Star Trek: The Original Series first aired on September 8, 1966, and in the 45 years since, there've been a ton of movie and TV spin-offs ... and also a ton of Trek-related lists we've tried to blow your minds with. Like 12 strange and silly versions of the original Star Trek theme and 17 everyday products made to look like the Starship Enterprise.

Director Michael Bay has selected the actor who will voice Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Dark of the Moon ... and it's a very logical choice indeed.

The stars of the various Star Treks are so burned into our minds as their respective characters that it's sometimes hard to imagine them as anything else. But they've all had careers both before and after donning Starfleet colors, including some well-known roles and some a little off the beaten path.

We knew the original Star Trek series first aired a long time ago, but somehow we didn't remember it as having been back during the Victorian era.