Enlarge (credit: Paramount+) If the modern Star Trek shows have all felt a little off to you, Strange New Worlds may be what you’ve been waiting for. The modern era of TV Star Trek has been more than willing to experiment with what a Star Trek show is. Discovery and Picard both focus on heavily serialized season-long plotlines. […]
Enlarge (credit: Paramount) The dizzying alternate Picard timeline on Paramount+ will not be an infinite one. After cast members had previously suggested that the latest Sir Patrick Stewart-led Star Trek series will soon conclude, Paramount made the news official on Tuesday: Picard will end after its third season. As part of its conclusion, the series […]
Anson Mount stars as USS Enterprise Capt. Christopher Pike in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Two major science fiction franchises went head-to-head today by dropping high-profile teasers. First, Disney+ dropped the first teaser for Obi-Wan Kenobi, the latest spinoff series in the Star Wars universe. Not to be outdone, Paramount+ has introduced the first teaser […]
Enlarge (credit: Paramount+) The Star Trek franchise continues to expand on Paramount+ with the upcoming prequel series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which debuts in May. The show’s executive producers and key cast members were on hand this week for a virtual panel discussion as part of the 2022 Winter Television Critics Association (TCA) meeting. In […]
Enlarge / Pictured: Oyin Oladejo as Lt. Joann Owosekun, Sonequa Martin Green as Burnham, and Emily Coutts as Lt. Keyla Detmer of the Paramount+ original series Star Trek: Discovery . (credit: Michael Gibson | ViacomCBS) Dan Leckie has been a Star Trek fan since he pressed play on a VHS tape of the original TV […]
Installation display: Captain Kirk’s command chair and restored navigation console from Star Trek: The Original Series. [credit: Skirball Center/MoPOP ] Back in 2016, the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle unveiled an immersive new exhibit, Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds, in its Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame–a tribute to the hugely influential […]
Sonequa Martin-Green is back as Michael Burnham, now captain of Discovery [credit: YouTube/Paramount+ ] We didn’t get a new trailer for the fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery during the Star Trek Day festivities last month, although we did get a premiere date: November 18, 2021. But we didn’t have that long to wait. The […]
Paramount+ celebrated 55 years of Trek on Star Trek Day 2021, a live-streamed event held at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California, on September 8, 2021. It’s been 55 years since the television debut of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS), and the franchise continues to expand its reach in film and television, […]
Enlarge / Star Trek: Lower Decks is back for more low-stakes fun in its second season. (credit: Paramount+) By the end of the first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks , the show was my favorite of the three Trek series that had premiered on Paramount+ (née CBS All Access) since Discovery brought the franchise back […]
Enlarge / Key art for the new Star Trek series Star Trek: Prodigy. (credit: ViacomCBS) In an online event for investors, ViacomCBS revealed several new details about CBS All Access replacement Paramount+, including pricing as well as two new Star Trek series that will premiere on the network. Also, the company announced that a much-anticipated […]