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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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Crew members from the United States aircraft carrier Enterprise chosen as the sailors of the year, pose with Scott Bakula and Connor Trinneer on set for the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Desert Crossing".
Anniversaries this month
- 7 December 1979 – The film Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released in North America, it was the first live action Star Trek since the cancellation of The Original Series
- 13 December 2002 – Star Trek: Nemesis (Glenn Cote and Brent Spiner on set pictured), the last film to feature the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, was released
- 15 December 1966 – The The Original Series episode "Balance of Terror" was first broadcast, it was the first appearance of the Romulans
- 22 December 1993 – "Plato's Stepchildren", featuring an interracial kiss, was broadcast for the first time in the United Kingdom, 25 years after it was first broadcast in the United States
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- ... that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Exile" was seen as a play on the Beauty and the Beast story, and one critic thought that the new sets reminded her of a Disney Castle?
- ... that David Carson had never heard of Star Trek when he moved to America, but five years later directed the film Star Trek Generations?
- ... that the production of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Sword of Kahless" (Bat'leth pictured) featured two former The Next Generation actors and a guest star from The Original Series?
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