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Logo for the first Star Trek series, now known as The Original Series. Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise that started with a television series (simply called Star Trek but now referred to as Star Trek: The Original Series) created by Gene Roddenberry. The series was first broadcast from 1966 to 1969 on NBC.
In 2004 and 2007, TV Guide ranked Star Trek as the greatest cult show ever. [119] [120] In 2013, TV Guide ranked Star Trek as the greatest sci-fi show (along with Star Trek: The Next Generation) [121] and the #12 greatest show of all time, [122] while the Writers Guild of America ranked it #33 on their list of the 101 Best Written TV Series. [123]
In 2017, ScreenRant ranked "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" the 7th most optimistic episode of Star Trek television, pointing out the crew's reaction at the end. [11] In 2016, SyFy ranked guest stars Frank Gorshin and Lou Antonio (as Bele and Lokai, the black and white aliens), the 10th best guest stars on the original series. [12]
The Starfleet emblem as seen in the franchise. As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science fiction series that would become Star Trek.Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer space—a so-called "Wagon Train to the stars"—he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, intending each episode to act on two ...
When the original series of Star Trek was produced, the 1990s were several decades away, and so various elements of the backstory to Star Trek are set in that era, particularly the Eugenics Wars. The references to the Eugenics Wars and to a nuclear war in the 21st century are somewhat contradictory.
Empire ranked the episodes 46th out of the "50 Best Star Trek episodes ever," [41] and the second best installment of Enterprise after "Terra Prime." [42] Wired also picked "In a Mirror, Darkly" as the best of Enterprise's entire run. [43] SyFy ranked the two-part story fifth out of the seven Star Trek Mirror Universe episodes produced as of ...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989): In the annals of inspired concepts for eighties sequels, Last Crusade ranks up there with the time travel/humpback whale plot in Star Trek IV: The Voyage ...
SyFy ranked "Year of Hell" as the sixth best time travel plot in Star Trek, in 2016. [13] In 2016, The Hollywood Reporter rated "Year of Hell" the 25th best episode of Star Trek overall, [14] but the number one best episode of the Star Trek: Voyager TV series. [2] In 2016, IGN ranked "Year of Hell" the 16th best episode of all Star Trek series ...