SCI-FI: "Star Trek" turns 52

"Star Trek" has been through many incarnations over the years, but I know it best as the original TV series my siblings and I used to watch as kids. It premiered 52 years ago, on Sept. 8, 1966, with Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, "Bones," Lt. Uhuru, and "Scotty," Klingons, and Tribbles. In the ensuing years the portable medical scanners and communicators have become part of life; not so much the "Beam me up" teleportation devices.