The Latest Breaking News from Gene Roddenberry

Real-world technology is often foretold by science fiction. In 1927, characters in the film Metropolis made video calls to each other. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hung flat-screen colour monitors on the walls of the Enterprise decades before we did the same in our living rooms.

The debut of 'The Next Generation' almost didn't have its most famous villain. Here's why Gene Roddenberry throwing Q into the mix changed the course of Star Trek history for the better.

Nichelle Nichols died at the weekend aged 89 but will be forever cemented in history thanks to her 1968 episode of Star Trek

Actor who blazed a trail for black women on American TV in the 1960s in the role of Lt Uhura in Star Trek

Nichelle Nichols, whose portrayal of starship communications officer Lieutenant Uhura in the 1960s sci-fi TV series "Star Trek" and subsequent movies broke color barriers and helped redefine roles for Black actors, has died at age 89, her family said. Nichols, whose fans included Martin Luther King Jr. and a young…

Nichelle Nichols, who played the communications officer on the Starship Enterprise on “Star Trek” and famously participated in what was thought to be the first interracial kiss on television, has died.

Feel-better bingeing doesn't get much better than the latest "Star Trek" series' mix of optimism and realism

A gloriously evil villain, big-screen shocks, mind control space slugs! The film photon torpedoed everything that went before, leaving a legacy that has yet to be bettered

The Vulcan rocket will launch in late 2022 on a flight to the Moon. The Vulcan replaces the United Launch Alliance's Atlas V and its problematic RD-180 engines.