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With the Star Trek franchise growing faster than ever, this interactive video timeline will serve as a springboard for fans, young and old, to experience how Star Trek history fits together. Styled to mimic the LCARS interface, a simple click through the timeline will introduce you to each era with a video overview. Here you will discover key plot points of each of the series and movies set during that time. You also have the option to dive deeper in each subject by bringing up articles directly from within the video. Click below to discover more information about Memory Alpha in a unique way!

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3 November 2023

Star Trek: Prodigy has been nominated for a Children's and Family Emmy Award in the category of "Sound Mixing and Sound Editing For An Animated Program". [1]

Prolific televsion director Robert Butler, who helmed the first Star Trek: The Original Series pilot, "The Cage" has passed away at the age of 95. [2]

1 November 2023

Actor Peter White, who appeared as Sharat in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Armageddon Game" has passed away at the age of 86. [3]

During the production of the Star Trek television shows, most notably Star Trek: The Original Series, numerous studio models were created representing the Constitution-class, in particular the USS Enterprise, more than for any other class of starship. Starting out with traditional physical studio models, advances in technology have resulted in digital versions that were added to the array of models used in the Star Trek franchise.

As art director on the original series, Matt Jefferies was given the assignment to design the Enterprise itself. His only guideline was Gene Roddenberry's firm list of what he did not want to see: any rockets, jets, or fire-streams. The starship was not to look like a classic, and thus dated, science-fiction rocket ship, but neither could it resemble anything that would too quickly date the design. Somewhere between the cartoons of the past and the reality of the present, Matt Jefferies was tasked with presenting a futuristic design of his own.

The theory that space could be warped – a hypothetical means of faster-than-light travel – had first been proposed by Albert Einstein in 1905. Years later, Star Trek itself would establish that Zefram Cochrane had first demonstrated warp drive in 2063. In the 1960s, however, warp drive – a delicately balanced, intricate web of chemistry, physics, mathematics, and mystery – initially perplexed Matt Jefferies.