Some good news for those in the UK who fancy going back to the very beginning of Star Trek: The Next Generation. And it’s this: CBS Action has confirmed that it’ll be screening the show from episode one, starting on 20th July 2011.

The show will go out every weeknight, until the full seven season run is complete.

Furthermore, CBS Action has brought in a Star Trek fanatic to help push the show. Raules Davies is a man with no on-TV experience, yet he’s described by the channel’s Chief Programming Officer, Chris Sharp, as “a natural”.

Davies will be introducing the episodes, and sharing the trivia he’s picked up across his life of Star Trek fandom. Given that he reckons he’s spent more than 80,000 hours of his life watching the series, we’d wager that he’ll have no shortage of things to tell you.