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Star Trek Awarded Peabody Honor for Projecting "The Best of Humanity"

The Peabody Awards is honoring the Star Trek franchise for "storytelling that projects the best of humanity into the distant future."

Star Trek cemented a 2023 Peabody Award for its institutional honor. Since 1966, creator Gene Roddenberry provided a utopian blueprint for humanity through the lens of science fiction as humans and aliens work together to improve the galaxy around them. The franchise has consistently tackled various narratives from classic science-based stories for decades while exemplifying social, moral, and ethical issues through their adventures through 11 series and 13 films across generations.

The Peabody Awards Honors the Star Trek Franchise

The Peabody Awards, named after American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, was established in 1941 at the University of Georgia to honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in all of television, radio, and online media. It was first created to honor excellence in radio broadcasting but expanded over time to include other media. On social media, the institution's social media wrote, "🖖 Any cultural critic or media scholar would tell you that Star Trek, as an enterprise (pun mildly intended), helped invent a model for fandom through its faithful following originating in the '60s. The original sci-fi television series broke new ground for its diverse cast and unapologetically progressive values, like exploration over colonialism and cooperation over violence. For its enduring dedication to storytelling that projects the best of humanity into the distant future, the Star Trek franchise is honored with the Peabody Institutional Award." Here's an excerpt from the franchise's profile page.

The original Star Trek television series aired on NBC for only three seasons, from September 1966 to June 1969. It was fresh, prescient, and so ahead of its time that it couldn't quite capture the mainstream audience required for hits during a particularly insipid time in television. But fast forward nearly 60 years (perhaps through a space-time anomaly), and creator Gene Roddenberry's vision is alive and well, having spawned a media franchise of 13 feature films, 11 television series, and numerous books and comics, with a legendary fan following. Today, Star Trek is more vibrant, imaginative, funny, entertaining, and progressive than ever. And these days, we've got the special effects to make it look stellar. For more information on the Peabody Award honor, head on over to the main page.

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