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Star Trek has an ongoing tradition of actors returning to reprise their roles in other spin-off series. In some instances, actors have portrayed potential ancestors, descendants, or relatives of characters they originated.
This is a list of characters from the Star Trek franchise and the media in which they appear. It lists both major and minor fictional characters including those not originally created for Star Trek but featured in it, alongside real-life persons appearing in a fictional manner, such as holodeck recreations.
Noonien Soong (Star Trek: The Next Generation) – inventor of the positronic brain, which makes intelligent androids possible; Dr. Tolian Soran (Star Trek Generations) – El-Aurian scientist desperate to return to the Nexus; Mr. Spock (Star Trek: The Original Series) – science officer and second-in-command of the Enterprise
The series was a follow-up to the original Star Trek series which was broadcast on NBC between 1966 and 1969, [4] with characters from the original series appearing in The Next Generation on several occasions; a crossover movie titled Star Trek Generations was also released. [5]
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 ...
Majel Barrett was the only performer to have had a role on the first six Star Trek series, usually as the voice of the various computers used throughout the series and five of the Star Trek films, from TOS Enterprise to the Enterprise-D, Defiant and Voyager, plus numerous Starship and Runabout computers, most likely giving her the most voice ...
Majel Barrett as Nurse Christine Chapel, medical officer.; Grace Lee Whitney as Janice Rand, Captain's yeoman.; John Winston as Kyle, operations officer.; Michael Barrier as Vincent DeSalle, navigator and assistant chief engineer.
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.