71 Years Ago, This Forgotten Sci-Fi Series Did 'Star Trek' Before Gene Roddenberry Could

With Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry brought forward the idea of an altruistic future, where the people of Earth had stopped fighting one another and partnered with other planets to form the Federation. It was idealistic, bold, and courted controversy from time to time. One thing it wasn’t? Original. In fact, the idea of a Federation came 12-years prior, in a long forgotten sci-fi series calledRocky Jones, Space Ranger.