Star Trek (the original series)

Star Trek is a television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The series is the first of the Star Trek series and movies. Today, the series also often Star Trek: The Original Series or Classic Trek called to distinguish him from the other series.

The series ran from september 8, 1966 to september 2, 1969. 80 episodes were produced, of which 79 are broadcast. Although the series was discontinued after a relatively short period of time, he got a strong following of fans and marked the beginning of a phenomenon. The success of the program led to five additional television series and eleven movies. The Guinness Book of Records lists the series as the series with most spin-offs.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == It is the 23rd century. The Earth is along with many other planets member of the United Federation of planets.
 * 2 Prices
 * 3 Creation
 * 4 Characters
 * 5 Roles
 * 6 Episodes
 * 6.1 best episodes
 * 7 Music
 * 7.1 Intro
 * 7.2 Background
 * 8 Star Trek 2.0 on G4
 * 9 Remastered series
 * 10 external links

The series follows the adventures of the crew of the spaceship Enterprise. This ship commanded by Captain James t. Kirk (William Shatner) and Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) is on a five-year mission to explore the universe. Each episode began with the words:


 * Space ... 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.

When Star Trek debuted on NBC in 1966 was still not an instant hit. The ratings were low, and during the second season threatened the series too should stop. Still got the series slowly getting more following of fans, who demanded a third season. This came as well. However, NBC moved the series to Friday night, making the ratings's financial resources. At the end of the third season, the series was therefore discontinued. But during the repetitions in the following years, the series was more popular. ==Prices[ Edit] == Although he has never won them, was the following Star Trek nominated for Emmy Awards:

Eight of the episodes were nominated for one of the biggest prizes from the world of science fiction; the Hugo Award, in the category "Best Dramatic Presentation". In 1967 the nominated episodes "The Naked Time", "The Corbomite Maneuver", and "The Menagerie". In 1968 were the nominations: "Amok Time", "Mirror, Mirror", "The Doomsday Machine", "The Trouble with Tribbles", and "The City on the Edge of Forever". Star Trek won both years prices for episodes "The Menagerie" and "The City on the Edge of Forever".
 * Outstanding Dramatic Series (Gene Roddenberry and Gene l. Coon), 1967
 * Outstanding Dramatic Series (Gene Roddenberry), 1968
 * Outstanding Supporting Actor (Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock), 1967, 1968, 1969
 * Outstanding Guest Appearance (Frank Gorshin as Commissioner Bele), 1969
 * Individual Achievement in Art Direction and Allied Crafts (Jim Rugg), 1967
 * Individual Achievement in Cinematography (Darrell Anderson, Linwood g. Dunn, and Joseph Westheimer), 1967
 * Individual Achievement in Film and Sound Editing (Douglas Grindstaff), 1967
 * Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing (Donald r. Rode), 1968
 * Special Classification of Individual Achievement for Photographic Effects (The Westheimer Company), 1968
 * Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction and Scenic Design (John Dwyer and Walter m. Jeffries), 1969
 * Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing (Donald r. Rode), 1969
 * Special Classification Achievements for Photographic Effects (The Howard a. Anderson Company, The Westheimer Company, Van der Veer Photo Effects, Cinema Research), 1969.

In the 1968 episode "The City on the Edge of Forever," written by Harlan Ellison, the prestigious Writers Guild of America Award for "Best Original Teleplay". ==Creation<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Roddenberry was for quite some time fan of science fiction. In 1960 he came with the proposal for Star Trek, a series about a large spaceship that the universe had to explore. Roddenberry's idea was influenced by a. e. of Vogts stories of the Space Beagle, Eric Frank Russell's Marathonstories and the movie Forbidden Planet. There are also often links established with the series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  Roddenberry was also inspired by the Horatio Hornblowernovels. The character Kirk was more or less Hornblower in space.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_2-0" len="199" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  Roddenberry had itself already have a lot of experience with writing westerns.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1964 Roddenberry made a three-year development deal with the tv production company Desilu. In Roddenberry's original concept was called the protagonist still Captain Robert April of the "S.S. Yorktown". Later he changed this in Christopher Pike. The pilot episode called "The Cage" was made in 1964, with actor Jeffrey Hunter in the role of Pike.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the time that Star Trek was made was the racial segregation still strongly present in American movies and television series. However, Roddenberry wanted to relinquish these stereotypes and a cast put together men and women from different ethnic groups. He did this on the basis of the idea that in the 23rd century racism and sexism no longer exist. In addition to people he gave also some aliens a large role in the series, such asSpock, who was half human and half Vulcan .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Other features of Star Trek were more or less invented to solve problems in the production. The diagnostic machine that crew members were "beamed up" was coined as a way of quickly the crew of the ship to travel to a planet and vice-versa without the need for the landing of a spaceship did have to be filmed. The communicator was introduced to serve as plot in many episodes, so that the crew could get stuck because the thing was broken and they had therefore lost contact with the ship.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_2-1" len="199" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Star Trekconcept was first offered to the CBSnetwork, but this be the concept because one more saw in the series Lost In Space. Star Trek was then offered to NBC, which first agreed but rejected the first pilot episode . NBC was, however, impressed with the idea, and therefore made the unusual decision to make a second pilot. This became "Where No Man Has Gone Before". Only the character Spock also came again for in this second pilot. All other characters from the first pilot were replaced in the second. This second pilot introduced the main characters Captain Kirk (William Shatner), chief mechanic and Lieutenant Scott (James Doohan) and Lieutenant Sulu (George Takei). Characters like Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) and Lieutenant Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) were introduced later in the series. Roddenberry's decision to an Asian (Sulu) and an African-American (Uhura) to give large non-stereotyped roles was a bold decision.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The ship Enterprise was designed by Matt Jefferies. Costume designer William Ware Theiss made the famous uniforms for the crew. Wah Chang, who had previously worked for Walt Disney, was asked to design theprops .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series introduced many issues that would be standard in later science fiction works; the warp drive, teleportation, wireless communicators and scanners, energy weapons, laser operations, a cloaking device for space ships and computers that could talk. ==Characters<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Star Trek made by the relatively unknown crew celebrities. Kelley did have previously appeared in films and television series, but always in small roles. Shatner and Nimoy also had already experienced with television series, but both were virtually unknown to the general public. Although the series got made them famous, most actors suffer from the Jane-effect (typecasting).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The three main characters were Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. The writers often played in on their different personalities. In many stories clashed the personalities of the three.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Spockpersonage was first rejected by networks because his point ears and eyebrows would have too much of a "Devil" appearance. Were his ears and eyebrows even In official material weggecensureerd. But Spock eventually became one of the best-known and most famous characters from the series. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="355" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="355" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="874" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For the episodes of Star Trek were both well known science fiction writers (Robert Bloch, Norman Spinrad, Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon) as tv writers hired.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Various themes were addressed in the series. The series often presented contemporary situations to the jaw such as sexism, racism, nationalism and global war.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Episodes like "The Apple", "Who Mourns for Adonais?", and "The Return of The Archons" exhibit subtle anti-religious themes. "Bread and Circuses" and "The Omega Glory" have themes that are more pro-religious and patriotic. Many episodes had to be rewritten because of the censorship that NBC applied.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Original Series was also known for his sense of humor, such as Spock and McCoy's pointed, yet friendly, bickering. Episodes like "The Trouble with Tribbles", "I, Mudd" and "A Piece of the Action" were written as comedies. ===Best episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="361" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="586" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to Entertainment Weekly,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3] , these are the 10 best episodes of Star Trek:

==Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Intro<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The intro music of the series is for many recognizable. This was composed by Alexander Courage, and is also used in a number of Star Trek spin-off episodes and movies. The text was written by Gene Roddenberrywithout Courage ' knowledge, and without the intention of ever a Sung version back. ===Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="355" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Because of budget reasons made the series make use of old music or music written for other episodes. Of the 79 episodes had only 31 unique background music specifically for that episode was composed. ==Star Trek 2.0 on G4<span class="mw-editsection" len="363" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 10 april 2006 G4 began broadcasting an interactive version of Star Trek called "Star Trek 2.0". This one can use the online chat and "Spock Market"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]. Posts by the online chat can be shown during the broadcast along with "Trek Stats" and "Trek Facts." ==Remastered series<span class="mw-editsection" len="362" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In september 2006, CBS Paramount Television began broadcasting an enhanced version of Star Trek: The Original Series in high definition, and with new CGIeffects.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]  this is done under the supervision of Mike Okuda, technical consultant of later series. In some cases, even new actors added to the background of some scenes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]
 * 1) The City on the Edge of Forever "
 * 2) Space Seed
 * 3) "Mirror, Mirror" (TOS episode) |Mirror, Mirror
 * 4) The Doomsday Machine (TOS episode) |The Doomsday Machine
 * 5) Amok Time
 * 6) The Devil in the Dark
 * 7) The Trouble with Tribbles
 * 8) This Side of Paradise (TOS episode) |This Side of Paradise
 * 9) The Enterprise Incident
 * 10) Journey to Babel

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The first remastered episode that aired was "Balance of Terror" during the weekend of september 16, 2006.