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DID YOU KNOW...

Star Trek: Voyager's January 1995 premiere will impressively add to the list of astonishing facts on 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 before the editors could even see the show.
      Star Trek is seen in over 100 countries, and has been translated into dozens of
           languages.
      Every month, a classic Star Trek or Star Trek: The Next Generation novel is published
           by Pocket Books.
      13 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 $760 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.
      When Star Trek: Voyager premieres in January, there will be more than 325 hours of
           original Star Trek programming, including classic Star Trek, the seven Star Trek 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 nearly six
           weeks before he would run out of original material.
      Star Trek products have elicited $750 million in retail sales in the past five years.
      In 1993, Star Trek computer software and video game products generated over $70
           million in retail sales.

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