Star Trek

Cultural  

1. A television series of the 1960s, and later a series of successful films, in which a group of space explorers in their craft, the Enterprise, traveled through interstellar space.

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The original Star Trek programs spawned a number of other television series during the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century.

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"I think of it like the Star Trek motto, to boldly go where no one has before," Burton says.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026

Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. together control 30% of the U.S. box office, BofA estimates, including titles like Star Trek, Harry Potter, and DC Comics.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

Viewers would be able to enjoy a broader range of content with one single subscription, from current hits such as The Pitt, to classics like Casablanca, Star Trek, Friends and the Sopranos.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

We believed in the “conquest of space,” that Star Trek was a plausible version of life in the 23rd century.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

Posters of different shuttle launches, including Columbia, Challenger, and Atlantis, mixed in with various Star Trek posters of Nyota Uhura.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas