In television, failure is usually final. A pilot doesn’t connect, a network loses confidence and a project quietly disappears. But in 1965, something highly unusual happened to Star Trek. After ...

Genre television is no stranger to the old "it gets better in Season 2" promise. Fantasy, sci-fi—it all comes with prerequisite world-building, lore-dumps, and ensemble introductions. That's a ...

Nus Braka and Nahla Ake facing off on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - Brooke Palmer/Paramount+ "Star Trek" is a franchise that keeps on giving, even though its gifts tend to be of a wildly fluctuating ...

In 1965, National Broadcasting Company rejected the first Star Trek pilot, “The Cage.” In a rare move, the network ordered a second pilot the next season. The new episode, “Where No Man Has Gone ...

In television history, few pilots have had a stranger journey than the first attempt at Star Trek. Today, the 1964 pilot episode “The Cage” is widely regarded as a landmark in sci-fi TV—a serious, ...

It’s no secret that Gene Roddenberry had trouble getting Star Trek on the air. He went to NBC with a pilot and believed that he had cooked up something really unique. The powers that be didn’t agree, ...

One of the Star Trek franchise's most memorable villains may not have ever existed... if not for a note from the studio.