On March 11, 1964, Gene Roddenberry put down on paper the original pitch for Star Trek. 

 

Borg Cube from the Star Trek 50th Anniversary Year 2 series
Canada Post issued it April 27, 2017
Designers:  
Adrian Horvath & Kosta Tsetsekas

Yes, yes I know the Borg are from TNG, but at the risk of starting an all-out war, Star Trek: The Next Generation was a superior show. I mean it had Patrick Stewart for god’s sake! And you have to admit this is a kick ass stamp.  The Borg represented one of the most terrifying sci fi villains ever produced for tv. 

To keep the purists happy, here you go, the original series:

This pair used lenticular motion, so when you move the stamps, the characters look like they are moving.  
The Transporter and The City on the Edge of Forever from Star Trek 50th Anniversary series
Canada Post issued this set the year before in 2016.
Designers: 
 Adrian Horvath, John Belisle, Kosta Tsetsekas & Mike Savage

Better now? But I stand by Picard was better than Kirk. 

In the original proposal, Roddenberry envisioned the series as a “Wagon Train to the stars!”, a western in space. This particular pitch was designed to simplify the complex ideas he was exploring and wanted to make the story easily relatable to the studio executives: 

Westerns and sci-fi space operas of the type embodied by Star Trek share the same pulp origins, flourishing in magazines and paperbacks of the early 20th century. Writers became very good at transposing plots and could easily rework tales of survival or conflict in a lawless environment between the two genres. Movie serials of the 1930s did much the same, using the same actors and sets to shoot a Flash Gordon serial one week and a showdown between outlaws and a sheriff’s posse the next. That trend continued into television where Roddenberry’s pitch took on the stuff of legend. Star Trek: How Wagon Train Inspired Gene Roddenberry (cbr.com)

Part of the hallmarks of the franchise was an emphasis on diversity, a love of exploration and science and a sense of optimism about the future. It would be another 2 years, and many revisions before the now iconic tv series would make it to the airwaves.  

Part of the original pitch, courtesy
Gene Roddenberry’s 1964 Star Trek pitch online – TrekMovie.com