Star Trek

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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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He recently talked by phone with John Matson, host of our 60-Second Space podcast, about what might happen to a spacefaring humanity if we really were to take a star trek.

From Scientific American • Dec. 19, 2012

All science begins in a star trek mode: go where no one has gone before and discover new things without knowing in advance what they might be.

From Scientific American • Jul. 5, 2012

Trekking is a popular pastime in the Himalayas, but when World Bank President Robert McNamara, 63, comes along, that obviously makes it a star trek.

From Time Magazine Archive