To do a little fun sci-fi time-crunching, Ridley Scott's 1979 film "Alien" takes place in the year 2122, which was, by the "Star Trek" timeline, about 30 years before the events of "Star Trek: ...

The arrival of the syndicated television series Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987 was met with two equally fervent responses: excitement that we were getting a new weekly version of Star Trek and ...