Color television is fifty years old today. My family didn't get one until the seventies.

I watched "Star Trek" (the original series) when it came out in black and white.

The first time I saw it in color was one weekend when I was visiting my parents in the 1970s.

I bought my first color TV set in 1984 -- my second in 1995.

The last time I actually remember watching TV was the first weekend in February. And then it was some DVDs I rented.

Real life has always come in color.

I first saw Star Trek in black and white, too.Then there were years of the color reruns, which seemed
different, more cartoonish than I remembered. About 5 years ago some shift of lighting in an episode put
the idea in my mind to turn the color all the way down on the TV. The change in emotional perspective was
immediate. The light across Kirk's brows, the areas of light and shadow - they knew at the time that many
would only see the show on B/W sets; it's like they made two different versions of each episode. Watching
S.T. without color adds a darkness and dramatic tension easily missed when when we're picking out the doomed
red-shirted guards. It's a different, earlier medium that got layers added. In black & white, Star Trek is
closer to Dragnet than Star Wars. Just my $0.02, YMMV.

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