STAR TREK THE ORIGINAL SERIES

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For thirty years of Star Trek episodes, film and information, the Star Trek Continuum is the best place for all your Star Trek needs. Involving the latest technology in web page design, using Macromedia Shockwave's Director and Java, this site is number one to the world of Gene Roddenberry.
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Welcome to the informative original series web site... This site contains the information to the series that began it all. Run under network contraints the show only lasted three years, but gained phenomenal success in syndication. The story is now familiar to us now thus far. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.

The series that began it all, debuted in 1966. Gene Roddenberry's future was finally shown to the audiences back in the '60's. The series was envisioned as "wagon train to the stars" and its creation would take a toll on its creator. The first pilot, "The Cage" was not shown, as the executives at NBC thought the show was too cerebral and not enough action. But NBC was generous enough to give Roddenberry a second chance and thus commissioned a new pilot with a new cast. One decision was to throw out the character of Spock, because of his alien nature, but due to a miracle, the character survived and became a cult of its own. The second pilot would feature more action and a new captain, William Shatner, with Spock being his first officer. Entitled "Where No Man Has Gone Before". The series was finally picked up by NBC and thus began its airing of "Star Trek". Surviving early cancellation in 1967, due to small audiences, only a letter writing campaign saved the show from being axed. The audience numbers were still too low, and Roddenberry wanted the show for prime-time showing as it would attract more audience. But NBC did not see this, instead put the show on a laughable timeslot at Fridays 10:00PM. Finally, the show was cancelled due to small number of audience and disinterest to the show in 1969. Enterprise's five-year mission was cut short. Then when the show premiered in syndication, it found immediate success and soon the attempt to bring the cast for another television show was in progress. However, in 1977 a sci-fi motion picture entitled "Star Wars" premiered to big reception and thus Roddenberry thought his show would fare well at the big-screen. While Star Trek II, the title for the sequel series, was beginning it's production, Paramount, who now owns all rights to Star Trek, aborted the television and instead commissioned its first feature film. The first feature did not sit well with the audience, and only entailed a two-hundred million dollar visual effect to carry the film, with the story recycled from one of the episodes. However, the box-office receipts for the film, ensured Paramount to green-light a sequel, thus spawning five more feature films, with the fourth film the successful of all and still regarded as the best Trek movie ever. The Star Trek phenomenon continues today, with thirty-years of Trek, four television series, eight feature films, with another on its way and an animated series. The Trek universe does indeed live long and prospers.