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.