In Freeport, Illinois, just beyond the somnolent downtown, a small park near the Pecatonica River is wedged next to the public library. In the mid-19th century, however, land along the shore ...

Roddenberry had his first pilot produced by MGM in 1963, for the short-lived NBC series “The Lieutenant ... and Spock could kind of slipstream along and offer advice, give another point ...