Star Trek has always used the idea of aliens and other planets as allegories for different Earth cultures, and if Gene ...

The Original Series has the honor of playing 3 of Star Trek's most important alien species: Vulcan, Klingon, and Romulan.

A laughing Vulcan is a far more divisive thing than many might expect. So, when Lawrence Luckinbill grinned his way onto the ...

Stigma shows T'Pol's Pa'Nar Syndrome worsening, before being exposed to other Vulcan scientists. Their reaction is rooted ...

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Two examples of sauciness in Star Trek: TOS are well-known to even those who aren't Trekkers: one of the first interracial kisses in television history, and a Vulcan mating ritual known as pon farr.

On that latter point, consider that the UR-120’s movement operates an elaborate mechanism much like a wandering-hours ...

Shatner played the first (and arguably most iconic) captain of the Enterprise for for all three seasons of "The Original Series" ("TOS") which aired from 1966 to 1969, before getting canceled.