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WATCH: STAR TREK: CONTINUES Final Episode

Award-winning fan series Star Trek Continues has released their 11th and final episode “ To Boldly Go, Part II .”

The series, which began in 2013, stars Vic Mignogna, Todd Haberkorn, Chuck Huber, Chris Doohan, Kim Stinger, Grant Imahara, Wyatt Lenhart and Michele Specht, as they continue the adventures of The Original Series with spectacular attention to detail and production.

Official synopsis :

The iconic mission of the U.S.S. Enterprise comes to an end, as Kirk and his crew battle the ultimate adversary.

Star Trek Continues “To Boldly Go, Part II”

To learn more about Star Trek Continues , visit startrekcontinues.com .

Joshua Allen Welch

November 18, 2017 at 3:12 am

Indeed this show is Outstanding, I will not watch the original because it cannot capture my attention (only Star trek that cant for some reason) But I have watched ever episode of this show.

Michael Fallon

November 18, 2017 at 11:05 am

What makes Star Trek successful, is not all the glitzy special effects, but good stories, good character development, and a sense of fulfillment, and loyalty to its fan base. I have watched ever episode. Some of them are not as good as others, but I found the last three or four episodes to be outstanding. Fully in line with what fans expect Star Trek to be. Star Trek Discovery is pathetic. STC is much better.

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This was a terrific series. The production values were honored and the stories were all quite good. Sure, it had its flaws – but it also had no real budget or support. Just passion, passion missing from so many modern Treks. I think I enjoyed this much more than any recent series or movie.

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Watch The Series Finale Of ‘Star Trek Continues’: “To Boldly Go: Part II”

| November 13, 2017 | By: Brian Drew 122 comments so far

Star Trek Continues , a fan production which began in 2013 aiming to depict the final two years of the Enterprise’s 5-year mission, concludes its 11-episode run with the second and concluding part of the finale.

“To Boldly Go: Part II”, features a story by science fiction writer Robert Sawyer, executive producer/star Vic Mignogna, and director James Kerwin, with a teleplay written by Sawyer and Kerwin. Nicola Bryant, Cas Anvar ( The Expanse ), and Amy Rydell guest star.

Mignogna wrote a heartfelt message on Facebook when the episode was posted:

WORDS FAIL ME. No vocabulary can express how much this production has meant to me. From the very beginning, all I knew was that I wanted to make one episode of Star Trek the way I remembered it. Would anyone like it? I didn’t know. Would I make another? I didn’t know. All I knew was that I wanted to pay tribute to Bill, Leonard, Gene and everyone who made the show that meant so much to me when I was a boy. I would use all the skills that TOS inspired me to try for the first time to make the best episode I could. I never imagined so many amazing people would do so much, and I’m deeply humbled by their involvement. I will be forever grateful to the cast, crew & volunteers who selflessly gave so much to make Star Trek Continues a reality. And to you, the viewers and fans, for your support and enthusiasm. With bittersweet joy, we present our final episode. Hopefully, it will be a long lasting tribute and historic ending to the most iconic television series in history. Thank you all, and God bless you. ~ Vic

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“When The Train Stops” Begins Crowdfunding Effort

The production crew behind STC is branching out into non-Trek projects, the first being a short film called “When The Train Stops”, a story with a Twilight Zone flavor: 

Clive Emerson (Darren Jacobs) is a young fugitive with a troubled past and bleak future. When the law catches up with him, he’s taken into custody by U.S. Marshal Preston Booth (Michael Forest) and begins a long train trip across the American southwest back to prison. Though Booth takes a personal interest in the case when Clive insists upon his innocence, the young man ultimately resigns himself to his sad fate. But little does Clive know that the future waiting for him when the train stops isn’t at all what he expects – and neither, for that matter, is Marshal Booth…

The film will star John deLancie, Michael Forest, Darren Jacobs, Vic Mignogna, and Kipleigh Brown. More details about the project and the crowdfunding campaign can be found below.

For more information about Star Trek: Continues series, click here.

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Well done ladies and gentlemen, well done.

So sorry to see this have to end. Thank you for Vic for doing these shows and proving that ST: TOS is still amazing and wanted even in the 21st Century. You helped keep Trek alive and your attention to detail was outstanding. Live Long and Prosper!!!!!

Well, I guess I’ll have to accept Discovery as true Trek thanks to this episode, and well done.

Outstanding effort, beautiful, heartwarming, fun, authentic. Thankyou a million times. I loved this beyond belief.

Couldn’t wait for this but didn’t want it to come either. Sad to see Star Trek end, the level of production has been amazing & it deserved to continue until they told their stories.

Glad to have this extension of Star Trek, as well as New Voyages/Phase II They gave fans hope that we could keep visiting that era. very sad. Will watch both episodes tonight.

BRAVO!! Great work. Just incredible work. Love it. You guys hit it out of the park. Everything was perfect. Thank you.

Holy. That was well done. What a way to wrap up.

Better than… Discovery.

That’s a ridiculous (but predictable) statement. Discovery has actual actors on it.

Actually this show does as well. Several credited and paid professionals. Hell one of Dicovery’s cast members just guested on an episode of STC.

Did you see the first 2 episodes of Discovery? The acting hurt. Even our current Doctor in Discovery gets no screen time because hes a terrible actor.

This, flaws aside, is an obvious labor of love and a story from people that understand the material. Heart and knowledge of source material is what Discovery is missing. Its just a space show with a little trek window covering.

Not to mention, flaws aside, This has less plot holes than Discovery.

As a frustrated actor, I’ll say that the acting in this episode was very good. I’ve grow to enjoy Kirk and Spock immensely and Admiral Nogura was far better than some Star Fleet brass bit players in TOS.

Much better than Discovery- yes, Lesser Production values & a couple of non actore. Imagine if Continues had 6 million an episode.

I’ve seen plenty of “professional” actors do a far worse job than STC’s ensemble. Many times while watching the “professional” Trek shows did I roll my eyes at the wooden delivery of many lines.

Come on, is it possible to give STC an ‘atta boy’ without going first grade on it? Discovery is a fine production as well…

Discovery wouldn’t even be good as a generic Sci-Fi show. The “story” the plot, My god did you see that awefull Bluescreen shot of Lorca & Stamits? Jesus that was sub par. 7 Million anepisode? where are they spending the money- I havent seen it yet. Next Gen had more effects & Enterprise FX were more dynamic

Did you see the awful styrofoam rocks on TOS?

Saved the best for last. Absolutely terrific. Thankyou Vic for all you’ve done. You were an amazing Kirk.

I thank the producers for an emotionally compelling and outright fantastic episode. Many thanks. Live Long and Prosper. Do so in the knowledge of my appreciation and that of many others. For, from you and us, there will be more. We shall see the stars as one.

This episode was amazing! Even for a fanfilm, this got pretty emotional.

I feel I”ve been treated to some good Trek lately. First an awesome 9th episode of Discovery, now the awesome final episode of Continues.

No need for the back-handed compliment. Fan films are films, and this was a professional production from top to bottom. How else do you think they’d have been able to secure the talent for these episodes? The screenplay is by renown SF author Robert J. Sawyer. All good films are capable of inducing emotion when well done.

We’ve come to a point now where fan films and independent efforts by people not in the industry at all can produce entertainment on par with Hollywood.

Completely agree, James

Oooph.. right in the feels. Great ending for TOS, and good tie-in to TMP. Well done.

did anyone notice the model of the discovery in the line of ships?

Yeah, they attention to detail that STC uses is always incredible.

And NX-01 and the Kelvin :D

That was Classy- Considering CBS ended Continues & all the fan film Series when they started to produce Discovery (Axanar profiting was just the best excuse to use, other productions found ways to profit)

Sawyer’s a great writer, but the acting on these films has been so amateurish that I had to stop watching the series.

In this episode, have to respectfully disagree. The acting was quite good.

So you couldn’t work out beforehand that a fan film productions with non profeshional actors wouldn’t always have the same level of performances & stopped watching lol

Give this series a try, I feel the same about most fan series but this one may surprise you.

WOW! What an amazing production. It is rich and human, telling new tales with the established universe of the original series. The final episode perfectly setup the foundation for the Motion Picture.

Astonishing score as well, harkening back across the ages to bring us something new!

One word: Masterpiece.

I would not call it a master piece… but it -was- a excellent swan song to a genre (Star Trek video Fan Fiction) that likely will never be again created. I totally squealed in Fanboi when they said they were gonna do a saucer separation. I did have issues with it but… it’s still a very wonderful piece of Story Telling… and it’s truly a shame it had to end so soon…

9 1/2 out of Ten Halflings

~Pensive’s Wetness

That was by far a much better and more satisfying Trek episode than any of STD’s episodes. Well done to all involved. You’ll be missed!

I’ve never held myself out as a fan of the volunteer productions , but STC found a good balance. I’d encourage then to consider doing a few projects under the new rules, just to expand the craft a bit….

If they did, it wouldn’t be with VIc. He did a voice for STO, so he’s considered an actual Trek actor and isn’t eligible to appear in a fan film.

I know these things tend to be vanity projects – that aside, recast Kirk. Or tell a story about Matt Decker. There are eleven other Constitution class ships in the fleet, after all.

As much as I’ve loved these productions, I think it’s time to move on. I’m good the cast and production team are going to do some original content that they can distribute and actually get paid for. They’re professionals and they deserve it.

I have always found fan films a bit underwhelming. But Continues is without question the best of them, irrespective of Vic’s motivations. The fact is the care and effort that goes in to these in terms of making it look and film like TOS is really quite amazing. Overall, aside from the past 15 or so minutes, I thought this was one of their weaker episodes. But it nonetheless shows a lot of hard work and dedication and I really have a hard time criticising people who do this for their love of TOS and not for profit, unlike con artists like Alec Peters. I think they deserve respect for that alone.

Thank you all for your dedication and obvious hard work and love. This provided the closure for the 5 Year Mission that was always missing for the lore.

Fantastic effort! Thanks to Vic and the crew for all your hard work! Hope to see a vignette or 2 in the future!

Would LOVE for the vignettes to be set during the TMP era :)

Nice little call-out to ‘Discovery.’ It’s impressive what everyone here has done. You should be proud.

Excellent goodbye episode. STC will be missed. Well done everyone!

The end of an era, and in more ways than one. The (no spoiler) motivation for the triumvirate’s disbanding is believable, and touching for anyone who’s followed STC since that first, somewhat wobbly story about Apollo’s return. This finale was not their best episode (that would still be “Embracing the Winds” IMO), but is an elegiac one, filled with loss and goodbyes as well as the hope of new beginnings. To Mr. Mignogna and STC’s cast and crew: thanks, you did good.

While the acting could be uneven at times, I always found the performances on STC to be more understated and thus more watchable; there are far fewer winces with this show than others. I’ve seen some pretty bad, wooden and just plain awkward performances on the professional Trek shows so I’m more than willing to cut these folks a little slack.

For a fan production, STC had some pretty incredible production values and it’s clear that everyone involved put their heart and soul into making the show. Since it was not beholden to networks, shareholders, studios or anyone else, it was free to be closer in tone and appearance to TOS than any of the modern shows or movies.

I really liked how they wrapped it all up and while also showing the beginnings of the eventual transition to ST:TMP. Things like the reasons behind Kirk’s decision to accept promotion to admiral and Spock’s return to Vulcan helped provide backstory for what we would eventually see on TMP. It all came together nicely.

Bravo all around for Vic and his crew; the shows were a breath of unpretentious fresh air and just plain fun to watch. Here’s hoping their future endeavors live long and prosper.

Honestly CBS should actually recognise the efforts of those involved in this show and make it canon. Put it on All Access and Netflix.

Going to start getting into this tonight. 11 new episodes of TOS Trek, right on. Thanks to everyone for the glowing reviews.

Well, there’s a nostalgia factor — and a bit of a sliding scale. It’s not quite TOS Trek, more like a remarkably well-produced TOS school play.

Your Blind.

Incredible finale. It really captured the heart of Trek. The last ten minutes really bridged the series and the motion picture.

Utterly boring.

Kirk doesn’t drive any of the action, has no personal story and no stake in anything. Nothing drives him toward his decision to step down from the captain’s chair. He makes no decisions in the episode that pushes him over the edge. He just does stuff. Hell, he doesn’t even order Smith to her death. She volunteers! STC’s Kirk misses the mark when it comes to the actual Jim Kirk character.

Spock’s relationship with Troi-redux is out of left field, much like Troi’s romance with Worf in “All Good Things…” One thing that I loved about IDW’s version of the final voyage is that Spock makes a decision that puts Kirk in danger. And thus this drives him back to Vulcan because he nearly cost Kirk his life and he couldn’t deal with those feelings. Once again, focusing on the Kirk-Spock relationship built in the show.

But McKenna is shoehorned to give some emotional weight to Spock, Kirk and the episode. Yet I felt nothing because the story does nothing except a small scene in part one. The script didn’t do the work to get the viewer to care. A tear-jerker moment that doesn’t illicit a tear. Which is a shame since Michele Specht is the best, most naturalistic actor in the STC troupe.

McCoy is a non-entity in the whole thing. If they wanted to do a connect-the-canon to TMP, then this should’ve been a voyage that strained the relationship of Kirk-Spock-McCoy. A story that drove each man into where they end up at the beginning of TMP. When McCoy says he’s leaving Starfleet at the end, it feels like an afterthought. A checkmark.

In fact, the entire episode felt like a checkmark. A list of things that needed to be done. Stuff happens but nothing of substance.

Wow you missed the point didn’t you- Kirk moved on to being an admiral for all those reasons you just stated- he felt he lost something. & who says they went their seperate ways before TMP because of conflict between them?

Nope. I got the point. It happened because “canon” needed it to happen. But the story wasn’t interested in actually showing us how Kirk got there. Writing is about process. About setups and payoffs. And STC’s finale didn’t do any of that. Stuff happens, but nothing really happens at all.

The script did none of the work to set up Kirk’s promotion or that he’s feeling he’s lost something. It’s lip service to connect-the-canon dots.

Kirk is so passive in this script. In the climatic action moment, he comes up with nothing and it’s the Romulan Commander who saves their bacon.

There’s no Kirk story to move him to that ultimate decision to take promotion. It happens because it has to happen to tie us to TMP. There is no groundwork in part one or two that makes his choice a payoff.

And my suggestion about a conflict between them is one of many ways you could go. But a finale to TOS should be a personal story to Kirk-Spock-McCoy because that’s the relationship the show spent so much time on developing. Here we have a series of unfortunate events that doesn’t add up to much.

Well, you don’t have to watch STC ever again. The project is done, and everyone involved have moved on. Now, we can look at the other fan films- wait. They’re done as well. Maybe a new fan film project will have the production and story you want- oh. We CAN’T because of the new rules from CBS/Paramount. Huh. I guess you can upload your version of events, on how TOS should have ended, we can see things YOUR way- no? Well, when you do get around to your story treatment, do let us know. We might see things your way, or we might pick it apart. Or, like in the case of STC, we qualify our viewing with balancing the good with the bad, and at least than STC for the attempt like, you know, human beings. Oh, well…

Everything was spot on. From the musical cues to The Motion Picture and Wrath Of Khan, the model list including Discovery, Kelvin, and NX-01, the new warp-effects being from Motion Picture, the throw-backs to the very first episode (I totally didn’t realise that ‘Mister Smith’ was YEOMAN SMITH – not James – and I want back and SHE WAS HOLDING GARY’S HAND!!! Dear lord these guys are fans! Loved it beyond words.

The end of an era – in more than one way…

An amazing end to an amazing effort. Similar to Mr. Mignogna’s comments, mere words cannot express the enjoyment I had watching each of these episodes. I could never have imagined that I could say in this decade that I was able to watch “new” episodes of TOS with my wife and young son, but that’s how it felt to me as we sat down to watch these shows.

Kudos all around to the cast and crew and anyone else involved. I was more than happy to make some small donations along the way, too.

So bittersweet now that’s it’s over, but I wish all the best to those involved and hope their next endeavors are as successful. BTW, it was great to meet many of you at the last Silicon Valley Comic Con back in April!

Thank you again for re-awakening this old Trek fan to the magic that was TOS that somehow went missing in the more contemporary incarnations of Trek (particularly the very disappointing Abrams movies…And no, I haven’t given Discovery a try yet, but will do so eventually I’m sure).

Hip-Hip-Hoorah…and Tallyho! :) :)

Thank you Vic for a dream come true…this season was done with such love …this is the way the series should be done …what ever anyone says this fan production is much more trek and enjoyable than any discovery million paid production..well done guys you made history…well done.

This was awesome. Huge thanks to the Vic and Continues’ casts and crews. It was a fantastic series paying honor to true Star Trek. Extremely well done.

Bravo. I wish it didn’t have to end.

Loved it. Such a great way to wrap up the show and set up the events of The Motion Picture.

That was actually quite incredible. I’m blown away.

Kirk is played by Evan Stone xD

I want to see a fan production tackle TNG era.

I congratulate those who completed this production. Very well done indeed. You cannot replace Shatner or Nimoy and I will say this is my main turn off.. but great effort!

Thanks Vic and everyone involved for 11 great episodes that add to the legacy that is TOS. And ignore what others are saying, you’ve been the best Kirk besides William Shatner that there has ever been! From your physical appearance, to your voice, acting, the mannerisms – one could truly think one was watching the real thing! Can’t say that about Spock, unfortunately, but that’s not to diminish Todd’s great performance in any way! Chris: your father would be very proud of you, I’m sure! And Michelle Specht is just awesome, though it was clear her character would have to die…

One small bit of nitpicking about this episode though: the music cues of TWOK/TSFS felt a little out of place, the nods to TMP worked perfectly, though. And not entirely sure why you would include a model of the Discovery (and Kelvin, as I’ve read) in a line of otherwise Enterprise models (or did I miss something)? But other than that: perfect, as always!

Live long and prosper!

Those weren’t all Enterprise models, as the first one was Zephram Cochran’s “Phoenix”. I think each model represented a Class or Design that was significant to StarFleet history. To your point though, if this is the Prime Timeline, I’m not sure of the significance of the Kelvin.

Just validating the Kelvin movies. Like them or not they ARE Trek.

Correct me if I’m wrong but the Kelvin was in the prime timeline, correct? Maybe I misunderstood but I thought all of the events with the Kelvin are what changed the timeline from the prime universe.

Personally my head canon wishes the only stuff that would leak into a TOS production is TNG/DS9/TAS. Enterprise was so outside of continuity it should be ignored – which is why it is laughable that it is now the only one that exists in the JJ-verse, the STD-verse, and Berman-verse.

But being Devil’s advocate and having not watched it yet so I don’t know whose models they are… The Kelvin would have significance to Kirk personally as his parents were on it. (But again I do not personally let the alleged JJ-prime events affect the proper Prime universe – so my Kirk has no Kelvin.)

Beautifully done and my hearty thanks to everyone involved for a well acted and superbly crafted bit of Trek. This deserves to be canon.

LOVE John de Lancie!!! Can’t wait to see the new movie!!!!

This episode really felt like saying goodbye to some old friends the way we wish we all could.

Well done to the actors and production crew for this wonderful 11 episode ride. Gene Roddenberry would be proud.

I have always enjoyed Star Trek Continues, but you guys knocked this last one out of the ball park!! I’m sad it is the last…. There was a five year mission after The motion picture…. just sayin…

Beautiful work. Brought a tear to me eye!

I absolutely adored this. I’ve always been a fan of STC, but this really cements their place in Star Trek canon for me. This two parter is better than most of the original series, and serves as a seemless bridge between TOS and The Motion Picture.

It was all great, but my favorite bits included McKennah and Spock, which was beautiful, heartbreaking and made perfect sense given that we knew Spock would devote himself to the discipline of the Kolinar, the purging of all emotion, following the original series, but never really knew why. It also gave us insight into something that we never saw much serious exploration of, a Spock relationship. (I realize the JJ movies also technically did this, but that was a different universe so doesn’t count.) Likewise, I appreciated seeing a Kirk that is not exactly broken, but wearied by the weight of all the things he’s seen, which again ties into the promotion to admiral we knew he accepted but never really had context for. I also really liked the bit with Smith, and the whole resolution to the five year mission, with promotions, reassignments, and people going their seperate ways. All the significant performances were excellent, the production design was flawless and the music was perfect. Most importantly though, even though there was a lot of action, it maintains the spirit and integrity of the original series at it’s best. 5/5

Holy shit! That was some of the best Trek I’ve ever seen! Vic Mignogna and crew deserve a standing ovation for an exciting and emotional ending to this labor of love. Second star to the right and straight on till morning.

That was very good. The last few scenes were played beautifully by the lead actors, and whoever it was who played the part of the Admiral at Starfleet Command also did nice work. Amy Rydell was excellent as the Romulan Commander, as well.

Thank you Vic and crew!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. That was, quite simply, one of the best Star Trek episodes I’ve ever seen. Fans are forever in your debt for this beautiful tribute.

That may have been the finest hour of Star Trek – E v e r.

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• 1.3 Act Two
• 1.4 Act Three
• 1.5 Act Four
• 2 Log entries
• 3 Memorable quotes
• 4.1 Production timeline
• 4.2 Title, story, and script
• 4.4 Sets and props
• 4.5 Production
• 4.7 Reception
• 4.8 Continuity
• 4.9 Remastered information
• 4.10 Video and DVD releases
• 5.1 Starring
• 5.2 Also starring
• 5.3 Guest stars
• 5.4 Uncredited co-stars
• 5.5.1 Unreferenced material
• 5.6 External links

Summary [ ]

The Enterprise orbits Camus II

The USS Enterprise answers a distress call from an archaeological expedition on Camus II and a landing party beams down. Captain Kirk finds that Dr. Janice Lester , whom he knows, is gravely ill, and Dr. Arthur Coleman is tending to her.

Lester is in bed and awakens just as Spock 's tricorder picks up faint life-form readings. Lester becomes unquiet and Dr. McCoy suggests that Kirk stay with her while the others leave to investigate the readings.

When Kirk and Lester reminisce about their time together at Starfleet Academy , Lester is still resenting her inability to rise to a captaincy. When Kirk examines an apparatus in the room, Lester activates it. It traps Kirk into position on one side of it. Lester then rises from her bed and stands alongside Kirk on the apparatus and effects a life-entity transfer , each from one body into the other.

Act One [ ]

Expedition surgeon Arthur Coleman

Lester (in Kirk's body) discloses to Kirk (in Lester's body) her plan to command the Enterprise , as well as her willingness to kill. Lester/Kirk starts to strangle Kirk/Lester but is interrupted as the others return. McCoy reports that the rest of the staff on the planet are dead of exposure to celebium , though Coleman says that this is unclear, a disagreement that will affect the choice of treatment. The survivors beam back to the Enterprise . Lester, in Kirk's body, orders that a medical team stand by in the transporter room for Kirk in Lester's body.

In sickbay , Lester/Kirk and Dr. Coleman discuss Kirk/Lester, whom they want to keep from reawakening. Coleman knows Lester's plans, and in fact knows both that celebium was the lethal agent and that Lester had caused the deaths by sending the personnel to where the celebium shielding was weak. On the surface of Camus II, Coleman had kept the rest of the landing party apart to give Lester time enough to kill Kirk, but he refuses to induce Kirk's death.

McCoy arrives and is surprised to see the captain in sickbay. Lester/Kirk transfers responsibility for the patient's care to Dr. Coleman, despite McCoy's strenuous protests. Kirk/Lester regains consciousness, but Coleman orders Nurse Chapel to administer a sedative.

Act Two [ ]

The impostor Kirk orders Sulu to execute a course change for a hospital on Benecia Colony , even though Spock points out that a course for Starbase 2 would provide a better radiation treatment without delaying the rendezvous with the USS Potemkin at Beta Aurigae . Lester/Kirk reacts sternly to being informed of the consequences of her/his orders.

The captain next meets with McCoy in Kirk's quarters, who defends his qualifications to treat Lester and has discovered that Coleman was relieved of duty as a chief medical officer on a starship due to severe incompetence. The captain says his decisions stand but McCoy uses his authority to order the captain to a medical examination based on " emotional instability and erratic mental attitudes since returning from that planet. " The captain calls this revenge, but the confrontation is interrupted by a recall to the bridge .

In sickbay, Kirk/Lester again regains consciousness and calls for McCoy. Dr. Coleman says he is in charge and tells Chapel that Kirk's claims are symptoms of a paranoia that has been developing for six months. He tells Kirk, " You are insane, Dr. Lester. " He orders the nurse to keep Dr. Lester under constant sedation.

Act Three [ ]

Kirk, in Lester's body and working not to seem paranoid to Nurse Chapel, asks to meet with McCoy or Spock, but is alarmed to hear in passing of the course change ordered for the Enterprise . Chapel gives the patient a drink and leaves. After the nurse has gone, Kirk/Lester pours the drink onto the floor, breaks the glass and uses it to cut the restraints on his/her bed.

Nearby, McCoy discusses with Spock his plans to run tests on "Kirk". News of the captain's aberrant behavior is spreading around the ship, and both of them are convinced that a rapid-onset mental illness began during Kirk's brief time alone with Lester on Camus II. The patient approaches the two – but the captain had arrived a moment earlier. Lester/Kirk violently knocks Kirk/Lester unconscious and orders him/her to be placed in isolation with a twenty-four-hour watch.

Soon, however, Spock arrives at the cell to question the prisoner. Lieutenant Galloway concedes Spock's point that isolation orders have never applied to the Enterprise 's senior staff. Kirk/Lester calmly explains to Spock the technology of life-entity transfer, " accomplished and forgotten long ago on Camus II. " When Spock protests that Starfleet requires objective evidence, Kirk describes events from their common past, such as their encounter with the Tholians and also the Vians , then finally, he invites the Vulcan mind meld . Performing, then breaking, the meld, Spock is convinced and asks Kirk?lester to come with him. When Galloway tries to block this, Spock disables him with a Vulcan neck pinch — but not before Galloway can call for backup.

The captain passes McCoy's physical, but McCoy insists on performing the Robbiani dermal-optic test to compare to a previous test. This, too, reveals nothing. Then they hear on the intercom that the prisoner has escaped. The captain goes to the cell, Spock surrenders, and the captain broadcasts throughout the ship a call for an immediate court martial of Spock on the charge of mutiny .

Act Four [ ]

The court martial convenes in a briefing room . Scott interrogates Spock, who describes his telepathic evidence that Kirk and Lester have exchanged bodies. Scott tells Spock that Starfleet Command will need more concrete proof than that. Later, McCoy testifies that the captain's physical and mental state are as they were when he assumed command of the Enterprise . Spock's logic compels Lester/Kirk to call Kirk/Lester out of isolation to testify. Lester/Kirk describes the life-entity transfer, but Kirk/Lester interrogates her/him in such a way so as to ridicule her/him.

Lester/Kirk accuses Spock of inventing the life-entity transfer controversy to assume the captaincy. Spock asserts his intent to reveal the truth and oppose the captain (i.e. Lester/Kirk). Lester/Kirk regards this as an overt confession of mutiny, but as she/he makes this clear, she/he sounds increasingly irrational. She/he declares a recess, followed immediately by the vote.

In the corridor , McCoy and Scott agree that the captain's (impostor) state of mind is unprecedented. Scott admits he never saw him " red-faced with hysteria" until now. Scott asks McCoy what the captain will do if they vote a ruling that Spock is innocent? They conclude that the captain will claim that they joined the mutiny ergo: " we'll have to take over the ship ". Lester/Kirk is recording the conversation and extends the mutiny charge and orders the death penalty to them. Chekov and Sulu protest that the death penalty is expressly forbidden, except for General Order 4 , which has not been violated by any Enterprise crew member. The enraged Lester/Kirk angrily orders that the other senior officers return to their posts, but imprisons McCoy, Scott and Spock. Lemli locks Kirk/Lester in a cell with a force field.

Lester/Kirk schedules a group execution on the hangar deck , with interment to take place on Benecia, but Sulu and Chekov take their hands away from their helm and navigation consoles in defiance. Unexpectedly, the life-entity transfer temporarily reverses, as Kirk/Lester senses it briefly in the holding cell. Lester/Kirk runs to meet Dr. Coleman in the archaeology lab to tell him the transference is weakening. Coleman says the only solution is to quickly kill Lester's body but again refuses to do so personally. However, Lester/Kirk says Coleman is already complicit in many murders and now has no choice. Coleman gives Lester/Kirk a phaser and prepares a doubly lethal hypospray which he also gave the captain. They hurry to her cell, to kill Kirk/Lester before the transference wears off.

"Her life could have been as rich as any woman's. If only… if only…"

Lester/Kirk disables the cell's force field and orders Kirk/Lester to come out as he/she will be the first to be executed, lying that the prisoners would be moved to different cells — supposedly to prevent further conspiracy. But before Lester/Kirk can kill Kirk/Lester with the hypospray, the life-entity transference wears off completely and Kirk, now in his own body, successfully prevents the murder. Lester, in her original body, collapses into enraged complete emotional breakdown over her total, and now permanent, defeat of her triple attempt to kill Kirk; kill her gender and command a starship. Kirk lets Coleman accompany Lester back to sickbay to care for her and laments her bad decisions.

Log entries [ ]

• Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2269

Memorable quotes [ ]

" Your world of starship captains doesn't admit women. "

" I loved you. We could've roamed among the stars. " " We'd have killed each other. " " It might have been better. "

" Believe me, it's better to be dead than to live alone in the body of a woman. "

" Youth doesn't excuse everything, Dr. McCoy. "

" Love? Him?!? I loved the life he led. The power of a starship commander. It's my life now! "

" You are closer to the captain than anyone in the universe. "

" You claim that… that you are Captain James T. Kirk? " " No. I am not Captain Kirk. That is very apparent. I claim that whatever it is that makes James Kirk a living being special to himself is being held here in this body. " " Oh. Well. However, as I understand it, I… am Dr. Janice Lester. " " That's very clever, but I didn't say it. I said, the body of James Kirk is being used by Dr. Janice Lester. " " A subtlety that somehow escapes me. I assume that this switch was arrived at by mutual agreement. " " No. It was brought about by a violent attack by Dr. Lester and the use of equipment she discovered on Camus II . " " Violence by the lady, perpetrated on Captain Kirk? I ask the assembled personnel to look at Dr. Janice Lester and visualize that historic moment. Can you, can you tell me why Dr. Janice Lester would agree to this ludicrous exchange? " " Yes. To get the power she craved, to attain a position she doesn't merit by temperament or training. And most of all, she wanted to murder James Kirk, a man who once loved her. But her intense hatred of her own womanhood made life with her impossible. "

" You are not Captain Kirk. You have ruthlessly appropriated his body, but the life entity within you is not that of Captain Kirk. You do not belong in command of the Enterprise , and I will do everything in my power against you. "

" You have heard the statements you put into the record. Do you understand the nature of it? " " I do, sir. And I stand by it. " " It is mutiny! "

" On the basis of these statements, I call for an immediate vote, by the powers granted to me as Captain of the Enterprise . A recess is declared, to be followed by a vote. " " Yes, sir. An immediate vote before our chief witness can be left to die on some obscure planet with the truth locked away inside of her. " " Silence! You will be silent!! A recess has been declared. There will be no cross-discussion. When I return, we will vote on the charge of mutiny. The evidence presented here is the only basis of your decision. "

" Doctor, I've seen the captain feverish, sick, drunk, delirious, terrified, overjoyed, boiling mad. But up to now I have never seen him red-faced with hysteria. "

" Headquarters has its problems, and we have ours. And right now, the captain of the Enterprise is our problem. "

" We're talking about a mutiny, Scotty. " " Aye. Are you ready for the vote? " " Yes, I'm… I'm ready for the vote. "

" The death penalty is forbidden. There is only one exception. " " General Order 4! It has not been violated by any officer on the Enterprise ! "

" The bridge is where you belong. "

" Oh, I'm never going to be the captain, never… kill him… " " You are… you are as I loved you. "

" I didn't want to destroy her. " " I'm sure we all understand that, Captain. " " Her life could have been as rich as any woman's. If only… if only… "

Background information [ ]

Production timeline [ ].

• Similar story premise, "Turnabout" by Gene Roddenberry : early 1966
• Story outline by Gene Roddenberry : 22 April 1968
• Revised story outline: 25 April 1968
• Second revised story outline: 30 April 1968
• Third revised story outline: 8 May 1968
• First draft teleplay by Arthur Singer : 1 December 1968
• Second draft teleplay: early- December 1968
• Final draft teleplay: 20 December 1968
• Revised final draft teleplay by Fred Freiberger : 20 December 1968
• Additional page revisions by Freiberger: 30 December 1968 , 2 January 1969 , 3 January 1969
• Filmed: 31 December 1968 – 9 January 1969
• Original airdate: 3 June 1969 , postponed from 28 March 1969
• First UK airdate on BBC1 : 15 December 1971
• First UK airdate on ITV1 : 2 September 1984

Title, story, and script [ ]

• Because Star Trek: The Original Series was canceled instead of coming to a natural end, and the idea of a series finale was not as popular in the 1960s, "Turnabout Intruder", despite being the series finale of TOS, is closer to a normal episode and does not have the "finale" touches.
• In James Blish 's novelization of "Turnabout Intruder" in Star Trek 5 , Dr. Arthur Coleman's first name is "Howard" – probably from an early draft of the script. At the end of the episode, Kirk muses about Janice Lester, " Her life could have been as rich as any woman's, if only… if only… " In Blish's rendition, Spock finishes the sentence, adding: " If only she had been able to take pride in being a woman. "
• The set crew's nickname for this show was "Captain Kirk, Space Queen". ( Star Trek Lives! , p. 176)
• Uhura is the only regular character absent in this episode. The actress, Nichelle Nichols , had a singing engagement at the time and was unavailable, so was replaced by Barbara Baldavin as Lisa . ( citation needed • edit )
• After two years on the series, Roger Holloway finally got to speak dialogue – all of two words: " Aye, sir. " His character's name ( Lemli ) was the same as William Shatner's license plate at the time, a mixture of his daughters' names (i.e., Le slie , M elanie , and Li sabeth ).
• Typically blonde, Christine Chapel appears with auburn hair in this episode, as well as previously, in " Operation -- Annihilate! ". By the time of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , her hair had re-darkened to its natural dark brown color.
• Lieutenant Galloway reappears in this episode, despite having been killed by Ronald Tracey in " The Omega Glory ". He was credited as "Galoway" even though actor David L. Ross had been recast as Lieutenant Johnson in " Day of the Dove " after the character of Galloway was killed off.
• Leonard Nimoy ( Spock ) and Majel Barrett (Nurse Christine Chapel and Number One ) were the only actors to appear in both this episode and first pilot " The Cage ". Nimoy was the only actor to appear in every episode of the series. William Shatner appeared in every episode with the exception of "The Cage". Jeffrey Hunter , who had played Christopher Pike in the first pilot episode, died a week before "Turnabout Intruder" aired.
• The very last Enterprise crew member to be seen in the original series is Scotty. As he, Kirk, and Spock enter the turbo-elevator at the end of Act IV, a glimpse of his forearm, grasping the control handle, is visible before the doors close. However, James Doohan 's last spoken line was much earlier in the scene when he stated "the bridge is where you belong" to Kirk (in Lester's body) while imprisoned in the brig.
• In his The Star Trek Compendium , author Allan Asherman credited Sandra Smith as the only actor besides William Shatner to have "played" James T. Kirk. With the release of J.J. Abrams ' Star Trek , this was no longer true, as the film featured a "new" Kirk, played by Chris Pine , Jimmy Bennett , and an unidentified baby . Nevertheless, Smith still remains the only woman to have portrayed Kirk.
• The last spoken lines of the major characters in the Original Series were respectively when McCoy states, "Come with me" to Dr. Coleman, Spock stating, "I'm sure we all understand that Captain", and Kirk ending with a reflection on Janice Lester (the last line spoken in the entire Original Series) by saying "If only...".

Sets and props [ ]

• For story reasons, Janice Lester convalesces in a private, never-before-seen room down the corridor from sickbay.

Production [ ]

• There is a detailed account of the filming of this episode in the 1975 book Star Trek Lives! . Co-author Joan Winston had the opportunity to spend six days on the set while "Turnabout Intruder" was being shot. Winston wrote that Shatner was very ill with the flu at the time and had considerable difficulty in picking up and carrying Sandra Smith , the actress who played Dr. Lester, for take after take. At one point, he said, " You know I love you, baby, but you've got to lose about six inches off that ass, " which brought down the house.
• Joan Winston also recalled many amusing anecdotes that took place during the shooting. For example, William Shatner flubbed the line, " Spock, give it up. Come back to the Enterprise family. All charges will be dropped. And the madness that overcame all of us on Camus II will fade and be forgotten. " Instead, he blurted out, " Spock, it's always been you, you know it's always been you. Say you love me too. "
• Shatner clashed with director Herb Wallerstein , when Wallerstein wanted Kirk to exit a scene via what was established as a wall. [1]
• During the first three filming days, pre-production was underway for the 25th episode of the season, " The Joy Machine ", to be directed by William Shatner. However – as reported by Winston – on the fourth day of filming, Monday 6 January 1969 , Gene Roddenberry came to the set and informed Shatner that the series was canceled by NBC , and his directorial debut wouldn't be produced. Despite suffering from the flu, and saddened by the news, Shatner performed his scene perfectly. ( These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three , pp. 637)
• The rest of the cast and crew were notified of NBC's decision at the end of the day by associate producer Gregg Peters , making a formal announcement. ( These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three , pp. 637-638)
• Pro football player O.J. Simpson , just starting his acting career at that point, visited the set the same day, and was escorted by Roddenberry. Simpson witnessed the aforementioned event with Shatner on the bridge set. Regarding Shatner's professional demeanour, Roddenberry told him, " You have just seen an actor at work. ". ( These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three , pp. 637)
• Even as filming was wrapping up, crew members were dismantling the Enterprise sets. Filming was completed on 9 January 1969 . Production went one day over schedule, resulting in seven filming days. ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story )
• The final scene ever filmed for the original series was of William Shatner and Sandra Smith in front of the alien transference machine. ( These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three , p. 641)
• This installment opens with the same music cue as the previous three episodes, taken from the opening titles of " Spock's Brain ". In common with the immediately prior entry to this one, this episode ends with the closing music cue from " Elaan of Troyius ".

Reception [ ]

• A scheduled airdate of 28 March 1969 was preempted by news coverage of the death of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower . This episode was not aired until 3 June 1969 for that reason. Due to being rescheduled, the episode missed the deadline for Emmy nominations. ( Smithsonian magazine, May 2016 issue, p. 59) It was the last installment of the franchise to air in the 1960s.
• Although the BBC 's first run airdate order during 1969 - 1971 was very different to NBC 's, this was also the final episode screened in the UK, on 15 December 1971 .
• Although ITV 's run airdate order during 1981 - 1984 was very different to NBC 's, this was also the final episode screened in the UK, on 2 September 1984 , and just before the film's premiere is held on 3 September 1984 .
• Bjo and John Trimble were very impressed by this episode. "[It] was very good; it might have won an Emmy for William Shatner, " they appreciatively speculated. ( Smithsonian magazine, May 2016 issue, p. 59)
• Critic Scott Mantz considered the episode's final moments to be significant. " There is something somewhat apropos, " he said, " about the last words of the last episode, 'Turnabout Intruder': 'Her life could have been as rich as any woman's. If only… If only.' And then Kirk walks off. " ( Smithsonian magazine, May 2016 issue, p. 59)
• The episode drew Nielsen ratings of only 8.8, in contrast to rival shows Lancer on CBS and The Mod Squad on ABC, which gained ratings of 14.7 and 15.2 respectively, a drop of over 50% since the show premiered.
• Cultural theorist Cassandra Amesley states that this episode is "agreed to be one of the worst Star Trek episodes ever shown" by Star Trek fans . Brenton J. Malin sees the episode as a reactionary response to the radical feminism of the late 1960s. Dr. Lester is a "caricature and condemnation of the feminism of the late 1960s, evoking a fear of powerful, power-hungry women… The message seems clear: women want to kill men and take their jobs, but ultimately they can't handle them."
• David Greven has a more positive view of the episode, even referring to it as "moving". He calls it the "infamous last episode" of the original series, in part because of the "campiness" of Shatner's performance when portraying himself as a female in a male's body, but also because of the sexist premise that "female desire for power was a clear sign of insanity". While accepting that "the sexism of the episode is indisputable", he argues that the exploration of the idea that man can inhabit a woman's body, and vice versa , gives the episode a "radical" dimension, which he claims implies the interchangeability of gender and sexual identity.
• In 2017, this episode was rated by ScreenRant as the 4th worst episode of the Star Trek franchise, including later spin-off series. A ranking of every episode of the original series by Hollywood placed this episode in last place.
• In 2017, Den of Geek ranked this episode as the 7th worst Star Trek episode of the original series.

Continuity [ ]

• The name of the planet Benecia is pronounced differently in this episode than it was in " The Conscience of the King ", i.e., "beh-NEE-shee-a" as opposed to "beh-neh-SEE-a".
• In this episode, Kirk mentions the events of two previous episodes (" The Empath " and " The Tholian Web ") to Spock.
• Starfleet's General Orders appear to have changed by this time. Sulu and Chekov say that only violating General Order 4 warrants the death penalty. In " The Menagerie, Part I ", though, it was stated that violation of General Order 7 (the ban on contact with Talos IV ) was the "only death penalty left on the books."
• Although this was the last episode of the Original Series to be filmed and aired, this episode has a lower stardate than the previous episode, " All Our Yesterdays ".
• Janice Lester, in the body and voice of Captain Kirk, makes a captain's log entry, discussing the status of the conspiracy.
• As a subtle hint that all is not right with Kirk, whenever Lester/Kirk refers to himself, he uses the more formal "Captain Kirk" instead of the usual "Kirk". (e.g., " Captain Kirk to the Enterprise" instead of the usual " Kirk to Enterprise , " " Captain Kirk out " instead of " Kirk out, " etc.)
• This episode is subtly referenced in TNG : " Legacy ". In that episode, Jean-Luc Picard mentions in his captain's log that " The Enterprise has bypassed its scheduled archaeological survey of Camus II… ", referencing the same planet that this episode begins on. This was mentioned because, with the airing of its eightieth episode, "Legacy", Star Trek: The Next Generation officially "bypassed" the series-run of Star Trek: The Original Series . ( Star Trek Encyclopedia , 3rd ed., p. 62)
• In this episode Janice Lester states, " Your world of starship captains does not admit women. " In fact, the entire basis of the episode is that Janice Lester wanted to be a starship captain so badly (but could not because of her gender) that she switched bodies with and tried to murder Captain Kirk . This was later contradicted by Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Trek: Discovery . In ENT : " Home ", set in 2154 , the second warp-5 ship to be launched in the NX Program , the Columbia NX-02 is captained by a woman, Captain Hernandez . In Discovery, set a decade prior to this episode, Captain Philippa Georgiou is established not only as the captain of the USS Shenzhou , but to be among the most decorated Starfleet captains (in DIS : " Choose Your Pain "). This, however, is not necessarily a contradiction. Lester's line " Your world of starship captains does not admit women " might not have been intended to mean "Starfleet doesn't allow women starship captains," but rather could have meant that Kirk's world as a starship captain did not (and, by a necessity she refused to appreciate, could not) include her, since they were talking about their relationship, not Starfleet.
• Another possible interpretation of Lester's line is that she, personally, was denied promotion to a command-level position, for whatever reason, and perceived it as a prohibition against all women achieving command of starships.

Remastered information [ ]

• This was the second to last episode of TOS to be remastered , and the second to last to be aired.
• The remastered version of "Turnabout Intruder" ends with the Enterprise flying toward a colorful nebula, to artistically signify the episode as being the last of the TOS series.

Video and DVD releases [ ]

• Original US Betamax release: 1988
• UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video ): Volume 40 , catalog number VHR 2436, 18 March 1991 ( This volume is a three-episode tape to close out the series. )
• US VHS release: 15 April 1994
• UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.8, 2 March 1998
• Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 40, 11 December 2001
• As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection
• As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection.
• As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Alternate Realities collection

Links and references [ ]

Starring [ ].

• William Shatner as James Kirk

Also starring [ ]

• Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
• DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy

Guest stars [ ]

• Sandra Smith as Janice Lester
• Harry Landers as Dr. Coleman
• James Doohan as Scott
• George Takei as Sulu
• Walter Koenig as Chekov
• Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
• Barbara Baldavin as Communications Officer
• David L. Ross as Lt. Galoway [sic]
• John Boyer as Guard

Uncredited co-stars [ ]

• Tom Anfinsen as Medical technician 1
• William Blackburn as Hadley (stock footage)
• James Drake as Security guard
• Roger Holloway as Lemli
• Medical technician 2
• Security guard

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STAR TREK CONTINUES revises the RELEASE DATES for its final two episodes!

Early last month, STC announced the release schedule of their final three episodes, with special previews of each episode during conventions where the STC cast would be appearing.  In addition to episode XI “What Ships Are For,” the release dates for episodes X and XI were given, as well: “To Boldly Go (Part One)” would premiere at Salt Lake City Comic Con the weekend of September 21-23 and “To Boldly Go (Part Two)” would premiere two weeks later at New York City Comicon the weekend of October 5-8.

But that was before CBS announced the premiere date of Star Trek: Discovery was going to be September 24.   Oh, dear.  STC ‘s penultimate episode would be premiering just as the world would be focused on the first new Star Trek to hit television screens in a dozen years!  Obviously, the timing of the two releases within a day of each other would not be in the best interests of CBS or STC .

So VIC MIGNOGNA posted the following message to fans of STC :

When we scheduled the releases for our 2-part finale at Salt Lake Comic Con & New York Comic Con, the release date for Star Trek: Discovery had not yet been set.  When it was announced that it would air on Sept 24, we decided to make some adjustments to our release dates out of respect and support for CBS and ST: Discovery. We don’t want anything to detract from the excitement and anticipation of ST: Discovery!

We will now show a sneak peek of Episode X at New York Comic Con on Sunday, October 8. and will debut it publicly on October 18. Our final episode, XI, will be released publicly on November 13, with a sneak peek of the episode to be screened at an event prior (TBD). Exclusive episode posters will be given to the first 300 fans at both events!

So a bad news/good news situation for STC fans.  The bad news is that we have to a little longer for the next new episode of STC and an extra month or so for the finale.  The good news is that we don’t have to face the reality of the last-ever episode of STC until November instead of October.

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11 thoughts on “STAR TREK CONTINUES revises the RELEASE DATES for its final two episodes!”

I Liked the New STC epsiode, only Disappointments were #1 One less new episode of STC to watch. #2 from the Title I was hoping for a space based action episode, pushing the Enterprise to the Limit. (what we got was real good just different).

Without giving spoilers, yes, it was different than a lot of fan films in that there this was all about a society facing a huge change…rather than a threat to the ship or crew. But so many classic Trek stories were just about that and not about space battles or alien menaces. Kudos to STC for taking that chance to do something more challenging. I think they really nailed it.

REALLY looking forward to the final episodes of Continues – Too bad we can’t get more of this grand fan series, but oh well, counting my blessings… P 🙂

Well, even in the best case scenario, they were only ever planning to do to additional episodes. I’m sorry we’ll never see those, but there were (will be) eleven amazing episodes that we can all enjoy…and that’s quite the blessing for fans.

I know most Trek fans oppose Trump but in my opinion this episode was a direct refutation of his immigration policy’s and I wonder if he had even a little to do with the end of the episode. Would it have been the same if Trump hadn’t been elected?

However besides that little gripe, the episode was great. Vic makes a great Kirk and actually in profile he could be William Shatner! I can’t wait for the next 3 episodes. The end of the 5 year mission!

I hope no one gets angry at me (hopefully I gave no spoilers) and understands I’m not trying to start a political discussion. Even including what I said above the episode was EXCELLENT!

At the time such episodes as “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” and “A Private Little War” came out, the country was divided on issues like segregation and the Vietnam War. That never stopped Star Trek from letting us take a hard look at ourselves. I suspect that, were TOS being made today (and we’ll find out if Discovery does so), Star Trek would be taking a look at current issues like immigration, healthcare, and interference with democratic elections by outside powers. Already, STC took on the candidacy of Hillary Clinton in the episode “Embracing the Winds.” I’m curious to see what they have in store for their final two episodes.

Once again Star Trek Continues and Vic Mignogna come through with what was promised and act professionally. Axanar and Alec Peters…well…not so much.

Amazing what you can accomplish if you don’t get sued for millions of dollars by a Fortune 500 company! 🙂

Even though Star Trek has always done its best as a social commentary, I definitely won’t miss STC.

I’ll miss it terribly. But I’ll always treasure those 11 episodes that were made.

I’m not really looking forward to the premiere of Discovery, but I am looking forward to the final episodes from Star Trek Continues. It’s been a great run.

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All Episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Now Available

Old friends, new worlds, even time travel.

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Ready for a brand-new classified mission? All episodes of Season 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy are now streaming!

In Season 2, these six young outcasts who make up the Prodigy crew are assigned a new mission aboard the U.S.S. Voyager -A to rescue Captain Chakotay and bring peace to Gwyn's home world. However, when their plan goes astray, it creates a time paradox that jeopardizes both their future and past.

Season 2 Episode Titles and Synopses:

201 – "Into the Breach, Part I" 

The Prodigy crew is reunited and assigned a new mission aboard the U.S.S. Voyager -A, only to discover Admiral Janeway has other plans.

202 – "Into the Breach, Part II"

After Gwyn's plan to save Solum is sabotaged, she must turn to an unlikely ally. On Voyager , Janeway's secret mission is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious entity — and the Prodigy crew is accidentally sent through a rift.

203 – "Who Saves the Saviors"

The Prodigy crew crash lands in future Solum where they try to rescue Captain Chakotay, but when their plan goes astray, it creates a time paradox putting Gwyn in danger.

204 – "Temporal Mechanics 101"

In a race to save Gwyn, the Prodigy crew use their scientific know how to escape the dark future they are stranded in and travel back to the present, with some mysterious help from an unknown entity.

205 – "Observer's Paradox"

After saving Gwyn during a botched rescue mission, the Prodigy crew faces new scrutiny aboard Voyager . But hope is not lost if they can find the Protostar and repair the time paradox — and decode a cryptic message from Murf.

206 – "Imposter Syndrome"

Ready to embark on their quest to find the Protostar , the Prodigy crew creates holograms of themselves to leave Voyager undetected — but their holo-doubles jeopardize everything in a case of mistaken identity.

207 – "The Fast and the Curious"

As our crew travels to the spiral nebula in search of the lost Protostar , they take a shortcut through an old transwarp conduit— but are detoured by a Kazon warlord who enters them into a literal race for their lives. 

208 – "Is There in Beauty No Truth?"

With Zero's suit damaged beyond repair, the Prodigy crew visits a colony of non-corporeal beings who may be able to help Zero — by granting the Medusan a physical body.

209 – "The Devourer of All Things, Part I"

Upon arriving at the coordinates given to Gwyn by the mysterious entity, the Prodigy crew find themselves on a strange hidden planet where someone is waiting for them… and it's someone unexpected.

210 – "The Devourer of All Things, Part II"

After meeting the entity who's been helping our crew find the Protostar and fix the timeline, their plans are interrupted by an attack from the Loom and the arrival of Voyager .

211 – "Last Flight of the Protostar , Part I"

After a brush with the Loom, the Prodigy crew find the lost Protostar on a deserted ocean planet, but their only hope to fix the timeline is in jeopardy when its captain refuses to leave.

212 – "Last Flight of the Protostar , Part II"

After convincing Chakotay to help repair the Protostar , the Prodigy crew now need fuel for it to fly — which means converting it into a literal ship and sailing across the planet's gaseous ocean in an epic tale of survival.

213 – "A Tribble Called Quest"

The Protostar crew lands on a strange new world in search of the exotic matter they need to proto-warp back to Voyager … only to discover the planet is infested with an unusually large species of Tribbles. 

214 – "Cracked Mirror"

When a proto-warp gone wrong fractures Voyager into different realities, the Prodigy crew must venture through dangerous alternate dimensions to reunite with Admiral Janeway.

215 – "Ascension, Part I"

The Prodigy crew and Chakotay reunite with Voyager , bringing the timelost Protostar with them. But the past catches up to them when Ilthuran delivers a dire warning — Asencia is coming.

216 – "Ascension, Part II"

When Asencia's mysterious time weapon strikes Voyager and threatens all aboard, it's up to the crews of the Protostar , Voyager , and Nova Squadron to survive the attack.

217 – "Brink"

To prevent a war with Solum, Gwyn leads the Protostar crew on a mission to rescue Ilthuran. But surprising discoveries force Gwyn to make hard choices which have dire consequences for everyone.

218 – "Touch of Grey"

Admiral Janeway and her senior officers feel their age as they find themselves thrown back in danger on an old school away mission to rescue the Protostar crew. 

219 – "Ouroboros, Part I"

Determined to save both Starfleet and Solum, the Prodigy crew must stop an invasion and open the wormhole that will send the Protostar back to Tars Lamora.

220 – "Ouroboros, Part II"

To save the present and fix the past, our crew must face the Loom and pilot the Protostar through the temporal wormhole back to Tars Lamora. Even if they succeed, what will the future hold?

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For Trekkies old and new, the highly anticipated Prodigy Season 2 will be worth the wait.

Dan and Kevin Hageman seem relieved.

It makes sense. The brother duo behind the first Lego Movie and Trollhunters scored a big win back in 2021 when their Star Trek series Prodigy got picked up by Paramount+ and Nickelodeon. But despite signing a two-season deal, Star Trek: Prodigy was quietly canceled after Season 1 — until Netflix swooped in. Now, we’re just days away from the Season 2 premiere , so it’s no surprise that the look on the Hageman Brothers’ faces reads as a mix of glee and exhaustion.

“We’re very excited to be able to tell this story,” Kevin Hageman tells Inverse .

Over Zoom, the Hageman Brothers seem less like siblings and more like two friends who’ve been playing Dungeons & Dragons with each other for decades. Kevin clearly wants to be the DM, while Dan is the guy who wants the quest to get bonkers. When it comes to crafting epic, animated projects, this geeky dynamic clearly gets he job done. But now, it’s up to the algorithmic streaming gods to decide Prodigy’s fate.

“I think it really all rests on the success of the Netflix platform,” Kevin says.

Star Trek: Prodigy began as a newcomer’s introduction to the massive canon of Star Trek, but Season 2 hits the ground at proto-warp speed with most of the main cast — Dal (Brett Gray), Jankom (Jason Mantzoukas), Rok (Rylee Alazraqui), Murf (Dee Bradley Baker), Zero (Angus Imrie), and Gwyn (Ella Purnell) — all, more or less, assigned to Starfleet duties. However, any cozy status quo is quickly up-ended by even more time-travel shenanigans than in the first season. It’s a big, surprising season-long arc, but the Hagemans were determined to sneak in some classic Star Trek standalone stories, too.

Dan Hageman hopes that’s enough to win over not just Netflix’s massive audience but the hardcore Trekkies. He says he’ll know Season 2 was a success “if it really sticks in the grill of the Star Trek fandom.”

So ahead of this historic drop — the first time that 20 new Star Trek episodes will be available all at once — Inverse caught up with the Hageman Brothers to talk about the flavor of Prodigy Season 2, balancing episodic adventures with an epic serialized arc, how the show fits into Star Trek canon, and their hopes for the future.

Star Trek’s Greatest Hits

Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) is back in Prodigy Season 2. But it’s not only Voyager references this season.

“Going into Season 2, we wanted to continue with that idea of what are the greatest hits [of Star Trek]?” Kevin says. “What are concepts and episode ideas that we can introduce to new fans that make up that Star Trek DNA? But we also we found ourselves it is a little more serialized, so the challenge was how to do that and also wrap up a lot of these bigger stories.”

In addition to introducing a new regular Vulcan character named Ma’jel (Michaela Dietz) — who is clearly inspired by Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the late “ First Lady of Star Trek” — Prodigy Season 2 has a slew of Trekkie greatest-hits moments. Without getting into any big-time spoilers, these include parallel universes, some classic aliens for The Original Series , a big shout-out to the 1986 film The Voyage Home , at least one doppelgänger dilemma, and a lot of time travel.

But in addition to creating a diversity of very different stories and completing a bigger arc, Prodigy Season 2 is also a kind of Rosetta Stone for a certain point in the Star Trek timeline. Because Season 2 takes place mostly in 2384, aspects of Lower Decks and Picard canon are fully addressed and integrated. ( Lower Decks occurs between 2380 and 2383, while the earliest Picard Season 1 flashbacks happen in 2385. But the way Starfleet feels in the early days of Picard’s 2380s has seemed a bit incongruous with Lower Decks and Prodigy. In Prodigy Season 2, there’s a very deliberate fix for that.)

“We always wanted Prodigy to embrace the whole canon of Star Trek.”

It’s also worth noting that while Admiral Janeway didn’t appear in Picard Season 3, Prodigy Season 2 elucidates her post- Voyager role a little more clearly. In fact, because Prodigy Season 2 includes recurring roles from Voyager regulars The Doctor (Robert Picardo) and Chakotay (Robert Beltran), it’s tempting to think of the series as a follow-up to that version of Trek, rather than a midquel between Lower Decks and Picard . But for the showrunners, Prodigy’s canonical scope is bigger than either of those options.

“Everyone would say, oh, it’s like a Voyager spinoff, and we were like, no, we’re not a Voyager spinoff,” Dan says. “We are Voyager- adjacent just because Janeway is one of our leads. But we always wanted Prodigy to embrace the whole canon of Star Trek. The things that pop up are things that happen in that timeline.”

Major Trek Twists

Kevin Hageman and Dan Hageman (center), with some of the Prodigy cast including Angus Imrie, Kate Mulgrew, Ella Purnell, and director Ben Hibon in 2022.

The specifics of these events from elsewhere in the Star Trek pantheon range from minor Easter eggs to major events. And some twists and details have been planned since 2021, well before Picard Season 2 or Season 3 aired. The Hagemans reveal that, three years ago, with multiple Trek projects in production, they were in contact with other Star Trek showrunners to make sure Prodigy not only lined up with the rest of canon but also expanded upon a few specific plot points.

“We were all talking and sharing what we were planning and making sure we were all in sync,” Kevin says. “So there was some collaboration.”

By the final episode of Prodigy Season 2, several aspects of Star Trek are fully connected, but there’s also an open-ended notion that the series could continue in some way, shape, or form. But will there be a Prodigy Season 3? The Hageman brothers offer a surprising response.

“Just a lot of dreaming on Season 3,” Kevin says. “Maybe it’s something that happens down the line. I could see something happening in 10 years. Maybe sooner.”

“Maybe there’s a live-action version of it,” Dan adds. “We’re hoping.”

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Kate Mulgrew Urges Fans To Watch Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2, Hopes For More Seasons

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Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2's Finale - "Ouroboros, Parts 1 and 2"

• Star Trek: Prodigy season 2's finale saw the USS Protostar crew reset the paradox timeline and save reality.
• Admiral Janeway's retirement was interrupted by a shocking connection to Star Trek: Picard season 1's Mars Attack.
• A new USS Prodigy is launched with the young Starfleet heroes as its crew, accompanied by Hologram Janeway for a new mission of exploration.

Star Trek: Prodigy 's spectacular and paradigm-shifting season 2 finale brings the saga full circle before turning the tragic events that lead to Star Trek: Picard season 1 into a new mission of hope for Starfleet's youngest heroes. Star Trek: Prodigy 's season 2 finale, "Ouroboros, Parts 1 and 2" simultaneously resolves three universe-altering crises : Ascenia (Jameela Jamil) controlling Solum and her plans to destroy the United Federation of Planets, an invasion by the reality-eating creatures of the Loom, and sending the USS Protostar back in time to Tars Lamora in order to reset Star Trek 's Prime Timeline.

Most of Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 takes place in a paradox timeline that the Traveler known as Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) worked to repair before the Loom could consume this reality. On Solum, Gwyndala (Ella Purnell) finally defeated Ascenia when the Vau N'Akat accepted Gwyn as a true member of their people. Meanwhile, Dal R'El (Brett Gray), Jankom Pog (Jason Mantzoukas), and Murf (Dee Bradley Baker) reprogrammed Ascenia's temporal beacon to create a wormhole that the USS Protostar could use to travel back to Tars Lamora. This plan was the ingenious brainchild of Wesley, Rok-Tahk (Rylee Alazraqui), Zero (Angus Imrie), and Maj'el (Michaela Dietz), who figured out the "timey-wimey" solution that could reset the timeline.

Star Trek: Prodigy season 2's finale "Ouroboros, Part 1" is written by Kevin & Dan Hageman and Aaron J. Waltke and directed by Sean Bishop

Star Trek: Prodigy season 2's finale "Ouroboros, Part 2" is written by Kevin & Dan Hageman and Aaron J. Waltke and directed by Ruolin Li

With Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 premiering on Netflix on July 1st, Kate Mulgrew urges fans to watch so that Netflix orders more seasons.

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2’s Time Travel Ending Brings The Saga Full Circle

This time, the protostar crew sent the ship back to where they found it..

Wesley Crusher's long-range plan to let Ascenia capture him was necessary because Ascenia would use his knowledge as a Traveler to create new weapons that would open wormholes to attack the Federation. But those wormholes were ingeniously threaded together by the USS Protostar's scientific geniuses like Rok-Tahk, Maj'el, Zero, and Wesley to create the one stable wormhole needed to send the USS Protostar back to Tars Lamora. While the events of Star Trek: Prodigy season 1 happened and are irrevocable, this time, it would be the young crew of the Protostar who would send their starship back in time so that they could find and steal it in 2083.

Dal, Gwyn, Zero, Jankom Pog, Rok-Tahk, Murf, Captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran) , and Hologram Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) worked together to restore the USS Protostar to the exact same condition it was when the kids found it in Star Trek: Prodigy 's series premiere. Crucially, Dal remembered his first Starfleet comm badge , the discovery of which opened the door to being able to communicate and become friends with his fellow Tars Lamora prisoners. But this also required Hologram Janeway's memory to be wiped blank.

The USS Voyager-A followed the USS Protostar through the wormhole and beamed the Protostar crew back so that Chakotay's starship could complete its fateful journey to Tars Lamora. In a stunning, emotionally resonant sequence, Star Trek: Prodigy closed its own loop and synched the events of season 1 with the events of season 2, merging it all into one singular timeline. Meanwhile, resetting the timeline made the Loom retreat from Star Trek 's Prime reality, safeguarding it. And, with Ascenia defeated, Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) led a proper First Contact with Solum and its leaders, changing the Vau N'Akat's future for the better.

The USS Protostar's successful reset of Star Trek: Prodigy 's timeline also permanently saved Gwyn from fading out of existence.

Wesley Crusher Visits His Mother Beverly & Meets His Brother, Jack Crusher

The moment star trek: picard season 3 was lacking is in star trek: prodigy season 2's finale..

Star Trek: Prodigy season 2's finale contained a jaw-dropping moment fans hoped to see in Star Trek: Picard season 3: Wesley Crusher finally visiting his mother, Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden), and meeting his baby brother, Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers). In 2385, Wesley traveled to Cor Coroli V, where Beverly was living with Jack after she left the USS Enterprise-E. After their heartwarming reunion, Beverly introduced Wesley to the very young Jack (before Picard's son developed a British accent). At long last, the Crusher family reunion audiences waited years for happened in Star Trek: Prodigy .

Wesley Crusher appeared as the Traveler in Star Trek: Picard 's season 2 finale, "Farewell".

In an exclusive interview with Screen Rant about Star Trek: Prodigy season 2, executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman revealed how Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas helped coordinate Wesley meeting Beverly and Jack Crusher , which explains why the moment wasn't in Picard season 3:

Dan Hageman: We had talked to Terry Matalas about what they were doing with [Star Trek: Picard season 2 and 3.] He had contacted us because he knew we were playing with Wesley, and they were going to have Wesley in Picard. And so, we just kind of lined up, and we go, ‘He's got a brother and that's something that we can put into the show.’ So it was all Kismet… Kevin Hageman: I think they were trying to be respectful because they knew that we were already down the line. We had written a whole season with [Wesley] in it. And so, they let us have a little bit of him.

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2’s Ending Connects To Star Trek: Picard Season 1

Star trek: short treks' "children of men" takes on a new importance..

After saving the universe once more, Dal, Gwyn, Rok-Tahk, Jankom Pog, Zero, and Murf are all accepted into Starfleet Academy, and they're now rock stars looked at with admiration by their fellow cadets. However, Star Trek: Prodig y season 2 finale's Starfleet Academy scenes lead into First Contact Day and one of the greatest tragedies the Federation ever suffered : On April 5, 2385, rogue synthetics attacked the Utopia Planitia shipyards on Mars, destroying the new fleet under construction to help with the relocation of the Romulan people from their sun going supernova.

Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 finale's Mars Attack ties into the Star Trek: Short Treks episode, "Children of Men" , which introduced Star Trek: Picard 's Mars Attack of 2385 from the perspective of two elementary school girls who lost loved ones in the tragedy. Star Trek: Prodigy now shows the Mars Attack from Starfleet Academy's perspective, as well as Starfleet Command's. Star Trek: Picard season 1 established that over 92,000 people died on Mars, and Star Trek: Prodigy now confirms 20,000 starships were lost in a crippling blow to Starfleet.

Star Trek: Picard season 1 revealed that Starfleet Head of Security Commodore Oh (Tamlyn Tomita) was really the deep cover Romulan General Nedar, who masterminded the Mars Attack, which led to synthetic lifeforms being banned by the Federation.

Admiral Janeway’s Early Retirement Is Canceled By Starfleet’s Mars Crisis

Janeway is called back into action and given a promotion..

Vice Admiral Janeway returned to the Captain's chair of a starship twice in Star Trek: Prodigy, and both missions were originally to find and rescue Captain Chakotay. Aboard the USS Dauntless, Janeway witnessed the heroism of the young USS Protostar crew, and Kathryn took them under her wing as her proteges. Commanding the USS Voyager-A in Star Trek: Prodigy season 2, Janeway was instrumental in saving the Federation from Asencia and reality from the Loom, as well as helping the Protostar kids reset the timeline. Now reunited with Chakotay and triumphant, Vice Admiral Janeway chose a well-earned early retirement from Starfleet.

Admiral Janeway and Captain Chakotay had a touching reunion, but Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 stopped short of the full-blown romance many longtime Star Trek: Voyager fans want.

Meanwhile, Captain Chakotay took over command of the USS Voyager-A, finally getting to sit in the center seat of the newest version of the starship that brought the former Maquis rebel back to Starfleet. Among Chakotay's crew are his First Officer, the Andorian Commander Tysess (Daveed Diggs) and the Tellarite Counselor Noum (Jason Alexander). As for The Doctor (Robert Picardo) , the highly-evolved Emergency Medical Hologram's experiences aboard the USS Voyager-A inspired his latest holo-novel.

Unfortunately, Kathryn Janeway's restful new life in her idyllic Indiana farmhouse didn't last long. Following the First Contact Day Mars Attack, Captain Chakotay arrived to bring Janeway back to Starfleet as all active reserve officers were recalled. Now fully an Admiral, Janeway argued against Admiral Edward Jellico (Ronny Cox) and the weakened Starfleet's plan to cease exploration and pull back to the Federation's shrinking borders. Instead, Admiral Janeway had a better idea...

Star Trek: Prodigy Sets Up Season 3 With A New Protostar Ship & Captain

The uss prodigy launches with a new mission..

Star Trek: Prodigy set up season 3 with a thrilling new mission: Admiral Janeway created her own Starfleet pilot program and assigned the brand new Protostar Class USS Prodigy (NCC-80184) to Dal R'El, Gwyndala, Jankom Pog, Zero, Murf, Rok-Tahk, and Maj'el as the Prodigy's crew. All of the cadets received field promotions to Ensign, and they will be led by Hologram Janeway, the Emergency Command Hologram, who retains her memories because Starfleet was able to download and transfer her entire program before the USS Protostar was sent to Tars Lamora. The USS Prodigy's bold new mission is to explore beyond the Federation's shrinking borders, contact new worlds, and help those in need.

Wesley Crusher instructed the Protostar kids - including Maj'el - that they have to stick together, and that they have a greater destiny ahead of them they can't even imagine.

Earlier in Star Trek: Prodigy season 2, Dal saw a vision of his future that the Captain's chair was never really his. Wesley Crusher also hinted at Dal's potentially dark but equally amazing future to come. Dal finally understood his next steps when he wisely ceded command of the USS Prodigy to her new Acting Captain, Gwyn. Dal still wants to be on the Command track, but acknowledges there may be other Starfleet options for him. With Gwyn in the Captain's chair, Hologram Janeway as their mentor, and the new crew in place, the USS Prodigy warped to its hopeful future.

Will Star Trek: Prodigy Season 3 Happen?

Or a star trek: prodigy movie.

Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 concluded the epic 40-episode story that began with season 1 and opened the door to what's next with a thrilling setup for Star Trek: Prodigy season 3 - but will it happen? The future of Star Trek: Prodigy is now in the hands of the viewers , who must binge-watch, post high enough streaming numbers, and deliver sufficient amounts of social media chatter to warrant Netflix ordering more Star Trek: Prodigy. Fans already saved Star Trek: Prodigy from Paramount+ canceling the show, but now they must watch in massive numbers to ensure Star Trek: Prodigy 's future.

Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 may well be the greatest second season of a Star Trek series ever produced.

While another 20 episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy season 3 (and even more seasons after that) is the ideal outcome, another possibility exists to continue the saga: a Star Trek: Prodigy animated movie streaming on Netflix. Star Trek: Prodigy season 2's ending could also lead into a 2-hour feature film. Co-executive producer Aaron J. Waltke said a Star Trek: Prodigy movie was discussed early in the series' development. Whatever comes next for the brave and inspiring young heroes of the USS Prodigy, Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 may well be the greatest second season of a Star Trek series ever produced, and it's an awe-inspiring achievement that enriched and made Star Trek even better in innumerable ways.

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• Episode aired Jun 3, 1969

Captain Kirk's insane ex-lover Dr. Janice Lester forcibly switches bodies with him in order to take command of the Enterprise. Captain Kirk's insane ex-lover Dr. Janice Lester forcibly switches bodies with him in order to take command of the Enterprise. Captain Kirk's insane ex-lover Dr. Janice Lester forcibly switches bodies with him in order to take command of the Enterprise.

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• Trivia William Shatner had a severe case of 'flu' during filming of this episode. At one point, he had to lift Sandra Smith in his arms, carry her to a couch and put her on it: during the first take, he got as far as the couch and dropped her. Fortunately it was well padded, and Smith bounced several times; according to Joanie Winston , who was visiting the set, Shatner looked down at Smith and said, "You know I love you, baby, but you've got to lose about six inches off that ass."
• Goofs Lt. Galloway ( David L. Ross ) appears in this episode, despite being killed a year earlier in The Omega Glory (1968) .

Scott : Doctor, I've seen the captain feverish, sick, drunk, delirious, terrified, overjoyed, boiling mad... but up to now, I have never seen him red-faced with hysteria.

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What's on TV this week— Interview With The Vampire finale, Star Trek: Prodigy

Plus, emma roberts goes to space, beverly hills cop returns, and more.

Welcome to What’s On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here’s what you need to watch from Sunday, June 30 to Thursday, July 4. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What’s On drops on Fridays.]

The biggies

Interview With The Vampire (AMC, Sunday, 9 p.m.)

The bad news is Interview With The Vampire ’s second season ends on June 30. The good news is the finale is a certified banger.( Here’s an exclusive clip to prove it .) In its closing hour, IWTV reunites toxic vampires and lovers Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Lestat (Sam Reid), who are both mourning the loss of their “daughter,” Claudia (Delainey Hayles) in the 1940s . In the present day, Louis finishes narrating his life story to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). Look for The A.V. Club ’s recap Sunday night and a finale breakdown with showrunner Rolin Jones on Monday.

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Star Trek: Prodigy (Netflix, Monday, 3:01 a.m.)

Netflix picks up Paramount+’s Star Trek: Prodigy for a whopping 20-episode second season. It picks up on Admiral Janeway’s (Kate Mulgrew) efforts to guide her crew on the ship they stole in season one. Prodigy , which expands Alex Kurtzman’s Star Trek universe, also stars Ella Purnell, Brett Gray, Jason Mantzoukas, Dee Bradley Baker, Jimmi Simpson, Angus Imprie, Rylee Alazraqui, and John Noble.

Hidden gems

Sprint: The World’s Fastest Humans (Netflix, Tuesday, 3:01 a.m.)

Drive To Survive ’s production team adds another sports docuseries to its roster. Sprint follows runners like Sha’Carri Richardson, Noah Lyles, and Shericka Jackson, among other global stars, as they prepare for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Red Swan (Hulu, Wednesday, 12:01 a.m.)

Red Swan seems to have all the components of an addictive K-drama, including a swoon-worthy romance and plenty of action sequences. In the show, professional golfer Oh Wan-soo (Kim Ha-neul) is in an unhappy marriage with a rich dude. When she goes to Manila as a Goodwill Ambassador, she is rescued from a gunfight by her bodyguard, which sets off a forbidden affair and uncovers company secrets.

More good stuff

Beverly Hills Cop: Alex F (Netflix, Wednesday, 3:01 a.m.)

The fourth installment of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise takes Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) back to Los Angeles to save his daughter Jane (Taylour Paige) when her life is threatened. They team up with Detective Bobby Abbot (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and some of Axel’s old pals to uncover a major conspiracy.

Space Cadet (Prime Video, Thursday, 12:01 a.m.)

It’s never too late to be an astronaut according to Space Cadet , in which party girl Rex (Emma Roberts) gets the chance to fulfill her childhood dream. She makes her way into the NASA space program with a fake resume, but so what? Having heart and spirit is more important than actual skills. Tom Hopper, Poppy Liu, Gabrielle Union, Dave Foley, and Kuhoo Verma also star in the film.

Can’t miss recaps

The Bear (Hulu)

House Of The Dragon (HBO, Sunday, 9 p.m.)

The Boys   (Prime Video, Thursday, 12:01 a.m.)

Ending soon

The Chi (Showtime, Sunday, 9 p.m., season six finale)

Couples Therapy (Showtime, Sunday, 10 p.m., season four finale)

Clipped (FX on Hulu, Tuesday, 12:01 a.m., season one finale)

An earlier version of this article wrongly stated that season 3 of Star Trek: Prodigy debuts on Paramount+.