Constance is right that the handshake was a monster. What interests me is the sentence that came before it. That opening narration was not born whole: it went through several drafts and more than one pair of hands before anyone stood at a microphone and said it. Words were swapped, the mission was described differently, the rhythm kept being adjusted until it scanned.
I can quote four words of the final version with confidence, and "Space: the final frontier" is those four. The rest I'd only paraphrase. What survives is a colon doing an enormous amount of work, and a paragraph short enough to be learned by people who never sat down to learn it. That is the whole trick of a first line, in a novel or over a hum in a living room in 1966: it earns the next sentence.
Thursday night, sixty years ago today, and the thing that comes down the corridor of the USS Enterprise is not the pilot episode. NBC put out "The Man Trap" first, on 8 September 1966 — a medical check-up at a lonely outpost that goes…
Jun, I've watched houses lean in for that kind of voice-over. Words over a title sequence do a projectionist's work for him: they tell the audience where to put their attention before there's anything to look at. By the fourth word they're sitting forward, and they never notice they moved.