6+ hour, 12+ min ago   (1741+ words) If you ask George Takei whether he ever thought he’d still be talking about ” Star Trek” 60 years after its debut, he will respond with a smile and a shrug. “I’m not a visionary,” the actor and activist said during an interview…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (559+ words) During Monday’s 4 p.m. newscast, KDKA-TV unveiled its new augmented reality/virtual reality set with meteorologists Ray Petelin and Mary Ours taking the new tech for a spin. Petelin introduced the virtual set as “the First Alert Weather Sphere,” and Ours…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (543+ words) Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Aside from the third and final season of “Star Trek: Picard,” there’s no question that “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” a prequel to the original…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (921+ words) Hollywood legend William Shatner believed Friday afternoon the astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission would make it safely back to Earth following their voyage to the moon. The actor best known as Capt. James T. Kirk on the original “Star…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (490+ words) The more divided we become, the more absurd it all starts to look. Not because the problems aren’t real — they are — but because the patterns are. The outrage cycles. The villains rotate. The language escalates. And yet the outcomes remain…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (671+ words) Even back to the 1980s, there’s been chatter about a “Star Trek” movie or series set at Starfleet Academy, the training center for the crews of the starships Enterprise, Voyager and Discovery. Many “Trek” fans hated the idea of a Starfleet…...

11+ mon, 4+ week ago   (437+ words) Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: In “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season three, episode eight, a crew member returned from…...