20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Trek Generations

10. It Was The First Film Ever Marketed With A Website

Star Trek Generations Picard Kirk
Paramount

Though the Internet was certainly a thing by 1994, believe it or not Generations was the first film in history to have its own official promotional website.

The site, generations.viacom.com, went online three weeks prior to the movie's release, and presented an interface in the style of the Enterprise's iconic Library Computer Access/Retrieval System (LCARS) operating system.

The site included a trailer for the film, sound clips and photos, behind-the-scenes materials, and a Star Trek shop.

For a short while it was one of the most popular sites on the Web, though unlike other promotional websites of the era - such as the Space Jam site from 1996, which is still online today - it didn't stand the test of time and eventually disappeared into the cyber-ether.

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