ITV

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ITV is a British commercial television network. It is also one of the UK broadcasters of the Star Trek movies.

On 3 September 1984 they held the UK television premiere of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. On 14 May 1986 ITV premiered Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The channel also held the rights to show Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which they premiered on 22 September 1990 and aired several more times during the 1990s. ITV also aired the documentary After They Were Famous: Star Trek on 19 July 2003.

From July to August 2023 Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection were available to stream on ITVX.

In April 2024, the three Kelvin timeline films, Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond, which previously aired on Film4, aired on ITV2 and were made avaliable to stream on ITVX.

Star Trek

ITV has never broadcast The Original Series, which was screened on the BBC exclusively from 1969 to 1994, when the Sky satellite broadcaster also gained the right to show the series. ITV did screen the UK television premiere of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which aired on 3 September 1984.


External links

https://space-doubt.blogspot.com/2014/10/star-trek-on-bbc-part-one.html