prime directive

As more and more of us look for distractions to help ease the stress of being in our respective home lockdowns, writers from across the entertainment industry banded together for a creative exercise to help us pass the time. Regardless of comedic or dramatic background, someone associated with one of the about a dozen or […]

We all know Jean-Luc Picard's personal choice of beverage and the manner in which he orders it from the replicator in the starship Enterprise. Tea, Earl Grey, Hot. Although he didn't say it as much as some may believe… it is one of a number of things that are indicative of the character. And all […]

Why wait, right? Heading into the massive Saturday morning Hall H Star Trek panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the upcoming CBS All Access series Star Trek: Picard is still a bit of a mytery. In advance of the panel, the show's executive producer Alex Kurtzman and showrunner Michael Chabon sat down with Entertainment Weekly to share […]

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 […]

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 […]

Family. Whether they be biological, adopted, or chosen, they know us better than anyone else – even when we wish they didn't – no one can push your buttons like family. Through the decades, starting all the way back with the unaired pilot "The Cage," Star Trek has been about "found family": the bonds between colleagues […]

The second season of CBS All Access's Star Trek: Discovery has been like a really long car ride in pursuit of the source of the red signals and the Red Angel. Like the children in the backseat of the car, fans have been promised Spock (Ethan Peck). However, six episodes into the season, the world's favorite […]

The Red Angel is a Time Lord. After watching this week's episode of CBS All Access's Star Trek: Discovery – ominously titled "The Sound Of Thunder" – there is only one reasonable conclusion you can draw. The Red Angel, the mysterious being that the Discovery has been tracking all season and the reason that Spock (Ethan Peck) is […]

A technological genius, Saru is a refugee from a pre-warp planet - meaning that even one trip home to visit his family would mean that Saru was in violation of the Prime Directive Now after losing his threat ganglia in "An Obol for Charon," Saru has learned that the very basis for the Kelpiens' beliefs,[...]