"These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise... Its five year mission... (setting -- the 23rd century)
This is where it all began. The founding Star Trek series ran from 1966 through 1969, for a total of three seasons and 79 episodes. Sometimes referred to as "a Wagon Train to the stars," classic STAR TREK features the adventures of the crew of the Constitution-class Starship Enterprise on its five year mission to explore outer space.
On board the starship is a diverse set of shipmates, which include many varieties of human and non-human individuals:
In command of the starship is Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), followed by his half-Vulcan first officer Commander Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and by their side, the opinionated Doctor Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley). To keep the warp engines humming at top speed is the Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan), to choose a star to steer by is Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu (George Takei) at the helm, and the young Ensign Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) arms phasers and photon torpedoes to protect all in a crunch. Lieutenant Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) is in charge of all the ship's communications. There to aid the ship's doctor is Nurse Christine Chapel (Majel Barrett).
The five year mission lasted only three years in Earth time. But the legacy of those three years of Star Trek gave the world a phenomenon yet to be matched by any other single television series. While Star Trek lasted only three seasons on first-run television, in syndication the series spawned a fan following that numbers in the millions. From that first series has sprung an incredible number of spin-offs: an animated series, three television series, eight feature films, and hundreds of novels and consumer products.
At the present time, the original Star Trek series is broadcast regularly in over 100 different countries around the world.
