For proof of Star Trek's long-lasting popularity, click here for a list of hundreds of different Star Trek DVDs, books & videos available.
Click here for the Star Trek Animated titles list page with my ep descriptions. Five of the stars of the 1960s Star Trek and 1974 animated series guest starred on the season-ending episode of the animated Fox series "Futurama" @ 7pm Sunday 4/21/02Sci-Fi channel episodes of Star Trek ENTERPRISE (times are EST / Pacific)
(up to 6am is night of date shown), & any ST movies scheduled on the Sci-Fi Channel:08/04/2008 08:00 PM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION TRUE Q 08/04/2008 09:00 PM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION CHAIN OF COMMAND - PART 1 08/04/2008 10:00 PM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION CHAIN OF COMMAND - PART 2 08/11/2008 07:00 PM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION SHIP IN A BOTTLE 08/11/2008 08:00 PM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION FACE OF THE ENEMY 08/11/2008 09:00 PM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION TAPESTRY 08/11/2008 10:00 PM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION STARSHIP MINE 08/18/2008 07:00 PM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION LESSONS 08/18/2008 08:00 PM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION THE CHASE 08/18/2008 09:00 PM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION FRAME OF MIND 08/18/2008 10:00 PM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION TIMESCAPE 08/25/2008 07:00 PM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION DESCENT - PART 1 & 2 08/25/2008 09:00 PM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION GAMBIT - PART 1 08/25/2008 10:00 PM STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION GAMBIT - PART 2 08/29/2008 STAR TREK ENTERPRISE 22-hour marathon (titles to be announced)Star Trek (1960s) Episodes on TV Land, 6am is morning of date shown:Sorry, TV Land titles unknown from now on, check their daily scheduleWilliam Shatner News
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There have been a lot of Star Trek spoofs and pseudo-documentaries over the years, but the best I've seen doesn't even have Star Trek in the title. It's called Galaxy Quest (1999) and is now out on DVD and videotape: Peaceful aliens being menaced by a powerful conquerer see episodes of a 20-year old science fiction series and beam up the actors onto a real version of their tv starship. It takes them awhile to get used to the idea, but the captain (Tim Allen)'s inventive use of magnetic mines against the much bigger and more powerful foe is right out of Captain Kirk's play-it-by-ear-and-hope-it-works rulebook. And you won't even recognize Sigourney Weaver at first (she says she prefers comedy to the intense movies like the four Alien movies). By the way, if you're looking for a way to introduce science fiction to your kids, check out Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins. It's even better than the two computer-generated Toy Story movies that the character is lifted from.Hey! Didja think that "Generations" (the 7th Star Trek movie) was the best one in the series? Me neither. Here's the Scifans.com official Generations review, including comments from that guy stuck in space with two robots on Mystery Science Theater 3000
Monstervision review & host segments for Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan, sequel to 1960s episode "Space Seed"
All the Star Trek movies so far, at www-ST-org
Click here for the best Star Trek parody song ever made - Star Trekkin'
Can you name two Star Trek movies directed by Nimoy? Or the one about Spock's brother? Or what went wrong with the first man to come back from Venus? These and other questions are answered on MonsterVision host segments for Cold Hands, Warm Heart / I, Robot, the Outer Limits episodes that starred William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy
After Star Trek went off the air, Gene Roddenberry tried some other ideas as movie/pilots including The Questor Tapes (1974, an android sent to save Earth from itself) and two pilot/movies about a post-apocalyptic Earth called "Genesis II" (1973, starring Alex Cord of Airwolf) and "Planet Earth" (1974, starring John Saxon of Enter The Dragon), then the horror/suspense SPECTRE (1977, starring Robert Culp and an evil druid spirit)
Too weird? Well, did you know that in the late 1950s, Gene was head writer for the western series "Have Gun Will Travel"? At least 2 episodes were later redone as S.T. episodes: Monster of Moon Ridge became Devil In The Dark, and his version of Shakespeare's Helen Of Troy/Taming Of The Shrew became a Calamity Jane episode, then ST episode Elaan Of Troyius
Star Trek - Complete Season 1, 2 & 3 available on DVD from Amazon.com, as well as complete seasons of the "other" Star Trek series
Star Trek - The Seven Screen Voyages (boxed set)
Star Trek Animated Adventures - on Laser (1994)
Deep Space Nine (1993)
Star Trek V - The Final Frontier (1989)
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home(1986)
Star Trek III - The Search for Spock(1984)
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan(1982)
Star Trek - The Motion Picture(1980)
Star Trek Animated Adventures
Lights In The Sky & Little Green Men
Official NASA links & info
Note: after some delays, the ashes of James Doohan (Scotty) were launched on April 28, 2007, in New Mexico. The remains of 200 people will be aboard the rocket including Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, at a cost of $495 each. That's less than the cost of a conventional funeral, as noted 5 years earlier in episode #309 of Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
2001 fans - click here for Hal to open the pod bay doors
Or click here to find out what's crawling on you
Click here to find out if Spock is bluffing
Or here for a fight ... or here for a doomsday machine
Is it time for Shore Leave yet?
Click here for Doctor Who
What if Star Trek had been done as a Flintstones cartoon? It might have looked like this: Stone Trek starring Fred Flintstone as Captain Kirk
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Star Trek movies on SCIFI & other channels last year, 2007:
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
(not currently scheduled)
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (1982, revenge served cold)
(see above)
Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock
Wed May 30 05:15A on More Max
Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home (the whales one, in present-day San Francisco)
Thu Sep 27 04:55P on HBO Family
Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier (Shatner apologized for this one when it came out)
Mon Sep 17 02:30P on Cinemax
Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country
(not currently scheduled)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996, Patrick Stewart)
Sat Jun 16 02:30P on SciFi Channel
Star Trek related:
Biography: William Shatner (2006, 60 min)
Sat Sep 15 08:00A on A&E
Airplane II: The Sequel (William Shatner as Commander of the Moon)
Thu Jan 18 06:15A on Cinemax
Sun Mar 11 07:00A on HBO
Fri Jun 1 09:00A on Spike TV (TNN)
The Devil's Rain (William Shatner vs. Satanic cult in a ghost town)
Feb 10, 2007 on American Movie Classics
Free Enterprise (1999, Two sci-fi buffs befriend William Shatner, 2 hours)
Sun May 20 02:30P on The Movie Channel
Sat Jun 2 02:15P & 11:45P on Flix Movie Channel
Mon Jun 4 09:00P on Showtime Women
Thu Jun 7 07:20A & 2:15P on Showtime Beyond
Wed Jul 25 02:35P on Showtime
Wed Aug 1 04:30A on Showtime #2
Tue Aug 7 08:15A & 5:30P on Showtime Showcase
Futurama: Where No Fan Has Gone Before (2002 animated, ST cast members gueststar as
Fry retrieves lost tapes of Star Trek, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei)
Fri July 20 11:00P & 2:30A on Cartoon Network
Galaxy Quest (1999, Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub)
Dec 27, 2006 on TBS
Gunfight At The O.K. Corral (1957 western, DeForest Kelley, later reprised by him on ST)
03/31/07 @ 1pm/4pm EST on Turner Classic Movies
Warlock (1959 western, DeForest Kelley)
Sat Aug 4 11:15A on American Movie Classics
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 remake starring Leonard Nimoy)
Sat July 7 12:45/3:45am EST on Turner Classic Movies
Sun Sep 16 5pm/8pm EST on WOR New York
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961, dir. by Stanley Kramer)
Shatner, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Max Schell, Werner Klemperer
Mon Jun 18 03:05P on HD Movies
Them (1954, giant mutant ants attack Los Angeles, Leonard Nimoy in an early role)
Sat Jun 23 04:00A on American Movie Classics
Living in TV Land: William Shatner in Concert (60 min, 2006)
Jan 8, 2007 on TVLAND
How William Shatner Changed the World: real science & technology compared to the original ST
Tue May 29 10am & 4pm on History Channel (2005, 2-hour docu)
Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier (Shatner, Patrick Stewart. Leonard Nimoy hosts)
The influence of the Star Trek series & films on pop culture (2007, 2-hour docu)
Mon July 2 10:00P & 2:00A on History Channel
Roast of William Shatner (Jason Alexander hosts. 90 min, 2006)
March 24, 2007 on Comedy Central
Ancient Mysteries (Leonard Nimoy hosts, 60 min, 1996/1997)
Ancient Mysteries "Rites of Death" Burial customs. Included: India, Tibet, ancient Egypt.
Sun Jun 10 01:00P & 4:00A on Biography Channel
Outer Limits: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (Nimoy as the lawyer for robot charged with murder)
Wed Jul 25 12:00P on SciFi Channel
Star Trek: The Next Generation "Unification" part 1 & 2 (Mark Lenard, Leonard Nimoy)
Capt. Picard searches for Spock on Romulus.
Tue Mar 13 02:00P on Spike (TNN, 2-hours)
Twilight Zone episodes: Nick of Time
William Shatner plays a newlywed obsessed with a small town fortune-telling machine
Fri July 20 01:00A on SciFi Channel
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, dir. by Richard Donner: Shatner sees a gremlin on plane's wing.
William Shatner later starred in Horror at 37000 Feet
Tue July 3 05:00P on SciFi Channel
Quality of Mercy (Nimoy)
Thu Aug 9 01:30A on SciFi Channel