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"Where no man has gone before" is a phrase originally made popular through its use in the title sequence of most episodes of the original ''Star Trek'' science fiction television series. It refers to the mission of the original ''Starship Enterprise''. The complete introductory speech, narrated by William Shatner at the beginning of every episode of ''Star Trek'' except "The Cage" (which preceded Shatner's involvement with the show) and "Where No Man Has Gone Before", is: == Origin == Dwaybe A. Day, a blogger, says that the quotation was taken from a White House booklet published in 1958.〔Dwaybe A. Day,("Boldly going: Star Trek and spaceflight" ), in ''The Space Review'', 28 November 2005. Retrieved 15 August 2006.〕 The ''Introduction to Outer Space'', produced in an effort to garner support for a national space program in the wake of the Sputnik flight, read on its first page: The first of these factors is the compelling urge of man to explore and to discover, the thrust of curiosity that leads'' men to try to go where no one has gone before''. Most of the surface of the earth has now been explored and men now turn on the exploration of outer space as their next objective.〔("Introduction to Outer Space" ). The White House. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., 26 March 1958. URL accessed on 15 August 2006.〕 In 1989, NASA used the ''Star Trek'' version of the quotation to title its retrospective of Project Apollo: ''Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions''.〔W. David Compton, "(Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions )", NASA Special Publication-4214, NASA History Series, 1989. URL accessed on 15 August 2006.〕 Following an early expedition to Newfoundland, Captain James Cook declared that he intended to go not only "... ''farther than any man has been before me'', but as far as I think it is possible for a man to go" (emphasis added). Cook's most famous ship, the ''Endeavour'', lent its name to the last-produced of the space shuttles, much as the ''Star Trek'' starship ''Enterprise'' lent its name to the program's test craft. Similar expressions have been used in literature before 1958. For example, H. P. Lovecraft's novella "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", written in 1927 and published in 1943, includes this passage: At length, sick with longing for those glittering sunset streets and cryptical hill lanes among ancient tiled roofs, nor able sleeping or waking to drive them from his mind, Carter resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark to where unknown Kadath, veiled in cloud and crowned with unimagined stars, holds secret and nocturnal the onyx castle of the Great Ones.〔 Available in Wikisource.〕 In-universe, the quote was attributed in the ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' pilot episode "Broken Bow" to warp drive inventor Dr. Zefram Cochrane in a recorded speech during the dedication of the facility devoted to designing the first engine capable of reaching Warp 5 (thus making interstellar exploration practical for humans) in the year 2119, some thirty-two years before the 2151 launch of first vessel powered by such an engine, the ''Enterprise'' (NX-01): 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Where no man has gone before」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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