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For the original television series, please see Star Trek: The Original Series. For the eleventh film, please see Star Trek (film).
For additional meanings of "Star Trek", please see Star Trek.

Star Trek is a science fiction franchise comprising 7 television series, 13 films, 3 companion series, numerous novels, comics, video games, reference works, role playing games, along with many hundreds of collectibles.

HistoryEdit

Originally, Star Trek was a product of Desilu Studios as created by Gene Roddenberry in a first draft series proposal "Star Trek is...", dated 11 March 1964.

Beginning with a single pilot episode, "The Cage", filmed in 1964, Star Trek was not placed on the schedule of the NBC network until a second pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", was produced in 1965.

Star Trek officially went into production on April 21, 1966 and ran for three seasons until it was canceled in 1969. Four years later, the series returned to NBC as a Saturday morning animated series which ran from 1973 to 1974.

No new production of Star Trek took place until 1979, when Star Trek: The Motion Picture took the franchise into feature films, which have continued to be produced periodically since. Star Trek did not return to television until 1987 with the debut of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Following three more spin-off productions, the 2005–2006 TV season was the first since 1987 without a new Star Trek series being broadcast, though all series remain in syndication.

As a result of a 2005 split between the former Viacom and CBS, any future Star Trek television productions will fall under the ownership of CBS Television Studios. Via licensing agreements, future films continue to be produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. A thirteenth film was released in 2016.

GoAnimate made animated versions of the franchise and characters when it premiered in 2007.

After 12 years off the air, the franchise returned to the airwaves with its latest series, Star Trek: Discovery, which premiered in the fall of 2017. This also saw the franchise expand into companion series, like the aftershow After Trek, which premiered right after the Discovery.

Currently, licensees of Star Trek products (reference works, novels and collectibles) include Art Asylum toys, Pocket Books, and IDW Publishing. Older licenses for previously produced material belong to numerous companies.

Production historyEdit

See also: Production timeline.

The Original SeriesEdit

Star Trek: The Original Series premiered on NBC's fall schedule on 8 September 1966.

  • Desilu/NBC, Gene Roddenberry, 1966–1967
  • Paramount/NBC, Gene Roddenberry, 1967–1969

Animated seriesEdit

Star Trek: The Animated Series

  • Filmation/NBC; Gene Roddenberry, 1973–1974

Star Trek: Short Treks

  • CBS Television Studios/CBS All Access; 2019–

Star Trek: Lower Decks

  • CBS Television Studios/CBS All Access

Untitled animated series

  • CBS Television Studios/CBS All Access

FilmsEdit

Star Trek films

Live-action television seriesEdit

Star Trek: The Next Generation

  • Paramount/Viacom; Gene Roddenberry, 1987–1994

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Voyager

  • Paramount/UPN; Rick Berman & Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor, 1995–2001

Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Short Treks

  • CBS Television Studios/CBS All Access; 2018–

Untitled Picard series

  • CBS Television Studios/CBS All Access

Untitled Section 31 series

  • CBS Television Studios/CBS All Access

AftershowsEdit

After Trek

  • CBS Television Studios/CBS All Access, 2017–2018

The Ready Room

Unproduced projectsEdit

Overseas adaptations Edit

Star Trek has been aired around the world throughout its run of television and movie series. Most often, it has been dubbed into the native language of each country in question, while others subtitled the productions and kept the original soundtracks. During this time, the titles, characters, and so forth have been changed as they move from language to language.

Variations of the Star Trek title Edit

TOS Japanese Logo

Japanese title logo

  • Albanian: "Udhëtimi yjor"
  • Bulgarian: "Стар Трек"
  • Chinese: "星际迷航"(first appeared in TAS, meaning "Lost in space")
  • Croatian: "Zvjezdane Staze"
  • Czech: "Star Trek"
  • Esperanto: "Stela Vojaĝo"
  • French: Only in Quebec (french speaking community) Canada: "La Patrouille du Cosmos" (TOS only, all other series and films used the English version "Star Trek" moniker, followed by the French language subtitle)
  • German: "Raumschiff Enterprise" (this is actually "Spaceship Enterprise" translated. Also used for "The Next Generation", as "Raumschiff Enterprise: Das Nächste Jahrhundert" or "Spaceship Enterprise: The Next Century")
  • Greek: "Σταρ Τρεκ"
  • Hebrew: "מסע בין כוכבים" (meaning "Journey Between the Stars")
  • Hungarian: "Űrszekerek" (rarely used, especially in connection with the movies, meaning "Space Wagon Trains")
  • Japanese: "宇宙大作戦" ("Uchū Daisakusen") (only used in reference to TOS, meaning "Big Operations in Space")
  • Latin: "Iter Stellare" (meaning "Star Journey")
  • Macedonian: "Ѕвездени Патеки" (Szvezdeni Pateki)
  • Persian: "پیشتازان فضا" (meaning "Vanguards of Space")
  • Polish: "Gwiezdna wędrówka"
  • Portuguese (Brazil): "Jornada nas Estrelas" (literally "Journey to the Stars", but in modern day parlance just "Star Trek")
  • Portuguese (Portugal): "O Caminho das Estrelas" (literally "The Road of the Stars", but in modern day parlance just "Star Trek")
  • Russian: "Звёздный путь"
  • Serbian: "Звездане стазе, Звјездане стазе"
  • Slovenian: "Zvezdne Steze"
  • Spanish: "Viaje a las Estrellas" (meaning "Voyage To The Stars")
  • Turkish: "Uzay Yolu"
  • Ukrainian: "Зоряний шлях"

Licensed mediaEdit

30 Rock gift shop floor

Floor tile in the NBC gift shop at 30 Rock

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