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‘star trek: strange new worlds’ to air on cbs this fall.

With the strike in full swing, the Paramount+ 'Star Trek' series will get an airing on broadcast.

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CBS is boldly bringing Star Trek back to broadcast TV.

The Paramount+ hit series Strange New Worlds is getting an airing on CBS in early fall as part of a “Star Trek Day” celebration.

CBS will air the show’s series premiere, “Strange New Worlds,” as well as the show’s second episode, “Children of the Comet,” giving broadcast viewers a chance to sample the streaming series.

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Sept. 8 has been christened Star Trek Day because the original series premiered on that date in 1966.

Paramount+ also announced Star Trek Day special hosted by Jerry O’Connell that’s “a salute to the franchise,” saying, “the special program will include segments that look back at memorable moments over the past 57 years; commemorate 50 years of  Star Trek  animation; pay tribute to  Star Trek: Discovery , ahead of its final season; provide an exclusive sneak-peek clip from the upcoming fourth season of  Star Trek Lower Decks ; and commemorate many other moments that highlight  Star Trek’s legacy.”

There will also be special Lower Decks screenings in 11 cities, which fans can register to attend here .

Strange New Worlds  is a spinoff of  Star Trek: Discovery  that launched last year and follows the voyages of Pike (Anson Mount), Number One (Rebecca Romijn), Science Officer Spock (Ethan Peck), Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), Cadet Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Lt. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) and Dr. M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun).

Aug. 25, 8:30 p.m. A previous version of this story incorrectly said that the original Star Trek series premiered in 1996. THR regrets the error.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ First Two Episodes to Air on CBS Next Month

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is beaming up from Paramount+ to the CBS mothership.

The first two episodes of the streaming Trek series will re-air on CBS, TVLine has learned, on Friday, Sept. 8 at 8/7c. The special airing is part of the annual “Star Trek Day” celebration, held each year on Sept. 8 to mark the anniversary of the original Star Trek ‘s TV debut in 1966.

Also included in the “Star Trek Day” festivities: a special program hosted by Jerry O’Connell that will stream online and feature an exclusive sneak peek at the upcoming Season 4 of Star Trek: Lower Decks , along with new merchandise for sale and theatrical screenings of Lower Decks across the U.S., the UK and Canada. (Head to StarTrek.com/Day for more info.)

Any Trekkies out there who will be watching Strange New Worlds for the first time on CBS? Beam down to the comments and let us know what you think about the special airing.

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Honestly they should just air entire seasons of shows that were Paramount Plus given the current strikes.

The old one or two episode tease.

That’s “Trekkers” and yes.

You’re showing your age. We originals are Trekkies. And of course, I’m showing my age too. — If you went to the original cons in the 70s, you’re a Trekkie. And if you bought excellent replicas of phasers and tricorders from a man named James T. Kirk who drove a van that was painted to look like the shuttlecraft, you’re a super Trekkie. — We super geeknerd Trekkies and those cons kept the show alive.

You’re welcome.

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He i’m a second generation fan minor since day one major since Voyager. Inhereted my mom’s books one which was signed by the author does that make me a Trekkie?

The only thing that can make you a Trekkie is a desire to be one. You sound eminently qualified for the title.

Robbing broadcasting to pay for streaming and robbing streaming to pay for broadcasting.

Why not just air the whole first season of strange new world?? U did it with Star Trek discovery during the first year of Covid

Plus, they already put that whole first season on YouTube for free to help launch season 2 on P+.

They have to pay or do new contracts depending on previous contracts signed. Streaming and prime time different money paid out. Also discovery even season 2, the pike year didn’t do great so would probably be better to burn thru criminal minds, seal team, and Yellowstone 1st.

Granted discovery was on with little promo on 10p thur a time slot that’s always an issue

They already played the whole first season of SNW on Pluto TV for free. And the first episode of S2 was also available for free on Paramount.

They should’ve been airing ALL the Star Trek Shows on CBS or one of their Networks from the start to show proper honor to Gene Roddenberry’s legacy! Gatekeeping Star Trek behind a paywall like they have been doing is just a show of greed.

First contact day is just something Paramount+/CBS All Access came up with 3 Yrs ago to promote their streaming show and new things you could buy. Don’t remember any Trek fans celebrating this in the past 40 Yrs I’ve been alive. Maybe we might care on the date listed in the shows 4/5/2063.

Love you coming tomorrow broadcast. Some of us flat out refuse to stream but miss our favorite who have abandoned mainstream.

I love it, but after the two episodes, where do I watch any continuations?..im not on paramount+…so it’s a teaser for those of us who don’t have paramount+..why can’t it stay on CBS?

It stinks that we only get 2 episodes. The original series was on FREE TV and now they want us to pay for it. You CBS execs don’t get it do you, you will make way more money in ad revenue on free TV than you will ever make on pay-per-view. I might would watch the commercials if you get more than drug ads.

So in conclusion I hope you overly paid execs choke on your pay services this year as you won’t have any new showes due to the strike. Us as viewers I hope won’t help your bloted salaries by paying for a service that was once ad supported, and I also hope the advertisers won’t continue to pay for ads on reruns.

From a disgruntled viewer!!!

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• On Star Trek Day, September 8, CBS will air the first two episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , a series that traces its origins back to the beginning of the franchise.
• Strange New Worlds features Captain Christopher Pike and his crew, who were introduced in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery and proved popular enough to have their own series.
• The show's second season ended with a cliffhanger, leaving fans eagerly awaiting the fate of the Enterprise and its crew, but due to ongoing strikes, the release of the third season may be delayed.

The USS Enterprise is on its way back to network TV — for one day only. To celebrate Star Trek Day, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will air on CBS on September 8. As part of Star Trek Day, which commemorates the anniversary of Star Trek 's first airing on NBC on September 8, 1966, Strange New Worlds will air the first two episodes of its first season on CBS. " Strange New Worlds ", the pilot, will air at 8 PM ET, with the second episode, " Children of the Comet ", following immediately after. Other Star Trek Day festivities include theatrical screenings of Star Trek: Lower Decks in selected cities, a special hosted by Lower Decks voice actor Jerry O'Connell , and a sale on Star Trek merchandise on StarTrek.com.

'Strange New Worlds': Boldly Going Back To The Beginning

One show of the fleet of Star Trek series to have launched on Paramount Plus since the franchise's revival in 2017, Strange New Worlds traces its origins back to the very beginning of the series. Star Trek 's original pilot did not feature the iconic James T. Kirk as captain of the Enterprise , but another man, Christopher Pike , played by Jeffrey Hunter . When the show went to series, the character was replaced by William Shatner 's Kirk. However, footage from the pilot was used later in the series, establishing Pike as Kirk's predecessor as Enterprise captain.

The second season of Star Trek: Discovery , which takes place before the original Star Trek series, reintroduced Pike and his crew, with Anson Mount playing Pike, Ethan Peck as Spock, and Rebecca Romijn as Number One, another character from the original pilot. They proved sufficiently popular that they were spun off into their own series, Strange New Worlds , which harkened back to the more episodic storytelling of the classic Star Trek series.

Strange New Worlds recently concluded its second season with " Hegemony ", which ended on a huge cliffhanger, with the Enterprise in imminent danger from the brutal reptilian Gorn — and Pike's lover, Captain Marie Batel ( Melanie Scrofano ), having been infected with a deadly Gorn embryo. The series has been renewed for a third season , but with the AMPTP's unwillingness to end the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes , Trek fans will have to wait quite some time to find out the fate of the Enterprise and her crew.

Strange New Worlds ' first two episodes will air on Star Trek Day, September 8, at 8 PM ET on CBS. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates, and watch Collider's interview with the Strange New Worlds cast below.

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“Star Trek” is boldly going back to its roots.

CBS revealed Friday that it had given a series order to “ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ,” a new show that will take place on the starship Enterprise in the years prior to James T. Kirk coming aboard as captain. The new show is set, like other recent “Star Trek” spinoffs, to stream on CBS All Access. But it will, according to co-creator and executive producer Akiva Goldsman, hew more closely to the original Kirk-era “Star Trek” in structure and tone than those other recent additions to the franchise have.

“We’re going to try to harken back to some classical ‘Trek’ values, to be optimistic, and to be more episodic,” Goldsman tell Variety . “Obviously, we will take advantage of the serialized nature of character and story building. But I think our plots will be more closed-ended than you’ve seen in either ‘Discovery’ or ‘Picard.'”

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“Discovery,” the first of the All Access series, broke with past “Star Trek” iterations by being the first to tell a highly serialized story. “Picard,” which premiered this year, followed suit, and presented a more skeptical view of the future than its humanist predecessors did.

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The original “Star Trek,” in keeping with TV conventions of the late ’60s, told stories so self-contained that events that seemed to traumatize characters in one episode would never be mentioned again in subsequent ones. By the ’90s and early 2000s, a new wave of shows including “The Next Generation,” “Voyager” and especially “Deep Space Nine” introduced elements of serialized storytelling to a structure that was still essentially episodic.

“I imagine it to be closer to the original series than even ‘DS9,'” Goldsman says of “Strange New Worlds.” “We can really tell closed-ended stories. We can find ourselves in episodes that are tonally of a piece.” Of the type of episode that “Strange New Worlds” might attempt that “Discovery” or “Picard” might not, Goldsman says, “It’s hard to do a shore-leave episode in the middle of a long, serialized arc.”

But episodes won’t be quite so contained as, say, “The City on the Edge of Forever,” the classic original-series installment in which William Shatner’s Kirk and Leonard Nimoy’s Spock meet Edith Keeler, a brilliant social worker played by Joan Collins whom history has fated to die young.

“I think one thing that we always struggled with [as fans] was that Kirk is heartbroken at the loss of Edith Keeler in ‘The City on the Edge of Forever’ and has to be just fine the next week,” Goldsman says. “I think what we would want to do is keep the characters having moved through and recognizing the experiences they’ve had in previous episodes, but to be able to tell contained, episodic stories.

“Strange New Worlds” spins off from Season 2 of “Discovery,” which saw the titular starship roll up on the Enterprise and its pre-Kirk crew. For the new series, Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck will reprise their performances as Capt. Pike, Number One and Mister Spock — played in the original series by Jeffrey Hunter, Majel Barrett and Nimoy, respectively.

When he first landed the part of Spock for “Discovery” Season 2, Peck met with the family of the late Nimoy, who originated the role. But the Spock he played on “Discovery” was different from the logic-driven half-alien Nimoy made iconic. Peck played a younger Spock at a time in the character’s life when he had come to question himself and his identity. Peck anticipates that the Spock of “Strange New Worlds” will have matured since his “Discovery” days.

“It’ll be a whole new challenge for me as an actor portraying Spock because you’ve had this transformation,” Peck tells  Variety. “I can’t wait to see what we explore.”

A new show about Pike, Spock and Number One had been rumored almost since the new incarnations of the characters first appeared on “Discovery.” Peck, since the end of “Discovery,” has become a regular at “Star Trek” conventions, where he’s sought to stoke fan support for the idea.

“Last year, I basically told myself I was gonna do as many conventions as possible to connect to the fan base and campaign for a spinoff show for Anson and Rebecca and I,” he says. “We all got along so well, and we all loved the content so much and the message of ‘Star Trek.'” He notes that on Thursday night, prior to the announcement, he and Mount “had a Zoom drink” to celebrate — Mount a whiskey, Peck a Peroni. Romijn wasn’t available to join for the first round, so the three plan to get together virtually this weekend.

Both Goldsman and Peck are mum on story details. (When asked if “Strange New World” viewers will get to see Spock during pon farr , Peck — without needing it explained to him that pon farr is a period of extreme sexual desire that Vulcans experience once every seven years — laughs and says, “I really have no idea, but I would think it’s a strong possibility.”) And Goldsman says he has “no idea” when production might begin, thanks to the industry-wide shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But Peck is excited to bring a new version of the franchise’s progressive, inclusive ethos to television.

“I believe so much in what we’re doing,” he says. “I don’t think that there’s ever been a better time for ‘Star Trek,’ because of its ideology. It’s all about coming together and using the ways that we’re different from one another for the advantage of people as a whole.”

As for the future of the “Star Trek,” CBS continues to move ahead with multiple new series under the guidance of franchise godfather Alex Kurtzman, also an exec producer on “Strange New Worlds.” Paramount has struggled in recent years to mount new “Star Trek” features — though “Fargo” and “Legion” creator Noah Hawley is still reported to be at work on a new film. Asked whether, now that Paramount and CBS have been reunited via merger under the ViacomCBS umbrella, the TV and film sides of “Star Trek” might be similarly reconciled, Goldsman says, “It’s deeply above my pay grade. But boy, you know, I think it would be extraordinary.”

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Paramount+ announces new seasons of “star trek: strange new worlds” and “star trek: lower decks” will premiere globally this summer.

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March 28, 2023 – Paramount+ today announced new seasons of its hit original series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS and STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS will premiere globally this summer. In addition, Paramount+ announced that both series have been renewed for additional seasons: STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS for a 10-episode third season and STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS for a 10-episode fifth season.

Season two of the original drama series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS will premiere Thursday, June 15 on Paramount+ in the U.S, the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. New episodes of the 10-episode season will be available to stream weekly on Thursdays. The second season will also be available to stream on Paramount+ in South Korea, with premiere dates to be announced at a later date.

Season four of the original animated comedy series STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS will premiere in late summer on Paramount+ in the U.S., with the exact date to be announced. International premiere dates will be also announced at a later date.

Fans will be treated to even more new animated “Star Trek” as the critically acclaimed original animated kids’ series STAR TREK: PRODIGY will return with season two this winter. The Children’s and Family Emmy Award-winning series is from Nickelodeon and CBS Studios’ Eye Animation Productions.

As previously announced, the fifth and final season of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY will premiere in early 2024.

Season two of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS includes the previously announced special crossover episode featuring both live-action and animation, and STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS’ Tawny Newsome as Ensign Beckett Mariner and Jack Quaid as Ensign Brad Boimler joining the U.S.S. Enterprise. The episode was directed by “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and STAR TREK: PICARD actor and director Jonathan Frakes.

About STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series features fan favorites Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock. The series follows Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS also stars Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel, Christina Chong as La’an Noonien-Singh, Celia Rose Gooding as Cadet Nyota Uhura, Melissa Navia as Lt. Erica Ortegas and Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M’Benga. Season two also features the return of special guest star Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk and new addition Carol Kane in a recurring role as Pelia.

Season two of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS is produced by CBS Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers serve as co-showrunners. Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet serve as executive producers in addition to Alonso Myers, Aaron Baiers, Heather Kadin, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth.

Season one of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS is currently available to stream exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., U.K., Latin America, Australia, South Korea, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria and airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave in Canada and on SkyShowtime in the Nordics, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Central and Eastern Europe. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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Created by Emmy Award winner Mike McMahan (“Rick and Morty,” “Solar Opposites”), in season four of STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, an unknown force is destroying starships and threatening galactic peace. Luckily, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos isn’t important enough for stuff like that! Instead, Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford and Provisional Ensign T’Lyn are keeping up with their Starfleet duties, avoiding malevolent computers, and getting stuck in a couple caves– all while encountering new and classic aliens along the way.

The Starfleet crew residing in the “lower decks” of the U.S.S. Cerritos includes Ensign Beckett Mariner, voiced by Tawny Newsome; Ensign Brad Boimler, voiced by Jack Quaid; Ensign Tendi, voiced by Noël Wells; and Ensign Rutherford, voiced by Eugene Cordero. The Starfleet characters that comprise the U.S.S. Cerritos’ bridge crew include Captain Carol Freeman, voiced by Dawnn Lewis; Commander Jack Ransom, voiced by Jerry O’Connell; Lieutenant Shaxs, voiced by Fred Tatasciore; and Doctor T’Ana, voiced by Gillian Vigman.

Season four of STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS is produced by CBS’ Eye Animation Productions, CBS Studios’ animation arm; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment. Secret Hideout’s Alex Kurtzman, Roddenberry Entertainment’s Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth and Katie Krentz (219 Productions) serve as executive producers alongside creator and showrunner Mike McMahan. Aaron Baiers (“Secret Hideout”), who brought McMahan to the project, also serves as an executive producer. Titmouse (“Big Mouth”), the Emmy Award-winning independent animation production company, serves as the animation studio for the series.

STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Latin America and is distributed concurrently by Paramount Global Content Distribution on Amazon Prime Video in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Japan, India and more and in Canada, airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave. The series will also be available to stream on Paramount+ in the UK, Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and South Korea later this year.

About STAR TREK: PRODIGY

Developed by Emmy® Award winners Kevin and Dan Hageman (“Trollhunters” and “Ninjago”), the CG-animated series STAR TREK: PRODIGY is the first “Star Trek” series aimed at younger audiences and follows a motley crew of young aliens who must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search of a better future. These six young outcasts know nothing about the ship they have commandeered – a first in the history of the “Star Trek” franchise – but over the course of their adventures together, they will each be introduced to Starfleet and the ideals it represents.

Season two of STAR TREK: PRODIGY is from CBS’ Eye Animation Productions, CBS Studios’ animation arm; Nickelodeon Animation, led by president of animation Ramsey Naito; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment. Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, Aaron Baiers, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth serve as executive producers, alongside co-showrunners Kevin and Dan Hageman. Ben Hibon directs, executive produces and serves as the creative lead of the animated series. Aaron Waltke and Patrick Krebs also currently serve as co-executive producers.

The STAR TREK: PRODIGY voice cast includes Kate Mulgrew (Hologram Kathryn Janeway), Brett Gray (Dal), Ella Purnell (Gwyn), Rylee Alazraqui (Rok-Tahk), Angus Imrie (Zero), Jason Mantzoukas (Jankom Pog), Dee Bradley Baker (Murf) and John Noble (The Diviner).

STAR TREK: PRODIGY currently streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., Latin America, Australia, South Korea, Italy and the U.K. and is coming soon to Paramount+ in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France as well as to Nickelodeon international channels, which are available in 180 countries globally. In Canada, it airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave. STAR TREK: PRODIGY is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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• Goofs With Michael being the adoptive sister of Spock, the series has many flashbacks to their childhood and upbringing on Vulcan. Spock's Vulcan half-brother, Sybok, does not appear nor is mention during these scenes. In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) , Spock says that he and Sybok grew up together. However, since it's never stated when Sybok joined Sarek's home - only that he did so following his mother's death - or when he was exiled from the family, it's not impossible Sybok moved in after Burnham, and left before she graduated (the two extremes of the flashbacks). Also, since Sybok was never mentioned before Star Trek V, it seems reasonable the family never spoke of him again after his estrangement.
• Alternate versions The serif-font legends and subtitles in the "broadcast" episodes are absent from the DVD versions, where they are replaced with the standard DVD subtitles.
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The Right Tool for the Right Job

By Jim Johnson, Star Trek Adventures Project Manager Art by Grzegorz Pedrycz

Releasing alongside the new Star Trek ™  Adventures second edition core rulebook is the first supplement for second edition, the Game Toolkit . Similar to the toolkits produced for first edition and The Klingon Empire line of products, the new toolkit offers a wealth of material gamemasters and players can use to enhance their adventures and campaigns. If you’re curious to know more about the content included in the toolkit, read on!

The key component of the toolkit is the four-panel, US letter-sized game screen. It features full-color art by artist Paolo Puggioni of the U.S.S. Enterprise approaching a mysterious alien space station on one side, and a wealth of rules guidance, tables, and page references to the core rulebook on the reverse. Whether kept flat on the game table or upright between gamemaster and players, you’ll find the reference side of the screen contains rules content you’re likely to frequently reference.

Next is the full-color, 40-page booklet, containing additional material designed to supplement your second edition game experience. In addition to guidance for the gamemaster, five new starship talents, and five new starship mission profiles, you’ll find two additional special rules for starships (Four-Nacelle Stability and Mission Pod), along with eleven mission pod options. Also included are spaceframes utilizing these new special rules: the Constellation and Sagan classes with their unusual four-nacelle designs; and the Nebula and Luna classes, which both make use of mission pods.

In total, 17 additional spaceframes are included in the booklet. The 15 Starfleet classes offered in addition to those listed above present a spread of well-known spaceframes (such as the Crossfield , Miranda , Akira , Defiant , and Nova classes) and a few ships appearing in the RPG for the first time (such as the Columbia and Pioneer classes).

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These Starfleet ships are accompanied by the Klingon Vor’cha -class attack cruiser and the Romulan Mogai -class warbird, both of which serve to add more powerful vessels to their respective fleets.

The next group of included components consists of eight double-sided reference cards, detailing content likely to be referenced by players regularly during game sessions. The eight cards include a rules summary card, a personal conflict reference card, a starship conflict reference card, four cards listing standard major and minor actions as well as key actions for specific positions (command, communications, engineering, helm/navigation, operations, and tactical). Also included is a starship breaches card, which can be used with both Star Trek Adventures and the Captain’s Log solo RPG to generate thematic descriptions and traits for breaches affecting damaged ship systems.

Finally, included in the toolkit is a large, two-sided poster suitable for framing. On one side is the evocative cover artwork for the standard edition of the second edition core rulebook by artist Paolo Puggioni, presenting our diverse array of iconic characters emerging from the Guardian of Forever. On the other side is a detailed map of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants circa the mid-23rd century, adapted from the same star map visible on-screen in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds .

I hope you’ll find the Game Toolkit a worthwhile addition to the Star Trek Adventures game line. May you get a lot of use out of the many components contained in the package

Pre-order your copy of the second edition Star Trek Adventures core rulebook now in standard format or one of three limited edition covers! And preorder a copy of the second edition Game Toolkit as well, to expand your options for exploring the final frontier.

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Patton Oswalt Just Made Star Trek’s Most Beloved Aliens Terrifying

The trouble with hive minds.

You can’t keep a good tribble down. The adorable but troublesome fuzzballs reproduce so quickly that even if you get rid of one, about a thousand will take their place, and they’ve been making Star Trek stories funny and weird since their 1967 debut in “The Trouble With Tribbles.” Since then, the franchise has used tribbles sparingly, and usually as a quick Easter Egg or punchline rather than a serious plot point.

But an under-the-radar Star Trek story just revealed a shocking new detail about tribbles. And once you know what that detail is, you’ll be surprised that it’s taken this long to think up. Spoilers ahead for IDW’s Star Trek #500 comic book.

In a special 500th anthology issue of IDW’s ongoing Star Trek comic book series, a new story called “I Knew You Were Tribble When You Walked In” tells the story of the tribbles in “The Trouble With Tribbles” from the point-of-view of the little critters themselves.

The tribbles have a hivemind!

The story, co-written by Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt, is just a few pages long. We start with the perspective of one tribble and quickly learn that it has a thing for Captain Kirk. In its mind, this tribble refers to Kirk as “my golden beloved.”

But that’s not all. When the little tribble can’t find Kirk, it uses “my hive mind network” to locate him, which means the tribble’s consciousness can transfer to all tribbles. At one point, it describes itself as “everywhere,” and we see various scenes from the episode, as well as Deep Space Nine’s time travelers, Captain Sisko and Lt. Dax, when they dropped by in the 1996 episode “Trials and Tribble-ations.” The tribbles aren’t exactly ageless, but their telepathic network does seem to rival Trek’s other famous hivemind race; the Borg.

This makes perfect sense when you think about it. The tribbles are depicted as highly sensitive, and though not complex creatures, they do seem to behave with some shared purpose. And now, assuming this comic is low-key canon, we know that their shared goals are thanks to the fact they all can move their minds between one another at will.

In Deep Space Nine , Worf said the tribbles were once considered an ecological blight, and that the Klingon Empire had regarded them as mortal enemies. This hivemind detail makes that plot point make a little more sense. Not only can these tribbles become obsessed with human beings (again, this one is hot for Kirk), but they can also all decide to feel the same thing simultaneously. Like hunger for Klingon crops.

They may look cute, but don’t let your guard down.

In the Short Treks 2018 episode “The Trouble With Edward,” we learn that Lt. Larkin (H. Jon Benjamin) was at least partially responsible for genetically modifying the tribbles to make them breed at exponential rates. This retcon, however, doesn’t exclude the tribbles secretly being telepathic or part of a hivemind. In fact, what “I Knew You Were Tribble When You Walked In” asserts is that we’d have no way of knowing what tribbles were thinking because their language and thoughts are all internal.

Although Spock held several tribbles in the classic episode, it doesn’t seem like he ever mind-melded with them. If Spock had telepathically linked with the tribbles, then everything about how that episode plays out would have to be changed. And while Spock probably would’ve favored trying to find a way to live with the tribbles, their hivemind abilities might have freaked Kirk out regardless of how cute they are.

While this new story should be read with a sense of tongue-in-cheek zeal, the ending does show the tribbles' fate. They’re beamed onto the episode’s Klingon ship, where they seem to connect with one Klingon officer. We know the tribbles and the Klingons didn’t team up after this moment, but if they had, they probably could’ve conquered the galaxy.

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CBS announced Saturday that Patrick Stewart will reprise his iconic role of Jean-Luc Picard in a new "Star Trek" series. It will be streamed on Paramount+ .

The still-unnamed series will explore the "next chapter" of Picard's life.

Stewart played the Enterprise captain in the TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987-94), and in several feature films. He last appeared in the role in the movie "Star Trek: Nemesis" in 2002. Stewart, who will also be an executive producer of the show, described it is an "unexpected but delightful surprise" to reprise the role after, he thought, it had "run its natural course."

He said it has been "humbling" to hear from fans about how Picard has helped and inspired them.

"I feel I'm ready to return to him for the same reason — to research and experience what comforting and reforming light he might shine on these often very dark times," Stewart said in a statement. "I look forward to working with our brilliant creative team as we endeavor to bring a fresh, unexpected and pertinent story to life once more."

The news was announced at the  2018 Star Trek Convention  in Las Vegas.

"Discovery" executive producer and co-creator Alex Kurtzman will also serve as an executive producer.

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Star Trek's George Takei & William Shatner Feud, Explained

How do you untangle a feud that's lasted half a century, spanning the distance of an entire sci-fi franchise and several fictional galaxies? It's a challenge to be sure, but it's clear even to the naked eye that "Star Trek" stars George Takei and William Shatner have a whole lot of baggage. Their distaste for one another is no secret; they've been known to unpack it publicly during interviews, in books, and via social media posts, even decades after they last worked together. Now in their 80s and 90s respectively, the pair still grab headlines for the occasional verbal swipe at one another.

So, what went wrong between Shatner and Takei? It depends on which of the two you ask, but some of the earliest and most complete explanations of their time on "Star Trek" come from Takei's 1994 autobiography "To The Stars." In it, the Hikaru Sulu actor surprisingly notes that he was originally drawn to the "Star Trek" pilot partially due to Shatner's involvement. He'd seen the actor perform in the play "A Shot in the Dark" (Takei had also caught some of Leonard Nimoy's stage work), and described his experience watching Shatner act early on in powerful and positive terms.

Shatner rubbed Takei the wrong way on set

"He radiated energy and a boundless joy in his position," Takei wrote of filming early season 1 "Star Trek" with Shatner, noting that the actor playing Captain Kirk was "the single most compelling presence there, the unmistakable star of the production." While Takei doesn't explicitly explain why his opinion on Shatner changed, it's made clear through a series of fairly subtle anecdotes.

First, Shatner didn't recognize Takei when the pair worked together on an episode of "Chrysler Fever" before "Star Trek" was picked up. The actor described Shatner ignoring his question about if he'd heard any "Trek" news and trying to make up for not remembering Takei with an "aggressive show of fondness" that came across as insincere. He also described some situations where Shatner seemed to make himself the center of attention to the displeasure of the rest of the cast, like when he allegedly forced photographers doing a piece on Nimoy to leave set or, apparently, posed as if he was helping to put out an already-controlled fire on the soundstage in a clear publicity stunt. Basically, the guy just rubbed Takei (and others) the wrong way.

Over the years, Takei became pretty open about his dislike for Shatner in the press, though he often still couched it in compliments of the actor's talents. In 2004, he gave an interview with the Television Academy in which he reiterated that Shatner loved to be the center of attention, often quite literally stealing the spotlight from co-stars by getting shots of other actors cut and replaced with more of himself. By the time of Shatner's Comedy Central roast in 2006, he put it more plainly, proclaiming: "I can finally say what I've waited 40 years to say: f**k you and the horse you rode in on!"

Potential wedding drama reignited the pair's beef

Another source of drama came in 2008, when Shatner posted a YouTube video referencing Takei's wedding, which he did not attend. "There's such a sickness there. It's so patently obvious that there is a psychosis there," he said, according to Wired . "I don't know what his original thing about me was. I have no idea." A People article from the time provided more context, alleging that Shatner's comments were in response to not being invited to Takei's wedding (he and his husband Brad Altman were famously the first gay couple to apply for a marriage license in West Hollywood). "It is absolutely baffling to us because, in fact, we did invite Bill and we didn't hear from him," Takei told Entertainment Tonight, adding that "every time there was something happy to celebrate amongst [the 'Star Trek' cast]...he never showed up."

Shatner piled on in his own 2011 book, "Shatner Rules." The book, which was co-written by Chris Regan and marketed as a sort of trivia guidebook to Shatner's life, features several direct insults towards Takei as well as Shatner's own explanation for the beef. "George buys into the stolen close ups/lines stuff, and he also claims I kept his character from getting his own Federation starship in the movies," Shatner explained, noting that several performers from the show don't like him, citing their cut lines as a reason. "There's been a great deal of enmity between George and me. He's been saying mean things about me for nearly 40 years now. [...] Criticizing me publicly, in every venue imaginable!" Shatner wrote.

Shatner made it weird several times

His comebacks in the book are various and not great. At one point, he recalled Takei saying Shatner has "a big, shiny ego" and retorted that maybe Takei should polish his more. In an imagined response to his Comedy Central Roast (even though he already responded that night, making an off-color joke implying that Takei is always asking to perform fellatio on him), Shatner made a weird joke about Takei committing bestiality. "Well, I went home with my wife that night," he joked. "I did, however, see George walking around later with a bridle and a bouquet of roses, so who knows what happened?" Elsewhere in the book, he invented the acronym LTEBGT, which stands for "Love To Everyone But George Takei."

Things got even weirder at a 2015 "Star Trek" convention in Las Vegas, where Shatner was captured on film repeatedly claiming that Takei is basically a stranger to him. "I literally didn't know him [...] I had no interaction with him whatsoever," Shatner said in a video captured by Morbid Traveler on YouTube . Bizarrely, Shatner insisted that "In the last 50 years, the man has blackened my reputation," all while describing Takei's own role in the show as dismissively as if he were a background actor. He also addressed the wedding fiasco, seeming to imply that he was invited after all. "I don't have any animus towards him. I don't know who he is. I want you to hear this — I do not know who George Takei is. What drives him, what makes him. I have no idea who he is. He invites me to his wedding. I don't know him!"

Takei spoke about the cast fighting to keep their lines

Shatner seems to be telling on himself more than usual here, speaking about a former castmate (for three seasons and six films!), beloved friend of many of his respected colleagues, and trailblazing activist as if he's a rude fan he met on the street. Yet, in-depth cast and crew interviews, including those done for Ben Robinson and Ian Spelling's 2021 book "Star Trek: The Original Series — A Celebration," make it pretty obvious that some people in the "Trek" cast — which included women and actors of color in groundbreaking roles — felt pushed to the margins by Shatner's behavior. "When Sulu's lines disappeared — and they did frequently — I knew why," Takei is quoted as saying in the book. "The others were complaining about the same thing, and we all know what the source was."

Takei spoke convincingly about what it was like to push for other characters on the Enterprise besides Spock and Captain Kirk to have a personality and backstory. "I was aware of who has the power , who gets the most fan mail, which is a measure of your worth," he explained. "So, you make suggestions. You do a little lobbying, maybe suggest that Sulu has a family, or parents, or a love interest. They're not all accepted." If Shatner's weird insistence that he didn't know Takei is key to understanding his perspective on the situation, these statements feel like the key to understanding where Takei himself was coming from. He was an up-and-coming actor who wanted more lines, sure, but he was also an Asian-American man breaking new ground on television — one who vividly remembers watching himself and his castmates lose the chance to speak to America due to their problematic co-star.

The pair still take swipes at each other in the press

Unfortunately, Takei and Shatner haven't made peace over time, and if anything, their insults towards one another have just gotten worse. In 2021, per ScreenRant , Takei spoke at a Broadway play opening about Shatner's expedition to space with Jeff Bezos, saying, "He's a guinea pig, 90 years old and it's important to find out what happens. [...] He'll be a good specimen to study. Although he's not the fittest specimen of 90 years old, so he'll be a specimen that's unfit!"

Shatner was understandably peeved and did his best Don Draper "I don't think about you at all" act in response. "Don't hate George. The only time he gets press is when he talks bad about me," Shatner posted to X at the time ( per SR ). "He claims 50+ years ago I took away a camera angle that denied him 30 more seconds of prime time TV. I'm giving it back to him now by letting him spew his hatred for the world to see!" This subplot of the pair's decades-long feud stretched into the next year, when Shatner told The Times , "I began to understand that [disgruntled former castmates] were doing it for publicity. 60 years after some incident they are still on that track. Don't you think that's a little weird?"

Ironically, Shatner kept the drama going, posting more about it to X two days later. "I do find it sad that a handful of day players who were on set for maybe 20-30 days a year total spent 50+ years creating fantasies to get noticed in the press," the actor posted. After making so many similar statements about Takei before, it's clear that he's shading him and other outspoken "Trek" castmates here, and it's once again a pretty un-self-aware take that minimizes the contributions of his co-stars.

These grudges seem destined to last a lifetime

This particular press cycle ended with Takei's interview with The Guardian a couple weeks after Shatner's continued digs. The actor, by that point 85 years old, at first tried to avoid mentioning Shatner by name, but was ultimately as frank as ever about why the "Star Trek" star ticks him off. He said that no one in the cast got along with the actor, but they were all otherwise tight-knit. It's certainly true that there's ample evidence of discord between Shatner and others on the cast, with Gene Roddenberry once even writing a letter to Shatner and Nimoy saying that they'd "pretty well divided up the market on selfishness and egocentricity."

"I have much more substantial subject matter that I want to get publicity for, so I'm not going to refer to Bill in this interview at all," Takei told the outlet in 2022, adding, "Although I just did." He concluded that Shatner is "just a cantankerous old man and I'm going to leave him to his devices." When asked if the star had always been cantankerous, Takei replied: "He was self-involved. He enjoyed being the center of attention. He wanted everyone to kowtow to him." That pretty much sums it up.

"Star Trek" imagined a brighter future built on collaboration and open-mindedness, but one thing it couldn't account for is the stubbornness of a grudge long-held. Decades into their feud, it seems unlikely that George Takei and William Shatner will ever truly bury the hatchet.

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An Exclusive Look and Poster for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 Debuts on Star Trek Day

Produced by CBS Studios, the fifth and final season will premiere with two episodes on Thursday, October 24!

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In celebration of Star Trek Day , Paramount+ today debuted an exclusive clip and the official key art for the fifth and final season of its hit animated comedy series Star Trek: Lower Decks .

The new season will premiere with two episodes on Thursday, October 24 in the U.S. and internationally. Following the premiere, new episodes of the 10-episode long season will drop every Thursday leading up to the series finale on Thursday, December 19.

In Season 5 of Star Trek: Lower Decks , the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing "space potholes" — subspace rifts that are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant. Pothole duty would be easy for Junior Officers Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, and Rutherford... if they didn't also have to deal with an Orion war, furious Klingons, diplomatic catastrophes, murder mysteries, and scariest of all — their own career aspirations.

This upcoming season is a celebration of this underdog crew who are dangerously close to being promoted out of the lower decks and into strange new Starfleet roles.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks is an animated comedy series that focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos . The Starfleet crew residing in the "lower decks" of the U.S.S. Cerritos includes the voices of Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, and Eugene Cordero; the bridge crew is voiced by Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O'Connell, Fred Tatasciore, and Gillian Vigman.

Star Trek: Lower Decks is produced by CBS' Eye Animation Productions, CBS Studios' animation arm; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment. Executive producers include Alex Kurtzman, Mike McMahan, Aaron Baiers, Rod Roddenberry, and Trevor Roth. Titmouse, the Emmy Award-winning independent animation production company, serves as the animation studio for the series.

The Star Trek franchise on Paramount+ also includes Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , and the upcoming original series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy , which recently started production, and Star Trek: Section 31 , an upcoming original movie with Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh. All seasons of the award winning original series Star Trek: Discovery starring Sonequa Martin-Green and the critically acclaimed original series Star Trek: Picard , starring Patrick Stewart reprising the iconic role of Jean-Luc Picard, are also available to stream.

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