Bedtime for Bonzo

"Why do you like Star Trek?" people ask. Here's one set of reasons. (The Gorn just didn't fit.) PHOTO TIMELINE & SOURCES. 1974: US president Richard Nixon resigns. c. 1970: Feminists Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes. Photograph by Dan Wynn. 1975: "Vietnam Final Escape," Saigon, by photographer Hubert Van Es The girl is actress Kim Darby, from the Star Trek episode "Miri." [You all know Leonard Nimoy plays Spock and William Shatner plays Kirk, right?] 1977: Release of "Star Wars" (May) and "Saturday Night Fever" (December). 1979: US president Jimmy Carter, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, and their wives, Rosalynn and Jehan. Photograph by Wally McNamee. 1980s: Painting of Leonid Brezhnev kissing Erich Honecker, communist East Germany's last leader, by Dimitrij Vrubel (from a 1979 photo). Inscription reads: "God, help me survive amidst this deadly love." 1981: David Roader shouts with joy as he arrives with other US hostages from Iran at a US Air Force base in West Germany, on January 21, one day after the inauguration of President Reagan. (BBC News) Ronald Reagan (actor and US president, 1981-1989), stars in "Bedtime for Bonzo" (1951). 1981: Pope John Paul II embraces Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's Solidarity Movement and later president of Poland. The red ribbon is an international symbol of the fight against AIDS, first reported in 1981. 1989: June 5, Tiananmen Square, China. By Jeff Widener (The Associated Press). 1989: November, Fall of the Berlin Wall, near <b>...</b>