Get your copy of Star Trek: First Contact ready, because on Wednesday, April 29 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT director Jonathan Frakes will be answering fan questions throughout the film. The streaming event is being done in partnership with IGN’s ongoing Watch From Home Theater series. It...
Patrick Stewart appeared on Wednesday’s episode of the The View and personally invited host Whoopi Goldberg to appear in the second season of Star Trek: Picard. While promoting the premiere of the Picard series, Stewart surprised Goldberg, saying: “I’m here with a formal invitation… it’s for you, Whoopi....
The Federation starship USS Enterprise-D returns in the latest Star Trek: Picard trailer released by CBS, titled “Blue Skies.” In the trailer we only get a brief glimpse of the Galaxy-class starship and it’s unclear if it’s being shown in flashback or if it’s returning in the present...
CBS has released a new Star Trek: Picard featurette, titled “A New Chapter Begins,” featuring series star Patrick Stewart, executive producers Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin and Akiva Goldsman, along with episode 1–3 director Hanelle M. Culpepper. Check out the video below. In the video, Stewart starts off by...
Remember that “Worf Chronicles” TNG spin-off idea that Michael Dorn was pitching a few years ago? Well, he still has hope for it within the current landscape of the Star Trek Universe. Michael Dorn, the actor best known for his role as Worf (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star...
We here at TrekNews.net would like to wish a very happy birthday to Jonathan Frakes, who celebrates his 67th birthday today. Frakes, of course, is best known for his role of Commander William T. Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation. He spent seven seasons playing the beloved...
Another Star Trek celebrity has ascended to Sto-vo-kor. We have learned that Barbara Scarfe (credited as Barbara March), the actress who played the magnificently evil Lursa, one of the Duras sisters, passed away on Sunday after a battle with cancer. Together with her Klingon sister B’Etor, she wreaked...
Fans looking to celebrate the upcoming release of Star Trek: Picard in a decidedly more exotic way can now look forward to drinking wine produced by the one and only Chateau Picard, the vineyard seen in The Next Generation, the trailer for Picard, and, of course, real life....
Best of Jean-Luc Picard coming to Blu-ray in October Fans looking for a way to catch up on Jean-Luc Picard-centric TV and movies will get the chance thanks to a new collection coming to home media from CBS Home Entertainment. The Blu-ray collection is billed as the “ultimate...
With the debut of Star Trek: Picard just a few months away, CBS has created a pop-up museum at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con focussing on the life and career of Jean-Luc Picard. The installation, which is located within the Michael J. Wolf Gallery in downtown San Diego, includes...
As Star Trek trivia buffs will know, June 16th is “Captain Picard Day.” Celebrated on that day because of its equivalence to Stardate 47457.1, as mentioned in the Star Trek: The Next Generation seventh season episode “The Pegasus”. We’ve embedded a clip from the episode below to help...
From all of us here at TrekNews.net, we’d like to wish you a happy First Contact Day! Today, we honor the future flight of Dr. Zefram Cochrane, who in the Star Trek universe, will break the warp barrier on April 5, 2063. That achievement will be detected by...
With the new Jean-Luc Picard series set to begin production later this year, Patrick Stewart discussed the new show, what he expects from it and if a feature film is a possibility. Prior to the premiere screening of The Kid Who Would Be King in London, Stewart was asked...
It’s happened to just about every Star Trek fan young and old: the inescapable fantasy to step onto the bridge of our favorite starships, to walk through the corridors, and stare out at a brilliant starfield as the ship whisks you – and your imagination – into the…...
If you’re anything like me, odds are that you’re still flying high from the recent announcement – by none other than Sir Patrick Stewart himself – of a new Star Trek series focused on Jean-Luc Picard. As recently as one year ago, a revelation of this magnitude would’ve...
By now, you’ve undoubtedly heard the news — Patrick Stewart is coming back to Star Trek. As the 78-year-old actor said himself, last Saturday at Star Trek Las Vegas, “Jean-Luc Picard is back!” CBS has now released the full video of Stewart’s announcement, along with Star Trek: Discovery...
Star Trek is like a cultural space station not unlike the Deep Space Nine. It is a hub through which all other popular culture is connected. Even non-Trekkies who’ve never seen a minute of any of the six live-action series know who Spock is and have attempted a...
Following the recent release of James T. Kirk Bourbon Whiskey, Silver Screen Bottling Company has announced the next addition to their Star Trek-themed line of spirits: Ten-Forward Vodka. Distilled six times from American grain, and filtered through hardwood charcoal, according to Silver Screen, Ten-Forward Vodka was “inspired by...
Patrick Stewart hasn’t played the role of Captain Jean Luc-Picard since the 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis. That could all change in the very near future as the rumor mill has been churning with a possible guest starring role for the 77-year-old actor on the latest iteration of...
Star Trek: Discovery returns this Sunday with an all-new episode “Despite Yourself”, which was directed by Star Trek: The Next Generation star Jonathan Frakes. Frakes, who played Cmdr. William Riker on TNG, recently discussed the episode, how it came to be and how the cast reminds him of...
Syndicated television re-launches a sci-fi legend with Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987 Star Trek: Discovery debuted on CBS on September 24, 2017. This new chapter in the venerable sci-fi saga premiered four days before the 30th anniversary of one of the most important American television shows...
It was 1994. President Bill Clinton held the White House and the hip television show was The Simpsons on FOX. Another popular television show was in transition and it was hard to believe what was happening – Star Trek: The Next Generation was ending. For seven incredible years,...
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