Discovery, Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks are all getting additional seasons. With a clear plan to expand the Star Trek universe as much as possible, Paramount+ has announced a host of Star Trek recommissions. Discovery The fourth series of Discovery is currently on its winter break, resuming in February, and the show is confirmed … >
Star Trek franchise owners ViacomCBS have reacted to the fan outcry over Discovery’s removal from Netflix. In a surprising turnaround, Paramount owners ViacomCBS are providing an alternate way for non-North American fans to watch the latest season of Star Trek: Discovery; in anticipation of the launch of their Paramount+ service, they pulled the show from … >
International fans looking forward to season 4 are in for a wait. News has broken that the fourth series of Star Trek: Discovery, due on 18th November 2021, is not coming to Netflix. Behind the scenes network negotiations mean that international Star Trek fans viewers won’t get to see the show at the same time … >
Star Trek: Lower Decks 2:3 We’ll Always Have Tom Paris marks a milestone — 800 episodes and counting for the franchise It’s official (*see below) — with the latest instalment of Star Trek: Lower Decks, there have been 800 televised episodes of Star Trek across various versions of the franchise since 1966. It’s a big number, and … >
The film (and more recently television) star will play the last of a tribe of nomadic tribe of sword-elves in the Witcher prequel. Michelle Yeoh will take a leading role in the Blood Origin, the prequel series spinning off from The Witcher, set some 1200 years before the main show. The synopsis reads: “In an … >
We’ve crammed a Star Trek news bonanza into a single post — there’s news on Picard, Lower Decks, Discovery and Prodigy! There’s a lot to digest and we’ll no doubt follow up with a few more news pieces soon, but for now here’s just some of the highlights of their First Contact Day promitions. Star Trek: Discovery season … >
Discovery Season 4 may be a way off yet, but it is never too early to start speculating. Season 3 took the ship and her crew some nine hundred years into the future, to a devastated Federation; feeling the consequences of a cataclysm known as “the burn”, the remnants found themselves outpaced by the Orion … >
Su’Kal foregrounds the story which percolated in the background of the last few episodes; the fate of an ancient Kelpian ship. Trapped in the heart of the Verubin Nebula, it was apparently the source of the ‘The Burn’; the cataclysmic event which destroyed interstellar travel. When a life sign on board is discovered, Captain Saru … >
Terra Firma, Part 2 keeps Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) centre stage in another dark episode — but so what? Last week’s Terra Firma, Part 1 set things in motion: Georgiou has travelled from the mirror universe and through time and this is inevitably fatal. There is no solution until the sphere data inhabited AI on Discovery gives … >
Terra Firma, Part 1 provides another of Discovery’s lengthy pre-credits sequences, as the medical plight of the former Terran Empress Georgiou is set out. While the whole crew have time-travelled to the future, she has also hopped dimensions. Apparently, the body may tolerate one or the other, but not both – according to the Federation’s … >