Trek Facts

Star Trek: Voyager Adds To The Star Trek Phenomenon

• Star Trek: Voyager is the only television show in TV Guide history to be featured on the cover of the publication three months before its debut.

• Star Trek is seen in over 100 countries, and has been translated into dozens of languages.

• Thirteen Star Trek books are sold every minute in the United States.

• Over 63 million Star Trek books are in print, and have been translated into more than 15 languages, including Chinese, Norwegian, Hungarian and Hebrew.

• Since July 1986, every new classic Star Trek novel published by Pocket Books has been a New York Times paperback best-seller. To date, the novels have sold close to 30 million copies, making it the best-selling series in publishing history.

• In addition to the novels, a variety of Star Trek books, including biographies and technical manuals, have landed on national best-seller lists more than 40 times.

• The seven "Star Trek" films have earned over $800 million in box office grosses and video rentals.

• Star Trek conventions are held every weekend of every year, in at least four different U.S. cities, attracting over 300,000 fans and an estimated one million fans worldwide.

• "Trekkies," now called "Trekkers," are the only fans listed by name in the Oxford English Dictionary.

• The U.S. space shuttle, the "Enterprise," was given its name after NASA received 400,000 requests from Star Trek fans.

• A 1993 study from Purdue University found that children learn more about science fiction from Star Trek than anything else outside the home.

• With the premiere of Star Trek: Voyager, there are more than 360 hours of original Star Trek programming, including classic Star Trek, the eight feature films, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. A person could watch Star Trek programming eight hours a day, seven days a week for more than six weeks before running out of original material.

• Star Trek products have elicited more than $750 million in retail sales in the past five years.

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