Star Trek

This Saturday is the big TREKtalks2 fundraiser livestream event featuring hours of panels with Star Trek celebrities from in front and behind the camera. Participants include Anson Mount, Scott Bakula, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Terry Farrell, Nana Visitor, Brannon Braga, John de Lancie, Doug Drexler, Dan Curry, Mike and Denise Okuda, Dave Blass, Cirroc Lofton, Dr. Erin Macdonald, Robert Picardo, Naren Shankar, Armin Shimerman, Anthony Montgomery, Kitty Swink, Wil Wheaton, Rod Roddenberry, Dr. Mohamed Noor, and Andre Bormanis, all there to help raise money for the Hollywood Food Coalition John Billingsley (Enterprise‘s Dr. Phlox) serves on the board of the Hollywood Food Coalition and both spearheads and cohost the event. We spoke to him earlier this week about his work with the org...

It looks like we can add another name to the list of famous Star Trek fans: Nicolas Cage. The Oscar-winning actor has declared himself a Trekkie and rejected the idea of appearing in that other “Star” franchise. Trek Cage In the 2022 film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Nicolas Cage co-starred with Pedro Pascal, star of The Mandalorian, who told a reporter for Yahoo he wanted to recruit Cage into the Star Wars franchise. But when Yahoo brought this idea to Cage, the actor rejected it, saying “No is the answer. I’m not really down [for Star Wars].” Cage went on to explain how he prefers a different franchise: I’m a Trekkie, man. I’m on the Star Trek. I’m on the Enterprise. That’s where I roll…  That’s a fact. I grew up watching [William] Shatner. I thought [Chris] Pine was terri...

2022 was a big year for Star Trek television with the release of 51 episodes spread across all five current  Paramount+ series. This increase in output has garnered notice from the industry and the media, not just for quantity, but also quality. Over the summer the New York Times dubbed Trek the “quiet franchise,” praising the “throw-it-at-the-wall diversity” of the Trek shows, compared to the “calculation to the Marvel and Star Wars  Wars portfolios.” As the year comes to a close many outlets – including TrekMovie – look back to offer praise for the best shows and performances and moments from the year, and Star Trek is showing up. The debut season of Strange New Worlds is getting the most notice, but the other shows are also showing up on the lists. Here is a sampling of what some cri...

We are now less than two months away from the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard, which will bring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation back together. Now the showrunner is weighing in again on their former ship. Not the Enterprise-E, but… When last seen together in the 2002 film Star Trek Nemesis, the TNG crew were together on the USS-Enterprise-E, the Sovereign-class ship introduced in the 1996 film First Contact and used again in 1998’s Insurrection. According to the lore established in Star Trek: Picard, Captain Jean-Luc Picard gave up his command of the Enterprise-E a few years after Nemesis, after being promoted to admiral. USS Enterprise-E Picard season 3 is set two decades later with most of the action set on board the USS Titan-A, and fans would like to know if t...

The European expansion of Paramount+ wrapped up on Thursday by launching in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, bringing with it new original Star Trek series. The streaming service also launched in France last Friday. To celebrate the latest European launches there was a big event in Berlin and Strange New Worlds star Anson Mount was there. Euro Trek Like with launches earlier this year in UK, Ireland and Italy, the launch of Paramount+ in these new markets brings with it the same three Star Trek series: Strange New Worlds, Discovery, and Prodigy. In addition, all the live-action legacy shows are now available (The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise). There is also a selection of Star Trek feature films, with the specific lists varying by coun...