We’ve still barely caught up with the Red Angel, whatever it is, but CBS just confirmed that Star Trek: Discovery will be coming back for a third season. Discovery will also add Michelle Paradise as a co-showrunner alongside Alex Kurtzman, making her the fifth showrunner to come aboard the Discovery in its relatively short tenure […]
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Star Trek: Discovery will return for a third season
We’ve still barely caught up with the Red Angel, whatever it is, but CBS just confirmed that Star Trek: Discovery will be coming back for a third season. Discovery will also add Michelle Paradise as a co-showrunner alongside Alex Kurtzman, making her the fifth showrunner to come aboard the Discovery in its relatively short tenure […]
View More Star Trek: Discovery will return for a third season‘Star Trek: Discovery’ is starting to look a lot like Star Wars
The Star Trek franchise desperately wants to be more like its younger, sexier, more lucrative cousin, Star Wars. This isn’t a new notion. It was an accusation leveled at the shiny J.J. Abrams reboot movies in 2009 and 2012 — right before Abrams, a Star Wars fan as a kid, dumped Trek directing to go helm The Force Awakens.
In the case of Star Trek: Discovery, which returned for its second season on CBS’ streaming service Thursday night, it isn’t just a game of spot the similarities. New showrunner Alex Kurtzman has invited comparison by just coming right out and saying it: he wants more Wars in his Trek. Read more…
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Spock is coming to a Star Trek TV show for the first time in 50 years
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It’s official: For the first time since 1969, Lieutenant Spock will appear in a new Star Trek TV show.
Spock appears in the second season of Star Trek Discovery, executive producer Alex Kurtzman revealed at San Diego Comic Con.
Is Spock coming? 🖖 “I can tell you that, yes, you will be seeing Spock this season.” -Alex Kurtzman #SDCC2018 #StarTrekDiscovery
— Star Trek: Discovery (@startrekcbs) July 20, 2018
A question mark had hung over Spock’s potential appearance in the show since the end of Season 1. In its final minutes, out of nowhere, the Discovery comes across a distress signal from the USS Enterprise — commanded by Christopher Pike, the predecessor to Captain James T. Kirk. Read more…
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This post contains spoilers for the season finale of Star Trek Discovery — but also points out why you may not want to bother watching it.
From the moment its name was unveiled to a packed Comic-Con crowd at a panel of Starfleet alumni, I was personally rooting for Star Trek: Discovery to succeed.
What we had here, CBS told us, was a true 21st century Trek, fit for the new Golden Age of streaming television. A Trek that could proudly stand alongside Game of Thrones and Black Mirror. Not to mention a Trek that would justify the cost of subscribing to CBS All Access, a channel that otherwise had nothing you couldn’t see on terrestrial TV. Read more…
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Why ‘Star Trek Discovery’ Season 1 was a cosmic dud
This post contains spoilers for the season finale of Star Trek Discovery — but also points out why you may not want to bother watching it.
From the moment its name was unveiled to a packed Comic-Con crowd at a panel of Starfleet alumni, I was personally rooting for Star Trek: Discovery to succeed.
What we had here, CBS told us, was a true 21st century Trek, fit for the new Golden Age of streaming television. A Trek that could proudly stand alongside Game of Thrones and Black Mirror. Not to mention a Trek that would justify the cost of subscribing to CBS All Access, a channel that otherwise had nothing you couldn’t see on terrestrial TV. Read more…
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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ breathes new life into an old universe
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Discovery, Season 1, episode 10, “Despite Yourself.”
I’ve always skipped past “mirror universe” episodes of Star Trek. To me, they always seemed so cheesy: Oh look, evil Spock has a goatee!
But on Su…
Star Trek spat: Why did one Starfleet captain block another on Twitter?
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If Captain Lorca wants to hail Captain Kirk, he’ll have to use some communications technology other than Twitter.
William Shatner (best known for playing Kirk in 1966-68’s Star Trek) has blocked fellow Trek actor Jason Isaacs (Lorca on the still-in-progress series Star Trek Discovery) from reading his tweets, Isaacs revealed on Sunday.
I’ve been blocked by @WilliamShatner. The unkindest cut of all. In what way have I broken the prime directive Captain? Was it the end of sentence minor-key uptick? The quizzical eyebrow (and blue eyeliner)? The just too-tight uniform? Forgive me my sins – it’s an homage, I swear.
— Jason Isaacs (@jasonsfolly) November 27, 2017 Read more…
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View More Star Trek spat: Why did one Starfleet captain block another on Twitter?‘Star Trek: Discovery’ just entered a whole bunch of new universes
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If you’ve been wondering whether to jump on board with Star Trek: Discovery, the show CBS is using to sell its $6-a-month All Access streaming service, Sunday night’s episode answered your questions with an unqualified yes … just in time for its long mid-season break.
When the show returns in January — spoilers for the mid-season finale follow — the crew of the Discovery will literally be in a new universe. And that’s not the only place that Episode 10, “Into the Forest I Go,” took us for the first time.
We also got what I believe is Star Trek’s first proper, full-on gay kiss, as well as its first ever sex scene. Unfortunately, the latter turned out to be a PTSD-inducing Klingon-on-human rape, one that shockingly subverted all our expectations about one character. Read more…
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View More ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ just entered a whole bunch of new universesGet your Starfleet squad geared up with these ‘Star Trek: TNG’ varsity hoodies
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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ throws viewers for a (time) loop, and it’s magical
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For a show involving cosmic fungus and a giant tardigrade, Star Trek: Discovery has been pretty serious this season.
That’s not a bad thing. But Sunday night’s episode — called “Magic to Make the Sanest Man go Mad” — marked a glorious return to the campy, cheesy version of Star Trek that made other series so much fun.
This episode had it all: time crystals, a time loop, and a man in a cape. Oh, and plenty of old-school references for diehard Trekkies.
Rainn Wilson, who you might know as Dwight from The Office, holds the episode together. He plays Harcourt Fenton “Harry” Mudd, a con man who features in several episodes of the original 1966-68 Star Trek. Read more…
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