Was. And I'm sorry, but *was*. I'm not a pop-culture historian, I can't tell you what Star Trek replaced, but I'm sure there was something before it that everyone knew about. And there was something before that. If it wasn't fiction, it was fact. People have things that they relate to, just because they were the right age for it.


My point is that unlike the Lensmen or Captain Video or Knight Rider or Kolchak, Trek is (or was maybe up until now) something that crossed those generational barriers. The "right age" seemed to be all ages.