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1. STAR TREK
What does Star Trek mean to you .
Write them down

2. STAR TREK – SCREENED FIRST IN THE USA 8
SEPTEMBER 1966 (IMDB,2011)
 Watch Star Trek. (5 Mins)
 Why did the series have a cult following?
Release Date:
12 July 1969 (UK) BBC (Anderson, J. 1985)

3. GENE RODDENBERRY (1921-1991)
 Ex –pilot & LAPD officer
 Wanted long term TV show
 Arthcur C Clarke
 Wanted to talk about love, war, nature, God, sex
and pass the sensors
 “it all seems so make believe” (Dillard. 1996)
 Westerns on TV (Worland.2003)
 Budget

4. “ONE TO BEAM UP”(FOSTER, D. 1979)
 Cheap TV
 Two pilots
 Three year run
 Cancelled
 Why?
 What then happened?
 WORLD WIDE success – SOLD in OVER 300
territories ( Hise, J.1995)

5. A NEW HOPE (LUCAS 1977)
 With the success of Star Wars – Paramount studios
commissioned a movie
STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE
The over 20 year 10 sequels

6. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
 With the success of the movies.
 On TV
 The 70s & 80s

7. US SCI-FI CRAZY

8. UK SCI-FI CRAZY

9. THE NEXT GENERATION
 See trailer
 First season
 Making the series became cheaper.

10. STAR TREK - FRANCHISE
Exhibition – Science museum
Books
Conventions
Comics
Games

11. TREK THE PHILOSOPHY
 The future (Huxley)
 New concept in sci-fi – cultural effect
 Klingon
 Roddenberry’s legacy
 Breaking boundaries -Political

12. PRACTITIONER/THEORIST
 Television is the first truly democratic culture - the
first culture available to everybody ……..
Clive Barnes

13. TREK PHILOSOPHY
 Do you know that you have the first non-
stereotypical role on television? You're a first. This
is not a female role. This is not a black role. This is
a quality role, and this is an equal role, and it is in a
command position. You have to carry on, because
not only do little black children and do women see
you and aspire and do you have meaning for them,
but everyone else sees us for the first time the way
we are supposed to be - on an equal basis, and on
a level of dignity and authority and with the highest
of qualifications.
Martin Luther King to Nichelle Nichols

14. STAR TREK FAMILY

15. STAR TREK FAMILY

16. STAR TREK FAMILY

17. TECHNOLOGY
 Science fiction to science fact
 David A. Batchelor (2009). "The Science of Star
Trek". NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
 Lawrence M. Krauss (1995). The Physics of Star
Trek.
 Star Trek Navigraphic - how Trek tech compares
with existing technology

18. TECHNOLOGY
 Science fiction paves the way to science fact by
showing us a possible vision of a positive future

19. THE DATAPAD

20. THE COMMUNICATOR

21. THE BORG COLLECTIVE

22. PRACTITIONER/THEORIST
 Science fiction has never really aimed to tell us
when we might reach other planets, or develop new
technologies, or meet aliens. Science fiction
speculates about why we might want to do these
things, and how their consequences might affect
our lives and our planet.
John Clute (1995)

23. PRACTITIONER/THEORIST
 In the 23rd century universe of "Star Trek," people
talked to each other using wireless personal
communicators, had easy access to a vast
database of information and spent hours gazing at
a big wall-mounted video screen…on 21st century
Earth, that future is already here.
Evangelista (2004)

24. PRACTITIONER/THEORIST
 When I designed the UI (user interface) for the
Palm OS back in '93, my first sketches were
influenced by the UI of the Enterprise bridge
panels”
Rob Haitani, product design architect for
Palm-One Inc

25. THE FANS

26. TO GO WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE
(RODENNBERRY, G. 1982)

27. IF YOU WERE WRITING ABOUT STAR TREK
 What would you write about.
 What would you compare?
 What would you discover?
 What arguments would you raise?
 Would you write about anything else apart from the
TV series?
 What kind of research would you do?
 Where sources would you use (methodology)
 What kind of citations would you use?

28. FIND A SOURCE ON STAR TREK
 Find one source on Star Trek that sums up what
you have learned.
 Direct quote
 Citation
 Journal/article that looks at something different