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In 1989, Steven Spielberg was trying really hard to get into the animation game. He had served as executive producer on films like Don Bluth's "An American Tail" and Robert Zemeckis' "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," steering both of them to great success. He also founded his own animation studio, Amblimation, that year, hoping to continue his track record of making striking, original, and successful animated features. By 1989, though, Spielberg and Bluth had suffered a falling out, and new projects didn't come easily. As a result, Amblimation only ever made three features: "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West," "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story," and "Balto."

Spielberg has better success on television, overseeing a new wave of animated shows that ushered in a new generation of entertainment. 1990 saw the debut of "Tiny Toon Adventures," a fourth-wall-breaking comedy series featuring a new collection of "kid" counterparts to well-known Warner Bros. characters. That show...

Captain Kirk surely cried -- at least off-screen -- when he watched the U.S.S. Enterprise disintegrate following his self-destruct order in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Though moviegoers saw no tears from Kirk, it pained him, as his line, “My God, Bones, what have I done?” suggests. Even if Kirk didn’t cry, countless fans did. And now a real-world U.S.S. Enterprise is nearing the end of its storied journey… or, better phrased, nearing the next chapter in its demise.

The U.S.S. Enterprise (Cvn-65), a proud United States Navy aircraft carrier, took three years to build (1958-1961) and remained in operation until 2012, when she was inactivated, and 2017, when she was officially decommissioned. Affectionately called “Big E,” the Enterprise holds the distinction of being the Navy’s first nuclear-powered ship, and she was involved in everything from the Cuban Missile Crisis, Operation Sea Orbit,...

Way back in 1986, when Gene Roddenberry was still developing ideas for "Star Trek: The Next Generation," he gave himself and his collaborators a series of restrictive mandates. Most notorious of these was his infamous "no conflict" rule, demanding that none of the new show's stories revolve around interpersonal conflict between the main cast members. In Roddenberry's eyes, the future would be an idealized place where co-workers never bickered, and all problems were solved, without issue, as a group. This, as one can imagine, frustrated Roddenberry's writing team, who felt that the only way to generate drama was through interpersonal conflict. 

Another mandate was Roddenberry's insistence that familiar "Star Trek" aliens be eschewed. "Next Generation" was to be a distinct entity, set nearly a century after the events of the original series, and Roddenberry wanted it to stand on its own. If it contained a Vulcan, Roddenberry knew that audiences would...

Star Trek and SpongeBob SquarePants are two of the top five most popular franchises on Paramount+. Now, Collider has an exclusive first look at a new ad that takes the two properties and squishes them together. You may never look at Star Trek or SpongeBob the same way after this universe-shattering crossover.

In the new ad, Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), commands the "Patrick Starship Enterprise," a gigantic starship resembling everyone's favorite dim-witted starfish, complete with the unmistakable voice of Bill Fagerbakke. Spock (Ethan Peck) and Sandy Cheeks (Carolyn Lawrence) survey the stars, while Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) and Mr. Krabs (Clancy Brown) man the controls...which also double as a grill for Krabby Patties. Finally, the man (or sponge) of the hour arrives, as Tom Kenny's SpongeBob beams aboard, clad in a square Starfleet uniform. Soon, the whole thing is revealed to be the result of Uhura having a very strange dream.

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is considered by some as one of the “odd-numbered and therefore bad” films that feature the original cast. Released in 1984, 2 years after the highly successful Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the film continues the story of the Enterprise crew after the death of Spock. While some fans found the resolution to Spock’s resurrection unsatisfying, this film has some great moments, especially in its dialog! Let’s look back at a few unforgettable lines that prove it is much more than it seems.

1. “Forgive me; it is not here.”

After the crew of the Enterprise returns to Earth, Spock’s father Sarek (Mark Lenard) shows up at Kirk’s home and demands answers regarding Spock’s katra, or spiritual consciousness. Sarek mind melds with Kirk, making him relive Spock’s death. After Sarek pulls away and breaks the link, Kirk’s...

The Nacelle Company, which just announced its first wave of deep-cut Star Trekfigures in early March, just dropped a tease of what will come in Wave 2. Per Gizmodo, Nacelle teased its second wave of figures at WonderCon in Anaheim, California recently that will have collectors scrambling to find room on their shelves.

The first figure teased from Wave 2 is a Star Trek: Generations-era James T. Kirk, complete with a horse, and a jar of dill weed. The 1/12 scale figure will also include said eggs, an ax, firewood, and a stump, throwing it back to the scene in which Jean-Luc Picard and Kirk meet up in the Nexus in 1994’s Star Trek: Generations.

Nacelle’s Wave 2 launch will also include two more figures from Generations with Geordi La Forge and Worf in the sailor costumes they wore on the holodeck during the scene in which Worf is promoted to Lieutenant Commander.

The Borg collective is arguably Starfleet's most dangerous foe and arch-nemesis. Their technology to adapt to weapons, superior collective hive mind, and the ability to assimilate alien species into their collective to gain "perfection", are formidable. Most often, Starfleet has to outwit or resort to escaping The Borg to survive their attacks. What if The Borg were even more dangerous a threat to the Federation than usual?

In Star Trek canon there has only been one instance (movies and series) in which The Borg assimilated a Vulcan. It occurred in the two-part series event in Star Trek: Voyager. In this two-part episode, we learned that some Borg Drones have a mutant strain that allows them (while in their regen chambers) to mentally leave the collective for a lush utopia called "Unmatirix Zero".

In the Unimatrix, the Drones can live out their lives away from the collective, form individual relationships, and even fall in love.

Here’s a trivia question for everyone: What’s the connection between Star Trek: The Original Series and the movies The Goonies, Throw Momma from the Train, and Scrooged? The answer is… Logan Ramsey, the late, great character actor whose career spanned from 1948 to 1999 and who would have turned 104 on March 21, 2025.

Star Trek fans will recall that Ramsey low-key chewed the scenery as Proconsul Claudius Marcus in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Bread and Circuses.” He’s the character who gave his slave, Drusilla (Lois Jewell), to Captain Kirk (William Shatner), so that Kirk could enjoy “some last hours as a man” before his execution. Sadly, Ramsey died of a heart attack at the age of 79 in 2000.

In addition to Star Trek, he counted among his many theater, movie, and television credits The Devil’s Disciple and The Great Indoors, both on stage; the films Head, Walking Tall, Any Which Way You Can,...

Star Trek and Star Wars are two of the most popular sci-fi franchises. While the former was the first to appear on small screens with The Original Series, the latter made the genre popular with its groundbreaking special effects and blockbuster storytelling. The popularity of Star Wars even led Star Trek to be revived and several other spinoffs were developed.

Although there have been several films, Star Trek is usually considered to be best made for TV or in the long-form format. Star Wars too has branched out to streaming with its Disney+ offerings, with shows like The Mandalorian and Andor gaining success. With both franchises spanning wide, naturally there will be some actors crossing over.

1. George Takei Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek | Credits: Paramount Network

George Takei is best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek: The Original Series. Sulu was the helmsman of the USS...

Many fans of the original series movies count Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, as their favorite among the 6 movies that feature Kirk, Spock, and the other main characters from the 1966-1969 television show. Admittedly, this film is my favorite too because several of the series' main themes of humanity and friendship figure heavily within the plot. There is also plenty of humor, so let's look back on 4 hilarious lines from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home that many of us quote almost 40 years later!

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Once arriving in downtown San Francisco, the crew walks in a group and sticks close together as Kirk tells Spock to come with him to the antiques dealer and tells the others to stay behind. They do so but remain in a semi-formed line. Kirk glances back and says to Scotty, Uhura, Chekov, and Sulu, "And the rest of you,...

George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace was one of the most anticipated movies leading up to its release in 1999. While fans are still split over the movie, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last year, there has been a long-standing rumor that Lucas had a cameo. And it's been finally confirmed by former Industrial Light & Magic matte painter Caroleen "Jett" Green.

Green was a long-time Ilm matte artist, and worked on many classic movies, including Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, The Goonies, and several others.

Speaking with reporter and Star Wars geek Clayton Sandell, Green explained where to find the Lucas cameo. At the 1:58:17 mark (on Disney+), as Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) and her guards run down the hallway of Theed Palace, in the background is an arch and in the middle is Lucas' face. You...

Star Trekexperts looking to expand their figure collection to include some of the more obscure and unique characters across the franchise, like Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Weyoun, and Star Trek: Voyager’s controversial Tuvix will soon be able to do so. The Nacelle Company’s Nacelle Toys and Star Trek announced that as of March 4, eight new 1/12 scale Star Trek figures are up for pre-sale.

Nacelle Toys is behind figures from franchises like Biker Mice from Mars, RoboForce, and The Expanse. The Star Trek collection had been highly-anticipated since it was announced. All eight wave one figures are currently up for pre-sale individually or as a bundle. Individually, the figures are $28.99, and the eight-pack bundle is available for $225.

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When reviewing movies, the website Rotten Tomatoes is certainly one of the most recognizable and acclaimed. Since 1998, Rotten Tomatoes has been using a rating system of aggregating positive reviews from its roster of film and television critics, where its famous Tomatometer designates a film's tomato status.

A film can be designated as "Rotten" with less than 60% of reviews being positive, "Fresh" with at least 60% of reviews being positive, or "Certified Fresh" with 75% or higher scores from at least 5 of their top critics. Let's see which Star Trek films are "Fresh" and which ones are not.

#14 – Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) “Rotten” – 19% Tomatometer

With a “Rotten” Tomatometer score of 19%, the Michelle Yeoh-led Paramount+ streaming film centers around a secret mission orchestrated by a team of agents who work for a black ops organization called Section 31. Section 31 is a clandestine organization within the Federation that carries out secret missions to save the galaxy,...

William Shatner will turn 94 in March, but the acting icon seems to be as busy as ever. He's set to appear in the Jason Priestley-directed hockey comedy "Keeper of the Cup," and recently provided the voice of Keldor on the animated series "Masters of the Universe: Revolution." Must be that clean Canadian living.

Since he's still plugging away, you might be tempted to wonder if he could make one last visit to the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. If so, you must not be a "Star Trek" fan, because as anyone up on the franchise's overarching narrative knows, Kirk is, canonically, quite dead. He was killed on the planet Veridian III by a falling bridge while battling the villain Soran (Malcolm McDowell) alongside Patrick Stewart's Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and there's no "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" scenario -- which cost us a Khan spinoff -- through which he could be resurrected.

There have been 14 Star Trek films released since 1979. Those films have covered four distinct periods of the franchise while highlighting distinct crews across that time period. We started with William Shatner's James Kirk and the rest of the original series crew for the first six films. Then we jump to Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard and the rest of the core Next Generation cast across the next four. After that, we return to James Kirk but this time featuring Chris Pine and the rest of the aptly named Kelvin crew. Finally, in what is likely a one-and-done situation, Star Trek: Section 31 featured Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou, likely closing out her run with that character.

The last film so far was a disaster of a film that fairly sits at the worst-reviewed film in franchise history. Is it in fact the worst Star Trek film of all time?...

If you're a hardcore fan of a long-established science fiction series, you likely fall into one of two camps: you're either a purist who stays within the parameters of what's considered canon, or you're so ravenous to explore every nook and cranny of your favorite fictional universes that you happily step outside of canon and read spinoff novels and comic books that serve as what-if riffs on the established narrative. If you're the latter type of fan, you've got to have a high tolerance for go-nowhere yarns that add little of value to the franchise. But sometimes, in tearing through these non-canonical works, you hit upon a gem.

In 1985, Pocket Books published a slender "Star Trek" novel titled "Ishmael." This book fell between "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" (which killed a Khan spinoff) and "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," and anticipated the narrative of the latter with...

When Robert Wise's "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" beamed into theaters on December 7, 1979, it was a gift to the fanbase that had grown up around "The Original Series" after NBC canceled it in 1969, and a cordial invitation to everyone else to join the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. When the $44 million film grossed a disappointing $83 million in the United States, the future of "Star Trek" was once again uncertain.

The issue with Wise's film is that it was too reverent in tone and, for newcomers, staid in comparison to the lightsabers-and-blasters derring-do of "Star Wars." Perhaps most damaging of all, it didn't naturally lead to a sequel. Where was "Star Trek" to boldly go from this tepidly received epic (which has found its vociferous defenders over the years)?

The unexpected answer was to blend Gene Roddenberry's socially conscious sci-fi saga with naval warfare yarns like Patrick O'Brian...

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My mother is an old-school nerd. She watched Star Trek: The Original Series as it aired. When the crew of the USS Enterprise impossibly got a second act for the movies, she made sure to take me with her. In fact, I remember watching Star Trek III: The Search for Spock in the theater and being very upset that the movie began with my favorite Vulcan dying. Sharing movies like this with a parent is more than just a fun escape.

Kids see the artifice of parenthood slip away a bit. My mom was a "fan" just like me. When I became a father, I got to live the other side of...

Of the now 14 Star Trek movies, the newest, Paramount+’s Star Trek: Section 31, now ranks as the worst-reviewed film in the history of the franchise. Forbes reported that the new Michelle Yeoh-led movie, which premiered on Jan. 24, is also lower than any of the Trek television series as well.

Section 31’s Rotten Tomatoes score puts it at the bottom of the list of all the Trek movies, which began in 1979 with Star Trek: The Motion Picture and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise led by James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his team from the original 1966 Star Trek series. The newest film is the first streaming-exclusive movie and follows Yeoh’s Philippa Georgiou, who, while running the Baraam nightclub, is tapped to join the covert black-ops division of Starfleet known as Section 31. As of Jan. 30, Section 31 has a 20% Tomatometer score, based on the reviews of 40 critics...

Time to boldly stream, what no man has streamed before. “Star Trek” is set to have a banner year in 2025, with almost every iteration of the hit franchise available to stream on Paramount+.

For any longtime or new Trekkie, Paramount+ is going to be an almost one-stop shop for an upcoming “Star Trek” binge. Buckle up for a content overload if you’re waiting for “Star Trek: Section 31,” “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” or the new season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” because essentially every piece of “Star Trek” story is available watch online.

Here’s where to stream all the movies and TV shows in the “Star Trek” franchise. Live long and prosper!

Where can you stream all the “Star Trek” TV shows?

When it comes to streaming “Star Trek” TV in 2025, then Paramount+ is essentially a one-stop shop. Here’s where every “Star Trek” show to date is available.

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From low-budget romps to high-energy blockbuster films, Star Trek has become one of the most influential sci-fi franchises of all time. While Trek has decades worth of TV, film, and animated iterations that might rival Star Wars, it also has its own unique legacy and long-time, passionate cult following (and merch).

In the past few years, the Trek television universe has become one of the highlights of original programming on Paramount+.

It remains to be seen what Rotten Tomatoes score the upcoming Paramount+ movie Star Trek: Section 31 will wind up with, but it may surprise people that of all the franchise features, the one with the highest Rotten Tomatoes score is... Star Trek (2009), directed by J.J. Abrams. Everyone tends to forget how much they liked the first Kelvin big-screen adventure. It actually boasts a better score than either of the highest-rated movies featuring the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series or Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Star Trek (2009) maintains a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The best-regarded and most financially successful of the Next Generation movies, the Jonathan Frakes-directed Star Trek: First Contact, comes in at 93%. As for the original cast features, Nicholas Meyer’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan tops the list with a 86% rating, a number that might strike some fans as surprisingly low.

Intriguingly,...

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock makes an incorrect statement about how old Admiral James T. Kirk's (William Shatner) USS Enterprise was. Star Trek III picked up directly after the events of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which culminated in the death of Captain Spock (Leonard Nimoy). Star Trek III would feature the death of another beloved and iconic Star Trek: The Original Series 'character': the Starship Enterprise itself.

At the beginning of the underrated Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, the USS Enterprise returned to Spacedock. Admiral Kirk assumed his starship would undergo repairs and be placed back on active duty. However, Fleet Admiral Morrow (Robert Hooks), the Commander of Starfleet, informed Kirk the Enterprise was at the end of its run and would be decommissioned. Morrow's rationale: "Jim, the Enterprise is 20 years old. We feel her day is over." Morrow's reasoning may have been sound,...

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Few enterprises (no pun intended) in the history of pop culture have managed to endure the way that "Star Trek" has. Though it had relatively humble beginnings as a 1960s sci-fi television series, Gene Roddenberry's beloved creation eventually blossomed into a massive multi-media franchise that has been going strong for nearly 60 years at this point and shows no signs of slowing down.

Even though "Star Trek: The Original Series" was canceled after just three seasons, the show ultimately found great popularity in syndication. That opened the door for new life, one that would take shape on the big screen. Beginning with "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in 1979, Trekkies have long enjoyed the exploration of deep space with various captains of the U.S.S. Enterprise in movie form, in addition to the many different TV shows that have hit the airwaves over the years.

What makes a good movie villain? That's hard to say, which is why if you look up the worst and best Star Trek villains of all time, you're going to have a wildly different list depending on where you go. That's no different here. We have our list of the Star Trek movie villains from worst to best, but how did we come up with the list?

Well, there are several criteria that I took into effect.

First, was the villain effective? Did he do his plan well? Villains who suck at completing their missions aren't going to be held in high regard. Secondly, was the villain a problem for the heroes? You'll notice that a lot of times the villain of the film doesn't actually do anything. It's actually a little surprising.

Thirdly, is the villain a threat to the greater good? Star Trek films are about a larger narrative than just good vs.

The following reveals major spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Episode 10, "The New Next Generation," now streaming on Paramount+.

Star Trek: Lower Decks wasn't about to take its final curtain call without paying homage to the franchise's most enduring antagonists. Season 5, Episode 10, "The New Next Generation" features a Klingon villain, who gives the crew of the Cerritos all they can handle in their final mission. It also gives the series a chance to bring back Mariner's Klingon friend Ma'ah and his bumpkin brother Malor, turning it into a proper celebration of the warrior species.

The Klingons' presence also gives Lower Decks a chance to poke fun at one of Star Trek's lingering and most challenging continuity errors. The Klingons have been a part of Star Trek since The Original Series, and have undergone a number of changes over the years. Some of them have been quite controversial, notably...

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As previously explained in the pages of /Film, the "U.S.S." in U.S.S. Enterprise stands for "United Starship." It was extrapolated from the modern American Navy's use of "U.S.S." on its sea vessels. Here on Earth, it stands for "United States Ship."

But what does the "Ncc" stand for in Ncc-1701? As all good Trekkies know, Ncc-1701 is the registry number for the U.S.S. Enterprise and is emblazoned in large letters all over the exterior hull of the ship. Other vessels, of course, have their own registry numbers. On "Star Trek: The Next Generation," set a century after the original series, the registry was updated to Ncc-1701-d. The titular spacecraft on "Star Trek: Voyager" had a registry number of Ncc-74656, while the spaceship Discovery on "Star Trek: Discovery" was Ncc-1031.

Registry numbers...

Warning: this article contains spoilers for the "Star Trek: Lower Decks" series finale.

In the final episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks," titled "The New Next Generation," the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with sealing up a massive rift in the space-time continuum. Although the ship is dated and under-equipped, they're the only Federation vessel in range, and if the rift isn't dealt with post-haste, it could rend the very fabric of space-time asunder. It's all very serious, so the Cerritos bravely charges to the rescue.

As the Cerritos crew approaches the rift, however, they have to sail through waves of twisted semi-interdimensional space. Each wave is a potential cataclysm, as they change the Cerritos into various parallel universe versions of itself. The crew remains largely intact, protected by special shielding, but the ship itself changes its class and size several times within the span of a few minutes.

Of the 13 extant "Star Trek" feature films, it's widely agreed that Nicholas Meyer's 1982 sequel "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" is the best one. Many Trekkies like the outsize character of Khan and Ricardo Montalbán's equally enlarged performance, as well as the film's exciting, climactic ship-to-ship combat sequence. To remind readers, "Khan" climaxes when the eponymous character hijacks a Starfleet vessel called the U.S.S. Reliant and uses it to fight Admiral Kirk (William Shatner), who's aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. Kirk, you see, had left Khan behind on the planet Ceti Alpha V in the original series episode "Space Seed," unaware that an environmental cataclysm had turned the entire planet into a desert wasteland. Khan barely survived, and when he finally escaped Ceti Alpha V, he thought only of revenge.

"The Wrath of Khan," which features a story credited to Harve Bennett and Jack B. Sowards...

The Star Trek universe is as expansive as other big science fiction I.P. like Star Wars and has one of the oldest fan bases in the genre. Everyone talks about the friendly rivalry between "trekkies" and "warsies," but there's no denying that Star Trek fans go back further than 1977. Since 1966, there has been a passionate fan base that considers Kirk, Spock and the rest of the Enterprise the greatest heroes and explorers in fiction. While the die-hards have their opinions about where the franchise has gone since the original 1960s TV series, many have loved how much the sci-fi universe has grown. With tons of sequel series, films and contemporary continuations, the Star Trek universe remains prolific.

One of the most entertaining additions to the universe was a complete reboot trilogy meant for the big screen. While the trilogy has its criticisms, it was a lot of fun watching...

At New York Comic Con in October, Nacelle Company CEO, Brian Volk-Weiss, announced the first wave of their upcoming line of Star Trek action figures. As TrekMovie.com reported at the time, the plan is for the figures to be under $30, allaying my initial price point fears. In place of those concerns, a new concern arose, which Volk-Weiss has recently addressed.

At Nycc, Volk-Weiss announced that the first wave would consist of the following characters:

Captain Jellico (Star Trek: The Next Generation)Peter Preston (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)Valkris (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)Captain Garret (Star Trek: The Next Generation)Tuvix (Star Trek: Voyager)Mirror Archer (Star Trek: Enterprise)Weyoun (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)Captain Sulu (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)

As Trek Core reported at the time of the announcement, the goal was to steer away from the common characters, "like Captain Kirk,...

Night Court's exhilarating comedic scenes are back in Night Court season 3 with an excellent cast. Led by Melissa Rauch in the lead as Abby Stone, Night Court features a talented group of actors, including several comedians. Even with India de Beaufort's exit in season 2, Night Court still has incredible performances and witty writing that can make anyone laugh.

A rebirth of NBC's original Night Court from the 1980s, the Night Court remake features excellent characters that are heavily inspired by the show's original cast several decades ago. The show even includes one original cast member in a returning role. With such an energetic cast, the Night Court characters create thoroughly enjoyable performances that make the sitcom hard to ignore.

Melissa Rauch as Abby Stone Date Of Birth: June 23, 1980

Actor: Rauch was born in New Jersey, and she had her big break on The Big Bang Theory where she played Bernadette Rostenkowski.

On November 17, 2024, Star Trek fans were delighted by the surprise short film 765874 - Unification. Released by The Roddenberry Archive, this short film was timed to be released in honor of the 30th Anniversary of Star Trek: Generations, which opened in theaters on November 18, 1994. The seventh film in the Star Trek franchise bridged the gap between Star Trek: The Original Series by having Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) meet Captain Jean-Luc Piccard (Patrick Stewart) and concluded with Kirk's death. 30 years later, 765874 - Unification not only looks to provide an epilogue for Star Trek: Generations but does a similar purpose to that film, uniting various corners of the Star Trek franchise, including The Kelvin timeline films and Star Trek: Discovery.

The short film follows the spirit of James T. Kirk in the afterlife following his death in Star Trek: Generations and was created by the VFX studio Otoy. William Shatner reprises...

In an era where directors can revisit their older films and recut them, William Shatner on why he won’t touch Star Trek V again.

Over the past few years, we’ve seen Francis Ford Coppola go back over a number of his films, to give them a few nips and tucks, and oversee their remasters. Ridley Scott is no stranger to extended versions of his movies. Sylvester Stallone meanwhile managed to suck virtually all of the fun out of Rocky IV with his recent re-edit of the picture.

There’s certainly an audience out there for alternative cuts of movies. Yet several movies that didn’t come out quite the way the filmmakers had hoped remain untouched. That’s clearly going to be the case for the majority of films, but still: if a filmmaker is dissatisfied with how their film came out, there’s at least a slim...

Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Mr. Spock ( Leonard Nimoy) finally receive closure as a new short film celebrates the 30th anniversary of Star Trek Generations. During the 10-minute movie, which is titled 765874 Unification, Trekkies are treated to a what-could-have-been scenario as Kirk traverses the Nexus. Unification (below) combines live-action imagery with CGI, and both Shatner along with Nimoys widow, Susan Bay, served as producers on the new flick released by the Roddenberry Archive and Otoy.

The film begins with Kirks good friend, Gary Mitchell (Gary Lockwood) from Star Trek: The Original Series, who has already been infected by the U.S.S Enterprises contact with the Great Barrier in the television series' Shatner-led pilot, Where No Man Has Gone Before. Gary closes his eerie eyes, which reflect the god-like power he receives in that same episode thanks to his high ESPer rating. Afteward, Kirk from Generations begins a journey across the Nexus,...

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The "Star Trek" universe is vast and complicated. Most of the "Star Trek" shows to date take place on Federation vessels or stations staffed by career officers on specific assignments. The franchise largely revolves around managerial professionalism and workplace propriety. There is respect for the chain of command, and orders are given and followed as a matter of course. Starfleet is a military organization, but with its militant strictness devoted to exploration and diplomacy rather than combat and conquest. Ships are assigned to distant areas of space where they are tasked with examining a curious pulsar or, say, to a disease-ridden world in need of medicine. The bureaucracy works in "Star Trek," and individuals go where they are needed.

As such, when a minor character appears on "Star Trek," Trekkies assume that they merely arrived on the U.S.S.

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Fun trivia: "Star Trek" didn't have a full-blooded Vulcan character in its main cast until the introduction of Tuvok (Tim Russ) on "Star Trek: Voyager" in 1995. Until that point, most of the central Vulcan characters were partially non-Vulcan. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), of course, was half-Vulcan and half-human, with a Vulcan father (played by Mark Lenard in the original series) and a human mother (played by Jane Wyatt). Spock was raised on Vulcan, however, and had devoted himself to the Vulcan ethos of emotionlessness and logic. 

Saavik (Kirstie Alley) from 1982's "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," one might find, was also not fully Vulcan, although only deep-cut Trekkies might know about her true heritage. Saavik, for the uninitiated, was a Starfleet cadet who was serving on board the U.S.S. Enterprise as Spock's protégé. "Star Trek II" opened...

While the 1991 sci-fi political thriller "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" was still being developed at Paramount, the half-Vulcan-half-Romulan officer Saavik was originally going to play a sizeable role. Saavik, Trekkies can tell you, first appeared in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," and was played by Kirstie Alley in one of her earliest acting roles. Saavik was introduced as a protégé of Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and displayed a lot of befuddlement over the emotional lives of the humans she was to work with. Saavik returned for "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" in 1984, but Alley was replaced by actress Robin Curtis, playing the part in a more stern and emotionless fashion. Curtis also appeared briefly at the start of "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home."

Saavik was originally going to appear in "Star Trek VI" as well, but "Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry objected to her role in...

When he first appeared in the "Star Trek" episode "Space Seed", Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán) was merely a villain-of-the-week. Khan was a remnant of the long-ago Eugenics Wars, a conflict that broke out on Earth in the late 1990s, and which contributed to the near-destruction of the planet several decades later. Khan, genetically enhanced, managed to escape Earth in cryogenic stasis, only to be found and revived by the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise nearly 200 years later. As one might predict, Khan, still thirsty for power, attempted to take over the Enterprise. 

It wouldn't be until the release of Nicholas Meyer's "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" in 1982 that the character would become mythic. Montalbán returned to play a Khan that was miffed after having been abandoned, and who goes on a mad quest to find and kill Admiral Kirk (William Shatner). In "Space Seed,...

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Thanks to their fictional captain, the original crew of the Starship Enterprise almost didn't get a fond big-screen farewell.

Prior to 1989, the starcrossed "Star Trek" franchise had survived network cancellation and a box office/critical disappointment in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." As such, the brand was unexpectedly in terrific shape coming off three hits in a row in the 1980s with "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock," and "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home." For once, it felt like the entire "Star Trek" team was playing with house money. Then William Shatner, having watched Leonard Nimoy take two turns at the helm, which earned him a hugely successful non-"Star Trek" directing effort in "Three Men and a Baby" (the highest grossing film of 1987), decided it was time to strut his stuff behind the camera.

Thanks to the upcoming Star Trek: Section 31 film, Star Trek now has the opportunity to reveal more about one missing era of the USS Enterprise. The Enterprise has been one of Starfleet's most famous ships since Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) set out on the Enterprise Nx-01 in 2151, as part of humanity's first interstellar mission of exploration. Since then, several Federation starships have carried the name Enterprise, including the vessels of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart).

While the voyages of Kirk's Enterprise and Picard's Enterprise-d are well documented, there are a few holes throughout the history of ships named Enterprise. After Kirk's original ship was destroyed in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, he took over command of the Enterprise-a for the rest of the Star Trek films. The Enterprise-b made an appearance at the beginning of Star Trek Generations, but...

One of the biggest criticisms you can make about the Star Trek films is that it didn't really do much, if anything, to establish new characters. At least, establish them in meaningful ways. It's not something that's unique to any one version of the franchise. Arguably the character who has had the longest staying power is Carol Marcus and that's only because she appeared in two separate films, in two separate franchises (Ie: timelines).

She wasn't featured in most movies, but she did jump through eras, something that hardly any of the characters have done. We're supposed to get Sybok at some point in Strange New Worlds' near future but as of right now, he's nothing more than a silhouette.

Yet, it didn't have to be this way. The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek's second film offering, really did a good job creating the baseline for Saavok, played at the time by Kirstie Alley.

Bibi Besch played Dr. Carol Marcus in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, but she didn't reprise Carol in any subsequent Star Trek: The Original Series movie. Directed by Nicholas Meyer, Star Trek II was released in 1982 and brought several new aspects to Star Trek. Along with the death of Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Star Trek II introduced the newly 50-year-old Admiral James T. Kirk's (William Shatner) lost love, Carol, and their son, David Marcus (Merritt Butrick). While David's story came to a sad end in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Carol didn't come back at all.

Dr. Carol Marcus is the inventor of Project Genesis and the Genesis Device, a technology she developed alongside David. Project Genesis was intended to address the problems of hunger and overpopulation in the United Federation of Planets. Genesis was a terraforming technology that could transform a dead planetary body into...

William Shatner directed Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek's most noble movie failure. Released June 9, 1989, Star Trek V marks its 35th anniversary in 2024. Shatner picked up the reins of the Star Trek movie franchise from Leonard Nimoy, who directed the successful Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and the blockbuster Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. From a budget of $33 million, Star Trek V enjoyed a $17 million opening weekend before negative reviews and bad word of mouth sank William Shatner's lone Star Trek movie, which tapped out with a worldwide gross of $70 million and nearly ended the Star Trek movie franchise.

Director William Shatner also conceived the story of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, often summed up as 'the crew of the Starship Enterprise meets God.' Shatner was inspired by the televangelists of the 1980s to create a villain named Zar (later renamed Sybok...

In Leonard Nimoy's 1984 film "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock," the Vulcan officer Saavik (Robin Curtis) was tasked with exploring and mapping the Genesis planet, a brand-new world that had been instantaneously formed by the Genesis Device, a terraforming widget introduced in the previous movie. The Genesis planet, she found, was evolving at too rapid a pace, rotating through seasons at an hourly rate. It was hot and muggy one hour, then snowy the next. By the end of the movie, the Genesis world will prove to be unstable, crumbling from within. It was too good to be true.

The deterioration is only one of several tragedies that occur throughout the film. During a rescue operation, Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) has to destroy the U.S.S. Enterprise, and his son David (Merritt Butrick) is murdered by Klingons. Saavik, being an emotionless Vulcan, witnesses these tragedies with a stone face.

Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban) isn't the real reason why the United Federation of Planets abandoned the Genesis Device in Star Trek. Project Genesis and the Genesis Device were introduced in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The result of the terraforming technology, the Genesis Planet, exploded in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Genesis was responsible for the resurrection of Spock (Leonard Nimoy) in Star Trek III, but while Khan's villainy led to Spock's death, to begin with, the genetically engineered tyrant ultimately is only part of why Project Genesis was a failure.

Project Genesis is the brainchild of Dr. Carol Marcus (Bibi Besch) and David Marcus (Merritt Butrick), her son with Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner). The Genesis Device was revolutionary technology that could terraform a dead planet into one capable of supporting human life. Carol and David meant for Genesis to address the problems...

Several years after their introduction on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Klingon sisters Lursa (Barbara March) and B'Etor (Gwynyth Walsh) Duras accomplished something no other Star Trek villain has managed. Duras (Patrick Massett) himself first appeared in Tng season 3, episode 17, "Sins of the Father," immediately establishing himself as an enemy of Lt. Worf (Michael Dorn). The Duras sisters did not make their debut until the end of Tng season 4 after Worf had killed their brother. In Tng's "Redemption" two-parter, Lursa and B'Etor worked with the Romulans to install Duras's son as the Klingon Chancellor, leading to the Klingon Civil War.

After the Duras sisters' plan failed, they sought other ways to gain funds and rebuild their forces. With their over-the-top Klingon personalities and attempts to seduce every male they came into conflict with, Lursa and B'Etor may not have seemed like particularly formidable enemies, especially when compared with the Federation's greatest foes.

Sir Patrick Stewart is one of the few Star Trek leads to not direct a film in the sci-fi franchise. While his other colleagues like William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and Jonathan Frakes have helmed original films from their own series, Stewart has only stuck to directing a few episodes of The Next Generation and acting.

The actor mentioned that he was never interested in directing a film, even though the prospect had come up once. He mentioned that he did not like to think of scope and scale when it came to movies and preferred directing episodes over a film. He also mentioned that he hated watching his performances in the episodes he helmed.

Patrick Stewart Wanted To Cut Down On His Scenes In A Few Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: Picard | Credits: Paramount

Patrick Stewart played Captain Jean-Luc Picard for seven years. When...

If you were to ask Star Trek fans what the best Star Trek movie was, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan would probably be the top pick. It remains an immensely moving story 40 years after its release, with one of the most compelling villains in Trek history and an ending that dovetails beautifully into the next film, Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. However, one person was displeased with the direction The Wrath of Khan took, and that person was Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. Roddenberry actively tried to sabotage The Wrath of Khan prior to its release, including leaking major plot points. But why did Roddenberry go to such lengths? And more importantly, how did Paramount and writer/director Nicholas Meyer get ahead of them?...

Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) was missing one important detail when he took revenge for the death of his son in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Written by Star Trek producer Harve Bennett and the first feature film directed by Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek III is a direct sequel to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Released on June 1, 1984, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock celebrates its 40th anniversary of Admiral Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise risking their Starfleet careers to rescue Spock (Leonard Nimoy).

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock featured Klingons as the main villains after the warrior race's look was revamped in their brief appearance in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. In Star Trek III, Klingons led by Kruge (Christopher Lloyd) sought the secret of Project Genesis, the terraforming technology invented by Dr. Carol Marcus (Bibi Besch) and...