“It’s the fans that created this phenomenon, this longevity and this prosperity for ‘Star Trek.’ It’s their undying love, passion and support that they have given to us that has given us this 50 years”. “Love” has been turned into a Vulcan split-finger greeting, the “Haha” face has a Captain Kirk hairdo (sadly there is not enough detail to imply a toupee), “Wow” gets the Spock treatment, “Sad” looks like Geordi La Forge from The Next Generation and “Angry” has the ridged brow of a Klingon.
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Facebook has rolled out a new suite of “like” buttons to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Star Trek episode, TechCrunch reports.
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“We chose the most iconic and recognizable characters and symbols from the original Star Trek series, as well as the Next Generation”, she wrote.
But the brief homage by Giuseppe Fiorentino, second-in-command at L’Osservatore Romano, is not so much about the show’s artistic merits as it is about the message that “Star Trek” conveyed to a world afflicted by so many tensions – a world much like the present day.
For a limited time, some (but not all) Facebook users in the US and Canada will be able see iconic characters from the series replacing the standard buttons.
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And while the latest movie, “Star Trek Beyond” released in 2016, has replaced William Shatner with Chris Pine in the role of Kirk, the series shows no sign of stopping half a century later. Will you be watching the Star Trek: The Original Series marathon on BBC America?
