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All Star Trek Movies Ranked by Tomatometer

Star Trek (2009) celebrates its 15th anniversary!

We’re boldly ranking the Star Trek movies by Tomatometer, from the original film series (1979’s The Motion Picture to The Undiscovered Country ), into the handoff to films featuring the Next Generation cast ( Generations to Nemesis ), and through to the reboot series (2009’s Trek to Beyond ).

Star Trek (2009) 94%

Star Trek: First Contact (1996) 93%

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) 87%

Star Trek Beyond (2016) 86%

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) 84%

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) 83%

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) 82%

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) 79%

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) 55%

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) 53%

Star Trek Generations (1994) 48%

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) 38%

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) 23%

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Star Trek movies in order: Chronological and release

Number One, show me a list of all the Star Trek movies in order — both chronological and release — engage!

• Chronological order
• Prime Timeline

The Original Series movies

The next generation movies.

• Kelvin Timeline
• Release order

Upcoming Star Trek movies

Raise shields, red alert — we’re going to try and put all the Star Trek movies in order. And we do mean try.

When they were focused on the Original Series era, the Star Trek movies were so easy to watch in order — the movies were numbered, everything was nice and simple. Then Picard comes in with his Next Generation buddies and suddenly numbers are out, subtitles are in. And that’s before we get all the time travel shenanigans that gave birth to the Kelvin timeline , an alternative timeline that splits off from the main canon.

It's been a long while since we've had a new Star Trek movie, with the last release — Star Trek Beyond — coming out back in 2016. Over eight years! Voyager got home from the Delta Quadrant in less time than that! Mercifully the drought is nearly over, with the Discovery spin-off movie Star Trek: Section 31 due to launch in early 2025.

So while we wait for Trek's silver screen return, we’re going to break down the various timelines and help you watch the Star Trek movies in either chronological or release order —- the Temporal Prime Directive be damned. Oh and we’re not making any judgements on the quality of the movies here, so head over to our Star Trek movies ranked list if you want to fight about whether the Kirk or Picard era movies are better.

All of the Star Trek movies are available to watch on Paramount+, along with almost all the shows — check our Star Trek streaming guide to find which nebulas the exceptions are hiding in. 

Star Trek movies: Chronological order

Below is the quick version of our list if you just need to check something to win an argument, but it comes with a lot of in-universe time travel-related caveats that we'll explain below.

• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Star Trek: Generations
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Star Trek: Insurrection
• Star Trek: Nemesis
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• Star Trek Beyond

Star Trek: Prime Timeline

The first thing you need to know about the Star Trek films is that while they travel back and forth in time, they also diverge into two (for now) different timelines. The films of the original crew (well, the first iteration of them, anyway – more on that later) are all in what is known as the Prime Timeline. 

Within the Prime Timeline, the movies are then split between The Original Series movies and The Next Generation movies.

1. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

• Release date: December 8, 1979
• Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley

This is the film that brought the voyages of the U.S.S. Enterprise to the big screen. An energy cloud is making its way toward Earth, destroying everything in its path. Kirk and crew intercept it and discover an ancient NASA probe at the heart of the cloud. Voyager – known as V’ger now – encountered a planet of living machines, learned all it could, and returned home to report its findings, only to find no one who knew how to answer. It’s a slow-paced film, and the costumes are about as 70s as they come, but there’s classic Star Trek at the heart of this film.

2. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

• Release date: June 4, 1982
• Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban

Ask a Star Trek fan what the best Star Trek movie is and more often than not, you’ll get Khan as your answer. A sequel to the events of the “Space Seed” episode of The Original Series, Khan is a retelling of Moby Dick with Khan throwing reason to the wind as he hunts his nemesis, James T. Kirk. Montalban delivers a pitch-perfect performance, giving us a Khan with charisma and obsession in equal parts.

3. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

• Release date: June 1, 1984

Spock might have died in The Wrath of Khan, but this third entry set up the premise for his return, with the creation of the Genesis planet. Essentially a heist movie in reverse, Search for Spock has the crew defying orders from Starfleet in an attempt to reunite Spock’s consciousness with his newly-rejuvenated body. It’s not a great movie, but it does include two very important events: the rebirth of Spock and the death of Kirk’s son at the hands of the Klingons. That’ll be important a few flicks from now.   

4. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

• Release date: November 26, 1986
• Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Catherine Hicks

If Star Trek fans don’t say Khan is the best Star Trek movie, odds are very high they say Voyage Home is. It’s a funny film where the mission isn’t destruction, but creation – or more accurately, repairing the devastating effects of humankind’s ecological short-sightedness. 

A probe arrives at Earth, knocking out the power of everything in its path as it looks for someone to respond to its message (yeah, it happens a lot). This time, however, the intended recipient is the long-extinct blue whale. To save Earth, Kirk and co. go back in time to 1980s San Francisco to snag some blue whales. The eco-messaging isn’t exactly subtle, but it doesn’t get in the way of a highly enjoyable movie.

5. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

• Release date: June 9, 1989

A writers’ strike and Shatner’s directorial skills (or lack thereof) doomed this film before a single scene was shot. The core plot is actually pretty good: Spock’s half-brother hijacks the Enterprise so that he can meet God, which he believes to be… himself. Some Star Trek fans have an odd fondness for this movie, as it showcases the camaraderie of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy when they’re off-duty.

6. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

• Release date: December 6, 1991
• Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Christopher Plummer

Right, so if that Star Trek fan you’ve been talking to doesn’t choose either Khan or Voyage Home as the best Star Trek movie ever, they almost certainly name Undiscovered Country (and if they don’t, they have highly questionable taste, frankly). The Klingon moon of Praxis explodes, putting the entire Klingon race at risk. The Enterprise hosts a diplomatic entourage of Klingons, much to Kirk’s discomfort. 

Remember how Klingons murdered Kirk’s son? Well, he certainly hasn’t forgotten. Kirk’s lingering rage makes him the perfect patsy for the murder of the Klingon Chancellor, sending him and McCoy to a prison planet and setting the stage for war. Christopher Plummer is perfection as a Shakespeare-quoting Klingon general with no taste for peace.

7. Star Trek: Generations

• Release date: November 18, 1994
• Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner

And thus the torch is passed from the crew of The Original Series to that of The Next Generation. It’s a bit of a fumble, to be honest, but they all did their best to get Kirk and Picard into the same film and have it make sense. Malcolm McDowell plays Soran, a scientist who will stop at nothing to control the Nexus, a giant space rainbow that exists outside of space-time. 

Soran lost his family when his home world was destroyed and he wants to re-join them (or at least an illusion of them) in the Nexus. He’s not so much a villain as a tragic figure, but the Nexus makes a meeting between Kirk and Picard possible. Not all that sensible, but possible.

8. Star Trek: First Contact

• Release date: November 22, 1996
• Cast: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Alice Krige

Okay, no, for real, if your Star Trek pal didn’t pick Khan or Voyage Home or… oh, nevermind. Cueing off the iconic two-part episode “Best of Both Worlds,” in which Picard is assimilated by the Borg, First Contact sees the collective traveling back in time in order to disrupt First Contact, the day Earth’s first foray into space attracted the attention of the Vulcans, kicking off the events that would eventually lead to Starfleet’s victory over the Borg. The Borg Queen torments Picard with visions of the past and tempts Data with humanity, going so far as to give him some human skin. 

The fight with the Borg aboard the Enterprise is thrilling, and the work on the surface to get first contact back on track is fun. Plus, there’s just nothing like Patrick Stewart turning it up to 11 as he lashes out at the enemy that haunts his dreams.

9. Star Trek: Insurrection

• Release date: December 11, 1998
• Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, F. Murray Abraham

Essentially an episode inflated for the big screen, Insurrection is about the Federation conspiring to displace a planet’s population in order to harvest the planet’s unique resource – super healing metaphasic particles. In addition to the rejuvenating natural resource, the Ba’ku also have access to exceptional technology, which they shun in favor of a more simple lifestyle. 

Data malfunctions, the villains are Federation allies (and former Ba’ku!), Picard gets to knock boots with a local – Insurrection is the very definition of “fine.” Chronologically, Insurrection is relevant for rekindling the romance between Riker and Troi, but not much else.

10. Star Trek: Nemesis

• Release date: December 13, 2002
• Cast: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Tom Hardy

Before he mumbled his way into our hearts as Bane, Tom Hardy was Shinzon, a clone of Picard the Romulans created in an eventually abandoned attempt to infiltrate Starfleet. Shinzon is dying, and all that will save him is a transfusion of Picard’s blood. Unfortunately, Shinzon also happens to be a megalomaniac who happens to want to destroy all life on Earth and maybe a few other planets, too, if he’s feeling saucy. 

Nemesis is notable mostly for killing Data with a noble sacrifice, only to resurrect him moments later in a duplicate body found earlier by the Enterprise crew.

Star Trek: Kelvin Timeline

The last of the Prime Timeline movies failed to impress at the box office, so it was a few years before anyone tried to bring the Enterprise back to the big screen. Rather than lean on any of the TV crews, this new slate of movies would serve as a reboot, welcoming new audiences while honoring long-time fans. Welcome to the Kelvin Timeline. (For all the ins and outs, check out our Star Trek: Kelvin Timeline explained article).

11. Star Trek

• Release date: May 8, 2009
• Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban

Back to the beginning! Star Trek introduces us to James T. Kirk, Spock, and “Bones” McCoy as they meet and join the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Though the plot is a relatively straightforward affair of a Romulan named Nero trying to destroy the Earth. His anger borne out of grief, what matters most is how it all came to be. In the future, Spock – the Prime Timeline version – tries to save Romulus from being destroyed by a supernova, but fails. Both his ship and Nero’s are kicked back in time, setting off a chain of events that diverge from the original, “true” timeline. 

The name “Kelvin” refers to the U.S.S. Kelvin, the ship heroically captained by Kirk’s father, which is destroyed in the opening moments of the movie.

12. Star Trek Into Darkness

• Release date: May 16, 2013
• Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch

The benefit of the Kelvin Timeline is that it not only allows Star Trek to explore canon material – such as Khan (he of the Wrath) – but to do something completely new with it. Khan features heavily in Into Darkness, but he has no beef with Kirk. Instead, a Starfleet Admiral is threatening the lives of Khan’s crew, forcing them to craft weapons of mass destruction. 

Khan inevitably eludes captivity and strikes out against Starfleet, killing Captain Pike (and a bunch of others) in the process. Kirk and company eventually take Khan down, but not before Kirk sacrifices himself to save his crew. Don’t worry, these things don’t last in either Star Trek timeline, as Kirk gets better moments later thanks to *checks notes* Khan's super blood.

13. Star Trek Beyond

• Release date: July 22, 2016
• Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Idris Elba

Beyond leans into the camaraderie of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy now that they’ve had some time together, much to the movie’s benefit. The Enterprise is lured to Altamid under false pretenses, leading to much of the crew being marooned on the planet. The architect of the deception was Krall, who wants an opportunity to return to a galaxy where war is the order of the day. 

Beyond is a significant point in the timeline for two reasons. First, it sadly marked the death of Spock Prime due to the passing of Leonard Nimoy. Second, it culminates in the Enterprise embarking on the five-year-mission that started everything back in 1966.

Star Trek movies: Release order

If you can't be bothered remembering two different orders for the Star Trek movies then we've got good news for you — the release order is identical to the chronological order that we've shown above (accounting for the Kelvin timeline as it's own entity anyway).

Star Trek 4

The full run of Star Trek films currently tops out at 13 entries; the fate of the 14th was hidden within a nebula of conflicting information. “Star Trek 4” was slated for December 22, 2023, but given that filming had yet to begin as of July 2022, it seems inevitable that date will change. Back in February 2022, Paramount that the principal cast would be returning for the fourth installment of the Kelvin timeline, a claim quickly disputed by the agents of those selfsame actors. Awkward.

Soon after, however, Chris Pine eventually signed on the dotted line, and his shipmates reached their own agreements. As of right now, Kirk (Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), McCoy (Karl Urban, assuming he can make it work around filming of The Boys), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Uhura (Zoe Saldaña), and Sulu (John Cho) are all ready to beam up and get filming. Sadly, this will be the first of the Kelvin films to not feature Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov. Yelchin died in an accident at his home in 2016. It’s currently unclear if Chekov will be recast or if a different character will take his place on the bridge of the Enterprise.

Though the Kelvin timeline is often referred to as “J.J. Abrams Trek,” he won’t be directing Star Trek 4; Matt Shakman will take on that responsibility, leaving Abrams to produce. As for what it will be about, that’s anyone’s guess, but Chris Pine told Deadline he hopes this one tells a smaller story that appeals to the core Trek audience. “Let’s make the movie for the people that love this group of people, that love this story, that love Star Trek,” he said. “Let’s make it for them and then, if people want to come to the party, great.” It’s a strategy that makes sense; the disappointment with recent Trek films hasn’t been their content so much as their box office. A Trek film with a smaller scope (and budget) would almost certainly have a very healthy profit margin while also resonating with the fanbase.   

With no new announcements coming from San Diego Comic-Con 2022, it seems that we’ll have to wait for any more insight into the next Star Trek film. Sill, recent comments from Paramount CEO Brian Robbins have us cautiously optimistic: “We’re deep into [Star Trek 4] with J.J. Abrams, and it feels like we’re getting close to the starting line and excited about where we’re going creatively,” he told Variety . 

Still, recent comments from Paramount CEO Brian Robbins have us cautiously optimistic: “We’re deep into [Star Trek 4] with J.J. Abrams, and it feels like we’re getting close to the starting line and excited about where we’re going creatively,” he told Variety.

Since then, there hasn’t been much in the way of updates, which leaves us with the worrying prospect of Star Trek 4 being stuck in development hell. During a 2023 appearance at the 57-Year Mission convention in Las Vegas (reported by TrekMovie ), Zachary Quinto explained that creative differences were the cause of the numerous delays. 

“I think there’s a lot of other stuff, creative things. It’s complicated. The fact that anything good gets made is kind of a miracle. I think it’s about different people having different agendas and ideas about what it will be.“

Star Trek: Section 31

In the meantime, we are getting the Star Trek: Section 31 movie staring Academy Award-winning actress MichelIe Yeoh. She is reprising her role as Emperor Philip Georgiou, her character from Star Trek Discovery (well one of them anyway, mirror universes and all that). This spin-off from the TV series is coming out of warp in early 2025.

Check out our guide to Everything we know about Star trek Section 31 for more info on the upcoming movie.

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Key Takeaways

• Explore the Star Trek universe by watching the franchise in chronological order, based on stardates.
• The original Star Trek timeline includes the TV show Enterprise and the first two seasons of Discovery.
• The original series, The Animated Series, and the first Star Trek movie are important parts of the franchise's origins.

With the Star Trek franchise rapidly expanding on Paramount+ , now is the perfect time to boldly go explore the Star Trek Universe.

The universe is composed of 13 films and nine TV shows. Now, it'd be easy enough to watch them all in the order they premiered, but if you prefer to watch everything chronologically (when the events take place), we've compiled an ultimate viewing guide for you. Below, you'll find the entire franchise organized by stardates. It starts with the oldest event in the original Star Trek timeline.

Speaking of timelines, there are two in Star Trek: The original, which includes nearly all the films and TV shows; and Kelvin, an alternative timeline that kicked off with the latest three reboot films. To better understand what we're talking about, please read the guide below. Those of you who want to proceed spoiler-free, however, can scroll all the way to the bottom for the list version of this guide.

Also at the bottom, we've included another spoiler-free list. It's structured by order of release - or when each film and TV show premiered.

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The original Star Trek timeline

The thing to remember about this order is that it is chronological - based entirely on the stardate time system in the Star Trek franchise. Think of stardates as years. In that case, the order below starts with the oldest events in the Star Trek Universe - but it excludes the Kelvin timeline films.

There are spoilers below.

1 Star Trek: E nterprise

The first to boldly go where no man has gone before, star trek: enterprise.

Stardate: 2151 to 2156

Enterprise follows the adventures of one of the first starships to explore deep space in the Star Trek Universe.

Set right before the founding of the Federation of Planets (and about 100 years before the original Star Trek series), Star Trek: Enterprise is a TV show that follows the adventures of Captain Jack Archer, played by Scott Bakula, and the Starship Enterprise crew. This ship is the first Federation vessel to have Warp 5 capabilities, allowing its crew to be among the first deep-space explorers.

The series introduces many of the different alien species important to the Star Trek Universe, such as the Vulcans and Klingons. It also begins to lay the groundwork for the Federation of Planets, in the fourth and final season.

2 Star Trek: Discovery seasons 1 and 2

Discover a new type of starship, set ten years before the original series, star trek: discovery.

Stardate: 2256

The first two seasons of Discovery is set ten years before the original series as the crew of the titular ship tests an impressive new warp drive.

Star Trek: Discovery follows Michael Burnham, played by Sonequa Martin-Green, the first officer aboard the USS Shenzhou before she is found guilty of mutineering. However, with the Federation at war with the Klingons, the captain of the new Discovery ship, Gabriel Lorca, played by Jason Isaacs, enlists Burnham to help get the ship’s experimental warp drive properly working.

Discovery's early setting in the Star Trek universe was changed with a leap through time at the end of season two, which is why we're placing the recently released third season elsewhere on our list.

3 Star Trek: Strange New World

A direct prequel to the original series., star trek: strange new worlds.

Stardate: 2258

Strange New Worlds follows the early adventures of the Starship Enterprise, before Kirk became its captain.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds stars Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike.

Pike will be a familiar name to Star Trek fans, as Pike is the man who commanded the starship Enterprise before Captain Kirk. The series follows Pike doing just that, in his final five-year mission as captain of the Enterprise before he becomes Fleet Captain and hands the reigns to Captain Kirk.

This being a prequel to the original Star Trek series, there are also other recognizable names, with Ethan Peck playing Spock and Celia Rose-Gooding as Uhara. A third season is currently in production.

4 Star Trek: The Original Series

Where it all began, star trek: the original series.

Stardate: 2266 to 2269

The original Star Trek series follows Captain Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the crew as they boldly go where no man has gone before.

This is the original Star Trek TV show. It began airing in 1966 and primarily follows the crew of the USS Enterprise, starting with them embarking on a five-year mission “to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before”.

The series introduces William Shatner’s Captain James T Kirk and Leonard Nimoy’s Spock, too.

It also gives us the basis for the universe that makes Star Trek so successful, from introducing numerous alien species like the Vulcans and Klingons to showing us the inner workings of the Federation of Planets. The origins of the Star Trek Universe wouldn’t exist without it.

5 *Optional* Star Trek: The Animated Series

Continue the journey with the original crew, star trek: animated.

Stardate: 2269 to 2270

Continue the adventures of the original series in this animated version that sees most of the cast return to voice their characters.

After The Original Series ended, it quickly became a cult classic. Creator Gene Roddenberry then began work on an animated series that saw most of the original cast provide voice work for the animated versions of their characters. The show essentially functions as the fourth season of the original series, with the original characters navigating unexplored sections of space.

However, it was eliminated from canon by Roddenberry himself, when the rights were renegotiated following the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. So, if you want to consume every drop of Star Trek content, add this to your list.

6 Star Trek: The Motion Picture

The first star trek movie, star trek: the motion picture.

Stardate: 2273

Captain Kirk, his crew, and a newly remodeled Enterprise head out to investigate an alien entity known as V'ger.

This is the first feature film in the Star Trek Universe. It sees Captain James T Kirk retake the helm of a renovated USS Enterprise to investigate a mysterious cloud of energy that is moving toward Earth. The energy cloud destroys a Federation monitoring station, as well as three Klingon ships, but before Kirk is able to engage it, he must learn to operate an unfamiliar USS Enterprise.

7 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Star trek: the wrath of khan.

Stardate: 2285

The crew of the Enterprise faces off against it's most fearsome adversary, Khan.

The second Star Trek movie is perhaps the most successful entry in the franchise. It sees Captain James T Kirk taking command of a USS Enterprise staffed with untested trainees in order to track down the adversary Khan Noonien Singh and his genetically engineered super soldiers.

In the process of escaping a planet that Kirk trapped him on, Khan learns of a secret device known as Genesis, capable of re-organizing matter to terraform (make them habitable) planets. Khan tries to steal the device, but, of course, Kirk will do all he can to stop him.

8 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

The crew of the enterprise try to resurrect spock, star trek iii: the search for spock.

Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise set out on a mission to recover Spock's body and bring him back to life.

Following their battle with Khan, the crew of the USS Enterprise returns home to Earth in this third feature film.

Once there, Leonard H “Bones” McCoy, played by DeForest Kelley, begins to act strangely, leading to him being detained. Captain James T Kirk, with the help of Spock’s father, Sarek, played by Mark Lenard, then learns that Spock transferred his Katra into McCoy before dying.

If nothing is done, McCoy will die from carrying Spock’s Katra. So, the crew of the USS Enterprise go back to the site of their battle with Khan - in the hopes of retrieving Spock’s body. To top it all off, they must battle with the Klingon Kruge, played by Christopher Lloyd, over control of the Genesis Device. The Search for Spock is also directed by Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy.

9 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Earth is in danger and the only hope is humpback whales, star trek iv: the voyage home.

Stardate: 2286

The Enterprise travels back in time to 1986 and has to untangle a mystery involving humpback whales and an alien probe.

In this film, a mysterious ship begins orbiting Earth and destroys the planet's power grid. It emits strange noises, too, and the newly resurrected Spock realizes the sound is similar to the now-extinct humpback whale. Believing the strange ship is expecting to hear back the song of humpback whales, the crew goes around the Sun and travels back in time to 1986 to get a humpback whale.

Nimoy returned to direct this film, as well.

10 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

The enterprise crew must face off with spock's brother, sybok, star trek v: the final frontier.

Stardate: 2287

The Enterprise heads out on a mission to rescue hostages from the planet Nimbus 3.

After finishing a mission, Kirk, Spock, and Bones are enjoying a camping trip in Yosemite in this film when they are ordered to rescue hostages on the planet Nimbus III. But, once arriving on the planet, the crew realizes Spock’s half-brother, Sybok, is responsible for taking the hostages in order to lure a starship, with the hopes of reaching the mythical planet Sha Ka Ree and meeting a God.

Sybok realizes he’ll need Kirk’s expertise to navigate through the barrier at the centre of the Milky Way that leads to this mythical planet. Along the way, the Klingon Kraa decides to hunt Kirk. The Final Frontier is also the only Star Trek film directed by William Shatner.

11 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

The final film starring the original series cast, star trek vi: the undiscovered country.

Stardate: 2293

After being framed for a political assassination, Kirk and the rest of the crew of the Enterprise must unravel the conspiracy to avoid war with the Klingon Empire.

In the final film of this series, we see the Klingon homeworld nearly destroyed, leading the hostile empire to engage in peace talks with the Federation. Captain James T Kirk is assigned to escort the Klingon ambassador, but is instead blamed when assassins beam aboard the Ambassador’s ship and kill him. The Klingons then sentence Kirk and McCoy to life imprisonment on a frozen asteroid.

At that point, Spock and the rest of the crew must find the true culprits behind the attack of the Klingon ship and rescue Kirk and Bones.

12 Star Trek: The Next Generation

The next generation takes over the uss enterprise, star trek: the next generation.

Stardate: 2364 to 2370

A new crew takes over the Enterprise and heads out on a five-year mission to explore the unknown.

Set 71 years after the USS Enterprise’s last mission with Captain James T Kirk at the helm, The Next Generation introduces us to a new USS Enterprise staffed with the next generation of Starfleet officers, led by Captain Jean Luc Picard (played by Patrick Stewart).

This TV series also shows us new species of aliens, the Cardassians and the Borgs, which replace the now-friendlier Klingons as the Federation’s primary adversaries.

The Next Generation ran for seven seasons and featured a couple of cameos from The Original Series, like Spock and Bones, among others.

13 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Everyday life in the deepest reaches of space, star trek: deep space nine.

Stardate: 2369 to 2375

Set on a stationary space station instead of an exploring starship, Deep Space Nine explores what life in space is like after the exploring part is done.

This TV show overlaps with the end of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It focuses on the former Cardassian space station, a backwood outpost that the Federation now controls and has ordered a Starfleet crew to run, with Avery Brook’s Benjamin Sisko as the commanding officer.

It's not about a starship exploring the unknown, but rather the trade disputes and political manoeuvring surrounding a crucial military hub.

14 Star Trek Generations

The two enterprise crews unite to take on a force with the power to destroy stars, star trek: generations.

Stardate: 2371

The first Star Trek film to feature the Next Generation crew also brought back the Enterprise crew from the original series.

Star Trek Generations is the first film to feature the crew of The Next Generation while also starring some of The Original Series cast.

The plot primarily centres around an El-Aurian, named Dr Tolian Soran (played by Malcolm McDowell), as well as an energy ribbon known as the Nexus.

You see, in 2293, Soran is rescued from the Energy Ribbon by a retired Captain James T Kirk, who is attending a maiden voyage of a new USS Enterprise. Then, in 2371, while answering a distress call, Captain Jean Luc Picard finds Soran - and he has a weapon capable of destroying stars.

15 Star Trek: Voyager

A federation starship stranded in uncharted space, star trek voyager.

Stardate: 2371 to 2378

Follow a Captain Janeway and her crew of the USS Voyager as they attempt to find their way home after being stranded in space.

After leaving Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in search of a group of Maquis rebels, the Starship Voyager, led by Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), is captured by an energy wave that sends it - and a ship of Maquis rebels - into the middle of the unexplored Delta Quadrant. With both ships damaged and far from home, the crews agree to join forces and begin a 75-year journey back to Earth.

16 Star Trek: First Contact

The crew of the enterprise travels back before the first warp drive was used, star trek: first contact.

Stardate: 2373

The Enterprise must travel back in time to prevent a Borg ship from assimilating all of Earth.

In this film, the USS Enterprise tries to help defeat a Borg Cube attacking Earth, with Captain Jean Luc Picard assuming command of a fleet of starships. However, just before the Cube is destroyed, it releases a smaller ship that enters a temporal vortex. The USS Enterprise gives chase through the vortex, but in the process, realizes the Borg traveled back in time and assimilated the entire planet.

And once through the Vortex, the crew arrives in 2063. More specifically, they arrive one day before Zefram Cochrane (played by James Cromwell) uses the first warp drive system, which draws the attention of the Vulcans, leading to humanity's first contact with an alien race.

17 Star Trek: Insurrection

The enterprise must uncover the mystery around a nearly immortal group of people, star trek: insurrection.

Stardate: 2375

The crew of the USS Enterprise uncovers a conspiracy involving the forced relocation of a peaceful alien race.

The action now centres around a planet with a type of unique radiation that rejuvenates its people, known as the Ba’ku. The effects of the radiation make the Ba’ku nearly immortal.

In this film, Brent Spinner’s Data is sent undercover to monitor the Ba’ku people and soon begins to malfunction, which causes Captain Jean Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise to investigate.

They uncover a conspiracy between a species, which is hostile to the Ba’ku, and Admiral Mathew Doherty, a Starfleet officer played by Anthony Zerbe. The crew of the Enterprise must stop them both in order to save the Ba’ku from being forcibly removed from their home planet.

18 Star Trek: Nemesis

Picard vs picard, star trek: nemesis.

Stardate: 2379

Captain Picard and the crew face a new, dangerous enemy in the form of a clone of Picard himself.

Captain Jean Luc Picard and the USS Enterprise crew are sent on a mission to meet with the leader of the Romulans, Shinzon, played by a super young Tom Hardy. Once there, they learn that Shinzon is actually a clone of Picard, created in the hopes that he would one day be able to infiltrate the Federation. The Romulans had abandoned the plan and sent Shinzon into slavery.

He led a rebellion, however, and created his own starship, the Scimitar. Soon, the Enterprise learns Shinzon’s true plan is to use a form of radiation poisonous to all life in order to attack the Federation and destroy Earth.

19 Star Trek: Picard

Picard's forced out of retirement one more time

Star Trek: Picard

Stardate: 2399

Captain Picard's retirement is about as full of adventure as his career on the Enterprise.

One of the most popular starship captains in the Star Trek Universe, Jean Luc Picard had retired to a life of wine-making, but a new mission set 20 years after the events of Nemesis sees Captain Jean Luc Picard return to space along with many of his old friends. The first season sees Picard struggling with the events that led to his retirement from Starfleet -- when he's forced into a conflict that sees him thrust into a captain's chair again.

The second season sees Picard transported to an alternate timeline by the interdimensional being known as Q (John De Lancie), who originally appeared in The Next Generation. The third and final season of Picard recently got a teaser and is slated to premiere in spring 2023.

20 Star Trek: Discovery seasons 3 and beyond

The discovery's journey picks up later than any other star trek content.

Stardate: 3188

Catch up with the rest of Discovery after a timejump shifts the story to the end of the Star Trek timeline.

Burnham and the crew of the Discovery make a jump through time that lands them further in the future than we've ever seen in the Star Trek Universe.

There, Burnham is separated from the rest of the crew of Discovery.

While trying to locate the ship, she learns that the United Federation of Planets has fallen following the event known as The Burn, which saw ships simultaneously explode throughout the entire galaxy. The fuel for Star Trek's ships, Dilithium, has also become extremely rare, which makes travel across wide distances of space much harder. In the fourth season, Burnham and the crew of the Discovery begin the process of rebuilding the Federation of Planets. A fifth season of Star Trek Discovery is slated to premiere in 2024.

Kelvin timeline: The alternate Star Trek timeline

These films kick off JJ Abrams' alternate Star Trek timeline. Officially called the Kelvin timeline, it's named after the USS Kelvin. If you want to watch them, you can do so either before or after Star Trek: The Original Series. We prefer you watch it after - in fact, watch it after you've finished the original Star Trek timeline, because it literally takes place in a different timeline.

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Star trek: section 31 movie's changeling may be smarter than ds9’s odo.

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Section 31: Release Window, Cast, Story & Everything We Know About Star Trek’s First Streaming Movie

I’m happy for paul giamatti getting to live his star trek dream, “don’t try to outdo shatner”: anson mount remembers recording star trek speech while william shatner was in space.

Sam Richardson reveals what role his shapeshifter plays in Star Trek: Section 31 , which hints his Chameloid may be smarter than Odo (Rene Auberjonois) on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Richardson plays the first Chameloid seen in Star Trek since Martia, the changeling embodied by Iman in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country . Richardson joins the cast of Section 31 , Star Trek' s first made-for-streaming movie starring Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh.

Sam Richardson was a guest on the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast, which delved into the Emmy-winning actor's career. Richardson explained his Star Trek fandom and revealed his Chameloid is "a physicist shapeshifter," making his changeling a scientific expert as opposed to Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , who was a skilled detective. Read Sam's quote and listen to Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard below:

The new Star Trek, so Section 31, it says Star Trek movie. I had a really great time. I’m a Star Trek fan my whole life, so I know every iteration of it. The Motion Picture, the Shatner movies, the Picard movies… The J.J. Abrams, 2009, as we call it. So I play a physicist shapeshifter, what’s called a Chameloid. This is the second time there’s ever been a Chameloid in Star Trek. And the first time was Iman in Star Trek VI… It’s actually very funny. With Iman, it’s like, this is a shapeshifter, you wanna look good, yeah, I’ll make myself Iman. For me, it’s like I wanna look good, I’m gonna make myself Sam Richardson. I’m’a accept it.

TrekMovie.com reports Sam Richardson's Star Trek: Section 31 shapeshifter is named Quasi.

Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh headlines Star Trek: Section 31, and here's what we know about Paramount+'s first Star Trek streaming movie.

How Sam Richardson's Star Trek: Section 31 Chameloid Could Compare To DS9' Odo

Chameloids are different from ds9's changelings.

Sam Richardson's Chameloid in Star Trek: Section 31 is a change from Iman's Martia in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , who was a criminal imprisoned on the Klingon penal planet Rura Penthe. Richardson's Chameloid being a physicist marks the first instance of that shapeshifter species being an expert in science . A changeling physicist's value to Emperor Phillipa Georgiou's (Michelle Yeoh) Section 31 black ops team speaks for itself.

Odo's primary interests were justice and his love for Major Kira Nerys.

On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , science and physics weren't Odo's forte, nor was it evidently something Odo's people, the Founders, concerned themselves with. For his part, Odo was an investigator inspired by the Earth detective novels he read , and Odo's primary interests were justice and his love for Major Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor) , and not always in that order. Regardless of how intelligent Sam Richardson's Chameloid may be, it remains to be seen if he'll have the emotional depth in Star Trek: Section 31 that Odo displayed on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .

Source: Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Quentin Tarantino Shares Definitive Answer About Star Trek Movie Rumors

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Quentin Tarantino has long been rumored to be making his own Star Trek film as part of his acclaimed career, much to audiences' surprise. However, as reported by Comic Book , Tarantino has no intentions of pursuing his reported Star Trek movie.

Tarantino has been adamant about his retirement from filmmaking after his tenth feature film, which leaves no room for a potential addition to the beloved Star Trek franchise. In an appearance on Bill Maher's podcast, Tarantino spoke about how the rumors eluded him, and that despite never giving any confirmation himself, people ran with the idea of this film.

"It's never going to happen. There's been so much misinformation about what it was going to be—nothing but misinformation."

Because of his lack of presence on social media like Facebook and Instagram, he never had a chance to clear. He added that if someone reports the information, based on rumors, it's still going to gain traction.

"The thing is, they can say anything. My point being, though, they write it in a show biz magazine and then that gets picked up in 140 pieces because I'm not shutting that down because I'm not connected."

He compared the Star Trek rumors to those of The Movie Critic, which was his rumored tenth and final film, but ended up being scrapped.

Quentin Tarantino and His Drive to Change History

Quentin Tarantino's movies are works of extreme and entertaining fiction. But a few times, he has completely changed history.

Screenwriter Mark L. Smith, best known for co-writing The Revenant, adds that he has spoken to Tarantino about the project, suggesting that at some time, he was connected . In an interview with Collider , he spoke about the screenplay sitting on Tarantino's desk, and said it would've been the "greatest Star Trek film, not for my writing, but just for what Tarantino was gonna do with it."

He added one of the reasons Tarantino possibly walked away came after he began worrying about it being his tenth and final film.

"I remember we were talking, and he goes, 'If I can just wrap my head around the idea that Star Trek could be my last movie, the last thing I ever do. Is this how I want to end it?' And I think that was the bump he could never get across."

Tarantino's Final Film Remains Undecided

Tarantino, one of the most acclaimed auteurs of this era, has an onslaught of critically acclaimed films. Beginning in 1992 with Reservoir Dogs, continuing with Pulp Fiction, which earned him his first Academy Award win, and the celebrated Kill Bill franchise. He earned Academy Award wins in four other feature films, including Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, and most recently, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

He has been set on his career ending after his tenth feature film was released. Although he has technically released ten already, he counts Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Kill Bill: Volume 2 as one film. The rumors surrounding his potential final film have been circulating since Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood was released in 2019, with The Movie Critic being labeled as "one of the greatest movies never made" by Sony . He has previously spoken of his fear of making a poor final film, which has left audiences to wonder if his final film is ever going to be made.

Since 2019, he has written a novelization of his most recent film, called Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel in 2021. In 2022, he published Cinema Speculation , a nonfiction novel about American films in the '70s that influenced him. Nothing definitive has been said of Tarantino's final film, but due to his previous repertoire, it's bound to be acclaimed, whenever Tarantino decides to make it and whatever it ends up being.

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The 5 Most Hated Characters On Star Trek: The Original Series

"Star Trek" is a workplace drama first and foremost , and it took place on board the well-organized U.S.S. Enterprise, a space vessel carefully divided into necessary departments, offices, and workstations. The main characters were, by necessity, deeply professional, and tended to keep their upper lips stiff as they faced unusual spatial phenomenon or aggressive alien visitors. Very occasionally, one of the main characters would lose their cool, make a foolish decision, or have an unexpected freakout, but for the most part, level heads prevailed. Many love the central cast of "Star Trek" for their ability to remain capable under pressure, and it's hard to hate someone when we understand they're so good at their job. 

There were many characters throughout "Star Trek," though, that never had their wits about them. Indeed, there were whimsical agents of chaos, whiny incompetents, and corrupt captains that felt counter to the egalitarian spirit of "Star Trek," sometimes to the point of feeling like a betrayal. Indeed, while "Star Trek" often presented itself as a progressive show about a pacifist future, there were still weirdos who worshiped dictators and women who resented their own gender. "Star Trek" wasn't always as progressive as it could have been, even with the values of the 1960s. 

Below are some of the worst characters to flit through "Star Trek," adding nothing to the fabric of the universe, nor enriching viewers with their unique points of view. The below characters, in most cases, were just embarrassing. Read on to discover the five (well, six) worst characters on the original "Star Trek," ranked from least-worst to most-worst. 

5. Lazarus (Robert Brown) from 'The Alternative Factor'

"The Alternative Factor" (March 30, 1967) was recently selected by /Film as one of the five worst episodes of the original "Star Trek," and it's easy to see why. It's nonsensical and incompetent, filmed so poorly, a viewer often can't even tell what's going on. The story revolves around Lazarus (Robert Brown), a mysterious interdimensional traveler who seems to be slipping in and out of our dimension. The sight of Lazarus is enough to elicit titters, as his silly spirit-gummed-on beard would look fake in a high school play. 

It's eventually explained that Lazarus is passing through a tube-like rift in between dimensions. When he passes through it, however, he encounters a crazed doppelgänger, and the two of them engage in a slow-motion, over-photographed fistfight. The alternate Lazarus then arrives in our dimension to explain everything all over again. The two Lazaruses are supposed to be opposites, with one crazed and the other rational, but they never emerge as distinct beings. Also, their little bouts of interdimensional pugilism appears to be ripping holes in the spacetime continuum.

The characters both appear irrational, the reason for their constant fighting remains unclear, and surely at least one of them would want to stop fighting the other if all of reality was at stake. Instead, we have two screaming, silly villains who are ultimately sealed in a pocket dimension to wail on each other for eternity. Good. It's what they deserve. 

4. (tie) Lieutenant Marla McGivers (Madlyn Rhue) from 'Space Seed' and Dr. Janice Lester (Sandra Smith) from 'Turnabout Intruder'

"Star Trek" is often presented as open-minded and progressive, but with these two characters, one can see just how regressive the series could be. 

In "Space Seed" (February 16, 1967) , the Enterprise finds the cryogenically frozen body of former tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán), a charismatic dictator left over from Earth's darkest period of 21st century war. Khan, having missed nearly 200 years of history, is assigned a historian, Lieutenant Marla McGivers (Madlyn Rhue) to guide him into the present. McGivers isn't just interested in history, however. She fetishized it to a dangerous degree. She comes to admire Khan, and even mutinies against Captain Kirk (William Shatner) when he pressures her and negs her and treats her terribly. She is a wilting flower, and hardly seems to be a good example of Starfleet professionalism. Marla will end up leaving the Enterprise with Khan.

In "Turnabout Intruder" (June 3, 1969), the final episode of the series, all kinds of sexist conceits are dropped into "Star Trek" lore. Most Trekkies tend to ignore "Turnabout Intruder," as it stated, in dialogue, that women were not allowed to be starship captains because they're too "hysterical." In the episode, Dr. Janice Lester (Sandra Smith) uses a high-tech device to switch bodies with Kirk, and uses his identity to usurp the Enterprise. In Kirk's body, she constantly proves the episode's sexist point, shrieking and behaving rashly at every turn. Dr. Lester was a character used to prove that women are incapable, and men are stern and able. It's a pretty gross character in what might easily be the worst episode of the show. 

3. Captain Ronald Tracey (Morgan Woodward) from 'The Omega Glory'

"The Omega Glory" (March 1, 1968) is a pretty stupid episode, too. In it, Kirk and co. beam down to the planet Omega IV to find a civil war raging between tribes called the Yangs and the Kohms. The war is being perpetuated by a mad captain named Ronald Tracey (Morgan Woodward) who lost most of his crew to a debilitating disease. He thinks the Yangs or the Kohms have a cure, as they live for thousands of years. Tracey is a classic example of a Starfleet captain gone bad, as he deliberately continues a civil war for his own purposes. One can easily see Tracey as a stand-in for the United States during the Vietnam War. 

But additional plot twists rip apart that metaphor. It seems that Omega IV, many years earlier, was developing parallel to Earth, and had even had its own versions of the American Pledge of Allegiance, an American Flag, and a U.S. Constitution. Just by coincidence, mind you. Kirk and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) find that the named "Yangs" and "Kohms" are bowdlerized abbreviations of "Yankees" and "Communists." It's the dumbest Cold War parable imaginable. 

The twists also reveal Captain Tracey to be little more than a battle-hungry dunderhead. He wants to perpetuate a civil war, and hopes to find a cure for a disease, but he comes across as unthinking, mad, and sweaty. His presence doesn't help the story, and his character is callow and weak-willed. Gee, what a wonderful, memorable, dynamic character. 

2. Lieutenant Bailey (Anthony Call) from 'The Corbomite Maneuver'

Lieutenant Bailey (Anthony Call) was the first legitimately terrible officer audiences got to see on "Star Trek." In "The Corbomite Maneuver" (November 10, 1966), the Enterprise is visited by a massive sphere-shaped ship called the Fesarius. The unseen captain of the Fesarius boasts his power and wants to destroy the Enterprise for trespassing in his space. Kirk, thinking quickly, negotiates a cease-fire and keeps his crew alive by bluffing. He claims that Federation starships are equipped with a substance called Corbomite which will reflect any attack back at the attacker. The Enterprise would be destroyed, but so would the Fesarius. It's a tense situation, but Kirk is quick-thinking enough to prevent violence from breaking out. 

Perhaps included to serve as a counterpoint to Kirk's level head is the whiny, horrible Lieutenant Bailey, who questions every one of Kirk's orders, and who freaks out when something might possibly go wrong. While it might have been dramatically important for Kirk to have a sounding board, Bailey is hardly one to match wits. All he does in complain and even potentially put the Enterprise at risk. Early in the episode, viewers likely hope that Spock will knock him out with a Vulcan neck pinch and let the adults take care of the situation. 

At the very least, Bailey eventually chills out enough to take a tour of the Fesarius when it's revealed that its captain Balok (Clint Howard) is actually peaceful and friendly. No one asked me, but it seems that Bailey might not be the best diplomat to initiate talks with Balok. 

1. Harcourt Fenton 'Harry' Mudd (Roger C. Carmel) from 'Mudd's Women' and 'I, Mudd'

As mentioned above, the main characters on "Star Trek" tend to be calm and professional at all times. As such, when one wants to invent a comedic counterpoint, one would logically invent an irreverent and irresponsible character like Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd (Roger C. Carmel). Mudd is lascivious, greedy, sinister, and always looking for a quick buck. In his two episodes — "Mudd's Women" (October 13, 1966) and "I, Mudd" (November 3, 1967) — Mudd seems particularly keen on sex trafficking. In the former episode, Mudd wants to sell a few mail-order brides to distant miners, and keeps the women young by feeding them youth drugs. Younger women, he rationalizes, fetch higher prices. Gross, man. 

Then, in the latter episode, Mudd finds himself in charge of a subterranean planet of androids, and it's implied that he's been boning the bots. More importantly, Mudd had a robot clone of his wife constructed specifically so he could turn her off when she starts nagging him. It's embarrassing that "Star Trek" had to stoop to a "nagging wife" joke. 

Harry is meant to be a comedy figure, a wildly inappropriate procurer meant to stand opposite a stalwart character like Kirk. Carmel does his best, but Harry Mudd just isn't funny. He's too busy being sexist and awful to elicit titters. Mudd would return for "Star Trek: The Animated Series" and would play a major role in the first season of "Star Trek: Discovery." Perhaps one episode should have been enough. Or maybe even less than one. 

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Production Begins For ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’

| August 26, 2024 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 136 comments so far

The next Star Trek series for Paramount+ has started shooting today. It’s been a long road since the idea of a YA-focused Starfleet Academy series was first mentioned as part of a growing “Star Trek Universe” back when the shows were streaming on CBS All Access. Now a cast of newcomers mixed with big-named Hollywood stars and some familiar Trek faces have come together in Toronto to shoot the first season.

The Academy is open

News of the beginning of production was first shared by the official Star Trek on Paramount+ social media accounts, followed up with an official announcement which included two new images of the cast. The first photo appears to be from a table read, featuring members of the cast, showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau, as well as additional producers. At the center of the photo below is Discovery (and Section 31 ) producer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi. Kurtzman is directing the first two episodes.

Academy cast and producers at table read (John Medland/Paramount+)

And the second shows members of the cast in front of the Star Trek Stage at Pinewood Studios in Toronto. Pinewood renamed one of the stages regularly used by Star Trek: Discovery the “Star Trek Stage” last year.

Academy cast and producers at Star Trek Stage (John Medland/Paramount+)

The above photos feature Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter, who is playing the captain and chancellor of Starfleet Academy. Flashing double Vulcan salutes is Academy Award-nominee Paul Giamatti, who has a recurring guest star role as the main villain for season 1. Also featured is Star Trek: Discovery’s Oded Fehr, who has a recurring guest star role as Admiral Vance, and Star Trek: Voyager’s Robert Picardo, a series regular as The Doctor. Actors pictured above playing cadets include George Hawkins, Zoë Steiner, Bella Shepard, Kerrice Brooks, Sandro Rosta, and Karim Diané. Also pictured is British actress and comedian Gina Yashere, who plays an Academy instructor in a recurring guest star role. Not pictured above but also returning for Academy are Discovery’s Tig Notaro as a series regular and Mary Wiseman as Tilly, as a recurring guest star.

The new series is set in the 32nd century (as established in Star Trek: Discovery ) at a newly revived Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. Here again is the official synopsis for the series:

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy introduces viewers to a young group of cadets who come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.

The Starfleet Academy campus has been built on Pinewood’s 45,900 square foot “Mega Stage,” the largest in North America. The set reportedly contains a “central academic atrium, a sprawling, two-story structure that will include a mess hall, amphitheater, trees, catwalks, multiple classrooms and a striking view of the Golden Gate Bridge in a single, contiguous space.”

Pinewood’s Mega Stage, home to to Starfleet Academy

The first season includes 10 episodes so production will likely extend into 2025. Paramount+ has not set a release date for the new series, but Alex Kurtzman has said it may not arrive until 2026.

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Here’s hoping 🤞 can’t say right now I’ll be tuning in, but I want to see it succeed and draw in the new fans it’s aimed for

Same here. Hope it does well.

Yes I agree! Glad to see some returning faces and to see what the new ones will bring to the franchise. Ultimately, pics aside though, it will be the stories that keep me coming back.

I rather hope that it is ‘done well’ but given everything else they’ve made recently…

We all know you’ll be watching,

Exactly! :D

Lol I literally haven’t watched any Nu Trek except for Disco season 1 and Picard season 3. Believe me, I will not be watching. But I will be checking Trekmovie religiously as I have since 2008…I now experience Nu Trek vicariously through the comment boards. I don’t need to watch anything when I hear the fan reaction loud and clear!

Maybe in the first few years of nu-trek, but I stopped after the first 5 episodes of DIS season 3. I just couldn’t take it any longer.

As this has gone on, I’m now looking forward to this show. Robert Picardo clinched it for me.

Even though I was already excited about the show before his inclusion, it is amazing how much his presence has excited the fan base to this show now. There is a huge change in the mood over it everywhere online. It still may suck but people are now more curious about it.

Which proves as much as some people still don’t like him, Kurtzman knows what he is doing.

Tiger he is such an awesome and genuine and talented man it is hard not to get excited lol. I’ve been his fan ever since The Wonder Years!

Yep for sure. And I completely forgot he was in The Wonder Years and I watched it every season but haven’t seen an episode since its original run.

Mr Arnold!!!

Ah yes, Mr. Arnold. Thanks for the reminder.

Nope — he was PE Coach Ed Cutlip

Seconded about Picardo

Third it bro…third it!

He’s the bestest!

Legacy characters, of course.

They could do the absolutely craziest thing and have Giamatti play a Xindi Primate but have him play him more ape-like, using his training from Planet of the Apes.

That sounds awesome but somehow I don’t see that happening. I may be wrong but IIRC he’s always wanted to be a Klingon. And we haven’t seen on in the 31st century yet

We didn’t.

Paul G. looks so happy, cool!

This cast already has charm and chemistry based solely on the pics here. I’m beginning to really look forward to this.

It’s Happening !!!!!😁

Star Trek’s new Flagship show.

PIcardo is gonna nail it!

Lol the only reason fans are now excited in this show, legacy characters.

For me it depends on who the legacy character is. Kirk? The Doctor? I’m all there. Neelix? Nah,

This fan was excited before the announcement of any legacy characters.

To be frank, the announcement of Holly Hunter really got my attention. Paul Giammati is probably a closet Trekkie, so I wasn’t as surprised, but Hunter being on board was more than I expected.

As for Picardo, it’s not like he’s got much else to do than run around on the convention circuit…

As long as it doesn’t have too much Tilly, it’ll be terrific!

Annnnnnd??? What is wrong with having a legacy character? You say that like it’s a bad thing. He isn’t the lead. The show isn’t revolving around him. Stop shaming people for actually LIKING characters from a past show. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it at all. Let me ask you, Harry, how did you choose your name? Legacy trek character?

It looks like class of 319(??) has arrived!

I have been a big supporter of this show since day one. But now even more so seeing how excited Paul Giamatti is there lol. Robert Picardo giving the thumbs up this will be a winner while holding Holly Hunter has made me more hopeful.

I certainly understand it has a large amount of doubters out there but I am hoping with this cast at least that people will be a little more open minded about it. Either way, the future begins…again!

Wow, I actually agree with you. I can’t wait to see this, but my heart belongs to Section 31.

Wow, so SFA is really happening, cool! Another series now in production and both S3 of SNW and S31 in post production. It is good time to be a Star Trek fan. Let’s hope we get some more Prodigy, even though I am still waiting to see S2 up here north of the border.

Also happy the cast and crew get to enjoy a little Canadian summer and fall in the city instead of dreary winter, even though winters in Toronto are not exactly the cold and snowy type that we had when we were kids.

Yes so true DeanH!

It’s not at the level it was back in 2021 but there are still things happening of course. And a Prodigy season 3 would definitely be a HUGE plus!!

It’s still shocking you guys never got it. I did listen to the All Access Podcast and they say the show is selling on Itunes in Canada at least and at the time of recording it was listed #1 (I assume for TV shows but maybe for everything). It proves this show definitely has an audience, but maybe still not high enough to get another season. But I put all my faith in Kahless and hope that won’t be the case.

An attractive and diverse group to be sure. Here’s to a successful launch!

Being Asian Canadian, it would be nice to see some Asian rep in SFA, but quite honestly no big deal. This is after all an American franchise that just happens to be made in Toronto, so good to see both African and Euro Americans well represented in the cast. And of course S31 is in post production and S4 of SNW is also coming, so it is a good time to be a Star Trek fan.

It is interesting considering that Sulu and Kim were both great characters, but I haven’t really thought about the fact that there hasn’t been any strong Asian characters in NuTrek. This seems like a good place to do just that – especially since San Francisco has a pretty big Asian population. And since this is a bit different future, this could have been a fun time to bring in San Fransokyo (Disney reference, so yes, I get why Paramount couldn’t do it)…

there hasn’t been any strong Asian characters in NuTrek.

La’an Noonian-Singh and Philippa Georgiou being chopped liver?

I can already see that Kerrice Brooks will be my favorite.

Looking forward to the series.

Ahhhh! I have to know! Are we getting OG Doctor or Living Witness Doctor?????

I hope Living Witness personally

I seen you post this before but didn’t they confirm it’s the OG Doctor. I think Kurtzman himself said it and that he’s just been active for the last 800 years. Yeah it’s a stretch, but it’s Star Trek, so….

I’m OK with whoever we get as long as Picardo is playing him lol.

Oh, I don’t remember that

I still want both Doctors. If it is the Living Witness Doctor, then where is the OG Doctor?

Well, the way I see it, the Living Witness Doctor woke up around this era so he makes sense. The OG one? Who knows what might have happened with him over 700 years. Also, a 700+ yr old Doctor should have learned amazing things over the centuries and would be way harder to write for than the Living Witness Doc.

LOL didn’t we have this discussion on the other site. I’m pretty sure it’s the original Doctor. As I said, they made clear the Doctor on this show already had experience teaching kids at the Academy. And that makes more sense it would be the original Doctor, especially his life post-Voyager as we seen in Prodigy. And there is no Academy in the 31st century.

But maybe we will see both of them. I’m totally into that idea too!

Ya that’s what Tiger just told me too. If it is the original then I hope we somehow get both.

Hopefully we will. What can be better than one Doctor? Two Doctors…even if the Voyager crew disagrees haha.

I was excited when Holly Hunter was added to the cast, but now the show is even more legitimized for me with the addition of Robert Picardo returning as the Doctor. I’ll be watching.

Yay for legacy characters!

I still wish they added him when Discovery jumped to the 32nd century. Maybe I would’ve liked the show more for a change. But better late than never.

And I’m not sure when the word ‘legacy characters’ have become a bad word in the fandom. Once Dr. McCoy was showed walking with Data down the corridor in Encounter at Farpoint has made legacy characters an integral part of the franchise for decades now. If fans don’t want to see more legacy characters, they should’ve just stayed in the JJ verse then (shudder). But they exist plenty in the Prime universe and a huge reason fans wanted to go back to it.

I’m always happy to see them and can’t wait to see more, hopefully more DS9 and ENT characters will show up too; although we’ve had Daniels on Discovery for 3 years now but didn’t know it lol.

McCoy being in a 60 second scene in TNG as a handing over the baton type thing, is a little different to what’s going on now where nostalgia, references and legacy characters have literally taken over the various shows.

How are they taking over?

Prodigy: Janeway, Chakotay, the Doctor, Voyager etc Lower Decks: Literally only exists so that it can reference previous Trek every 10 seconds Strange New Worlds: Kirk, Spock, Uhura etc Picard: Shelby, Moriarty, Lore, Tuvok, the entire TNG crew, the Enterprise D, the Borg Queen etc etc etc

You’re blind if you think that modern Trek isn’t 100% based on nostalgia, references and legacy characters. This comment section pretty much proves the only reason people are looking forward to this show is because it has a classic character in it.

I could say the same of pretty much any other franchise. Luke, Han and Leia in the sequel trilogy?

And…? What is wrong with that?

Harry, Emily, whatever your name is these days, that’s not what he was saying and you know it. The reality is though legacy characters, when it was just TOS basically, was still part of the franchise. Obviously they couldn’t be used that often since all the new shows took place literally a century later. But the fact they kept finding ways to include them said it all. Why do you think that is? Because shockingly fans of a franchise still wants to see older characters while embracing new ones. TNG had the biggest hurdle of them all and now that show is more popular than TOS in many circles today which again proves your point moot.

People have no issues being introduced to new characters, but we now live in a franchise that is 60 years old and has had millions of people watching since TOS started, nostalgia will always play a part in anything that old. It can’t be avoided.

No one is ‘taking over’ these shows since the Doctor is the only legacy characters on this show and NOT the star. He sounds like he will have a big part in it but probably supporting like the Doctor had on Voyager and Prodigy.

The reality is though legacy characters, when it was just TOS basically, was still part of the franchise. 

They showed up exactly three times during TNG (admittedly, not counting McCoy’s one-minute passing of the baton in “Encounter at Farpoint”): Sarek, Spock, and Scotty. (And Sarek was far from a series regular. He probably got more screen time in TNG than TOS itself.) Star Trek bingo this was not.

Sarek and Spock were also used organically and had grown considerably since their TOS days. Sarek effectively showed up with *dementia*. Spock had not been in Starfleet for decades and was perceived as a *defector*. The only appearance milked for nostalgia was Scotty’s, six seasons in, and even then, it was handled in a thoughtful and respectful way, in the context of a story about aging, not as fodder for commemorative plates (have those even existed since the 1990s, anyway?).

Some nostalgia was appropriate for PICARD, and I don’t deny that Picardo is one of Trek’s best actors, and I wouldn’t bet against him living up to that reputation here.

But it’s difficult to read his inclusion as anything other than the producers (1) becoming desperate to ensure that existing Trekkies tune in, and (2) lacking, for understandable reasons, any confidence that the latest iteration of NuTrek can stand on its own two feet. The TNG producers, by contrast, expressly said they went out of their way to avoid many TOS references until “Sarek,” exactly because they knew the series had to be its own thing.

Then there’s GENERATIONS, which resembled screenwriting-by-committee and remains mostly poorly received, flawed by Braga’s own admission, and one of the worst Trek movies. (“Thank God for Insurrection,” to paragraph what New Mexicans say about Mississippi.)

60 years old and has had millions of people watching since TOS started, nostalgia will always play a part in anything that old. It can’t be avoided.

This statement approaches an admission that the Trek franchise is in irreversible decline, a la GLORIA or 704 HAUSER.

And again it’s so eye rolling and hypocritical how you have no problem with the constant revolving door of legacy characters in all the Star Wars shows and movies (did you catch Yoda in that awful Acolyte show:? I didn’t because I stopped watching it but he was apparently there).

You constantly want to put down Star Trek for doing it but completely silent over Star Wars doing literally the exact same thing in every project. Why is that exactly?

This is why I really wish we get an ignore button. People like you are just insufferable.

I want a like button too

I think I stopped after episode 4 or something. I honestly can’t remember. I didn’t know Yoda showed up in it. But it’s now cancelled so who cares lol.

I give NuTrek grief at times but even Discovery is a higher quality show compared to what’s coming out of Disney+ and most of these Star Wars shows. The only two I can say I fully liked so far were Mandalorian and Andor. And it took awhile to like Andor because it felt so slow but it’s a great show for sure.

The rest though….meh.

Yeah the SW shows have just been generally bad. Acolyte was so bad I stopped after episode 5; the first show I just completely gave up on.

I don’t understand why it’s so hard to make better shows given the resources and ridiculous money they get. That show was reported to get $180 million for 8 episodes and yet it felt like something you watch on ABC. Star Trek shows would kill to have that kind of money.

The only shows I liked so far was also the first two seasons of Mandalorian and Andor and that’s basically it. I heard Bad Batch is decent but haven’t watched it. Ashoka was OK but I was just bored by the end.

I can certainly give the new Trek shows grief at times too (with the exception of Prodigy because it’s too awesome) but overall they are way better than what Disney has been putting out with Star wars lately. It’s not even close in my book.

Ashoka is one of my favorite characters Iin Star Wars and The Clone Wars show finally git me to care about the prequels. I can’t tell you how excited I was for that show only to see it crash and burn halfway through. I just don’t know why it’s so hard to make a compelling show, especially when most are only 6-8 episodes?

Just do much bad writing. Acolyte is the perfect example of how bad off the rails that franchise has become.

Because when Star Wars does it, it’s natural and in service to the story. The Enterprise-D showing up and kicking ass, is not.

And btw, Yoda was on screen for about 3 seconds in an entire series of new characters.

Lol yeah ‘natural’ like when Obi Wan met a 10 year old Leia on that show although in ANH it was obvious she never met the guy before.

And I call out when Star Trek shoehorns characters when they don’t belong there all the time like all the legacy characters in SNW that clearly shouldn’t be on the Enterprise this soon like Kirk or shouldn’t be interacting with others.

And they were clearly setting up Yoda to be in season 2 before the show got canceled. And regardless SW stuff in legacy characters for the exact same reasons ST does it, because of fan service. To pretend otherwise is eye rolling.

You’ll such a hypocrite which I wouldn’t care about if you didn’t spend all your time here harassing people for having the nerve to want to see Kirk or Janeway on a show.

You have had nothing interesting to say here for a year now.

How exactly? A ship being recovered to prevent the contamination of a species is less natural than The same 4 characters of Star Wars showing up across the galaxy all the time because *reasons*? LOL NO!

picard appeared in DS9’s pilot ep, quark in the one for Voy and Zefram Cochrane  appears in the pilot for Ent

For one scene.

Not an entire series.

How about Worf being on DS9 for four seasons then? 🙄

And O’Brien being on DS9 for all 7 seasons.

i meant they did as with mccoy’s cameo in TNG pilot, to hand over the baton to the next ST show. though picard had more screen time in ’emissary’

As it’s been said a hundred times over, legacy characters are a big part of every old franchise these days. Studios are hurting, streaming is not the golden ticket they all thought and the only way they know will draw people back in long term is nostalgia. Again, the fact that Star Trek is back and with a half a dozen new shows to boot already makes that clear. It doesn’t necessarily keep them but it’s a big marketing push to drive interest as we are seeing with the Doctor.

And as I ALSO said, I think most old fans will watch either way, it just gives them an extra incentive. When the first Kelvin movie happened, I’m pretty sure everyone who went to see it would’ve saw it regardless if Nimoy as Spock didn’t show up in it. But once he did, that just created bigger hype for the movie and a bit more excitement. I was certainly going opening day and I didn’t even want a TOS reboot lol. So I don’t think the movie would’ve made $100 million less because an 80 year old retired actor who hasn’t played the role in two decades was going to make or break the film. But it did excite the old fans at least and gave the film more attention.

Exactly the same thing here. Yes, I definitely think this show has had a bigger division in the fandom for a number of reasons…but everyone was going to at least check it out in the beginning. But now the Doctor is there, genuine interest has definitely gone up, that can’t be denied. Every site I gone to, from here to YouTube, people are openly thrilled he’s there. It helped to get a few more additional headlines it probably wouldn’t have gotten. In a world with so much new content coming out every single day you have to find a way to stand out. That said, no the show isn’t going to make or break if the Doctor showed up or not, but it’s a bonus regardless.

The reality is they are trying to appeal to the millions of Star Trek fans who found it in the 90s when they were coming of age that probably makes up the bulk of the fandom today. Yes they want new fans, hence this show, but it’s been pretty evident they have not shown up in any large way since Discovery launched. And until that happens, those fans will stay the franchise masters and they clearly knows it judging by all the nostalgia and legacy characters in all these shows now. Kurtzman is only mulling over a 25th century live action comedy show (and being made by two 90s era fans btw) to placate them and certainly not new fans.

The funny thing is I remember getting into an argument with a former poster here pre-Picard who used to say shows like Voyager will not be represented at all in modern Trek outside of maybe a reference somewhere because it wasn’t ‘mainstream’ enough which was just a ridiculous argument. If you lasted for 7 seasons and decades later the reruns are still getting high viewings on sites like Netflix and Amazon while still making merchandise and books, it’s certainly mainstream enough for Star Trek lol. I don’t think any of these new shows have gotten half the viewers Voyager has gotten over the years. And since Voyager is represented to some degree in 4 of the 6 new shows (minus SNW and Discovery for obvious reasons) and fans are still begging for a Seven lead Legacy show, then clearly that argument proved faulty.

Honestly I love that Mr Picardo is here but they had me at Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti.

And obviously me as well. But it’s all great news to me. And if people need Picardo/the Doctor to get more excited about the show, fine. That’s obviously why he’s there and even better news its working.

I was very excited about SNW for example when we just knew about Pike, Spock and Una. But once I knew Uhura and Chapel were in it as well, I got even more excited (I didn’t care about M’Benga either way but really love him now). That’s how these things works. If people are angry at me because I had the gall to be excited to have Uhura and Chapel on the show, that’s not really my problem.

I think your last paragraph was probably argued by an old TOS fan who couldn’t let go and basically wanted the franchise to stay mostly TOS.

I could be wrong of course but I remember hearing this same argument on another defunct site I used to post on when the first JJ verse movie was starting. I heard you and others mention this before too and that people just wanted to ‘erase’ the 24th century shows completely and even the prime universe because they wanted a universe where TOS and the 23rd century was the only show in existence again; as if every fan found the show in the 1970s lol.

It was so short sighted and just old people yelling at clouds to me. You mean you are going to erase hundreds of hours of shows that people like me found and grew up with so we can have these empty soulless popcorn movies where Fratboy Kirk fights comic book villains and doing space jumps in every movie? Inner Light, Yesterdays Enterprise, Timeless, The Visitor, Measure of a Man, Duet and on and on and on will just pretend like that never happened so we can watch the new universe and all the great drama of Uhura fighting with her boy toy Spock for the next 10 years.

Some people really really had no problems with this lol. It’s OK if they didn’t like those shows, fine. I didn’t love them all either at first. But to just try and wipe them from existence for the next 20 years always bothered me. I had no problem with JJ verse existing. I had no issues with Discovery existing. I didn’t like them but I understood others did because it brought them back to that era they grew up with. But its when those people only wanted to focus on those eras ignoring all the stories, characters and aliens that’s been around for literally decades at that point that put off the rest of us who didn’t have the same nostalgia for it.

Same thing happened with Star Wars too. When Disney got a hold of it, there were a lot of old OT fans saying they should ignore the prequels because they thought they sucked and pretended like they never existed. They just wanted more Han and Luke again, less Padme and Ashoka. And I hated the prequels too lol. In this situation I was the old OT fanboy who hated Jar Jar as much as I hated Neelix. But I knew plenty of younger people where the prequels were their first SW loved them. They grew up with them and became fans of SW thanks to them just like people became fans of Star Trek thanks to TNG, DS9 and etc.

You can’t just pretend they no longer exist when they have spent about a billion dollars in merchandise for a decade lol. It just doesn’t work that way.

And like what is happening with Star Trek today, the prequels ended up the same way. Now those characters and storylines are part of the new stuff. When you got Hayden Christensen showing up in multiple SW shows and fans WANT it shows the tide have changed lol.

LOL it is funny the full circle the prequels have made in the fandom. Or even George Lucas himself. There are people out there, I know because I talked to them, that had no idea how much people hated the prequels back then.

And to be as accurate about this, the specific poster (and he’s been gone YEARS ago now and I highly doubt he even remembers me much less our conversation lol) was saying because the other spin offs like DS9, VOY and ENT didn’t reach the highs as TNG did then it was probably smart to just focus on the more popular shows. He wasn’t trying to ‘erase’ them, just making the point that these new shows (and this was when it was only Discovery at the time although Picard had been announced) should appeal to newer audiences and that they would probably never watch the older shows much so why confuse them with canon only us hardcore fans would know or care about?

So that’s a somewhat different argument. But my point then as it is now and has been proven, these shows are made for those fans who watched those spin offs first and foremost. Yes they want new fans but once Picard was announced, it made it very clear the audience was really the 90s fans. And for the record I’m not one of them lol. I’m a oldie whose been watching since the 70s so I’m not arguing it from my personal perspective at all. But I look at this stuff objectively and they are the ones carrying these modern shows today and so you want to appeal to them more because, yeah, money and viewer numbers. So the LAST thing you want to do is ignore those stories and characters they have known for 20+ years now.

And my argument back in 2019 has been proven to be more true even today. Because every show since Picard has been nothing but a nostalgia fest of the 90s shows and TOS (which most people in the 90s became big fans of too, including several of my friends who started with TNG and VOY. It wasn’t JUST about TNG, but that was the bigger focus because yeah it was actually made for that, sorry, generation).

But I also know there were definitely other fans like you mentioned who did want a ‘clean slate’ so to speak and to only focus on the Kelvin universe and characters. And I didn’t really disagree with that either if the aim was to reach new fans. I think that approach made the most sense because Star Trek is a very intimidating franchise to get into these days. It’s already the type of show that really asks you to pay attention to its stories in a way that Star Wars, DC or Marvel doesn’t. And yes, that’s part of the reason it’s always had trouble with the masses. And also yes, that’s why the Kelvin movies consisted of basically stopping an evil villain every movie with lots of explosions and action set pieces and very little else. But the TNG films had that rap as well from old fans.

So I never had any problems with the Kelvin movies or that universe being the gateway for the masses. It made sense from a marketing and viewer perspective. But like you, I never once believed you had to completely abandon the Prime universe either which is what others were in fact suggesting. But that was always a ridiculous idea because old fandom would want those characters and types of stories again. I assumed the Kelvin universe would actually expand and we get spin off movies, maybe 1-2 shows, etc as the Prime universe also got more shows and even movies again. In other words both universes would just grow and be their own separate things kind of like the DCEU and Arrowverse did.

But that wasn’t the case, the Prime universe is king again. But it has also been expanded in ways we have never seen before. I just can’t imagine the Berman era having shows like Lower Decks or shows in the 32nd century like Discovery and now SFA. I think these are all positive things regardless how people feel about them personally.

I do think in time we will get Legacy once the money and Paramount is just in a better place. But I also don’t have a problem with the 25th century comedy show. Maybe it will be bad but it’s good to see the franchise take chances.

So if you want to do something different but still want to keep those 90s fans in the loop pining for more 24th century Trek, bringing a character like the Doctor in SFA just makes perfect sense.

Per usual, you hit it on the head.

I agree with nearly all of this, these shows are mostly geared to 90s fans because we probably make up the majority of the fan base today. This site and Trekcre skewers a bit older. But if you go to places like Reddit, Twitter or Facebook where there is a much higher number of people and I’m on all three it’s obvious it’s mostly people from that era who watches these shows now.

This is anecdotal but I’m on a private FB group and there are maybe 60-70 of us. I would say out of that group 70% of us started watching Trek in the 90s. The other 20% are older and a few watched TOS starting in the 60s and 70s. The last 10% are younger and started watching Trek in the last 10 years or so by finding it on Netflix or Hulu. But not a single one started watching it since Discovery started so far. Only one became a fan through the JJ verse movies and his dad was a big TNG fan and how he got into it.

That’s not exact or anything, just a rough estimate. That’s why when I come here I feel so young and I’m in my 40s lol. And even though most of them started with a 90s show most people love TOS and watch it religiously too. It’s not like they hate the show or anything, just the opposite, but it wasn’t the show they first watched or their favorite like it is for so many of you here. And no one has ever suggested not to make it canon anymore because that’s the show that started it all.

That’s why I rolled my eyes when people suggested the Prime universe didn’t matter anymore. Well thank God it does now because JJ verse imploded years ago and even if they actually get their stuff together and make another one, they already said that’s the end of it anyway. I still don’t see the point of making another one when they can just make more movies in the prime universe or just streaming movies like that awful looking Section 31 movie or a Legacy movie. That’s what fans seem to really want.

But most people I know want stories and characters mostly from the 24th century because that’s the era where Trek really expanded. And many like me just hate prequels in general although about half of the group watch SNW and seem to like it. And Kurtzman seems to finally understand that too. Most want to go forward but anything post Nemesis at least is fine. It’s not like we want to redo TNG or DS9 but to continue those stories a little works too. To see what happened after Voyager got home or where things are after the Domion war ended. That’s also why he has people like Matalas, McMahan and the Hageman brothers making these shows because they were all young enough when TNG and the others started. I think they were all TOS fans first but it’s obvious the Berman era had a bigger impact on them. Matalas worked on Voyager and Enterprise so very obvious for him.

So it was smart to add the Doctor on this show. Many people there didn’t really seem very excited about it until Picardo was announced and just like here most seem more excited about it. Some were into it before like you and others still hate it but like this thread the majority are more positive now.

But like Amirami said, I got more interested once Hunter and Giamatti joined and I said that in my OP. But we still don’t know who their characters are besides a name. But we know the Doctor very well and after having him back on Prodigy and wishing he got to do more on that show, it’s exciting to have him in live action again and let Picardo be Picardo lol.

And if you can bring back the Doctor in live action, there is no excuse not to bring back Janeway now. For me, that’s still the biggest get along with Archer and T’Pol after they brought back Picard, Spock, Q, Worf, Seven and now the Doctor. I would say Kirk too…but ugh.

Good discussion as usual!

This is a good analysis. In fact I remember this so well when Picard started and the argument became ‘it’s not going to be a TNG reunion. No one really wants TNG anymore. It’s going to just focus on Picard and be it’s own thing because that’s what ‘new’ audiences wanted.”

Season 3 came and is now the highest rated season lol. Apparently Prodigy season 2 is now rated higher which is great but the point I’m making is for the majority of fans out there who is watching these shows grew up on TNG and exactly why that show was the second one announced once Discovery aired. And even though people certainly liked Discovery, they could see how the majority responded to it and yeah it wasn’t great. Not all horrible obviously but the three biggest take aways were they wanted a post-Nemesis show, something that feels closer to old canon and wanted more legacy characters again. So, not shockingly, they abided on both Discovery season 2 and then Picard.

Think about it, both shows pushed on those three mandates after the first season of Discovery.

As for Picard, of course Stewart famously didn’t want a reunion show and we got the first two seasons we got, which btw, most fans were still very excited about, including me. But it was very obvious every season they made it closer to TNG as they could get it until season 3 they just said screw it, begged Stewart to just give the fans (and the show runners) what they want and we got more TNG in the end.

But again it’s just more proof these shows are being watched by old fandom and not new fans because you don’t dump 80% of your new and younger cast two seasons in unless you thought 70+ year old actors would have a wider appeal. And look at that…they did lol.

I know I end up having this same conversation many times, but Star Trek does indeed have a problem attracting new fans and they clearly know it. Early DIS and PIC did at least feel like they were trying to appeal to newbies as well as the old guard. But from LDS to SNW it was basically attracting the older fans. Yes Prodigy famously went after the pre-teen group but we saw how badly that worked out. And I’m sure the overwhelming majority who watches it now are old Trek or Voyager fans. I’m sure many have tried to get their kids to watch but let’s not kid ourselves, it’s mostly the same group watching Picard, SNW and LDS end of the day.

Maybe SFA will turn the tide but I doubt it. I hate to say it but I’m just being honest. And they have their doubts too, hence the Doctor. And yes I read that about the new show runner too. But again, Kurtzman knows what he is doing. He’s not just picking people who has seen Trek, he’s picking hardcore fanboys and fangirls to run it these days. And while I’m sure some will disagree with me, the shows are connecting to hardcore base, certainly much more than early PIC and DIS were. Yeah, it’s not perfect and I know some of the contrarians want to pretend otherwise, but the majority of these seasons are highly rated today. Doesn’t mean everyone loves them, but it’s working more than not working IMO. People gave SNW season 2 crap including me, but it’s actually not rated much lower than season one was. That says a lot.

Even Discovery found a way to get the 90s fans more involved when they made season 5 built around ‘The Chase’ and brought back the Breen. In fact, every episode of season 5 revolved around canon from a previous show. Again, new fans aren’t going to care about canon from shows that’s been off the air decades now. That was clearly made for the people in your FB group.

Because like it or not, they are driving nostalgia to the hardcore bunch and they are very receptive to it. Maybe if early DIS and even PIC had a stronger reception then we would have newer shows focused more on new stories, aliens and strange new worlds and less tie ins to 30+ year old TNG era episodes and characters like we got in Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy and Discovery last seasons. But once again, all those seasons most people here responded well to, yes, including Discovery.

So how that will all translate to SFA itself, it will be interesting to see to say the least.

But this has been a fun discussion for me too. Any reason to geek out on Trek on any level lol. Thanks.

I forgot to add the reason the Doctor is even there because the new show runner was also a 90s Trek fan and she said Voyager was the show she grew up on and the Doctor was one of her favorite characters. So it’s not even just a marketing thing, but like Matalas and McMahan before her, she became a Trekkie in that era and just wanted characters she grew up with to be on the show.

But it’s just more and more proof why these shows are so geared to these TNG era characters because the people making them along with most of the people watching them are from the same era.

Right? Why is “Legacy” such a bad thing???? James T Kirk is the OG legacy character and I remember his remains in Picard S3.

Please stop calling it Legacy. Call it what it really is. Old Star Trek actors.

You mean Star Trek characters …

Yeah, I don’t understand how it is a bad thing to have legacy characters on the new shows. For me it is like seeing old friends again. To each their own I suppose.

Because it’s not. It’s something that happens in every IP out there. Yes they can definitely do too much of it to the point new main characters lose focus as I was worried about when they brought on Spock and Pike on Discovery. I ended up being proven wrong thankfully.

So weird. And Tiger2 is right, there are legacy characters in everything now, not just Star Trek. Everything is about nostalgia today and most people watching Star Trek now are people from the 90s.

I’ve actually been joking for awhile don’t be shocked if we saw an 800 year old synth Riker pop up on this show in a recurring role because Frakes is that persuasive lol.

But we are now getting an 800 year old EMH instead. Still works for me!

Let’s get all the old characters back. Who cares about utterly undermining the new cast.

How is it ‘undermining’ the new cast?? What does this even mean. Do you not see people just as excited for Paul Giamatti and Holly Hunter?? Obviously you didn’t read my OP because I cited them specifically along with Picardo. Correct?

Since you clearly missed it, I will quote it here:

But per usual, you oddly ignore anytime people actually praise new actors and characters so you can have the same fight for the 800th time.

This is why you are so so soooo annoying. Why do you constantly do this? Changing your handle doesn’t make you any less annoying from before lol.

Do you really think Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti would be undermined?

Yes, I think it’s certainly possible.

The film EXECUTIVE DECISION, which is probably memorable only to fans of the airplane disaster genre, was billed as a huge blockbuster vehicle co-starring Kurt Russell and Steven Seagal. The latter’s character was killed off after about five minutes. I suspect that undermined the film, at least among non-aviation buffs.

not 5 mins, more like 50 mins into the film.

I meant that Segal had about five minutes of screen time!

Stop being a troll.

HA! Who knows, maybe they turned Riker into a hologram Academy instructor!

LOL yeah I can see that. People have theorized others like Janeway or Archer could show up as holograms. I don’t think it will but if it does it could just be for an episode or something. And what stops them from doing it? Nothing.

It’s the 32nd century, everything is possible.

I’m hoping for a hologram Janeway at some point.

LOL just mentioned that to Amirami as well. Why not? We have one on Prodigy.

Legacy. All fans care about.

So say we all! Oops wrong franchise lol

LOL! Loved that show.

I was coming around when I heard Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti joined the cast.

But the day we learned Robert Picardo was returning as the Doctor was the day I finally decided to care about this show. It was the smartest move they could’ve done to get a lot of cynical Trekkies like me to care about it.

I am feeling more confident about it these days. It’s still a Discovery spin off so I remain skeptical about it but I am hoping for the best and we get a great show out of it. The way things are going, it may be the ONLY Star Trek show around lol.

Can’t wait to not watch this.

I’m not looking forward to this, but I will watch. I’m a glutton for punishment when it comes to Trek.😁

But, at the very least, hopefully the characters are interesting.

Keep the Star Trek coming.

I’m never satisfied.

I hope that the show is good. Making it a spinoff of Discovery makes me skeptical, but maybe they got some good people to run this show. Good luck to them, and look forward to seeing how it turns out in a year.

So excited.

I met Robert Picardo at Dublin Comic con last weekend , he was such a nice dude . I hope this venture in the star trek franchise is successful

I’m wondering if they de-age Robert Picardo. Actually, the HAVE TO, ’cause The Doctor is a hologram.

It doesn’t matter IMO. Maybe he just decided to look older. It’s not like the Doctor looked super young on Voyager either. He was already a middle age looking man.

That would be a waste of budget If they deaged him in every scene he’s in.

And yeah it’s a Hologram it can literally take any form it wants and we seen both on Voyager and recently Prodigy.

I understood Data aging was a bit more of an issue. But Holograms don’t have the same problem to explain it away.

cadets, turn to the right!

Look at Giammati, happy as a clam…

Loved that photo. I hope his character isn’t covered up with prosthetics. He’s way too excellent of an actor to be buried under latex.

Isn’t he on record saying that he wants to play a Klingon?

This report mentions that Olatunde Osunsanmi is directing the Pilot. Didn’t Alex Kurtzman mention in an Interview posted on Trekmovie a few month ago, that he would be directing the first two episodes?

And the article has been updated to clarify and we have reconfirmed. Tunde is an EP and director for the show but Alex is directing the first two episodes

Thanks for clearing that up.

I’m excited about the new show, even though it’ll be awhile before we get to see it.

A friend of mine got a job as a professor at Harvard after having taught at a couple of other universities. She was very surprised when she taught her first day there, and some students came up after class and said, “I see by the syllabus that there’s no term paper required for this course, but this would be such a cool course to write a term paper for!”

Students at the other universities where she’d taught always complained if they had to write a term paper, but her students at Harvard ASKED FOR ONE.

I would expect that Starfleet Academy students would be just as gung-ho about their education as Harvard students. I really hope that the writers take that into account and don’t give us students who don’t care about class or who don’t want to study or whatever. Only the very best — from all over Alpha Quadrant — get admitted to Starfleet Academy, and the writing should reflect that.

I’m excited about the show and hope they do it right. Make starships special again, rebuild the Federation, make the universe something to explore. Allow for some flawed characters to learn. Let’s see some space colonization, etc. Consider Academy having to use older starships, the new ones look like bad CGI. Maybe assign them the Mirror Enterprise complete with functional bridge. No more worrying about canon, that is a real plus, leave that baggage in the past!!!

Just avoid the time travel nonsense, no musicals, let’s get back to Star Trek (unless you go back in time and get rid of time travel episodes).

Towny Newsome who is Mariner on LDS and also a writer on this show said a big part of her job is to keep the canon straight.

So whatever the story is it probably will be canon heavy like the last season of Discovery was.

Being in the 32nd century doesn’t make all that goes away.

Well you don’t need to worry about what happens in the future at least. Though disappointed to see Robert Picard attack SpaceX today… you’ve got a guy who pretends for a living equating electronic components to life attacking people actually providing internet to the poor, missile tracking in Ukraine and putting people in Space. I’m soo tired of Star Trek being anti science with all the magic mushrooms = space travel, space is easy, humanity is so great as is with nothing to learn. Just ugh. It’s really just a comedy cartoon series but I remember it was about humanity. Enough with canon, canon is a joke. Hell by their own logic just say it’s a multiverse or someone went back in time and changed it.

Well what can I say, welcome to NuTrek! 😂🙄

Once you had some of the laziest science happen in the JJ verse movies and one of the head writers writing all that bad science now making all these new shows you can’t expect too much.

At least the spore drive is now in a century where it makes sense in. But oddly it’s so advanced no one else has it 900 years in the future! 😂

Discovery was such a ridiculous show at times.

Paul Giamatti and Holly Hunter are fantastic actors. Great additions to the Trek family. Looking forward to a southern accent in Trek.

no Tilly in the photos….thats a promising start

But will the EMH have a name?

“Joe? It took you 33 years to come up with Joe?”

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Roberto Orci , a screenwriter on the “Star Trek” and “Transformers” franchises, was accused in a lawsuit Monday of repeatedly beating and sexually assaulting his wife.

Adele Heather Taylor , an actor in “The Blacklist,” “Hail, Caesar!” and more, alleges in the suit that Orci was bipolar, an alcoholic and would fly into violent rages. She alleges that he would call her a “slut,” a “whore” and would drag her around the house and beat her, leaving bruises all over her body.

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Taylor left Orci after another assault in December 2022, the suit states. In that instance, Taylor made an audio recording of Orci threatening to beat her and to throw her out the front door, and bragging that if she called the cops, she would not be believed because she had previously been arrested.

“You got nothing on me, babe,” he said in the recording, according to the suit. “I can do whatever the fuck I want.”

Following that incident, he filed a restraining order against her and filed for divorce. Orci’s lawyer, Daniel Paluch, disputed the allegations.

“My client denies the allegations and is looking forward to litigating the case in the appropriate forum, which is the court,” he said via email.

Orci sued Taylor in June, accusing her of repeatedly assaulting him. Among other things, he alleged that she shot him with a Taser and pepper-sprayed him.

Orci conceded in his suit that he had long struggled with alcoholism, was hospitalized numerous times in recent years for related conditions and had undergone multiple stints in rehab.

His lawsuit accused Taylor of taking advantage of his weakened condition and manipulating him to give her money and property.

In response to the countersuit, Orci’s lawyer Sallie Hofmeister said in a statement: “Ms. Taylor’s counterclaim is an attempt to retaliate against her husband with fabricated allegations after he got a restraining order against her, filed for divorce, and sued her in June for assault, battery, and financially abusing him when he was vulnerable and trying to get treatment for alcoholism. Her history of violent behavior is well documented, having been arrested at least twice during their marriage–once after she tried strangling her husband and he called the police, and once when a Vegas hotel called the authorities after Mr. Orci showed up in the lobby, locked out of his room by his wife, bloodied and half dressed. Ms. Taylor was also detained after assaulting immigration officials at LAX. Before Mr. Orci’s recovery, Ms. Taylor would ply him with alcohol and beat him relentlessly. On separate occasions, she hit him with a baseball bat, shot him with a taser then sprayed him with Mace, threw him down a set of stairs, and punched him multiple times while he was driving. In 2022 and 2023, she transferred without her husband’s knowledge at least $1.2 million from their joint bank account to foreign banks. Now, she is fabricating salacious allegations in a desperate attempt to extract more money from him.”

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