0_Wizard
I am a big fan of Star Trek, the American franchise created by Gene Roddenberry.
Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.
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Star Trek
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 Trek" and now referred to as """", debuted in 1966 and aired for three seasons on the television network 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 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, the film franchise, and further adaptations in several media.
Gene Roddenberry
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for creating the . Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II, and worked as a commercial pilot after the war. Later, he followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he also began to write scripts for television. As a freelance writer, Roddenberry wrote scripts for "Highway Patrol", "Have Gun–Will Travel", and other series, before creating and producing his own television series "The Lieutenant."
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 and its crew. 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 2260s. 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 McCoy (DeForest Kelley). Shatner's voice-over introduction during each episode's opening credits stated the starship's purpose:  The series was produced from September 1966 to December 1967 by Norway Productions and Desilu Productions, and by Paramount Television from January 1968 to June 1969.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 1979 American science fiction film directed by Robert Wise and based on the created by Gene Roddenberry, who also served as its producer. It is the first installment in the "Star Trek" film series, and stars the cast of the original television series. The film is set in the twenty-third century, when a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud known as V'Ger approaches Earth, destroying everything in its path. Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) assumes command of the recently refitted Starship USS "Enterprise", to lead it on a mission to save the planet and determine VGers origins.
Cultural influence of Star Trek
The original series, which aired in the late 1960s, has since spawned six successor series and thirteen movies , a plethora of merchandise, and a multibillion-dollar industry collectively known as the "Star Trek" franchise. The franchise is owned by CBS Television Studios, which now owns television properties previously held by Paramount Pictures, the studio that produced "Star Trek" for many decades; CBS Paramount continues to hold DVD rights to the TV series, and the rights to produce feature films. Two films, "Galaxy Quest" and "Free Enterprise", and a television series, "The Orville", have been inspired by the cultural influence of "Star Trek".
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation (abbreviated as TNG and ST:TNG) is an American science-fiction television series in the "Star Trek" franchise created by Gene Roddenberry that ran from 1987 to 1994. Roddenberry, Maurice Hurley, Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor served as executive producers at different times throughout its production. The series involves a starship named "Enterprise" and is set in the nearby regions of the Milky Way galaxy, the Alpha Quadrant. The first episode takes place in the year 2364, 100 years after the start of the five-year mission described in the original series, which began in 2264.
Trekkie
A Trekkie is a fan of the "Star Trek" franchise, or of specific television series or films within that franchise. In 1967, science fiction editor Arthur W. Saha applied the term "trekkies" when he saw a few fans of the first season of "" wearing pointy ears at the 25th World Science Fiction Convention, on the day series creator Gene Roddenberry showed a print of "Amok Time" to the convention. Saha used the term in an interview with Pete Hamill that Hamill was conducting for "TV Guide" concerning the phenomenon of science fiction. Many early Trekkies were also fans of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." (1964–1968), another show with science fiction elements and a devoted, "cult"-like audience.
1_Apprentice
I don't know much about it. When did the first episode air?