Star Trek lives! But not just that. With the announcement this week that a new Star Trek TV series is in the works for 2017, it seems the franchise may finally be in a position to grow up as well.
When Enterprise, the last Trek show to air, finished 10 years ago, television was in a different place, and Star Trek in particular had reached a sort of end point in its life cycle. Trek of some kind had been airing continuously for 18 years, ever since The Next Generation was launched in 1987. To put that into perspective, 18 years was the same amount of time that had passed with no Star Trek on the air between the cancellation of The Original Series in 1969 and TNG’s debut.
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When Enterprise, the last Trek show to air, finished 10 years ago, television was in a different place, and Star Trek in particular had reached a sort of end point in its life cycle. Trek of some kind had been airing continuously for 18 years, ever since The Next Generation was launched in 1987. To put that into perspective, 18 years was the same amount of time that had passed with no Star Trek on the air between the cancellation of The Original Series in 1969 and TNG’s debut.
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