Premise: Star Trek . 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 . Star Trek : Deep Space Nine ( sometimes abbreviated to DS9 ) is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe in the Milky Way galaxy , in the years 2369 -- 2375 . Star Trek : The Next Generation ( abbreviated as TNG and ST : TNG ) is an American science fiction television series in the Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry that ran between 1987 and 1994 .
Hypothesis: Star Trek only had a British soap opera make it to television.
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