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The original, single-disc DVD releases placed the episodes by production order, with "The Cage" on the final disc. [10] After the series' cancellation, Paramount Television released Star Trek to television stations as a syndication package, [11] where the series' popularity grew to become a "major phenomenon within popular culture". [12]
The episode "All the World's a Stage" explains why the character Ensign Garrovick disappeared between the second and third seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series, revealing that he crash-landed on a planet and influenced its culture in a similar way to the Original Series episode "A Piece of the Action". Star Trek: Lower Decks star Fred ...
The pair met when Simien was a guest on Star Trek: The Pod Directive, the official Star Trek podcast that is hosted by Newsome, and their pitch for the series grew from their shared love of character-focused Deep Space Nine and The Next Generation episodes that were not "plot heavy". [130]
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]
The Hollywood Reporter interviewed various cast and production crew of the Star Trek franchise to determine the "100 Greatest Episodes" from across the six series, ranking "Shuttlepod One" as the 98th best episode of all time. [3] Fans have noted this episode’s similarity to the “Star Trek: The Original Series” episode ‘Galileo Seven’.
In 2016, CNET ranked this episode as the fourth-worst episode of all Star Trek, based on rankings between an audience and discussion hosts at a 50th anniversary Star Trek convention in Las Vegas. [5] In 2017, this episode was rated the fourth worst episode of the Star Trek franchise including later spin-off series, by ScreenRant. [6]
It was set within the universe of the Star Trek franchise, with the series placed earlier in the chronology than Star Trek: The Original Series. [5] Following the end of Star Trek: Voyager, executive producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga entered immediately into production on Enterprise in line with feedback from the studio. [4]
Columbia House began issuing mail-order volumes featuring episodes in "star date" order in 1986. The original series pilot, "The Cage", was released to home video in 1986, consisting of black-and-white workprint footage combined with color footage from the season-one, two-part episode "The Menagerie" with a run time of 73 minutes.