Star Trek (Franchise) - TV Tropes. These are the voyages.. And it's still going, with a new series on the way. The setting in every series is sometime in the distant future featuring a collection of broadly similar rubber- foreheaded polities spanning (fairly small) segments of the so- called 'quadrants' of the Milky Way galaxy, with the stories centered around an Earth- based interstellar government called the United Federation of Planets and the exploits of its fleet of starships, Starfleet. Every series dealt with a particular crew, mostly of various ships named Enterprise. As originally envisioned by its creator, Gene Roddenberry, the science fiction nature of the series was just a method to address many social issues of the time that could not have been done in a normal drama. As such, it was not above being Anvilicious or engaging in thinly- veiled social satire, but considering its origin during the 6.
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It was, for the most part, way on the happy end of the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism, at least partially because of its solid allegiance to the Enlightened side of Romanticism Versus Enlightenment. But it still found some sort of balance between a Dystopia and a Crystal Spires and Togas future. In general, it is a future you hope will come true, albeit after humanity endured terrible troubles like the Eugenics Wars led by the genetically enhanced conqueror, Khan Noonien Singh, and a third world war, and rose above them.
All series have sought to show that while you may think the world is falling apart and there is no chance of global unity, all this crap will eventually work itself out. 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. Downsizing (2017) Movie Dvd Quality. 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, while there were previous antecedents (such as the case of Sherlock Holmes) Star Trek effectively 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 fanfiction, dressed in costume, and generally made enough noise to keep the franchise going for fifty years and counting. Every fandom since has grown from that original outpouring of fannish activity and devotion.
The franchise consists of: open/close all folders The Original Series Star Trek: The Original Series (. Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) leads the brave crew of the Cool Starship. Enterprise on a mission . The original series suffered in the ratings, but gained a devoted fanbase. Un- Canceled after the second season, and then Cancelled again at the end of the third.
It really picked up steam in syndication, which was about the time demographics came into play - and the Real Life moon landing happened a week after its last episode aired. The show's writing was good, the cast had great chemistry and the characters themselves were very memorable, to the point of creating three new archetypes: The Kirk, The Spock, and The Mc. Coy. In fact, this series created so many new tropes that it has left an unmistakable mark on both television and pop culture ever since. Not to mention inspired a lot of mostly affectionate parodies. The quality of the show was hit and miss, with some being mediocre cartoon fare while others were excellent, and the series got the franchise's first Emmy award. The official canonicity of this series has gone back and forthnote The official Star Trek website currently considers it canon, though Gene Roddenberry, prior to his passing, apparently didn't., but at least some elements have bled over into the rest of the franchise (most notably, identifying the .
Kirk to stand for . Takes place in the 2. Enterprise- D, with the same mission of exploration as the original. The new captain is Jean- Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). Introduced the holodeck (although a version of it appeared first in the canon/noncanon . Also, there was Q. Set on a former Cardassian space station (formerly Terok Nor, renamed Deep Space Nine) in a politically unstable part of space near the planet Bajor, with exclusive access to a rare stable wormhole that leads from the Alpha to the Gamma Quadrant.
From the fourth season onwards, former TNG character Worf joined the cast and the whole series got much darker with a massive interstellar war between the Federation, Cardassians, Klingons, Romulans, and the Dominion. Was also the first Trek series to use Story Arcs extensively, rather than persisting with a strictly episodic format. Generally considered the Oddball in the Series as far as the television shows go, though usually in a positive way; while there is a portion of the fanbase that dislikes it, those who do like it tend to consider it the franchise's high- water mark.
While searching for a group of rogue Starfleet people called the Maquis, both the title ship and a Maquis ship are flung across the galaxy and stranded in the Delta Quadrant, 7. Lost in Space a la Star Trek). Had the first main character female captain in the franchise. In the mainstream, this show is best — perhaps only — known for its Ms. Fanservice character, Seven of Nine. Among fans, it's infamous for the Villain Decay of the Borg, the obscene levels of Techno Babble, and mashing the Reset Button after roughly every other episode, but it is also notable for tackling controversial topics even other Trek series wouldn't touch.
Set a hundred years or so before Kirk and the Federation, when humans are just getting their space legs (and the Applied Phlebotinum is not nearly as reliable), aboard Earth's first, experimental Warp 5- capable starship, the Enterprise NX- 0. It began with a Myth Arc involving the Enterprise crew getting caught up in a .
Sadly, just as it began to pick up steam, it was abruptly cancelled. Infamous for the pop song in the opening credits, and for being the first Trek series since the original to be canceled before the usual seven seasons. In November 2. 01. CBSannounced that a new Star Trek series would premiere in January 2. The project will be executive produced by Alex Kurtzman, who contributed to the first two J. Abrams films, and showran by Bryan Fuller, who wrote for DS9 and VOY.
In the US, the first episode will be previewed on broadcast TV; afterwards, the series will move primarily to CBS All Access, the network's on demand/streaming service, while also airing in syndication in the same way TNG did. In Canada, the series will be available on Crave. TV and air on Space Channel. In every other country worldwide, except Mainland China, the series will be streamed to Netflix. At San Diego Comic Con 2.
Bryan Fuller announced the series' title and unveiled the titular starship, the USS Discovery NCC- 1. He confirmed DSC will have serialised season- long story arcs rather than episodic plots, and that it will be set in the prime timeline rather than the Kelvin Timeline of the J. Abrams films. On September 1. May of 2. 01. 7, and that filming was delayed until November. A continuation of the original series and featuring a second five- year mission, it would have introduced a number of new characters in conjunction with the original crew.
When the network project died and the insane success of Star Wars: A New Hope made sci- fi films profitable again, Paramount elaborated the series pilot into The Movie, which ultimately led to a whole new line of movies. Many of the concepts from Phase II (along with some scripts) made their way into Star Trek: The Next Generation and the series itself is considered deuterocanon - not .
Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going. The 3. 3- year- old musician Kelela favors the kind of fashion aesthetic that science- fiction films sometimes use to signify characters from the future: gravity- defying materials in iridescent or metallic colors. For a recent rainy night in Strasbourg, the small city in the northeastern corner of France, she strode onstage dressed like a lieutenant in an anime cartoon, in an oversize gray bomber jacket, matching shorts and heels made from white fabric that stretched above her knees. She raised her hands and gave a hard stare to the crowd. It has influenced every genre, pretty much, so anyone who thinks it is basic or rudimentary has another thing coming.”There were no whoops, claps or even smiles. The audience remained passive.
Kelela likes to keep an eye out for the edges of the crowd, where her core fans (“the queer black and brown weirdos” as she put it to me) usually congregate. Watch The Full Masked Saint (2016) The Movie. But tonight, the scene was homogeneous in a very European way: Women favored striped boatnecks, red lips and messy topknots; the men, zipped- up pullovers and spotless white trainers. Kelela nodded at her D. J., Loric Sih, a sweet- faced boy with bleached blond hair and wire- rimmed Harry Potter glasses, and they dove into her set. True to her word, amid the switchbacks of her feathery falsetto voice, there was no mistaking the roots of classic R.& B.
The room became a sound installation of Kelela’s reverb- y vocals and synthetic ’9. Miami bass. Kelela’s stage was minimally adorned, but her lighting team is adept at creating James Turrell- like lightscapes that drape her figure in rich reds, purples and blues. At one point, her face and body were illuminated by an electric shade of cyan, while the background remained shaded in dark azure. The effect made Kelela look as ethereal and spectral as the music radiating from the speakers.
The handful of times I’d seen her perform in the United States, the audience was rapt for the entire performance — reverent during her atmospheric songs, breaking into exuberant, feverish dance during her fast- paced ones. Stylist: Mischa Notcutt. Hair: Virginie Pinto Moreira. Makeup: Michelle Boggs. But that night the concertgoers remained inscrutable. When she transitioned into a new song — “Blue Light,” the first single from her long- awaited debut album — I pulled out my phone and sent the recording to some friends back home. Some 4,0. 00 miles away, they seemed more excited than the people physically present in the concert hall.
Finally, about 3. Sih began playing “Rewind,” the closest thing Kelela has to a pop song. The audience, charmed at last, succumbed to the irresistible beat and danced along. The moment was buoyant but short- lived: It was her last number. She thanked the crowd and then bounded offstage. When she was back in her dressing room, the composure Kelela had projected to the audience quickly dissipated.
She stood with her hands on her hips, chewing on her lip. Her boyfriend — a filmmaker named Cieron Magat, with whom she shares an apartment in London — murmured words of reassurance and handed her a cup of homemade ginger tea. Magat told her not to worry, but Kelela wanted to deconstruct the performance.“The thing I’m always looking for are the eyes, or even the face that’s like, I don’t know what this is but I’m into it,” she said.
Earlier in the day, while roaming around Strasbourg, I noticed that the posters advertising the show didn’t even mention her name. That night, in the nearly sold- out venue, a space that could hold 4,0. In the United States, Kelela is part of the vanguard of black female musicians who make emotional soul, women like Solange, SZA and Syd tha Kyd. The music of these women is aimed squarely at the heart chakra of young black women; it legitimizes as much as it asserts the value of being yourself — even if that self is thought to be a little off- center. Kelela, in particular, explodes the notion that blackness is monolithic, a single Pantone square instead of untold variations. Her music is geared to a generation that lives for juxtapositions and unexpected arrangements, sonically and visually. In 2. 01. 2, Kelela was performing at a show that Solange’s manager happened to see.
She asked for a demo and gave the song to Solange, who asked Kelela to come on tour with her later that year, introducing Kelela to an audience who could appreciate her innovations in R.& B. In October 2. 01.
Kelela released “Cut 4 Me,” an impressive mixtape composed of 1. At the time, Kelela wanted to see how far she could push herself as an artist and play with the boundaries of R.& B. Kelela’s uninhibited experimentation, as well as the rich latticework on songs like “Send Me Out,” impressed critics. Pitchfork gave the collection a rare 8. Spin called the collection “stunning” and said the singer could “go anywhere from here.” That November, Solange chose two of Kelela’s songs for “Saint Heron,” a compilation album released by Solange’s label of the same name. In 2. 01. 5, she released a six- song EP called “Hallucinogen.” Her sound on the EP somehow managed to evoke Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Bj. It felt like a sonic relic of the past unearthed 1.
Since then, fans have been waiting for her first full- length album, which Kelela expects to release this year. In her dressing room, Kelela folded herself into a pretzel on the couch next to me. A candle burned in the background. She knew it had been an off night, but because she loves performing so much, she was still buzzing from the energy. She was raised in Gaithersburg, Md. Kelela’s parents introduced her to the violin when she was a child, and she practiced singing along to the radio in her bedroom at night and composing medleys in her head. Her father was fond of Blues Alley, an all- ages jazz supper club in Georgetown frequented by Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan.
He often took Kelela with him, and she fell in love with the culture of music. She listened to Kirk Franklin on the radio and learned to sing in ge’ez, an ancient language used primarily in the Ethiopian church, which she attended with her mother. You can still catch the influence in her voice — the way she turns sounds into sacred geometry, almost unconsciously stairstepping through the vowels and consonants. In her early to mid 2. Washington bar called 1. Street Lounge for its Sunday- night house sessions. I would create a flip,” she says.
She joked to me that she was a “jazz wife” but also admitted that she received an unexpected education: She learned to listen to music, to get a feel for it. Eventually the couple broke up, but Funn encouraged Kelela to trust her instincts and not be intimidated by her lack of formal music training. By that time, Kelela was a student at American University, studying international studies and sociology. In my head, I am supposed to be a college graduate. I wanted to finish.
But I was not motivated to sit there and do that paper. I had a lot of resistance.” She felt alienated by the program. She dropped out. This was in 2.
Knife, was trending. She began recording in a punk house in Washington, a city with a hard- core lineage that included acts like Fugazi and Bad Brains. She thrived in an environment devoid of rules. Let’s just try to make it ourselves.” At first she sang over indie rock, but it didn’t feel authentic to her. She wanted to experiment with electronic music — “not real instruments,” she says. She spent hours on My.
Space, scrolling through pages of music and listening to instrumentals. She recorded herself singing over sounds she liked. Then she would send the artist her sample, along with an invitation to collaborate. Two notable electronic producers agreed, including Daedelus, who featured her on a track.
At the same time, a friend introduced her to the electro duo Teengirl Fantasy, and they created a song.