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Although it took a long time for Paramount to return the favor, Star Trek Online has long done a great job of bringing in material from the more recent shows into its own imagining of at 25th-century era for boldly going. But its latest drop might be one of its most fun.Playing Raffi Throughout Star Trek: PicardSTO developer Cryptic Studios has just announced its latest drop—coinciding with new story content—will feature a bevy of new material inspired by the final season of Star Trek Picard. Alongside a new ship, the…

Screenshot: ParamountThe Battle of Wolf 359's legacy goes much further than just “The Best of Both Worlds,” both in and out of the text of Star Trek itself. The trauma of the incident follows Picard throughout the remainder of TNG, brought up explicitly in episodes like the following season’s “Family” and “The Drumhead,” and of course in Star Trek: First Contact and its renewed engagement with the Borg in Sector 001, set just six years after the events of “The Best of Both Worlds.”It touches other important Star Trek…

Screenshot: ParamountAnother rare entry on this list that is not from either the Dominion or Klingon Wars is still perhaps the most famous battle in Star Trek history: Starfleet’s engagement with Borg forces in the Wolf system, just eight light years from Earth. Compared to other conflicts mentioned here the numbers involved are much smaller in scope, 40 Starfleet vessels and a single Borg Cube. But Wolf 359 is devastating for the trauma it impacts on much of Star Trek itself in the years since its aftermath was first…

Star Trek has been doing quite well on TV of late but it’s time to beam back to the big screen. While a fourth Star Trek film on the Kelvin timeline is still in the works, now a new project has been revealed too.Luke Macfarlane | First FandomsToby Haynes, who helmed episodes of Andor, will direct the film from a script by Seth Grahame-Smith (It, Lego Batman). J.J. Abrams will once again produce, which makes sense since the film is set decades before the events of his 2009 Star Trek film.Deadline broke the news, and while…

The search for aliens and extra-terrestrial civilisations continues considering the laws of probability that suggest Earth is not the only planet in the universe where life exists.…

Screenshot: ParamountExtinction avoided is nice, but that doesn’t stop other bad things existing in Trek’s 2024. Remember those Sanctuary Districts we mentioned earlier? They begin cropping up in major cities all over the United States, intended to provide free housing, healthcare, and job opportunities to people impacted by the wave of economic, climate, and political crises wracking the country. But Sanctuary Districts rapidly descended into totalitarian ghettos, with local police forces ruling the districts with iron…

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ fondness for exploring old ideas and structures doesn’t just rely on an affection for the original Star Trek. It’s willing to take on tones, ideas, and experiments from across the franchise’s history—and even its most recent past, as is the case this week,as the show takes on Discovery’s largest unexplored aftermath. But it might be coming to its own limits on just how dark a path it can take some of its heroes down.Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 Interview“Under…

Screenshot: ParamountSan Diego Comic-Con has been very good to Star Trek in recent years, and even as Hollywood labor movements mean the franchise’s stars are sitting out of the action in Hall H this year, there was still plenty to be excited about in Star Trek’s new panel—like a long awaited first look at the return of Lower Decks.Strange New World's Melissa Navia Talks Flying the Enterprise | io9 InterviewAfter an up-and-down season 3 largely left our Ensign heroes where they started the season, this latest adventure…

Strange New Worlds has made a name for itself over the course of its first season, and now the first half of its sophomore, in taking the vibes of the original Star Trek—and sometimes literal episodes—and translating them to a modern television show, and the expectations that come with them. But what happens when the vibes can’t quite make it?Strange New World's Melissa Navia Talks Flying the Enterprise | io9 InterviewYou get “Among the Lotus Eaters,” this week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which feels like…

Image: ParamountLook, I’m not saying that this two-parter is a bad episode, but it’s not known for the courtroom framing device—where Spock is put on trial for abducting the Enterprise and its former captain, Christopher Pike. It’s merely an excuse to reuse swaths of the original Star Trek pilot, and while it won’t make it past most juries, that in and of itself is a notable twist on Trek’s history with this format. Image: ParamountLook, I’m not saying that this two-parter is a bad episode, but it’s not known for the…