History YMMV / StarTrek

*** CTV Sci-Fi also airs ''Star Trek: Discovery'', ''Star Trek: Picard'', and ''Star Trek: Lower Decks'' first-run, making Canada the only country in the world where these shows can be legally seen without signing up for a streaming service. CTV Sci-Fi was also the only known international buyer of the ''Short Treks'' vignettes.

*** The [[UsefulNotes/CanadianMultichannelNetworks Canadian multichannel network]] SPACE, which began transmitting in 1997, is often facetiously called "the ''Star Trek'' channel" for its incessant reruns of all the shows, despite the lack of any "[=CanCon=]" quota which might otherwise explain its ubiquity. This continues to the present day (the channel has since been rebranded as "CTV Sci-Fi").

* FandomRivalry: Famously, with ''Franchise/StarWars'', pretty much from the moment the latter debuted. Both are similar in name, popularity and influence, while frequently differing wildly in tone, making comparisons almost inevitable; each franchise also frequently [[PopularityPolynomial resurges in popularity]] around the same time the other [[DeaderThanDisco reaches a period of decline]], leading to perceptions that the one has stolen the other's thunder. Although
an official crossover has never happened (yet), entire fandom sub-groups such as Website/StarDestroyerDotNet have been dedicated to exploring the possibilities of the two universes colliding, as have numerous fanfiction, and the eternal battle between fans has been explored in media like ''{{Film/Fanboys}}''. All that being said, the two have influenced each other quite a bit (again, pretty much from the start- George Lucas has admitted to enjoying ''Trek'' when it began, and the huge success of ''Wars'' led directly to the series' return in the form of ''[[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture The Motion Picture]]''), frequently pay tribute to each other, and there are certainly plenty of those who are big fans of both, making it - if not precisely FriendlyFandoms ([[SeriousBusiness never!]]) - perhaps something closer to a WorthyOpponent.

an official crossover has never happened (yet), entire fandom sub-groups such as Website/StarDestroyerDotNet have been dedicated to exploring the possibilities of the two universes colliding, as have numerous fanfiction, and the eternal battle between fans has been explored in media like ''Film/Fanboys''. All that being said, the two have influenced each other quite a bit (again, pretty much from the start- George Lucas has admitted to enjoying ''Trek'' when it began, and the huge success of ''Wars'' led directly to the series' return in the form of ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture The Motion Picture]]''), frequently pay tribute to each other, and there are certainly plenty of those who are big fans of both, making it - if not precisely FriendlyFandoms ([[SeriousBusiness never!]]) - perhaps something closer to a WorthyOpponent.

an official crossover has never happened (yet), entire fandom sub-groups such as StarDestroyerDotNet have been dedicated to exploring the possibilities of the two universes colliding, as have numerous fanfiction, and the eternal battle between fans has been explored in media like ''Film/Fanboys''. All that being said, the two have influenced each other quite a bit (again, pretty much from the start- George Lucas has admitted to enjoying ''Trek'' when it began, and the huge success of ''Wars'' led directly to the series' return in the form of ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture The Motion Picture]]''), frequently pay tribute to each other, and there are certainly plenty of those who are big fans of both, making it - if not precisely FriendlyFandoms ([[SeriousBusiness never!]]) - perhaps something closer to a WorthyOpponent.

** The theory that The Federation is actually TheEmpire, simply using the BenevolentAlienInvasion to gain new members and extend it's own power. Some point as evidence to in ''Insurrection'', they are recruiting races who've had warp for only a ''year'' simply to serve as Cannon-Fodder for the Dominion.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Various theme songs (plus all the live-action series - with the exception of the original - have either been nominated for or won music Emmys, and there's [[http://www.startreksoundtracks.com/ an entire website]] and [[http://reelmusic.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/the-music-of-star-trek-profiles-in-style-jeff-bond/ book]] about the music.

** Lots and lots and lots of them--count on this to happen basically every time a new series comes out; but most famously Picard / The Next Generation vs Kirk / the original series, which has entered into PopCulturalOsmosis.

* ContestedSequel: Star Trek XI (referred to by some fans simply as 'the Abrams film' or similar) has caused a BrokenBase within Star Trek fans between people who only like the old Trek, people who only like XI, and people who like both.

*** The original series saw its ''world premiere'' in Canada on September 6, 1966 - two days before it aired on NBC.
*** The original series also starred two Canadians - Creator/WilliamShatner and Creator/JamesDoohan.

*** Beginning in UsefulNotes/TheEighties, Toronto-based channel [=CityTV=] (which cable providers allowed to be seen nationwide) aired TNG first-run and labelled itself "the Federation Station", even hosting a filled-to-capacity live broadcast of the series finale at Toronto's [=SkyDome=], a stadium which seats over 50,000.

** The UK is no slouch either, although there ''Trek'' must compete with the homegrown ''Series/DoctorWho'', a rivalry which has endured for ''decades''. The prominence of British characters (starting with Scotty in TOS, who despite his broad and somewhat stereotypical portrayal is [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales beloved by actual Scots]]), of course culminating in Creator/PatrickStewart who played the ostensibly French Picard as IAmVeryBritish, is a major factor.

* HomeGrownHero: A classic example - a multi-planetary FictionalUnitedNations ship being commanded by the American Captain Kirk.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** In the 30th anniversary special, there is a skit featuring the cast of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' serving on the USS Voyager under Janeway. At one point, a Klingon beams aboard with the dog, which had been digging up azalea bushes on the Klingon homeworld. Janeway remarks, "Now you see why we shouldn't have [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise pets on starships]]".
** It was long established in secondary material, and confirmed by Gene Roddenberry' letters during his lifetime, that the star the planet Vulcan orbited is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_Eridani 40 Eriadni A]]. Fast forward to 2018, [[https://www.sciencealert.com/star-trek-vulcan-exoplanet-40-eridani-a-hd-26965-super-earth-dharma-planet-survey and it turns out there's actually a Super Earth orbiting that same star within its Habitable Zone]].

** This also applies to the Roddenberry "No Conflict" rule. All ''Trek'' fans know that Roddenberry didn't want his humans fighting with each other (though really it was "petty bickering" he didn't want to see) because he wanted to portray us as an "adult race" rather than the child race we are now. But the application of this rule has fans confused. Most seem to think it applies to ''Star Trek'' as a whole, while the fact is that Roddenberry came up with this rule while creating ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. The rule does not apply to the original series or any series set prior to it, making it much ado about nothing when the rule was tossed out for ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery''.
* OlderThanTheyThink: Interstellar transporters were featured as early as the ''TOS'' episode "Gamesters of Triskelion"

* SequelGap: There was a four year hiatus between 1998's ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' and 2002's ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', and an even longer seven year hiatus between ''Nemesis'' and ''Film/StarTrek2009'' (which is technically a sequel despite also being a ContinuityReboot), plus another four-year gap between that one and 2013's ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Watching a later ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episode is almost like watching a movie in television show form. The best examples would likely be "The Best of Both Worlds" (TNG), "The Way of the Warrior" ([=DS9=]), "Scorpion" (VOY) and "Twilight" (ENT). Of the movies the favorites are ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', ''Film/StarTrek2009'' and ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''.

* [[YMMV/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series]]
* [[YMMV/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries The Animated Series]]

** Speaking of Germany, it's the one market outside of the Anglosphere which has taken to ''Star Trek'' in a big way. The most common explanation for this is that the franchise is reminiscent of homegrown SpaceOpera such as ''Perry Rhodan'', making ''Trek'' and its concepts accessible to Germans in a way it isn't to many non-English-speakers. Sociologically, the core concept of a previously destructive and warlike race becoming "enlightened" and leading a peaceful Federation based on progressive ideals is also very appealing in Germany, for obvious reasons.

*** CTV Sci-Fi also airs ''Star Trek: Discovery'', ''Star Trek: Picard'', and ''Star Trek: After Hours'' first-run, making Canada the only country in the world where these shows can be legally seen without signing up for a streaming service. CTV Sci-Fi was also the only known international buyer of the ''Short Treks'' vignettes.

*** The [[UsefulNotes/CanadianMultichannelNetworks Canadian multichannel network]] SPACE, which began transmitting in 1997, is often facetiously called "the ''Star Trek'' channel" for its incessant reruns of all the shows, despite the lack of any "[=CanCon=]" quota which might otherwise explain its ubiquity. This continues to the present day (the channel has since been rebranded as "CTV [=SciFi=]").
*** CTV [=SciFi=] also airs ''Star Trek: Discovery'', ''Star Trek: Picard'', and ''Star Trek: After Hours'' first-run, making Canada the only country in the world where these shows can be legally seen without signing up for a streaming service. CTV [Sci-Fi] was also the only known international buyer of the ''Short Treks'' vignettes.

*** CTV [=SciFi=] also airs ''Star Trek: Discovery'', ''Star Trek: Picard'', and ''Star Trek: After Hours'' first-run, making Canada the only country in the world where these shows can be legally seen without signing up for a streaming service.

** Website/StarDestroyerDotNet has [[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Database/Query-ST.php?Series=&Category=Culture&EpName=&Keywords=&Quotes=&Analysis=&Submit=Submit four pages in its database about Federation culture]]... this trope dominates the comments, mostly in regards to the Federation's nebulous economics and highly conformist society. Debates about both topics are extremely common in fandom, not least because the various series are ''extremely'' vague about how the post-monetary economy works and because of the apparent lack of any contemporary pop culture (almost every character is a history buff with a preference for mid-20th Century or earlier subject matter). Site creator Mike Wong also wrote an [[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/Racism.html essay]] that makes hay out of the '90s series' reliance on the PlanetOfHats and the recurring trope that {{Half Human Hybrid}}s are trapped between two cultures, arguing that it reinforces racial stereotyping and [[MalignedMixedMarriage negative attitudes to interracial relationships]].

* HilariousInHindsight: Gene Roddenberry confirmed in letters during his lifetime that the star the planet Vulcan orbited is 40 Eriadne A. Fast forward to 2018, [[https://www.sciencealert.com/star-trek-vulcan-exoplanet-40-eridani-a-hd-26965-super-earth-dharma-planet-survey and it turns out there's actually a Super Earth orbiting that same star within its Habitable Zone]].

* HilariousInHindsight:: In the 30th anniversary special, there is a skit featuring the cast of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' serving on the USS Voyager under Janeway. At one point, a Klingon beams aboard with the dog, which had been digging up azalea bushes on the Klingon homeworld. Janeway remarks, "Now you see why we shouldn't have [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise pets on starships]]".

** Website/StarDestroyerDotNet has [[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Database/Query-ST.php?Series=&Category=Culture&EpName=&Keywords=&Quotes=&Analysis=&Submit=Submit four pages in its database about Federation culture]]... this trope dominates the comments, mostly in regards to the Federation's nebulous economics and highly conformist society. Debates about both topics are extremely common in fandom, not least because the various series are ''extremely'' vague about how the post-monetary economy works and because of the apparent lack of any contemporary pop culture (almost every character is a history buff with a preference for mid-20th Century or earlier subject matter). Site creator Mike Wong also wrote an [[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/Racism.html essay]] that makes hay out of the '90s series' reliance on the PlanetOfHats and the recurring trope that {{Half Human Hybrid}}s are trapped between two cultures, arguing that it reinforces racial stereotyping and [[MalignMixedMarriage negative attitudes to interracial relationships]].

* UnfortunateImplications: Heterosexuality is virtually universal. Exceptions to this are rare and ''always'' involve alien species in some way. Even bodiless EnergyBeings seem to have gender identities and are depicted as heterosexual. [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith Q]] jokes about appearing to Picard as a woman, but never does so (although he appears in nonhuman forms several times). He also has a long-term (billion year) Q "girlfriend", with whom he has a son who is a stereotypical heterosexual horny teenager that is obsessed with females even from the "lesser" species. While InterspeciesRomance is quite common to the point of being expected, any deviation from heterosexuality is definitively explained by BizarreAlienBiology. The only episodes which depict ordinary humanoid characters being other than straight in an ordinary way are those set in the MirrorUniverse whose whole set-up is "evil is dominant" (and the depictions often tend to shallow GirlOnGirlIsHot pseudo-lesbian fluff to titillate fanboys). Arguably, stuff like this were done to get past the censors, where they could get away with showing gay stuff as long as aliens are involved and not humans (Gene Roddenberry always wanted to show gay humans, but was always thwarted [[ExecutiveMeddling for obvious reasons]]). This topic has been much discussed, including on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_in_Star_Trek#LGBT_in_Star_Trek Other Wiki]], Star Trek's own [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Sexuality Memory Alpha]], as well as [[http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/homosexuality.htm other essays]] [[http://www.wired.com/2013/05/star-trek-lgbt-gay-characters/ and articles]]. This is finally averted in the latest film (''Beyond'',) where it's revealed that in this timeline, [[spoiler: Sulu is gay and has both a husband and a daughter]], and averted more definitively in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' where astromycologist Lt. Paul Stamets and ship's physician Dr. Hugh Culber are in a relationship with each other.
** Website/StarDestroyerDotNet has [[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Database/Query-ST.php?Series=&Category=Culture&EpName=&Keywords=&Quotes=&Analysis=&Submit=Submit four pages in its database about Federation culture]]... this trope dominates the comments, mostly in regards to the Federation's nebulous economics and highly conformist society. Debates about both topics are extremely common in fandom, not least because the various series are ''extremely'' vague about how the post-monetary economy works and because of the apparent lack of any contemporary pop culture (almost every character is a history buff with a preference for mid-20th Century or earlier subject matter).

* UnfortunateImplications: Heterosexuality is virtually universal. Exceptions to this are rare and ''always'' involve alien species in some way. Even bodiless EnergyBeings seem to have gender identities and are depicted as heterosexual. [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith Q]] jokes about appearing to Picard as a woman, but never does so (although he appears in nonhuman forms several times). He also has a long-term (billion year) Q "girlfriend", with whom he has a son who is a stereotypical heterosexual horny teenager that is obsessed with females even from the "lesser" species. While InterspeciesRomance is quite common to the point of being expected, any deviation from heterosexuality is definitively explained by BizarreAlienBiology. The only episodes which depict ordinary humanoid characters being other than straight in an ordinary way are those set in the MirrorUniverse whose whole set-up is "evil is dominant" (and the depictions often tend to shallow GirlOnGirlIsHot pseudo-lesbian fluff to titillate fanboys). Arguably, stuff like this were done to get past the censors, where they could get away with showing gay stuff as long as aliens are involved and not humans (Gene Roddenberry always wanted to show gay humans, but was always thwarted [[ExecutiveMeddling for obvious reasons]]. This topic has been much discussed, including on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_in_Star_Trek#LGBT_in_Star_Trek Other Wiki]], Star Trek's own [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Sexuality Memory Alpha]], as well as [[http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/homosexuality.htm other essays]] [[http://www.wired.com/2013/05/star-trek-lgbt-gay-characters/ and articles]]. This is finally averted in the latest film (''Beyond'',) where it's revealed that in this timeline, [[spoiler: Sulu is gay and has both a husband and a daughter]], and averted more definitively in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' where astromycologist Lt. Paul Stamets and ship's physician Dr. Hugh Culber are in a relationship with each other.

* UnfortunateImplications: Heterosexuality is virtually universal. Exceptions to this are rare and ''always'' involve alien species in some way. Even bodiless EnergyBeings seem to have gender identities and are depicted as heterosexual. [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith Q]] jokes about appearing to Picard as a woman, but never does so (although he appears in nonhuman forms several times). He also has a long-term (billion year) Q "girlfriend", with whom he has a son who is a stereotypical heterosexual horny teenager that is obsessed with females even from the "lesser" species. While InterspeciesRomance is quite common to the point of being expected, any deviation from heterosexuality is definitively explained by BizarreAlienBiology. The only episodes which depict ordinary humanoid characters being other than straight in an ordinary way are those set in the MirrorUniverse whose whole set-up is "evil is dominant" (and the depictions often tend to shallow GirlOnGirlIsHot pseudo-lesbian fluff to titillate fanboys). This topic has been much discussed, including on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_in_Star_Trek#LGBT_in_Star_Trek Other Wiki]], Star Trek's own [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Sexuality Memory Alpha]], as well as [[http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/homosexuality.htm other essays]] [[http://www.wired.com/2013/05/star-trek-lgbt-gay-characters/ and articles]]. This is finally averted in the latest film (''Beyond'',) where it's revealed that in this timeline, [[spoiler: Sulu is gay and has both a husband and a daughter]], and averted more definitively in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' where astromycologist Lt. Paul Stamets and ship's physician Dr. Hugh Culber are in a relationship with each other.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Various theme songs (plus all the live-action series - with the exception of the original - have either been nominated for or won music Emmys, and there's [[http://www.startreksoundtracks.com/ an entire website]] and [[http://reelmusic.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/the-music-of-star-trek-profiles-in-style-jeff-bond/ book]] about the music.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Watching a later ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episode is almost like watching a movie in television show form. The best examples would likely be "The Best of Both Worlds" (TNG), "The Way of the Warrior" ([=DS9=]), "Scorpion" (VOY) and "Twilight" (ENT). Of the movies the favorites are ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', ''Film/StarTrek2009'' and ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''.

** Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness got this treatment based solely on the trailer. It got even worse when the film came out, some claiming it to be [[http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/14/star-trek-into-darkness-voted-worst the worst Star Trek film ever made]].

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Watching a later ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episode is almost like watching a movie in television show form. The best examples would likely be "The Best of Both Worlds" (TNG), "The Way of the Warrior" ([=DS9=]), "Scorpion" (VOY) and "Twilight" (ENT). Of the movies the favorites are ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'',''Film/StarTrek'' and ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''.

*** Although this in some ways implies a degree of FanDumb. While it is true that the series (focused as they are on Starfleet) do not show much of civilian lifestyles in the Federation, what we ''do'' see actually implies a rather high standard of living, and quite a diversity of lifestyles, especially when the colonies are factored in. For example, Beverly Crusher's grandmother lived on a colony where everyone was basically doing {{LARP}} of life in the pre-industrial Scottish Highlands (with hidden technology maintaining things like the weather). So there is a definite absence of stereotypical Marxist conformity. If anything, people appear to cluster in "lifestyle communities" that meet their personal preferences.

* AmericansHateTingle: While not universal, the whole franchise is more popular in the English-speaking world than outside of it, possibly because it deals with very complex topics, [[ValuesDissonance some of them are taboo outside the U.S.]] The best example of this is South Korea, when not only the franchise is unpopular, the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries very original series]] was banned there because a character of Japanese origin appears there (Hikaru Sulu).

** While not exactly unpopular, the franchise isn't exactly hot in Latin America, despise [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration two first series]] are the very well known series of the franchise there, partly because of [[SuperlativeDubbing excellent voice acting of both series]]. The only exception on this rule is Spock, who is the most popular character of the whole franchise in Latin America, even more than Kirk.

%%* DeconstructionFic: All over the place.