star trek alien racesAn entertainment series on science fiction in America that saw tremendous success was the Star Trek Alien Races series. The original series was made for television and Gene Roddenberry created it to be telecasted in the year 1966.

The television series worked really well and was shown for three consecutive seasons. Next came an adventure animated series for television and as many as six feature films. The adventure of Star Trek further commenced in four television series. The characters for this show were different. This program was Star Trek: The Next Generation. If the original series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager were awesome, Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Trek: The Next Generation was equally loved by audience. The latest of all is a movie made in 2009 that features a younger crew.

Star Trek Alien Races is not limited to television and movies. The popularity of this program became so high that it started coming in video as well as computer games. Even thousands of novels came on the same concept with same characters and the Las Vegas casinos had Star Trek themed attractions for its players.

Conception: How Star Trek Came into Being?

The proposal to make this science fiction was drafted by Gene Roddenberry in the year 1960. He wanted to move on the same lines as Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. He wanted to make the show on adventure and suspense story as well as a moral story.

The basic concept of Star Trek is to offer adventures of aliens from Federation’s Starfleet and human beings. Each series presented with a dilemma and the protagonists applied to this dilemma. The series had a political dimension and cultural realities. Issues of the year 1960 were addressed in the Star Trek: The Original Series.

The major events and issues that came to light through the series included personal loyalty, imperialism, authoritarianism, warfare, racism, human rights, economics, feminism, religion and sexism other than the state of the art technology.

It was clear in the mind of Roddenberry while conceptualizing the show that he wants to show political agenda of progressive nature. Also, he wanted to show the youth movement that became a part of the present day culture. He wanted to portray what the present day world may develop into a decade from then, learning from the past and may be finding future in violence.

His ideas and conception met with bias as well as oppositions and while he was able to show a lot, there were sides he was not permitted to show on the series.

Television series
Star Trek Alien Races have their foundations in the six series created for television, namely, The Original Series, The Next Generation, The Animated Series, Deep Space Nine, The Enterprise and Voyager. Till date, as many as 726 episodes of Star Trek have been made. The television series has witnessed 30 seasons, which is remarkable.

What began from just a television series and converted into films saw a phenomenon difference in opinions. Some people loved it while some hated it and ridiculed it.

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