A global brand of TV SciFi, originally created by GeneRoddenberry. To date, there have been five incarnations: _TheOriginalSeries_ (TOS), _TheNextGeneration_ (TNG), _DeepSpaceNine_ (DS9), _Voyager_ and _Enterprise_ . _Trek_ is at its best when confronting moral and ethical dilemmas (see: the _Enterprise_ episode 'Dear Doctor', airing sunday 15/09/02 on C4). It is at its worst when dealing with plots that are developed, progressed and resolved entirely by techno babble with no thought given to the long-term implications of such events or their effects on the characters involved (see: almost any episode of _Voyager_ ). GeneRoddenberry's original concept for the show was 'wagon train to the stars'. The current incarnations of _Trek_ seem to bear little or no resemblence to this concept. On the other hand, FireFly looks as though it may be taking the idea a little too literally. CategoryTVSF