Category: Star Trek
Tig Notaro to join Star Trek Discovery cast.
American stand-up comic and actress Tig Notaro is to join the Star Trek Discovery cast as a new character, chief engineer Denise Reno, serving on board a new vessel called the USS Hiawatha. Season two of Discovery starts shooting later this month.
Captain Christopher Pike cast in Star Trek Discovery: Anson Mount’s your man.
Star Trek Discovery has just cast actor Anson Mount of Inhumans fame (and Hell on Wheels, before that) as Captain Christopher Pike. If you recall how the final episode of season 1 ended, the Discovery went nose-to-nose with the Enterprise, reacting to a call for help from the pre-Kirk Enterprise. Of course, in the original series, Spock was […]
Spock (aka Zachary Quinto) on what to expect from the next Trek movie.
Mr. Spock, aka Zachary Quinto, ruminates on the various plot treatments floating around for the next Star Trek film, as well as what Quentin Tarantino will bring to the next movie. I was rather hoping that the whole Quentin Tarantino does Star Trek-thing was an early April’s Fool. I’m not looking forward to Spock headbutting Kirk […]
Star Trek Discovery (next season spoilers).
Warning, dear readers, what follows are some spoilers for the next season of Star Trek Discovery. Ready? Prepared? Okay, you’ve been warned. It comes in one of the bonus scenes from the first series, just released. In it, the clip shows Mirror Universe Empress Georgiou enjoying some me-time in the Klingon “entertainment zone” when she’s approached […]
Star Trek Discovery – finale preview.
Here’s the preview of the last finale episode of Star Trek Discovery‘s first season. There’s a mirror universe nutter put into the captain’s chair by StarFleet on the basis that the Klingon War’s lost, so, hey, why not? There’s a suicide run to be made against the Klingon home-world. And a bad case of StarFleet-authorised planetcide […]
Star Trek Discovery episode 13 trailer (What’s Past Is Prologue).
Here’s the Star Trek Discovery episode 13 trailer, entitled What’s Past Is Prologue. Looks like evil Cap’n Lorca’s star is on the rise. Is Michael being asked to choose between Mother-Emperor and the Discovery’s new dimension-jumping villain? Choose the Federation, Michael. Always. Choose. The. Federation. Should be with us Monday 29th January 2018 via Netflix […]
Star Trek Discovery S1 E12 trailer (Monday 22nd 2018): all hail Emperor Georgiou!
Here’s the Star Trek Discovery season 1 episode 12 trailer in which a certain Klingon infiltrator gets a hard time in the medical bay and Emperor Georgiou strides around generally acting imperious. I have to say, the Federation universe is the world I’d like to build, but the Terran Empire is the world I’d want […]
Star Trek Discovery: The Wolf Inside (Episode 11 trailer).
Here’s the trailer for this Monday’s upcoming episode of Star Trek Discovery … entitled The Wolf Inside. Sarek with a goatee – well, it is the mirror universe. But is he a bad, bad Vulcan? There’s only one way to find out, my little Trekonistas – tune in on Monday 15th January 2018. Now, I appreciate […]
Please Stand By (trailer).
A young autistic female science fiction fan runs away from her caregivers in an attempt to submit her TV manuscript to a Star Trek writing competition, with the prize at stake of actually getting her Trek episode made.
Star Trek: Treknology by Ethan Siegel, PhD (book review).
Now here’s a book that will open different doors, depending on your interest in ‘Star Trek’ and real science and technology. Amongst the photos from the various ‘Star Trek’ series and films and from our reality, Ethan Siegel’s book, ‘Star Trek: Treknology’, looks at the fictional technology against how it would be done or has […]
