Star Trek: The Original Series premiered way back in 1966, and even all these later, a 93-year-old William Shatner is still known to the public mainly as Captain Kirk. It's a role he embraced the other weekend when he accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 52nd Annual Saturn Awards. “Nobody knew that 60 years later, you and I would be talking about it. This show is just phenomenal,” he told US Weekly. “It’ll be really in our lifetime, impossible to repeat, because it would take some entertainment to exist for 60 years from now to equal what Star Trek has done. We won’t be alive then.”

It is indeed very impressive that, decades later, not only would people still know about Star Trek, but that the franchise would be this prolific. Recent years have seen an explosion in new Star Trek shows, from Discovery to Picard to Lower Decks to Strange New Worlds and beyond.