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Star Trek premiered on the 6th of September 1966 on Canada's CTV network, then debuted in the United States on the 8th of September 1966 on NBC. The Original Series ran for three seasons and 79 episodes before NBC canceled it.
Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek, drafting a proposal as early as 1964 and pitching it as "a Wagon Train to the stars." He drew inspiration from C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, and television westerns. He died on the 24th of October 1991.
Paramount Pictures has produced thirteen Star Trek feature films. The first six continue the Original Series cast, three focus on the Next Generation cast, and the eleventh film in 2009 rebooted the franchise in an alternate continuity called the Kelvin Timeline.
Fans of Star Trek call themselves "Trekkies" or "Trekkers." The fandom grew into a full subculture, organizing conventions worldwide, beginning with the first Star Trek convention held on the 21st to the 23rd of January 1972 in New York City.
Star Trek inspired designers of the Palm PDA and the handheld mobile phone, and Google Earth's chief technologist cited the tricorder as an inspiration. NASA named its prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise after the fictional starship in 1976, and a fan suggested the name Operation Warp Speed for the US COVID-19 vaccine effort in 2020.
Star Trek is owned by the company formed when Paramount Global merged with Skydance Media, a deal completed on the 7th of August 2025 and named "Paramount, A Skydance Corporation," widely called Paramount Skydance. The franchise had been split between CBS and Viacom from 2005 until they reunited as ViacomCBS in December 2019.