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To go...boldly where no one has gone before.

Sounds much better, doesn't it?

Whilst it works better grammatically, It doesn't sound better, because changing it messes up the meter-it's blank verse...

Blank verse or not, the original always sounds like sand in the gearbox to me.  Besides which, it's not supposed to be poetry.  

One man's Mozart is another man's Bartok. I grew up hearing those famous words in that order, so under those circumstances - said in that context - I see nothing wrong with it. Said in any other context, it sounds pompous/pretentious/having parody qualities (what is that, parodic? Firefox gives me a red underline).
English is actually my second language as well, but I'm far worse at grammar in my first language: German. Mark Twain had some choice things to say about German:

--Some German words are so long that they have a perspective.

--These things are not words, they are alphabetical processions.

--My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

--Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

--A dog is "der Hund"; a woman is "die Frau"; a horse is "das Pferd"; now you put that dog in the genitive case, and is he the same dog he was before? No, sir; he is "des Hundes"; put him in the dative case and what is he? Why, he is "dem Hund." Now you snatch him into the accusative case and how is it with him? Why, he is "den Hunden." But suppose he happens to be twins and you have to pluralize him- what then? Why, they'll swat that twin dog around through the 4 cases until he'll think he's an entire international dog-show all in is own person. I don't like dogs, but I wouldn't treat a dog like that- I wouldn't even treat a borrowed dog that way. Well, it's just the same with a cat. They start her in at the nominative singular in good health and fair to look upon, and they sweat her through all the 4 cases and the 16 the's and when she limps out through the accusative plural you wouldn't recognize her for the same being. Yes, sir, once the German language gets hold of a cat, it's goodbye cat. That's about the amount of it.

Makes English grammar seem to be a walk in the park, doesn't it? :biggrin:

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