On September 8, 1966, Star Trek officially warped onto the airwaves with “The Man Trap,” a pulpy monster‑of‑the‑week story that hardly screams “groundbreaking sci-fi franchise in the making.” It’s an ...

Next year, Star Trek will have been on the air for sixty years. Fourteen movies and almost a thousand TV episodes later, the franchise can still look back to the very first episode that was ever aired ...