User blog:ARTaylor/46 Years of Star Trek

Today is the forty-sixth year anniversary of the first Star Trek episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before". The episode featured the talents of Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura, George Takei as Lt. Sulu, and Majel Barrett-Roddenberry as Nurse Chapel. The hugely popular science fiction series spawned one of the largest franchises of all time with five television spin-offs, eleven films with a twelfth in production, and a number of novels and comic books, many of which crossed over with the Marvel Comics universe.