When Star Trek Discovery burst onto our screens five years ago it heralded a bold new era for Star Trek on television after a stretch in the wilderness. The franchise had long been known for breaking new ground (the famed interracial kiss between Kirk and Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series, an android character in The Next Generation, a black captain in Deep Space Nine), … [Read more...] about 10 ways Star Trek Discovery broke new ground
Star Trek
How Star Trek Discovery’s big risk paid off
When Star Trek Discovery premiered in 2017, it went to lengths to wrap itself in Star Trek’s existing continuity, making its protagonist Michael Burnham foster brother to the infamous Spock, building a backstory to the frosty Federation-Klingon relations of the early franchise, and revisiting the famed Mirror Universe visited by Captain James T. Kirk and others. Its second … [Read more...] about How Star Trek Discovery’s big risk paid off
How Deep Space Nine redeemed the Ferengi
Before the Borg became Star Trek: The Next Generation’s signature villain, the Enterprise grappled with a less likely foe – the Ferengi, a species of ultra-capitalists who attempted to enrich themselves by various questionable means. They were intended to become a recurring antagonist in the vein of the Klingons in Star Trek: The Original Series. However, their debut in the … [Read more...] about How Deep Space Nine redeemed the Ferengi
USS Enterprise boldly goes to the London Science Museum
The London Science Museum is hosting an array of Star Trek and Doctor Who icons as part of a brand new exhibition. It's all part of a new attraction called Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination which debuts at the London Science Museum on the 6th October 2022 and runs until the 4th May 2023. The exhibition explores how scientists and science fiction writers … [Read more...] about USS Enterprise boldly goes to the London Science Museum
Uhura on shore leave: Remembering Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols
The trailblazing actress, singer and dancer Nichelle Nichols has left us at the age of 89. Nichelle Nichols, who played Nyota Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series, passed away on 30th July 2022. “I regret to inform you that a great light in the firmament no longer shines for us as it has for so many years,” her son, the actor Kyle Johnson, wrote on Nichelle’s official … [Read more...] about Uhura on shore leave: Remembering Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols