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Star Trek Creator’s Forgotten TV Show Premiered 26 Years Ago With a ’90s TV Favorite in the Lead

Image Courtesy of Sci-Fi Channel Gene Roddenberry will always be best known for Star Trek, the franchise he created and wrote for. After starting his career as a freelancer who wr...

Star Trek's Gene Roddenberry Tried To Kill A Major TNG Storyline Because Of One Character

Gene Roddenberry sometimes didn't see the vision of Star Trek: The Next Generation, thinking this character was too insignificant to build a plotline around.

Star Trek: TNG Would’ve Been So Different if Gene Roddenberry Got to Pick the Cast

When Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered in 1987, audiences met a crew that would eventually become just as iconic as Kirk, Spock, and the original Enterprise crew. Patrick St...

Star Trek's Gene Roddenberry Met Leonard Nimoy While Working On This Forgotten Crime Drama

Both Leonard Nimoy and Gene Roddenberry described how Nimoy was cast in Star Trek based on his earlier performance in a military crime drama.

How Lucille Ball Saved ‘Star Trek’ to Become a Six-Decade Juggernaut Franchise

Roddenberry Entertainment COO Trevor Roth on Wednesday told the MIA Market in Rome how the comedy legend and her Desilu Productions put the quirky sci-fi series into reruns after a...

The universal language of space is... Star Trek? Mais oui.

"Science fiction imagines the future. We build it."

‘Star Trek’ at 60: How a Canceled TV Show Became a Pop Culture Phenomenon That Changed Sci-Fi

When Star Trek premiered on NBC, there was little indication that Gene Roddenberry’s science-fiction series would become one of the most enduring creations in popular culture; the...

The Secret History of How One Woman Saved Star Trek Two Years Before the Series Even Released

When you think of Star Trek, you probably think of Captain Kirk, Spock, the Enterprise, and Gene Roddenberry. You probably don’t think of Lucille Ball. But you’re right if you reme...

Every Original Star Trek Crew Member Who Appeared On The Twilight Zone

You're traveling through another dimension - a dimension where all your favorite Enterprise crew members also appeared in a show we call ... The Twilight Zone.

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Stars Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn Explain Why the Franchise Will Never Die

5 Sci-Fi Shows James Doohan Appeared In (That Aren't Star Trek)

James Doohan famously played Scotty on Star Trek: The Original Series, but the star was also a mainstay in the sci-fi genre across many different shows.

An Underappreciated Sci-Fi Legend Starred In Three Versions Of The Twilight Zone

He may not be a household name, but this Twilight Zone veteran has every right to be considering the resume he's built up in the sci-fi genre alone.

Film Quote of the Day: William Shatner's Captain Kirk Monologue That Defines What 'Star Trek' is All About

Star Trek is one of the most hopeful shows on Television. It has inspired generations (pun intended) by encouraging people to explore, be the best version of themselves, and take r...

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS’ Captain Kirk Spinoff Gets a Grim Update From Akiva Goldsman

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’: Joe Morton Reveals What He Loved About Playing an Admiral

Morton's Reeger and Paul Wesley's Kirk butted heads, to put it mildly.

5 Star Trek: The Original Series Actors Who Appeared On Bonanza

Star Trek and Bonanza actually have a fair bit on common. The NBC series shared multiple different cast members both before and after Star Trek's run on TV.

Leonard Nimoy Invented Mr. Spock's Nerve Pinch To Support His Own Anti-Militaristic Views

Trouble on the Enterprise? It's nothing a good Vulcan nerve pinch can't fix! Interestingly, this move came not from Star Trek's writers, but from Spock himself.

TV’s Biggest Sci-Fi Franchise Premiered 60 Years Ago Today (& Fans Have Spent 8 Million Years Watching It)

NBC Given the popularity of the sci-fi genre now, it’s hard to believe that it began as a very niche form of entertainment. But every famous sci-fi franchise initially went throug...

53 Years Ago Today, Hollywood Reversed One of Its Most Controversial Cancellations & Brought Back A Fan-Favorite Sci...

The screen is dark for a mere second. Then, it shifts, dozens of white dots and blue lines illustrating the vastness of space popping up. The familiar chimes of a theme song plays,...

Star Trek’s Most Important Episode Was Originally Banned in Britain (But Not For the Reason You Think)

Star Trek: The Original Series was a series that pushed every boundary. While The Next Generation is often rightly cited as the more progressive of the two, that’s not to say that...

5 Sci-Fi Shows George Takei Appeared In (That Aren't Star Trek)

When he wasn't helming the bridge as Sulu on Star Trek, George Takei managed to rack up an impressive amount of sci-fi roles throughout his TV career.

‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Lifts the Lid on Its Second Season

Bill Nighy and Rosemary DeWitt will appear as guest stars on the 'Star Trek' series when it returns in March.

5 Classic Sci-Fi Shows Better Than Star Trek

Star Trek is one of the most influential TV series of all time, but these classic Sci-Fi shows give Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future a run for its money.

5 Star Trek: The Original Series Actors Who Appeared On The Virginian

Before seeking out new life and new civilizations on Star Trek, these members of the USS Enterprise made the trek through Wyoming Territory in The Virginian.