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  Star Trek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Star Trek originated as a television series in 1966, although according to The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry, it had been in the planning stages for at least six years prior to this.
Star Trek: The Next Generation had the highest ratings of all the Star Trek series and was the #1 syndicated show during the last few years of its original run.
Star Trek is one of the most culturally influential television shows – and perhaps the most influential science fiction TV series – in history.
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 Star Trek
NBC threatened to cancel Star Trek after its second season, but persuaded in some degree by a large letter-writing campaign by fans to save the show, the network picked up the series for a third and final year.
Star Trek: The Next Generation greatly expanded the potential for such creative elaboration by presenting a more complex storyworld, one that actively encouraged the audience to think of the series as a foundation for imagining a larger textual universe.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine premiered in January of 1993 as the eventual replacement for Next Generation on television.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/startrek/startrek.htm   (1426 words)

  
 Star Trek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Star Trek collectively refers to six science fiction television series spanning 726 episodes, ten motion pictures, and hundreds of novels, video games, and other works of fiction, all set within the same fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the early- to mid-1960s.
Star Trek is one of the most popular names in the history of science fiction entertainment, and one of the most popular franchises in television history.
Star Trek: The Next Generation was the highest rated of all the Star Trek series, and was the number one syndicated show during the last few years of its original run.
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 Star Trek
Star Trek collectively refers to six science fiction television series, ten motion pictures, and hundreds of novels, video games, and other works of fiction all set within the same fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the early- to mid-1960s.
Star Trek is one of the most popular names in twentieth century science fiction entertainment.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (also known as ST:TNG or TNG) is set nearly a century later and features a new starship (also named Enterprise) and a new crew.
www.mcfly.org /Star_Trek   (2775 words)

  
 Social History :Star Trek as a Cultural Phenomenon
Star Trek ranks as one of the most culturally influential television shows of all time and clearly the most influential science fiction TV show of all time.
But Star Trek was the first television series aimed at adults to tell sophisticated morality tales and to depict a paramilitary crew on a peaceful mission to explore the galaxy.
Although the original Star Trek series was occasionally sexist (women wore skimpy outfits and no woman was ever shown commanding a starship), many women have testified that they were positively influenced by the show's depiction of women scientists working alongside their male counterparts.
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Social/star_trek/SH7.htm   (1709 words)

  
 Star Wars vs Star Trek Essays: The Philosophy of Star Trek
Star Trek's philosophy of technological determinism is not new.
Star Trek's mentality of "technology improves society and has no side effects" can only be the result of historical ignorance and shallow thinking.
In Star Trek (in the TNG era and beyond), the society of the Federation is invariably described as "paradise" by the characters onscreen.
www.stardestroyer.net /Empire/Essays/Philosophy.html   (6857 words)

  
 Star Trek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Star Trek originated as a television series in 1966 There have been five live action Star Trek series and an animated series, altogether comprising (as of May 2005) a total of 725 individual aired episodes (not including the original unaired pilot) and thirty seasons worth of television.
USS Voyager NCC-74656 Star Trek: Voyager (also known as ST:VOY, ST:VGR or VOY) was produced for seven seasons, and is the only Star Trek series to have had a female Captain as a lead character.
The first Star Trek novels were novelizations of episodes by James Blish, and published by Bantam Books from 1967 to 1975.
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 Animated STAR TREK - Series Background
The animated Star Trek series had its faults mostly due to the limited range of action that could be portrayed given the limited animation employed and the time pressures under which the series was produced.
However, this same episode featured an entire universe which had white space with fl stars, where stars were born in a supernova and which had a race of people who were "born" elderly and proceeded to grow young until they presumably returned to the womb.
People should not fault the authors of the Star Trek Chronology and Star Trek Encyclopedia, Mike and Denise Okuda, for omitting the animateds from their books, since they are fans of the show themselves, but were enjoined by their publishers from including the material.
www.danhausertrek.com /AnimatedSeries/Bgd.html   (2610 words)

  
 Star Trek: The Original Series information - Search.com
Star Trek is a science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s and aired between September 8, 1966 to September 2, 1969, with a total of 79 episodes produced.
Star Trek was then offered to NBC (NBC executives would later be quoted as saying that the initial pilot script was 'too cerebral'), and executives were favorably impressed with the concept and made the highly unusual decision to commission a second pilot: "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
Star Trek was the first television show to feature an interracial kiss, Roddenberry getting around the censorship of such displays by depicting it as being compelled by an alien of great mental ability.
www.search.com /reference/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series   (3410 words)

  
 Star Trek Generations - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
Picard's musings on mortality are interrupted by a sudden change in the Amargosa star; he goes to the bridge, where Riker informs him that a quantum implosion has occurred, breaking down all nuclear fusion in the star.
The Veridian star is destroyed and the Nexus ribbon engulfs Soran and Picard.
This is William Shatner's only Star Trek appearance where the Borg are mentioned (and, indeed, the El-Aurian refugees aboard the Lakul and the Robert Fox are escaping from the Borg.).
www.memory-alpha.org /en/index.php/Star_Trek:_Generations   (6139 words)

  
 Graphic Novels: Star Trek
Unlike DC Comics' Star Trek series a few years later, which often employed multi-issue stories and continuing sub-plots, Marvel's early '80s version tended to go for self contained, one issue stories (though there was one or two two-parters).
Ultimately, this is O.K. for a Trek fix, and the writers certainly seem comfortable with the characters and their interplay, but it's not perhaps anything exceptional.
Star Trek: Debt of Honor, in the lexicon of the genre, is basically just a bug-hunt.
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 DS9: The Fallen - Convergence
After their departure, construction was undertaken to retrieve the contents of the Ulysses, and obtain any further research data that may have been left behind.
The weapon's facility team constructed a new entrance into the cargo bay of the Ulysses, along with a bridge and tunnel facility to unload and transport the cargo to the research center for further study.
Captain Sisko, Commander Worf, Major Kira and the crew of The Defiant were on their way.....to rescue whoever they could, and above all, to prevent anyone from possessing the technology, and possibly, being able to bring the Federation to its knees.....
www.startrek-gamers.com /convergence.htm   (1078 words)

  
 STARTREK.COM : Article
I am one of a new generation of Star Trek fans — the ones who for the first time in their lives, in 18 years, there will be no new Star Trek around the corner.
Sure, Star Trek is taking a break, but that doesn't mean that it won't be back bigger and better than ever at some point.
Let's face it, Star Trek is a part of everyday life for many, and for the rest, they are confronted with references to the show on an almost daily basis.
www.startrek.com /startrek/view/news/article/12748.html?page=0   (1199 words)

  
 Library: Star Trek
Star Trek is set to return to the big screen under the creative vision of J.J. Abrams, the force behind Lost, Alias and Mission Impossible III for Paramount Pictures.
I remember when nobody had heard about Star Trek and TV Guide had on their television news page that there would be a new program that would be a sort of Wagon Train to the Stars.
Star Trek Executive Producer Rick Berman acknowledges declining ratings were the primary factor in the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /library/zones/lists/startrek.php   (3027 words)

  
 Star Trek - The Motion Picture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Helm, now give me a reading on four point zero zero six of full." And at the Weapons Control, CHEKOV (Full Lt.)argues with TECHNICIANS who insist photon torpedoes read "ready" while Chekov argues the computer is not relaying that information.
TECHNICIAN I have a null reading at the center of the 'cloud,' sir.
The stars ahead shift, streak, colors pulsating and changing as the shift exceeds the wave lengths of the light spectrum -- and the stars congeal into a MASS ahead.
www.dailyscript.com /scripts/startrek01.html   (13311 words)

  
 Star Trek Article 1
There have been five live action Star Trek series and an animated series, altogether comprising (as of May 2005) a total of 725 individual aired episodes (not including the original unaired pilot) and thirty seasons worth of television.
Main article: Star Trek: Phase II Star Trek: Phase II was set to air in 1978 as the flagship series of a proposed Paramount television network, and 12 episode scripts were written before production was due to begin.
There is some consensus among Star Trek fans that the fourth and final season of Enterprise was far superior and more "Trek-like" to the previous three seasons, and that continuation of the program under the new writing style would have stood a chance of aquiring better ratings during a fifth season.
www.searchscribe.com /Misc./star-trek-article.htm   (2851 words)

  
 The Trek Nation - Star Trek: Titan
Trek actor-director is happy to be involved helming other franchises but hopes to be back on Star Trek someday.
After seeing Star Trek: Nemesis I couldn't help but wonder if the editors who oversee the development of Star Trek novels for Pocket Books and the authors who pen those novels must be thinking what I was thinking; that there are stories here just waiting to be told.
The Trek Nation and its subsidiary sites are in no way affiliated with Paramount Pictures, Inc. Star Trek ®, in all its various forms, is a trademark of Paramount Pictures.
www.treknation.com /interviews/star_trek_titan.shtml   (3430 words)

  
 The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Some may find it a bit difficult to read at time -- perhaps there is a certain sacrifice of readability on the altar of coolness of appearance.
As a child, Kathryn's life was devastated when her parents were killed in an unprovoked attack by the alien S'sinn on the human farming colony of Luckystrike.
Those who were reading him in the 60s and 70s can feel vindicated by the forthcoming Library of America edition of four of his best novels.
www.sfsite.com   (1196 words)

  
 Star Trek - Relativity - Ping Pong Scene
As Janeway closes in on her, reading a chronoton distortion, Captain Braxton of the Relativity orders her beamed out despite warnings from his second in command that her bionetic implants will be damaged.
Relativity tracks his readings to Utopia Planitia and Relativity sends Seven after him although both the second in command of Relativity and the ex-Borg herself know that she risks temporal psychosis by making another jump in time.
Having read that novel, it was entirely too easy to predict all the twists and turns of this inferior copy, like Braxton himself becoming the psychotic saboteur.
tt.mainstreet.net /ttoutpost/Star_Trek_Relativity_Ping_Pong.htm   (8723 words)

  
 The 11th Hour Web Magazine
Star Trek: All of Me Written by Tony Isabella and Bob Ingersol, pencils by Aaron Lopresti, inks by Randy Emberlin, colors by Nick Bell and Jeromy Cox
Alternate Universes that he learned of after reading the highly classified report of Kirk's adventures through the looking glass in the episode "Mirror, Mirror." Obviously, this can't be so.
But the unfortunate tendency of Trek publishers toward allowing their writers to be stupid, along with permitting some truly appalling art to pass muster, has meant that most comics based on the franchise have tended to be completely dreadful.
www.the11thhour.com /archives/052000/comicreviews/startrek.html   (810 words)

  
 Star Trek New Voyages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Star Trek New Voyages is pleased to announce the casting of Christian Malmin as Sarek, father to the legendary Mr.
New Voyages is proud to announce that Grace Lee Whitney, best known for her role as Yeoman Rand from STAR TREK, has signed on to appear in Episode 4.03, "All The World And Time." Filming of this episode begins later this year.
Star Trek®, Star Trek: The Next Generation®, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine®, Star Trek: Voyager®, Star Trek Enterprise® and all associated marks and characters are registered trademarks of CBS/Paramount Television.
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 Starship Modeler - Starcrafts' 1/1400 Excelsior Class Refit (Enterprise-B) Preview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Having already purchased the Starcrafts Enterprise-A after reading Paul Garcia's in box preview of the same ship, I decided to plump for their Excelsior Class Refit kit and ordered it through Federation Models.
Part of this edge on my example seems to have broken off in the mold due to a large number of air bubbles that had collected there, weakening the resin.
Further examination revealed more groups of bubbles in similar places around the saucer - you could crush the edge with your fingernail.
www.starshipmodeler.com /trek/mg_pre_entb.htm   (868 words)

  
 What is Star Trek? [Archive] - Nephrites Citadel
Star Trek: The Next Generation had the highest ratings of all the Star Trek series and was the #1 syndicated show during the last few years of its original run.
Star Trek: Enterprise was promoted as being more accessible for newcomers to the Star Trek franchise, as well as for taking place during the formative years of the Federation.
There is some consensus among Star Trek fans that the fourth and final season of Enterprise was better than the previous three seasons, and that continuation of the program under the new "mini-arc" writing style introduced in season four would have stood a chance of the series acquiring better ratings during a fifth season.
www.rustaz.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-9498.html   (4605 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
What is the exact title?* This article: What is it about, and who should read it: This is a detailed explanation about how relativity and that wonderful science fictional invention of faster than light travel do not seem to get along with each other.
Indeed, the standard propagators of quantum electrodynamics incolve both advanced and retarded causality although the propagator of a massive subluminal particle decays exponentially on scale of Compton wavelength outside the light cone while oscillating inside the light cone.
And now, without further delay, here it is. *Thank you, I, too, hope you learn something from my comments.* A summary of conventional 2Oth Century spacetime Physics before the breaking of the light barrier by Star Fleet Command.
www.textfiles.com /sf/STARTREK/star-fle.phy   (3631 words)

  
 DesMoinesRegister.com | Iowans Take Flight
This quaint Eastern Iowa town with its handmade mayoral campaign yard signs claims to be the future birthplace of "Star Trek" Captain James T. Kirk.
Steve Miller, a City Council member, noted that Captain Kirk was supposed to be born on a farm in Iowa, so the town asked "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry if Riverside could be Kirk's town.
The town conceived Trek Fest, an annual June festival that includes Klingon costume contests and "Star Trek"-themed beverages, as well as typical carnival events like an obstacle course and a gladiator joust.
desmoinesregister.com /extras/flight/outthere/startrek.html   (492 words)

  
 Animated STAR TREK - Series Background
Due to the demanding schedules of the voice actors during the show's production, it was sometimes necessary for actors to record their dialog alone away from the other actor's and then send tapes of their performances to the studio where they could be mixed together with the other dialog to form the show's soundtrack.
It was probably Gene Roddenberry's desire to keep Star Trek as serious as possible in the minds of Hollywood executives, by excising the "kiddie-show" Star Trek as some have termed it.
People should not fault the authors of the Star Trek Chronology and Star Trek Encyclopedia, Mike Okuda, Denise Okuda and Debbie Mirek, for omitting the animateds from their books, since they are fans of the show themselves, but were enjoined by their publishers from including the material.
www.danhausertrek.com /AnimatedSeries/Bgd_x.html   (2194 words)

  
 Star Trek - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Star Trek collectively refers to six science-fiction television series spanning 726 episodes, ten motion pictures, in addition to hundreds of novels, video games, and other works of fiction, all set within the same fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the mid 1960s.
The Star Trek canon is comprised of the five live TV series and ten motion pictures.
Image:Stamp-ctc-star-trek.jpg Predictions of the demise of Star Trek are nothing new.
www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Star_Trek   (3960 words)

  
 Miles O`Brien
In 2369 a local incident thrust him into a role in a Bajoran village's ritual sirah but he was true to his wife and his down-to-earth nature there, as well as when a female Cardassian engineer mistook his irritation for flirting later.
As a parent he loves reading to Molly and recommended Sisko separate Nog's influence from Jake, whom he also tutored in mechanics at his father's request.
O'Brien for any further covert operations of this nature, as he does not have the temperament for this kind of work.
www.starfleetlibrary.com /bios/miles_obrien.htm   (2767 words)

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