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Westerns such as Wagon Train, along with the Horatio Hornblower novels and Gulliver's Travels, inspired Roddenberry when he created the first Star Trek. It followed the interstellar adventures of James T. Kirk and the crew of an exploration vessel of a 23rd century galactic "United Federation of Planets" — the Starship Enterprise. This first series, now referred to as "The Original Series", debuted in 1966 and ran for three seasons on NBC. 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. Four additional The Next Generation feature films were produced. In 2009, the prequel of the original series (set in an alternate timeline) Star Trek featuring a new cast portraying younger versions of the crew from the original Enterprise appeared. A sequel to this film, Star Trek Into Darkness, premiered on May 16, 2013.
Star Trek has been a cult phenomenon since its beginning. 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 which opened in 1998 and closed in September 2008. At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world. The series even has its own full-fledged constructed language, Klingon. Several parodies have been made of Star Trek and its fans, despite the end of Star Trek episodes on TV, and several fan productions have been produced in that void.
Star Trek is noted for its influence on the world outside of science fiction. It has been cited as an inspiration for several technological inventions such as the cell phone. Moreover, the show is noted for its progressive civil rights stances. The original series included one of television's first multiracial casts, and the first inter-racial kiss in a drama series on American television. Star Trek references can be found throughout popular culture from movies such as the submarine thriller Crimson Tide to the cartoon series South Park.
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The Space Shuttle Enterprise in flight in 1977. Although it was the first shuttle built for the Space Shuttle programme, it never left the Earth's atmosphere.
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- ... that Star Trek: Countdown, a comic book prequel to the 2009 film Star Trek, is also a sequel to the 2002 film Star Trek Nemesis?
- ... that prior to working on Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry (pictured) was a combat pilot for the US Army Air Force and an LAPD officer?
- ... that a fictional alien race in Star Trek called Bolians were named after television director Cliff Bole, who directed 42 episodes of the franchise?
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Television series: The Original Series (episodes) • The Animated Series (episodes) • The Next Generation (episodes) • Deep Space Nine (episodes) • Voyager (episodes) • Enterprise (episodes)
Feature films: The Motion Picture • The Wrath of Khan • The Search for Spock •The Voyage Home • The Final Frontier • The Undiscovered Country • Generations • First Contact • Insurrection • Nemesis • Star Trek • Into Darkness • Beyond
Fictional elements: Alien races • Characters • Deep Space Nine • Prime Directive • Stardates • Starfleet • Timeline • Starship Enterprise • United Federation of Planets • USS Defiant • USS Voyager • Weapons
Other topics: Canon • Comics • Cultural influence • Fan productions • Fandom • Games • Memory Alpha • Novels • Physics • Reference books • Sexuality • Star Trek: The Experience • Star Trek: Phase II
Production staff: J. J. Abrams • Ira Steven Behr • Rick Berman • Brannon Braga • Manny Coto • Damon Lindelof • Ronald D. Moore • Michael Okuda • Michael Piller • Gene Roddenberry • Jeri Taylor
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