Star Trek first premiering in 1966, introducing science fiction fans to the crew of the US Enterprise. While Shatner’s ...

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Find out how to watch every 'Star Trek' movie in order, from 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' to 'Section 31' Star Trek is still living long and prospering, almost 60 years after the series first aired ...

These range from strange oversights -- such as when the credits for "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" managed to misspell Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) as "Uhuru" -- to creative decisions that ...

Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, has died at the age of 89. Her son Kyle Johnson said Nichols died Saturday in Silver City, New Mexico. “Last night, my mother ...

In 1962, after the explosion of a rocket that was designed to compete with Soviet advances, NASA scientists and engineers worked fast.

"Star Trek" has been flourishing lately — at least ... and "Woman in Motion," a tribute to the influence that original Uhura actress Nichelle Nichols had on recruiting women and people of ...

The science fiction genre has dominated TV since the 1950s, producing an array of legendary shows. Sci-fi stories often take place in the future, illustrating a portrait of humanity when the likes of ...

In this genre it’s easiest to trace the “what’s next?” questions. Setting aside all the imagined apocalypses, a powerful, ...

Growing up as a theater kid outside of Chicago, Anthony Rapp became a successful stage actor at a very early age, including a ...

“Star Trek” (1967) had a pointedly interracial cast. Lt. Uhura (the late Nichelle Nichols) was among the crewmembers of the Starship Enterprise — one of many ways the show went Boldly Where No Man Has ...