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Star Trek - Wikipedia. Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fictiontelevision series created by Gene Roddenberry.

The first television series, simply called Star Trek and now referred to as The Original Series, debuted in 1. NBC. It followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T.

Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew aboard the starship USS Enterprise, a space exploration vessel, built by the interstellar federal republic United Federation of Planets in the twenty- third century. The Star Trek canon of the franchise includes The Original Series, an animated series, five spin- off television series, and its film franchise in addition to further adaptations made in several media since the original. In creating Star Trek, Roddenberry was inspired by the Horatio Hornblower novels, the satirical book Gulliver's Travels, and by works of western genre such as the television series Wagon Train.

These adventures continued in the short- lived Star Trek: The Animated Series and six feature films. Four spin- off television series were eventually produced: Star Trek: The Next Generation followed the crew of a new starship Enterprise set a century after the original series; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager set contemporaneously with The Next Generation; and Star Trek: Enterprise set before the original series in the early days of human interstellar travel. The most recent Star Trek TV series, entitled Star Trek: Discovery, premiered on CBS and later made available exclusively on the digital platform CBS All Access.

The adventures of The Next Generation crew continued in four additional feature films. In 2. 00. 9, the film franchise underwent a "reboot" set in an alternate timeline, or "Kelvin Timeline," entitled simply Star Trek. This film featured a new cast portraying younger versions of the crew from the original show; their adventures were continued in the sequel film, Star Trek Into Darkness (2. The thirteenth film feature and sequel, Star Trek Beyond (2. Star Trek has been a cult phenomenon for decades.[1] Fans of the franchise are called Trekkies or Trekkers.

The franchise spans a wide range of spin- offs including games, figurines, novels, toys, and comics. Star Trek had a themed attraction in Las Vegas that opened in 1. September 2. 00. 8.

Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called Star. Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and its crew. Created by Gene Roddenberry. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols. Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise.

At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world. The series has its own full- fledged constructed language, Klingon. Several parodies have been made of Star Trek.

In addition, viewers have produced several fan productions. As of July 2. 01. Star Trek one of the highest- grossing media franchises of all time. Star Trek is noted for its cultural influence beyond works of science fiction.[3] The franchise is also noted for its progressive civil rights stances.[4]The Original Series included one of television's first multiracial casts.

Star Trek references may be found throughout popular culture from movies such as the submarine thriller Crimson Tide to the animated series South Park. Background. Conception and setting. The Starfleet emblem as seen in the franchise.

As early as 1. 96. 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"[5]—he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, intending each episode to act on two levels: as a suspenseful adventure story and as a morality tale.[6]Most Star Trek stories depict the adventures of humans[Note 1] and aliens who serve in Starfleet, the space- borne humanitarian and peacekeeping armada of the United Federation of Planets. The protagonists have altruistic values, and must apply these ideals to difficult dilemmas. Many of the conflicts and political dimensions of Star Trek represent allegories of contemporary cultural realities. Star Trek: The Original Series addressed issues of the 1.

Directed by Nicholas Meyer. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan. On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with.

Issues depicted in the various series include war and peace, the value of personal loyalty, authoritarianism, imperialism, class warfare, economics, racism, religion, human rights, sexism, feminism, and the role of technology.[8] Roddenberry stated: "[By creating] a new world with new rules, I could make statements about sex, religion, Vietnam, politics, and intercontinental missiles. Indeed, we did make them on Star Trek: we were sending messages and fortunately they all got by the network."[9] "If you talked about purple people on a far off planet, they (the TV network) never really caught on. They were more concerned about cleavage. They actually would send a censor down to the set to measure a woman's cleavage to make sure too much of her breast wasn't showing"[1. Roddenberry intended the show to have a progressive political agenda reflective of the emerging counter- culture of the youth movement, though he was not fully forthcoming to the networks about this. He wanted Star Trek to show humanity what it might develop into, if it would learn from the lessons of the past, most specifically by ending violence. An extreme example is the alien species, the Vulcans, who had a violent past but learned to control their emotions.

Roddenberry also gave Star Trek an anti- war message and depicted the United Federation of Planets as an ideal, optimistic version of the United Nations.[1. His efforts were opposed by the network because of concerns over marketability, e.

Roddenberry's insistence that Enterprise have a racially diverse crew.[1. Mythology. The central trio of Kirk, Spock, and Mc. Coy from Star Trek: The Original Series was modeled on classical mythological storytelling.[1. William Shatner said: "There is a mythological component [to pop culture], especially with science fiction. It's people looking for answers – and science fiction offers to explain the inexplicable, the same as religion tends to do.. If we accept the premise that it has a mythological element, then all the stuff about going out into space and meeting new life – trying to explain it and put a human element to it – it's a hopeful vision. All these things offer hope and imaginative solutions for the future."[1.

Star Trek: The Original Series. Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC- 1. It later acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series (Star Trek: TOS or simply TOS) to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began.

The show is set in the Milky Way galaxy, roughly during the 2. The ship and crew are led by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), first officer and science officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and chief medical officer Leonard Mc. Coy (De. Forest Kelley). Shatner's voice- over introduction during each episode's opening credits stated the starship's purpose: Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five- year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

The series was produced from September 1. December 1. 96. 7 by Norway Productions and Desilu Productions, and by Paramount Television from January 1. June 1. 96. 9. Star Trek aired on NBC from September 8, 1. June 3, 1. 96. 9,[5] and was actually seen first on September 6, 1.

Canada's CTV network.[6]Star Trek's Nielsen ratings while on NBC were low, and the network canceled it after three seasons and 7. Forever Young Full Movie In English. Several years later, the series became a bona fide hit in broadcast syndication, remaining so throughout the 1. Star Trek eventually spawned a franchise, consisting of six additional television series, thirteen feature films, numerous books, games, and toys, and is now widely considered one of the most popular and influential television series of all time.[7]The series contains significant elements of Space Western, as described by Gene Roddenberry and the general audience.[8]Creation[edit]On March 1. Gene Roddenberry, a long- time fan of science fiction, drafted a short treatment for a science- fiction television series that he called Star Trek.[9] This was to be set on board a large interstellar spaceship named S. S. Yorktown in the 2.

Milky Way. Galaxy. Roddenberry noted a number of influences on his idea, some of which includes A. E. van Vogt's tales of the spaceship Space Beagle, Eric Frank Russell's Marathon series of stories, and the film Forbidden Planet (1. Some have also drawn parallels with the television series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1. Star Trek—the organization, crew relationships, missions, part of the bridge layout, and even some technology.[7]: 2.

Roddenberry also drew heavily from C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels that depict a daring sea captain who exercises broad discretionary authority on distant sea missions of noble purpose. He often humorously referred to Captain Kirk as "Horatio Hornblower in Space".[1.

Roddenberry had extensive experience in writing for series about the Old West that had been popular television fare in the 1. Armed with this background, the first draft characterized the new show as "Wagon Train to the stars."[9][1. Like the familiar Wagon Train, each episode was to be a self- contained adventure story, set within the structure of a continuing voyage through space. All future television and movie realizations of the franchise adhered to the "Wagon Train" paradigm of the continuing journey, with the notable exception of the serialized Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise. In Roddenberry's original concept, the protagonist was Captain Robert April of the starship S.

S. Yorktown. This character was developed into Captain Christopher Pike, first portrayed by Jeffrey Hunter. April is listed in the Star Trek Chronology, The Star Trek Encyclopedia and at startrek. Enterprise's first commanding officer, preceding Captain Christopher Pike.[1. The character's only television/movie appearance is in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Counter- Clock Incident"[1.

Development[edit]In April 1. Roddenberry presented the Star Trek draft to Desilu Productions, a leading independent television production company.[1. He met with Herb Solow, Desilu's Director of Production. Solow saw promise in the idea and signed a three- year program- development contract with Roddenberry.[1.

Lucille Ball, head of Desilu, was not familiar with the nature of the project, but she was instrumental in getting the pilot produced. The idea was extensively revised and fleshed out during this time – "The Cage" pilot filmed in late 1.

March 1. 96. 4 treatment. Solow, for example, added the stardate concept.[1. Desilu Productions had a first- look deal with CBS.[2. Oscar Katz, Desilu's Vice President of Production, went with Roddenberry to pitch the series to the network.[2.

They refused to purchase the show, as they already had a similar show in development, the 1. Irwin Allen series Lost in Space.[2. In May 1. 96. 4, Solow, who previously worked at NBC, met with Grant Tinker, then head of the network's West Coast programming department.

Tinker commissioned the first pilot – which became "The Cage".[1. NBC turned down the resulting pilot, stating that it was "too cerebral".[2. However, the NBC executives were still impressed with the concept, and they understood that its perceived faults had been partly because of the script that they had selected themselves.[1. NBC made the unusual decision to pay for a second pilot, using the script called "Where No Man Has Gone Before".[2. Only the character of Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy, was retained from the first pilot, and only two cast members, Majel Barrett and Nimoy, were carried forward into the series.

This second pilot proved to be satisfactory to NBC, and the network selected Star Trek to be in its upcoming television schedule for the fall of 1. The second pilot introduced most of the other main characters: Captain Kirk (William Shatner), chief engineer Lt. Commander Scott (James Doohan) and Lt. Sulu (George Takei), who served as a physicist on the ship in the second pilot but subsequently became a helmsman throughout the rest of the series. Paul Fix played Dr. Mark Piper in the second pilot; ship's doctor Leonard Mc. Watch Detention Of The Dead HD 1080P.

Coy (De. Forest Kelley) joined the cast when filming began for the first season, and he remained for the rest of the series, achieving billing as the third star of the series. Also joining the ship's permanent crew during the first season were the communications officer, Lt. Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), the first African- American woman to hold such an important role in an American television series; [2.