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STAR TREK

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Star Trek Will Return to TV in 2017

Nearly 50 years after its original television premiere, this classic sci-fi series knows how to live long and prosper.

Kirstin Fawcett
(From left to right) Brent Spiner, Patrick Stewart, and Michael Dorn in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998).

12 Star Trek Gadgets That Now Exist

Universal translators, tablet computer, and these other gadgets arrived even sooner than Star Trek's writers imagined.

John Brandon
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How Do Star Trek Stardates Work?

"Captain's Log, stardate [totally bogus made-up number]." Highly illogical.

Chris Higgins


Sherlock Holmes and Star Trek’s Spock, Kirk, and McCoy.

12 Times 'Star Trek' and Sherlock Holmes Overlapped

Spock's admiration for Holmes may have a familial bias...

Haley Herfurth
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