Forester's Horatio Hornblower series of novels, Jonathan Swift 's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels, the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, and television westerns such as Wagon Train. In creating Star Trek, Roddenberry was inspired by C. It followed the voyages of the starship USS Enterprise, a space exploration vessel built by the United Federation of Planets in the 23rd century, on a mission 'to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before'.
It was first broadcast on September 6, 1966, on Canada's CTV network. The franchise began with Star Trek: The Original Series, which debuted in the US on September 8, 1966, and aired for three seasons on NBC. With an estimated $10.6 billion in revenue, Star Trek is one of the most recognizable and highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The franchise has been expanded into various films, television series, video games, novels, and comic books.
Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s series and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.
Logo as it appears in The Original Series
