JC's Trek Talk

What is Star Trek About? A Reflective Essay What is Star Trek about?  This is an interesting and loaded question.  From it's beginning with the original series in the 1960's Star Trek is and always has been about deep, thoughtful, intellectual stories about an optimistic future for humanity.   The concept as conceived by Gene Roddenberry was a future in which humanity (a united humanity) works together with other races and species in common cause.  The cause being exploration, learning and personal betterment.  A future where humanity has overcome its internal struggles and provincial attitudes and prejudices and moved beyond national squabbles, beyond poverty, disease, war, into a more enlightened future.  In the original series this was often shown in the form of episodes that were in truth morality plays, set in a sci-fi concept and a future several hundred years hence. Episodes like "Let That be Your Last Battlefield" that took a very blunt look ...

Star Trek Timeline The Late 24th Century (2380-2402) LD, PRO, PIC 2380 • D’Vana Tendi is assigned to USS Cerritos • The Excelsior class is decommissioned • Alandra LaForge is born • Beverly Crusher becomes pregnant 2381 • Beverly Crusher leaves Starfleet to raise her son Jack • Jean-Luc Picard is promoted to Admiral and leaves the Enterprise-E.  Worf is promoted to Captain. • USS Dauntless is launched to test an experimental quantum slipstream drive • The Odyssey class enters production • Thaddeus Troi-Riker is born • Sidney LaForge is born 2382 • USS Protostar, the testbed for an experimental protostar drive is launched • USS Protostar travels through an anomaly to 2436. The ship is then sent 90 years into the past to 2366 although the crew are stranded in 2436. • Starfleet begins the process of resettling Romulans threatened by the impending Hobus Supernova • Rejected by Starfleet, Seven of Nine joins the Fenris Rangers • Liam Boothby, Starflee...