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When Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek TV series first aired, the commander of the starship Enterprise was Captain James T. Kirk (played by William Shatner). More than 30 years later, Captain Kirk is as popular as ever.

Star Trek's cast members become famous. But the guest stars who board the Enterprise are some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

In light of the History Channel's recent retrospective on this groundbreaking series, this article outlines the history of the Star Trek phenomenon, the positives and negatives of each of its five series, and the impact that each one had.

Star Trek was groovier than Austin Powers back in the day. In charge of it all was head hippy: Gene Roddenberry.

The phenomenon of Star Trek is discussed by a fan of the hit series. From Jean-Luc Picard to Captain Kirk, the Star Trek franchise has been a hit.

It's been 20 years since Patrick Stewart took on the role of Captain Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Here's a look how it all started back in 1987.

There are a few things I have to admit. I wasn't initially attracted to Star Trek by the aliens, or the battles, or the ships.

Star Trek's women characters are important ones. Here's my top ten.

Star Trek Conventions are only for obsessed fans - right? Not so. I attended one and found a lot more than just Klingons and Tribbles.

JJ Abrams' upcoming Star Trek movie will have two separate actors playing the same character. One has been playing it for over 40 years. Can this be done with any credibility to the role?

Actor Neal McDonough describes what it's like to endure the ups and downs of a career in Hollywood -- from roles in hits like Star Trek and Minority report to canceled series like Boomtown and Medical Investigation.

You may not understand the phenomenon that is Star Trek, but chances are there is a Trekkie or two on your holiday gift list. Set your phasers on stun and prepare to beam up. Here are the top ten gift ideas for Trekkies.

Are you a Star Trek fan? Do you think you're weird? A Newsweek writer thinks you're weird & said so to Patrick Stewart.

I love Star Trek parodies and I love MAD-TV. Here's one of the funniest Star Trek parodies ever.

In this piece, I evaluate the latest Star Trek television series, Enterprise. I seek to understand why it performed the way it did, why it was not received well, and why it ultimately failed.

I entered a contest to win Captain Kirk's Communicator. I won. Beam me up, Scotty!

With the premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the Machines are back. But will they (and their Fox television series) succeed?

It's fun to learn what actors might have taken certain roles, but didn't. Here are some of the biggest Hollywood stars who were almost cast in Star Trek.

Star Trek isn't only about the Starship Enterprise. Take a look at some other great Starships.

The sci-fi hit Star Trek is to return to a movie theatre near by Christmas Day 2008. This will be the eleventh installment of the oh so popular space adventure.

Star Trek's stories have thrilled audiences for over forty years. Some of the best episodes were written by respected novelists like Robert Bloch (Psycho).

Star Trek fans have always made Hollywood notice them. These days they're doing it again with the success of the fan film.

Throughout the original series and the Star Trek movies, James Kirk has shared many bits of wisdom and humor with the world. Here are some of Captain Kirk's best quotes...

A new Star Trek feature film bows in 2008, but what happened to the TV show? Did Executive Producer Rick Berman kill off the television series? If so, how?

The Terminator franchise is back once again with Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Science fiction is experiencing a revival of late in both novels, movies, and TV series. The series mentioned in this article are a small taste of some of the finer epics.

This is a review of Star Trek: The New Voyages and an update on the progress of new episodes.

Have you ever seen the Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever"? If you haven't...

Of all the Star Trek feature films, the fifth entry in the series is considered by most fans to be the weakest and least satisfying.

The original Star Trek was conceived in a time of anxiety and uncertainty and build a rabidly loyal following by holding out the promise that the citizens of this planet would one day set aside their petty differences? The new Star Trek was conceived in quite the same era.

The true Star Trek Fans need to help save the Franchise from mediocrity, a severe lack of love, a lack of passion, and attrocious writing.

Love baseball? Never watch Star Trek? Maybe you should, because Star Trek and baseball get along pretty well.

Star Trek episodes can be good or bad - sometimes really bad. Here are the worst.

Gene Roddenberry has incorrectly assumed that money is a force for evil and strife in the world, while in reality money is just an inanimate object like any other object with value to us. How we use that object is up to us as beings with free-will.

Do you like Star Trek? It's okay. You can admit it. We're all friends here. If so, here are some websites that you should definitely check out.

The creator of Midnight Entertainment's sci-fi adventure "The Swindlers of Doom" looks at the future of the Paramount Pictures futuristic franchise

A comment on the 21st century digitalizing of the original 1960s science fiction TV series.

A look at the 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' cast and their current endeavors.

All Trekkies love quotes from episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series as well as from the movies. Here are some of the best Star Trek quotes.

Star Trek:TOS is remastered and enhanced with new special effects

A brief interview with Trek legend turned Heroes star, George Takei, where he describes his recent work and thoughts on the take-over of the Star Trek franchise by Lost and Alias creator JJ Abrams

The show ran from 1966 until 1969, but many of the people who played in it are still around.

Hot show Heroes gets even hotter when Nichelle Nichols joins the cast this fall. Find out what she had to say about it at DragonCon 2007.

Two legendary StarFleet Captains: Kirk and Picard. Two legendary Starfleet Flagships: Enterprises-B Enterprise D. One mission, survival. Whee is your money is a battle of Kirk vs. Picard?

About forty years ago, the first Star Trek series introduced a number of futuristic gadgets that helped that crew of the USS Enterprise explore strange new worlds. One of those gadgets was called the tricorder.

Everyone has a favorite movie whether it is an action/adventure, comedy, drama, sci-fi, or other genre. However, with the vast number of movies released, sometimes it can be hard to choose which movies are worth a viewing and which ones are not

My experience entering the William Shatner DVD Club Spokesperson Contest.

Thirty-three great quotes from actor Patrick Stewart, who played Captain Picard in the Star Trek: The Next Generation movies and television series.

Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek. What did this sci-fi master think of UFO's and Psychic powers?

This is an article on the casting of Chris Pine as Star Trek Captain Kirk, in Star Trek XI.

A look at some of the top issues, which are usually of a sensitive nature, that have been discussed and explored; including which Star Trek series did the best job of getting that point across to viewers.

We all like the best of the bunch. What about the worst? Sometimes it's fun to pick out the turkeys. Here are a few real gobblers from Star Trek.

Star Trek explores the future, aliens and more. Legal issues explored & debated over in Star Trek have made it into college classrooms & beyond. Here are some of the most interesting legal issues discussed in Star Trek.

What is worth watching among new shows and what is just living on the life support that has been created by the Writers strike? Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, is floating to the top.

Star Trek opens in movie theaters in May 2009. As anticipation builds, the Internet clearly shows how huge the buzz has become. Here are some facts behind what may be the biggest summer movie of 2009, plus the biggest Star Trek feature film ever.

Mr. Spock, one of Star Trek's most beloved characters, had many memorable moments in both the original series and the Star Trek movies. Here are some of Mr. Spock's best quotes...

Star Trek Enterprise had a nice premise behind it: to show what the Federation was like before any of the other series, however, due to its unbelievability and "modern-ness" some views tuned out and the show was cancelled after a brief run on television.

Hundreds of Star Trek books have been published now for over forty years. Browsing through them can be time consuming. Check out some of the very best here.

This is an article on actress Summer Glau.

There can be no doubt that Star Trek changed science fiction television forever. Some issues of the original comic books have been reprinted by Checker Book Publishing, and they bring back the glory of the old show.

This article illustrates the basic approach to preparing a TV pitch when trying to write for a television show. As a professional freelancer, I've gone through the process more than once.

Star Trek gadgets are all around us now. Which is your favorite?

The latest casting news from the new film Star Trek 11

With the introduction of Star Wars we were also introduced to a rivalry greater then the Borg and the Federation, the rivalry between Star Wars and Star Trek fans.

Star trek the tour is going to over fourty cities in the next five years to delight and amaze Trekkers. Is it really worh the money?

The Star Trek universe is so vast, it has its own unique sports & games. Check out a few of the flashy, weird & wild sports & games of the science fiction franchise.

Even fans can't keep which film is which straight. Live Long and try to remember which ones you've seen.

This article is an opinion piece on why, as a science-fiction writer myself, I think Star Trek is one of the best fictional creations of all time.

With I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball brought us big laughs. With Star Trek, she brought us great sci-fi.

Preview of the upcoming sci-fi action-drama, "The Sarah Connor Chronicles," the last in the indepth look at the most appealing new shows set to debut this upcoming season.

Star Trek composer Jay Chattaway comments on the important role that music plays in the development of plot and character in the multiple Star Trek series on which he has worked.

Best known as the quick-witted, fun-loving Mike Seiver on TV's Growing Pains, Kirk Cameron has reinvented himself from child star to Christian warrior. The smart-aleck boy on TV had to make the decision of a man.

A War or A Trek? A fight amongst the stars or a journey to the stars? Which do you prefer?

In this third installment I will give you a brief overview of some of the main characters in two of the five Star Trek series: Enterprise and the Next Generation.

Do you have a favorite Star Trek series? For me, The Next Generation personified all species and allowed a new generation of Star Trek fans to discover the new cast and revisit the old.

Do you like eating live serpent worms? How about Romulan ale? Take a tasty tour of Star Trek's best, most delicious and just plain weird alien foods and ways to prepare them.

Fire, fire, fire, get hit, hit, hit, but nobody dies for a long, long, long time

Throughout human history man has been fascinated with the way things work. Be it through scientific study or sheer imagination society has produced innovative and unusual answers to questions dealing with the unknown.

Star Trek is a massive phenomenon with hundreds of hours of enjoyment available to be viewed but for those who aren't already trekkies Star Trek can be a difficult thing to get into. There is just too much out there for newbies to jump in head first.

What started out as a broken promise in the 1960s has emerged as a triumphant dream to boldly go where no fan has gone before.

Star Trek. When these words are uttered to any person anywhere, the majority of times, they will think of William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and/or the conventions filled with various forms of social misfits.

Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Star Trek, you do.

Boston Legal links to Star Trek in several episodes.

Star Trek is full of great characters. Some of the better ones aren't even full cast members. My favorite of those is Lt. Reg Barclay.

Intended as a way to cash in on the popularity of Star Trek while a second live-action series or theatrical release were being debated, the animated Star Trek had the advantage of doing things that couldn't be done in live action in those antediluvian pre-CGI days.

Star Trek entertains us, but also educates. Now it's helping teach students at the University Level.

"The Terminator" was a seminal movie not only in Arnold Schwarzenegger's career, but also James Cameron's. The sequel was also huge because it brought morphing and movie technology to the next level. Now, the machines are on TV and here's a review.

Star Trek XI is set to start filming in the fall for a December 2008 release. J.J. Abrams, who has created such TV shows as Lost and Alias, will direct.

The original Star Trek set to return to syndication with all new digital effects to update the old-fashioned view of the future in the show.

Chase Masterson defines versatility. Best known to audiences on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Chase has now branched out into film production. I'm grateful she took the time out of her busy schedule for this chat.

This delightful parody is among the best Star Trek fan fiction on the web.

Star Trek gadgets are the coolest around. Here's a sample.

While some Ron Paul supporters say there is a conspiracy against their presidential candidate, I say he is the one with something to hide. In this article you will learn the shocking secrets of Ron Paul success with his campaigns use of subliminal advertising.

An article comparing the alien Space Babes of two classic Sci-Fi TV shows.