The main parts of the Star Trek franchise are: 1  Six television series (first shown from 1966 to 2005) and. 2  Thirteen movies (shown in theaters from 1980 to 2016).
corporal punishment noun [U]. âº the âphysical âpunishment of âpeople, âespecially of âchildren, by âhitting them. (Definition of corporal punishment from the Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press).
The claim that corporal punishment is an especially effective deterrent has been refuted by empirical evidence, however, which shows that offenders who are punished by corporal means are actually slightly more likely to commit further crimes than are those punished by imprisonment.