Star Trek Franchise TV Tropes. These are the voyages. And its still going, with a new series on the way. The setting in every series is sometime in the distant future featuring a collection of broadly similar rubber foreheaded polities spanning fairly small segments of the so called quadrants of the Milky Way galaxy, with the stories centered around an Earth based interstellar government called the United Federation of Planets and the exploits of its fleet of starships, Starfleet. The 25 Best TV Shows of 2016. Here are are the shows we obsessively bingewatched and couldnt stop talking about. Star 2016 Tv Series' title='Star 2016 Tv Series' />Russells TV series starring Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore has landed at Amazon, sources tell Variety. The Weinstein Company is producing. Every series dealt with a particular crew, mostly of various ships named Enterprise. As originally envisioned by its creator, Gene Roddenberry, the science fiction nature of the series was just a method to address many social issues of the time that could not have been done in a normal drama. Star 2016 Tv Series' title='Star 2016 Tv Series' />As such, it was not above being Anvilicious or engaging in thinly veiled social satire, but considering its origin during the 6. Rome Season 2 Ep 5. It was, for the most part, way on the happy end of the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism, at least partially because of its solid allegiance to the Enlightened side of Romanticism Versus Enlightenment. But it still found some sort of balance between a Dystopia and a Crystal Spires and Togas future. In general, it is a future you hope will come true, albeit after humanity endured terrible troubles like the Eugenics Wars led by the genetically enhanced conqueror, Khan Noonien Singh, and a third world war, and rose above them. All series have sought to show that while you may think the world is falling apart and there is no chance of global unity, all this crap will eventually work itself out. The series has also had a profound impact on modern culture and media. Everyone with any exposure to Western pop culture has heard of the Starship Enterprise, and the series predicted and possibly inspired the PC, tablet, automatic doors, cell phones, natural language AI and more, decades before their invention. Not so incidentally, the first African American woman in space was inspired to become an astronaut because of Nichelle Nichols pioneering role. Also not so incidentally, the space shuttle Enterprise was named after the iconic starship, as is the first commercial spacecraft. And finally, Star Trek also gave rise to Fandom as we know it when Star Trek The Original Series began to pick up steam in syndication, fans organized conventions, wrote fanfiction, dressed in costume, and generally made enough noise to keep the franchise going for fifty years and counting. Every fandom since has grown from that original outpouring of fannish activity and devotion. The franchise consists of    openclose all folders      The Original Series Star Trek The Original Series. Captain James T. Kirk William Shatner leads the brave crew of the Cool Starship. Enterprise on a mission. The original series suffered in the ratings, but gained a devoted fanbase. Un Canceled after the second season, and then Cancelled again at the end of the third. It really picked up steam in syndication, which was about the time demographics came into play and the Real Life moon landing happened a week after its last episode aired. The shows writing was good, the cast had great chemistry and the characters themselves were very memorable, to the point of creating three new archetypes The Kirk, The Spock, and The Mc. Coy. In fact, this series created so many new tropes that it has left an unmistakable mark on both television and pop culture ever since. Not to mention inspired a lot of mostly affectionate parodies. The quality of the show was hit and miss, with some being mediocre cartoon fare while others were excellent, and the series got the franchises first Emmy award. The official canonicity of this series has gone back and forthnote The official Star Trek website currently considers it canon, though Gene Roddenberry, prior to his passing, apparently didnt., but at least some elements have bled over into the rest of the franchise most notably, identifying the. Kirk to stand for. Takes place in the 2. Enterprise D, with the same mission of exploration as the original. The new captain is Jean Luc Picard Patrick Stewart. Introduced the holodeck although a version of it appeared first in the canonnoncanon. Also, there was Q. Set on a former Cardassian space station formerly Terok Nor, renamed Deep Space Nine in a politically unstable part of space near the planet Bajor, with exclusive access to a rare stable wormhole that leads from the Alpha to the Gamma Quadrant. From the fourth season onwards, former TNG character Worf joined the cast and the whole series got much darker with a massive interstellar war between the Federation, Cardassians, Klingons, Romulans, and the Dominion. Was also the first Trek series to use Story Arcs extensively, rather than persisting with a strictly episodic format. Generally considered the Oddball in the Series as far as the television shows go, though usually in a positive way while there is a portion of the fanbase that dislikes it, those who do like it tend to consider it the franchises high water mark. While searching for a group of rogue Starfleet people called the Maquis, both the title ship and a Maquis ship are flung across the galaxy and stranded in the Delta Quadrant, 7. Lost in Space a la Star Trek. Had the first main character female captain in the franchise. In the mainstream, this show is best perhaps only known for its Ms. Fanservice character, Seven of Nine. Among fans, its infamous for the Villain Decay of the Borg, the obscene levels of Techno Babble, and mashing the Reset Button after roughly every other episode, but it is also notable for tackling controversial topics even other Trek series wouldnt touch. Set a hundred years or so before Kirk and the Federation, when humans are just getting their space legs and the Applied Phlebotinum is not nearly as reliable, aboard Earths first, experimental Warp 5 capable starship, the Enterprise NX 0. It began with a Myth Arc involving the Enterprise crew getting caught up in a. Sadly, just as it began to pick up steam, it was abruptly cancelled. Infamous for the pop song in the opening credits, and for being the first Trek series since the original to be canceled before the usual seven seasons. In November 2. 01. CBSannounced that a new Star Trek series would premiere in January 2. The project will be executive produced by Alex Kurtzman, who contributed to the first two J. Abrams films, and showran by Bryan Fuller, who wrote for DS9 and VOY. In the US, the first episode will be previewed on broadcast TV afterwards, the series will move primarily to CBS All Access, the networks on demandstreaming service, while also airing in syndication in the same way TNG did. In Canada, the series will be available on Crave. TV and air on Space Channel. In every other country worldwide, except Mainland China, the series will be streamed to Netflix. At San Diego Comic Con 2. Bryan Fuller announced the series title and unveiled the titular starship, the USS Discovery NCC 1. Happy End Movie Watch Online more. He confirmed DSC will have serialised season long story arcs rather than episodic plots, and that it will be set in the prime timeline rather than the Kelvin Timeline of the J. Abrams films. On September 1. May of 2. 01. 7, and that filming was delayed until November. A continuation of the original series and featuring a second five year mission, it would have introduced a number of new characters in conjunction with the original crew. When the network project died and the insane success of Star Wars A New Hope made sci fi films profitable again, Paramount elaborated the series pilot into The Movie, which ultimately led to a whole new line of movies. Many of the concepts from Phase II along with some scripts made their way into Star Trek The Next Generation and the series itself is considered deuterocanon not. Kirk rallies the old crew to intercept a technological Eldritch Abomination heading towards Earth. Amazon Nabs Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore, David O. Russell TV Series. David O. Russells TV series starring Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore has landed at Amazon, sources tell Variety. Watch The Maze Runner Download more. The Weinstein Company is producing. The high profile package was put together this August and was shopped around to networks and production companies shortly after. Insiders tell Variety that FX and Amazon emerged as the front runners, and in early October, Amazon had become the likely home for the series. Details on the plot and storyline are scarce, though the project is believed to be serialized. While an episodic commitment has not been announced at this time, industry sources say De Niros paycheck is a hefty 8. ORussell will write and direct all episodes. He will work alongside Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan and Megan Ellison, who are all on board as producers. The project marks ORussells big foray into TV, following award winning films, including Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and most recently Joy. De Niro and Moore, both Academy Award winners, are the latest A listers to flock to television. The trend started with Matthew Mc. Conaughey and Woody Harrelson signing on for the first season of HBOs True Detective and Halle Berry starring in Extant on CBS. Coming up on Showtime is Purity, starring James Bonds Daniel Craig, and also Maniac at Netflix with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. ORussell, De Niro, and Moore are all repped by CAA.