It also has thousands of movies on-demand, like those from larger franchises "The Hunger Games," "James Bond" and "Star Trek," plus documentaries, stand-up specials, and music events, featuring Katy Perry, Louis CK, Wanda Sykes and others. .
It's being produced by 455 Films, the company behind other Trek-related documentaries like The Captains and Chaos on the Bridge, and it's directed by Adam Nimoy, son of Spock actor Leonard Nimoy — he also created last year's lovely and surprisingly personal For the Love of Spock (produced by 455).
For the 40th anniversary of the series, Mr. Roddenberry, known as Rod, is working on "Trek Nation," a documentary that explores the impact of "Star Trek".
Originally envisioned as a companion piece to the 50th anniversary of the original "Star Trek" series, the documentary took on a more personal air in the wake of the elder Nimoy's death in 2015.
Among the bonus materials included on the DVD for the documentary "Trek Nation," which chronicles Rod Roddenberry's journey to explore the importance of the sci-fi franchise dreamed up by his father, Gene, is an interview with "Star Wars" creator George Lucas talking about the integral role "Star Trek" played in paving the way for his own space opera.
The first disc features as much of the score as can fit onto a 78-minute disc, while the second disc contains "Inside Star Trek", a spoken word documentary from the 1970s.
In your new documentary about Star Trek: The Next Generation, it's revealed that both captains had Shakespearean training.
The strong showing of The March of the Penguins, a documentary about the annual trek made by Emperor penguins in search of mates, now No 10 in the US box office charts, did little to raise the gloom.
"I have been left on my own because my wife is in Nepal on a charity trek and mistakenly listened to the Leonard Cohen Hallelujah documentary on the BBC iplayer.
Documentary following Ellie on a trek with the Wilderness Foundation in the Lake District.
This jokey documentary peddled the premise that Star Trek inspired scientists to invent mobile phones, computers, ion propulsion and, probably, polyester jump suits.
