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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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"Yesterday's Enterprise" is the 63rd episode of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. The 15th episode of the third season. The episode first aired in syndication the week of February 19, 1990. In the plot, the crew of the USS Enterprise-D must decide whether to send the time-travelling Enterprise-C back through a temporal rift to its certain destruction in order to protect the timeline. The plot for "Yesterday's Enterprise" came from the uniting of two story ideas; one which featured the crew of the time-travelling Enterprise-C, and another episode which featured the return of Denise Crosby, whose character had been killed in the show's first season. Trent Christopher Ganino and Eric A. Stillwell rewrote the story to more prominently feature the character of Guinan, and the script was completed by a team of five writers. Filming of the episode lasted a week; some planned elements, including death scenes for many of the characters, were either too time-intensive or costly to film. In syndication, "Yesterday's Enterprise" outperformed most of the third season's episodes with a 13.1 ranking, the third-highest number for the series at the time. The episode is cited as a favorite by members of the crew and by reviewers.

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"Spock's Brain" was the first episode of the third series of The Original Series. It has since received a negative reaction by both cast and fans alike.

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Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force is a first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision. The game was initially released on September 20, 2000 for Windows and Mac OS personal computers. Elite Force was later ported to the PlayStation 2 console. The game is set in the Star Trek universe, specifically relating to the fourth television series, Star Trek: Voyager. The player assumes the role of Ensign Alex Munro, a member of the Hazard Team, a new elite security section created to deal with particularly dangerous and hostile away missions. The game's plot focuses on Voyager being trapped in a starship graveyard, heavily damaged and under attack from a variety of hostile factions. Elite Force was announced after Activision secured the license to Star Trek video games in 1998. The game was one of the first to license id Tech 3, a game engine by id Software used by a number of video games during the early 2000s. Elite Force was a critical success, and is often praised as the first truly successful Star Trek video game. An expansion pack was released in May 2001, and a sequel developed by Ritual Entertainment, Star Trek: Elite Force II, was published in 2003.

Anthony Montgomery

• ... that Star Trek: Enterprise actor Anthony Montgomery (pictured) thought it would be a good idea to feature his character's family, something which occurred in the following season episode "Horizon"?
• ... that Academy Award for Makeup winner Michael Westmore created kits for the CIA to enable agents to change their identities?
• ... that in "Trials and Tribble-ations", actors from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine were digitally inserted into the The Original Series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles"?

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Television series: The Original Series (episodes) • The Animated Series (episodes) • The Next Generation (episodes) • Deep Space Nine (episodes) • Voyager (episodes) • Enterprise (episodes)

Feature films: The Motion Picture • The Wrath of Khan • The Search for Spock •The Voyage Home • The Final Frontier • The Undiscovered Country • Generations • First Contact • Insurrection • Nemesis • Star Trek • Into Darkness • Beyond

Fictional elements: Alien races • Characters • Deep Space Nine • Prime Directive • Stardates • Starfleet • Timeline • Starship Enterprise • United Federation of Planets • USS Defiant • USS Voyager • Weapons

Other topics: Canon • Comics • Cultural influence • Fan productions • Fandom • Games • Memory Alpha • Novels • Physics • Reference books • Sexuality • Star Trek: The Experience • Star Trek: Phase II

Production staff: J. J. Abrams • Ira Steven Behr • Rick Berman • Brannon Braga • Manny Coto • Damon Lindelof • Ronald D. Moore • Michael Okuda • Michael Piller • Gene Roddenberry • Jeri Taylor

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