use Weekday function to label the weekday
  If intWkdayX = intWkdayY Then
   Debug.Print strDayX; " and "; strDayY, "; both are "; WeekdayName(intWkdayX)[/INDENT]
  End If

Next intYrX

End Sub

The output:

September 8, 1902 and September 8, 1952 ; both are Monday
September 8, 1903 and September 8, 1953 ; both are Tuesday
September 8, 1906 and September 8, 1956 ; both are Saturday
September 8, 1907 and September 8, 1957 ; both are Sunday
September 8, 1910 and September 8, 1960 ; both are Thursday
September 8, 1911 and September 8, 1961 ; both are Friday
September 8, 1914 and September 8, 1964 ; both are Tuesday
September 8, 1915 and September 8, 1965 ; both are Wednesday
September 8, 1918 and September 8, 1968 ; both are Sunday
September 8, 1919 and September 8, 1969 ; both are Monday
September 8, 1922 and September 8, 1972 ; both are Friday
September 8, 1923 and September 8, 1973 ; both are Saturday
September 8, 1926 and September 8, 1976 ; both are Wednesday
September 8, 1927 and September 8, 1977 ; both are Thursday
September 8, 1930 and September 8, 1980 ; both are Monday
September 8, 1931 and September 8, 1981 ; both are Tuesday
September 8, 1934 and September 8, 1984 ; both are Saturday
September 8, 1935 and September 8, 1985 ; both are Sunday
September 8, 1938 and September 8, 1988 ; both are Thursday
September 8, 1939 and September 8, 1989 ; both are Friday
September 8, 1942 and September 8, 1992 ; both are Tuesday
September 8, 1943 and September 8, 1993 ; both are Wednesday
September 8, 1946 and September 8, 1996 ; both are Sunday
September 8, 1947 and September 8, 1997 ; both are Monday
September 8, 1950 and September 8, 2000 ; both are Friday
September 8, 1951 and September 8, 2001 ; both are Saturday
September 8, 1954 and September 8, 2004 ; both are Wednesday
September 8, 1955 and September 8, 2005 ; both are Thursday
September 8, 1958 and September 8, 2008 ; both are Monday
September 8, 1959 and September 8, 2009 ; both are Tuesday
September 8, 1962 and September 8, 2012 ; both are Saturday
September 8, 1963 and September 8, 2013 ; both are Sunday
September 8, 1966 and September 8, 2016 ; both are Thursday
September 8, 1967 and September 8, 2017 ; both are Friday
September 8, 1970 and September 8, 2020 ; both are Tuesday
September 8, 1971 and September 8, 2021 ; both are Wednesday
September 8, 1974 and September 8, 2024 ; both are Sunday
September 8, 1975 and September 8, 2025 ; both are Monday
September 8, 1978 and September 8, 2028 ; both are Friday
September 8, 1979 and September 8, 2029 ; both are Saturday
September 8, 1982 and September 8, 2032 ; both are Wednesday
September 8, 1983 and September 8, 2033 ; both are Thursday
September 8, 1986 and September 8, 2036 ; both are Monday
September 8, 1987 and September 8, 2037 ; both are Tuesday
September 8, 1990 and September 8, 2040 ; both are Saturday
September 8, 1991 and September 8, 2041 ; both are Sunday
September 8, 1994 and September 8, 2044 ; both are Thursday
September 8, 1995 and September 8, 2045 ; both are Friday
September 8, 1998 and September 8, 2048 ; both are Tuesday
September 8, 1999 and September 8, 2049 ; both are Wednesday

 

[Tallguy]

This was a nice way to start the day.

http://trek.fm/melodic-treks/50

I'll listen to the score shortly. I personally think it's a bit of a slog. But I like Warp One a lot.

 

[Indysolo]

https://twitter.com/nsbulk/status/766650986056122369

Neil

 

[Indysolo]

This was a nice way to start the day.

http://trek.fm/melodic-treks/50

I'll listen to the score shortly. I personally think it's a bit of a slog. But I like Warp One a lot.

That's me!!

Neil

 

[Balok's Decoy]

This is a helpful guide to the TOS air dates for reference: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/TOS_episode_airdates

I'll probably be using that to watch each episode as it aired for the next few years. Good to keep handy in case I miss a day by accident or inconvenience and I can get back on track.

 

[Tallguy]

https://twitter.com/nsbulk/status/766650986056122369

Neil

That is outstanding! I love living in The Future. No flying cars or jet packs but we have stuff like this!

UPDATE:
Just finished my anniversary listen of The Man Trap. Much easier to do while I was occupied doing something else.

All three of Courage's first season scores (I'm including Where No Man Has Gone Before) were so lonely. The Man Trap was definitely the starkest and the loneliest. Interesting that that was the direction he took after The Cage was a much more "Hornblower in Space" by comparison.

And I've officially decided I can't stand the electric violin version of the main title.

 

[E-DUB]

On another site we did a little thing we called "Retro Reviews", in which we talked about each episode on the anniversary of it's original airdate as if we were doing so in the timeframe in which it actually aired. (IE: For "Man Trap", no post 1966 references allowed.) It was fun.

 

[Albertese]

I intend to watch at least "The Man Trap" on 9/8. That'll probably kick off a rewatch of the entire series. I'm due for one anyways.
--Alex

 

[publiusr]

This is a helpful guide to the TOS air dates for reference: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/TOS_episode_airdates

I'll probably be using that to watch each episode as it aired for the next few years. Good to keep handy in case I miss a day by accident or inconvenience and I can get back on track.

Naked Time ran on Sept. 22, 1966--my birthday.

Fitting, that.

Then too Korolyov died nine months earlier--the N-1's maker dead when I was conceived. Not cool

 

[Seven of Five]

Well I watched TOS and the films as a tribute, but then that turned into watching TNG and the films too. Then DS9. Now I'm on VOY. I should have finished ENT by the time the year is out.

 

[Spock's Barber]

The same thing I do everytime I watch a TOS episode...I silently thank all of the cast and crew for their hard work and dedication in creating one of the most fascinating SF shows in history.

 

[NickintheATL]

I have decided, like others have, to watch the shows on their airdates as well. I'm going to blog about it as well. I am taking a different perspective on it however, "What would I, an average TV viewer, had thought about the show if I were there in 1966?"

My first entry: "Before The Trek Began"

 

[Tallguy]

I adore that promo poster. It's one of my favorite pieces of Star Trek art ever.

 

[Tallguy]

Today we welcome Fred Steiner to Star Trek for the 50th anniversary of recording Charlie X. To me this is the definitive Star Trek score. I believe that the cello version of the main theme was recorded today as well (my favorite version).

Just over a week until the show starts!

 

[Indysolo]

Cello version was recorded September 20.

Neil