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The series has also had a profound impact on modern culture and media. Everyone with any exposure to Western pop culture has heard of the Starship ''Enterprise'', and the series predicted (and possibly inspired) the PC, tablet, automatic doors, cell phones, natural-language AI and more, decades before their invention. Not so incidentally, the first African-American woman in space was inspired to become an astronaut because of [[Nichelle Nichols]]' pioneering role. Also not so incidentally, the space shuttle ''Enterprise'' was named after the iconic starship, as is the first commercial spacecraft.
And finally, ''[[Star Trek]]'' also gave rise to [[Fandom]] as we know it: when ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' began to pick up steam in syndication, fans organized conventions, wrote fanfic, dressed in costume, and generally made enough noise to keep the franchise going for
Television Series in the franchise include:
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* ''[[Star Trek: Discovery]]'' ("DIS" or "STD", 2017-present) -- Originally set ten years before the original series, and intended to depict the outbreak of the Klingon-Federation war, Discovery's premise has changed quite a bit over the years and it is now set 200 years after an apocalyptic, galaxy-wide event called "The Burn"
* ''[[Star Trek: Short Treks]]'' (2018-present) -- An anthology series including both animated and live-action episodes.
** ''Star Trek: very{{sic}} Short Treks'' -- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqyNGYHfP-0&list=PLufIO1FTWFz_8X1Tmh3BAlJpqNadViR-E&index=1 Five "very Short Treks"] were made in 2023 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]''. The first two were straight ''TAS'' parodies, while the others included guest characters from ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|DS9]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|VOY]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|ENT]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Discovery|DIS]]'', and ''[[Star Trek: Lower Decks|LDS]]''.
* ''[[Star Trek: Picard]]'' ("PIC", 2020-present) -- Set 20 years after the end of The Next Generation, and depicts the adventures of Jean-Luc Picard after his retirement from Starfleet.
* ''[[Star Trek: Lower Decks]]'' ("LDS", 2020-present) -- An animated comedy series aimed squarely at adults, in the style of (and created by one of the writers for) [[Rick and Morty]]. Of all the Star Trek shows to come out during Kurtzman's reign, this one was the most well-received by fans.
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See also the [[Trek Verse]] - a discussion of internal ''Trek'' history as viewed from a real-world perspective as well as how it affected modern culture.
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* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]
* [[Boldly Coming]]
* [[Captain's Log]]
* [[Deflector Shields]]
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: Referring to Kirk's much-maligned [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in ''Star Trek Generations''.
* [[The Federation]]
* [[Growing the Beard]]: An [[In-Joke]] directed at Jonathan Frakes, whose character Cmd. Riker grew a beard at the same time TNG improved in overall quality.
* [[He's Dead, Jim]]: McCoy's most frequent diagnosis. No wonder they call him Bones.
* [[Holodeck Malfunction]]: "The Big Goodbye" (TNG)
* [[I Am Not Spock]]: From [[Leonard Nimoy]]'s autobiography.
* [[I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder]]: McCoy's [[Catch Phrase]], later to become a franchise [[Running Gag]]. Here's a [http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/I%27m_a_doctor,_not_a full list.]
* [[In the Original Klingon]]: ''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country''
* [[Inertial Dampening]]
* [[Insane Admiral]]
* [[The Kirk]]
* [[Kirk Summation]]
** [[Shut Up, Kirk]]
* [[Kirk's Rock]]: For the British equivalent, see [[BBC Quarry]].
* [[Klingon Promotion]]
* [[Klingon Scientists Get No Respect]]
* [[Klingons Love Shakespeare]]: ''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country''
* [[Lower Deck Episode]]: Coined by the TNG episode "Lower Decks"
* [[Mary Sue]]: Via a 1973 [[Fanfic]] which parodied the trend of writing these.
* [[The McCoy]]
* [[Mirror Universe]]: "Mirror, Mirror" (TOS) and accompanying episodes.
* [[The Neutral Zone]]: "The Balance of Terror" (TOS)
* [[Nice Hat]]: Worf's introduction his new First Officer (DS9).
* [[Pardon My Klingon]]
* [[Patrick Stewart Speech]]
* [[Red Shirt]]: Referring to Kirk's expendable Security staff. As the uniform colors switched around in the spin-offs, the term "Goldshirt" also applies.
* [[Resistance Is Futile]]: The Borg opening hail, first heard in "Q Who" (TNG).
** [[You Will Be Assimilated]]
* [[The Roddenberry Line]]
* [[Scotty Time]]
* [[Slash Fic]]: From Kirk/Spock.
* [[Space Whale Aesop]]: ''Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home''
* [[The Spock]]
* [[Spock Speak]]
* [[Straw Vulcan]]: The interstellar flavor of [[Screw You, Elves]]
* [[Theiss Titillation Theory]]: Named for the costume designer on ''The Original Series''.
* [[Trekkie]]
* [[Vulcan Has No Moon]]
* [[Wagon Train to the Stars]]: Gene Roddenberry originally pitched his draft as ''[[Wagon Train]]'' <small>[[In Space]]</small>.
* [[We Come in Peace, Shoot to Kill]]: From a [[wikipedia:Star Trekkin|famous parody]].
* [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech]]
* [[The Worf Effect]]
** [[The Worf Barrage]]
** [[Worf Had the Flu]]
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** Pre-''Nemesis'', authors had a standing order not to kill any character that had appeared on-screen. Afterwards, because ''Nemesis'' is likely the last time the original timeline will be seen on-screen, all bets are off. (Still non-canon, however.)
* [[Time Police]]: The Federation of the 29th Century and Daniels' faction from the 31st Century. They aren't very effective at this.
** Janeway is described as casually flaunting the timeline so frequently it actually managed to [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|drive Captain Braxton ''insane''.]] He comes up with something called "The Janeway Factor," meaning that you can fully expect her to blunder into any time-sensitive activities going on.
** Also, the time police hate Kirk; when Sisko gives his report about "Trials and Tribble-ations," and first mentions Kirk, the two operatives look at each other and say something along the lines of "we all hate the Kirk cases."
* [[Time to Step Up, Commander]]: Multiple occurrences across the franchise, including in the ''TNG'' two-parter "The Best of Both Worlds" where Riker is faced with this from Guinan.
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