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Star Trek has the ability to bring generations together. With each new series or film, the franchise affords itself a new viewer-base, not just through marketing, but through shared experiences. So much of the Star Trek fandom is passed down from parent to child, or from one older fan to a younger one.

The franchise has been able to thrive over the years because of the shared ability to experience Star Trek with one another. The fandom has been galvanized by that concept. Yet, it's not just the fandom that benefits from the fact that the older generation passes something down to the younger generation.

Those who make the shows and films we love so much do the same thing. Starting with The Next Generation, the first in the non-William Shatner-led Star Trek properties, the previous generation has always been there to lend a hand to the newer generation.

Tawny Newsome is hard at work writing episodes of Starfleet Academy and loving every minute of it. Newsome told the audience at a Lower Decks' Q&a panel at Creation’s St-nj Star Trek convention that it was "Iso amazing to see something that you wrote being produced on that grand scale." And speaking of grand scale, Jonathan Frakes, who was at that same convention but a different panel, though he hasn't seen the set of the new series, told the audience at a Star Trek: The Next Generation panel, that he understands "the set is the most magnificent Star Trek set yet." [via Trekmovie] That's saying a lot when you've got sets like those for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Discovery.

But enough about sets. Newsome, who is obviously excited for her path on Star Trek to be moving in this new direction, called the franchise "the most buoyant franchise in the world.

The Star Trek Universe is no stranger to star-power. The same franchise that helped William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy become pop-culture phenomenons also enhanced the careers of legends such as Sir Patrick Stewart and Chris Pine (in the Kelvin Timeline movies). It's also now spotlighting veterans of this generation such as Sonequa Martin-Green on Star Trek: Discovery and Anson Mount in spinoff series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The franchise appeals to people of all ages and one of the many (countless!) reasons for that is that it has been led by stars from different generations.

One of the biggest franchises of today is undoubtedly the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Debuting in 2008 with Iron Man, it enhanced the careers of Robert Downey Jr. Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, and Mark Ruffalo, while also launching the Hollywood careers of the likes of Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston. Oh yeah, and it...

Fans continue to wait endlessly (so it seems) for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' third season. The third entry in the hit show is scheduled for a 2025 release, with many expecting a summer-time date. Though the release of season three is up in the air, we have more and more news coming out about season four.

The show got a fourth season order despite season three still being in production due to the popularity of the series. Easily the biggest hit the franchise has had in years, if not decades, Strange New Worlds has united old and new fans alike under a new show that feels both contemporary and familiar.

That combination has gotten the show a list of awards, while also being one of the most streamed shows going today. So a fourth season is not only not shocking at all, it's a bit surprising that a season five...

Despite the tendency to dismiss animation as a "kiddie genre," animation is, in fact, a full, vibrant art form of its own. While it shares many things in common with live-action filmmaking, animation also offers unique opportunities to depict stories and worlds that may be difficult to render in live-action. This makes animation excellent for the kind of sci-fi adventure that is Star Trek's bread and butter.

Fortunately, these opportunities have not been entirely ignored by the producers of Star Trek over the years. With three animated Star Trek shows, dating as far back as 1973, we can see how the strengths (and limitations) of animation have helped to shape the universe.

Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973-1974)

The second-ever Star Trek series shares a lot in common with its predecessor. With effectively the same cast and writers, it is arguably just more of the original series. Even so, animation...

The Captain Pike Trekkies see on "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is a very different Captain Pike they saw in the original 1966 "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage." The latter Pike was played by Jeffrey Hunter as an angry, passionate figure, quick to lose his temper, and only able to solve problems through sheer force of enraged will. The Pike as seen in the 2009 "Star Trek" movie was played by Bruce Greenwood had a scene so "hideously uncomfortable" that we're shocked he agreed to return for the sequel. The newer Pike, as played by Anson Mount, is a lighthearted, gregarious figure, eager to engage in jocular diplomacy and greet any and all members of his staff into his quarters for breakfast. The Hunter Pike seems like he would be an intimidating boss. The Mount Pike is the boss you always wish you'd get whenever you start a new job. 

Indeed, if...

The Orions are arguably one of the more difficult aliens in the Star Trek canon to get a handle on. Originally they were depicted in line with other alien races of the era across sci-fi. A group of aliens who used members of their own race to entice others. In the original series, they became known as the "Orion slave girls".

In Star Trek: Enterprise, it was shown that the Orion women were far more capable and not always the victims. In Star Trek 2009, and Star Trek: Lower Decks, we know some Orions were part of Starfleet. In fact, they further expanded on the aliens and further explored more of their history.

Namely that they were pirates who did awful things to people, including, but not limited to slave trading. Enterprise really tried to flip the script on the race and Lower Decks added some much-needed levity to them.

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In the "Star Trek" episode "The Devil in the Dark", the U.S.S. Enterprise visits a distant mining colony where the miners are being attacked and killed in the deep, subterranean tunnels by a mysterious creature. Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy), sent to investigate, find that the creature can "burrow" through the rock using a naturally powerful acid, and that it seems to be deliberately destroying mining equipment, implying that it's intelligent. Eventually, Kirk and Spock find a mound-like animal called a horta, and Spock manages to mind-meld with it. The creature is able to burn words into a nearby rock, conforming its intelligence. 

Kirk and Spock find that the horta wasn't killing miners out of malice, but to protect the thousands of horta eggs littering the tunnels. It seems that horta go nearly extinct every so often,...

Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Episode 4 - "A Farewell To Farms"

Star Trek: Discovery's season one didn't earn any points with fans when it debuted its reconstructed Klingons that looked nothing like the ones we were used to seeing. And even though Mary Chieffo, who portrayed L'Rell, on Discovery said the Klingons belonged to a different, ancient sect, fans just weren't buying it because the Klingons looked like completely different aliens. Fortunately, they didn't hang around past season two, and we haven't seen them since. And it looks like it might stay that way.

In the Star Trek: Lower Decks' season five episode, "A Farewell to Arms," Chieffo returns as the Klingon K'Elarra, and the animated Klingon is as close to a Star Trek: The Next Generation Klingon as could be. [via Screenrant] Even the Klingons that Starfleet fought in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds are the familiar ones we remember.

When I first saw the 2009 Star Trek, I was struck by the linguistic superpowers of that film's Nyota Uhura (Zoe Saldana). They were familiar to me. It wasn't simply that this ability often arises in science fiction and fantasy. It's that there was another prominent character in Star Trek who had this ability. I am speaking, of course, of Hoshi Sato (Linda Park).

I was a bit irked by this at the time, as I was 13 and thus easily irked. I got over it. When 2022's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiered, however, and introduced us to a linguistically gifted Cadet Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) who wasn't quite sure if she belonged on the Enterprise, I found myself asking again, "Are they turning Uhura into Hoshi?"

To be clear, there is absolutey nothing wrong with being Hoshi Sato. As a fan of linguistics and general word nerd myself, Hoshi is...

Fans were mixed on the first two seasons of Star Trek: Picard, but the third season gave them what they wanted from the very beginning. It also laid the groundwork for a potential Star Trek spinoff, which would have followed Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) as the new captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise G. Showrunner Terry Matalas dubbed the spinoff Star Trek: Legacy, but Paramount didn’t move forward with the concept. However, Ryan told the audience at Spacecon (via TrekMovie) that she had been pitched a different spinoff series, which she ultimately turned down.

“There has been talk. And there was an idea that was actually pitched to me after Picard ended, which was not the Legacy show that I know the fans are asking for, that I want to do,” Ryan explained. “But it just wasn’t me… It didn’t feel like the right kind of thing…...

In the "Star Trek: Picard" series finale "The Last Generation", the villain was exploded and most of the heroes were rescued. Tragically, the cantankerous-but-resolute Captain Liam Shaw (Todd Stashwick) was killed on board his ship, the Titan-a, inspiring a wave of ambivalence from his first officer, Commander Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan). Seven was never respected by Captain Shaw; he felt her Borg implants made her an enemy and he would always deadname her, calling her the name she had before she was assimilated.

After Captain Shaw's death, however. Seven was put in command of the Titan-a on his posthumous recommendation (he left a recording). The ship was re-christened the Enterprise-g and "Picard" ended with a tease of a spinoff series starring Ryan. "Star Trek: Picard" showrunner Terry Matalas made no secrets that he was deliberately using the final episode to tease an additional "Star Trek" spinoff he intended to call "Star Trek: Legacy.

It's not surprising that the subject of Star Trek: Legacy would come up at a convention that includes the stars of the potential series. That happened at Spacecon in San Antonio, TX with a panel that included Star Trek: Picard's Michelle Hurd who played Raffi Musiker on Star Trek: Picared. Excited fans asked yet again for more information about Legacy and if the show would happen. [via Trekmovie]

“Girl, I’ve got every single part of my body crossed that this day happens. Jeri and I both want Legacy so badly, and I gotta say thank you to you, and thank you to all of our communities that are trying to get that forward and signing petitions and kicking it out there. That’s the way that things happen, is you guys, your voice actually does impact the studios.”Michelle Hurd

Star Trek fans have had major impacts when it comes to series,...

Exclusive: Hello (Again), a short drama series co-created by Simu Liu and Natalie Younglai, has landed distribution at Flourishing Films and will launch at the American Film Market.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Liu made the show, which is billed as a “time-jumping rom-com” with Natalie Younglai. With each of the nine episodes running to ten minutes, the show was first commissioned by Canadian pubcaster CBC for its streaming service CBC Gem and launched in March 2022. The gap between the launch and international distribution acquisition is unusually long for TV, but includes scope for future episodes of the drama.

Plot follows the romance between chef Jayden and ER resident Avery, who get another chance at love after their unceremonious breakup when Jayden is hurled back in time. Directed by Melanie Chung, the series stars Alex Mallari Jr. and Rong Fu as Avery.

100 Dragons Media, which is the short form and docs arm of indie motion picture maker 100 Dragons, is the producer. Exec producers are 100 Dragons President and founder Teresa M. Ho (Frankie Drake Mysteries), Liu, Younglai (Coroner) and Mallari Jr. Ho negotiated the deal with Efuru Flowers, CEO and founder of Flourishing Films.

It was developed in association with CBC, with the financial participation of the Bell Fund, Canada Media Fund, Ontario Creates and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit. All creators and writers are Indigenous, Black or people of color, as is the majority of key crew.

The series won best Drama Pilot in the Digital Short Series category at the influential Denver festival SeriesFest.

“We are thrilled to welcome Hello (Again) to the Flourishing Films slate,” said Flowers. “It’s a compelling series that resonates with audiences globally, and we see tremendous potential for expanding its reach. We’re eager to collaborate with partners who share our passion for this story and are excited about the opportunity to produce a second season, bringing even more of Hello (Again) to viewers worldwide.”

The LA-based distributor has been building a slate of films and series focused on diverse and underrepresented stories. It has struck deals with the likes of Hulu, BET and Criterion and recently launched a YouTube movie channel to expand reach.

“From our first meeting at the European Film Market, we are thrilled to have found the alignment of our visions between 100 Dragons and Flourishing Films,” added 100 Dragons’ Ho. “We are excited to have partners with us who have similar mandates as we bring our project to the international marketplace and for any future episodes of Hello (Again).”

AFM starts today in Vegas and runs until November 10, with the U.S. on tenterhooks ahead of the results of the Presidential election, which takes place in coming hours across the country.

Fans are anxiously awaiting the premiere of the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds even though, once the season starts, it will be over far too soon. We've already gotten a glimpse of comedy with Captain Pike {Anson Mount] and some of his crew members being changed into Vulcans, and most recently, we saw a brief teaser from the first episode of the season that picks up with the Enterprise crew still battling the Gorn. But there is much more in store for us according to Henry Alonso Meyers who appeared with Ethan Peck, Akiva Goldsman, and Carol Kane at a panel at New York Comic Con. [via Gamerant]

When asked to describe the third season using only three words, Alonso Meyers' replied with "dancing, murder, and surprise." Now, we already know there's going to be a Hollywood murder mystery according to Jonathan Frakes who directed the episode and...

Fact and Fiction in Gladiator II: Those Who Are About to Lie Salute You

Remember when Ridley Scott’s 2023 biopic Napoleon set off a firestorm among finicky French historians? How shocked, shocked they were by the film’s factual inaccuracies (zut alors, Bonaparte never led the charge at Waterloo!). Well, it looks like the 86-year-old Oscar-winning director is at it again (see page 56), only this time it’s scholars of ancient Rome who’ll be storming Scott Free Productions. Although Gladiator II has been warmly received at early screenings, the 150-minute movie, which opens Nov. 22, is clearly chock-full of historical whoppers — like that scene in which a flooded Colosseum is filled with sharks. “Total Hollywood bullshit,” snipes Dr. Shadi Bartsch, a classics professor at the University of Chicago who has degrees from Princeton, Harvard and Uc Berkeley and has written several books about ancient Rome. “I don’tthink Romans knew...

Star Trek: Lower Decks is ending and with it the run of Jack Quaid with the franchise. Few people in the industry today is as on the rise as Quaid, having just wrapped up with Star Trek: Lower Decks and starring in The Boys on Amazon. His star is shining bright and during his turn on Lower Decks, he became arguably the biggest name of any of the modern shows.

Now, with Lower Decks over and Quaid's future with the franchise uncertain, it stands to reason that the next logical move would or should be getting Quaid under contract. Not for another season of Lower Decks, but for a new, live-action show.

He's one of the few names from the animated side of the franchise who has enough drawing power to bring people over for a new series on his involvement alone. It's a no-brainer, especially when you remember that Tawny Newsome,...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds exists as the perfect "do right" show. The series that can "do right" by fixing numerous issues that the franchise has fallen into. With so much of the Nu Trek being, to some degree, disappointments, Strange New Worlds exists as the show that got it right. It's not perfect, we've talked about aspects of the show we'd like to change, but it is the best of the new series by a mile.

And we're not even talking comparatively, Strange New Worlds is among the best shows the franchise has ever created. So in that regard, it exists as the series that is "doing right" by Nu Trek series. It's reassuring us that they can still make good Star Trek series in the modern day.

Yet, its place in the timeline also allows it to "do right" by correcting issues that would come up in the...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a beloved new entry into the world of Star Trek. It features Captain Christopher Pike getting to finish the stories that franchise head Gene Roddenberry had hoped he would all those years ago when he created the failed first pilot of the franchise. Now, fans are fully behind the leading man character and his plucky crew of fellow Starfleet greats.

The series is a throwback to the days of old Trek and while they try to get too silly every so often, for the most part, the series has been called one of the best in franchise history by everyone from critics to fans; both old and new alike.

As a Star Trek site, we love that the franchise has created a show that caters to us fans. Yet, in our love affair with the show, an idea may be developing that we're not entirely keeping an eye on.

The final frontier has arrived for the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos…or at the very least, the final season. “Star Trek: Lower Decks” Season 5 will be the last of the animated Trek show, and it premieres on Thursday, Oct. 24 on Paramount+. The show centers on the crew of the Cerritos, specifically the young officers who are stuck doing menial tasks below while the bridge crew hogs all the glory. Watch the last season of the show with a 7-Day Free Trial of Paramount Plus.

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“Star Trek: Lower Decks” beams audiences aboard the U.S.S. Cerritos, a California-class starship that specializes in making second contact with species recently introduced to the Federation.

Star Trek: Lower Decks is set to close out its run on Oct. 24, 2024, as the show premiers its fifth and final season. Airing on Paramount+, the final 10 episodes will bring a close to the show's run. While it's had a good run for a modern-era Nu Trek show, fans are still sad to see it go.

Whether you're sad to see it go, happy you got it, or a little bit of both, we have four things you should remember as he heads into the final stretch.

This is the final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks

For fans of Star Trek: Lower Decks, this is arguably the saddest piece of information we could pass along. The series is coming to a close and there will be no further episodes of the beloved animated-comedy. While it wasn't for every Star Trek fan, it certainly was one of the more creative...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will return for its third season on Paramount+ in 2025, and the streaming service is giving viewers a first look at what's to come. The prequel series has already been renewed for a fourth season.

Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Babs Olusanmokun, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Jess Bush, Melissa Navia, and Bruce Horak star in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series, which follows Captain Christopher Pike (Mount) and his crew on board the USS Enterprise, years before James T. Kirk took command in the original show.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has brought a variety of characters from across Star Trek to their show. We've seen young versions of Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, The Kirk brothers (George and James Kirk), and a young Uhura. As well as Brad Boilmer and Beckett Mariner from Star Trek: Lower Decks.

So we've seen quite a few names pop up from across the world of Star Trek, namely, characters we're rather intimate with. The show has even teased us with a young Khan Noonien Singh and a young Sybock. Though neither really had much of an impact and were just subtle cameos.

We're likely to get even more names in season three, and newcomer Rhys Darby is being very vocal about that very fact. It was recently announced at the New York Comic Con by Henry Alonzo Myers (via TrekMovie.com) that Darby is going to be playing a "familiar" character who is "completely new'.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is starting to bring back legacy characters from Star Trek: The Original Series. It has already brought back Scotty, played by Scottish actor Martin Quinn, Sam Kirk, played by Dan Jeannotte, and Cillian O'Sullivan who will be portraying Dr. Roger Korby, Nurse Christine Chapel's ill-fated fiance. So the announcement at New York Comic Con [via Whatculture] of Rhys Darby [Our Flag Means Death and Flight of the Conchords] joining season three for a guest starring part in a legacy role has fans scratching their heads as there are so many possibilities as to who this actor could be playing.

The announcement on Star Trek on Paramount+'s X page met with a great deal of enthusiasm from fans who begn speculating who this character could be portraying. Some mistakenly guessed Roger Korby, but there were also guesses for Trelane, which got the majority of votes, Gary Mitchell, Dr. Piper from his...

When Star Trek: Strange New Worlds wrapped up their second season, they were in the middle of their own unwinnable scenario. The Gorn had captured members of the Federation, and the U.S.S. Enterprise was given the order to withdraw from the conflict. Fans were left on bated breath as Captain Christopher Pike stood with an uncertain expression on his face, lost in a whirlwind of thought.

Obviously, the heroes would win the day, it's Star Trek after all, but the how is the question. Well, at New York Comic Con, we got a hint at how things may shake out when Star Trek premiered the first look at the show's third season.

In the snippet, which is roughly three minutes long, we see Pike snap out of his uncertainty and put together a plan to save his fellow Federation cohorts thanks to help from his crew. The scene...

Star Trek: Lower Decks is coming to an end in December after five seasons. But will that be the last time the actors who brought the animated characters to life are part of the Star Trek franchise? Not if Tawny Newsome, who, along with Justin Simien, created the new live-action comedy, has anything to say about it. She wants to work with her co-stars again, especially since she's only ever gotten to work with one in live-action, and that was Jack Quaid. She and Quaid played their live-action characers on an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

In a recent interview with Cbr, Newsome was excited about the idea of working with her friends, but this new show won't be a spin-off from Lower Decks. These will be entirely new characters in an entirely new show. So you might see Jack Quaid playing a captain or a lieutenant on a vastly different ship.

A new season 3 sneak peek clip for the TV series “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” was recently unveiled, giving fans insight into how Captain Christopher Pike will save his crew from danger. In the season 2 finale, the USS Enterprise crew found themselves in a perilous battle with multiple Gorn ships, including a powerful destroyer. Some Enterprise crew members ended up trapped aboard the enemy vessel. With reinforcements ordered to withdraw, Pike faced a dire situation.

However, the new footage reveals that Pike has devised a clever strategy. With several colleagues held captive, including Captain Marie Batel, the Enterprise crew collaboratively came up with an inventive plan. Rather than directly attacking the larger Gorn destroyer, Pike ordered the Enterprise to disrupt its shields through a controlled ramming maneuver. This unconventional tactic involves the ship firing a decoy torpedo into the Gorn vessel first. The homing beacon on the torpedo will then...

The first season of the next series in the Star Trek franchise, Starfleet Academy, is now filming in Toronto, but we shouldn't expect to see it until at least 2026. That hasn't stopped Paramount+ from making a surprising decision regarding the series. It has renewed the brand-new series for a second season already. The announcement came at the Star Trek Universe Panel at New York Comic Con. [via Trekmovie].

This is much earlier than the timeline for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds which didn't get a second season renewal until almost four months before the release of its first season and even for Star Trek: Discovery which didn't get renewed for a second season until the first season had already begun airing. While Paramount+ does have a track record for early renewals, this one is more surprising as the entire premise of the show is different from anything that's ever been done in Star Trek.

Paramount+ unveiled a preview clip of the forthcoming third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at New York Comic Con today, alongside the news that guest star Rhys Darby (Our Flag Means Death) would be aboard for the ride.

Based on the years Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise, the CBS Studios-produced series follows the leader and his team, which features Science Officer Spock (Ethan Peck), and Number One (Rebecca Romijn), in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the starship, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

While no release date is set, the new installment is set to debut in 2025. The series has already been renewed for a fourth season.

The three-minute clip follows the ship outmaneuvering and eventually outpacing enemy combatants. Its release follows an earlier preview shared in late July, alongside the news of Cillian O’Sullivan...

Paramount+ today held its Star Trek universe panel at New York Comic Con, moderated by featured host of CBS Mornings and CBS News national correspondent Vladimir Duthiers.

The streaming service announced that its original movie Star Trek: Section 31 will premiere on Friday, January 24, 2025, exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and international markets where the service is available. New teaser art for the highly anticipated movie was also revealed.

The Star Trek: Section 31 presentation included a conversation with cast members Omari Hardwick, Kacey Rohl, and Robert Kazinsky, along with executive producer and director Olatunde Osunsanmi. The panel also featured a video appearance from the film’s star, Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh.

In the movie, Yeoh reprises her fan-favorite role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou — a character she played in Star Trek: Discovery‘s first season – who joins a secret division of Starfleet. Tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets,...

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has scored an early Season 2 renewal — and a plum cast addition.

Paramount+ announced the pickup on Saturday at New York Comic-Con, where the network also revealed that Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) will recur in Season 1 of the Star Trek offshoot. Character details have yet to be shared.

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Captain Pike and his enterprising crew get very crafty during a relentless attack by the Gorn, as seen in a Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 teaser that debuted Saturday at New York Comic Con.

Rhys Darby (photo by Robyn Von Swank)

It was also announced during the afternoon New York Comic Con panel that Rhys Darby (Our Flag Means Death, Flight of the Conchords) will guest-star during the upcoming season, though no character details were shared.

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The “Star Trek Universe” panel at New York Comic Con on Saturday unveiled first looks at Season 3 of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” and the fifth and final season of “Star Trek: Lower Decks” — including screening the season premiere episode of the animated series for the assembled fans.

Paramount+ also announced that the franchise’s first original TV movie, “Star Trek: Section 31,” will premiere on Jan. 24 on Paramount+ in the U.S. and internationally where the streamer is available. Cast members Omari Hardwick, Kacey Rohl and Robert Kazinsky, and executive producer and director Olatunde Osunsanmi discussed the film during the panel for the movie, and star Michelle Yeoh — who reprises her role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou from “Star Trek: Discovery” in the movie — made a video appearance.

“Strange New Worlds” stars Ethan Peck and Carol Kane appeared with executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers to discuss the third season of the show,...

A pirate in space?! Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has added an Our Flag Means Death star for its upcoming third season. Fans at New York Comic Con were surprised at the Star Trek Universe panel with a Strange New Worlds section, featuring cast members Ethan Peck and Carol Kane, as well as executive producers and co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers. During it, it was announced that Rhys Darby will be guest starring and a sneak peek was revealed. The third season will premiere in 2025, and the fourth has already been picked up. The clip picks up with the Enterprise still dealing with the Gorn, who, at the end of Season 2, had taken some of the crew captive. So while they’ve been ordered to retreat and rendezvous with the fleet, Captain Pike (Anson Mount) notes that they weren’t told to do so immediately. But there are a few problems,...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has done a lot right for the world of Star Trek. They've brought back the stellar, old-school style storytelling that made us all fans of the franchise, while simultaneously finishing the story of Captain Christopher Pike, which was started in the mid-1960s when the series first shot its pilot. Not only that, but it's added layers to Nurse Chapel, Doctor M'Banga, as well as the Vulcans, Gorn, and Pike's number one, Una Chin-Riley.

What it may have done as well, is change canon forever. We know that the involvement of the Gorn make for some murky situations now in the Original Series, but one of the things the franchise may have done is unilaterally erase Star Trek: The Animated Series from canon.

The Animated Series, which came out right after the original series, is one of the few shows that gets no real love from the Trek fandom.

Akela Cooper, who has collaborated with James Wan on movies such as M3GAN and The Nun II, has been set to adapt the Tinseltown terror tale The Lot for upstart comic publisher Bad Idea.

Cooper will also produce the adaptation along with Bad Idea founder and CEO Dinesh Shamdasani and the company’s head of film and TV Benjamin Simpson (Thelma).

Lot centers on a woman named Aviva Copeland, who has just landed the biggest job of her career, becoming one of the few Black women to run a Hollywood studio. But as she sets out to revitalize the aging studio, her plan to refurbish and reopen a shuttered soundstage uncovers a buried secret: a legendary filmmaker, obsessed with authenticity, hired actual cult members to perform a real-life occult ritual for his latest horror masterpiece. Now the executive must deal with a reawakened evil in the most vicious pit of vipers — a Hollywood studio lot.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ended its second season, well over a year ago, by leaving the fate of the Enterprise, its crew, and numerous others in danger thanks to the Gorn. With war possible, if the Enterprise interferes with the Gorn's attempt to claim innocent lives as their own, the episode comes to an end. Driving fans wild knowing they'd have to wait at least a year to find out what happens next.

The old "to be continued". A timeless trope done to spice things up and guarantee fans come back for the next episode. It does work, famously, but it can also backfire, spectacularly. Look at The Walking Dead, they shot themselves in the foot because of such a concept. Yet, they're the outlier. There were issues with the show's pacing for seasons prior to their debacle of a cliffhanger.

Strange New Worlds isn't likely to fall into that pit.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is mostly, mostly, a great show. It has a strong cast, well-written characters, and the ability to watch an episode without worrying you're too far behind to just jump in. It's been an awesome ride to see the show grow and find new fans along the way. That said, it isn't perfect.

In fact, there's one element that is seemingly holding the show back; their seasonal "oddities" episodes. In season one, it was the eighth episode where the entire story was straight out of a fantasy book for kids, with everyone dressed like they were in a fantasy novel. The second time was season two's ninth episode, aka the musical one.

Both episodes, season one's "The Elysian Kingdom" and season two's "Subspace Rhapsody" found some fans online due to their quarky nature and utter defiance oveer what Star Trek was intended to be. So much...

Paul Wesley spent nearly a decade portraying Stefan Salvatore, the brooding, conflicted vampire on The Vampire Diaries (Tvd). For eight seasons, Wesley’s Stefan had audiences wrapped around his finger, earning him recognition as a central figure in one of the most iconic supernatural TV shows of the early 2000s.

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Yet, despite the show’s success, Wesley was eager to step out of the shadow cast by Tvd and Stefan. While The Vampire Diaries offered career-defining moments, it also placed Wesley in a specific box, one that he was determined to break free from. And he found his escape in a role that allowed him to shed the Stefan persona and embrace a new challenge, i.e., Captain Kirk in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Paul Wesley’s Thoughts on His Time as Stefan in The Vampire Diaries Ian Somerhalder and Paul...

When it came to The Vampire Diaries, Paul Wesley, the charming actor behind Stefan Salvatore, had his fair share of unforgettable moments. But looking back, he revealed one thing he truly regretted. Despite the show’s massive success and a dedicated fanbase, Wesley felt a pang of regret about a specific scene.

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As fans still binge-watch the series, Wesley’s candid confession adds a layer of depth to his character and the show itself. So, what could possibly haunt a vampire like Stefan? Let’s dive into his thoughts and find out what’s been keeping him up at night!

From Brooding Vampire to Captain Kirk: Wesley Reflects on Tvd Days Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley in The Vampire Diaries | Credits: Warner Bros

Few knew who Paul Wesley was before The Vampire Diaries put him on the map. As Stefan Salvatore,...

The erosion of the original promise of streaming TV continues. This time around, it's Paramount+ removing some of the pillars of its back catalogue, with TrekMovie.com reporting that every "Star Trek" movie made between 1979 and 2002 have abruptly left the streamer, apparently not for the first time. All six movies starring the cast of "Star Trek: The Original Series" are now gone from Paramount+, as are all four movies from "The Next Generation" era.

Of course, this disappearance isn't quite as egregious as the decision of streamers like Max and Showtime to remove newer original content that has no other streaming home, but it still feels surprising given how regularly Paramount+ bills itself as the streaming home of all things "Star Trek." When the platform first launched as CBS All Access, "Star Trek: Discovery" was one of its first original series, and its rebrand in 2021 has only made the streamer...

Paramount+ has debuted the trailer for the fifth and final season of the animated comedy “Star Trek: Lower Decks.” The first two episodes will premiere on Thursday Oct. 24 on the Paramount + streaming service.

The 10-episode season produced by CBS Studios will drop every Thursday from its release date through to Dec. 19.

In this season the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos must close all “space potholes,” which are subspace rifts unleashing chaos into the Alpha Quadrant. This combined with their ongoing diplomatic problems leaves them with a rather full plate as junior officers Mariner, Boimer, Tendui and Rutherford deal with: an Orion war, furious Klingons, diplomatic catastrophes, murder mysteries and their own ambitions.

The “Star Trek” franchise remains a priority at Paramount under the purview of franchise shepherd Alex Kurtzman. Even with “Lower Decks” ending, the company has the third season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” in the works,...

Paramount+ today debuted the official trailer for the fifth and final season of its hit animated comedy series Star Trek: Lower Decks. The fifth and final season will premiere on Paramount+ with two episodes on Thursday, October 24, in the U.S. and internationally.

Following the premiere, new episodes of the 10-episode-long season will drop every Thursday on the service leading up to the series finale on Thursday, December 19.

In season five of Star Trek: Lower Decks, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing “space potholes” – subspace rifts that are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant. Pothole duty would be easy for Junior Officers Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, and Rutherford … If they didn’t also have to deal with an Orion war, furious Klingons, diplomatic catastrophes, murder mysteries, and scariest of all: their own career aspirations.

This upcoming season on Paramount+ is a celebration of this underdog...

Star Trek is an ever-growing, ever-evolving franchise. It' has usually been a series that has tried to focus on the best in humanity, and telling stories that can influence and inspire an audience. They've done more broader stories. With a focus on things like adventure, travel and even love, but in every instance there's always an emotional element in that story that tries to work it's way into the viewers concious.

For instance, Deep Space Nine tackled war, but also how war affects those that come home from it. It wasn't just a show that glorified violence, but dove deep into the trauma that comes with it. It's ability to tell such deep, provocative and inspiring stories is why it has the fanbase it has. It's also the reason why they should stop trying to cater to non-fans of the franchise.

Star Trek is not a series that can do or be anything.

Although it became something of a pop culture catchphrase, Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) only said "He's dead, Jim" four times throughout "Star Trek." He does say variants like merely "He's dead" or "He's dead, captain" a few times, however. This is all to point out that people die frequently on "Star Trek," as being a Starfleet officer is a dangerous job. One cannot serve on the Federation flagship without encountering life-threatening danger on a weekly basis.

Indeed, many Trekkies became flippant about the deaths on "Star Trek" to the point of finding them a little risible. The word "redshirt" -- a slang term for a doomed, nameless pawn -- entered the lexicon when Trekkies noticed how often supporting players, usually in red uniforms, bit the big one under the command of Captain Kirk (William Shatner). McCoy may have only said "He's dead, Jim" four times, but 24 redshirts died on his watch.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds gave Star Trek fans a gem when the series cast Melissa Navia as pilot Lt. Erica Ortegas. Fun, outspoken, and hilariously confident at her ability to fly a starship, Ortegas is a breath of fresh air on the bridge of the Enterprise. She plays off of Captain Christopher Pike [Anson Mount] to the point where the two seem more like brother and sister than captain and subordinate. And she's doing the entire series a favor, something Star Trek: The Original Series could have used when it debuted in 1966.

The first pilot of Star Trek: The Original Series included Majel Roddenberry as Number One, but the network wasn't ready for a female lead, and they didn't think the audience would be ready for a woman as the second in command. So that part was tossed, and Spock [Leonard Nimoy] become Captain Kirk's [William Shatner] second in command.

Technobabble. It's the bane of every Star Trek actor's existence, especially if their character is in the science department. Still, even those characters who aren't a part of that division can have their fair share of difficult scientific language specific to Star Trek to memorize. On Star Trek: Voyager, Garrett Wong used a workaround by writing his lines on black tape over the Voyager bridge console. Then Tim Russ and Robert Beltran created their own formulas for keeping their lines straight.

So it shouldn't come as any surprise that the tried and true methods are still being used in today's Star Trek. Christina Chong, who plays Lt. Noonien Singh on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds admitted at Creation's Trek to Chicago Convention that she cuts her lines up really small and puts them on the bridge. [via Screenrant].

I put my lines on the bridge. I cut them up really small. ... There's...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a show all about Christopher Pike and his courageous crew. We're watching a show that's supposed to fill in the gaps from the original pilot (The Menagerie) to the start of the original series (The Cage). We're getting to know the first on-screen captain of Star Trek lore in Pike, while also flushing out all the characters we would've known had the original pilot gotten picked up.

Namely Una Chin-Riley. It's been a wonderful ride. While not every character from the pilot is here, we are seeing so much in the way of character growth and exploration from everyone in the cast. Not just holdovers from the original pilot, but also new characters that were added to the show after the fact.

Yet, this isn't just a story about who Pike was before the accident or what his crew was like when he served,...

One of the fun things about many Star Trek series is that they feature ensemble casts, with different episodes focusing on different characters. It's okay if (like me) you're not a huge fan of the Data-centric episodes of The Next Generation, because there are plenty of great Worf ones, too. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds carries on this tradition, but one main cast member has yet to lead an episode.

Lt. Erica Ortegas, portrayed by Melissa Navia, is introduced in the first episode of Strange New Worlds as the helmsman on the U.S.S. Enterprise. As she is listed as a main cast member, you could assume we'd get Ortegas-centric episodes, much like we've gotten episodes focused on Pike, Spock, Number One, Uhura, M'Benga, Chapel, LA'an, and Hemmer. After two seasons, this is not the case.

Aside from a handful of trivia mentioned in dialogue, all we really know about Lt.

Star Trek has been quite different since 2017 when Star Trek: Discovery launched. Star Trek: Picard followed, along with Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek: Prodigy, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and they all offered something different to fans and new viewers. Not all original Trek fans were enthused, but there is one series that has been consistently well-received, and even when cancelled by Paramount+, it found a home at the biggest streaming channel, Netflix, because of fan devotion. Here's why this is so important for the future of Star Trek.

We don't know what's around the corner. Will Alex Kurtzman continue to head up the franchise? According to the most recent deal he inked with CBS Studios in 2021 [via Deadline], he'll be leading Star Trek until 2027 or so. But that doesn't mean authority can't be handed over to someone else who maybe has a different outlook on Trek and where to go from here.