Gene Roddenberry/los Angeles Police Department 1949%e2%80%931956

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    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.
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