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97-476: Over the course of its many years on television, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who has not only seen changes in the actors to play the Doctor , but in the supporting cast as well. The Doctor is usually accompanied in his travels by one to three companions (sometimes called assistants). These characters provide a surrogate with whom the audience can identify, and further

194-410: A Declaration -class ship launched in 2123. Its length is given as 300 metres (980 ft), and it has a capacity of 100 crew and 850 passengers. The Star Trek Maps by New Eye Photography Editors, also published in 1979, listed this ship as a fusion drive probe that was Earth's first attempt to explore another star system. The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , published in 1980, describes

291-471: A Mirror, Darkly " features a Mirror Universe version of NX-01 Enterprise . This ship is equipped with a cloaking device, deflector shields, a tractor beam, a prototype agony booth, and different exterior markings. It is commanded by Captain Maximilian Forrest, although for a brief time his first officer, Commander Jonathan Archer, takes command following a mutiny. This Enterprise is destroyed by

388-419: A combined international effort, thus he invented the combined designation NCC. The 1701 had two functions, it represented the first (01) ship of a 17th federation cruiser design, and that the digits were unlikely to be misread, unlike 6, 8, or 9. In Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek pitch, the starship is described as a "United Space Ship", and in two episodes of The Original Series (TOS), Kirk refers to

485-528: A female superhero, wears traditional folkloric clothes and tries to save traditional elements of Dutch society against the factory owners. Italian TV shows include A come Andromeda (1972) which was a remake of 1962 BBC serial, A for Andromeda (from the novels of Hoyle and Elliott), Geminus (1968), Il segno del comando (1971), Gamma (1974) and La traccia verde (1975). French series are Highlander: The Series , French science-fiction/fantasy television series (both co-produced with Canada) and

582-673: A flashback to Captain Pike's command in the episode " The Menagerie " (1966), the ship's bridge featured a transparent dome ceiling that was absent for the rest of the Original Series. A significantly redesigned version of Captain Pike's Enterprise appears in Star Trek: Discovery ' s second season , set several years after the events of "The Cage". The new design for the Enterprise , which more closely matches

679-453: A group of Dutch space explorers and their adventures, De duivelsgrot (The devil's cave), broadcast from 1963 to 1964, about a scientist who finds the map of a cave that leads to the center of the Earth and Treinreis naar de Toekomst (Train journey to the future) about two young children who are taken to the future by robots who try to recreate humanity, but are unable to give the cloned humans

776-630: A man who becomes trapped in a telephone booth, while passersby seem unable to help him, won the 1973 International Emmy Award for Fiction. The series Plutón B.R.B. Nero (2008) was a brutal SF comedy by Álex de la Iglesia , in the line of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Red Dwarf , or Doctor Who , with 26 episodes of 35 minutes. Other series of the 2010s were Los protegidos (2010-2012), El barco (2011-2013), and El internado (2007-2010), all three inspired by North American productions, with minor SF elements. The latest success

873-411: A new source of income for actors, who began to charge money for autographs that they had previously been doing for free. This became significant enough that lesser-known actors would come to conventions without requesting any appearance fee, simply to be allowed to sell their own autographs (commonly on publicity photos). Today most events with actor appearances are organized by commercial promoters, though

970-469: A number of fan-run conventions still exist, such as Toronto Trek and Shore Leave . The 1985 series Robotech is most often credited as the catalyst for the Western interest in anime. The series inspired a few fanzines such as Protoculture Addicts and Animag both of which in turn promoted interest in the wide world of anime in general. Anime's first notable appearance at SF or comic book conventions

1067-428: A number of smaller fiction/fantasy television series, including Tang in 1971, about a secret organization that attempts to control the world with a new super weapon, "Les atomistes" and 1970 miniseries "La brigade des maléfices". Another French-produced science fiction series was the new age animated series Il était une fois... l'espace (English: Once upon a time...space ). Anime-influenced animation includes

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1164-686: A science fiction television series based upon Zoran Živković's story, winner of a World Fantasy Award . Návštěvníci (The Visitors) was a Czechoslovak (and Federal German, Swiss and French) TV series produced in 1981 to 1983. The family show aired in a larger number of European countries. For a list of notable science fiction series and programs on television, see: List of science fiction television programs . People who have influenced science fiction on television include: [REDACTED] Media related to Science fiction television programmes at Wikimedia Commons Starship Enterprise Enterprise or USS Enterprise , often referred to as

1261-577: A second "C" because he thought it looked better. The Franz Joseph Blueprints , the book The Making of Star Trek , and a handful of Star Trek novels speculate that NCC is an initialism for "Naval Construction Contract". In an interview with the BBC, Jefferies explained that NC is the designation for U.S. civil aircraft and civil aircraft in the Soviet Union used the designation CCCC. He concluded that any major future space projects would likely be

1358-407: A sense, virtually all animated series allow characters and objects to perform in unrealistic ways, so they are almost all considered to fit within the broadest category of speculative fiction (in the context of awards, criticism, marketing, etc.) The artistic affinity of animation to comic books has led to a large amount of superhero -themed animation, much of this adapted from comics series, while

1455-400: A series of French-Japanese cartoons / anime , including such titles as Ulysses 31 (1981), The Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982), and Ōban Star-Racers (2006). The first Spanish SF series was Diego Valor , a 22 episode TV adaption of a radio show hero of the same name based on Dan Dare , aired weekly between 1958 and 1959. Nothing was survived of this series, not a single still; it

1552-462: A soul. All three of these television series were aimed mostly at children. Later television series were Professor Vreemdeling (1977) about a strange professor who wants to make plants speak and Zeeuws Meisje  [ nl ] (1997) a nationalistic post-apocalyptic series where the Netherlands has been built full of housing and the highways are filled with traffic jams. The protagonist,

1649-469: A wide array of software. Models have been an essential tool in science fiction television since the beginning, when Buck Rogers took flight in spark-scattering spaceships wheeling across a matte backdrop sky. The original Star Trek required a staggering array of models; the USS Enterprise had to be built in several different scales for different needs. Models fell out of use in filming in

1746-505: Is El ministerio del tiempo ( The ministry of time ), premiered on February 24, 2015 on TVE 's main channel La 1 . The series follows the exploits of a patrol of the fictional Ministry of Time, which deals with incidents caused by time travel. It has garnered several national prizes in 2015, like the Ondas Prize , and has a thick following on-line, called los ministéricos . Serbia produced The Collector ( Sakupljač ),

1843-617: Is a large auxiliary starship built into the design of several Federation starship designs including the Galaxy -class and Sovereign -class. It was docked to the underside of the saucer section. On USS Enterprise -E, the name of the captain's yacht is the Cousteau . In 2375, the crew of USS Enterprise -E used the Cousteau to travel to the surface of the Ba'ku homeworld, in the film Star Trek: Insurrection . Designer Andrew Probert came up with

1940-530: Is in the Next Generation episode " Yesterday's Enterprise " (1990). It was destroyed attempting to defend the Klingon outpost Narendra III from Romulan attack. Survivors included Tasha Yar ( Denise Crosby ), whose alternate timeline version from "Yesterday's Enterprise" travels with the ship back in time to the battle over Narendra III. The actions of the Enterprise -C's crew became a catalyst for

2037-438: Is not known if the show was even recorded or just a live broadcast. The 60s were dominated by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador and Narciso Ibáñez Menta , who adapted SF works from Golden Age authors and others to a series titled Mañana puede ser verdad . Only 11 episodes were filmed. The 70s saw three important television films, Los pajaritos (1974), La Gioconda está triste (1977), and La cabina (1972), this last one, about

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2134-499: Is returned to the Fleet Museum the following year. Registry: USS  Enterprise  (NCC-1701-E) Class: Sovereign Service: 2372–2384 (12 years) Captains: Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) The main setting for the films Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). She also appeared in the season 1 finale of Star Trek: Prodigy (2022), set in

2231-577: Is shown during its construction phase at the Riverside Shipyard in Iowa during the first film. A brief shot of the NCC-1701 is seen as the shuttlecraft carrying Kirk and the new recruits into space departs the shipyard later on in the movie. At the end of Star Trek Into Darkness , Enterprise started its five-year mission. The ship was later destroyed by Krall and his alien swarm attack during

2328-684: Is similar to that of the USS Excelsior , which first appeared in the 1984 film Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. Differences between the Enterprise -B and the Excelsior include: flarings on the outside of the secondary hull, additional and larger impulse engines, and slight differences between the nacelles as well as the bridge modules. Non-canon information concerning the Enterprise -B includes several licensed Star Trek novels in which Demora Sulu, daughter of Hikaru Sulu, followed Harriman as captain. There are also licensed guides, such as

2425-504: Is the main setting of the original Star Trek series (1966–1969) and Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–74). Having undergone an extensive rebuilding and refitting, Enterprise then appears in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) in which the starship is destroyed by its crew to escape capture. Depictions of

2522-561: The Wright Flyer , a V-2 rocket , a Bell X-1 , a Vostok-3KA capsule, a Space Shuttle orbiter , and some Star Trek universe starships. A painting of this ship hangs on the wall of Earth's 602 Club in flashbacks that appeared in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " First Flight " (2003). Non-canon sources give more details: The 1979 Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology describes this "first interstellar liner" as

2619-512: The Asgard characters are puppets in scenes where they are sitting, standing, or lying down. In Mystery Science Theater 3000 , the characters of Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo , two of the show's main (and most iconic) characters, are puppets constructed from random household items. As animation is completely free of the constraints of gravity, momentum, and physical reality, it is an ideal technique for science fiction and fantasy on television. In

2716-527: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Later series made in the 1960s included The Interpretaris (1966) Vega 4 (1967), and Phoenix Five (1970). The country's best known Science Fiction series was Farscape ; an American co-production, it ran from 1999 to 2003. A significant proportion of Australian produced Science Fiction programmes are made for the teens/young Adults market, including The Girl from Tomorrow ,

2813-599: The Blu-ray (BD) version of the movie gives the length as 2,379 feet (725 m), which would be larger than the Next Generation D and E versions, making it the largest USS Enterprise in the franchise history (not counting the pre-Federation era Enterprise (XCV 330) , seen only as a model). This would result in a height of 167m, and a beam of 339m. Registry: USS  Enterprise  (NCC-1701-A) Class: Constitution Service: 2263–ongoing Captains: James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) Enterprise -A first appears at

2910-407: The Enterprise ' s replacement, an identical starship given the name Enterprise and registry number NCC-1701-A. Registry: USS  Enterprise  (NCC-1701-A) Class: Constitution II Service: 2286–2293 (7 years) Captains: James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) This ship first appears at the conclusion of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) and is the main setting in

3007-413: The Enterprise made occasional appearances in later Star Trek series, before being reintroduced as the main setting of the prequel Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , portraying the ship's missions in the decade prior to The Original Series . Details of the ship's appearance differed in the various series and films in which it appears. In the 1965 pilot episode " The Cage ", whose footage was reused for

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3104-498: The Enterprise that had appeared in the Star Trek franchise. By contrast, in 2019, SyFy ranked the refit design of the Enterprise (NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-A) as the franchise's best, ranking the original design as only the fourth best version of the starship. Time described each iteration of the Enterprise as "a character in its own right". Over many decades, the starship has influenced real-life activities of NASA and

3201-751: The Haynes Enterprise Manual , in which a list of the ship's captains includes Demora Sulu, William George, and Thomas Johnson Jr. Three ships named Enterprise are featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation television series and four TNG -era films. Two additional Enterprise ships appear in the third season of Star Trek: Picard , in which TNG ' s command crew are reunited. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C) Class: Ambassador Service: 2332 –2344 (12 years) Captains: Rachel Garrett ( Tricia O'Neil ) This ship's first and only appearance

3298-719: The Starship Enterprise , is the name of several fictional spacecraft , some of which are the main craft and setting for various television series and films in the Star Trek science fiction franchise. The most notable were Captain James T. Kirk 's USS  Enterprise  (NCC-1701) from the original 1960s television series , and Captain Jean-Luc Picard 's USS  Enterprise  (NCC-1701-D) from Star Trek: The Next Generation . Two spacecraft with

3395-729: The Super Robots such as Mitsuteru Yokoyama 's Tetsujin 28-go ( Gigantor ) and Go Nagai 's Mazinger Z , and the Real Robots such as Yoshiyuki Tomino 's Gundam series and Shōji Kawamori 's Macross series. Other primary aspects of Japanese science fiction television are the superhero tokusatsu (a term literally meaning special effects ) series, pioneered by programs such as Moonlight Mask and Planet Prince . The suitmation technique has been used in long running franchises include Eiji Tsuburaya 's Ultra Series , Shotaro Ishinomori 's Kamen Rider Series , and

3492-619: The Super Sentai Series. In addition, several dramas utilize science fiction elements as framing devices, but are not labeled as "tokusatsu" as they do not utilize actors in full body suits and other special effects. Among the notable German language productions are: Danish television broadcast the children's TV-series Crash in 1984 about a boy who finds out that his room is a space ship. Early Dutch television series were Morgen gebeurt het  [ nl ] (Tomorrow it will happen), broadcast from 1957 to 1959, about

3589-540: The Tholians . Registry: ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Class: Constitution Service: 2260s Captains: Christopher Pike, James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) A Mirror Universe Enterprise appears in the original Star Trek episode " Mirror, Mirror ". The ship is equipped with an agony booth and the mirror in the captain's quarters conceals Captain Kirk's deadly Tantalus device. ISS Enterprise

3686-457: The U.S. Navy : Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has spoken highly of the influence and legacy of the original Enterprise on other fictional spaceships. Drawing a parallel to comparing athletes between eras, he said of spaceship design, "What matters is not what they look like now, but what they looked to others at the time that they prevailed... There is only one spaceship that's earlier than [the original Enterprise ], and that's

3783-425: The massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Trek Online . Its design is based on the entry submitted by Adam Ihle for the 2011 "Design the next Enterprise " contest, a joint venture between Cryptic Studios, CBS, and Intel, which ran shortly before the game went "free to play". Enterprise -F made its first appearance in the mission "Boldly They Rode", at the point where USS Enterprise -F appears to help

3880-483: The "United Space Ship Enterprise ". In 1976, before Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Paramount had planned a Star Trek film to have been named Star Trek: Planet of the Titans . Early in the production, Ralph McQuarrie had been hired to redesign the Enterprise . The major feature of the redesign was to replace the cigar-shaped secondary hull with a larger, triangle-shaped " delta wing " section. McQuarrie's design

3977-594: The 1950s". Doctor Who , which launched in 1963 and ran until 1989, then was revived in 2005, was listed in the Guinness World Records in 2006 as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world and as the "most successful" science fiction series of all time. Other cult British series in the science fiction genre include The Tomorrow People , Space: 1999 , Blake's 7 , Star Cops and Red Dwarf . Science fiction in Canada

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4074-453: The 1970s. No other show attracted a large organized following until the 1990s, when Babylon 5 attracted both Star Trek fans and a large number of literary SF fans who previously had not been involved in media fandom. Other series began to attract a growing number of followers. The British series, Doctor Who , has similarly attracted a devoted following. In the late 1990s, a market for celebrity autographs emerged on eBay , which created

4171-472: The 1990s as CGI became more affordable and practical, but even today, designers sometimes construct scale models which are then digitized for use in animation software. Models of characters are puppets . Gerry Anderson created a series of shows using puppets living in a universe of models and miniature sets, notably Thunderbirds . ALF depicted an alien living in a family, while Farscape included two puppets as regular characters. In Stargate SG-1 ,

4268-805: The 26th century. In this timeline, Enterprise -J participated in the Battle of Procyon V, a climactic battle in which the Federation successfully drove the invasive trans-dimensional beings known as the Sphere Builders back into their own realm. The ship's crew included a descendant of the Xindi scientist Degra . Registry: UEF Enterprise Class: Constitution Service: circa 2259 Captain: James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) The "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds introduces an alternate timeline where Earth

4365-474: The 32nd century, as mentioned in the Star Trek: Discovery episode " Stormy Weather ", a starship Enterprise noted heated plasma while closing on a subspace rift. No further detail about this ship was provided. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Class: Galaxy refit Service: circa 2395 Captain: Full Admiral William T. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) In " All Good Things... ",

4462-749: The ISS Enterprise returns in the episode "Mirrors" where it is found stuck in interdimensional space, having been used by refugees fleeing the mirror universe (after the death of the Terran High Chancellor) who subsequently abandoned ship when it got stuck. The Enterprise is freed by the USS Discovery and sent to Federation Headquarters for storage. The crew of the Discovery learns from Federation databases that most of this Enterprise crew had survived and found new lives in

4559-479: The TARDIS, but not as a main character. The Doctor Who comics, novels and audio dramas have created companions, villains and supporting characters of their own. Some of these originated in one medium and later appeared in another. The lists below indicate where a character has appeared. Science fiction on television The need to portray imaginary settings or characters with properties and abilities beyond

4656-459: The aeroshuttle and the waverider, respectively. As on the Enterprise -D, however, these vessels were only depicted on technical schematics and never seen in operation or referred to in dialog. Gizmodo 's Io9 blog ranked the original design of the USS ; Enterprise  (NCC-1701) as the best version of the Enterprise , characterizing the original as still superior to 11 later versions of

4753-466: The aesthetic of Discovery , debuted in 2018 at the conclusion of the season 1 finale , and would go on to become the main setting of the series Strange New Worlds . When the Enterprise was reintroduced in the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture , the ship had just completed an extensive refit and redesign that included new slimmer warp nacelles, connected to the secondary hull by angled winglike struts. The updated design would be reused later for

4850-494: The alliance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Registry: USS  Enterprise  (NCC-1701-D) Class: Galaxy Service: 2363–2371 and 2401–2402 (9 years) Captains: Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ), William T. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ), Edward Jellico ( Ronny Cox ) The main setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994). During Star Trek Generations , Enterprise -D

4947-448: The basic concept of a series, influencing all the artistic choices. By the late 1990s, improved technology and more training and cross-training within the industry made all of these techniques easier to use, so that directors of individual episodes could make decisions to use one or more methods, so such artistic choices no longer needed to be baked into the series concept. Special effects (or "SPFX") have been an essential tool throughout

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5044-468: The concept of the captain's yacht while designing the USS Enterprise -D . Although it was never seen in use, it is labeled on the master systems display screen in main engineering, docked at the bottom of the saucer section almost directly opposite the main bridge. Probert suggested possible ways for the yacht to be used during the first season, including not showing the yacht but mentioning it in dialogue, but his ideas were rejected. The producers almost used

5141-480: The design's growth in size during early production of the film: "Once we got the ship built and started putting it in environments it felt too small. The shuttle bay gave us a clear relative scale – shuttlecraft initially appeared much bigger than we had imagined – so we bumped up the Enterprise scale, which gave her a grander feel and allowed us to include more detail." A special feature on starships in

5238-541: The development of the Massive software application permits producers to include hordes of non-human characters to storm a city or space station. The robotic Cylons in the new version of Battlestar Galactica are usually animated characters, while the Asgard in Stargate SG-1 are animated when they are shown walking around or more than one is on screen at once. In general, science fiction series are subject to

5335-533: The domestic television market, most Canadian productions involve partnerships with production studios based in the United States and Europe. However, in recent years, new partnership arrangements are allowing Canadian investors a growing share of control of projects produced in Canada and elsewhere. Australia's first locally produced Science Fiction series was The Stranger (1964–65) produced and screened by

5432-559: The earliest forms of media fandom was Star Trek fandom . Fans of the series became known to each other through the science fiction fandom . In 1968, NBC decided to cancel Star Trek . Bjo Trimble wrote letters to contacts in the National Fantasy Fan Foundation, asking people to organize their local friends to write to the network to demand the show remain on the air. Network executives were overwhelmed by an unprecedented wave of correspondence, and they kept

5529-503: The end of Star Trek Beyond after the destruction of the original Enterprise when the crew resume their five-year mission. Sean Hargreaves stated that he was given the brief to "beef up the neck and arms" on the Ryan Church design, but went further to give the ship echoes of Matt Jefferies' original design. According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia , the registry number NCC-1701 was devised by Matt Jefferies , art director of

5626-460: The events of Star Trek Beyond . Measurements of this ship's length have ranged from 295 meters to 910 meters. In an article about the 2009 film's visual effects, Cinefex wrote, "The reconfigured ship was a larger vessel than previous manifestations – approximately 1,200 feet (370 m) long compared to the 947 foot (289 m) ship of the original series", and quoted Industrial Light & Magic art director Alex Jaeger discussing

5723-514: The final Enterprise episode " These Are the Voyages... ". It appears in a dream sequence in the pilot of Star Trek: Picard , and after its saucer section was retrieved and placed in the Fleet Museum, it is revealed to have been reconstructed in full by Geordi La Forge as a working ship in the penultimate episode, set in 2401. In the final episode, Enterprise -D engages the Borg one last time and

5820-412: The final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation , Enterprise -D was shown in an alternate future where it had not crashed during the events of Star Trek Generations , and instead had been made Admiral William T. Riker's personal flagship. A third warp nacelle allowed the ship to reach at least Warp 13, and the Enterprise -D had also been equipped with a spinal phaser lance, large phaser cannons on

5917-402: The first Star Trek series, inspired by an old science fiction cover that Gene Roddenberry liked, with a starship flying through space. Jefferies, who was a pilot, based NCC on United States aircraft pre-1949 registration codes . In such pre-1949 usage, an "N" first letter refers to an aircraft registered in the United States. A "C" for a second letter refers to a civil aircraft. Jefferies added

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6014-456: The first decade of the 21st century, changes in provincial tax legislation prompted many production companies to move from Toronto to Vancouver . Recent popular series produced in Vancouver include The Dead Zone , Smallville , Andromeda , Stargate Atlantis , Stargate Universe , The 4400 , Sanctuary and the reimagined Battlestar Galactica . Because of the small size of

6111-508: The flying saucer from The Day the Earth Stood Still . So, what matters here is, what did [the Enterprise ] look like at the time it came out (1966) compared with anything that had been imagined before? And when you consider that, that is the most astonishing machine that has ever graced the screen." On the ship's influence upon scientists, Tyson wrote, "The Enterprise was the first ever spaceship represented in storytelling that

6208-725: The founding of several proto-Federation alliances. Enterprise had significant engagements with the Klingons , Suliban , Xindi and the Romulans and played a central role in the "Temporal Cold War". It is also featured as a model in Star Trek Into Darkness . As of 2401, an NX class which is heavily modified, is displayed at the Starfleet Museum above Athan Prime, in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard (2023). Three ships named USS Enterprise are featured in

6305-479: The history of science fiction on television: small explosives to simulate the effects of various rayguns , squibs of blood and gruesome prosthetics to simulate the monsters and victims in horror series, and the wire-flying entrances and exits of George Reeves as Superman . The broad term "special effects" includes all the techniques here, but more commonly there are two categories of effects. Visual effects ("VFX") involve photographic or digital manipulation of

6402-516: The impossible characters and settings allowed in animation made this a preferred medium for both fantasy and for series aimed at young audiences. Originally, animation was all hand-drawn by artists, though in the 1980s, beginning with Captain Power , computers began to automate the task of creating repeated images; by the 1990s, hand-drawn animation became defunct. In recent years as technology has improved, this has become more common, notably since

6499-505: The long-running Mr. Squiggle , Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left , Ocean Girl , Crash Zone , Watch This Space and Spellbinder . Other series like Time Trax , Roar , and Space: Above and Beyond were filmed in Australia, but used mostly US crew and actors. Japan has a long history of producing science fiction series for television. Some of the most famous are anime such as Osamu Tezuka 's Astro Boy ,

6596-413: The majority of science fiction media fandom has been represented by males of all ages and for most of its modern existence, a fairly diverse racial demographic. The most highly publicized demographic for science fiction fans is the male adolescent; roughly the same demographic for American comic books . Female fans, while always present, were far fewer in number and less conspicuously present in fandom. With

6693-591: The mid-2380s. As a Sovereign -class vessel, it was the most advanced vessel in Starfleet , and an active participant in the Battle of Sector 001 and the Dominion War . Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) Class: Odyssey Service: 2386–2401 (15 years) Commanding officer: Fleet Admiral Elizabeth Shelby ( Elizabeth Dennehy ) This ship appeared in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard (2023). In

6790-604: The name Enterprise predate the United Federation of Planets in Star Trek ' s fictional timeline. Registry: USS Enterprise (XCV 330) Class: Declaration Service: circa 2130s Captain: Unknown This USS Enterprise (XCV 330) appears in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) among a series of illustrations depicting ships named Enterprise . It also appears as a model in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), together with models of

6887-536: The onscreen image, usually done in post-production . Mechanical or physical effects involve props, pyrotechnics, and other physical methods used during principal photography itself. Some effects involved a combination of techniques; a ray gun might require a pyrotechnic during filming, and then an optical glowing line added to the film image in post-production. Stunts are another important category of physical effects. In general, all kinds of special effects must be carefully planned during pre-production . Babylon 5

6984-535: The original Star Trek television series and the first through seventh Star Trek films. Registry: USS  Enterprise  (NCC-1701) Class: Constitution I, later refit as Constitution II Service: 2245–2285 (40 years) Captains: Robert April ( James Doohan [voice], Adrian Holmes ), Christopher Pike ( Jeffrey Hunter , Sean Kenney , Anson Mount ), James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), Willard Decker ( Stephen Collins ), Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ). The Federation 's first Enterprise

7081-769: The original series as an alternate reality where the militaristic Terran Empire exists in place of the regular universe's United Federation of Planets (" Mirror, Mirror "). A montage in the opening credits of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " In a Mirror, Darkly " shows the Terran Empire logo in use by at least World War II, with licensed novels putting the divergence before Shakespeare, or even classic Greek literature. Registry: ISS Enterprise (NX-01) Class: NX Service: 2150s Captains: Maximilian Forrest ( Vaughn Armstrong ), Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) The Star Trek: Enterprise episode " In

7178-621: The player defeat the Dominion fleet surrounding Deep Space Nine. In 2018, the in-game appearance of the ship was changed to that of a "Yorktown Class" vessel, after the ship was damaged and refit as part of the game's story. The original, Odyssey class version of the ship would later appear in Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard in February 2023, making the Enterprise -F part of the official Star Trek canon. The Mirror Universe first appeared in

7275-564: The prime universe. The 2009 Star Trek film takes place in a new reality created when the Romulan Nero traveled through time via an artificial black hole created by red matter . Registry: USS  Enterprise  (NCC-1701) Service: 2258–2263 (5 years) Captains: Christopher Pike ( Bruce Greenwood ), James T. Kirk ( Chris Pine ) The main setting for the films Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and Star Trek Beyond (2016). Enterprise

7372-484: The reach of current reality obliges producers to make extensive use of specialized techniques of television production. Through most of the 20th century, many of these techniques were expensive and involved a small number of dedicated craft practitioners, while the reusability of props, models, effects, or animation techniques made it easier to keep using them. The combination of high initial cost and lower maintenance cost pushed producers into building these techniques into

7469-404: The rising popularity of fanfiction , a large majority of which is categorized as slash fanfiction . Female fans comprise the majority of fanfiction writers. U.S. television science fiction has produced Lost In Space , Star Trek , The Twilight Zone , and The X-Files , among others. British television science fiction began in 1938 when the broadcast medium was in its infancy with

7566-424: The rising popularity of fanzines, female fans became increasingly vocal. Starting in the 2000s (decade), genre series began to offer more prominent female characters. Many series featured women as the main characters with males as supporting characters. True Blood is an example. Also, such shows premises moved away from heroic action-adventure and focused more on characters and their relationships. This has caused

7663-403: The same financial constraints as other television shows. However, high production costs increase the financial risk, while limited audiences further complicate the business case for continuing production. Star Trek was the first television series to cost more than $ 100,000 per episode, while Star Trek: The Next Generation was the first to cost more than $ 1 million per episode. One of

7760-403: The saucer section, and cloaking ability, making it one of the most powerful starships seen in the Star Trek franchise. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-J) Class: Universe Service: 26th century The " Azati Prime " episode of Star Trek: Enterprise involves time travel and features a scene in which Enterprise -J appears. Enterprise -J operates in a possible timeline during

7857-529: The ship as "the very first starship U.S.S. Enterprise ". Registry: Enterprise (NX-01) Class: NX Service: 2151–2161 (10 years) Captain: Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula ) United Earth Starfleet's Enterprise is the main setting of Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005). Enterprise was the first Earth-built starship capable of reaching Warp 5 . The ship was commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer and played an instrumental role in

7954-659: The ship was mothballed at the Memory Alpha ship museum, and the Shatnerverse novel The Ashes of Eden (1996), which depicted Enterprise -A's removal from the mothball fleet before being destroyed defending the planet Chal. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) Class: Excelsior -class refit Service: 2293–2329 (36 years) Captains: John Harriman ( Alan Ruck ), Demora Sulu (portrayed in Generations by Jacqueline Kim ) The Enterprise -B

8051-487: The show on the air. Although the series continued to receive low ratings and was canceled a year later, the enduring popularity of the series resulted in Paramount creating a set of movies, and then a new series Star Trek: The Next Generation , which by the early 1990s had become one of the most popular dramas on American television. Star Trek fans continued to grow in number, and first began organizing conventions in

8148-516: The story by asking questions and getting into trouble, (similar to Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.) The Doctor regularly gains new companions and loses old ones; sometimes they return home, or find new causes on worlds they have visited. A few of the companions have died during the course of the series. Many characters have appeared in multiple stories; some of which can also dubiously be considered companions, having travelled on

8245-399: The subsequent Star Trek movies which use the original crew. The ship is ordered " decommissioned " at the end of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). As of 2401, it resides at the Starfleet Museum above Athan Prime, appearing in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard (2023). Non-canon information concerning this ship includes paperwork included with the model kit, which indicated

8342-503: The transmission of a partial adaptation of Karel Čapek 's play R.U.R. . Despite an occasionally chequered history, programmes in the genre have been produced by both the BBC and the largest commercial channel, ITV . Nigel Kneale 's The Quatermass Experiment (1953) and its sequels have been called "one of BBC Television's earliest audience successes" and Kneale became "one of the most influential television and film writers to emerge in

8439-668: The yacht in the episode " Samaritan Snare ", but decided to use an "executive shuttlecraft" due to budgetary constraints. According to Patrick Stewart, the yacht would have been called the Calypso . Producer Ronald D. Moore noted in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual that real-life naval tradition would insist on calling such a craft the captain's gig , rather than the captain's yacht. Rick Sternbach later designed similar craft for USS Voyager and USS Equinox , known as

8536-585: The year 2401, the ship was originally designated as the USS  Titan  (NCC-80102-A) under the command of Captain Liam Shaw. By 2402, the Titan -A was renamed and rechristened as the Enterprise -G, in honor of the crew of the USS Enterprise -D, for their contributions in battle against the Borg, with Seven of Nine taking over as captain. Registry: USS Enterprise Service: circa 3190 In

8633-612: The year 2401, the ship was set to be decommissioned following the Frontier Day festival. The ship first appeared in the non-canon video game, Star Trek Online , and was designed by artist and graphics designer Adam Ihle as part of a fan competition. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-G) Class: Constitution III Service: 2396–2401 (as USS Titan ), 2402– (as USS Enterprise ) Captains: Liam Shaw ( Todd Stashwick ), Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) The Enterprise -G appeared in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard (2023). In

8730-613: Was attacked by Romulans, and the United Federation of Planets subsequently never formed. The UEF Enterprise (United Earth Ship Enterprise ) was constructed at the Luna Shipyards on Luna as part of the United Earth Fleet. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) Class: Odyssey ( Yorktown refit) Service: 2409– Captain: Va'Kel Shon One version of USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) appears in

8827-459: Was discarded in favor of keeping the general shape of the Enterprise intact for the redesign unveiled in Star Trek: The Motion Picture . Three decades later, the McQuarrie design for the Enterprise was adopted as the basis for the design of the USS Discovery in Star Trek: Discovery , a 2017 series that takes place ten years earlier than the original Star Trek . The captain's yacht

8924-588: Was in the form of video showings of popular anime, untranslated and often low quality VHS bootlegs. Starting in the 1990s, anime fans began organizing conventions. These quickly grew to sizes much larger than other science fiction and media conventions in the same communities; many cities now have anime conventions attracting five to ten thousand attendees. Many anime conventions are a hybrid between non-profit and commercial events, with volunteer organizers handling large revenue streams and dealing with commercial suppliers and professional marketing campaigns. For decades,

9021-467: Was launched at the beginning of the film Star Trek Generations (1994). During the ship's maiden voyage, prior to it being properly fitted with essential systems, the crew encountered an energy ribbon known as the Nexus, through which James T. Kirk – captain of the two former Enterprise starships, NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-A – was officially declared missing and presumed dead. The design of the Enterprise -B

9118-467: Was lost in 2371 after an attack by the Duras sisters ' renegade Klingon Bird-of-Prey which caused extensive damage, leading to a warp core breach. Although the saucer section was safely separated before the breach, the shock wave from the exploding engineering hull threw it out of control, and caused it to crash-land on Veridian III. The ship also appears in the first Deep Space Nine episode " Emissary " and

9215-468: Was originally the same shooting model as the regular Enterprise . The remastered version of "Mirror, Mirror" includes a CGI version of Enterprise with "ISS" markings on the hull and minor physical differences from USS Enterprise , such as a larger deflector dish, a taller bridge, and altered nacelle details. The ship was also shown orbiting the planet in the opposite direction (clockwise instead of counter-clockwise). In Star Trek: Discovery season 5 ,

9312-611: Was produced by the CBC as early as the 1950s. In the 1970s, CTV produced The Starlost . In the 1980s, Canadian animation studios including Nelvana , began producing a growing proportion of the world market in animation. In the 1990s, Canada became an important player in live action speculative fiction on television, with dozens of series like Forever Knight , Robocop , and most notably The X-Files and Stargate SG-1 . Many series have been produced for youth and children's markets, including Deepwater Black and MythQuest . In

9409-401: Was the first series to use computer-generated imagery , or "CGI", for all exterior space scenes, even those with characters in space suits. The technology has made this more practical, so that today models are rarely used. In the 1990s, CGI required expensive processors and customized applications, but by the 2000s (decade), computing power has pushed capabilities down to personal laptops running

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