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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
On March 11, 1964, Gene Roddenberry, a long-time fan of science fiction, drafted a short treatment for a science-fiction television series that he called Star Trek. [8] This was to be set on board a large starship named S.S. Yorktown in the 23rd century [9] [10] bearing a crew dedicated to exploring the Milky Way galaxy.
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.
The story of V'Ger and its return to Earth to seek "the creator" forms the plot for the first feature film in the Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. V'Ger's story is also expanded upon in the novelization, and various novels, most notably William Shatner 's The Return .
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 ...
Leonard Nimoy as Spock, first officer and science officer. DeForest Kelley as Leonard McCoy, chief medical officer. James Doohan as Montgomery Scott, chief engineer. Nichelle Nichols as Nyota Uhura, communications officer. Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov, navigator and security/tactical officer. George Takei as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman
"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 ...
Star Trek was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One starting on July 12, 1969, with the episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before". [43] The first episode broadcast in color was "Arena" on November 15, 1969. The episodes were broadcast in a different order than in the United States and were originally aired in four seasons between 1969 ...