******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Paramount+’s latest Star Trek series, “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” (STSA) has finished its freshman year. Created by showrunners Alex Kurtzman & Gaia Viola, STSA is a mix of old and new elements; with A-list actors, Star Trek veterans and a fresh-faced cast of cadets tossed together in a 32nd century, post-Burn Federation seeking…
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Pass or fail? Star Trek: Starfleet Academy opens with “Kids These Days,” and “Beta Test”…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** As an old Trekkie from waaay back (as old as the franchise itself), I’ve read about pitches for a Starfleet Academy movie as far back as the late 1980s, when the late Star Trek movie producer Harve Bennett had a movie about Kirk and Spock’s academy days together. That pitch was rejected, though…
The “Star Trek: Khan” audio-drama podcast is truly ‘Paradise Lost’…
******PLANET-SIZED SPOILERS!****** “Star Trek: Khan” was conceived as a live-action Paramount+ miniseries that would be written by writer/producer/director Nicholas Meyer (“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country”) which would chronicle the exile of Star Trek antagonist Khan Noonian Singh and his genetically-engineered ‘augment’ loyalists on the doomed planet of…
“Star Trek: Prodigy” is the franchise’s most unexpected surprise…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Created by Kevin and Alex Hageman and overseen by an Alex Kurtzman-led team of producers, the Paramount+/Nickelodeon coproduction Star Trek: Prodigy (PRO) is a new animated Star Trek series consciously geared towards younger audiences, after the debut of the more adult (and arguably less mature) Star Trek: Lower Decks. Having recently finished 20…