Entertainment Weekly

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NETWORK CBS All Access DATE Jan. 23 — TIME StreamingGENRE New Drama “THIS IS NO LONGER YOUR HOUSE, Jean-Luc!” roars a Starfleet admiral early in the first season of the new Star Trek series. The typically unflappable former USS Enterprise captain (Pa

Popular Mechanics South Africa

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The Big Bang creates the universe, the result of the destabilisation of Omega particles. Ancient humanoids seed DNA throughout the galaxy, creating humans, Vulcans, Klingons, and all other humanoid species. A species of dinosaur related to the Hadros

TV Guide Magazine

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Thursdays, CBS All Access WORDS YOU’VE PROBABLY never heard spoken on a Star Trek series before: “The bridge is not cool.” Isn’t there a prime directive against irreverence in this sci-fi universe? If so, Star Trek: Lower Decks proudly flaunts the ru

Los Angeles Times

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"Star Trek" is back, you may have heard on your subspace communicator, in the shape of a television series for the first time since "Enterprise" completed its four-year mission in 2005. There have been movies since, running on their own timelines, wi

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 2019 | 15 | Blu-ray/DVD Showrunner Alex Kurtzman Cast Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anson Mount, Michelle Yeoh On one level, season two of Discovery feels like an elaborate plot to extricate the series from the continuity minefi

TechLife News

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Have you wondered how Captain America survived being in a state of suspended animation, if apes could grow as large as King Kong and why so many of the aliens in “Star Trek” look humanoid? It’s those kinds of questions that Mohamed Noor, a biology pr

Home Cinema Choice

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'In a sense I feel I have been preparing to shoot Star Trek: Picard for over 30 years,' confides Sir Patrick Stewart. 'There was a quality, a feeling I had about him from the very beginning which was unlike any acting experience I’ve had before. Beli

SFX

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Star Trek, as I’ve said before, is what brought me to the world of SFX. Way, way back in the days when a group of sci-fi fans in Edinburgh watched imported video cassettes of new episodes – including the Voyager pilot in fancy NTSC black and white co

SFX

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GIVEN THAT THE FRANCHISE has birthed eight television series and 13 films, it’s perhaps surprising that (barring a couple of recent shorts) Star Trek has only boldly gone into the world of animation once – way back in 1973 with Star Trek: The Animate

Home Cinema Choice

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Helping fill gaps between recent seasons of Star Trek shows, these nine in-continuity shorts let their makers revisit fan-fave characters and stretch beyond the usual restrictions of the franchise. Which means in addition to shorts devoted to Saru an

Popular Mechanics South Africa

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BACK IN December 2017, reports surfaced that Quentin Tarantino had pitched a Star Trek movie. The very proposition of unleashing the mind behind Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction on the Star Trek universe tickled a part of my Trekkie brain that I didn’t kno

Black Belt Magazine

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BLACK BELT: Click to read “William Shatner’s Martial Arts Connection: When Star Trek’s Capt. Kirk Trained in Karate!” Jason McNeil: Weird coincidence — I was watching Big Bad Mama on Amazon Prime a few nights ago, and mid-’70s Shatner busted out a fe

Empire Australasia

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OUT NOW (NETFLIX) EPISODES VIEWED 6 OF 13 SHOWRUNNERS Alex Kurtzman, Michelle Paradise CAST Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman PLOT After the events of Season 2, Discovery is propelled 900-plus years into the future. With n

The Atlantic

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In 1995, the Deep Space Nine installment “Past Tense” stood out for its realistic, near-future vision of racism and economic injustice.

SFX

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AFTER FEATURING IN Star Trek: Picard, Seven of Nine returns this month in a new comic series. Written by Dave Baker and Angel Hernandez, Seven’s Reckoning takes place at a specific but so far undisclosed point in the Star Trek: Voyager timeline. I wo

Literary Hub

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Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction, I picture an endlessly rising (and falling) dough that will never become bread. Each “rise” is celebrated but ephemeral, exi

SFX

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US CBS All Access, streaming now UK Still TBC, annoyingly… Creator Mike McMahan Cast Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero EPISODES 1.01-1.10 Star Trek last ventured into the cartoon frontier with The Animated Series in 1973-74, but L

Aviation History

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To legions of fans worldwide, Gene Roddenberry was defined by the incredibly successful television and movie franchise he created. So far the Star Trek universe has spawned seven TV series and 13 feature films, with no end in sight. Few know, however

TV Guide Magazine

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Thursdays, CBS All Access THERE’S NO SUCH thing as an easy landing for the dynamic Trek spinoff as the show reinvents itself for Season 3 by jumping forward 930 years into the unknown. First, Cdr. Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), in her tricke

TV Guide Magazine

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OCT. 15 CBS ALL ACCESS IN ITS THIRD season, Star Trek: Discovery really does boldly go where no person has gone before. “We jump 930 years to 3188 to save all sentient life,” says Sonequa Martin-Green, who plays Cdr. Michael Burnham. That’s 114 years

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! (Paperback 12 January) Publisher IDW Comics Writer Scott and David Tipton Artist Greg Scott ISSUES 1-4 This four-part IDW mini-series feels like discovering that an extra episode of Deep Space Nine was filmed and left in the back of

SFX

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HAD THINGS NOT GONE THE WAY THAT Star Trek producer Alex Kurtzman intended, the world would have one less Star Trek show right now – not to mention the fact you’d be holding a very different copy of SFX in your hands. When he and colleagues met Patri

Apple Magazine

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Have you wondered how Captain America survived being in a state of suspended animation, if apes could grow as large as King Kong and why so many of the aliens in “Star Trek” look humanoid? It’s those kinds of questions that Mohamed Noor, a biology pr

NPR

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Bishakh Som's new comics collection is uncanny and hard to categorize — science-fictiony, mythic and humanistic, without making any particular assumptions about where humans as a species are going.

SFX

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Back in 2017, Mark L Smith was tasked with writing a Star Trek movie for Quentin Tarantino. The resulting screenplay is now in limbo, though according to reports in August, Smith’s script – rumoured to be inspired by classic episode “A Piece Of The A

SFX

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SCI-FACT! Fontana also wrote a Star Trek novel, 1989’s Vulcan’s Glory, set in the Pike/Spock era. “WE WEREN’T TRYING TO DO the hardware, we weren’t trying to do the science fiction gimmicks, the flash,” remembered Star Trek writer and story editor Do

Emmy Magazine

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If you’re going to launch an animated comedy spinoff of Star Trek, you couldn’t ask for a better creator than Mike McMahan, the Emmy-winning former head writer of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty and the cocreator of Hulu’s new sci-fi hit Solar Opposites.

Literary Hub

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In his poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes asked, “What happens to a dream deferred?” It was a prophetic inquiry, one that questioned a society in which Black people continually faced racial injustice, even though the nation’s ideals were supposedly predi

Home Cinema Choice

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This is the show fans of the Enterprise NCC-1701-D have been waiting for. From its opening scene, it’s clear we’re back in the company of old friends. Set 20 years after Star Trek: Nemesis, Jean-Luc, now retired, is still haunted by Data’s sacrificia

Official PlayStation Magazine - UK Edition

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The last time the world saw Patrick Stewart’s legendary Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard on screens was almost 20 years ago in dismal Next Gen movie Nemesis. Now, hot on the heels of resurgent series Star Trek: Discovery, Picard has been given a sho