Wil Wheaton is doing a lot more for the Star Trek franchise than ever before transitioning from his The Next Generation role as Wesley Crusher to embracing his role as a brand ambassador with his CBS All Access web series Ready Room and hosting panels in "Star Trek Day." The actor spoke to Trek Movie […]
At this year's New York Comic Con x MCM Comic Con Metaverse, CBS All Access/Paramount+ will be bringing two distinctly different visions of humanity's future to the fans attending the virtual convention- and both make us a little nervous. The streaming service will be beaming the teams behind Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Lower Decks […]
In a move to rebrand the streaming service as encompassing all of the media company's content, ViacomCBS announced on Tuesday that CBS All Access will be renamed "Paramount+" beginning in early 2021. The move comes as ViacomCBS looks to strengthen its footprint on an ever-more-crowded streaming landscape by highlighting its portfolio of broadcast, news, sports, […]
Since the resurgence of the Star Trek franchise on CBS All Access, there's a sizable proportion of the franchise base felt left out longing for the traditional non-serialized storytelling they grew accustomed to since the days of The Original Series. Upon conception, Discovery and Picard became live-action serials series and the animated Lower Decks as […]
Arguably the most anticipated season of Star Trek: Discovery since its premiere will be its third when the crew goes to where no other Federation ship has ever gone before…into the distant future. Will it be a temporal version of Voyager?. As the first panel for Star Trek Day, Discovery certainly measured to the task […]
CBS All Access kicked off its online "Star Trek Day" series of panels with a focus on Star Trek: Discovery, with cast member David Ajala and co-showrunners and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise sharing (what they can) about the upcoming season. We learned earlier that the series would be beaming aboard the franchise's […]
One of the most popular tropes in Star Trek is when a featured character gets seduced by a hostile alien threat disguising him/herself as a human. In the Lower Decks episode "Cupid's Errant Arrow", Boimler (Jack Quaid) falls in love with Lt. Barbara Brinson (Gillian Jacobs) of the U.S.S. Vancouver. Mariner (Tawny Newsome) initially scoffs […]
There's something to be said about resting on one's laurels on how we take for granted the routines we wrap ourselves in. This isn't more so the case than in the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "Moist Vessel". The primary story for the episode is Ensign Mariner (Tawny Newsome) is hitting on Capt. Freeman's (Dawnn […]
Star Trek and Wines That Rock has given us a new reason to drink. two, in fact, as they have made two new bottles of wine for the series. In fact, one of them will be making you yell Qapla while the other The latest additions to the Star Trek Wines collection are a United […]
Star Trek looks to host their day of virtual panels with representation from all the series throughout its history on September 8. Thanks to CBS All Access, the franchise is invigorated like never before uniting fans from all over the world for Star Trek Day. The virtual event hosts eight separate panels running at a […]
The 13-episode third season of Star Trek: Discovery kicks off on CBS All Access starting Thursday, October 15, and when it does, it will be beaming aboard the "Star Trek" franchise's first non-binary and transgender characters. Blu del Barrio's non-binary character Adira is highly intelligent with confidence and self-assurance well beyond their years. They will find […]
Star Trek fans who still haven't taken the plunge for CBS All Access to check out Star Trek: Discovery (are there still any of you out there?) are going to get a chance to try out the series for free next month. Starting Thursday, September 24, at 10 pm ET/PT, CBS will air the first […]
Do you ever notice how many characters on Star Trek are almost never stressed out unless it has something implicitly has to do with the episode? Lower Decks answers that question why in its latest episode "Temporal Edict." The story begins when Captain Freeman Dawnn Lewis finds out the U.S.S. Cerritos is being diverted from […]
The second episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks focuses on another away mission for Boimler (Jack Quaid) and Mariner (Tawny Newsome). This time it's escorting Klingon general K'orin (Jess Harnell) to the Federation Embassy on Tulgana IV. Mariner and K'orin are already familiar with each other as they share their wild partying ways of getting […]
So are you a "Star Trek" fan but you're still not sold on CBS All Access? Have CBS All Access and love Discovery and Picard, but you're not sure you're into anthologies or the idea of an animated sitcom set aboard a starship? The streaming service is so confident that you'll love their expanded "Star […]
If you're looking forward to more traditional Star Trek in Strange New Worlds, you may have to wait a bit longer as filming will begin in 2021 according to Alex Kurtzman in an interview with Gold Derby. The executive producer talked about the Emmy nominations Picard and Short Treks received for the beloved franchise. The […]
Star Trek fans learned during last month's Comic-Con@Home that the new kids-oriented, CG-animated series for Nickelodeon officially had a name a debut window, with Star Trek: Prodigy set to premiere in 2021 (with a look at the show's logo below). Now we know who will be manning the bridge as the series' production gets underway, […]
To say Star Trek: Lower Decks is influenced from the Adult Swim megahit Rick and Morty would be an understatement. The CBS All Access animated series comes from the mind of Mike McMahan, who worked on the Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland animated television series. Lower Decks refers to the ensigns who are the lowest-ranked […]
On Thursday, August 6, Star Trek fans will be treated to the first of what will be 23 weeks of all-new ST content. Star Trek: Discovery sees its time-tossed third season taking off on October 23, but that's only after they're handed the baton from Star Trek: Lower Decks. CBS All Access and Mike McMahan's […]
Earlier this week, CBS All Access followed up its run at Comic-Con@Home with a very cool way of selling its new adult animation series Star Trek: Lower Decks and the return of Star Trek: Discovery for a third season. Starting with Lower Decks on August 6 and continuing on October 15 with Discovery, viewers will […]
