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STAR TREK: AN
INTRODUCTION
Space: the final frontier.
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.
Our continuing mission?
To explore strange, new worlds, to seek out new civilizations…
TO BOLDLY GO
WHERE NO
STUDENT HAS
GONE BEFORE
WHY STAR TREK?
Philosophy ART literature sex
SCIENCE FICTION
WAR
GENDER
COMMUNISM WORLD PEACE
ECONOMY
RACE
BODILY AUTONOMY
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EUGENICS
ARCHAEOLOGY ALIENS CULTURE
HISTORY
colonization
MORALITY
ANTHROPOLOGY SCIENCE FRIENDSHIP HUMANITY
THE FIVE YEAR MISSIONSpace: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
Gene Roddenberry
• Born August 19th, 1921, in El Paso,
Texas.
• Majored in Political Science at
university, got his pilot’s license,
flew with the US Air-Corps.
• 1945, joined a commercial airline.
Experienced third plane crash.
• Began writing for television.
• Filmed the pilot, The Cage (TOS;
S1E1), beginning on November
27th, 1964.
ENTERPRISE CREW
First Officer
Spock
(Leonard Nimoy.)
Captain
James Tiberius Kirk
(William Shatner)
Doctor
Leonard “Bones” McCoy
(DeForest Kelley)
Ensign
Pavel Chekov
(Walter Koenig)
Officer
Hikaru Sulu
(George Takei)
Lieutenant
Nyota Uhura
(Nichelle Nichols)
Chief Engineer
Montgomery “Scotty” Scott
(James Doohan)
Ensign
Janice Rand
(Grace Lee Whitney)
Doctor
Jabilo* M’Benga
(Booker Bradshaw)
* Called “Geoffrey” in one work but Jabilo in two. Never given first name in TOS.
Star Trek:
The Original Series
1966-1969
3 series, 80 episodes.
Abbreviated to TOS.
Star Trek:
The Animated Series
1973-1975
2 series, 22 episodes.
Abbreviated to TAS.
Star Trek:
The Next Generation
1987-1994
7 series, 176 episodes.
Abbreviated to TNG.
Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine
1993-1999
7 series, 173 episodes.
Abbreviated to DS9.
Star Trek:
Voyager
1995-2001
7 series, 170 episodes.
Abbreviated to VOY.
Star Trek:
Enterprise
2001-2005
4 series, 98 episodes.
Abbreviated to ENT.
Star Trek:
Movie Series
1979-2002
10 movies; 6 TOS, 4 TNG.
Referred to individually.
Star Trek:
Reboot
2009-
3 movies.
As a series, called Nu!Trek.
Star Trek:
Renegades
2015-
1 series, 1 episode.
Abbreviated to REN.
Thousands of Star Trek
novels.
Literally thousands. I’m not
going to even try to count
them because I don’t hate
myself that much.
Hundreds of Star Trek
comics.
These have the best and
most ridiculous crossovers,
such as Star Trek and
Doctor Who.
Hundreds of Star Trek
fanzines.
The fanzine particularly
came about in the late
sixties and early seventies
and EXPLODED in
popularity before internet
fanfiction.
NOT TO MENTION
THE FANFICTION.
I’M NOT GOING TO
COUNT THOSE, BUT
THERE ARE A LOT.