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''Star Trek'' is one of the most culturally-influential television shows, and is often regarded as the most influential science fiction TV series in history. The original series, which aired in the late 1960s, has since spawned five successor series, twelve movies, a plethora of merchandise, and a multi-billion dollar industry collectively known as the Star Trek franchise. The franchise is owned by CBS Television Studios, which now owns television properties previously held by Paramount Pictures, the studio that produced ''Star Trek'' for many decades; CBS Paramount continues to hold DVD rights to the TV series, and the rights to produce feature films. Two films have been inspired by the cultural influence of ''Star Trek'': ''Galaxy Quest'', and ''Free Enterprise''. ==''Star Trek: The Original Series''== Gene Roddenberry sold ''Star Trek'' in 1964 to NBC as a classic adventure drama, calling it a "Wagon Train to the Stars". But Roddenberry wanted to tell more sophisticated stories, using futuristic situations as analogies for current problems on Earth and showing how they could be rectified through humanism and optimism. The show's writers frequently addressed moral and social issues such as slavery, warfare, and discrimination. The opening line "to boldly go where no man has gone before" is almost verbatim from a US White House booklet on space produced after the ''Sputnik'' flight in 1957. A major inspiration for ''Star Trek'' was the science fiction film ''Forbidden Planet'', whose influence is especially apparent in the pilot episode "The Cage"〔(Forbidden Planet, Science Fiction Movies, Leslie Neilsen ). Scifidimensions.com. Retrieved on 2011-06-15.〕〔(The Outer Limits Connection – Star Trek Myths Pt.2 ). Fastcopyinc.com. Retrieved on 2011-06-15.〕 Previous sophisticated science fiction TV shows included anthology series such as ''The Twilight Zone'' and the British Quatermass serials, but ''Star Trek'' was the first American science fiction series with a continuing cast that was aimed at adults, telling modern morality tales with complex narratives. Earlier British science fiction shows with marionettes〔(Cast of Characters: Lieutenant Green ). Spectrum-headquarters.com. Retrieved on 2011-06-15.〕 and soap operas had interracial casting, but this was the first American live-action series to do this. At a time when there were few non-white or foreign roles in American television dramas, Roddenberry created a multi-ethnic crew for the Enterprise, including an African woman (Uhura), a Scotsman (Montgomery Scott), a Japanese American (Hikaru Sulu), and—most notably—an alien, the half-Vulcan Spock. In the second season, reflecting the contemporaneous Cold War, Roddenberry added a Russian crew member, (Pavel Chekov). The original series is also credited with American television's first interracial kiss, although this had happened earlier in a British medical soap opera, ''Emergency – Ward 10'' and 〔(Soaps | British ). TVARK. Retrieved on 2011-06-15.〕 in the spy show ''I Spy'' which featured a scripted, unedited interracial kiss between Robert Culp and France Nuyen in the episode 'The Tiger,' a kiss that wouldn't gain the controversy or attention as the ''Star Trek'' kiss. The series gained multiple Emmy Award nominations during its run, but never won. Despite a restricted budget, the show's special effects were superior to contemporary TV shows, its stories were often written by prominent science fiction authors (though often re-written by the show's regular writers),〔The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Gen Ed Peter Nichols, Granada 1979, Page570〕 and many of its production values—such as costuming and set design—were of high caliber for such a low budget. Some of the production staff of ''The Outer Limits'' worked on ''Star Trek'' and often made creative re-use of props from the earlier series.〔 During its network run from 1966 to 1969, ''TOS'' ratings were mediocre. A letter-writing campaign by fans, unprecedented in size, contributed to NBC's decision to renew the series for a third season, but the network put the show in a disadvantageous timeslot, and ''TOS'' was finally canceled after its third season. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cultural influence of Star Trek」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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