A Twenty-Third Century Hornblower.

"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations - to boldly go where no man has gone before!"

It is 46 years ago today that those words were first broadcast on television, and the adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and his multiplanetary Starfleet crew became a Space Age legend.