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Abbreviation Title Date(s) Medium TC "The Cage" (Star Trek: The Original Series) 1966: TV TOS: Star Trek: The Original Series: 1966–1969: TV TAS: Star Trek: The Animated Series: 1973–1974
Star Trek: First Contact firmly establishes World War III ended, after a nuclear exchange, in 2053, but with a body count of 600 million. The figure of Colonel Green is elaborated on in Star Trek: Enterprise. First Contact also deliberately describes the warring parties in World War III as "factions", not nations per se.
Logo for the first Star Trek series, now known as The Original Series. Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise that started with a television series (simply called Star Trek but now referred to as Star Trek: The Original Series) created by Gene Roddenberry. The series was first broadcast from 1966 to 1969 on NBC.
The episode is frequently praised by critics and regularly appears on lists of the best episodes of Star Trek. In 2016, The Washington Post ranked "Balance of Terror" the third-best episode of the entire Star Trek franchise, noting that it investigates the connection between wars and race, that it shows both sides of a conflict in deep space. [7]
In 2004 and 2007, TV Guide ranked Star Trek as the greatest cult show ever. [119] [120] In 2013, TV Guide ranked Star Trek as the greatest sci-fi show (along with Star Trek: The Next Generation) [121] and the #12 greatest show of all time, [122] while the Writers Guild of America ranked it #33 on their list of the 101 Best Written TV Series. [123]
"Metamorphosis" was the Star Trek debut of Zefram Cochrane (created by writer Gene L. Coon), one of the key figures in the fictional history of the Star Trek 'universe'. In this episode, Cochrane is credited as "the discoverer of the space warp" — i.e., " warp drive " technology — which enabled Earth to achieve interstellar travel with ...
"The Alternative Factor" is the twenty-seventh episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Don Ingalls and directed by Gerd Oswald, it first aired on March 30, 1967. In the episode, the crew of the USS Enterprise encounters a "reality jumping" madman.
"The Devil in the Dark" is the twenty-fifth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Gene L. Coon and directed by Joseph Pevney, the episode first aired on March 9, 1967. [1] In this episode, the Enterprise is called to investigate deaths at a planetary mining facility.