Star Trek is an American media franchise. The first television series, simply called Star Trek and now referred to as "The Original Series", debuted in 1966 and aired for three seasons. It followed the voyages of the starship USS Enterprise on its five-year mission, the purpose of which was “to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before!“. The Star Trek canon includes The Original Series, an animated series, five spin-off television series, the film franchise, and further adaptations in several media. Star Trek is noted for its cultural influence beyond works of science fiction. The franchise is also noted for its progressive civil rights stances. The Original Series included one of television's first multiracial casts. The franchise spans a wide range of spin-offs including games, figurines, novels, toys, and comics. As of July 2016, the franchise had generated $10 billion in revenue, making Star Trek one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.
Stargate is a military science fiction media franchise based on the film of the same name. The Stargate enables nearly instantaneous travel across the cosmos via wormhole. With the instantaneous travels the stargate allows, it's a different take then the usual star ship travel that most space science fiction shows utilize. Most encounters are with other humans, that have generally evolved in much different ways than humans on earth. Eventually, the teams meet actual aliens and begin star ship travel. But the stargate remains the primary source of space travel for the franchise..
In a distant part of the universe, a human civilization has extended to a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies, to which they have migrated from their ancestral home world of Kobol. The Twelve Colonies have been engaged in a lengthy war with a cybernetic race known as the Cylons, whose goal is the extermination of the human race. The Cylons carry out a massive attack on the Twelve Colonies and on the Colonial Fleet of starships that protect them. These attacks devastate the Colonial Fleet, and virtually destroy their populations. Scattered survivors flee into outer space aboard a ragtag array of available spaceships. Of the entire Colonial battle fleet, only the Battlestar Galactica, a gigantic battleship and spacecraft carrier, appears to have survived the Cylon attack. The Galactica and the pilots of 'Viper Fighters' lead a fugitive fleet of survivors in search of the fabled thirteenth colony known as Earth.
Star Wars is an American epic space-opera media franchise. The franchise began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. The film series was expanded into other media, including television series, video games, novels, comic books, theme park attractions and themed areas, resulting in an all-encompassing fictional universe. The franchise holds a Guinness World Records title for the "Most successful film merchandising franchise." In 2018, the total value of the Star Wars franchise was estimated at US $65 billion, and it is currently the fifth-highest-grossing media franchise of all-time.