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‘Lower Decks’ Supervising Producer Barry J. Kelly Talks Legacy Star Trek Stars And “Insane” Finale – TrekMovie.com
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‘Lower Decks’ Supervising Producer Barry J. Kelly Talks Legacy Star Trek Stars And “Insane” Finale – TrekMovie.com

A lot of work goes into making an episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks and the guy overseeing much of that is supervising producer/supervising director Barry J. Kelly. TrekMovie had a chance to talk to Kelly about some of the challenges putting together season 5 including a special effort for latest episode “Fully Dilated,” and he also teased some of what we can expect for the “super-sized” season (and series) finale. [SPOILERS] The latest episode is quite a big one, bringing in Brent Spiner. When you have such a major legacy star is it just another week or are there special things you guys do for such an event? Usually at the script phase, there’s always something where I’m like, “Oh, wow, this episode’s super fun, but oh crap, how am I going to make it?” There’s always a challenge in eve...
Nana Visitor Sees Inspiration In Star Trek’s New Era And A Better Future For Women In Hollywood – TrekMovie.com
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Nana Visitor Sees Inspiration In Star Trek’s New Era And A Better Future For Women In Hollywood – TrekMovie.com

When Deep Space Nine‘s Nana Visitor was approached about writing Star Trek: Open A Channel: A Woman’s Trek about the women in Star Trek, the original idea pitched to her was that she’d do short interviews to work into a picture-filled coffee table book. When she started doing interviews, the concept changed to something deeper: a look at female Trek characters, yes, but also a deep dive into the actresses who played them and they times they lived in. We reviewed the book when it came out, then spoke to her in depth about her experience writing it and how it affected her. Here is the final section of that extended and frank conversation, where she talks about the current batch of Star Trek shows and the progress that’s been made over the decades. (Read part 1, part 2, and part 3.) In ter...
TOS Phaser And Communicator Props Fetch $1.7 Million At Record-Setting Star Trek Auction – TrekMovie.com
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TOS Phaser And Communicator Props Fetch $1.7 Million At Record-Setting Star Trek Auction – TrekMovie.com

Over the weekend Julien’s Auction held their “Bid Long And Prosper” Star Trek auction which we previewed last month. The final hammer prices for many of the items were well beyond original estimates, including record-breaking numbers. In total, the auction of over 200 lots of Star Trek memorabilia brought in $3.6 million. Star Trek memorabilia brings in $Millions On Saturday, Julien’s Auctions concluded their Star Trek memorabilia event with a live and online auction, held at the Infinity Festival in Hollywood, California. The event set new world records for highest selling Star Trek props sold at auction. The most eye-catching prices came in for props and costumes from Star Trek: The Original Series, especially those used by William Shatner’s Captain Kirk. His “long-lost” hero phaser s...
Legacy’ To Follow ‘Starfleet Academy’ – TrekMovie.com
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Legacy’ To Follow ‘Starfleet Academy’ – TrekMovie.com

Since even before the Next Generation-infused third season of Star Trek: Picard wrapped up last year, there was a lot of talk about a Star Trek: Legacy follow-up series coming from the showrunner, the cast, and fans. For now, Paramount+ is focused on its current Star Trek offerings, including more seasons of Strange New Worlds, the upcoming Section 31 streaming movie, and the new series Starfleet Academy, which recently was picked up for a second season before the first has even been completed. But one TNG and Picard star has not given up on the idea of Legacy. LeVar’s Legacy LeVar Burton returned to his Next Generation character Geordi LaForge in the final season of Picard, playing a key role in saving the day which included rebuilding the original USS Enterprise-D. Promoting Picard at...
Mike McMahan Talks ‘Lower Decks’ Tearful Finale, Season 5 Star Trek Cameos, And Future Hopes – TrekMovie.com
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Mike McMahan Talks ‘Lower Decks’ Tearful Finale, Season 5 Star Trek Cameos, And Future Hopes – TrekMovie.com

At New York Comic Con, TrekMovie spoke with Mike McMahan in a roundtable interview with other media outlets, where the Lower Decks show creator and showrunner talked about what to expect in the show’s fifth and final season, the legacy character he wanted to add to the show but couldn’t, the way he views multiverses, and more. [WARNING: Interview contains some spoilers] So the fifth and final season is coming up… Can you give us some hints of what to expect this season? Okay, so it’s so funny… Some people on the crew who are big fans too are like, “This is the most Star Trek we’ve ever Star Trekked.” And I don’t know if that’s exactly right, because Lower Decks has always Star Trekked more than anybody Star Treks. So we knew it was gonna be the final season pretty early on in the writin...