From Star Wars to Star Trek, and we have a new trailer for Star Trek Beyond, whose stars include Idris Elba, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana.
At times though she feels like a child of Data, the Star Trek android whose character development was driven by a personal quest to become more human.
Many of those are drawn in by its flagship program, "Star Trek: Discovery," whose new season won't kick off until 2019.
"The Survivor" is writer James Schmerer's only credit in the Star Trek franchise, whose other genre work consisted of two episodes of the television series Wonder Woman as well as a single episode of Buck Rodgers.
It absolutely rules that baby trousers can all be pulled up in such a way as to make your infant son look like a Star Trek character whose utopian society hides a terrible secret.
Herbert F. Solow, a former vice president of Desilu Studios who developed and sold "Star Trek" to NBC, insists Kirk's chair was made from scratch, as does John Jefferies, an uncredited "Star Trek" set designer whose late brother, Walter, was the set designer for the show — and the designer of the captain's chair itself.
Then there were the early survivor narratives — a genre that has by now grown to include a book by the descendants of a Lebanese passenger whose trek to America had begun on a camel caravan.
RADIO: The Boom of Science-Fiction TV, "Star Trek," the show whose mission was "to boldly go where no man has gone before," celebrated its 30th anniversary in 1996.
These devices are deployed to trigger elaborate action sequences of the kind we get in so many other films today, but didn't get in the Star Trek TV shows, whose low-budget simplicity nurtured, instead, thoughtfulness and imagination.
"I run into people all the time who think science fiction is simply 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek,' " says Mr. Russo, whose book "Ship of Fools" tells the story of a starship full of colonists governed by a theocracy.
