Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 Finale – “The New Next Generation” The end of season 5 of Star Trek: Lower Decks, “The New Next Generation” features the shocking return of Star Trek: DiscoveryKlingons style, five years later. Star Trek: DiscoveryThe 2017 premiere brought several aesthetic changes to the mid-23rd century setting, a decade earlier Star Trek: The Original Series. Instead of recreating Terms of ServiceKlingons style with smooth forehead, Star Trek: DiscoveryMakeup artists developed an all-new look that took the Klingons' alien features even further.. DiscoveryThe Klingons were supposed to be like the Klingons always were,…
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Star Trek: Deep Space NineMedical Director, Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig), approached his romantic relationships the same way he approached his career: with youthful optimism and the confidence that he could accomplish anything. While this generally worked out better for Julian's Starfleet career than his love life, Dr. Bashir still had a number of problems. DS9 love interests. On Star Trek: Deep Space NineOver the seven years, Bashir found love (or something like it) with one-episode and recurring guest stars DS9 identical characters. Like many other characters in Star Trek: Deep Space NineDr. Bashir evolved as a character thanks to DS9risky…
Although Star Trek: Deep Space NineTrill's character Curzon Dax died in 2367, two years earlier DS9 Season 1, Curzon's legacy is felt far and wide DS9there are seven seasons and beyond. After the Trill synbiotic was introduced into Star Trek: The Next Generation season 4, episode 23, “The Host”, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine improved the Trill with Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) from DS9. Why DS9The Trill symbiotes carried the memories of all previous hosts, and Curzon hosted the Dax symbiote shortly before JadziaJadzia Dax's personality was influenced by Curzon's, and she knew everything he did. Star Trek:…
Curiously, Star TrekThe Klingons and Romulans in the film have Bird of Prey starships. First seen in Star Trek: The Original Series season 1, episode 8, “Balance of Terror”, the T'Liss-class Romulan bird of prey is so named because of the predatory bird painted on its hull. Later, in Star Trek: The Original Series season 3, episode 2, “The Enterprise Incident”, a Romulan ship looks like the D7-class Klingon battlecruiser in Terms of Service season 3, episode 13, “Elaan of Troyius.” Rather than being a Romulan ship, the iconic D7 would become the basis for nearly every Klingon ship in…
Star Trek: VoyagerKes could return, even if Jennifer Lien doesn't return to reprise the role. As an Ocampa with a projected lifespan of just nine years, Kes' days were necessarily numbered. Kes was two years old when she and Neelix (Ethan Phillips) joined the crew of the USS Voyager in 2371, so Even if Kes had made it through Voyager's seven-year journey, she would have been near the end of her life for Voyager's arrival in 2378 in the Alpha Quadrant.. New Star Trek post-showTraveler will take place in the 2380s or later, so Kes shouldn't be alive… right? In…
Part of Star Trekclassic Tribbles intro Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2, Episode 15, “The Trouble With Tribbles”, was created by Star Trek: Discovery. In “The Trouble With Tribbles”, the crew of Captain James T. Kirk’s (William Shatner) USS Enterprise encounters the crew of Klingon Captain Koloth (William Campbell) on the K-7 space station. Instead of attacking the station, the Klingons claim to want to get off the coast. A Klingon plot to sabotage the Federation settlement on Sherman’s Planet is revealed and subsequently thwarted when an outbreak of mass replicating Tribbles consumes a shipment of poisoned quadrotriticale grains…
Since the 1960s, major space science fiction television shows have been overshadowed by Star Trek. Gene Roddenberry’s hopeful vision of humanity’s space future is a cultural touchstone which inspired dedicated Trekkies around the world. Reruns and movies kept this dream alive long enough to release many more Star Trek properties. After a long drought, the Star Trek the franchise is stronger than ever in the streaming era, with five shows and more new features Star Trek projects on the way. Programs that follow any part of the Star Trek formula are inevitably compared to the science fiction juggernaut, even when…
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 6 – “Of Gods and Angles” Star Trek: Voyager proved that one of Starfleet’s enemies in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine could be reformed. Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe Maquis were a guerrilla resistance group started by civilians whose homes had been annexed by the Cardassians and disillusioned former Starfleet officers. The Federation considered the Maquis traitors and vehemently pursued their capture. DS9Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) had a particularly difficult time with Starfleet officer-turned-Maquis fighter Michael Eddington (Kenneth Marshall), and infamously resorted to poisoning the atmosphere of Eddington’s safe…
Nurse Christine Chapel made a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo in 2009 Star Trek film. The Nurse Chapel was a constant presence in Dr. Leonard McCoy’s (DeForest Kelley) ward, often ready to provide assistance (or pine after Leonard Nimoy’s Spock) in 25 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. In Star Trek: the movieDr. Christine Chapel easily slips into her former role as McCoy’s trusted nurse. The prequel Star Trek: Strange New Worlds improves Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush), turning her into a brilliant scientist with her own character arc. Director JJ Abrams’ Kelvin Timeline Star Trek classic reinvented films Star Trek: The Original…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season three could yield a romance between two USS Enterprise officers that was first teased 59 years ago. Like a new Star Trek show about the USS Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is already producing the first version of Star Trek. In 1965, the first Star Trek the pilot, “The Cage”, starred Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike, Leonard Nimoy as Spock and Majel Barrett-Roddenberry as Number One; now all three characters have been reinvented for a modern audience. Anson Mount’s Captain Pike is a strong…