Today marks the 46th anniversary of the first airing of a little television show called Star Trek. On this day in 1966, viewers first glimpsed Kirk, Spock, Bones, the Enterprise and an array of bright, color-coded costumes. And though it’s hard to imagine the landscape of science fiction storytelling without Star Trek, the series easily could have turned into something very different from the phenomenon we all recognize today. Here are five big turning points that could have resulted in five alternate realities of Star Trek history.
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