Star Trek (The German Century)

Star Trek was an American science fiction television series that began airing in the year 1966 with it's run ending in January 1967. It's been compared to Space Patrol Orion and does have some similarities.

Production
NBC ordered 16 episodes for the show, upon viewing it's now partially lost pilot episode (footage from which survives in the episode 'Menagerie'. The show had some initial success with 40.9 shares (via a now defunct rating system) but was hit with criticism by reviews from The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Variety which predicted that it wouldn't work stating it to be 'an incredible and dreary mess of confusion and complexities'. The show quickly fell to 29. 4 shares during the two weeks following this review and was summarily discontinued after the 16th episode.