Star Trek

Star Trek is a science fiction franchise comprising television series, films, companion series, numerous novels, comics, video games, reference works, podcasts, role playing games, along with thousands of collectibles.
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|-| History=Originally, Star Trek was a product of Desilu Studios as created by Gene Roddenberry in a first draft series proposal "Star Trek is...", dated .
Beginning with a single pilot episode, , filmed in 1964, Star Trek was not placed on the schedule of the NBC network until a second pilot episode, , was produced in .
Star Trek officially went into production on April 21, and ran for three seasons until it was canceled in . Four years later, the series returned to NBC as a Saturday morning animated series which ran from to .
No new production of Star Trek took place until , when took the franchise into feature films, which have continued to be produced periodically since. Star Trek did not return to television until with the debut of .
Following three more spin-off productions, the – TV season was the first since without a new Star Trek series being broadcast, though all series remain in syndication. 
As a result of a 2005 split between the former Viacom and CBS, Star Trek television productions fell under the umbrella of CBS Studios. During this period, films continued to be produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures under a licensing agreement. A thirteenth film was released in . CBS and were reunited and merged under the name ViacomCBS in late , reuniting the film and television branches of Star Trek. In ViacomCBS rebranded itself as Paramount Global, or simply Paramount.
After 12 years off the air, the franchise returned to the airwaves with its first streaming series, , which premiered in the fall of . This also saw the franchise expand into companion series, like the aftershow , which premiered right after the Discovery.
Currently, licensees of Star Trek products (reference works, novels and collectibles) include Art Asylum toys, Pocket Books, and IDW Publishing. Older licenses for previously produced material belong to numerous companies.
|-| Conception and setting="Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms."
"We believed that the often ridiculed mass audience is sick of this world's petty nationalism and all its old ways and old hatreds... and that people are not only willing but anxious to think beyond those petty beliefs that have for so long have kept mankind divided."– Gene Roddenberry
The stories in Star Trek mostly revolve around the experiences and adventures of the Humans and aliens who serve under Starfleet Command, the space-borne peacekeeping, exploratory, and humanitarian armada of the United Federation of Planets. 
Many of the conflicts and political dimensions of Star Trek are allegories of contemporary cultural realities. Star Trek: The Original Series addressed social-political issues of the 1960s, just as later spin-offs have confronted issues of their respective decades. Star Trek: A Phenomenon and Social Statment on the 1960s Issues depicted in the various series include war and peace, personal loyalty, authoritarianism, imperialism, economics, racism, religion, human rights, sexism, and the role of technology.
Roddenberry intended the show to have a progressive political agenda reflective of the emerging counter-culture and the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Star Trek: A Phenomenon and Social Statment on the 1960s though he was not fully forthcoming to the networks about this. He wanted Star Trek to show a future of what humanity might evolve to become, if it would learn from the lessons of the past, most specifically by ending violence. An extreme example is the alien race known as the Vulcans, who suffered a violent history but learned to finally achieve peace by suppressing their emotions and by adopting the guiding principles of logic. Roddenberry also placed great emphasis on an anti-war message in Star Trek, depicting the United Federation of Planets, a vast interstellar alliance founded on the enlightened principles of liberty, equality, justice, progress, and peaceful co-existence, as an idealistic version of the United Nations. His efforts were opposed by the network because of concerns over marketability; as they opposed Roddenberry's insistence that the have a racially diverse crew.
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* Blu-ray Discs
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* Collectibles
* Comics
* DVDs
* Games
* Novels
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