2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1649+ words) “Orders of Magnitude” places Kirk in the captain’s chair without actually making him captain, forcing him to decide how far an officer should follow orders when the person giving them may no longer be fit to command. Star Trek: Strange…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1189+ words) Star Trek: The Animated Series did something that would become essential to the survival of Star Trek: it brought the Enterprise back. When Star Trek: The Animated Series premiered in 1973, four years had passed since NBC canceled The Original Series....

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1139+ words) Before there was a Federation spanning centuries of storytelling, before Deep Space 9 guarded a wormhole, before Voyager crossed the Delta Quadrant and before Starfleet rebuilt itself in the distant future, there was one starship. When Star Trek: The Original Series…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (943+ words) Strange New Worlds S4 E8 Preview looks ahead to “Orders of Magnitude,” as Starfleet commandeers the Enterprise for a mission that puts Captain Pike and his crew under someone else’s command. Admiral Reeger arrives with orders to track down an alien ship,…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1041+ words) The Ideas of Star Trek have survived for sixty years because the franchise has never really been about predicting the future. Transporters are fascinating. Warp drive makes the galaxy accessible. Replicators imagine a world beyond scarcity. Starships give the future…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1221+ words) Star Trek at 60 arrives at an extraordinary moment. On September 8, 1966, Star Trek: The Original Series introduced American television audiences to a promise: space, the final frontier. What followed was supposed to be a television series. Instead, Star Trek became something…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (901+ words) On September 8, 1966, American television audiences encountered Star Trek for the first time. The episode was “The Man Trap.” There was no grand introduction explaining that television was about to change. No ceremonial beginning to a six-decade mythology. Viewers simply met Captain…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1639+ words) Star Trek Series have changed dramatically since the USS Enterprise first carried television audiences into the Final Frontier in 1966. The technology became more sophisticated. The storytelling became more serialized. The Federation faced wars, catastrophes, political fractures and eventually centuries of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1560+ words) Space: the final frontier. The words arrive like a door sliding open. Not loudly. Not urgently. Simply with promise. For sixty years, the voyages of Federation starships have traced a constellation across our collective imagination. They have not merely crossed…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (795+ words) Strange New Worlds S4 E7 looks ahead to “Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass,” as a temporal anomaly traps the Enterprise crew inside a reality that suddenly operates like a soap opera. Beneath the episode’s playful premise lies something considerably more personal, as…...