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Star Trek: Picard executive producer Akiva Goldsman attempted to create a balance between giving enough of the familiar for The Next Generation fans and convincing them to accept the tonal changes of the galaxy surrounding the characters. Speaking with Indiewire, Goldsman breaks down what he wanted to accomplish with Picard to build from the existing […]

On the final day of C2E2, for one day only, fans were treated to an hour of the Star Trek Enterprise's greatest captain. William Shatner came out to a shouting and standing crowd and the fans were immediately engaged in Shatner's wonderful knack for storytelling. Sitting close to the front of the audience, Shatner goes […]

Following the events of "Maps and Legends" in the CBS All Access series Star Trek: Picard, we find Jean-Luc (Patrick Stewart) dealing with some harsh realities and adversity he looks to face. Both Picard and the Federation are right in their feelings and actions following the events of the Romulan supernova. Before we take a […]

We've made it to the final "episode"of our "Countdown to Star Trek: Picard": our recommending viewing before the premiere of the CBS All Access series on January 23rd. Since Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Borg became less ominous and more vulnerable by the time of Voyager. Most of the stories provided more depth into […]

This year's New York Comic Con (NYCC) was a pretty big one for fans of the Star Trek Universe: including new trailers for the third season of Star Trek: Discovery and the premiere of Star Trek: Picard. But executive producer Alex Kurtzman didn't stop there, announcing that not only would new episodes of Star Trek: […]

Fear not, fans! While a third season of CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery will not premier until 2020, six more Star Trek: Short Treks are headed your way in the form of a second season. CBS' Star Trek head honcho and Discovery showrunner Alex Kurtzman stopped by Deadline's Crew Call podcast on June 17 to […]

Do you believe in coincidences? Before you answer… this week, super smart scientists at the University of Arizona working on the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) project announced a very pop-culture-relevant discovery. Their HiRISE camera (part of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) took a picture of "dune casts" on the surface of Mars that look […]

As a devout fan of both BBC's Doctor Who and CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery, I am facing at least another seven months without new episodes of either show… Woe is me. Adding insult to injury? For a second year in a row, Christmas Day will come and go without a Doctor Who special. To […]

All the way back in October 2018, Bleeding Cool brought you the the news that Rick and Morty writer, producer and all-around Man of Mystery Mike McMahan was developing an animated Star Trek comedy series for CBS All Access. Titled Star Trek: Lower Decks, the show would be about the "support crew serving on one of Starfleet's […]

Here we are, more than two weeks after the explosive, emotional, game-changing second season finale of CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery. Throughout its first two seasons, Discovery  has been weighed down by the obligations of canon. Critics and fans have given the show mixed reviews: some love it, some hate it. But regardless of […]

Every scene of Star Trek: Discovery has been leading to this one episode. Two seasons, 29 episodes, four Short Treks, and countless hours of angry fan boys clutching pearls and shouting "but canon" have led to one iconic Star Trek moment. Thursday night's Discovery Season 2 finale "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2" is a direct clap back at all of the […]

As Number 1 (Rebecca Romijn) so succinctly predicted last week on CBS All Access's Star Trek: Discovery, the shit is about to hit the fan. Last week's emotional episode,"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 1" maneuvered all of the key players into place. The stage is set. In this week's Discovery season finale, "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part […]

The hidden main character of CBS All Access's Star Trek: Discovery has always been Michael Burnham's (Sonequa Martin-Green) enormous heart. Despite her upbringing and education on Vulcan, and her intense love of logic, Burnham leads with her heart, not her head. In Season 1, her heart got her into trouble and then led her out of it. […]

Are you ready for some space drama? Emotional goodbyes? A guest appearance by the Enterprise? Heavy action sequences that fade to black only to leave "To Be Continued" on the screen? If the answer to all of those questions is "hell, yeah!", then you are ready for this week's episode of Star Trek: Discovery "Such Sweet […]

What happens on Q'onoS apparently does not stay on Q'onoS. Earlier in CBS All Access Star Trek: Discovery's second season, viewers saw Klingon High Chancellor L'Rell (Mary Chieffo) send away Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif) and the infant son she conceived with Tyler's Klingon alter-ego Voq. Section 31 – and therefore Control 0 knows of Tyler/Voq's […]

There are moments on television, as in life, where everything just seems to stop. To pause. To take a breath and just be in this one moment. This week's episode of CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery both began and ended with moments such as those. Moments on which everything hinges, but that change everything. […]

Though coming as no surprise to viewers of Star Trek: Discovery who are up on their Star Trek lore, CBS All Access made it official on Monday: Anson Mount (Capt. Christopher Pike) and Rebecca Romijn (Number One) will depart the popular series at the end of this season. Based on sources close to production and […]

Rainn Wilson, best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on The Office, appeared Friday for a panel at Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC) 2019 to discuss his past, present, and future acting roles. Chatting with Tara Bennet on the SYFY Wire Live Stage, Wilson discussed his recent stint as Harry Mudd on Star Trek: […]

Good science fiction makes you simultaneously feel insignificant and important. The genre takes you out of yourself, depicting an enormous galaxy with limitless possibilities. However, our connection to these grand-scale stories is through the lives of regular characters, individuals who face impossible circumstances and make difficult decisions. In the end, we connect to the vastness […]

Over the course of the second season of CBS All Access's Star Trek: Discovery, the crew of the ship has been slowly accumulating emotional baggage. With each new episode it, at least one main character picks up another load of emotional pain, regret, or guilt. At this point, the Discovery is as loaded down with emotional […]