Kirk ( William Shatner) leads the brave crew of the Cool Starship Enterprise on a mission "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before." Set 2265-2269 - The one everyone has heard of. Star Trek: The Original Series, just called Star Trek at the time ("TOS", 1966-1969, NBC).Every fandom since has grown from that original outpouring of fannish activity and devotion.
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And the prototype Space Shuttle was named after the iconic starship NCC-1701, note While the Enterprise OV-101 did not fly in space, it did make atmospheric test flights, and was used for numerous other test purposes as is Virgin Galactic's first commercial spacecraft.Īnd finally, while there were previous antecedents (such as the case of Sherlock Holmes and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) Star Trek effectively gave rise to Fandom as we know it: when Star Trek: The Original Series began to pick up steam in syndication, fans organized conventions, wrote fanfiction, dressed in costume, and generally made enough noise to keep the franchise going for fifty years and counting. The first African-American woman in space was inspired to become an astronaut because of Nichelle Nichols' pioneering role.
Everyone with any exposure to Western pop culture has heard of the Starship Enterprise, and the series predicted (and possibly inspired) the PC, tablet, automatic doors, cell phones, natural-language AI and more, decades before their invention. The series has also had a profound impact on modern culture and media. As such, it was not above being Anvilicious or engaging in thinly-veiled social satire, but considering its origin during the 60's, sometimes they couldn't afford to be subtle.
As originally envisioned by its creator, Gene Roddenberry, the science fiction nature of the series was just a method to address many social issues of the time that could not have been done in a normal drama. Every series dealt with a particular crew, mostly of various ships named Enterprise.
The setting in every series is sometime in the distant future featuring a collection of broadly similar rubber-foreheaded polities spanning (fairly small) segments of the so-called 'quadrants' of the Milky Way galaxy, with the stories centered around an Earth-based interstellar government called the United Federation of Planets and the exploits of its fleet of starships, Starfleet. And it's still going with a couple of new additions in development. Star Trek is a long-running science-fiction franchise with ten television series (seven live-action shows and three animated series), and thirteen live-action movies spanning three generations of characters and over six decades of television.
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