Star Trek

On sale today to mark Star Trek’s 60th anniversary (though it’s not live on their US store just yet), Le Creuset’s Starfleet-inspired set is a joyous celebration of the original series that follows similar crossovers with Star Wars and Pokémon in the past. With apologies to my fiancée, I want all of it.

Still not convinced you need a 3D printer? If you head on over to Printables you’ll find all the model files and instructions you’ll need to turn a standard garden hose nozzle into Curt Turner’s sprayser; a detailed Star Trek phaser replica for blasting begonias instead of the Borg.

The latest trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ third season is a bit less kitsch than last time around, teasing action beats and character development rather than campy costumes, but it’s no less fun. The show returns to Paramount Plus with two episodes at once on July 17th, almost two years after it last left our screens, and a fourth season is already on the way.

In honor of the September 8th anniversary of the original Star Trek series premiere, Paramount Plus has assembled a free-to-watch YouTube playlist of the first episodes (including two-parters like “Encounter at Farpoint”) of most of the franchise’s series, along with a handful of shorts. They’re free from September 7th – 13th.

The pandemic and arrival of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds put the kibosh on a Paramount Plus series built around Michelle Yeoh’s Philippa Georgiou. But the Mirror Universe empress is back in the first trailer for Star Trek: Section 31 — Olatunde Osunsanmi’s upcoming film that will dig deeper into her dark past.

Yesterday, the NYT said there were discussions of entering exclusive talks, and now multiple outlets report the companies have entered a 30-day exclusive negotiating window. Bloomberg even says, “Shari Redstone, Paramount’s controlling shareholder, has reached a tentative agreement to sell her stake to Skydance.”

Paramount still hasn’t settled on a partner, but the New York Times reports negotiations with Skydance over a possible merger have reached the step of “discussing entering into exclusive talks.”

Star Trek: Discovery really found its own voice once it leaped forward almost 1,000 years into the future, but for the series’ final season, showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise say they looked to classic Indiana Jones movies for a new sense of adventure.

The show started mired in the past and has now journeyed to the far future where its characters peddle a brand of optimism that’s sorely needed. I’ll be bummed to see the show go.

It’s apparently an origin story that “takes place decades before the original 2009 Star Trek film,” Deadline reports. It will have some notable star power attached: Toby Haynes, who directed multiple episodes of Andor, is set to direct the movie.

Icons from the original series are “boldly going” into deep space for a permanent space burial — including show creator Gene Roddenberry, his wife Majel (Christine Chapel), Nichelle Nichols (Nyota Uhura), DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy), and James Doohan (Montgomery “Scotty” Scot).

I mean that literally, at least judging from the lighting-challenged clip from Discovery’s fifth and final season, which Paramount Plus shared today at Brazil’s CCXP 2023.

Star Trek Prodigy has completed its voyage home, landing safely on Netflix. The adorable kid-friendly Star Trek series aired one season on Paramount + and Nickelodeon starting in late 2021, but got the axe this June despite having its second season largely in the can.

On September 8th, Star Trek: Lower Decks star Jerry O’Connell will host a special program celebrating 57 years of the iconic science fiction franchise, streaming on Paramount Plus, Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook.

Lower Decks actors Tawney Newsom and Jack Quaid came up with some of the funniest moments of the Strange New Worlds crossover episode — Newsom’s Ensign Mariner spouting that Spock is hot and Quaid’s Ensign Boimler pulling the “Riker maneuver” — on the spot, per interviews cited by Gizmodo.

That’s right, the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is free on YouTube ahead of the June 15th season two premiere — TrekMovie has links to all the episodes.

Someone recently submitted a question to Slate’s advice column about being a surrogate to a couple named Miles and Keiko and worrying about developing feelings for Miles. That seems like a normal sex advice column question until you realize it’s also the exact plot of an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

If you’ve ever been curious about Star Trek, Strange New Worlds is the best place to start, and this teaser for season two really shows off all the different hats the show wears. There’s ample comedy. Some action. Some sad stuff. Plenty of aliens, and Captain James T. Kirk struggling with his greatest enemy, doors. June 15 can’t come soon enough.