| abstract | - We may know more isolated facts about the Whoniverse. We may be more emotionally moved by the Buffy Verse, but in terms of a coherent sense of history, cross-series and cross-media continuity, you really can't beat the Trek Verse. The Trek Verse was invented by Gene Roddenberry for Star Trek the Original Series. Initially no more detailed or self-consistent than any other Speculative Fiction 'verse, it has become a place with a continuity which outstrips that of any other project on television. It is built up by the Canon details from five television series and ten feature films; there is also a myriad of original novels and an Animated Adaptation that are not officially canon according to Paramount Pictures, which owns the franchise, but many fans consider them so anyway. (As for the several Comic Book Adaptations, their quality varies wildly, so at least some of the older ones have fallen prey to Fanon Discontinuity.) It also spawns vast amounts of Fanon, in the form of more Fanfic than the human mind can safely comprehend. At least one planned series (Assignment: Earth) was to be set in the Trek Verse during the 1960s, but did not come to pass.
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