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The Original Series included one of the first multiracial casts on US television.Ĭonception and setting The Starfleet emblem as seen in the franchiseĪs early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science fiction series that would become Star Trek. The franchise is also notable for its progressive civil-rights stances.

Star Trek is noted for its cultural influence beyond works of science fiction. Several Star Trek parodies have been made, and viewers have produced several fan productions. The constructed language Klingon was created for the franchise. At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world. From 1998 to 2008, there was a Star Trek–themed attraction in Las Vegas. The franchise spans a wide range of spin-offs including games, figurines, novels, toys, and comics. Fans of the franchise are called ' Trekkies' or 'Trekkers'. Star Trek has been a cult phenomenon for decades. The newest Star Trek television revival, beginning in 2017, includes the series Discovery, Picard, Short Treks, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds, streaming exclusively on digital platforms. In 2009, the film franchise underwent a reboot, creating an alternate continuity known as the Kelvin timeline three films have been set in this continuity. The adventures of the Next Generation crew continued in four additional feature films. A television revival beginning in the 1980s saw three sequel series and a prequel: The Next Generation, following the crew of a new starship Enterprise a century after the original series Deep Space Nine and Voyager, set in the same era as the Next Generation and Enterprise, set before the original series in the early days of human interstellar travel. After the conclusion of the Original Series, the adventures of its characters continued in the 22-episode Star Trek: The Animated Series and six feature films. The Star Trek canon includes the Original Series, 11 spin-off television series, and a film franchise further adaptations also exist in several media. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series of novels, Jonathan Swift 's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels, the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, and television westerns such as Wagon Train.

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It followed the voyages of the crew of the starship USS Enterprise, a space exploration vessel built by the United Federation of Planets in the 23rd century, on a mission 'to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before'. It was first broadcast on September 6, 1966, on Canada's CTV network. The franchise began with Star Trek: The Original Series, which debuted in the US on September 8, 1966, and aired for three seasons on NBC. The franchise has expanded into various films, television series, video games, novels, and comic books, becoming one of the most recognizable and highest-grossing media franchises of all time. Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. Logo as it appears in The Original Series

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