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The gap between the 1986 film Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home (2286) and the 1987 first season of The Next Generation (2364) is 78 years by this timeline, matching early press materials. A gap of 10 years passed between the broadcast of the last episode of Star Trek: The Original Series and the release of The Motion Picture.
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.
After Star Trek ' s second season, word got around that NBC was prepared to cancel the show due to low ratings. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Led by fans Bjo and John Trimble , Trek viewers inundated NBC with letters protesting the show's demise and pleading with the network to renew the series for another year.
In 2009, J.J. Abrams rebooted the Star Trek franchise, but instead of having a clean-cut addition, the new film series is actually set in an alternate timeline — hence how the original Spock (or ...
The Starfleet emblem as seen in the franchise. As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science fiction series that would become Star Trek.Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer space—a so-called "Wagon Train to the stars"—he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, intending each episode to act on two ...
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]
William Shatner as himself during the "16th Annual Star Trek Convention" skit on the December 20, 1986 of Saturday Night Live. (Photo by: Alan Singer/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank) (NBC via Getty Images)
List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes; List of Star Trek: Voyager episodes; List of Star Trek: Enterprise episodes; List of Star Trek: Discovery episodes; List of Star Trek: Short Treks episodes; List of Star Trek: Picard episodes; List of Star Trek: Lower Decks episodes; List of Star Trek: Prodigy episodes; List of Star Trek: Strange New ...