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The Generations of Star Trek

Star Trek: the Original Series launched with little fanfare in 1966. Never a ratings winner, it was slated to be cancelled after two years. A write-in campaign by fans saved the show for another year, the first time in recorded history that this has happened. (This was unfortunate in a way because it provided a precedent that fans of other shows always use to justify an uphill, usually fruitless, battle to save a doomed show. "Hey, fans brought back Star Trek, you know." Never mind that the third season of Star Trek is widely considered to be the weakest, productive of some of the gawd-awfullest Trek-moments ever aired.)

In those days, when a show was gone, it was gone. Back then, a second life in syndication or movies was unheard of. You could make the case that the Trek franchise invented the second life in movies, the spin-offs, in fact, invented the entire concept of the 'franchise'.

Star Trek in the Movies

After a decade of life in syndication, Star Trek re-emerged in the movie theaters with the release of The Motion Picture. After four 'original series' movies had appeared to reasonable success, the franchise returned to the small screen with Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was much more successful, both financially and dramatically, than the original series ever was, running for seven years, and then graduating to feature films like its predecessor.

Now the Star Trek franchise encompasses six television series, ten motion pictures, and novels uncountable.

Not bad for a series that barely made it to three seasons and never had that many viewers.

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