Star Trek: The Next Generation Archives

If there's anyone with the perspective and intuition of the Braintrust at Paramount, it would be Star Trek: The Next Generation star LeVar Burton, who reprised his role as Geordi La Forge after a 21-year live-action absence since 2002's Nemesis on Picard Just as those far and wide from within the Trek community and beyond[...]

Paramount appears to be the home for Star Trek again now that those TOS and TNG films have made their way back onto Paramount+.

It's certainly not at the top of my agenda of things I'd like to do at the moment." Gates McFadden and Colm Meaney in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Image courtesy of Paramount. Not to say there aren't possibilities with the upcoming Starfleet Academy, set in the 32nd century, and the use of Holodeck technology potentially teaching[...]

Ronald D Moore (For All Mankind) offered some details on two pitches he had for Star Trek: Voyager before he departed from the franchise.

Beverly Crusher on TNG, and more recently on Picard, Short Treks, and Prodigy, wrote on social media, Gates Plays. Gates McFadden & Patti Yasutake in "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Image courtesy of Paramount Star Trek: The Next Generation: Dr Beverly Crusher Actor Gates McFadden Pays Tribute to Her Nurse Ogawa, Actor Patti Yasutake "Our hearts are heavy[...]

Most of my [Star Trek: The Next Generation] cast didn't know My space mom [Gates McFadden] knows [Jonathan] Frakes knew Kate [Mulgrew] knew because we had scenes together But nobody else knew It was a gigantic secret," Wheaton explained "When I worked on 'Picard,' nobody on 'Picard' knew that it was coming up And for[...]

Hera, Sylvia La Forge in the season seven episode "Interface", in one of her final roles. Madge Sinclair and LeVar Burton in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Image courtesy of Paramount Sinclair's "return" to the captain's chair in October 1993 was on the tail end of another franchise-making moment with the premiere of Deep Space Nine with[...]

Armin Shimerman on how he scoffed at DS9 co-star Michael Dorn's suggestion that he play Sneed, the Ferengi Worf kills on Star Trek: Picard.

Image courtesy of Paramount. Rosalind Chao on Initial Star Trek: The Next Generation Screen Test & Return as Keiko O'Brien When it came to the initial casting call for TNG, "I met with them and they wanted me to come back and screen test [for the role of Tasha Yar], and I was visiting my now-husband in[...]

I didn't know much about it, but I knew I wanted to be a costume designer when I was three years old, and I remember the first moment I watched…I don't know why my parents let me watch 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.' I love Geordi, and I remember I was watching TV again when[...]

Star Trek: Discovery EP and Showrunner Michelle Paradise on how Star Trek: The Next Generation inspired the fifth and final season.

Having the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation reunite on Picard season is arguably the biggest highlight of the franchise in the Paramount+ era As typical of the format of a streaming series, a season is 10 episodes or less compared to the traditional and syndicated eras of a 20+episode season It's a testament[...]

Similar to what James T. Kirk & Kathryn Janeway received, Star Trek fans in Valdez, Alaska, want a statue for Jonathan Frakes' William Riker.

Enterprise-D operations bridge officer on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987, creator Gene Roddenberry envisioned a specific path for the character he sadly would never see realized in his passing in 1991, and fans wouldn't see final stage until 2023 on Paramount+'s third and final season of Star Trek: Picard At the Saturn Awards,[...]

John de Lancie's Q was afforded one final lesson to his Star Trek: The Next Generation nemesis in Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard in season two of the Paramount+ spinoff series Star Trek: Picard in the Season 2 arc that found the former captain of the Enterprise-D in an alternate future along with his present company[...]

Star Trek: Picard production designer Dave Blass reminds us that Paramount hasn't given "Legacy" a go-ahead but sees the project's potential.

He worked as a documentarian, journalist, and film critic in his native Canada, always engaged with the social issues of the day before going to Hollywood and writing for Francis Ford Coppola and Star Trek: The Next Generation before becoming one of the top showrunners in the business What he never stopped doing was taking[...]

The world of science fiction lost another legend in Tracy Tormé, who was a writer on Star Trek: The Next Generation and later co-created the memorable interdimensional Fox and Syfy series Sliders, passing at the age of 64 The second son of legendary crooner and original Night Court favorite guest star Mel Tormé and brother of Superman[...]

Sir Patrick Stewart revealed that a Picard-related Star Trek film may be in the works through Paramount - and could include the TNG crew.

Here are the greatest Star Trek moments from 2023: Picard/TNG reunion, Lower Decks-Strange New Worlds crossover, Prodigy saved & more.

Robert Picardo had playful, self-aware fun while promoting his & fellow Star Trek alum Jonathan Frakes' Hallmark film, A Biltmore Christmas.

Star Trek: Picard PD Dave Blass discusses what went into creating the Enterprise-D for Season 3 - and what didn't make it onto the screen.

Robert Duncan McNeill (Voyager's Tom Paris) reflects on Mike McMahan pitching him on Nick Locarno's return on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

It's hard to imagine a time when the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast didn't get along, but star Sir Patrick Stewart remembered coming off a bit like a snob during the syndicated series earlier years on top of the notorious clashes among the creatives that eventually saw Gene Roddenberry taking a step back and[...]

Dayton Ward and Simon & Schuster's Star Trek: Pliable Truths bridges the events leading to Deep Space Nine as Bajor defines its independence.

Following TOS, Paramount looked to make the Star Trek spinoff "The Next Generation" the center of the franchise's universe - here's how.

Long before Stewart would reunite with his fellow Royal Shakespeare Company actor and best friend Sir Ian McKellen in 20th Century Studios' X-Men franchise, McKellen tried to discourage Stewart from taking that leap into American television  for Star Trek: The Next Generation Stewart, who's coming off his 10th season as Jean-Luc following his third and[...]

At the very least, Stewart wore a wig as Captain Jean-Luc Picard to his audition. Pictured: Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATIONScreengrab: ©1990 CBS Broadcasting Inc All Rights Reserved. When Star Trek: The Next Generation Almost Featured Picard with Hair "Right as I was boarding my plane at Heathrow, my London agent[...]

It feels to me like there's a real opportunity for three of the legacy characters' children to carry on and sort of be the next Star Trek: The Next Generation It just feels like it's laid out there It's the blueprint for the next phase." First thing first: an agreement needs to be made between the[...]

Sir Patrick Stewart can have a good laugh nowadays when it comes to his time on Star Trek: The Next Generation From his near-meltdown on the set during the filming of season one, the veteran actor on stage and screen wrapped his 10th and possibly final season as his first major signature role as Jean-Luc[...]