Kathryn Janeway

Star Trek: Picard’s third and final season had a lot going on—and that’s even before you throw in half the regular cast of The Next Generation, and then some, showing up as the weeks went on. But it turns out, there were almost even more returning faces—and not necessarily just from TNG.‘I Saw Jonathan Frakes Giving Patrick Stewart a Noogie’Speaking to Master Replicas Collectors Club members in a Zoom Q&A recently (via TrekMovie), Picard showrunner and perpetual hoper-for-a-spinoff Terry Matalas revealed that Picard…

Twenty-eight years ago, Star Trek asked a daring question, one fitting of a franchise that triumphs boldly going and facing the unknown: should experimental FTL travel culminate in a captain and her helmsman turning into amphibians and doing the scaly deed? The answer is unequivocally no, but it has given us a reminder that even the worst moments of a franchise as long-lived as Star Trek are occasionally worth re-evaluating.Weirdest Thing Star Trek Star LeVar Burton Has SignedIt takes a lot to be a bad episode of Star…

Paramount’s decision to unceremoniously both renege on its season twogreenlight for Star Trek: Prodigy and completely remove the show from its streaming platform has created a PR nightmare of its own making with many, many layers to it. But amid all the concerns, the thing I keep thinking about is just how rude it is to the legacy of one of Trek’s finest.io9 Q Star Trek Phone MessageThat finest is of course Kate Mulgrew’s Captain (now Admiral) Kathryn Janeway, the Voyager star who in Prodigy connected its young alien…

Image: ParamountPicard ends with the Titan re-christened as the new Enterprise-G, meaning the F, briefly seen on-screen before disaster struck in the penultimate episode—and the Enterprise of Star Trek Online, where its design originated—has either itself been re-christened, or it got hit way harder in the Borg attack than we’d assumed.We saw Admiral Shelby killed in action when the Borg assimilation spread through the fleet, but nothing about the Enterprise-F going down. A year’s passed since the Titan was re-christened…

Image: ParamountYou would think if you could successfully blanket more than half the year in new weekly episodes of Star Trek, you had enough Star Trek going on at the moment. But Paramount doesn’t seem to think so—in between dropping episodes of Trek like they were two-for-one raktajinos on Deep Space Nine’s promenade, the studio announced that a long-previously-announced plan for a Starfleet Academy series was being reworked into a new Paramount+ series this year.It also confirmed time and time again that Michelle…

Image: Warner Bros.Florence Pugh is currently slated to star in Alexander Skarsgård’s directorial debut, a wilderness survival horror/thriller titled The Pack. MCM Comic Con gave fans a look at the new costumes for the Doctor Who 60th-anniversary special. Plus, Kate Mulgrew discusses a potential Janeway-centric Star Trek TV series. Lead the way to spoilers!The Forest HillsAccording to Deadline, Shelley Duvall will make her long-awaited return to acting with The Forest Hills, the upcoming werewolf film from writer-director…

Image: ParamountSequels are always a challenging endeavor, in Star Trek or otherwise. But there’s something about Star Trek cinematically that makes it really difficult—the franchise rarely ever escaped the cursed of the odd-numbered sequel, and so it’s fitting that Lower Decks approaches its own first attempt at a direct sequel with a sense of trepidation... and mostly makes it work.“Crisis Point II: Paradoxus” is, as the name implies, a direct sequel to the movie-riffing delights of “Crisis Point,”the late-game Lower…

Image: ParamountStar Trek: Prodigy’s young heroes ended the first half of the season having learned how to be a crew together, and now more ready than ever to make the leap to becoming Starfleet cadets. Those plans have hit a bit of a snag, however... and it looks like this season is going to continue with Starfleet not being on the best of terms with the U.S.S. Protostar.As part of today’s Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con, Paramount revealed a trailer for the remaining half of Prodigy’s first season, set to…

Screenshot: Paramount+The USS Protostar crew is back just in time for Star Trek Day, debuting a look at the mid-season premiere of Star Trek: Prodigy, the animated kids’ show set within the Trek universe. In the clip featured below you may hear a familiar space captain with his signature roguish panache. Yes, that’s right: Billy Campbell has joined the season one voice cast with a recurring role as Thadiun Okona, officially reprising his Star Trek: The Next Generation role. (It’s perfect timing, as the young crew may…

Screenshot: Gazelle AutomationsBack in April, we were treated to a clip of Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Animated Series that imagined the show as if it had been animated in the 1970s by Filmation, just as the original Trek series had. Now, the heroes at Gazelle Automations have returned to reimagine Voyager in the same format, and it’s equally as perfect—but what makes it arguably better is that the scene comes from “Threshold,” arguably the worst Voyager episode of all time.If you don’t know (or don’t recall),…