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Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry and currently under the ownership of CBS. The franchise began in 1966 with the television series Star Trek, later referred to as Star Trek: The Original Series. This series, its spin-off shows: Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise, as well as the film series make up the core of the franchise's mythos. While the critical response to much of the franchise varies, many individual Star Trek episodes and films have won awards and honors including Emmy Awards, Hugo Awards and an Academy Award.

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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William Shatner, in costume as Captain James T. Kirk
"The Trouble With Tribbles" was the 44th episode of the television series Star Trek, later known as Star Trek: The Original Series. It was the fifteenth episode of the second series, and was the first professional work of writer David Gerrold. In the plot, the crew of the Enterprise are called to Deep Space Station K-7 to protect a shipment of grain bound for Sherman's Planet. Whilst there, they encounter tribbles and this causes problems both for the ship and the station but help to prevent a disaster on the planet after the arrival of a Klingon vessel. Production required some 1,500 tribbles to be created for a variety of purposes such as sewn from beanbags or made from toy dogs. Several re-writes were required, including a drastic re-draft after it was discovered that the script had been printed in the wrong size font. Nichelle Nichols remarked that she had "never seen a script go through so many changes – and stay so much the same". The episode was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, and a sequel episode was intended for the third season. It was instead produced for Star Trek: The Animated Series as the episode "More Tribbles, More Troubles". To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek, the episode was revisited in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations".
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US Navy aircraft carrier Enterprise crew members alongside Starfleet Enterprise crew members
Credit: Chief Journalist Mark O. Piggott

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".

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Garrett Wang, photographed in 2013
Ensign Harry Kim is a fictional character who mainly appeared in each of the seven seasons of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. Portrayed by Garrett Wang, he is the Operations Officer aboard the Starfleet starship USS Voyager. There was some difficulty in casting the part prior to the start of the series in 2005, with a reported lack of young Asian actors to choose from. He is typically shown as being naive, especially in romantic situations, but gifted. The producers had considered whether or not to kill off Kim during the third season. Wang subsequently reprised the role of Harry Kim for the fan-made Star Trek: Renegades. Reviewers said that Kim represented one of the elements of multiculturalism in the crew of Voyager, which also represented a proxy family for Kim. The storylines featuring Kim frequently had the character captured by aliens, something which was described as a typical Voyager storyline by critics. Wang criticised the character development of Kim during the series. "Timeless" has been ranked as the best episode to feature Kim, and also the third best of the series, but holodeck episodes featuring Kim have also been listed by Io9 as some of the worst of their type in the franchise.
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— Leonard Nimoy, actor, portrayed Science Officer Spock on Star Trek: The Original Series and subsequent movies
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