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As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science fiction series that would become Star Trek. Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer space—a so-called "Wagon Train to the stars"—he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, intending each episode to act on two levels: as a suspenseful adventure story and as a morality tale.{{Cite web|url=http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=roddenberry|title=RODDENBERRY, GENE|last=Gibberman|first=Susan|website=Museum of Broadcast Communications|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011071758/http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=roddenberry|archive-date=October 11, 2011|access-date=October 19, 2011}}{{Cite book|title=Something about the Author|last=Keonig|first=Rachel|date=August 29, 1986|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-8103-2255-4|editor-last=Commire|editor-first=Anna|volume=45|location=Detroit|pages=[https://archive.org/details/somethingaboutau45anne/page/168 168–179]|chapter=Roddenberry, Eugene Wesley 1921– (Gene Roddenberry)|issn=0276-816X|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/somethingaboutau45anne|url=https://archive.org/details/somethingaboutau45anne/page/168}}{{Cite book|title=Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry|last=Alexander|first=David|date=June 1994|publisher=Roc|isbn=978-0-451-45418-8|location=New York|url=https://archive.org/details/startrekcreatora00alex}}{{Cite book|title=Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition|last=Simon|first=Richard Keller|date=November 23, 1999|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-22223-6|location=Berkeley|pages=[https://archive.org/details/trashculturepopu0000simo/page/139 139–154]|chapter=Star Trek, Gulliver's Travels, and the Problem of History|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/trashculturepopu0000simo/page/139}}

Most Star Trek stories depict the adventures of humans and aliens who serve in Starfleet, the space-borne humanitarian and peacekeeping armada of the United Federation of Planets. The protagonists have altruistic values, and must apply these ideals to difficult dilemmas.

Many of the conflicts and political dimensions of Star Trek are allegories of contemporary cultural realities. The Original Series addressed issues of the 1960s, just as later spin-offs have tackled issues of their respective decades.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/jwsnyder/wisdom/trek.html|title=Star Trek: A Phenomenon and Social Statement on the 1960s|last=Snyder|first=J. William Jr|date=1995|website=ibiblio.org|access-date=October 19, 2011|archive-date=November 27, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127113425/http://www.ibiblio.org/jwsnyder/wisdom/trek.html|url-status=live}} Issues depicted in the various series include war and peace, the value of personal loyalty, authoritarianism, imperialism, class warfare, economics, racism, religion, human rights, sexism, feminism, and the role of technology.{{Cite book|title=American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate and Beyond|last=Johnson-Smith|first=Jan|date=January 10, 2005|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-6738-3|location=Middletown, Connecticut|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/americansciencef0000john}}{{Rp|57}} Roddenberry stated: "[By creating] a new world with new rules, I could make statements about sex, religion, Vietnam, politics, and intercontinental missiles. Indeed, we did make them on Star Trek: we were sending messages and fortunately they all got by the network.{{Rp|79}} If you talked about purple people on a far off planet, they (the television network) never really caught on. They were more concerned about cleavage. They actually would send a censor down to the set to measure a woman's cleavage to make sure too much of her breast wasn't showing."{{Cite web|url=http://www.pointofinquiry.org/susan_sackett_the_secular_humanism_of_star_trek/|title=Susan Sackett – The Secular Humanism of Star Trek|last=Grothe|first=DJ|date=May 29, 2009|website=pointofinquiry.org|access-date=September 27, 2016|archive-date=October 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005062918/http://www.pointofinquiry.org/susan_sackett_the_secular_humanism_of_star_trek/}}

Roddenberry intended the show to have a progressive political agenda reflective of the emerging counter-culture of the youth movement, though he was not fully forthcoming to the networks about this. He wanted Star Trek to show what humanity might develop into, if it would learn from the lessons of the past, most specifically by ending violence. An extreme example is the alien species known as the Vulcans, who had a violent past but learned to control their emotions. Roddenberry also gave Star Trek an anti-war message and depicted the United Federation of Planets as an ideal, optimistic version of the United Nations.{{Cite web|url=http://woodygoulart.com/wg/trekology/star-trek/gene-roddenberry/|title=Gene Roddenberry|last=Goulart|first=Woody|website=woodygoulart.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031212434/http://woodygoulart.com/wg/trekology/star-trek/gene-roddenberry|archive-date=October 31, 2011|access-date=March 25, 2019}} His efforts were opposed by the network because of concerns over marketability, e.g., they opposed Roddenberry's insistence that Enterprise have a racially diverse crew.{{Cite book|title=The Making of Star Trek|last1=Whitfield|first1=Stephen E|last2=Roddenberry|first2=Gene|date=May 1973|publisher=Ballantine Books|isbn=978-0-345-23401-8|location=New York|author-link2=Gene Roddenberry}}

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In early 1964, Roddenberry presented a brief treatment for a television series to Desilu Productions, calling it "a Wagon Train to the stars".{{Cite web|url=http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/misc/40_years/trek_pitch.pdf|title=Star Trek is…|last=Roddenberry|first=Gene|date=March 11, 1964|website=ex-astris-scientia.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060924140423/http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/misc/40_years/trek_pitch.pdf|archive-date=September 24, 2006|access-date=June 26, 2009}} Desilu studio head Lucille Ball was instrumental in approving production of the series.{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/lucille-ball-is-the-reason-we-have-star-trek-heres-what-happened-2016-7 |date=July 8, 2016 |author=Meryl Gottlieb |title=Lucille Ball is the reason we have 'Star Trek' – here's what happened |work=Business Insider |access-date=January 4, 2017 |archive-date=January 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110223658/http://www.businessinsider.com/lucille-ball-is-the-reason-we-have-star-trek-heres-what-happened-2016-7 |url-status=live }} The studio worked with Roddenberry to develop the treatment into a script, which was then pitched to NBC.{{Cite book|title=NBC: America's network|last1=Davies|first1=Máire Messenger|last2=Pearson|first2=Roberta|date=August 2007|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-25079-6|editor-last=Hilmes|editor-first=Michele|location=Berkeley|pages=209–223|chapter=The Little Program That Could: The Relationship between NBC and Star Trek}}

NBC paid to make a pilot, "The Cage", starring Jeffrey Hunter as Enterprise Captain Christopher Pike. NBC rejected "The Cage", but the executives were still impressed with the concept, and made the unusual decision to commission a second pilot: "Where No Man Has Gone Before".

While the show initially enjoyed high ratings, the average rating of the show at the end of its first season dropped to 52nd out of 94 programs. Unhappy with the show's ratings, NBC threatened to cancel the show during its second season.{{Cite book|title=Inside Star Trek: The Real Story|last1=Solow|first1=Herbert F|last2=Justman|first2=Robert H|date=June 1996|publisher=Pocket Books|isbn=978-0-671-89628-7|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780671896287/page/377 377–394]|author-link2=Robert H. Justman|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780671896287/page/377}} The show's fan base, led by Bjo Trimble, conducted an unprecedented letter-writing campaign, petitioning the network to keep the show on the air.{{Cite web|url=http://www.startrek.com/article/bjo-trimble-the-woman-who-saved-star-trek-part-1|title=Bjo Trimble: The Woman Who Saved Star Trek – Part 1|date=August 31, 2011|website=StarTrek.com|access-date=January 12, 2012|archive-date=January 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121164142/http://www.startrek.com/article/bjo-trimble-the-woman-who-saved-star-trek-part-1|url-status=live}} NBC renewed the show, but moved it from primetime to the "Friday night death slot", and substantially reduced its budget.{{Cite book|title=Star Trek Memories|last1=Shatner|first1=William|last2=Kreski|first2=Chris|date=October 1993|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-017734-8|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/startrekmemories00shat/page/290 290–291]|author-link=William Shatner|author-link2=Chris Kreski|url=https://archive.org/details/startrekmemories00shat/page/290}} In protest, Roddenberry resigned as producer and reduced his direct involvement in Star Trek, which led to Fred Freiberger becoming producer for the show's third and final season.{{Efn|Roddenberry co-authored two scripts for the third season.}} Despite another letter-writing campaign, NBC canceled the series after three seasons and 79 episodes.

After the original series was canceled, Desilu, which by then had been renamed Paramount Television, licensed the broadcast syndication rights to help recoup the production losses. Reruns began in late 1969, and by the late 1970s the series aired in over 150 domestic and 60 international markets.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} This helped Star Trek develop a cult following among Trekkies greater than during its original run;{{Cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rx0eAAAAIBAJ&pg=6303,2206524&dq=cult-fans-reruns-give-star-trek-an-out-of-this-world-popularity&hl=en|title=Cult Fans, Reruns Give Star Trek an out of This World Popularity|last=Shult|first=Doug|date=July 5, 1972|work=The Milwaukee Journal|access-date=October 19, 2011|agency=Los Angeles Times New Service|issue=230|department=Green Sheets|volume=90}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} by 1976, the cast described Star Trek as "the most popular series in the world".{{Cite AV media |url=http://www.tvparty.com/70-star-trek.html |title=Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976 |type=Television production |orig-date=1976-02-04 |series=Tomorrow |access-date=2024-03-15 |via=YouTube}}

One sign of the series' growing popularity was the first Star Trek convention, which occurred on January 21–23, 1972 in New York City. Although the original expectation was that a few hundred fans would attend, several thousand turned up. Fans continue to attend similar conventions worldwide.{{Cite web|url=http://www.startrek.com/article/celebrating-40-years-since-treks-1st-convention|title=Celebrating 40 Years since Trek's 1st Convention|date=January 20, 2012|website=StarTrek.com|access-date=August 1, 2013|archive-date=October 29, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029201919/http://www.startrek.com/article/celebrating-40-years-since-treks-1st-convention|url-status=live}}

The series' newfound success led to the idea of reviving the franchise.{{Cite book|title=Inside Trek: My Secret Life with Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry|last=Sackett|first=Susan|date=May 15, 2002|publisher=HAWK Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-930709-42-3|location=Tulsa, Oklahoma|author-link=Susan Sackett}} Filmation with Paramount Television produced the first post–original series show, Star Trek: The Animated Series, featuring the cast of the original series reprising their roles. It ran on NBC for 22 half-hour episodes over two seasons on Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1974.{{Cite book|date=October 1979|editor-last=Turnbull|editor-first=Gerry|title=A Star Trek Catalog|location=New York|publisher=Grosset & Dunlap|isbn=978-0-441-78477-6|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_0441784771}}{{Rp|208}} Although short-lived, typical for animated productions in that time slot during that period, the series garnered the franchise's only Emmy Award in a "Best Series" category—specifically Outstanding Entertainment Children's Series; later Emmy awards for the franchise would be in technical categories. Paramount Pictures and Roddenberry began developing a new series, Star Trek: Phase II, in May 1975 in response to the franchise's newfound popularity. Work on the series ended when the proposed Paramount Television Service folded.{{cite web |last1=Ellard |first1=Sam |title=Star Trek: Why the Original Series' TV Follow-Up Never Happened |url=https://www.cbr.com/why-star-trek-phase-ii-didnt-happen/ |website=cbr.com |date=May 4, 2021 |access-date=11 November 2023 |archive-date=September 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924001147/https://www.cbr.com/why-star-trek-phase-ii-didnt-happen/ |url-status=live }}

Following the success of the science fiction movies Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Paramount adapted the planned pilot episode of Phase II into the feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The film opened in North America on December 7, 1979, with mixed reviews from critics. The film earned $139 million worldwide, below expectations but enough for Paramount to create a sequel. The studio forced Roddenberry to relinquish creative control of future sequels.{{cite web |url= https://screenrant.com/star-trek-gene-roddenberry-lost-control-reasons/|title= How Gene Roddenberry Lost Control Of Star Trek|author= Dusty Stowe|date= September 24, 2019|publisher= Screen rant|access-date=June 11, 2024}}

The success of the sequel, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, reversed the fortunes of the franchise. While the sequel grossed less than the first movie, The Wrath of Khan{{'}}s lower production costs made it net more profit. Paramount produced six Star Trek feature films between 1979 and 1991, each featuring the Original Series cast in their original roles.{{cite web |title=Star Trek: Series and Movies |url=https://www.startrek.com/series-and-movies |website=startrek.com |publisher=CBS STUDIOS INC., PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION, AND CBS INTERACTIVE INC. |access-date=11 November 2023 |archive-date=November 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111010143/https://www.startrek.com/series-and-movies |url-status=live }}

By 1983 Paramount saw Star Trek as a media franchise that it could use across mediums beyond television and film, such as books through its publisher Simon & Schuster, and video games through its video game studio Sega.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/28/business/barry-diller-s-latest-starring-role.html|title=Barry Diller's Latest Starring Role|first=Sandra|last=Salmans|work=The New York Times|date=August 28, 1983|accessdate=February 14, 2022}} In 1987 it brought the franchise back to television with Star Trek: The Next Generation. Paramount chose to distribute the new series as a first-run syndication show rather than a network program. The series was set a century after the original, following the adventures of a new starship Enterprise with a new crew.{{cite web |title=STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION |url=https://www.startrek.com/series/star-trek-the-next-generation |website=startrek.com |publisher=CBS STUDIOS INC., PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION, AND CBS INTERACTIVE INC |access-date=11 November 2023 |archive-date=November 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111010144/https://www.startrek.com/series/star-trek-the-next-generation |url-status=live }}

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Following Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Roddenberry's role was changed from producer to creative consultant, with minimal input to the films, while being heavily involved with the creation of The Next Generation. Roddenberry died on October 24, 1991, giving executive producer Rick Berman control of the franchise.{{Rp|268}}{{Rp|591–593}} Star Trek had become known to those within Paramount as "the franchise", because of its great success and recurring role as a tent pole for the studio when other projects failed.{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-05-tm-2100-story.html|title=How Gene Roddenberry and his Brain Trust Have Boldly Taken 'Star Trek' Where No TV Series Has Gone Before: Trekking to the Top|last=Teitelbaum|first=Sheldon|date=May 5, 1991|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=May 11, 2011|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327032328/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-05-tm-2100-story.html|url-status=live}} The Next Generation had the highest ratings of any Star Trek series and became the most syndicated show during the last years of its original seven-season run.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/SciFi/StarTrek/history.html|title=Star Trek – A Short History|date=May 9, 1994|website=ee.surrey.ac.uk|others=Transcribed press release originally distributed by Paramount Pictures|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205052936/http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/SciFi/StarTrek/history.html|archive-date=December 5, 2010|access-date=August 21, 2006}} In response to the Next Generation{{'s}} success, Paramount released a spin-off series, Deep Space Nine, in 1993. While never as popular as the Next Generation, the series had sufficient ratings for it to last seven seasons.

In January 1995, a few months after the Next Generation ended, Paramount released a fourth television series, Voyager. Star Trek production reached a peak in the mid-1990s with Deep Space Nine and Voyager airing concurrently and three of the four Next Generation-based feature films released in 1994, 1996, and 1998. By 1998, Star Trek was Paramount's most important property and the profits of "the franchise" funded a significant portion of the studio's operations.{{Cite book|title=A Vision of the Future|last=Poe|first=Stephen Edward|date=April 1998|publisher=Pocket Books|isbn=978-0-671-53481-3|location=New York|pages=49–54}} Voyager became the flagship show of the new United Paramount Network (UPN) and thus the first major network Star Trek series since the original.{{Cite news|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/tv/upn06.shtml|title=UPN in search of post-'Voyager' flagship|last=Levesque|first=John|date=January 6, 2001|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|access-date=June 30, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205023950/http://www.seattlepi.com/tv/upn06.shtml|archive-date=December 5, 2010}}

After Voyager ended, UPN produced Enterprise, a prequel series. Enterprise did not enjoy the high ratings of its predecessors and UPN threatened to cancel it after the series' third season. Fans launched a campaign reminiscent of the one that saved the third season of the Original Series. Paramount renewed Enterprise for a fourth season, but moved it to the Friday night death slot.{{Cite web|url=http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/5500.html|title=Fan Groups, Sites Rally on Behalf of Enterprise (UPDATE)|date=January 17, 2010|website=StarTrek.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117112055/http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/5500.html|archive-date=January 17, 2010|access-date=March 27, 2019}} Like the Original Series, Enterprise{{'}}s ratings dropped during this time slot, and UPN canceled Enterprise at the end of its fourth season. Enterprise aired its final episode on May 13, 2005.{{Cite web|url=http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/9469.html|title=Star Trek: Enterprise Cancelled!|date=February 3, 2005|website=StarTrek.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111021654/http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/9469.html|archive-date=January 11, 2010|access-date=October 19, 2011}} A fan group, "Save Enterprise", attempted to save the series and tried to raise $30 million to privately finance a fifth season of Enterprise.{{Cite web|url=http://www.trekunited.com/news/content/view/21/44/1/1/|title=Uniting Star Trek Fans|website=trekunited.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202180815/http://www.trekunited.com/news/content/view/21/44/1/1/|archive-date=February 2, 2009|access-date=December 18, 2007}} Though the effort garnered considerable press, the fan drive failed to save the series. The cancellation of Enterprise ended an eighteen-year continuous production run of Star Trek programming on television. The poor box office performance in 2002 of the film Nemesis cast an uncertain light upon the future of the franchise. Paramount relieved Berman, the franchise producer, of control of Star Trek.

In 2007, Paramount hired a new creative team to reinvigorate the franchise on the big screen. Writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and producer J. J. Abrams had the freedom to reinvent the feel of the franchise. The team created the franchise's eleventh film, Star Trek, releasing it in May 2009. The film featured a new cast portraying the crew of the original show. Star Trek was a prequel of the original series set in an alternate timeline, later named the Kelvin Timeline. This gave the film and sequels freedom from the need to conform to the franchise's canonical timeline and minimized the impact these films would have on CBS's portion of the franchise. The eleventh Star Trek film's marketing campaign targeted non-fans, stating in the film's advertisements that "this is not your father's Star Trek".{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103824300|title=Some Older 'Star Trek' Fans May Skip This Voyage|last=Adler|first=Margo|date=May 6, 2009|website=NPR|access-date=October 19, 2011|archive-date=August 2, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110802140449/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103824300|url-status=live}}

The film earned considerable critical and financial success, grossing (in inflation-adjusted dollars) more box office sales than any previous Star Trek film.{{Cite web|url=http://airlockalpha.com/6469/star-trek-becomes-highest-grossing-franchise-film-html|title='Star Trek' Becomes Highest Grossing Franchise Film|last=Hinman|first=Michael|date=June 23, 2009|website=Airlock Alpha|access-date=October 19, 2011|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327032329/http://airlockalpha.com/6469/star-trek-becomes-highest-grossing-franchise-film-html|url-status=live}} The plaudits include the franchise's first Academy Award (for makeup). Two sequels were released. The first sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness, premiered in the spring of 2013.{{efn|Star Trek Into Darkness premiered in Sydney, Australia, on April 23, 2013, but the film did not release in the United States until May 17, 2013}}{{Cite web|url=https://trekmovie.com/2011/11/23/star-trek-sequel-to-be-released-may-17-2013-in-3d/|title=Star Trek Sequel To Be Released May 17, 2013 – In 3D|last=Pascale|first=Anthony|date=November 23, 2011|website=TrekMovie.com|access-date=November 25, 2011|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327032326/https://trekmovie.com/2011/11/23/star-trek-sequel-to-be-released-may-17-2013-in-3d/|url-status=live}} While the film did not earn as much in the North American box office as its predecessor, internationally, in terms of box office receipts, Into Darkness is the most successful of the franchise.{{Cite web|title=Box Office History for Star Trek Movies|url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Star-Trek|website=the-numbers.com|publisher=The Numbers|access-date=December 24, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230062104/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Star-Trek|archive-date=December 30, 2014}} The thirteenth film, Star Trek Beyond, was released on July 22, 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/star-trek-3-sets-july-8-2016-release-date-1201386320/|title='Star Trek 3' Sets July 8, 2016, Release Date|last=McNary|first=Dave|date=December 13, 2014|website=Variety|access-date=December 24, 2014|archive-date=December 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225191117/http://variety.com/2014/film/news/star-trek-3-sets-july-8-2016-release-date-1201386320/|url-status=live}} The film had many pre-production problems and its script went through several rewrites. While receiving positive reviews, Star Trek Beyond disappointed in the box office.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2393511/why-star-trek-beyond-wasnt-a-box-office-hit-according-to-simon-pegg|title=Why Star Trek Beyond Wasn't A Box Office Hit, According To Simon Pegg|last=Holmes|first=Brad|date=March 26, 2018|website=cinemablend.com|access-date=January 28, 2019|archive-date=January 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129005926/https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2393511/why-star-trek-beyond-wasnt-a-box-office-hit-according-to-simon-pegg|url-status=live}}

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CBS turned down several proposals in the mid-2000s to restart the franchise on the small screen. Proposals included pitches from film director Bryan Singer, Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, and Trek actors Jonathan Frakes and William Shatner.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ugo.com/tv/bryan-singer-tv-star-trek|title=Bryan Singer's TV Star Trek Details Emerge|last=Fitzpatrick|first=Kevin|date=April 12, 2011|website=UGO|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416025007/http://www.ugo.com/tv/bryan-singer-tv-star-trek|archive-date=April 16, 2011|access-date=January 18, 2012}}{{Cite web|url=http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/files/ST2004Reboot.pdf|title=Star Trek, Reboot, 2004|last1=Straczynski|first1=J. Michael|author-link=J. Michael Straczynski|last2=Zabel|first2=Bryce|author-link2=Bryce Zabel|website=bztv.typepad.com|archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20100506115044/http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/files/ST2004Reboot.pdf|archive-date=May 6, 2010|access-date=October 19, 2011}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ugo.com/tv/jonathan-frakes-bar-karma-interview|title=Jonathan Frakes Talks Bar Karma, Star Trek, and Yes, Gargoyles|last=Fitzpatrick|first=Kevin|date=April 7, 2011|website=UGO|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411202109/http://www.ugo.com/tv/jonathan-frakes-bar-karma-interview|archive-date=April 11, 2011|access-date=August 23, 2015}} While CBS was not creating new Star Trek for network television, the ease of access to Star Trek content on new streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video introduced a new set of fans to the franchise. CBS eventually sought to capitalize on this trend, and brought the franchise back to the small screen with the series Star Trek: Discovery to help launch and draw subscribers to its streaming service CBS All Access.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/star-trek-tv-series-works-828638|title='Star Trek' TV Series in the Works|last=Goldberg|first=Lesley|date=November 2, 2015|website=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=November 4, 2015|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327032328/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/star-trek-tv-series-works-828638|url-status=live}} Discovery's first season premiered on September 24, 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/06/star-trek-discovery-september-premiere-date-cbs-all-access-rollout-to-follow-1202115723/|title='Star Trek: Discovery' Gets September Premiere Date On CBS|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|date=June 19, 2017|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=June 20, 2017|archive-date=June 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620223733/https://deadline.com/2017/06/star-trek-discovery-september-premiere-date-cbs-all-access-rollout-to-follow-1202115723/|url-status=live}} While the first three seasons of the show are shown in the United States exclusively on the service, which changed its name to Paramount+, Netflix, in exchange for funding the production costs of the show, owned the international screening rights for the show.{{Cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/star-trek-discovery-budget-netflix-cbs|title=Star Trek: Discovery's Budget Reportedly Paid For By Netflix|last=Bacon|first=Thomas|date=November 6, 2018|website=Screen Rant|access-date=January 9, 2020|archive-date=July 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712124741/https://screenrant.com/star-trek-discovery-budget-netflix-cbs/|url-status=live}} This Netflix distribution and production deal ended right before the fourth season premiere of Discovery in November 2021.{{cite web |last1=Patten |first1=Dominic |title='Star Trek: Discovery' Exits Netflix Tonight; Set For 2022 Launch On Paramount+ Globally |url=https://deadline.com/2021/11/star-trek-discovery-netflix-deal-paramount-viacomcbs-1234875466/ |website=Deadline |access-date=December 1, 2021 |date=November 16, 2021 |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130011336/https://deadline.com/2021/11/star-trek-discovery-netflix-deal-paramount-viacomcbs-1234875466/ |url-status=live }} Discovery has since been exclusive to Paramount Global owned platforms.{{fact|date=January 2025}}

In June 2018, after becoming sole showrunner of Discovery, Kurtzman signed a five-year overall deal with CBS Television Studios to expand the Star Trek franchise beyond Discovery to several new series, miniseries, and animated series.{{cite web |last=Otterson |first=Joe |date=June 19, 2018 |title=Alex Kurtzman Sets Five-Year CBS TV Studios Pact, Will Oversee Expanded 'Star Trek' Universe |url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/star-trek-tv-shows-cbs-discovery-alex-kurtzman-1202842335/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712051151/https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/star-trek-tv-shows-cbs-discovery-alex-kurtzman-1202842335/ |archive-date=July 12, 2018 |access-date=July 21, 2018 |work=Variety}} Kurtzman wanted to "open this world up" and create multiple series set in the same universe but with their own "unique storytelling and distinct cinematic feel",{{Cite press release|title=Paramount+ Is the Home of the Star Trek Universe|date=February 24, 2021|publisher=CBS Studios|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2021/02/24/paramountplus-is-the-home-of-the-star-trek-universe-359015/20210224cbs02/|access-date=February 28, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210227212559/http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2021/02/24/paramountplus-is-the-home-of-the-star-trek-universe-359015/20210224cbs02/|archive-date=February 27, 2021|url-status=live}} an approach that he compared to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.{{cite web|website=The Hollywood Reporter|title='Star Trek: Discovery' Showrunner on Pleasing Fickle Fans and Adapting James Comey's Tell-All|date=January 9, 2019|last=Goldberg|first=Lesly|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/alex-kurtzman-star-trek-discovery-adapting-james-comeys-tell-all-1174518/|access-date=October 31, 2021|archive-date=October 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031144513/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/alex-kurtzman-star-trek-discovery-adapting-james-comeys-tell-all-1174518/|url-status=live}} However, the franchise would not tell a single story across multiple series, allowing audiences to watch each series without having to see all of the others.{{Cite web |last1=Vary |first1=Adam B. |date=February 24, 2021 |title=Inside the 'Star Trek' Universe of New Shows and Kids' Fare on Paramount Plus |url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/star-trek-universe-paramount-plus-prodigy-1234914526/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225051556/https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/star-trek-universe-paramount-plus-prodigy-1234914526/ |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |access-date=February 27, 2021 |website=Variety}} CBS and Kurtzman refer to this expanded franchise as the Star Trek Universe.{{Cite web |last= |date=July 12, 2019 |title=Everything You Need to Know for SDCC 2019 |url=https://intl.startrek.com/news/star-trek-sdcc-guide-patrick-stewart |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102161622/https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-sdcc-guide-patrick-stewart |archive-date=November 2, 2019 |access-date=March 22, 2020 |website=StarTrek.com}}

The second series of the expansion of the Star Trek Universe, Star Trek: Picard, features Patrick Stewart reprising the character Jean-Luc Picard from The Next Generation. Picard premiered on CBS All Access on January 23, 2020. Unlike Discovery, Amazon Prime Video streams Picard internationally.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/star-trek-jean-luc-picard-series-amazon-cbs-1203212357/|title=Amazon Nabs International Rights to CBS' Jean-Luc Picard 'Star Trek' Series|last=Littleton|first=Cynthia|date=May 13, 2019|website=Variety|language=en|access-date=January 9, 2020|archive-date=March 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307220958/https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/star-trek-jean-luc-picard-series-amazon-cbs-1203212357/|url-status=live}} CBS has also released two seasons of Star Trek: Short Treks, a series of standalone mini-episodes which air between Discovery and Picard seasons. A new live-action series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a spinoff of the second season of Discovery and prequel to the original series, premiered on May 5, 2022. Lower Decks, an animated adult comedy series, was released on August 6, 2020, on CBS All Access. Another animated series, Star Trek: Prodigy, premiered on the rebranded service Paramount+ first on October 28, 2021, and on December 17, 2021, on Nickelodeon.{{cite web |last1=Drum |first1=Nicole |title=Star Trek: Prodigy Sets Nickelodeon Premiere Date |url=https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/star-trek-prodigy-sets-nickelodeon-premiere-date/ |website=Star Trek |date=November 28, 2021 |access-date=January 6, 2022 |language=en |archive-date=January 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128220234/https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/star-trek-prodigy-sets-nickelodeon-premiere-date/ |url-status=live }} Prodigy is the first Star Trek series to specifically target younger audiences, and is the franchise's first fully computer animated series. Star Trek's television presence would reach a new peak in 2022, with five Star Trek series airing simultaneously that year.{{Efn|While 2022 had the most Star Trek series, each series had fewer episodes per season than when TNG, DS9 and Voyager where airing together.}}

The Star Trek: Picard series finale aired in April 2023.{{cite magazine |last1=Sepinwall |first1=Alan |title='Star Trek: Picard' Series Finale Sets the Stage for a Big Spinoff |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/star-trek-picard-series-finale-patrick-stewart-paramount-plus-seven-of-nine-jeri-ryan-spinoff-1234720306/ |access-date=April 22, 2023 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=April 20, 2023 |archive-date=April 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421130642/https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/star-trek-picard-series-finale-patrick-stewart-paramount-plus-seven-of-nine-jeri-ryan-spinoff-1234720306/ |url-status=live }} Discovery's series finale aired in May 2024.{{cite news |author1=Scott Snowden |title='Star Trek: Discovery's final s will come to a close with Season 5 in 2024 |url=https://www.space.com/star-trek-discovery-will-end-season-five-2024#:~:text=Paramount%20Plus%20has%20announced%20that,season%20arriving%20in%20early%202024. |access-date=April 22, 2023 |work=Space.com |date=March 6, 2023 |language=en |archive-date=April 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422162944/https://www.space.com/star-trek-discovery-will-end-season-five-2024#:~:text=Paramount%20Plus%20has%20announced%20that,season%20arriving%20in%20early%202024. |url-status=live }} A Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series is in pre-production to take the place of one of these series.{{cite web |title=New Series Order for 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Announced |url=https://www.startrek.com/news/new-series-star-trek-starfleet-academy |website=Star Trek |date=March 30, 2023 |access-date=April 22, 2023 |language=en |archive-date=April 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422162930/https://www.startrek.com/news/new-series-star-trek-starfleet-academy |url-status=live }} Star Trek: Prodigy was removed from Paramount+ in June 2023.{{cite news |last1=Otterson |first1=Joe |title='Star Trek: Prodigy' Season 2 Moves to Netflix After Paramount+ Cancellation |url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/star-trek-prodigy-season-2-netflix-1235752032/ |access-date=29 November 2023 |work=Variety |publisher=Variety |date=11 October 2023 |archive-date=November 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129115835/https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/star-trek-prodigy-season-2-netflix-1235752032/ |url-status=live }} The series was picked up by Netflix, and season 1 was made available on December 25, 2023. A second season aired later in 2024.{{cite web |title=Season 1 of Star Trek: Prodigy to Stream on Netflix on December 25 |url=https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-prodigy-to-stream-on-netflix |website=www.startrek.com |publisher=Star Trek.com |access-date=29 November 2023 |language=en |date=11 October 2023 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207130209/https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-prodigy-to-stream-on-netflix |url-status=live }}

Paramount is also planning to create television films for Paramount+ every two years.{{cite web |last1=Razak |first1=Matthew |title=Star Trek, Worried About Over-saturation, Is Now Committed to a TV Movie Every 2 Years |url=https://www.escapistmagazine.com/star-trek-paramount-plus-movies-every-two-years/ |website=The Escapist |access-date=April 22, 2023 |date=April 19, 2023 |archive-date=April 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422162943/https://www.escapistmagazine.com/star-trek-paramount-plus-movies-every-two-years/ |url-status=live }} The first of these movies, Section 31, stars Michelle Yeoh, reprising her role as Empress Georgiou from Discovery,{{cite web |last1=Otterson |first1=Joe |title=Paramount+ Greenlights 'Star Trek: Section 31' Film Starring Michelle Yeoh |url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/paramount-plus-star-trek-section-31-film-michelle-yeoh-1235586743/ |website=Variety |access-date=April 22, 2023 |date=April 18, 2023 |archive-date=April 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418184547/https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/paramount-plus-star-trek-section-31-film-michelle-yeoh-1235586743/ |url-status=live }} and was given a release date of January 24, 2025.{{cite web|author=Petski, Denise|title='Star Trek: Section 31' Movie Starring Michelle Yeoh Gets Premiere Date On Paramount+|url=https://deadline.com/2024/10/star-trek-section-31-premiere-date-paramount-plus-trailer-teaser-1236120885/|publisher=Deadline Hollywood|language=en-USurl-status=live|date=October 19, 2024 |access-date=January 19, 2025|archive-date=October 19, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20241019201050/https://deadline.com/2024/10/star-trek-section-31-premiere-date-paramount-plus-trailer-teaser-1236120885/}}

{{Main|List of Star Trek television series{{!}}List of Star Trek television series}}

{{Anchor|Television}}{{Television franchise episode count|franchise=Star Trek|Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek: The Animated Series|Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek: Discovery|Star Trek: Short Treks|Star Trek: Picard|Star Trek: Lower Decks|Star Trek: Prodigy|Star Trek: Strange New Worlds}}{{Efn|The episode count includes all completed and released episodes. The count also includes the Original Series{{'s}} unaired pilot, "The Cage". Multi-part episodes not originally broadcast as one presentation are counted individually. Ten feature-length episodes are counted as two episodes each, as they were split for foreign broadcast and syndication.}}

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{{Series overview

| series = The Original Series

| episodes3 = 79

| released3 = {{Start and end dates|1966|9|8|1969|6|3}}

| network3 = NBC

| network3span = 2

}}

{{Series overview

| series = The Animated Series

| episodes2 = 22

| released2 = {{Start and end dates|1973|9|8|1974|10|12}}

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{{Series overview

| series = The Next Generation

| episodes7 = 178

| released7 = {{Start and end dates|1987|9|28|1994|5|23}}

| network7 = Syndication

| network7span = 2

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{{Series overview

| series = Deep Space Nine

| episodes7 = 176

| released7 = {{Start and end dates|1993|1|4|1999|5|31}}

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{{Series overview

| series = Voyager

| episodes7 = 172

| released7 = {{Start and end dates|1995|1|16|2001|5|23}}

| network7 = UPN

| network7span = 2

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| series = Enterprise

| episodes4 = 98

| released4 = {{Start and end dates|2001|9|26|2005|5|13}}

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{{Series overview

| series = Discovery

| episodes5 = 65

| released5 = {{Start and end dates|2017|9|24|2024|5|30}}

| network5 = {{nowrap|CBS All Access /
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| network5span = 4

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| series = Short Treks

| episodes2 = 10

| released2 = {{Start and end dates|2018|10|4|2020|1|9}}

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| series = Picard

| episodes3 = 30

| released3 = {{Start and end dates|2020|1|23|2023|4|20}}

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{{Series overview

| series = Lower Decks

| episodes5 = 50

| released5 = {{Start and end dates|2020|8|6|2024|12|19}}

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| released2 = {{Start and end dates|2021|10|28|2024|7|1}}

| network2 = Paramount+ / Netflix{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2023/10/star-trek-prodigy-netflix-pickup-paramount-plus-cancellation-1235569984/|title='Star Trek: Prodigy' Finds New Home At Netflix After Paramount+ Cancellation|publisher=Deadline|first=Nellie|last=Andreeva|date=October 11, 2023|access-date=October 11, 2023|archive-date=October 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011172406/https://deadline.com/2023/10/star-trek-prodigy-netflix-pickup-paramount-plus-cancellation-1235569984/|url-status=live}}

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{{Series overview

| series = Strange New Worlds

| episodes2 = {{tmpv|Star Trek: Strange New Worlds|Infobox television||num_episodes}}

| released2 = {{Start and end dates|2022|5|5|present}}

| network2 = Paramount+

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| network1 = Paramount+

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{{Main|List of Star Trek films{{!}}List of Star Trek films}}

{{Anchor|Film}}Paramount Pictures has produced thirteen Star Trek feature films. The first six films continue the adventures of the cast of the Original Series; the seventh film, Generations, was intended as a transition from original cast to the cast of the Next Generation; the next three films focused completely on the Next Generation cast.{{Efn|Film titles of the North American and UK releases of the films no longer contained the number of the film following the sixth film (the sixth was Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country but the seventh was Star Trek Generations). However, European releases continued using numbers in the film titles until Nemesis.}} The eleventh film was widely considered to be a reboot of the franchise, despite being a continuation set in an alternate timeline known as the "Kelvin Timeline". Additionally, streaming service Paramount+ intends to release a television film every two years starting with Section 31.

{{Main|Star Trek: Khan{{!}}Star Trek: Khan}}

In May 2022, Alex Kurtzman said there were discussions about expanding the Star Trek Universe to dramatic podcasts.{{Cite web |last=Ulster |first=Laurie |date=May 2, 2022 |title=Interview: Alex Kurtzman On 'Section 31,' 'Academy,' And Expanding His Star Trek Universe Beyond Television |url=https://trekmovie.com/2022/05/02/interview-alex-kurtzman-on-section-31-academy-and-expanding-his-star-trek-universe-beyond-television/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502203120/https://trekmovie.com/2022/05/02/interview-alex-kurtzman-on-section-31-academy-and-expanding-his-star-trek-universe-beyond-television/ |archive-date=May 2, 2022 |access-date=May 4, 2022 |website=TrekMovie.com}} The next month, Nicholas Meyer said he was negotiating a deal to make a podcast based on a television series he had planned about Khan Noonien Singh before the events of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.{{Cite web |last=Pascale |first=Anthony |date=June 10, 2022 |title=Nicholas Meyer's 'Ceti Alpha V' Khan Prequel Series May Become Star Trek Podcast |url=https://trekmovie.com/2022/06/10/nicholas-meyers-ceti-alpha-v-khan-prequel-series-may-become-star-trek-podcast/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610163206/https://trekmovie.com/2022/06/10/nicholas-meyers-ceti-alpha-v-khan-prequel-series-may-become-star-trek-podcast/ |archive-date=June 10, 2022 |access-date=September 18, 2022 |website=TrekMovie.com}} The project was confirmed in February 2025 as an audio drama series titled Star Trek: Khan.{{Cite web |last= |date=February 27, 2025 |title=Naveen Andrews and Wrenn Schmidt Cast in Star Trek: Khan |url=https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-khan-voice-cast-naveen-andrews-wrenn-schmidt |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250228160304/https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-khan-voice-cast-naveen-andrews-wrenn-schmidt |archive-date=February 28, 2025 |access-date=February 28, 2025 |website=StarTrek.com}}

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Many licensed products are based on the Star Trek franchise. Merchandising is very lucrative for both studio and actors; by 1986 Nimoy had earned more than $500,000 from royalties.{{Cite news|last=Harmetz|first=Aljean|date=November 2, 1986|title=New 'Star Trek' Plan Reflects Symbiosis of Tv and Movies|language=en-US|page=31|work=The New York Times|department=Section 2|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/02/arts/new-star-trek-plan-reflects-symbiosis-of-tv-and-movies.html|access-date=February 11, 2015|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112231731/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/02/arts/new-star-trek-plan-reflects-symbiosis-of-tv-and-movies.html|url-status=live}} Products include novels, comic books, video games, and other materials, which are generally considered non-canon. Star Trek merchandise generated $4 billion for Paramount by 2002.{{Cite magazine|last=Cloud|first=John|date=January 25, 2002|title=Star Trek Inc.|url=http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2056095,00.html|magazine=Time|access-date=June 28, 2017|archive-date=March 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312110522/http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2056095,00.html|url-status=live}}

{{Main|List of Star Trek novels|List of Star Trek tie-in fiction|l1=List of Star Trek novels|l2=tie-in fiction}}

Since 1967, hundreds of original novels, short stories, and television and movie adaptations have been published. The first original Star Trek novel was Mission to Horatius by Mack Reynolds, which was published in hardcover by Whitman Books in 1968.{{Cite book|title=Voyages of the Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion|title-link=Voyages of Imagination|last=Ayers|first=Jeff|date=November 14, 2006|publisher=Pocket Books|isbn=978-1-4165-0349-1|location=New York}}{{Rp|131}}

In 1968, Gene Roddenberry cooperated with Stephen Edward Poe, writing as Stephen Whitfield, on the nonfiction book The Making of Star Trek for Ballantine Books.{{cite book|last1=Solow|first1=Herbert F.|author-link=Herbert F. Solow|last2=Justman|first2=Robert H.|title=Inside Star Trek: The Real Story|year=1996|page=402|publisher=Pocket Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-671-89628-7|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780671896287}}

Among the most recent is the [http://www.rhcbooks.com/series/property/Star%20Trek Star Trek Collection of Little Golden Books]. Three titles were published by Random House in 2019, a fourth is scheduled for July 2020.

The first publisher of Star Trek fiction aimed at adult readers was Bantam Books. James Blish wrote adaptations of episodes of the original series in twelve volumes from 1967 to 1977; in 1970, he wrote the first original Star Trek novel published by Bantam, Spock Must Die!.{{Rp|xi}}

Pocket Books published subsequent Star Trek novels. Prolific Star Trek novelists include Peter David, Diane Carey, Keith DeCandido, J.M. Dillard, Diane Duane, Michael Jan Friedman, and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. Several actors from the television series have also written or co-written books featuring their respective characters: William Shatner, John de Lancie, Andrew J. Robinson, J. G. Hertzler and Armin Shimerman. Voyager producer Jeri Taylor wrote two novels detailing the personal histories of Voyager characters. Screenplay writers David Gerrold, D. C. Fontana, and Melinda Snodgrass have also penned books.{{Rp|213}}

A 2014 scholarly work Newton Lee discussed the actualization of Star Trek's holodeck in the future by making extensive use of artificial intelligence and cyborgs.{{Cite book|title=Digital da Vinci: Computers in the Arts and Sciences|last=Lee|first=Newton|date=August 2, 2014|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media|isbn=978-1-4939-0964-3|editor-last=Lee|editor-first=Newton|location=New York|pages=1–22|chapter=From a Pin-up Girl to Star Trek's Holodeck: Artificial Intelligence and Cyborgs}}

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Star Trek-based comics have been issued almost continuously since 1967, published by Marvel, DC, Malibu, Wildstorm, and Gold Key, among others. In 2009, Tokyopop produced an anthology of Next Generation-based stories presented in the style of Japanese manga.{{Cite web|url=http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/04/14/star-trek-the-next-generation-goes-manga-but-will-picard-lose-the-captains-chair/|title='Star Trek: The Next Generation' Goes Manga, But Will Picard Lose The Captain's Chair? » Splash Page|last=Marshall|first=Rick|date=April 14, 2009|website=MTV|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714131338/http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/04/14/star-trek-the-next-generation-goes-manga-but-will-picard-lose-the-captains-chair/|archive-date=July 14, 2011|access-date=October 19, 2011}} In 2006, IDW Publishing secured publishing rights to Star Trek comics and issued a prequel to the 2009 film, Star Trek: Countdown.{{Cite web|url=http://www.idwpublishing.com/titles/startrek.shtml|title=Star Trek: The Next Generation|date=October 6, 2006|website=IDW Publishing|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061025235300/http://www.idwpublishing.com/titles/startrek.shtml|archive-date=October 25, 2006|access-date=December 26, 2006}} In 2012, IDW published the first volume of Star Trek – The Newspaper Strip, featuring the work of Thomas Warkentin.{{Cite book|title=Star Trek: The Newspaper Strip, Vol. 1|last=Warkentin|first=Thomas|date=December 25, 2012|publisher=IDW Publishing|isbn=978-1-61377-494-6|location=San Diego}} As of 2020, IDW continues to produce new titles.{{Cite web|url=https://startrekcomics.info/index.html|title=Star Trek Comics Checklist|website=startrekcomics.info|access-date=February 21, 2020|archive-date=February 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221033006/https://startrekcomics.info/index.html|url-status=live}}

{{Main|List of Star Trek games{{!}}List of Star Trek games}}

The Star Trek franchise has numerous games in many formats. Beginning in 1967 with a board game based on the original series and continuing through today with online and DVD games, Star Trek games continue to be popular among fans.

Video games based on the series include Star Trek: Legacy and Star Trek: Conquest. An MMORPG based on Star Trek called Star Trek Online was developed by Cryptic Studios and published by Perfect World. It is set during the Next Generation era, about 30 years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis.{{Cite web|url=http://www.startrekonline.com/faq#4|title=FAQ|website=Star Trek Online|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012003030/http://startrekonline.com/faq#4|archive-date=October 12, 2011|access-date=October 19, 2011}} The most recent video game was set in the alternate timeline from Abrams's Star Trek. On April 23, 2023, Star Trek: Resurgence, a narrative adventure video game set in the Next Generation era, was released by Dramatic Labs.{{cite web|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/star-trek-resurgence-release-date-set-for-may|title=Star Trek: Resurgence release date set for May|last=Yin-Poole|first=Wesley|work=Eurogamer|date=2023-04-25|access-date=2023-06-20|archive-date=June 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620202753/https://www.eurogamer.net/star-trek-resurgence-release-date-set-for-may|url-status=live}}

Star Trek has led directly or indirectly to the creation of a number of magazines which focus either on science fiction or specifically on Star Trek. Starlog was a magazine which was founded in the 1970s.{{Rp|13}} Initially, its focus was on Star Trek actors, but then it expanded its scope.{{Rp|80}} Star Trek: The Magazine was a magazine published in the U.S. that ceased publication in 2003. Star Trek Magazine, originally published as Star Trek Monthly by Titan Magazines for the United Kingdom market, began in February 1995. The magazine has since expanded to worldwide distribution under the name Star Trek Explorer.

Other magazines through the years included professional, as well as magazines published by fans, or fanzines.

{{Main|Cultural influence of Star Trek{{!}}Cultural influence of Star Trek}}

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The Star Trek media franchise is a multibillion-dollar industry, owned by Paramount Global.{{Cite web|url=http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/features/specials/article/2674.html|title=Great Animated Adventures Episodes|website=StarTrek.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060805163109/http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/features/specials/article/2674.html|archive-date=August 5, 2006|access-date=August 24, 2006}} Gene Roddenberry sold Star Trek to NBC as a classic adventure drama; he pitched the show as "Wagon Train to the Stars" and as Horatio Hornblower in Space.{{Cite web|url=http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Social/star_trek/SH7.htm|title=Social History: Star Trek as a Cultural Phenomenon|last=Day|first=Dwayne|website=Centennial of Flight Commission|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009230425/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Social/star_trek/SH7.htm|archive-date=October 9, 2012|access-date=May 31, 2013}} The opening line, "to boldly go where no man has gone before", was taken almost verbatim from a U.S. White House booklet on space produced after the Sputnik flight in 1957.{{Cite web|url=http://fas.org/spp/guide/usa/intro1958.html|title=Introduction to Outer Space (1958)|date=March 26, 1958|website=Federation of American Scientists|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006104738/http://fas.org/spp/guide/usa/intro1958.html|archive-date=October 6, 2015|access-date=March 26, 2019}}

Star Trek and its spin-offs have proven highly popular in syndication and was broadcast worldwide.{{Cite web|url=http://eugene.roddenberry.com/treknationproposal.rtf|title=TREK NATION — Rich Text Format|website=eugene.roddenberry.com|format=RTF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050205160101/http://eugene.roddenberry.com/treknationproposal.rtf|archive-date=February 5, 2005|access-date=August 24, 2006}} The show's cultural impact goes far beyond its longevity and profitability. Star Trek conventions have become popular among its fans, who call themselves "trekkies" or "trekkers".{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120370/|title=Trekkies (1997)|website=IMDb|date=November 8, 2002|access-date=August 24, 2006|archive-date=November 4, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071104062348/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120370/|url-status=live}} An entire subculture has grown up around the franchise, which was documented in the film Trekkies. Star Trek was ranked most popular cult show by TV Guide.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/top-cult-shows-40239/|title=TV Guide Names the Top Cult Shows Ever|date=June 29, 2007|website=TV Guide|access-date=October 19, 2011|archive-date=May 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507142236/https://www.tvguide.com/news/top-cult-shows-40239/|url-status=live}} The franchise has also garnered many comparisons of the Star Wars franchise being rivals in the science fiction genre with many fans and scholars.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2005/05/16/cx_de_0516match.html#66fe1b225649|title=Star Wars Vs. Star Trek|last=Ewalt|first=David M|author-link=David M. Ewalt|date=May 18, 2005|website=Forbes|access-date=September 13, 2007|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327090916/https://www.forbes.com/2005/05/16/cx_de_0516match.html#66fe1b225649|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1999/5/14/trekkers-vs-lucasites-pin-the-absence/|title=Trekkers VS Lucasites|last=Ho|first=Richard|date=May 14, 1995|website=The Harvard Crimson|access-date=May 18, 2009|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327033828/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1999/5/14/trekkers-vs-lucasites-pin-the-absence/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/tech/innovation/tricorder-x-prize-finalists/index.html|title=Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize: Race to create a tricorder|last=Kelly|first=Heather|date=September 3, 2014|website=CNN|access-date=September 7, 2014|archive-date=March 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329010003/https://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/tech/innovation/tricorder-x-prize-finalists/index.html|url-status=live}}

The Star Trek franchise inspired some designers of technologies, the Palm PDA and the handheld mobile phone.{{Cite web|url=http://editinternational.com/read.php?id=4810edf3a83f8|title=Star Trek Tech|last=Laytner|first=Lance|date=2009|website=editinternational.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710171056/http://www.editinternational.com/read.php?id=4810edf3a83f8|archive-date=July 10, 2011|access-date=March 26, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/TREK-TECH-40-years-since-the-Enterprise-s-2780887.php|title=TREK TECH / 40 years since the Enterprise's inception, some of its science fiction gadgets are part of everyday life|last=Evangelista|first=Benny|date=March 15, 2004|website=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=May 14, 2010|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327032328/https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/TREK-TECH-40-years-since-the-Enterprise-s-2780887.php|url-status=live}} Michael Jones, Chief technologist of Google Earth, has cited the tricorder's mapping capability as one inspiration in the development of Keyhole/Google Earth.{{Cite web|url=http://www.edparsons.com/2006/03/google-earth-inspiration-was-star-treks-tricorder/|title=Google Earth inspiration was Star Treks tricorder !!|last=Parsons|first=Ed|author-link=Ed Parsons|date=March 27, 2006|website=edparsons.com|access-date=October 19, 2011|archive-date=November 23, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123190557/http://www.edparsons.com/2006/03/google-earth-inspiration-was-star-treks-tricorder/|url-status=live}} The Tricorder X Prize, a contest to build a medical tricorder device was announced in 2012. Ten finalists were selected in 2014, and the winner was to be selected in January 2016. However, no team managed to reach the required criteria. Star Trek also brought teleportation to popular attention with its depiction of "matter-energy transport", with the famously misquoted phrase "Beam me up, Scotty" entering the vernacular.{{Cite web|url=http://worldwidewords.org/articles/startrek.htm|title=World Wide Words: Beam me up, Scotty!|last=Quinion|first=Michael|date=August 6, 1996|website=worldwidewords.org|access-date=August 24, 2012|archive-date=December 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226180248/http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/startrek.htm|url-status=live}} The Star Trek replicator is credited in the scientific literature with inspiring the field of diatom nanotechnology.{{Cite journal|last1=Drum|first1=Ryan W|last2=Gordon|first2=Richard|date=August 1, 2003|title=Star Trek replicators and diatom nanotechnology|journal=Trends in Biotechnology|publisher=Cell Press|volume=21|issue=8|pages=325–328|doi=10.1016/S0167-7799(03)00169-0|pmid=12902165| issn = 1879-3096}} In 1976, following a letter-writing campaign, NASA named its prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise, after the fictional starship.{{Cite web|url=https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/enterprise.html|title=Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)|last=Dumoulin|first=Jim|date=March 18, 1994|website=Kennedy Space Center|access-date=November 17, 2012|archive-date=August 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818040244/https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/enterprise.html|url-status=live}} Later, the introductory sequence to Star Trek: Enterprise included footage of this shuttle which, along with images of a naval sailing vessel called Enterprise, depicted the advancement of human transportation technology.

Beyond Star Trek{{'s}} fictional innovations, its contributions to television history included a multicultural and multiracial cast. While more common in subsequent years, in the 1960s it was controversial to feature an Enterprise crew that included a Japanese helmsman, a Russian navigator, and a black female communications officer. Captain Kirk's and Lt. Uhura's kiss, in the episode "Plato's Stepchildren", was also daring, and is often mis-cited as being American television's first scripted, interracial kiss, even though several other interracial kisses (e.g. on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour{{cite book |last=Norman |first=Phil |date=2015 |title=A History of Television in 100 Programmes |url=https://archive.org/details/historyoftelevis0000norm/page/114/mode/1up |url-access=registration |location=London |publisher=The Friday Project |isbn=978-0-00-757549-7 |page=114 |via=Internet Archive}}) predated this one. Nichelle Nichols, who played the communications officer, said that the day after she told Roddenberry of her plan to leave the series, she was told a big fan wanted to meet her while attending an NAACP dinner party:

{{Blockquote|I thought it was a Trekkie, and so I said, 'Sure.' I looked across the room, and there was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walking towards me with this big grin on his face. He reached out to me and said, 'Yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan.' He said that Star Trek was the only show that he, and his wife Coretta, would allow their three little children to stay up and watch. [She told King about her plans to leave the series.] I never got to tell him why, because he said, 'You can't. You're part of history.'|sign=Nichelle Nichols|source=Detroit Free Press (2016){{Cite news|url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/people/2016/09/05/year-mission-became-year-journey/89893988/|title=5-year mission became 50-year journey for 'Star Trek'|last=Bently|first=Rick|date=2016-09-05|work=Detroit Free Press|access-date=2016-09-06|agency=Tribune News Service|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327032328/https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/people/2016/09/05/year-mission-became-year-journey/89893988/|url-status=live}}}}

After the show, Nichols used this public standing to speak for women and people of color and against their exclusion from the US human space program; NASA reacted by asking her to find people for its future Space Shuttle program. Nichols proceeded and successfully brought the first non-white people and women into the US space program, working in this quality for NASA from the late 1970s until the late 1980s.{{cite web | title=Nichelle Nichols, NASA Recruiter | url=http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2004-00017.html | work=NASA | access-date=January 9, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091222042250/http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2004-00017.html | archive-date=December 22, 2009 |quote=From the late 1970s until the late 1980s, NASA employed Nichelle Nichols to recruit new astronaut candidates. Many of her new recruits were women or members of racial and ethnic minorities, including Guion Bluford (the first African-American astronaut), Sally Ride (the first female American astronaut), Judith Resnik (one of the original set of female astronauts, who perished during the launch of the Challenger on January 28, 1986), and Ronald McNair (the second African-American astronaut, and another victim of the Challenger accident).}}{{cite web|date=June 11, 2011|access-date=January 9, 2019|url=http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2011/06/q-a-nichelle-nichols-aka-lt-uhura-and-nasa/|title=Q & A: Nichelle Nichols, AKA Lt. Uhura, and NASA|publisher=Smithsonian.com|author=Arcynta Ali Childs|quote=Ten years after "Star Trek" was cancelled, almost to the day, I was invited to join the board of directors of the newly formed National Space Society. They flew me to Washington and I gave a speech called "New Opportunities for the Humanization of Space" or "Space, What's in it for me?" In [the speech], I'm going where no man or woman dares go. I took NASA on for not including women and I gave some history of the powerful women who had applied and, after five times applying, felt disenfranchised and backed off. [At that time] NASA was having their fifth or sixth recruitment and women and ethnic people [were] staying away in droves. I was asked to come to headquarters the next day and they wanted me to assist them in persuading women and people of ethnic backgrounds that NASA was serious [about recruiting them]. And I said you've got to be joking; I didn't take them seriously. . . . John Yardley, who I knew from working on a previous project, was in the room and said 'Nichelle, we are serious.' I said OK. I will do this and I will bring you the most qualified people on the planet, as qualified as anyone you've ever had and I will bring them in droves. And if you do not pick a person of color, if you do not pick a woman, if it's the same old, same old, all-white male astronaut corps, that you've done for the last five years, and I'm just another dupe, I will be your worst nightmare.|archive-date=June 27, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110627163412/http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2011/06/q-a-nichelle-nichols-aka-lt-uhura-and-nasa/}}

In 2020, the US effort to develop a vaccine to protect against COVID-19 was named Operation Warp Speed, which was suggested by a Star Trek fan, Peter Marks. Marks leads the unit at the Food and Drug Administration which approves vaccines and therapies.{{Cite web| last1 = LaFraniere| first1 = Sharon| last2 = Thomas| first2 = Katie| last3 = Weiland| first3 = Noah| last4 = Baker| first4 = Peter| last5 = Karni| first5 = Annie| title = Scientists Worry About Political Influence Over Coronavirus Vaccine Project| work = The New York Times| access-date = August 3, 2020| date = August 2, 2020| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/us/politics/coronavirus-vaccine.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage| archive-date = September 12, 2020| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200912012111/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/us/politics/coronavirus-vaccine.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage| url-status = live}}

Early parodies of Star Trek included a famous sketch on Saturday Night Live titled "The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise", with John Belushi as Kirk, Chevy Chase as Spock and Dan Aykroyd as McCoy.{{Cite book|title=Star Trek Visions of Law and Justice|last1=Chaires|first1=Robert|last2=Chilton|first2=Bradley|date=September 10, 2004|publisher=University of North Texas Press|isbn=978-0-9668080-2-5|location=Dallas|page=61}} In the 1980s, Saturday Night Live did a sketch with William Shatner reprising his Captain Kirk role in The Restaurant Enterprise, preceded by a sketch in which he played himself at a Trek convention angrily telling fans to "Get a Life", a phrase that has become part of Trek folklore.{{Cite book|title=Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations of Star Trek, Religion, and American Culture|last1=Porter|first1=Jennifer E|last2=McLaren|first2=Darcee L|date=January 1999|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-0-585-29190-1|location=Albany, New York|page=268}} In Living Color continued the tradition in a sketch where Captain Kirk is played by fellow Canadian Jim Carrey.{{Cite book|title=Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a White Future|last=Bernardi|first=Daniel Leonard|date=February 1998|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-2465-8|location=New Brunswick, New Jersey|page=1}}

A feature-length film that indirectly parodies Star Trek is Galaxy Quest. This film is based on the premise that aliens monitoring the broadcast of an Earth-based television series called Galaxy Quest, modeled heavily on Star Trek, believe that what they are seeing is real.{{Cite magazine|last1=Duncan|first1=Jody|last2=Shay|first2=Estelle|date=April 2000|title=Trekking into the Klaatu Nebula|magazine=Cinefex|issue=81|issn=0198-1056}} Many Star Trek actors have been quoted saying that Galaxy Quest was a brilliant parody.{{Cite web|url=http://www.scifi.com/startrek/takei/takei2.html|title=STAR TREK: George Takei Is Ready To Beam Up|website=Sci-Fi Channel|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325230032/http://www.scifi.com/startrek/takei/takei2.html|archive-date=March 25, 2009|access-date=March 27, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/stewart/page13.shtml|title=Cult – Star Trek – Patrick Stewart – Galaxy Quest|website=BBC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113105956/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/stewart/page13.shtml|archive-date=January 13, 2014|access-date=March 27, 2019}}

Star Trek has been blended with Gilbert and Sullivan at least twice. The North Toronto Players presented a Star Trek adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan titled H.M.S. Starship Pinafore: The Next Generation in 1991 and an adaptation by Jon Mullich of Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore that sets the operetta in the world of Star Trek has played in Los Angeles and was attended by series luminaries Nichelle Nichols,{{citation needed|date=May 2014}} D.C. Fontana and David Gerrold.{{Cite web|url=http://www.madbeast.com/pinafore_pix/pages/xDCF-DGpicture_jpg.htm|title=Welcome to madbeast.com – The Jon Mullich site|last=Mullich|first=Jon|website=madbeast.com|access-date=October 19, 2011|archive-date=September 30, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930134904/http://www.madbeast.com/pinafore_pix/pages/xDCF-DGpicture_jpg.htm|url-status=live}} A similar blend of Gilbert and Sullivan and Star Trek was presented as a benefit concert in San Francisco by the Lamplighters in 2009. The show was titled Star Drek: The Generation After That. It presented an original story with Gilbert and Sullivan melodies.{{Cite press release|url=http://www.lamplighters.org/press/Press_Rel_GAL09.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112001351/http://www.lamplighters.org/press/Press_Rel_GAL09.pdf|archive-date=January 12, 2012|title=Lamplighters Music Theatre presents Our Annual Champagne Gala & Auction STAR DREK: THE GENERATION AFTER THAT|publisher=Lamplighters Music Theatre|access-date=May 5, 2013|date=October 6, 2009}}

The Simpsons and Futurama television series and others have had many individual episodes parodying Star Trek or with Trek allusions.{{Cite book|title=Living with Star Trek: American Culture and the Star Trek Universe|last=Geraghty|first=Lincoln|date=March 30, 2007|publisher=I.B. Tauris|isbn=978-1-84511-421-3|location=London|pages=51–52}} Black Mirror's Star Trek parody episode, "USS Callister", won four Emmy Awards, including the Outstanding Television Movie and Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or Drama, and was nominated for three more.{{Cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/shows/uss-callister-black-mirror|title=USS Callister (Black Mirror) – Television Academy|website=Television Academy|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714164608/http://www.emmys.com/shows/uss-callister-black-mirror|url-status=live}} A sequel, "USS Callister: Into Infinity" was released on 2025.{{cite web |last1=Holub |first1=Christian |title='Black Mirror' returns in 2025 with 6 new episodes, including 'USS Callister' sequel |url=https://ew.com/black-mirror-returns-2025-uss-callister-sequel-8609387 |website=EW.com |publisher=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=12 November 2024 |language=en}}

In August 2010, the members of the Internal Revenue Service created a Star Trek themed training video for a conference. Revealed to the public in 2013, the spoof along with parodies of other media franchises was cited as an example of the misuse of taxpayer funds in a congressional investigation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/irs-official-apologizes-star-trek-spoof-video-article-1.1365589|title=IRS official apologizes for wasting funds on 'Star Trek' spoof video|last=Friedman|first=Dan|date=June 6, 2013|website=New York Daily News|access-date=May 24, 2016|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327032324/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/irs-official-apologizes-star-trek-spoof-video-article-1.1365589|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2013/0604/How-much-did-IRS-spend-filming-Star-Trek-spoof|title=How much did IRS spend filming 'Star Trek' spoof?|last=Grier|first=Peter|date=June 4, 2013|website=The Christian Science Monitor|access-date=May 24, 2016|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327032324/https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2013/0604/How-much-did-IRS-spend-filming-Star-Trek-spoof|url-status=live}}

Star Trek has been parodied in several non-English movies, including the German Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1 which features a gay version of the Original Series bridge crew and a Turkish film that spoofs that same series' episode "The Man Trap" in one of the series of films based on the character Turist Ömer.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}} An entire series of films and novel parodies titled Star Wreck has been created in Finnish.{{Cite web|url=http://herocomplex.latimes.com/uncategorized/star-wreck-is-the-best-finnish-star-trek-parody-ever/|title='Star Wreck,' from Finland with love|last=Whitmore|first=Linda|date=November 10, 2009|website=Los Angeles Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027104914/http://herocomplex.latimes.com/uncategorized/star-wreck-is-the-best-finnish-star-trek-parody-ever/|archive-date=October 27, 2016|access-date=December 18, 2017}}

The Orville is a comedy-drama science fiction television series created by Seth MacFarlane that premiered on September 10, 2017, on Fox. MacFarlane, a longtime fan of the franchise who previously guest-starred on an episode of Enterprise, created the series with a similar look and feel as the Star Trek series.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/16/15646290/the-orville-trailer-star-trek-parody-fox|title=The first trailer for The Orville promises Star Trek crossed with Family Guy's humor|last=Opam|first=Kwame|date=May 16, 2017|website=The Verge|access-date=May 18, 2017|archive-date=May 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518231641/https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/16/15646290/the-orville-trailer-star-trek-parody-fox|url-status=live}} MacFarlane has made references to Star Trek on his animated series Family Guy, where the Next Generation cast guest-starred in the episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven".

Other Space is a science fiction comedy streaming series which premiered on Yahoo! Screen on April 14, 2015. Created by Paul Feig, it is set in the 22nd century and follows the dysfunctional crew of an exploratory spaceship who become trapped in an unknown universe.

{{Main|Star Trek fan productions{{!}}Star Trek fan productions}}

Until 2016, Paramount Pictures and CBS permitted fan-produced films and episode-like clips to be produced. Several veteran Star Trek actors and writers participated in many of these productions. Several producers turned to crowdfunding, such as Kickstarter, to help with production and other costs.{{Cite web|url=https://www.space.com/26839-star-trek-axanar-kickstarter-fan-film.html|title='Star Trek: Axanar' Fan Film Warps Beyond Crowdfunding Goal|last=Howell|first=Elizabeth|date=August 14, 2014|website=Space.com|access-date=September 24, 2014|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327032327/https://www.space.com/26839-star-trek-axanar-kickstarter-fan-film.html|url-status=live}}

Popular productions include: New Voyages (2004–2016) and Star Trek Continues (2013–2017). Additional productions include: Of Gods and Men (2008), originally released as a three-part web series, and Prelude to Axanar.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}} Audio dramatizations such as The Continuing Mission (2007–2016) have also been published by fans.

In 2016, CBS published guidelines which restricted the scope of fan productions, such as limiting the length of episodes or films to fifteen minutes, limiting production budgets to $50,000, and preventing actors and technicians from previous Star Trek productions from participating.{{Cite web|url=http://www.startrek.com/fan-films|title=Fan Films|date=June 23, 2016|website=StarTrek.com|access-date=January 16, 2017|archive-date=January 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170120033226/http://www.startrek.com/fan-films|url-status=live}} A number of highly publicized productions have since been canceled or have gone abeyant.{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/culture/2016/07/crowdfunding-gave-us-a-golden-age-of-amateur-star-trek-and-then-led-to-its-downfall.html|title=Crowdfunding gave us a golden age of amateur Star Trek—and then led to its downfall.|last=Martinelli|first=Marissa|date=July 13, 2016|website=Slate|access-date=January 16, 2017|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327032324/https://slate.com/culture/2016/07/crowdfunding-gave-us-a-golden-age-of-amateur-star-trek-and-then-led-to-its-downfall.html|url-status=live}}

Star Trek has been a popular subject for documentaries reviewing the history of the franchise.{{Cite web|title=Star Trek: History Channel Orders 8-Part Docuseries Chronicling the Franchise|url=https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/star-trek-history-channel-documentary-series-the-center-seat-/|access-date=March 18, 2021|website=Comicbook.com|date=March 13, 2021 |language=en|archive-date=March 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316034330/https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/star-trek-history-channel-documentary-series-the-center-seat-/|url-status=live}} Some examples include:

• Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special (1991), is a 93-minute TV special hosted by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, wherein cast, crew, and special guests tell the story thus far, including behind-the-scenes and blooper video.{{cite journal |last1=Sherwood |first1=Rick |title=TV Reviews: 'Star Trek 25th Anniversary' |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |date=27 Sep 1991 |volume=319 |issue=18–33 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=URYIAQAAMAAJ |access-date=15 March 2025 |publisher=Wilkerson Daily Corporation}}{{cite web |title=Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274889/ |website=IMDb |access-date=15 March 2025}}

• Star Trek: A Captain's Log (1994), is a 43-minute TV special hosted by William Shatner, with actors from the original series talking about their characters and other aspects of the show, interspersed with scenes from the original series and subsequent films.{{cite book |last1=Terrace |first1=Vincent |title=Television Specials: 5,336 Entertainment Programs, 1936-2012 |date=3 July 2013 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786474448 |page=345,372 |edition=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BUvTYfLP624C |access-date=15 March 2025}}{{cite web |title=Star Trek: A Captain's Log |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324065/ |website=IMDb |access-date=15 March 2025}}

• Journey's End: Saga of Star Trek Next Generation (1994), is a 44-minute TV special hosted by Jonathon Frakes that reviewed the final season of the series and the upcoming Generations.{{Citation|title=Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek - The Next Generation (1994)|url=https://letterboxd.com/film/journeys-end-the-saga-of-star-trek-the-next-generation/|language=en|access-date=April 18, 2021|archive-date=March 13, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313121301/https://letterboxd.com/film/journeys-end-the-saga-of-star-trek-the-next-generation/|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|last=Weldon|first=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nhjsnWfFoiAC&q=Journey%E2%80%99s+End%3A+Saga+of+Star+Trek+Next+Generation&pg=PA531|title=The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film|date=1996|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-312-13149-4|page=531|language=en}}

• Star Trek: Voyager - Inside the New Adventure (1995), is a 45-minute TV special that aired the week before the Voyager premiere. Hosted by Robert Picardo, it goes behind-the-scenes of the series creation and the pilot "Caretaker" with cast and crew interviews.{{cite web |title=Star Trek: Voyager - Inside the New Adventure |url=https://letterboxd.com/film/star-trek-voyager-inside-the-new-adventure/ |website=Letterboxd |access-date=15 March 2025}}{{cite web |title=Star Trek: Voyager - Inside the New Adventure |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3294530/ |website=IMDb |access-date=15 March 2025}}

• Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond (1996) is a 90-minute TV special of an on-stage celebration of Star Trek's 30th anniversary. Presenters include Ted Danson, Ben Stiller, Joan Collins, John Larroquette, several Star Trek actors, and astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Mae Jemison. It features Voyager sketch comedy with Kate Mulgrew and Frasier cast members Peri Gilpin, David Hyde Pierce, Jane Leeves, and John Mahoney, and musical performances by Kenny G and opera singer Jennifer Larmore.{{cite web |title=Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274890/ |website=IMDb |access-date=15 March 2025}}

• Inside Star Trek: The Real Story (1998), subtitled "A first hand acount - by the insiders", is hosted by Herbert F. Solow, former Head of Television Productions at Desilu Studios, and features interviews with those who worked behind the scenes (writers, directors, producers, technicians and artists) on the original series, based upon the 1996 book of the same name that he co-wrote with Robert H. Justman.{{cite book |last1=Solow |first1=Herbert F. |last2=Justman |first2=Robert H. |title=Inside Star Trek: The Real Story |date=1996 |publisher=Pocket Books |isbn=9780671896287 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lbZ5QgAACAAJ |access-date=15 March 2025}}{{cite web |title=Inside Star Trek: The Real Story |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367885/ |website=IMDb |access-date=15 March 2025}}

• Trekkies (1997), exploring the subculture of Star Trek fandom.

• Trekkies 2 (2004), visits fans from other countries, examines the "Trekker" vs "Trekkie" debate, and revisits fans from Trekkies (1997).

• How William Shatner Changed the World (2005), is a two hour TV special hosted by William Shatner that interviews inventors, doctors, professors and others on how Star Trek has changed today's world.{{cite book |last1=Sullivan III |first1=C.W. |last2=Palumbo |first2=Donald E. |title=The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture |date=2007 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476612799 |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7bhTDwAAQBAJ |access-date=15 March 2025}}{{cite web |title=How William Shatner Changed the World |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814142/ |website=IMDb |access-date=15 March 2025}}

• Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier (2007). Leonard Nimoy hosts this 2-hour 40th Anniversary show with cast, crew and fan reactions to the franchise and thousands of props, identified by Michael and Denise Okuda, for auction at Christie's in New York.{{Cite web|date=February 18, 2007|title=Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/star-trek-beyond-final-frontier-158108|access-date=March 18, 2021|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en|archive-date=April 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417220545/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/star-trek-beyond-final-frontier-158108|url-status=live}}

• Star Trek: The Captains' Summit (2009) - Hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, this 71-minute special filmed for the Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection is a round table discussion with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, and Jonathan Frakes about their work on-set and how the franchise has affected their lives.{{cite web |title=Star Trek: The Captains' Summit |url=https://www.blu-ray.com/Star-Trek-The-Captains-Summit/1594897/ |website=Blu-ray.com |access-date=15 March 2025}}{{cite web |title=The Captains' Summit |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1394315/ |website=IMDb |access-date=15 March 2025}}

• Chaos on the Bridge: The Untold Story Behind Trek's Next Generation (2014), is a 59-minute TV special hosted by William Shatner that recalls the struggle to launch and produce The Next Generation with interviews by writers, producers, executives, cast, and crew.{{cite book |last1=Britt |first1=Ryan |title=Phasers on Stun! How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World |date=31 May 2022 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=9780593185704 |page=350 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJhDEAAAQBAJ |access-date=15 March 2025}}{{cite web |title=Chaos on the Bridge |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2880448/ |website=IMDb |access-date=15 March 2025}}

• 50 Years of Star Trek (2016), an 85-minute retrospective by cast, crew, creators, and critics about the impact of Star Trek from its creation, to the present, and into the future.{{cite web |title=50 Years of Star Trek |url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/50-years-of-star-trek/2000207569/ |website=TV Guide |access-date=15 March 2025}}{{cite web |title=50 Years of Star Trek |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5941796/ |website=IMDb |access-date=15 March 2025}}

• Building Star Trek (2016), is a 92-minute special commemorating the 50th anniversary and the efforts by a conservation team from Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum to restore and conserve the original 11-foot model of the U.S.S. Enterprise from the original series. It features interviews with astronauts, engineers, writers, and cast.{{cite web |title=Building Star Trek (Full Episode) |url=https://www.si.edu/object/building-star-trek-full-episode%3Ayt_xYXRkwY9zfs |website=Smithsonian Channel |access-date=15 March 2025}}{{cite web |title=Building Star Trek |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6071476/ |website=IMDb |access-date=15 March 2025}}

• The Center Seat (2016), an 85-minute special on Star Trek for its 50th anniversary, aired by the History network.

• For the Love of Spock (2016), focusing on the history and impact of the character Spock.

• The Roddenberry Vault (2016), is a Blu-ray release of newly-located footage cut from the original series, taken from film located in personal archives. Three new one-hour documentaries and audio commentaries were produced by specialists Roger Lay, Jr., Michael Okuda, and Denise Okuda. The three documentaries are titled, Inside the Roddenberry Vault, Star Trek: Revisiting a Classic , and Strange New Worlds: Visualizing the Fantastic.{{cite web |title=Rod Roddenberry Opens The Roddenberry Vault |url=https://www.startrek.com/news/rod-roddenberry-opens-the-roddenberry-vault |website=StarTrek.com |access-date=15 March 2025 |date=12 Dec 2016}}{{cite web |title=Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6285552/ |website=IMDb |access-date=15 March 2025}}

• What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2019), is a two-hour special about the production and legacy of the show.{{cite web|last=Bastién|first=Angelica Jade|date=May 17, 2019|title=What We Left Behind Boldly Argues for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Place in the Black TV Canon|url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/what-we-left-behind-documentary-deep-space-nine.html|access-date=May 27, 2019|website=vulture.com|archive-date=November 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118034207/https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/what-we-left-behind-documentary-deep-space-nine.html|url-status=live}}

• The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek (2021), an eleven-episode documentary series ordered by the cable network History covering the franchise's decades-long history.{{Cite web|last=Grobar|first=Matt|date=March 11, 2021|title='The Center Seat: 55 Years Of Star Trek': History Channel Sets 8-Part Docuseries From The Nacelle Company|url=https://deadline.com/2021/03/star-trek-documentary-series-history-channel-nacelle-company-1234711394/|access-date=March 18, 2021|website=Deadline|language=en-US|archive-date=March 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320153641/https://deadline.com/2021/03/star-trek-documentary-series-history-channel-nacelle-company-1234711394/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15766736/|title=The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek (2021-2022)|website=IMDb|date=March 31, 2022|access-date=August 27, 2024}} It was narrated by Gates McFadden, who was also one of the executive producers.

Some documentaries have been funded by the community by money raised by crowdfunding.{{Cite news|title=Star Trek: Voyager Documentary Breaks Record, Expands Crowdfunding Campaign|url=https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/star-trek-voyager-documentary-indiegogo-campaign-record/|access-date=March 18, 2021|website=Star Trek|language=en|archive-date=March 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320221902/https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/star-trek-voyager-documentary-indiegogo-campaign-record/|url-status=live}} What We Left Behind raised nearly $650,000 in this way, and a planned Voyager documentary, titled To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager, raised $450,000 in 24 hours.{{Cite web|date=March 16, 2021|title='Star Trek: Voyager' Doc Becomes Most Successful Documentary Crowdfunding Campaign Ever|url=https://www.thathashtagshow.com/2021/03/16/star-trek-voyager-doc-becomes-most-successful-documentary-crowdfunding-campaign-ever/|access-date=March 18, 2021|website=That Hashtag Show|language=en-US|archive-date=March 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316193522/https://www.thathashtagshow.com/2021/03/16/star-trek-voyager-doc-becomes-most-successful-documentary-crowdfunding-campaign-ever/|url-status=live}}

{{Main|Lists of Star Trek awards{{!}}List of Star Trek awards}}

File:Jeri Ryan 2010.jpg, appearing at the Creation Star Trek convention in 2010; she was nominated for three Saturn awards and won for Best Supporting Actress in 2001 and 2024.]]

Of the various science fiction awards for drama, only the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation dates back as far as the original series.{{Efn|Although the Hugo Award is mainly given for print-media science fiction, its "best drama" award is usually given to film or television presentations. The Hugo does not give out awards for best actor, director, or other aspects of film production. Before 2002, films and television series competed for the same Hugo, before the split of the drama award into short drama and long drama.}} In 1968, all five nominees for a Hugo Award were individual episodes of Star Trek, as were three of the five nominees in 1967, one of which won.{{Efn|Other nominees for the 1967 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation were Fahrenheit 451 and Fantastic Voyage.}}{{Rp|231}} The Next Generation won Hugo awards in 1993 and 1995. Nominations have also been received by Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, Discovery, and Lower Decks, as well as several of the Star Trek feature films and, in 2008, an episode of the fan-made series Star Trek: Phase II.

One of the most successful films was Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which grossed a global total of $133 million against a $21 million budget.{{cite news|last=Eller|first=Claudia|date=December 11, 1998|title=Lower Costs Energize 'Trek' Film Profits|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-11-fi-52785-story.html|url-status=live|access-date=May 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118040221/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-11-fi-52785-story.html|archive-date=November 18, 2020}}{{cite web|author=Pascale, Anthony|date=June 30, 2010|title=Exclusive: Producer Ralph Winter on Star Trek V: We Almost Killed The Franchise|url=http://trekmovie.com/2010/06/30/producer-ralph-winter-on-star-trek-v-we-almost-killed-the-franchise|access-date=July 1, 2010|publisher=TrekMovie|archive-date=July 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703022537/http://trekmovie.com/2010/06/30/producer-ralph-winter-on-star-trek-v-we-almost-killed-the-franchise/|url-status=live}}The Voyage Home garnered 11 nominations at the 14th annual Saturn Awards, tying Aliens for number of nominations. Nimoy and Shatner were nominated for best actor for their roles,{{cite news|date=August 5, 1987|title=Former CIA chief gets shinier in mugging|page=3A|work=St. Petersburg Times|agency=Associated Press}} and Catherine Hicks was nominated for best supporting actress. At the 59th Academy Awards, The Voyage Home was nominated for Best Cinematography, Sound (Terry Porter, David J. Hudson, Mel Metcalfe and Gene Cantamessa), Sound Effects Editing, and Original Score.{{cite news|author=Canby, Vincent|date=February 22, 1987|title=Film View; Oscars Seen In a Crystal Ball|at=sec. 2; p. 1, col. 1|work=The New York Times}}

The episode "The Big Goodbye" in the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, in recognition of its "new standard of quality for first-run syndication", the episode was honored with a Peabody Award in 1987. "The Big Goodbye" was also nominated for two Emmy Awards in the categories of Outstanding Cinematography for a Series and Outstanding Costumes for a Series, with costume designer William Ware Theiss winning the award in the latter category.{{cite web|title=Primetime Emmy Award Database|url=http://www.emmys.com/award_history_search|access-date=July 5, 2013|publisher=Emmys.com|archive-date=September 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130904172046/http://www.emmys.com/award_history_search|url-status=live}}

Star Trek (2009) won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, the franchise's first Academy Award. In 2016, the franchise was listed in the Guinness World Records as the most successful science fiction television franchise in the world.{{Cite web|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/446385-most-successful-sci-fi-tv-franchise|title=Most successful sci-fi TV franchise|date=October 7, 2016|website=Guinness World Records|access-date=October 11, 2016|archive-date=October 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023095400/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/446385-most-successful-sci-fi-tv-franchise|url-status=live}}

In 2024, the entire Star Trek franchise was awarded the Peabody Institutional Award for its enduring body of work and lasting impact on media and society at large.{{cite web|title=84th Annual Peabody Award Winners Announced|date=May 8, 2024 |url=https://peabodyawards.com/stories/84th-annual-peabody-award-winners-announced/|access-date=May 14, 2024|publisher=Peabodyawards.com}}

Star Trek began as a joint-production of Norway Productions, owned by Roddenberry, and Desilu, owned by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. The profit-sharing agreement for the series split proceeds between Norway, Desilu (later Paramount Television), William Shatner's production company, and the broadcast network, NBC. However, Star Trek lost money during its initial broadcast, and NBC did not expect to recoup its losses by selling the series into syndication, nor did Paramount. With NBC's approval, Paramount offered its share of the series to Roddenberry sometime in 1970. However, Roddenberry could not raise the $150,000 ({{Inflation|US|150000|1970|fmt=eq}}) offered by the studio. Paramount would go on to license the series to television syndicators worldwide. NBC's remaining broadcast and distribution rights eventually returned to Paramount and Roddenberry sometime before 1986, which coincided with the development of what would become The Next Generation.

As for Desilu, the studio was acquired by Gulf+Western. It was then reorganized as the television production division of Paramount Pictures, which Gulf+Western had acquired in 1966. Gulf+Western sold its remaining industrial assets in 1989, renaming itself Paramount Communications. Sometime before 1986, Sumner Redstone had acquired a controlling stake of Viacom via his family's theater chain, National Amusements. Viacom was established in 1952 as a division of CBS responsible for syndicating the network's in-house productions, originally called CBS Films. In 1994, Viacom and Paramount Communications were merged. Viacom then merged with its former parent, CBS Corporation, in 1999. National Amusements and the Redstone family increased their stake in the combined company between 1999 and 2005.

In 2005, the Redstone family reorganized Viacom, spinning off the conglomerate's assets as two independent groups: the new Viacom, and the new CBS Corporation. National Amusements and the Redstone family retained approximately 80% ownership of both CBS and Viacom.{{Cite press release|title=National Amusements, Inc. Proposes Combination of CBS and Viacom|date=September 26, 2016|publisher=National Amusements|last1=Sumner|first1=Redstone|author-link1=Sumner Redstone|url=https://www.nationalamusements.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/National-Amusements-Inc.-Proposes-Combination-of-CBS-and-Viacom.pdf|last2=Redstone|first2=Shari|author-link2=Shari Redstone|access-date=July 18, 2019|archive-date=October 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009041252/https://www.nationalamusements.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/National-Amusements-Inc.-Proposes-Combination-of-CBS-and-Viacom.pdf|url-status=live}} Star Trek was split between the two entities. The terms of this split were not known. However, CBS held all copyrights, marks, production assets, and film negatives, to all Star Trek television series. CBS also retained the rights to all likenesses, characters, names and settings, and stories, and the right to license Star Trek, and its spin-offs, to merchandisers, and publishers, etc.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/how-web-star-trek-rights-killed-jj-abrams-grand-ambitions-91766/|title=How the Battle Over 'Star Trek' Rights Killed J.J. Abrams' Grand Ambitions|last1=Lang|first1=Brent|date=May 15, 2013|website=TheWrap|access-date=June 21, 2019|archive-date=June 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621112615/https://www.thewrap.com/how-web-star-trek-rights-killed-jj-abrams-grand-ambitions-91766/|url-status=live}} The rights were exercised via the new CBS Television Studios, which was carved out of the former Paramount Television.

Viacom, which housed Paramount Pictures, retained the feature film library, and exclusive rights to produce new feature films for a limited time.{{Citation needed|date=July 2019}} Viacom also retained home video distribution rights for all television series produced before 2005.{{Cite web|url=https://trekmovie.com/2010/02/11/star-trek-helps-bring-big-profits-to-viacom-paramount/|title=Star Trek Helps Bring Big Profits To Viacom & Paramount|last=Pascale|first=Anthony|date=February 11, 2010|website=TrekMovie.com|access-date=October 19, 2011|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327032336/https://trekmovie.com/2010/02/11/star-trek-helps-bring-big-profits-to-viacom-paramount/|url-status=live}} However, home video editions of the various television series released after the split, as well as streaming video versions of episodes available worldwide, carried variants of the new CBS Television Studios livery in addition to the original Paramount Television Studios livery. It was unclear who retained the synchronization or streaming rights.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

Rights and distribution issues, and the fraught relationship between the leadership at CBS, Viacom, and the National Amusements' board of directors, resulted in a number of delayed and canceled Star Trek productions between 2005 and 2019.{{Cite web|url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/shari-redstone-cbs-viacom-media-empire.html|title=Shari Redstone's $30 Billion Triumph|last=Carmon|first=Irin|date=July 9, 2019|website=Intelligencer|language=en|access-date=July 18, 2019|archive-date=July 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715044151/http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/shari-redstone-cbs-viacom-media-empire.html|url-status=live}} Additionally, the development and release of the new Star Trek film, in 2009, was met with resistance by executives at CBS, as was Into Darkness (2013) and Beyond (2016), which affected merchandising, tie-in media, and promotion for the new films.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/star-trek-cbs-viacom-paramount/|title=New Star Trek trilogy delayed over legal battle|last=Baker-Whitelaw|first=Gavia|date=May 17, 2018|website=The Daily Dot|language=en|access-date=June 21, 2019|archive-date=June 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621112611/https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/star-trek-cbs-viacom-paramount/|url-status=live}} During this period, both CBS and Viacom continued to list Star Trek as an important asset in their prospectus to investors, and in corporate filings made to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

On August 13, 2019, CBS and Viacom boards of directors reached an agreement to reunite the conglomerates as a single entity called ViacomCBS.{{Cite news|last=Lee|first=Edmund|date=August 13, 2019|title=CBS and Viacom to Reunite in Victory for Shari Redstone|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/business/cbs-viacom-merger.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813182004/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/business/cbs-viacom-merger.html |archive-date=August 13, 2019 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|access-date=August 13, 2019|issn=0362-4331}} National Amusements' board of directors approved the merger on October 28, 2019, which was finalized on December 4, bringing the Star Trek franchise back under one roof.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/viacom-cbs-merger-now-expected-close-early-december-1250634|title=Viacom-CBS Merger Now Expected to Close in "Early December"|last=Weprin|first=Alex|date=October 28, 2019|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en|access-date=November 5, 2019|archive-date=November 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105094755/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/viacom-cbs-merger-now-expected-close-early-december-1250634|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/viacom-cbs-close-merger-dec-4-1255617|title=Viacom, CBS Set Date to Close Merger|last=Szalai|first=Georg|date=November 25, 2019|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en-US|access-date=December 8, 2019|archive-date=December 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203150907/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/viacom-cbs-close-merger-dec-4-1255617|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/viacom-cbs-merger-stock-companies-are-officially-back-together-again/|title=Viacom and CBS Corp. are officially back together again|date=December 4, 2019|website=CBS News|access-date=December 4, 2019|archive-date=December 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205031555/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/viacom-cbs-merger-stock-companies-are-officially-back-together-again/|url-status=live}} ViacomCBS was renamed Paramount Global on February 16, 2022.{{Cite web |last=Littleton |first=Cynthia |date=February 15, 2022 |title=Goodbye Viacom and CBS: ViacomCBS Changes Corporate Name to Paramount |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/viacomcbs-paramount-corporate-name-change-1235182825/ |access-date=April 26, 2023 |website=Variety |language=en-US |archive-date=February 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215221417/https://variety.com/2022/film/news/viacomcbs-paramount-corporate-name-change-1235182825/ |url-status=live }}

On July 7, 2024, Paramount Global's board approved a deal to merge with Skydance Media, the resulting company was being referred to at that time as "New Paramount".{{Cite news |last1=Mullin |first1=Benjamin |last2=Hirsch |first2=Lauren |date=2024-07-07 |title=Paramount Agrees to Merge With Skydance |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/business/media/paramount-skydance-merger-deal.html |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite press release |url=https://ir.paramount.com/news-releases/news-release-details/skydance-media-and-paramount-global-sign-definitive-agreement/ |title=Skydance Media and Paramount Global Sign Definitive Agreement to Advance Paramount as a World-Class Media and Technology Enterprise |publisher=Paramount |date=July 7, 2024 |access-date=April 22, 2025}} As of April 2025, the deal is awaiting FCC approval and facing a series of lawsuits.{{cite web |url=https://www.thewrap.com/paramount-skydance-merger-closing-deadline-extended/ |title=Paramount-Skydance Merger Deadline Extended 90 Days as FCC Approval Remains in Limbo |work=The Wrap |last=Manfredi |first=Lucas |date=April 7, 2025 |access-date=April 22, 2025}}

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• Outline of Star Trek
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• {{Cite book|last=Asherman|first=Allan|date=March 20, 1981|title=The Star Trek Compendium|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=0-671-79145-1}}
• {{Cite book|last1=Barad|first1=Judith|last2=Robertson|first2=Ed|date=December 5, 2000|title=The Ethics of Star Trek|location=New York|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=0-06-019530-4|url=https://archive.org/details/ethicsofstartrek00bara}}
• {{Cite book|last=Ellison|first=Harlan|author-link=Harlan Ellison|date=January 1996|title=The City on the Edge of Forever|location=Benson, Maryland|publisher=Borderlands Press|isbn=1-880325-02-0|title-link=The City on the Edge of Forever}}
• {{Cite book|last=Gerrold|first=David|author-link=David Gerrold|date=April 12, 1973|title=Trouble with Tribbles|location=New York|publisher=Ballantine Books|isbn=0-345-23402-2|title-link=The Trouble with Tribbles}}
• {{Cite book|last=Gerrold|first=David|title=The World of Star Trek|edition=Revised|location=New York|publisher=Bluejay Books|date=May 1984|isbn=0-312-94463-2}}
• {{Cite book|last=Greenwald|first=Jeff|date=June 1998|title=Future Perfect: How Star Trek Conquered Planet Earth|location=New York|publisher=Viking|isbn=0-670-87399-3|url=https://archive.org/details/futureperfecthow00gree}}
• {{Cite book|last=Krauss|first=Lawrence M|date=September 1995|title=The Physics of Star Trek|location=New York|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=0-465-00559-4|url=https://archive.org/details/physicsofstartr000krau}}
• {{Cite book|last1=Lichtenberg|first1=Jacqueline|author-link=Jacqueline Lichtenberg|last2=Marshak|first2=Sondra|author-link2=Sondra Marshak|last3=Winston|first3=Joan|author-link3=Joan Winston|date=July 1975|title=Star Trek Lives!|location=New York|publisher=Bantam Books|isbn=0-553-02151-6|title-link=Star Trek Lives!}}
• {{Cite book|last=McIntee|first=David|title=Delta Quadrant: The Unofficial Guide to Star Trek Voyager|date=March 9, 2000|location=London|publisher=Virgin Books|isbn=0-7535-0436-7}}
• {{Cite book|last=Nichols|first=Nichelle|author-link=Nichelle Nichols|date=October 19, 1994|title=Beyond Uhura|location=New York|publisher=Putnam Adult|isbn=0-399-13993-1|url=https://archive.org/details/beyonduhurastart00nich}}
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• {{Cite book|last1=Shatner|first1=William|author-link=William Shatner|last2=Kreski|first2=Chris|author-link2=Chris Kreski|date=May 1999|title=Get a Life!|location=New York|publisher=Pocket Books|isbn=0-671-02131-1|url=https://archive.org/details/getlife00shat}}
• {{Cite book|last1=Shatner|first1=William|author-link=William Shatner|last2=Walter|first2=Chip|date=July 30, 2002|title=I'm Working on That: A Trek from Science Fiction to Science Fact|location=New York|publisher=Pocket Books|isbn=0-671-04737-X|url=https://archive.org/details/startrekimworkin0000shat}}
• {{Cite book|last=Winston|first=Joan|author-link=Joan Winston|title=The Making of the Trek Conventions|date=November 1977|location=New York|publisher=Knopf Doubleday|isbn=0-385-13112-7}}

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