Star Trek together refers to sextuplet science-fiction television series spanning 726 episodes, ten motion pictures, & hundreds of novels, computer game, and more works of fiction, all placed inside a equivalent fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the early and mid 1960s. It depicts an affirmative new where humanity has overcome sickness, racism, poverty, intolerance, and warfare on Earth, & has united with other intelligent species in the galaxy; a central characters choose the galaxy, selecting occident & meeting recently civilizations, when helping to promote peace and understanding. "Star Trek" is one of a virtually all popular list within a history of science fiction amusement, & one of the virtually all popular franchises in television history.

Television series
Star Trek originated as a television series around 1966. There use been 5 live-action Star Trek series and an animated series, altogether comprising (as of May 2005) a aggregate of 726 single airy episodes (not including a original stuffy pilot) and 30 seasons’ worth of television.

Star Trek (1966-1969)

Star Trek debuted in NBC on September 8, 1966, having aired inside Canada some days earliest. Created by Gene Roddenberry, starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelley, and co-starring James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, and (late) Walter Koenig, it told the tale of the crew of the starship Enterprise of the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet and their adventures "to boldly go where no man has gone before".

A number one episode aired, “a Human Trap�, was actually the fifth produced. Originally, Roddenberry got created the pilot entitled “The Cage�, by having the super different cast, led by seasoned actor Jeffrey Hunter, which was rejected by the triad major television networks of the period. Nonetheless, a NBC network liked a pilot plenty to commission an unprecedented 2nd pilot, “Where There is no Human Has No more Before�, which featured an most completely newly cast led by Shatner. Single a character of Spock remained, at Roddenberry's insistence. “Where There are no Human Has No more Before� was the third episode aired, when “The Cage� was reworked into a both-embellishment episode, “The Menagerie�.

A previous original episode aired in June 3, 1969. A series afterward became phenomenally popular within syndication, ultimately spawning a film & television sequels that followed. It has around recent years be called Star Trek: A Original Series, abbreviated when ST:TOS or even TOS, to distinguish it from either its sequels, although completely charted films & television series, except a animated cartoon series of the Seventies, already develop subtitles when a portion of their original list.

Star Trek (Animated) (1973-1974)

A series was aired under a title Star Trek, however it has be widely called Star Trek: A Animated Series (or even abbreviated when ST:TAS or even TAS). It was by Filmation and ran for 2 seasons, by using the sum of twenty-both half-30 minutes episodes. It featured virtually all of a original cast performing the voices for their characters. When the freedom of animation afforded big alien landscapes & exotic lifeforms, budget constraints were a major concern & animation quality was unfortunate. Two or three episodes come especially notable due to contributions from either swell known science-fiction authors. A series is non considered to become canon, which has caused contention among a bit of fans. All a same, the episode "Yesteryear" is considered a unfair exception on the cases depicted inside Spock’s youth. Additionally, elements of the alive series use at times worked their way into canon, like Kirk’s middle title, Tiberius, foremost revealed inside TAS & mass produced official around Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Star Trek: Enterprise has also incorporated many TAS conception into canon. And so, piece a series itself is does'nt strictly canon, it hwhen been utilized as 'canon fodder'.

Star Trek: Phase II (1978; unproduced)

Star Trek: Phase II was placed to air within 1978 as the flagship series of the projected Paramount television network, & Xii episode scripts were written prior to production flow from to lead off. This series would own put virtually all of a original crew back aboard the Enterprise for another 5-season mission, save for Spock, because Leonard Nimoy did non agree to go to; the good-blooded Vulcan known as Xon was planned as a replacement, although it was however hoped that Nimoy would produce guest appearances. Sets were constructed & many minutes of line 2 text footage were filmed. All the same, part because of the popularity of the recently discharged Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Paramount decided to make the Star Trek film instead of the hebdomadally television series. A 1st script formed a basis of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, while 2 others were yet adapted when episodes of Star Trek: A Next Generation.

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994)

Star Trek: A Next Generation (too known, informally, when A Next Generation, ST:TNG, or even TNG) is placed about the century late & features the freshly spaceship (too known as Enterprise) and a recently crew, venturing in which "no one has gone before." It premiered in September 28, 1987, with them-hour pilot episode, "Encounter at Farpoint", and run 7 seasons, ending by having a final 2-two-way episode, "All Good Things..." on May 29, 1994. the indicate gained a considerable resulting in the period of its initial process. Potentially in a period of its initial process, the indicate was produced entirely for syndication.

Star Trek: A Next Generation was a greatest rated of all a Star Trek series, & was a total-a single syndicated indicate when you took the go couple years of its original begin. Numerous fans, two casual & "hard-core", typically handle A Next Generation as a rather 'golden age' of Star Trek, primarily because of its broad acceptance, its viewer base, & a active influence of Roddenberry (world health organization was alive when you took a number one a share of its do).

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 or even DS9) run heptad seasons & was a 1st Trek series to exist as established while forgoing any straight input from either Gene Roddenberry. It introduced Avery Brooks as Commander (and, late in the series, Captain) Benjamin Sisko, the number 1 African American in the commanding role of the Star Trek series. It chronicles a cases surrounding a space station Deep Space Nine. In the 1st episode, a crew discovers the presence of a nearby stable wormhole, which provides about quick visit & from either a distant Gamma Quadrant. This immediately makes a station an crucial tactical plus, too as a vital center of commerce by owning a largely undiscovered metropolitan area of space.

Deep Space Nine sheds a few of a utopian themes that embodied the former versions of Star Trek, & focuses more in war, religion, political compromise, & other modern issues. Although its ratings were never when high when victims of The Next Generation, DS9 remains a virtually all critically acclaimed of the "Trek" spin-by-product.

Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001)

Star Trek: Voyager (likewise referred to as ST:VOY, ST:VGR or even VOY) was produced for septet seasons, & is the simply Star Trek series to will have the female, Captain Kathryn Janeway, as a lead character. In essence, the U.S.S. Voyager and crew were 'lost in space': the series follows the adventures of the starship Voyager and her crew, joined by Maquis resistance fighters, who have all become stranded in the Delta Quadrant, seventy-five thousand light years from Earth. Unless it potty buy the cutoff, it might require the children seventy-5 years to link to to known space.

Although Voyager's ratings were at first firm, it fell dramatically when a indicate progressed. It was in the period of this indicate's do that criticism towards producer Rick Berman began to mount, coinciding with a incubation inside popularity of low discussion forums that amplified a message of a vocal class action of fans world health organization felt Berman wwhen there are no hanker welcome as the franchise leader. Sustaining a threat of cancellation, a character Seven of Nine was added, replacing Kes, which, in turn, increased ratings & allowed a series to prove my point for quaternary thomas more seasons.

Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005)

Star Trek: Enterprise (known as only Enterprise in a period of its number one 2 seasons, the foremost pack episodes of its third, & abbreviated when ST:ENT or even ENT) occurs as prequel to the other Star Trek series. A pilot episode, "Broken Bow", takes place x years prior to a origination of the Federation, about midway between a cases shown in the moving picture Star Trek: First Contact and the original Star Trek series. This series depicts a exploration of space per crew of the Earthship Enterprise, a new, NX-class starship, which is able to go farther and faster than any humans had previously gone.

Star Trek: Enterprise is non completely unfamiliar to Star Trek fans, when it allows its characters to face cases when you took a formative years of a Federation & unencumbered per case & system that keep close at hand been built higher on top the ensuing years of "Trek" history. Ratings for Enterprise were never particularly hard; &, when it got done in a period of the initial airing of The Original Series, fan trend lines in the period of Enterprise's 2nd & third seasons helped keep a series on a air: however Paramount announced cancellation when you took the quaternary year.

Motion pictures
The amount of tenner Star Trek pic up to now keep around been by Paramount Pictures.

a most common urban myth among fans is that the possibly-numbered Star Trek films come superior to the odd-numbered Star Trek films. This rule of thumb is virtually all easy applicable to the number one couple of films: Star Trek II & IV come ordinarily at or even touching a top of the fan favorites, spell We & V come unremarkably at a bottom (though We has since standard quite bit of caring re-evaluation in the wake up of an acclaimed "Director's Edition" revisiin freed on DVD). This is non all applicable, yet; Triplet followed in from either a profits of 2, which continued into IV, & 7 (Star Trek: Generations) is regarded as a firmly fan favorite. A second exception is 10 (Star Trek: Nemesis), which is one of a virtually all critically derided Star Trek feature, numbers of critics accusing it of attempting to imitate a plot (& profits) of Star Trek II. Despite fetching a last revenue at a pack professional withinside Star Trek history, it sold swell in its DVD release in 2003.

Although N Western & UK releases of a films were there are no yearn numbered as punishment a sixth film, European releases continued numbering the films.

When of August 2005, a number one draft of the script for the Eleventh film has been completed. A working title is Star Trek: A Beginning [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408305/], featuring br&-spick-and-span characters and ingesting place shortly fallowing Enterprise. It has the tentative release date of 2007.

Other storylines

Although A Animated Series, books, comedian books, computer game, & more poop according to Star Trek come considered "non-canon", there are several which deserve mentioning, including the total of fan-manufactured (or even "fanon") productions set in a Star Trek universe use been created for distribution above a Internet. None one projects come licensed by Paramount, yet a studio has reportedly loosened its stance in allowing for the children. Understand Star Trek, other storylines for more elaborate references all about these productions.

Uncertain future for franchise

Predictions of the death of Star Trek come nothing recently. When early when 1993-1994, when Star Trek: Deep Space Nine failed to generate the high ratings of its predecessor, magazines like Entertainment Weekly predicted a prevent of the franchise. A touching-cancellation of Star Trek: Voyager in the mid-1990s led to more such predictions. Enterprise, which has likewise proven to exist as the virtually all unpopular series up to now, was widely reported in the media to exist as on the verge of cancellation fallowing both of its 1st 3 seasons & a "death watch" of sorts was maintained throughout its 4th & final season.

Notwithstanding, ascribable the cancellation of Enterprise & a mite box-professional performance of the 2002 film Nemesis, executive producer Rick Berman has stated that Paramount intends to rest the franchise (film & television) for at least triplet years.

Several Trek fans need Berman & a more executive producer Brannon Braga to be replaced. Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, former Star Trek writer Ronald D. Moore, and current Enterprise executive producer Manny Coto have been suggested as possible replacements. Around an ironic twist to the fan-depending efforts to bring back Trek in the 1960s and 1970s, there come groups of fans world health organization sense that a construct has start its course & who are actively looking for a prevent of Star Trek.

Reruns of The Next Generation & Deep Space Nine come aired regularly in Spike TV in the United States. Spike TV might too lead off airing reruns of Voyager in the fall of 2006, as a share of its original treat for 100% trine series. TOS, TNG, & Voyager air day-to-day around Canada in Space: The Imagination Station, which has also purchased Enterprise for daily rebroadcasts starting in the fall of 2005.

Cast members & fans keep close at hand suggested that possibly whenever no farther Star Trek series or even pic, a franchise can prove my point inside television movies, mini-series, specials, and more forms of media.

Future sequels to the original series

There exists a select few want among fans to bring back a character of Captain Kirk, every bit played by William Shatner, to give him a extra self-respectful prevent than that shown around Star Trek: Generations.

George Takei and fans have manufactured frequent tries to convince the studio to produce a series according to Captain Sulu's voyages on the Excelsior, but, despite trend lines from either fans, it has enjoyed little profits. Sulu & a Wood shavings originally appeared in the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as well as inside an episode of Star Trek: Voyager ("Flashback") but this did not lead to the freshly series. Sulu late appeared in the streaming game Star Trek: Shattered Universe placed in the Mirror, Mirror alternate universe.

Future sequels to The Next Generation

Next Generation stars Marina Sirtis, Patrick Stewart, and Jonathan Frakes have suggested that no more TNG films is produced; Brent Spiner is also there is no hanker concerned inside reprising a character of Data. Nonetheless, Spiner portrayed Arik Soong, an ancestor of the developer of his character Information, within Enterprise's 4th year, & Sirtis & Frakes reprised their TNG roles for the Enterprise finale.

Continuation of Enterprise
Inside November 2004, Paramount announced that it would be offering a foremost 4 seasons of Enterprise, which aired its final episode in May 13, 2005, in television syndication as well as in DVD in 2005. A foremost year DVDs were freed within United States in Could 3rd, 2005.

There exists a few consensus among Star Trek fans that a 4th & final year of Enterprise was far superior & other "Trek-like" to the former tercet seasons, & that continuation of the program under the fresh genre would stand stood the risk of getting better ratings when you took a fifth year.

The campaign by Enterprise fans was mounted to keep close at hand a indicate airy on the Sci-Fi Channel, which was rumored to be interested in the indicate (although TV Guide reported otherwise). Berman, all a same, stated that Paramount is non interested about concidering the indicate around to more networks.

Of these campaign, Trek United, attempted to raise funds to finance the fifth year, raising pledges & cash donations of to a higher degree $3.One million (U.S.) however its proposal which would st& seen the fifth year jointly by Paramount along by having American and British production houses, was rejected per studio. It has been reported that a guide to cancel Enterprise fallowing its quaternary year might keep close at hand been manufactured by Paramount when early when a 2002-2003 year, when lead actor Scott Bakula hwhen gone within record as stating that management changes at Paramount in 2003-2004 left a Star Trek franchise while forgoing heavy trend lines at a studio. Within April 2005, he claimed that higher until 2003-2004 Paramount experienced actually designed for the cast of Enterprise to be a focus for the next Star Trek film. [http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30849]

New feature film?

Rick Berman revealed inside 2003 that preliminary act got begun in an eleventh Star Trek feature. Rumour circulated that this film would become the prequel, peradventure coroneted Starfleet Academy or even Starfleet Command, involving Spock, Captain Kirk, and Dr. McCoy played by newly actors. By using A Next Generation film series ended, a possibility too is that a next film can be according to Deep Space Nine or even Voyager, & Kate Mulgrew has stated that she would play Janeway in the newly picture show [http://www.totallykate.com/articles/dream804.html]. More rumour suggested a film would choose place between a cases of Enterprise & TOS, perchance involving the Romulan War & featuring a newly cast. Notwithstanding, rumour of such the prequel have circulated several days throughout a history of the franchise, shortly when TOS's original cancellation, & once more in the 1990s, both forgoing outcomes.

Within late 2004, Paramount indicated that no plans were in situ for a freshly film, & it was reported that the studio experienced rejected Berman's idethe of the film featuring the newly cast & crew, indicating that it favorite a film featuring familiar faces.

Within late February 2005, Berman told Variety that pre-production of an eleventh Star Trek film was underway & that film writer Erik Jendresen, producer Jordan Kerner, and previous Paramount Television president Kerry McCluggage were attached to the design. [http://www.trektoday.com/news/230205_01.shtml] Berman said a film would focus around fresh characters, like than any from either last series, & would require place in a period prior to the original Star Trek (when Enterprise did prior to it). Jendresen has since confirmed such reports. Nevertheless, these are however uncertain whether Jendresen's script is approved by Paramount executives; inside January 2005 it was reported by occasionally websites that the studio got rejected a similar proposal, though Berman denied this. [http://www.trektoday.com/news/180105_01.shtml]

Within the Can 2005 locate for the UK Star Trek Magazine, Berman stated that he doesn't require Trek XI, in case these are actually produced, to become freed for many years.[http://trekweb.com/articles/2005/05/27/4297698c2c344.shtml] Occasionally sources develop given a working title Star Trek: A Beginning to this proposed film, still Paramount has however to announce any official title, or even in case it may actually make an Eleventh Star Trek film. Around the watch-higher locate for the September 2005 issue of Star Trek Magazine, Berman stated that planning for the film is however "in its infant stages".[http://trekweb.com/articles/2005/09/15/4329bc20736c6.shtml]

Video games

Around 1998, Viacom entered into an agreement with Activision to produce Star Trek video games. Several games were freed under this agreement, however within 2003, Activision filed a causa against Viacom stating that it were non holding when much when their prevent of a bargain because the Star Trek franchise was non as valuable as it it used to be that was. None of the games produced sold easily. Activision cancelled a contract & sought compensation for losses. Around March 2005, an agreement was reached & completely suit were dropped, however a more terms keep around been deemed confidential [http://investor.activision.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=157785]

Around 2004, Perpetual Entertainment announced plans for an MMORPG based in the Star Trek universe. This is a number one game of this nature and severity to become according to Star Trek. Presently, a game is tentatively highborn Star Trek Online and is expected to become placed about Xx years fallowing a cases of Nemesis. Supplementary elaborate data on a game may be obtained around [http://www.stowiki.com Stography], the wiki dedicated to the game.

Novels
Pocket Books, current publishers of officially commissioned fiction depending upon all the series (also when many original "Trek" series of its have), plans to prove my point publishing original novels for the foreseeable first.

But, before long fallowing Enterprise was cancelled, a company [http://www.trektoday.com/news/220205_01.shtml announced] that it was halving a total of Star Trek novels it would become publishing, down to just of these mass-market softback by a season, + many trade soft-cover & hardback throughout the year. Although book line editors stressed that a guide to reduce a total of books wwhen manufactured a year earliest & was non related popularity/ratings problems in a franchise, a announcement was seen by a bit of as an additional indication that a Star Trek franchise is on the ebb.

Despite this, nonetheless, a company maintains that it has challenging plans for a line, including (within Will 2005) the confirmation that an Enterprise Relaunch series of novels is in the planning stages.[http://www.trektoday.com/news/180505_01.shtml]