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Event Information:
Las
Vegas is the site of The Official
STAR TREK Convention Las Vegas. The whole
event will be streaming live online.
Science fiction conventions are
gatherings of fans of various forms
of speculative fiction including
science fiction and fantasy.
Historically, science fiction
conventions had focused primarily on
literature, but the purview of many
extends to such other avenues of
expression as movies and television,
comics, animation, and games.
LAS
VEGAS, NEVADA
Thursday - Sunday
August 9 - 12,
The Rio Suites Hotel
3700 W. Flamingo Rd.
Star
Trek is an American science fiction
entertainment franchise created by
Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star
Trek is its six television series:
The Original Series, The Animated
Series, The Next Generation, Deep
Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise.
The franchise also includes eleven
feature films, dozens of games,
hundreds of novels, as well as a
themed attraction in Las Vegas
(opened in 1998 and closed in
September 2008), and at least two
traveling museum exhibits of props.
Beginning with the original
television series and continuing
with the subsequent films and
series, the franchise has become a
cult phenomenon and has spawned many
pop culture references.
The
original Star Trek followed the
interstellar adventures of James T.
Kirk and the crew of an exploration
vessel of a 23rd century galactic
"United Federation of Planets" – the
Starship Enterprise. This series
debuted in 1966 and ran for three
seasons on NBC, after the network
rejected an initial pilot film "The
Cage" with a mostly different cast,
though this pilot is now routinely
packaged with the original series.
Following the release of other
series in the franchise, the
Kirk-led series was retroactively
referred to as "Star Trek: The
Original Series". These adventures
were continued by the short-lived
Star Trek: The Animated Series and
six feature films. Four more
television series were eventually
produced, based in the same universe
but following other characters: Star
Trek: The Next Generation, following
the crew of a new Starship
Enterprise set a century after the
original series; Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager,
set contemporaneously with The Next
Generation; and Star Trek:
Enterprise, set before the original
series, in the early days of human
interstellar travel. Four additional
feature films were produced,
following the crew of The Next
Generation, and, most recently, a
2009 movie reboot of the franchise
featuring a young crew of the
original Enterprise set in an
alternate timeline.
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