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Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry and currently under the ownership of CBS. The franchise began in 1966 with the television series Star Trek, later referred to as Star Trek: The Original Series. This series, its spin-off shows: Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise, as well as the film series make up the core of the franchise's mythos. While the critical response to much of the franchise varies, many individual Star Trek episodes and films have won awards and honors including Emmy Awards, Hugo Awards and an Academy Award.

Westerns such as Wagon Train, along with the Horatio Hornblower novels and Gulliver's Travels, inspired Roddenberry when he created the first Star Trek. It followed the interstellar adventures of James T. Kirk and the crew of an exploration vessel of a 23rd century galactic "United Federation of Planets" — the Starship Enterprise. This first series, now referred to as "The Original Series", debuted in 1966 and ran for three seasons on NBC. These adventures continued in the short-lived Star Trek: The Animated Series and six feature films. Four spin-off television series were eventually produced: Star Trek: The Next Generation, followed the crew of a new Starship Enterprise set a century after the original series; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, set contemporaneously with The Next Generation; and Star Trek: Enterprise, set before the original series, in the early days of human interstellar travel. Four additional The Next Generation feature films were produced. In 2009, the prequel of the original series (set in an alternate timeline) Star Trek featuring a new cast portraying younger versions of the crew from the original Enterprise appeared. A sequel to this film, Star Trek Into Darkness, premiered on May 16, 2013.

Star Trek has been a cult phenomenon since its beginning. Fans of the franchise are called Trekkies or Trekkers. The franchise spans a wide range of spin-offs including games, figurines, novels, toys, and comics. Star Trek had a themed attraction in Las Vegas which opened in 1998 and closed in September 2008. At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world. The series even has its own full-fledged constructed language, Klingon. Several parodies have been made of Star Trek and its fans, despite the end of Star Trek episodes on TV, and several fan productions have been produced in that void.

Star Trek is noted for its influence on the world outside of science fiction. It has been cited as an inspiration for several technological inventions such as the cell phone. Moreover, the show is noted for its progressive civil rights stances. The original series included one of television's first multiracial casts, and the first televised inter-racial kiss. Star Trek references can be found throughout popular culture from movies such as the submarine thriller Crimson Tide to the cartoon series South Park.

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Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy
"Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" is the 11th episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox television network in the United States on March 29, 2009. The episode was directed by Greg Colton and written by Danny Smith. In the episode, Quahog hosts its annual Star Trek convention and the cast members of Star Trek: The Next Generation are guests. After he was unable to ask the actors any questions at a Q&A session, Stewie builds a transporter in his bedroom to beam the cast over and spend the day with them. Meanwhile, Meg becomes a born-again Christian and tries to convert the atheist Brian to Christianity. The episode garnered mixed reviews from critics and received a 4.8/7 Nielsen rating. Star Trek: The Next Generation‍ '​s Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, Wil Wheaton, Denise Crosby, and Marina Sirtis all guest starred as themselves. It marked the first occasion since the film Star Trek: Nemesis that the cast of The Next Generation had worked together, although they recorded their voice roles separately under the direction of Seth MacFarlane. Adam West and Rob Lowe appeared at the end of the episode in a live action scene.
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Robert Beltran played the character of Chakotay in Star Trek: Voyager.

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A variety of bat'leth designs
The bat'leth is a curved ceremonial longsword with four points and handholds on the back. It was designed and created by Star Trek: The Next Generation visual effects producer, Dan Curry, for the Star Trek franchise. It is mainly used within canon by the Klingons, a race in the franchise. In-universe it was created by Kahless by shaping a length of his hair after dipping it in a volcano. Curry has called the bat'leth "one of the iconic images associated with the show". Replicas of bat'leths are widely available as collectibles; they have also been used in crimes with debates on legality differing between countries. Bat'leths were designed as martial arts style swords. They were created specifically for Michael Dorn's character of Worf in The Next Generation, however it eventually became used by a number of other characters and appeared in 29 television episodes of the franchise as well as films and video games. It has also spawned a smaller version, which became known as the "mek'leth". Bat'leths are also considered part of popular culture, appearing in television programmes outside of the Star Trek franchise, such as The Big Bang Theory. Martial arts teams have set up to use bat'leths in martial arts.
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— Jeffrey Hunter, actor, portrayed Christopher Pike in the original pilot for Star Trek, "The Cage".
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Television series: The Original Series (episodes) • The Animated Series (episodes) • The Next Generation (episodes) • Deep Space Nine (episodes) • Voyager (episodes) • Enterprise (episodes)

Feature films: The Motion Picture • The Wrath of Khan • The Search for Spock •The Voyage Home • The Final Frontier • The Undiscovered Country • Generations • First Contact • Insurrection • Nemesis • Star Trek • Into Darkness

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Other topics: Canon • Comics • Cultural influence • Fan productions • Fandom • Games • Memory Alpha • Novels • Physics • Reference books • Sexuality • Star Trek: The Experience • Star Trek: Phase II

Production staff: J. J. Abrams • Ira Steven Behr • Rick Berman • Brannon Braga • Manny Coto • Damon Lindelof • Ronald D. Moore • Michael Okuda • Michael Piller • Gene Roddenberry • Jeri Taylor

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