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Watch The Star Trek Day 2023 Special

| September 8, 2023 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 65 comments so far

It is officially Star Trek Day. 57 years ago on September 8, 1966, Star Trek was born with the premiere of the original series on NBC. The franchise lives on with multiple television programs, feature films and much more. Today Paramount celebrates the franchise with a pre-recorded special.

Star Trek Day special

The 22-minute program (filmed before the SAG-AFTRA strike) is hosted by Lower Decks voice actor Jerry O’Connell. Here is the official description:

A salute to the franchise, the special program will include segments that look back at memorable moments over the past 57 years; commemorate 50 years of Star Trek animation; pay tribute to  Star Trek: Discovery , ahead of its final season; provide an exclusive sneak-peek clip from the upcoming fourth season of  Star Trek: Lower Decks ; and commemorate many other moments that highlight Star Trek’s legacy.

Watch it…

The Star Trek Day special will be available to watch for free globally on  StarTrek.com/Day , YouTube (Paramount+ and STAR TREK official pages), Twitch (ParamountPlus), and Facebook (@StarTrekOnPPlus and @StarTrek). In the U.S., the special will be available to stream on Paramount+, Pluto TV (Paramount+ Picks, STAR TREK, More STAR TREK and Pluto TV Sci-Fi channels) and Mixable and will air on select local CBS affiliates, Comedy Central, Paramount Network, Pop TV, Fave TV and Smithsonian.com.

More coming on Star Trek Day…

Later today the first animated Very Short Treks animated short will debut on startrek.com and YouTube. There will also be a companion digital comic for this celebration of Trek animation.

Tonight the first two episodes of  Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will air on CBS at 8 pm (ET/PT).

Finally, fans can use the code STARTREKDAY for 25 percent off site-wide at shop.StarTrek.com , which includes curated “Star Trek Day” and  Star Trek: The Animated Series  collections.

Keep up with news for the  Star Trek Universe at TrekMovie.com .

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Making zero mention of PRODIGY is just silly and lame- especially with the thematic focus on animation, and the line “there’s a Star Trek for everyone…”

Not just silly, but completely insulting to the fans, the cast, and the production crew.

This is bizarre to me too. Do they have to ignore it for some kind of legal reason? Some kind of quiet period before they sell it to another streamer? Other Trek shows have been cancelled; TOS and Enterprise. But they don’t pretend they don’t exist….

I’m not sure what you’re expecting – Prodigy has not been ‘cancelled’; Prodigy has been written off and disowned as a bad investment by Paramount. Unless/until someone decides to pick it up, it’s gone. Why would they spend any money or time promoting it, when they’ve washed their hands of it?

It’s just a 20 minute ad, not a documentary. People are putting too much thought into it.

The line about “a Star Trek for everyone” made it feel to me as if they had filmed a segment about Prodigy before P+ made the decision to can it, and then clumsily edited all references to Prodigy out of the special so as not to tell people to watch a show that’s not currently available… which is probably exactly what happened.

The show is canceled. Get over it.

This is literally the most ridiculous comment imaginable coming from a Star Trek fan. I’m certainly glad that they didn’t think that way about the Original Series.

I’m a fan but also a realist. It’s jut a cartoon aimed at kids that failed.

The weird thing is that it is not cancelled. There are 20 more episodes in production, and possibly more beyond that, even though there is zero indication of where people can see them.

I’m not sure what you don’t understand – Paramount dropped the series, and unless/until someone else ponies up cash to take it over, none of what has been ‘completed’ matters. So far, no one has come waving cash around eagerly to take Prodigy over. Whatever you think of its quality, it clearly did not meet Paramount’s goals of profitability, and expanding the Trek brand. In fact, it failed so badly, they wiped it from existence and wrote it off rather than merely ‘cancelling’ it.

You are incorrect. Both Paramount and the creators of the show have said so.

It was canceled. The rest of the episodes will probably be dumped on some cheap ad supported streaming channel.

The creators of the show and Paramount have said that the show isn’t cancelled. Probably functionally it has as you state, but that is not the official outcome yet.

Yeah, and because at this point at least for me, that is the only watchable Trek show going.

Imagine. Imagine if they revealed Star Trek “4” is going to start production. Or if they revealed we’re going to get a series that has 26 episodes in it…

Don’t ask for miracles

I’d be super happy with 22 at this point.

They do mention the Starfleet Academy series and the Michelle Yeoh Section 31 movie.

Happy Birthday to Star Trek. God bless everyone who made Star Trek what it became.

I am the biggest Star Trek fan in the world and will be for the rest of my life, but I miss Star Trek too, I have not watched a TV show or movie worthy of the name now for the best part of 20 years.

I know it will return in all its former glory one day and the bad place it is currently in cannot last for ever.

Here is to the next 57 years.

LLAP to all Trek fans past present & future

THE HUMAN ADVENTURE IS JUST BEGINNING!!!!

The one and only genuinely funny moment was when the drag queen gives some random passer-by the Vulcan salute and asks what series it was from, and the passer-by responds, “The Big Bang Theory.”

I know that segment was just suppose to be fun and light hearted, but it was actually a bit depressing to me. Out of all the people she talked to, half of them couldn’t name a single character or alien from a show that is nearly 60 years old and has more content than any other sci fi franchise out there.

She asked a group to name one captain and one of them said Captain Joe. And this doesn’t surprise me of course, most of my own family can’t name a single character, alien or show either. My own mother couldn’t remember Shatner played Captain Kirk but oddly remembers him as TJ Hooker lol. I just wish they did something completely different instead and went where they filmed people at the convention for the earlier segment just made a trivia game with with some of them competing against each other and just showed that. That would’ve been more fun and less depressing than interviewing people on the street who can’t tell you a single thing about this franchise besides vague one word answers.

Eh… it’s hard to make a funny bit out of hardcore fans talking about the Tomed Incident or something. Sometimes you just stick to the formula for a reason.

At least she was hot Tiger.😉

In fairness if somebody stopped me in the street and asked me about any popular reality show or sports team, I would likely have no idea about them.

Man the comments section to this special is a disaster lol. Everyone (rightfully so) is complaining about Prodigy’s total omission from the special as if it never happened. Did Kirk or Janeway go back in time and somehow got this show erased? Or maybe it was the Temporal Wars, yeah, let’s just chalk everything up to that. It’s so bizarre as if someone is afraid they are going to get sued for admitting it was even made. The special is nothing more than a glorified ad for Paramount+ to stream Star Trek, but they can at least mention it for both the people who made it and its devoted fans.

Speaking of another weird omission, why were the movies (once again) completely left out too???? Doesn’t Paramount own all of those as well? Aren’t they all on P+ right now? It’s even stranger because the trailer they made to market Star Trek day actually had clips from all the movies too (and a first btw). But in the special, Jerry O’Connell quickly mentions the 13 films but then not a single reference or frame shown after that. Again, why? Supposedly, they are still trying to get another Kelvin movie or a movie of any kind off the ground before Star Trek hits its 70th birthday, but they can’t be bothered to remind people they are just as much a part of the franchise as all the shows are? How quickly your once big shiny movie franchise has fallen to the way side I guess.

Sorry to sound so negative lol, but if you’re airing a special that is supposedly celebrating Star Trek on it’s birthday, then it should celebrate all Star Trek, period. Not just the stuff they want people to stream.

Anyway, the special was OK overall, but certainly nothing to write home about.

I agree 100%. It is more glaring to omit content than to include it. Paramount seems to be run by immature, thin-skinned, bean-counters that have no idea what Star Trek really means. Remember the ad campaign last year “the Enterprise has landed?” Not only tone-deaf, but so obvious that they just don’t get it.

To be fair, their hands were tied by the strike this year. This is probably the best we were ever going to get.

The show was about trek tv shows not movies.

O’Connell should host Ready Room.

I would love that.

Why? Wil Wheaton is doing a fine job with it.

Speaking of the Ready Room, is there going to be an episode this week? If not, does anyone know when it will return?

My guess is that there won’t be any Ready Room episodes until the strikes are over.

Sliding Room

I feel a little cheated. No new announcements, barely a sneak peak at Disco S5 (the synopsis of “they unravel a mystery that takes them to the far corners of the galaxy” threw me – that’s every season!), and no mention of Prodigy. The way they talked about Picard like the whole thing was S3 was also funny.

I get some of what I just listed couldn’t be avoided. But if you don’t have anything new maybe don’t make a 22 minute video?

Considering the two strikes, I am surprised we got this pre-recorded special. It was never going to be what we got last year or the year before.

The omission of Prodigy is, however, insulting. I’m sure there’s some stupid legal reasoning behind it, but it’s still insulting.

There are two labor actions in progress. There’s nothing to announce.

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Who is the special made for? I thought the whole thing was really cringe. As a fan since 1970, there was nothing in it that appealed to me and I can’t see how it would’ve been enticing to people who didn’t know Tprek to want to take a dive in. As I asked, who is this made for?

Apparently, not you. Not every Trek is going to appeal to anyone, but tolerance – one of the core tenets of Star Trek since its creation – should allow us to be accepting of that.

Please I don’t need a lecture in IDIC. I legit want to know what the thinking behind this was. As the poster below said, it’s an advertorial. And yes! Kudos to Jerry!

I think it was likely made for millennials and younger for whom Discovery and after are their primary experience of Star Trek.

This “special” started to autoplay as a long-form ad during another video I was watching on YouTube. It’s basically an advertorial. Funny stuff. Jerry is great despite this being a mess.

Unless they announce an HD remaster of DS9 this day means nothing. I swear to god if I was a billionaire the first thing id do is give paramount the money, just give it to them, to do a total HD remaster of DS9. All the billionaires in the world and not one of them is a DS9 fan? Sure cancer needs curing and god damn it. DS9 looks like shit on my 65 inch OLED.

It continues to feel bizarre that the highest-profile science fiction tv franchise of all time has two entire series trapped in SD. I can’t imagine there not eventually being something, even if it’s a beefier version of the Stargate SG1 bluray AI upscale down the line when that technology improves. Something as huge as the Dominion War can’t forever be relegated to vague rectangular squares of color floating around.

I won’t lie, I came to DS9 late in life. I wasn’t a huge trek fan. Had seen some TNG as a kid, some of the movies. But I was a Star Wars guy. I went to watch DS9 on Netflix a couple times after it was recommended to me by a friend & the SD quality was so poor I couldn’t do it. Then during the pandemic I decided screw it, life’s too short. DS9 made me a Trek fan. It was one of the great TV experiences I’ve had & sometimes I wish I could watch it all again as a first timer. Afterwards I binged TNG which in HD was like night & day compared to DS9. Then the Original Series. Voyager didn’t really do it for me and I could barely get by the hilariously dated(even when it was made) Enterprise opening titles. My god what were they thinking? TNG, DS9 and Voyager had epic, beautiful, majestic themes. Now we are doing what sounds like a Rob Stewart 1980s song? But I digress…

When I watched the DS9 documentary with the HD footage my jaw was on the floor. Wow. It looked fantastic. I need that in my eyeballs. It was almost an unfair tease. But I think the SD is keeping the show from growing new fans. It almost did with me.

Why am I thinking about the Make-a-Wish Foundation? And I also have a 65″ OLED

Also amateurish!

I was a bit disappointed that the Lower Decks sneak peek was for an episode that already aired. They could have showed us a clip from next week. A Discovery trailer or clip would also have been nice. And they could have at least mentioned Prodigy.

What’s the dude from Sliders doing here? Star Trek, Sliders crossover?

He is a voice cast member of Lower Decks.

Oh okay, but I still want a Star Trek, Sliders crossover😁

That would be a logical crossover. Trek has crossed over with multiple other franchises in the comics – Planet of the Apes, X-Men, Doctor Who. If you can get a successful Sliders comic going, maybe you could match them up that way.

Interestingly enough, there was talk about a Doctor Who, Star Trek Enterprise crossover episode when Russell T. Davies was working on the Doctor Who reboot.

Transformers

Jerry did say 10 spin off series. Near the end there is a list of 10 ST series. When you take out the original that leaves 9 so Prodigy was counted as a spin off series but not mentioned. Discovery may have kicked off the new round of ST related series but it is the only ST series I didn’t watch all the way through. I gave up on it at the end of season 2 when the ship went in to the future. I haven’t watched another episode of that series since.

Take my word with Discovery… you’re not missing much. I wish I stopped at season 2 as well.

I have watched 2 seasons of Lower Decks and never once realized Jerry O’Connel is voicing Ransom. He is such a fun guy usually and is put in such roles (like in Crossing Jordan or Kangaroo Jack) so his voice never clicked for me as familiar as the stuck-up action hero guy cliche Ransom.

They should put his name in the credits to help people know he’s there…

I finally got around to watching this. What a waste of a half hour. The worst segment, I thought, was the Jackie Cox one; not because she didn’t give it her all (I’d never heard of her and thought she was pretty damn funny), but because the entire premise seemed to be, “Almost nobody knows anything about Star Trek beyond a few mild basics, and plenty don’t even know that, so let’s go out and prove how cringey, oops, hahaha, I mean how awesome this entire franchise is.”

I don’t know why Star Trek is so embarrassed by itself.

Star Trek Day: how to watch, best panels and everything we know

The biggest day in the Star Trek calendar explained

Star Trek Day is happening today, on September 8, 2021. No matter where you are, you can livestream this digital event for free – and learn a ton about the future of the Star Trek universe in doing so. The date was picked because it's been 55 years since Star Trek: The Original Series first hit TV screens with 'The Man Trap'. The event will be hosted by Wil Wheaton and Mica Burton.

Star Trek Day promises announcements, and we're hoping to see new trailers for Star Trek Picard season 2 , Star Trek Discovery season 4 and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , along with much more on the animated show Prodigy. Classic Trek stars will participate in the panels across the day, too, including George Takei, LeVar Burton and Cirroc Lofton.

On this page, we'll give you a breakdown of how to watch Star Trek Day, which panels you must see and anything else you might want to keep in mind ahead of the event.

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When is Star Trek Day? What time does it start?

The Star Trek Day livestream begins at 8.30PM EDT / 5.30PM PDT / 4.30AM BST / 1.30PM AEST on Wednesday, September 8 (or September 9, if you're in the UK or Australia). If you're watching from Australia or North America, you can enjoy this live at a sensible hour – if you're based in the UK, the timing is pretty rough, but you'll be able to catch up on the key announcements when you wake up. 

How to watch Star Trek Day

If you want to watch Star Trek Day live, it's being broadcast worldwide on StarTrek.com on this page – likely through the site's own video player. You won't be able to watch it live on YouTube , but US viewers can watch it on the Paramount Plus service live, and it'll also be broadcast on Paramount Plus's Twitch channel .

After the livestream, the panels will be available to watch individually on the Paramount Plus YouTube channel .

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Here's a quick breakdown of all the Star Trek Day panels in handy list form – note that the times below are Pacific, and that the whole thing lasts for close to three hours. 

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• Star Trek Day Introduction (with Jeff Russo and a musical opener): 5.30PM
• Welcome Remarks (with Wil Wheaton and Mica Burton): 5.37PM
• Star Trek: Prodigy (with cast and crew): 5.45PM
• Legacy Moment: Deep Space Nine (with Cirroc Lofton): 6.03PM
• Star Trek: Discovery (with writers and some cast members): 6.08PM
• Legacy Moment: Enterprise (with Anthony Montgomery): 6.25PM
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (with cast and crew): 6.30PM
• Legacy Moment: Voyager (with Garrett Wang): 6.50PM
• Star Trek: Lower Decks (with the head writer and some cast members): 6.55PM
• Legacy Moment: The Original Series (with George Takei): 7.25PM
• Roddenberry Legacy (with Rod Roddenberry, Gates McFadden, LeVar Burton and George Takei): 7.30PM
• Legacy Moment: The Next Generation (with LeVar Burton): 7.50PM
• Star Trek: Picard (with cast and crew – including Patrick Stewart): 7.55PM

It probably goes without saying, but the panels you won't want to miss here will be Prodigy, Discovery, Strange New Worlds and Picard – and maybe Lower Decks, if the animated comedy series is your sort of thing. 

The Prodigy panel will dive into what that new kid-friendly CG Trek series is about. The Discovery panel, meanwhile, is focused on the upcoming season, which is due to launch this year. That means we're likely to find out the release dates for both, and see a trailer for each. 

We'd expect a trailer at least for both Picard and Strange New Worlds. These panels are among the most stacked when it comes to cast appearances, too – Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan and Isa Briones will each appear to discuss the upcoming second season, which features the return of John de Lancie's Q.

Meanwhile, Strange New World's three leads – Ethan Peck (Spock), Anson Mount (Pike) and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) – will all be appearing on that panel. Considering this show promises to resemble more classic episodic Trek adventures, fans will definitely want to keep an eye on that one. 

While Picard season 2 has already been confirmed for 2022, perhaps we'll learn more about when Strange New Worlds will land in that panel. The Discovery spin-off wrapped up the first round of filming in July. 

Your mileage may vary on the rest, depending on your appetite for Trek nostalgia – but the running time is pretty lean, considering how much they're packing in. Star Trek Day sounds like a worthwhile event for Paramount Plus's growing universe of shows set in this universe. 

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Star Trek Day 2023

On September 8, 1966, Star Trek debuted for the first time on television with “The Man Trap,” the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Original Series . On that day, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry introduced audiences to a world that championed diversity, inclusion, acceptance, and hope. Fifty-seven years later, we celebrate the day and the franchise’s enduring legacy with the fourth annual “Star Trek Day” celebration.

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Join us for a global celebration of all things Star Trek on September 8th with special screenings, giveaways, and so much more!

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The animated universe of Star Trek began fifty years ago on September 8th with Star Trek: The Animated Series . This Star Trek Day, celebrate the 50th anniversary with an evening of cartoon comedy, including four specially selected episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks , plus sneak peeks, giveaways, and more.

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'Star Trek' Day bursting with cast news, teasers and announcements

The 56th anniversary of the original series pilot episode was a celebration for all things 'Trek'

Be sure to divert auxiliary power to the warp containment field, because there's enough "Star Trek" news here to cause an overload.

This year's red carpet " Star Trek " Day event saw an impressive line of cast members past and present, including Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew and Robert Picardo, together with Kenneth Mitchell, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Rebecca Romijn, the awesome Celia Rose Gooding and many more.

Here's our complete, all-you-need-to-know guide to all the news, teasers, images and air dates that were announced this year.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

"Star Trek" Day saw the announcement that Carol Kane will be joining the second season of " Strange New Worlds ." If you're not familiar with Kane's work — and many outside of the US might not be — she's an accomplished comedy and drama actor who's appeared in epic movies like, "The Princess Bride," "Scrooged" and "License to Drive" plus variety of television shows, including "Taxi," Gotham" and "Hunters." 

She will play a character named Pelia and, according to the official blurb, she is "highly educated and intelligent, this engineer suffers no fools. Pelia solves problems calmly and brusquely, thanks to her many years of experience." So, evidently she replaces Lt. Hemmer (Bruce Horak) who took one for the team in the episode " All Those Who Wander " (S01, E09).

In addition, a new teaser for season two of "Strange New Worlds" dropped, showing Lt. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) excited for a rare away team assignment with Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Lt. La'An Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) and Dr. M'Benga (Babs Olosukomun).

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Star Trek: Lower Decks

A new exclusive scene was released from the forthcoming " Star Trek: Lower Decks " episode entitled "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus," in which Ensign Boimler's (Jack Quaid) holodeck movie sequel tries to live up to the original, as seen in season one.

In addition, an image was released from the as yet unnamed eighth episode of the third season, which looks like the USS Cerritos is fighting alongside a Sovereign Class starship. Unfortunately, we don't know yet if these two tidbits are from the same episode.

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Star Trek: Prodigy

"Star Trek: Prodigy" will have its mid-season return on Thursday, Oct. 27, and Billy Campbell will be joining the season one voice cast with a recurring role. Campbell will reprise his "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Lower Decks" role as Thadiun Okona, a roguish space captain who's constantly outrunning trouble caused by his own tactics. According to the press release, "When he runs into the young, impressionable Protostar crew, he'll soon discover they are in more hot water than he is."

"From early on in the writers' room, we knew we wanted Captain Thadiun Okona to return and become a questionable guide to our impressionable crew," said executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman in a statement. "It was so much fun to not only explore where Okona's outrageous life has taken him in his later years, but to also work with Billy Campbell who effortlessly fell back into the role of Okona like he had never left."

Okona appeared in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Outrageous Okona" (S02, E04) and more recently, the "Lower Decks" episode "An Embarrassment of Dooplers" (S02, E05).

Plus, we were given an exclusive clip from the second half of season one as the crew of the USS Protostar and Captain Okona flee from Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) to protect Starfleet from a dangerous weapon.

Star Trek: Picard

Feeling positively spoiled for "Star Trek" news, Paramount also saw fit to give us a teaser for the third and final season of " Picard " that includes some glorious shots of Starfleet's "spacedock" space station and the USS Titan. The 10-episode long final season will begin on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023.

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Joining Patrick Stewart for this final nostalgic return to all things "Next Generation" is LeVar Burton (Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Worf), Jonathan Frakes (William Riker), Gates McFadden (Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (another Soong variant?), Jeri Ryan (Seven) and Michelle Hurd (Raffi). Sadly, no story summary was given.

Star Trek: Discovery

Finally, since the fifth season of "Star Trek: Discovery" is right in the middle of principal photography in Toronto, we were given a behind-the-scenes video tour with stars Sonequa Martin-Green (Capt. Michael Burnham) and Wilson Cruz (Dr. Hugh Culber), plus a first look photo from the new season. 

Will a strange anomaly threaten the entire galaxy? Will billions of lives be threatened? Will Starfleet and the crew of the USS Discovery have to unite and dig deep, facing their own mortality and risking their lives for the greater good... again ? 

The official seasonal story summary is "Burnham and the crew of the Discovery uncover a mystery that sends them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries.  But there are others on the hunt as well; dangerous foes who are desperate to claim the prize for themselves and will stop at nothing to get it."

Will the journey from 'monster-of-the-week' to 'anomaly-of-the-season' continue unabated? We will have to see. Although no air date has been given, we can expect to see the fifth season of "Discovery" to air sometime in Q1 of 2023. Interestingly, Mary Wiseman is listed as returning cast, in addition to all the regulars, but there's no word yet of how long the season will be and whether or not we'll have to endure a mid-season break. 

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After all of those television series announcements, there were the panels.

And here's a complete breakdown of everything in that 2 hour and 20 minute video... •  5:57 Cast interviews with Jackie Cox and Mary Chieffo on the red carpet •  36:44 Opening •  40:19 James MacKinnon, "Picard" head of makeup •  45:25 "Picard" panel •  56:35 "Discovery" set tour with Wilson Cruz •  1:04:12 "Star Trek" Online update preview •  1:08:20 Wil Wheaton interview •  1:24:29 "Lower Decks" panel •  1:35:22 Brian Posehn, musician and "Lower Decks" voice talent •  1:41:35 "Prodigy" panel •  1:48:42 Tribute to Nichelle Nichols with Celia Rose Gooding •  1:53:00 Alex Kurtzman, showrunner •  1:53:30 The Pod Directive season 3 •  1:56:10 Ceti Alpha V Podcast with Nicholas Meyer •  2:05:38 "Strange New Worlds" panel

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The voyages of the Starship Enterprise came to a sudden and premature end on June 3, 1969, with the airing of the final episode of the Star Trek original television series. Ironically, the show’s cancellation came just six weeks before humanity embarked on its first voyage to land on another celestial body. Although the show ran for only three seasons, it generated a devoted fan base disappointed by the cancellation despite their write-in campaign to keep it on the air. But as things turned out, over the decades Star Trek evolved into a global phenomenon, first with the original episodes replayed in syndication, followed by a series of full-length motion pictures, and eventually a multitude of spin-off series. With its primary focus on space exploration, along with themes of diversity, inclusion, and innovation, the Star Trek fictional universe formed a natural association with NASA’s real life activities.

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry first had the idea for a science fiction television series in 1964. He presented his idea, a show set in the 23 rd century aboard a starship with a crew dedicated to exploring the galaxy, to Desilu Productions, an independent television production company headed by Lucille Ball. They produced a pilot titled “The Cage,” selling it to the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) network that then bought a second pilot titled “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” NBC introduced the show to its fall 1966 lineup, with the first episode “The Man Trap” airing on Sep. 8. To put that date in perspective, NASA launched Gemini XI four days later, one of the missions that helped the agency achieve the Moon landing nearly three years later. Meanwhile, Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise continued its fictional five-year mission through the galaxy to “seek out new life and new civilizations.” The makeup of the Enterprise’s crew made the show particularly attractive to late 1960s television audiences. The major characters included an African American woman communications officer, an Asian American helmsman, and a half-human half-Vulcan science officer, later joined by a Russian-born ensign. While the show enjoyed good ratings during its first two seasons, cuts to its production budget resulted in lower quality episodes during its third season leading to lower ratings and, despite a concerted letter-writing campaign from its dedicated fans, eventual cancellation.

Despite the show’s cancellation, Star Trek lived on and prospered in syndication and attracted an ever-growing fan base, turning into a worldwide sensation. Often dubbed “trekkies,” these fans held the first of many Star Trek conventions in 1972. When in 1976 NASA announced that it would name its first space shuttle orbiter Constitution, in honor of its unveiling on the anniversary of the U. S. Constitution’s ratification, trekkies engaged in a dedicated letter writing campaign to have the orbiter named Enterprise, after the starship in the television series. This time the fans’ letter writing campaign succeeded. President Gerald R. Ford agreed with the trekkies and directed NASA to rechristen the first space shuttle. When on Sept. 17, 1976 , it rolled out of its manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California, appropriately accompanied by a band playing the show’s theme song, it bore the name Enterprise. Many of the original cast members of the show as well as its creator Rodenberry participated in the rollout ceremony, hosted by NASA Administrator James C. Fletcher . Thus began a lengthy relationship between the space agency and the Star Trek brand.

During the development of the space shuttle in the 1970s, the need arose to recruit a new group of astronauts to fly the vehicle, deploy the satellites, and perform the science experiments. When NASA released the call for the new astronaut selection on July 8, 1976, it specifically encouraged women and minorities to apply. To encourage those applicants, NASA chose Nichelle Nichols, who played communications officer Lt. Uhura on the Starship Enterprise, to record a recruiting video and speak to audiences nationwide. She came to NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston in March 1977, and accompanied by Apollo 12 and Skylab 3 astronaut Alan L. Bean , toured the center and filmed scenes for the video in Mission Control and other facilities. NASA hoped that her stature and popularity would encourage women and minorities to apply, and indeed they did. In January 1978, when NASA announced the selection of 35 new astronauts from more than 8,000 applicants, for the first time the astronaut class included women and minorities. All distinguished themselves as NASA astronauts and paved the way for others in subsequent astronaut selections. Nichols returned to JSC in September 2010 with the Traveling Space Museum, an organization that partners with schools to promote space studies. She toured Mission Control and the International Space Station trainer accompanied by NASA astronaut B. Alvin Drew . She also flew aboard NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) airborne telescope aircraft managed by NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, in September 2015.

Meanwhile, the Star Trek brand renewed itself in 1979 as a full-length motion picture with the original TV series cast members reprising their roles. Over the years, several sequels followed this first film. And on the small screen, a reboot of sorts occurred in 1987 with the premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a new series set in the 24 th century aboard the Enterprise-D, a next generation starship with a new crew. That series lasted seven seasons, followed by a near-bewildering array of spin-off series, all built on the Star Trek brand, that continue to this day.

James Doohan, the actor who played Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, the Starship Enterprise’s chief engineer, had early associations with NASA. In April 1967, Doohan visited NASA’s Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center in California, spending time with NASA test pilot Bruce A. Peterson. A month later, Peterson barely survived a horrific crash of the experimental M2-F2 lifting body aircraft. He inspired the 1970s TV series The Six-Million Dollar Man, and the show’s opening credits include film of the crash. Doohan narrated a documentary film about the space shuttle released shortly before Columbia made its first flight in April 1981. In January 1991, Doohan visited JSC and with NASA astronaut Mario Runco (who sometimes went by the nickname “Spock”) toured the shuttle trainers, Mission Control, and tried his hand at operating the shuttle’s robotic arm in the Manipulator Development Facility. In a unique tribute, astronaut Neil A. Armstrong , the first person to step on the lunar surface , spoke at Doohan’s retirement in 2004, addressing him as “one old engineer to another.”

George Takei, who played Enterprise helmsman Lt. Hikaru Sulu, and his husband Brad, visited JSC in May 2012. Invited by both Asian American and LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Groups, Takei spoke of leadership and inclusiveness, including overcoming challenges while in Japanese American internment camps during World War II and as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. He noted that Star Trek remained ahead of its time in creating a future when all members of society could equally participate in great undertakings, at a time when the country struggled through the Civil Rights movement and the conflict in Southeast Asia. The inclusiveness that is part of NASA’s culture greatly inspired him. JSC Director Michael L. Coats presented Takei with a plaque including a U.S. flag flown aboard space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-135 mission. He also visited Mission Control and spent some time with Robonaut.

Leonard Nimoy played the science officer aboard the Starship Enterprise, the half-human, half-Vulcan Mr. Spock. The actor watched in September 2012 when space shuttle Enterprise arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, on the last leg of its journey to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, where it currently resides. “This is a reunion for me,” observed Nimoy. “Thirty-five years ago, I met the Enterprise for the first time.” As noted earlier, the Star Trek cast attended the first space shuttle’s rollout in 1976. Following his death in 2015, European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti paid tribute to Nimoy aboard the International Space Station by wearing a Star Trek science officer uniform, giving the Vulcan greeting, and proclaiming, “Of all the souls I have encountered … his was the most human.”

Captain James T. Kirk, played by actor William Shatner, a life-long advocate of science and space exploration, served at the helm of the Starship Enterprise. His relationship with NASA began during the original series, with references to the space agency incorporated into several story lines. In 2011, Shatner hosted and narrated a NASA documentary celebrating the 30 th anniversary of the Space Shuttle program , and gave his time and voice to other NASA documentaries. NASA recognized Shatner’s contributions in 2014 with a Distinguished Public Service Medal , the highest award NASA bestows on non-government individuals. NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Communications Robert “Bob” N. Jacobs presented the medal to Shatner. The award’s citation read, “For outstanding generosity and dedication to inspiring new generations of explorers around the world, and for unwavering support for NASA and its missions of discovery.” In 2019, Shatner narrated the NASA video We Are Going , about NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the Moon. He has spoken at numerous NASA-themed events and moderated panels about NASA’s future plans. On Oct. 13, 2021, at the age of 90, Shatner reached the edge of space during the NS-18 suborbital flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle, experiencing three minutes of weightlessness.

Elements of the Star Trek universe have made their way not only into popular culture but also into NASA culture. As noted above, Star Trek fans had a hand in naming the first space shuttle Enterprise. NASA’s Earth observation facility aboard the space station that makes use of its optical quality window bears the name the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF). The connection between that acronym and the name of a Klingon officer aboard the Enterprise in the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series seemed like an opportunity not to be missed – the facility’s official patch bears its name in English and in Klingon. Several astronaut crews have embraced Star Trek themes for their unofficial photographs. The STS-54 crew dressed in the uniforms of Starship Enterprise officers from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, the second full-length feature motion picture of the series. Space shuttle and space station crews created Space Flight Awareness (SFA) posters for their missions, and more than one embraced Star Trek themes. The Expedition 21 crew dressed in uniforms from the original series, while the STS-134 crew chose as their motif the 2009 reboot motion picture Star Trek.

As much as Star Trek has influenced NASA, in turn the agency has left its mark on the franchise, from episodes referencing actual and future spaceflight events to NASA astronauts making cameo appearances on the show. The first-season episode “Court Martial” that aired in February 1967 featured a photograph of the December 1965 Gemini VI launch adorning a wall aboard a star base. In the second-season episode “Return to Tomorrow,” airing in February 1968, Captain Kirk in a dialogue about risk-taking remarks, “Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn’t reached the Moon?” a prescient reference to the first Apollo mission to reach the Moon more than 10 months after the episode aired. Astronaut Mae C. Jemison , who credits Nichelle Nichols as her inspiration to become an astronaut, appeared in the 1993 episode “Second Chances” of Star Trek: The Next Generation , eight months after her actual spaceflight aboard space shuttle Endeavour. In May 2005, two other NASA astronauts, Terry W. Virts and E. Michael Fincke , appeared in “These are the Voyages…,” the final episode of the series Star Trek: Enterprise.

In the 2016 documentary “ NASA on the Edge of Forever: Science in Space ,” host NASA astronaut Victor J. Glover states, “Science and Star Trek go hand-in-hand.” The film explores how for 50 years, Star Trek influenced scientists, engineers, and even astronauts to reach beyond their potential. While the space station doesn’t speed through the galaxy like the Starship Enterprise, much of the research conducted aboard the orbiting facility can make the fiction of Star Trek come a little closer to reality. Several of the cast members from the original TV series share their viewpoints in the documentary, along with those of NASA managers and scientists. Over the years, NASA has created several videos highlighting the relationship between the agency and the Star Trek franchise. In 2016, NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden led a video tribute to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the first Star Trek episode.

In 2021, on the 100 th anniversary of Gene Roddenberry’s birth, his son Rod hosted a virtual panel discussion , introduced by NASA Administrator C. William “Bill” Nelson , about diversity and inspiration, two ideals the Star Trek creator infused into the series. Panelists included Star Trek actor Takei, Tracy D. Drain, flight systems engineer for the Europa Clipper spacecraft at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim , Swati Mohan, guidance and operations lead for the Mars 2020 rover at JPL, and Hortense B. Diggs, Director of the Office of Communication and Public Engagement at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The mutual attraction between NASA and Star Trek stems from, to paraphrase the opening voiceover from the TV series, that both seek to explore and discover new worlds, and to boldly go where no one has gone before. The diversity, inclusion, and inspiration involved in these endeavors ensure that they will live long and prosper.

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Actor Zachary Quinto has been called an “entitled child” for his alleged conduct at a Toronto restaurant.

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Quinto, perhaps best known for playing Spock in Star Trek movies, raised some sharp eyebrows at Manita, a Mediterranean restaurant located on Ossington Avenue in the city’s west end.

According to the restaurant, Quinto allegedly failed to respond to texts informing him that his table was ready to be seated, which led to someone else getting his table. When he showed up to the trendy dining destination and wasn’t accommodated right away, Quinto apparently caused a scene and drove a staff member to tears.

“Zachary Quinto — an amazing Spock, but a terrible customer,” the restaurant wrote in an Instagram story.

It continued: “Yelled at staff like an entitled child after he didn’t reply to two texts to inform him his table was ready and refused to believe the empty tables in the dining room weren’t available for him despite being politely informed they were spoken for.”

“Made our host cry and the rest of our brunch diners uncomfortable,” the noted added. “Mr. Quinto, take your bad vibes somewhere else, we have many lovely celebrities join us at Manita, but you are NOT one of them.”

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In a follow up post on Sunday, the restaurant called out Quinto’s alleged behaviour again:

“This isn’t the first time, nor will it be the last time an irate guest has taken their frustrations out on our staff,” the post reads. “Manita is deeply grateful for our mostly incredible, friendly, gracious guests … who may give us constructive feedback from time to time,” it adds.

The post concludes: “To all the other Zachary Quintos out there, on behalf of restaurant workers everywhere: We aren’t above criticism, but we are above being demeaned.”

Comments on the story largely favoured Manita. “Kudo,” wrote marianne_geogal. “No one is above having/showing manners and respect for others.”

“There are many ways to handle this and rejecting a customer, especially Spock, definitely isn’t the way,” paul_sveritas wrote in favour of the tardy actor. “If they’re 30 minutes away you can let them know you’re sorry you gave his (reservation) away, comp a drink and let him know he can have a table for 25 minutes only, etc.” the user proposed as his solution.

Quinto, whose birthday fell on Sunday, seemed to have been in a weekend celebration mode. He visited Canada’s Wonderland with friends and looked “adoringly” at a dessert decorated with birthday candle, as Huffington Post reported .

A request for comment with his PR rep was not returned to the publisher.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 2 Review – Ad Astra Per Aspera

The second episode of Strange New Worlds season 2 sees Una get her day in court, in an hour that embraces the franchise's long-running mission of empathy.

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Though Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has technically only aired 12 episodes to date, it has the confidence of a much older series, deftly shifting between genres and subverting familiar storytelling tropes in unexpected ways. From bodyswap romantic comedies and children’s fairytale fantasies to creepy body horror and even a shot-for-shot remake of a classic The Original Series episode, this show seems to delight in finding new ways to tell familiar stories, and the franchise is all the better for it.

The second installment in Strange New Worlds season 2 circles back to the storyline most of us probably thought the premiere would handle, and what follows is basically a courtroom procedural, a Star Trek does Law & Order riff that sees Enterprise First Officer Una Chin Riley face the legal consequences of her decision to hide her true species from Starfleet—and the forbidden genetic modifications that go with it.

As an episode, “Ad Astra Per Aspera” accomplishes several distinct goals. It continues the second season’s focus on what might be termed the series’ supporting cast. (While Anson Mount’s Captain Pike at least appears on screen for more than 5 minutes this week, he still has relatively little to do beyond look frustrated and worried by turns.) It finally gives Rebecca Romijn the showcase episode we’ve wanted for Number One since she first appeared on screen back in Star Trek: Discovery season 2. It brings the story of Una’s season 1 arrest to a satisfying conclusion. And, in doing so, it enthusiastically embraces the best of the franchise’s open-hearted, progressive politics, exhorting Starfleet, the Federation, and even the viewers at home to work toward becoming the best versions of themselves. 

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There’s a certain corner of the internet that seems to be rather frequently (and loudly) inclined to lament the idea that Star Trek has somehow “gone woke” in the past five years, as though Gene Roddenberry’s original vision of a better tomorrow wasn’t always explicitly about the idea of infinite diversity in infinite combinations, or the many ways embracing our better angels actually requires quite a lot of deliberate and genuinely difficult work and self-reflection about both who we are and who we want to become. Star Trek , at its best, is aspirational television, not because of the cool aliens or futuristic space tech, but because of its characters, who may run the gamut in terms of personality, background, and even species, but who all represent a world in which we should all strive to travel hopefully, to lead with empathy, and to serve something greater than ourselves.

If that all sounds like a Starfleet recruitment video, it’s probably because, in large part, this episode does too, ultimately serving as a showcase for both Starfleet and the Federation’s ability to look inward, to course correct, to admit its own errors. (Even if the changes those admissions deem necessary will take decades to come to fruition and often require a hefty external push to happen.) Yes, Una essentially escapes her dishonorable discharge and sedition conviction on a razor-thin technicality, but her release means she has still played a role in advancing rights for Illyrians and other genetically modified species along the way. She will, after all, be an Illyrian openly serving in Starfleet, and that’s got to count for something, doesn’t it?

The hour fills in much of Una’s backstory, from her childhood days hiding basic injuries from the prying eyes of non-Illyrian neighbors to the reasons behind her desperate desire to join Starfleet in the first place. Her belief in the idea that, yes, space exploration requires hardship (the ad astra per aspera of the episode’s title) but the promise of what’s beyond the stars can ultimately deliver us from anything—from prejudices, from our struggles, from our fears— is beautiful, and so on the nose for this franchise it’s almost painful. 

Former American Gods standout Yetide Badaki puts in a remarkable guest turn as Una’s take no bullshit lawyer Neera, who is as interested in exposing Starfleet’s hypocrisy on which rules its leaders are okay with breaking—and who it is that gets to break them without consequence—as she is in actually seeing her client go free. Badaki and Romijn have fabulous chemistry as former besties (or maybe something more, I wasn’t entirely sure on that point!) whose relationship was essentially torn apart by the fact that Una could pass as non-Illyrian and her friend couldn’t. 

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Neera not only gets the episode’s best outfits but several of the best monologues about justice, even if I do sincerely wish the show had poked a little more deliberately at whether Una’s “asylum” claim would have ever worked out for any hidden Illyrian officer who wasn’t basically the ultimate model minority. (Most of the council didn’t necessarily seem as though they wanted to actually convict her in the first place, and even the head prosecuting attorney seemed more eager to use Una to bring down Pike.) But, if Law & Order has taught us anything, it’s that sometimes you have to give the jury a reason to do what they want to do already, and darned if Neera doesn’t seem to understand that from the start.

“Ad Astra Per Aspera” is hardly the first time that a Star Trek series has used its science fiction setting full of alien cultures to explore the prejudices often faced by those in marginalized groups, who are persecuted or shunned for whatever factors deemed to be sufficiently “other,” or forced to hide some vital aspect of themselves to blend into the larger society. This isn’t even the first time that Strange New Worlds has wrestled with the fallout from the Eugenics Wars or the impact that the defeat of Khan and his Augments had on the way people view species that practice genetic modification. (Though I think it is the first time it’s brought up La’an’s discomfort with her own infamous family name quite so directly. Here’s hoping we continue to pull at that particular narrative thread as the show goes on!) 

The beauty of Star Trek has always been the way it uses its far-flung adventures to speak to universal truths, even if it’s unlikely Una’s specific court case is going to suddenly shift public opinion in a way that rights all the wrongs that have been done to her people. But her relationship with her crew, who are all not only proud to serve with her, but to claim her as their own—as mentor, friend, or family— does matter. 

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And it’s lovely to see just how much she matters to the crew of the Enterprise , who is so unabashedly supportive of her and so deeply uninterested in all the things that their superiors insist are supposed to matter about who and what she is. From Pike, who spends his leave traveling to a planet full of poison air to fight for his first officer’s best chance at legal success to the thoughtful, sincere testimony offered by Spock, M’Benga, and La’an, this hour is a great reminder of not only why this little crew that could is such an outstanding ensemble, but the ways that sometimes simply standing up for (or even just next to) those you care about can be a truly radical act. 

Lacy Baugher

Lacy Baugher is a digital producer by day, but a television enthusiast pretty much all the time. Her writing has been featured in Paste Magazine, Collider,…