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Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Trailer, poster art revealed

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The event will stream live and feature cast and crew from all five Paramount+ Star Trek series, including Discovery, Strange New Worlds, Picard, Lower Decks and Prodigy.

Star Trek Day 2021, streaming September 8th

To celebrate the 55th anniversary of Star Trek premiering on television, Paramount+ is hosting a live stream that promises in-person conversations with cast and crew from throughout the Star Trek franchise, surprise announcements, and “legacy moments” with well-known cast members.

The celebration consists of 13 panels emanating live from the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California, hosted by Wil Wheaton and Mica Burton on  Paramount+  and  Paramount+’s Twitch page and will be available on-demand through  Paramount+’s YouTube Channel after its initial airing. All panels focus on various Star Trek TV shows and cast interviews.

The celebration runs on September 8th starting at 8:30 p.m. ET. / 5:30 p.m. PT and is expected to run for about two and a half hours.

Announcement video

Current and future Star Trek shows will have a major presence at the event. Some of the cast and crew of the upcoming animated show Star Trek: Prodigy will “give fans an update” on what to expect from the show. The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds panel will feature Anson Mount (Captain Pike), Rebecca Romijn (Number One), and Ethan Peck (Spock), along with some creative minds from that show. Star Trek: Picard will be well-represented, with Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), and Isa Briones (Soji Asha) joining the panel. Star Trek: Discovery ‘s Wilson Cruz (Doctor Hugh Culber), Blu del Barrio (Adira Tal), and Ian Alexander (Gray Tal) will talk about the upcoming season of their show, and Noel Wells (Tendi) and Eugene Cordero (Rutherford) will represent Star Trek: Lower Decks with creator Mike McMahan .

Star Trek Day 2021 Lineup

• STAR TREK: PRODIGY,  with series voice cast including Brett Gray and Dee Bradley Baker, along with executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman and co-executive producer/director, Ben Hibon.
• STAR TREK: DISCOVERY , with series stars Wilson Cruz, Blu del Barrio and Ian Alexander and co-showrunner and executive producer Michelle Paradise.
• STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS , with series stars Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck, who will be joined by co-showrunners and executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers. 
• STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS , with voice cast members Noël Wells and Eugene Cordero alongside series creator, showrunner and executive producer Mike McMahan.
• STAR TREK: PICARD , with series stars Patrick Stewart and Jeri Ryan, co-showrunner and executive producer Akiva Goldsman and a special live performance from Isa Briones, singing “Blue Skies,” which was featured in the Picard season one finale. 
• RODDENBERRY LEGACY PANEL , featuring a conversation with Gene Roddenberry’s son and the CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, Rod Roddenberry, alongside Gates McFadden (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”), LeVar Burton (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”) and George Takei (“Star Trek: The Original Series”), as they discuss the “Star Trek” creator’s indelible impact on science fiction and culture.

The “legacy moments” portion of the event will feature the following iconic Star Trek cast members:

• Cirroc Lofton from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Anthony Montgomery from Star Trek: Enterprise
• Garrett Wang from Star Trek: Voyager
• George Takei from Star Trek: The Original Series
• LeVar Burton from Star Trek: The Next Generation

Strange New Worlds logo revealed

The announcement video also gave us our first look at what appears to be the logo for the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series, starring Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck.

The aforementioned “legacy moments” involve intimate conversations with certain actors, such as Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko from Deep Space Nine ), Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather from Enterprise) , Garrett Wang (Harry Kim from Voyager ), George Takei (Sulu from The Original Series ), and LeVar Burton (Geordi La Forge from The Next Generation ).

Stay tuned to TrekNews.net for all the latest news on Star Trek: Discovery , Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , Star Trek: Picard , Star Trek: Lower Decks , Star Trek: Prodigy , and more.

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It seems unlikely that readers of Den of Geek need to be introduced to Star Trek . Five live-action TV series ( soon to be six ), one animated series, 13 movies and countless other books, computer games, board games, comic books and other forms of media, all adding up to fifty years of one of the biggest franchises in science fiction history.

Here we’ve collected 25 episodes from across the various Star Trek TV shows that might help you to celebrate Star Trek ’s fiftieth  birthday. A combination of all-time classics, episodes that sum up the ethos of the series, episodes that celebrate Star Trek itself and episodes that are just plain fun, this selection should have you happily toasting to the next fifty years of this venerable sci-fi institution.

This is not a ‘best of’ list; we have tried to select episodes that are good and worth watching, of course, and some of the all-time greats have been included as examples of Star Trek at its best, but this is more about summing up what Star Trek , in all its many incarnations, really is , rather than cherry-picking the best hours alone.

(Please note, this list is for TV episodes, not the movies, which is a separate list! Spoilers have been kept to a minimum, but you may encounter some along the way).

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1. Star Trek The Original Series: The City On The Edge Of Forever

Season One, Episode 28

What better place to start than one of the most popular episodes in the entire franchise? This classic instalment has it all – time travel, noble sacrifice (technically of other people rather than self-sacrifice, but Kirk was very upset about it), a story focused on the central trio of Kirk, Spock and Bones and a perfect example of our heroes putting the future of the Federation ahead of all other considerations. It’s also the episode the gang watched during that one episode of Men Behaving Badly , where Debs describes Bones jumping through the doughnut thing.

2. Star Trek The Original Series: Amok Time

Season Two, Episode 1

Star Trek has introduced us to many alien races over the years, but two stand out above all the others as having gained a place in popular culture awareness more generally – the Vulcans and the Klingons. This episode introduces us to Vulcan, but it also gives us the best Kirk/Spock moment in Star Trek history (“Jim!!”) and a typically Kirk-like cheating solution to an apparently unsolvable dilemma.

3. Star Trek The Original Series: Mirror, Mirror

Season Two, Episode 4

Star Trek has dominated the depiction of many classic science fiction tropes over the years. This is the episode that gave us the Mirror Universe, where most characters are evil and Spock (despite being slightly less evil) has an Evil Goatee. A genre-defining example of the ‘evil universe’ trope.

4. Star Trek The Original Series: The Trouble With Tribbles

Season Two, Episode 15

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We make no apology for including all the episodes that focus on Tribbles in this list. They are ridiculous, they are scientifically implausible, they are cheap, they are silly, they are hilarious. An ermine violin would not be nearly so much fun.

5. Star Trek The Animated Series: Yesteryear

Season One, Episode 2

The Animated Series is not actually part of the Star Trek canon, but it introduced so many ideas that would later be re-used or re-told in other offshoots of the franchise, it seems wrong not to include it. Also, it’s the only version of Star Trek in which the aliens can look really, really alien. In this, one of its best episodes, we learn more about Vulcan.

6. Star Trek The Animated Series: More Tribbles, More Troubles

Season One, Episode 5

More tribbles, more fun.

7. Star Trek The Next Generation: Yesterday’s Enterprise

Season Three, Episode 15

One of the best episodes of Star Trek ever made – dramatic, tragic and compelling. This episode also fills in some gaps in the history of the Enterprise (being the only story to feature the Enterprise-C ), brings back the rather snazzy red uniforms from the movies, and gives a beloved character a rather more satisfying send-off then she originally had.

8. Star Trek The Next Generation: The Best Of Both Worlds, Parts 1 & 2

Season Three, Episode 26 and Season Four, Episode 1

Season Two’s Q Who may have been the episode that introduced the Borg, but this two-parter was the story that cemented their position as one of Star Trek ’s all-time great adversaries. One of The Next Generation ’s most beloved stories, it also features one of the best cliffhangers in TV history.

9. Star Trek The Next Generation: Darmok

Season Five, Episode 2

This episode perfectly encapsulates what Star Trek: The Next Generation was all about. While The Original Series was a Western in space, all high adventure on the frontier, The Next Generation was much more concerned with the politics and diplomacy involved in getting out there and making contact with the universe. In no other episode are the problems of trying to understand an alien race better explored than in this one.

10. Star Trek The Next Generation: Relics

Season Six, Episode 4

There are numerous crossovers within the Star Trek universe, including several episodes of The Next Generation that feature guest appearances from the stars of The Original Series . However, while Bones makes an un-named cameo and Spock, thanks to his Vulcan lifespan, plays an active role in the politics of the twenty-fourth  century, this episode, featuring Scotty, is a beautiful rumination on time and age and a poignant toast to the classic series – and, therefore, a perfect episode to celebrate Star Trek ’s 50-year legacy. When Scotty asks for a holodeck recreation of his own Enterprise , you’ll get chills up your spine.

11. Star Trek The Next Generation: Chain of Command, Parts 1 & 2

Season Six, Episodes 10 & 11

While Gene Roddenberry was alive, the main characters in Star Trek tended to be paragons of virtue who never put a foot wrong. After he died, the series started to explore more shades of grey in its heroes. In this two-parter, Captain Picard is able to be the hero we want him to be – but at great personal cost and, as he reveals to Counsellor Troi, it was a close-run thing. The episode also explores what it is to serve on a militaristic starship under different commanders, with a new and very different Captain who is highly unpopular, but who, on occasion, does have a point (it is an unspeakable relief to see Troi finally wearing a proper uniform). 

12. Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Crossover

Season Two, Episode 23

Deep Space Nine is, in some ways, a very different show to the others in the franchise, but it still knew it was Star Trek , and at times it really let loose with some classic Trek tropes. One of the elements of The Original Series that Deep Space Nine ran away with and made its own was the concept of the Mirror Universe; this first episode featuring it establishes the tone nicely.

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Season Four, Episode 3

One of Deep Space Nine ’s finest hours, a moving episode focusing on the relationship between Captain Sisko – the only series regular Captain to have a family – and his son. It also highlights what Deep Space Nine in particular did best, focusing on character studies and relationships.

14. Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Trials and Tribble-ations

Season Five, Episode 6

Twenty years ago, both Deep Space Nine and Voyager produced special episodes focusing on Original Series characters, to celebrate Star Trek ’s 30 th anniversary. While Voyager ’s is not necessarily as bad as its reputation suggests, it is Deep Space Nine ’s hilarious contribution that has become an all-time classic. This also completes Star Trek ’s Tribble Trilogy.

15. Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Far Beyond The Stars

Season Six, Episode 13

If you’re looking for an episode that encapsulates Star Trek ’s values, you can’t go far wrong with this lovingly produced parable. There are no direct references to earlier Star Trek series, but this dream of a better future, cruelly dashed for science fiction writer Benny in the 1950s but lived out by Sisko in the twenty-fourth  century, places Star Trek itself, with its then-ground-breaking casting of Nichelle Nichols as Uhura in 1966, within its own story.

16. Star Trek Deep Space Nine: In The Pale Moonlight

Season Six, Episode 19

Following the increasing drive to depict more morally grey aspects of its heroes, this is one of a few later episodes of Star Trek in which we see Starfleet captains carry out actions that could be considered morally wrong, but which they feel are necessary. It is, perhaps, the best of these hours, Sisko openly uncomfortable with his choices but unable to see another path, demonstrating what it can do to a captain when Star Trek ’s ideals become impossible to live up to and they truly seem to have encountered what Captain Kirk never believed in, a no-win scenario.

17. Star Trek Voyager: Caretaker Parts 1 & 2

Season One, Episodes 1 & 2

Voyager ’s pilot offers a different type of no-win scenario, in which Captain Janeway willingly strands her ship and crew (along with Chakotay’s ship and crew) years away from home in order to uphold her own morals. Voyager ’s pilot episode, in addition to being one of the better Star Trek pilots, takes a story we have seen several times – the ship thrown an impossible distance away by some alien being – but actually follows through on the consequences, leaving our heroes genuinely stranded and making the frontier new again, returning Star Trek to its initial premise of exploration on the edges of the known world.

18. Star Trek Voyager: Year Of Hell, Parts 1 & 2

Season Four, Episodes 8 & 9

Voyager ’s finest hours, this dramatic two-parter also upholds another of Star Trek ’s core values, as Chakotay insists that not just any civilization, but “a single life is significant”. Star Trek is often criticised for constantly pressing the reset button after each story, but this episode includes surely the most satisfying, in-story pressing of the reset button we’ve ever seen.

19. Star Trek Voyager: Living Witness

Season Four, Episode 23

This episode is not just an intelligent, carefully considered rumination on the nature of history and how we tell it; it also incorporates a wonderfully realised alternative exploration of Evil Versions Of Our Crew (the Mirror Universe having already been plundered by Deep Space Nine , including appearances from some Voyager characters). Both fun and thought-provoking, with a bittersweet coda; a perfect hour of Star Trek .

20. Star Trek Voyager: Bride Of Chaotica!

Season Five, Episode 12

If it’s pure fun you’re looking for, then this is the episode for you. Voyager had already produced a number of short homages to 1950s B-movies through Tom Paris’s new favourite holodeck programme, but in this episode, what was a quick, aside joke becomes the plot, and the results are gloriously silly. A celebration of American science fiction through the years, and simply hilarious. “Intruders! Intruders from the Fifth Dimension! Intruders…”

21. Star Trek Voyager: Equinox, Parts 1 & 2

Season Five, Episode 26 and Season Six, Episode 1

When Voyager is stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Captain Janeway, classic Roddenberry hero that she is, immediately announces her determination to stick to Starfleet’s rules, regulations and ethics, no matter what. This two-parter explores the alternative option, as we learn that the Captain of the Equinox was not quite so steadfast in his loyalty to Starfleet. Naturally, we are led to the conclusion that Janeway was right, but this is an action-packed story that neatly explores Star Trek ’s outlook and values and why they matter.

22. Star Trek Enterprise: Carbon Creek

Season Two, Episode 2

Getting away with messing with Star Trek ’s established timeline just a little with a nice shout-out to other areas of the franchise (“there’s a statue”), this fish-out-of-water story is a fun exploration of what might happen if you put Vulcans in the middle of 1950s America (their bafflement at the nuclear arms race is particularly nice). It’s a nice episode to celebrate Star Trek ’s anniversary due to its warmth and focus on Vulcans and Vulcan culture; and as an added bonus, it also almost has the feel of an episode of Captain Archer, Scott Bakula’s, previous show, Quantum Leap . Lovely.

23. Star Trek Enterprise: Similitude

Season Three, Episode 10

Numerous episodes of Star Trek over the years have taken a basic science fiction concept and produced, essentially, a contained short story on the subject using the regular characters. It is one of the things that Star Trek does best, and the format – with a wide ensemble of characters to use and a tendency to focus on stand-alone stories, some seasons of Deep Space Nine and Enterprise notwithstanding – provides the perfect vehicle for classic science fiction story-telling. This is one of the best, and most moving.

24. Star Trek Enterprise: Affliction/Divergence

Season Four, Episodes 15 & 16

No list of episodes celebrating the history of Star Trek would be complete without a story focusing on the Klingons. There are so many classic Klingon episodes from across the franchise that we could have chosen for this list, and no doubt everyone will have a favourite or two. The beauty of this story in particular, though, is that it takes a problem no one wanted to talk about – the difference in appearance between the Klingons of The Original Series and those seen from the classic movies onwards – and created an interesting story around it, producing a reasonably satisfying explanation that could finally put all the fan theories to rest.

25. Star Trek Enterprise: In A Mirror, Darkly Parts 1 & 2

Season Four, Episodes 18 & 19

Set entirely within the Mirror Universe, this episode serves as an excuse not only to see evil versions of the Enterprise crew, but also, through various timey-wimey plot shenanigans, to bring back the classic 1960s uniforms not seen (outside of Trials and Tribble-ations ) since The Original Series . Connecting with all sorts of areas of Star Trek history, from Original Series episode The Tholian Web to the movie First Contact , this two-parter is, in itself, a grand celebration of decades of Star Trek . With extra added evil.

While not a television episode, if you don’t want to finish your celebratory marathon in the Evil Mirror Universe, we’d suggest watching the JJ Abrams 2009 movie Star Trek , featuring the only canon iteration of Star Trek that doesn’t exist in television format. With its time-travelling plot shenanigans, it’s the perfect way to bring everything full circle so you can start all over again…

Or watch Galaxy Quest and have a good-natured laugh at the whole thing, while still celebrating its enduring legacy.

Juliette Harrisson | @ClassicalJG

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Star Trek anniversaries

There have been several anniversary events in Star Trek 's history, which only became formalized by the Star Trek franchise in 1986 on the occasion of its 20th anniversary. [1]

• 1 7th anniversary
• 2 10th anniversary
• 3 20th anniversary
• 4 25th anniversary
• 5 30th anniversary
• 6 35th anniversary
• 7 40th anniversary
• 8 45th anniversary
• 9 50th anniversary
• 10 55th anniversary
• 11 Footnotes

7th anniversary [ ]

• Star Trek: The Animated Series debuts on NBC television seven years to the day after Star Trek: The Original Series debuted on the same network

10th anniversary [ ]

• The Labor Day weekend convention at New York City's Statler Hilton Hotel was dubbed " Star Trek Bi-Centennial-10," celebrating both the nation's bicentennial and the tenth anniversary of the series debut. All the stars, with the exception of Leonard Nimoy , who was performing in "Equus" on Broadway, were in attendance. However, Leonard Nimoy DID briefly stop by to address the convention in the Grand Ballroom. Evidently someone sent him a nasty letter for not appearing at this major convention, accusing him of not caring about the fans, etc. Leonard came to the convention to read the letter, substituting the word, “bleep”, for whatever expletives where aimed at him in the letter.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation - 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition
• Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission
• The Lives of Dax
• Prophecy and Change
• The Left Hand of Destiny, Book One
• The Left Hand of Destiny, Book Two
• The novel Unity was slated for the 10th anniversary of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , but was pushed back to a 2003 release
• Star Trek Customizable Card Game releases its Energize set for DS9's 10th anniversary
• CCG: Tenth Anniversary Collection
• Distant Shores , a 10th anniversary of Voyager anthology
• Star Trek Trilogy: The Kelvin Timeline Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

20th anniversary [ ]

• Release of " The Cage ", the original unaired Star Trek pilot episode, in the VHS , Betamax , and LaserDisc home video entertainment formats. This is the first time the complete episode was available to the general public. As a full color version was then unavailable, the video release is a combination of the color footage used in TOS : " The Menagerie, Part I ", " The Menagerie, Part II ", and a black-and-white print of the pilot.
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home premieres
• Cinefantastique , issue 63, Vol 17 #2 – 20th anniversary retrospect
• Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual 2nd printing
• Star Trek: The Next Generation is green-lighted and taken into production; this was not a coincidence as then Paramount Television CEO Mel Harris deemed the anniversary as the perfect moment for the relaunch of the television franchise.
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture - 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition audio CDs
• TNG Complete Series Boxset (24 September)
• Star Trek - Next Generation Movie Box, Special Collectors Edition (26 October, Japan only 4-film DVD collection)
• Platz limited edition release of four The Next Generation related Star Trek model kits

25th anniversary [ ]

• " Redemption ", TNG 's 100th episode, airs
• AMT/Ertl Star Trek model kit (re-)releases with new box-art
• Cinefantastique , issue 86, Vol 22 #3 – 25th anniversary edition with two alternative covers
• Estes Industries reissues of their rocket propelled Star Trek model kits
• Impel Star Trek 25th Anniversary - Series I and Series II trading card sets
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (PC)
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (Game Boy)
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (NES)
• Star Trek 25th Anniversary Audio Collection
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary LCD Video Game
• Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special
• Star Trek Commemorative Checker Set
• Star Trek Commemorative Chess Set
• Star Trek postal envelope, created by Keith Birdsong and limited to 25,000 copies
• Star Trek: The First 25 Years (cancelled)
• Star Trek: The Movies - 25th Anniversary Collectors Set
• The Producers Building on the former Desilu studio lot, attended by the entire cast of both The Original Series and The Next Generation , is ceremoniously renamed to the "Gene Roddenberry Building" (6 June)
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country premieres; despite the film division of the studio experiencing financial adversity at the time, it was decided to produce a Star Trek film with the original crew for the anniversary after all. Such was the determination not to let the occasion go by unnoticed, that a cancellation decision well into the production for budgetary reasons by a lower echelon studio executive was overturned by conglomerate higher-ups a few weeks later. (see: The Undiscovered Country: Story and production )
• "Silver Anniversary" was the title of the first chapter of George Takei 's autobiography, To the Stars .
• The Making of Star Trek reissues by Del Rey Books and Titan Books , the latter constituting the first and only edition of the book published outside the USA
• Star Trek: The Next Generation 25th Anniversary Event (23 and 26 July)
• The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Volumes 1 & 2
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Calendar (2013) (August)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine celebrates twenty-five years
• Star Trek: Voyager 25th Anniversary Special (February)
• Star Trek: The USS Voyager NCC-74656 Illustrated Handbook (July)
• Star Trek Voyager: A Celebration (November)
• The Star Trek franchise institutes " First Contact Day " as an annual official real world public relations event (April)
• Star Trek: First Contact - The Making of the Classic Film (October 2022)
• Trekkies (24 May)

30th anniversary [ ]

• " The Ship ", DS9 's 100th episode, airs
• VOY : " Flashback "
• Actress Bibi Besch died one day before Star Trek 's 30th anniversary
• AMT/Ertl Star Trek model kit (re-)releases with new box-art and complementary cut-away prints of either the USS Enterprise -A or the USS Enterprise -D , never again reissued afterwards
• Barbie & Ken Star Trek Giftset
• Cinefantastique , issue 118, Vol 27 #11 – 30th anniversary edition
• SciPubTech starship cut-away posters
• Star Fleet Technical Manual 3rd printing
• Star Trek 30th Anniversary Crossword Puzzles ( 1 January 1996 )
• Star Trek 30 Years
• Star Trek Night ( 26 August , BBC2 UK)
• Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
• Star Trek: Federation Passport
• Star Trek: These Are the Voyages... pop-up book
• Bif Bang Pow! The Next Generation -related merchandise releases

35th anniversary [ ]

• 35 Jahre Star Trek VHS release
• Star Trek: Enterprise debuts on UPN television
• Star Trek - 35th Anniversary Rittenhouse Archives trading cards set
• Star Trek Night (16 September, BBC 2 UK)
• TV Guide celebratory cover variants (20 April) & July Star Trek 35th Anniversary Tribute special edition
• Return to Tomorrow - The Filming of Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• Limited (to six hundred screens) theatrical release of the 4K Ultra HD version of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan  (Director's Cut) (10 and 13 September [1] )
• Limited theatrical release of the 4K Ultra HD version of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (19 and 22 September [2] )

40th anniversary [ ]

• 40 Years of Star Trek ( The Space Channel , Canada)
• 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection (5-7 October, New York City)
• Art Asylum toys
• Corgi 's "40th Anniversary Limited Edition" starship display model line
• Creation Entertainment official 40th anniversary Star Trek convention (17-20 August, Las Vegas)
• Master Replicas ' limited USS Enterprise "Commemorative Edition" display model reissue
• Planet Xpo Star Trek: 40th Anniversary Gala Celebration and Conference (8 September)
• Ships of the Line
• Star Fleet Technical Manual 4th printing
• Star Trek - Celebrating 40 Years - Special Collection
• Star Trek: Legacy
• Provenance of Shadows
• The Fire and the Rose
• The Star to Every Wandering
• Things Fall Apart
• The Centre Cannot Hold
• Shadows of the Indignant
• The Darkness Drops Again
• The Blood-Dimmed Tide
• Its Hour Come Round
• Strangers from the Sky
• Vulcan's Glory
• The Entropy Effect
• Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
• Burning Dreams
• Vanguard : Summon the Thunder
• Rihannsu : The Empty Chair
• Constellations
• The re-release of the Star Trek Logs adaptations of TAS
• Star Trek Logs One and Two
• Star Trek Logs Three and Four
• Star Trek Logs Five and Six
• Star Trek Logs Seven and Eight
• Star Trek Logs Nine and Ten
• Remastered Star Trek: The Original Series returns to television
• Many TV events such as SciFi UK's week-long marathon of Star Trek films and episodes. This took place between Monday 4, and Friday 8 September. The best Star Trek episode was voted for by viewers at the end of the week.

• Limited (to five hundred plus screens) theatrical USA-only release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (15 and 18 September [3] )
• The First Star Trek Movie (October)
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Art and Visual Effects (September 2020, postponed)
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Director's Cut individual 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release (September)
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - The Making of the Classic Film (September 2023, postponed)
• 40th Anniversary at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works

45th anniversary [ ]

• 11-13 March, San Francisco [4]
• 15-17 July, Boston [5]
• 11-14 August, Las Vegas [6]
• Legacy – Star Trek 45th anniversary art exhibition (8-20 September, Manchester, UK)
• Trek Nation

50th anniversary [ ]

• Star Trek Beyond premieres (22 July)
• 10 Movie Star Trek Collector's Set - Limited Edition Steelbook Collection (18 July, UK)
• 50 Years of Star Trek (14 August, The History Channel )
• AMT, Polar Lights and Revell Germany Star Trek model kit (re-)releases with new box-art.
• Bif Bang Pow! The Original Series -related merchandise releases
• The Captains: A Journey Through Time Australian/UK DVD releases (7 September/3 October)
• Creation Entertainment official 50th anniversary Star Trek convention (31 July–4 August, Las Vegas, USA [7] )
• The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years (28 June)
• The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years (30 August)
• MAC Cosmetics release of a collection of Star Trek themed make-up (August).
• Star Trek: 50 Artists 50 Years (6 Septemeber)
• Star Trek: 50th Anniversary Cover Celebration (17 August)
• Star Trek: The Exhibition (8 July-4 November, Blackpool, UK)
• Star Trek: Legacies -trilogy release, featuring the main characters from Star Trek: The Original Series as well as Number One in a prominent role. (28 June – 30 August)
• Star Trek: The Original Series - The Roddenberry Vault (December)
• Star Trek: Ships of the Line (2017) (19 July)
• Star Trek: Ships of the Line Posters (22 September)
• Star Trek: Stardate Collection , UK 50th anniversary Blu-ray reissue
• Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience (13 May, Ottawa, Canada)
• Star Trek: 50th Anniversary Collection (29 November)
• Star Trek 50th Anniversary Official Calendar (15 August)
• Star Trek 50th Anniversary Risk (June)
• Star Trek 50th Anniversary stamp releases by various Commonwealth postal services, among others those of Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, Canada, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, as well as Tuvalu, though not by that of the UK itself. Non-Commonwealth countries who have concurrently done so included Liberia and the Marshall Islands.
• Star Trek 50th Anniversary Special (September, TV Guide )
• Star Trek 50th Anniversary TV and Movie Collection (6 September)
• Star Trek Encyclopedia (18 October, 4th edition)
• Star Trek Online released the game's third expansion, Agents of Yesterday . This expansion saw the addition of a playable faction based on the 23rd century-era Starfleet and had players ally themselves with Montgomery Scott , Pavel Chekov , and Daniels in bringing a halt to the Temporal Cold War . This expansion added in a number of playable starships designed like they were in the TOS era and its first lockbox offered players a chance to own an alternate reality version of the Constitution -class .
• Trivial Pursuit: Star Trek 50th Anniversary Edition (May)
• Unendliche Weiten - Die William Shatner Edition für alle Star Trek Fans German Blu-ray / DVD releases (18 July)
• United States Postal Service Star Trek stamps (2 September)
• After a two-year restoration, the fully restored original eleven-foot USS Enterprise studio model was put back on permanent display in the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) on 1 July 2016 , as planned
• The franchise's " Star Trek Day" was centered around the 50th anniversary of The Animated Series , with Star Trek: Lower Decks taking center stage in the celebrations in equal measure as well. The series Star Trek: very Short Treks was launched for the occasion. (8 September)

55th anniversary [ ]

• Taking their cue from the " Marvel Cinematic Universe " (MCU) and DC Universe (DCU) concepts from competitors Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery, the overall " Star Trek Universe' " all-under-one-roof franchise umbrella concept was formally instituted by the Star Trek franchise by introducing its own dedicated, The Motion Picture film poster-inspired, logo which from then on was a mandatory requirement to have present in one form or another (most often by specifically using the logo's presentation of the three primary colors – command yellow, operations red, and sciences blue – as a theme throughout) on all merchandise packaging and/or promos, which befittingly included the official 55th anniversary logo as featured on the right. Eaglemoss Collections was among the very first merchandise companies to apply the new branding by concentrating all their then-current display model lines into the unified Star Trek Universe: The Official Starships Collection featuring the mandatory logo as its collection logo, albeit monochrome in their case, as one of the very few. (January) [3]
• For the occasion of both the anniversary and first time 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray September release of the first four Star Trek films, the franchise has commissioned new official promo poster art (typically for use by online Star Trek vendors, such as digital release companies among others), ordaining the thematic use of the three primary colors as employed in the Universe logo. New poster art for the last two original crew films were introduced a year later as the remastering work on these had not been completed in time for them to be included in the anniversary celebrations.
• Two theatrical showings of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home by Fathom Events in select North American cities. It concerned the new 4K Ultra HD version of the film, whose remastering had just been completed. (19 & 22 August)
• Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection (7 September)
• Star Trek - The Original Series: A Celebration (21 September)
• Star Trek Official Calendar (2022) (7 October)
• DVD and Star Trek: The Original Series - The Complete Series Blu-ray reissues (26 October)
• Star Trek: Prodigy premieres on Paramount+ (28 October)
• The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek ( The History Channel , 5 November)

Footnotes [ ]

• ↑ 1.0 1.1 The first Star Trek anniversary for which the franchise took the initiative to introduce a formal anniversary logo, mostly featured as stickers on merchandise released in that year. Star Trek did not gather steam as a full-fledged multi-media franchise until well after the release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979, which is why there were no prior formal anniversary events, in the process also explaining why the first formal anniversary logo featured the title font of The Motion Picture . Paramount Pictures had not taken any official interest in formally celebrating Star Trek previously; what events there were being predominantly " Trekkie " driven.
• ↑ By necessity, anniversary celebrations, particularly the public ones, were very limited on the 2021 occasion, due to the mandatory world-wide lock downs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic .
• ↑ Nothing more than a stillborn gimmick in the end, the entire " Star Trek Universe"-concept was dropped less than two years later due to the harsh economic realities Paramount+ , the franchise's streaming service , in particular was facing, resulting in that the mandatory use of the logo was abandoned in the latter half of 2023. Its absence was glaringly obvious during the September Animated Series ' 50th anniversary celebrations after Prodigy had been removed from the franchise shortly before on 26 June. Effectively, that removal had left the " Star Trek Universe"-concept completely in shambles (see, main article ).
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Look back on 50 years of Star Trek in Paramount’s anniversary trailer

Titled “Celebrating 50 years of Star Trek … and Beyond” the video features a montage of scenes culled from each of the Star Trek movies, from the (somewhat forgettable) 1979 original film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture , on through the “Next Generation” era, and all the way to this year’s Star Trek Beyond , featuring the new cast and rebooted “Kelvin” timeline.

To date, the 13 films in the Star Trek franchise have collectively earned nearly $1.4 billion in U.S. theaters and $1.7 billion worldwide.The most recent film,  Star Trek Beyond , has earned $155.4 million domestically and $294 million worldwide so far. A 14th film — the fourth film in the rebooted timeline — was confirmed by the studio to be in development.

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It’s hard to imagine today, but back in the late 1960s, the original Star Trek was not considered a hit. The ambitious science fiction series was constantly on the brink of cancellation and was cut short only three years into its planned five-season run. However, it’s important to put Trek’s apparent failure into historical context as, given that most markets in the U.S. had only three television channels to choose from, even a low-rated show like Star Trek was being watched by about 20% of everyone watching television on a Thursday night, or roughly 10 million households. This year’s season of HBO’s Succession was viewed by roughly 8 million households a week, which makes it a hit by today's standards. Star Trek’s audience only grew once it went into reruns in the early 1970s, and by the time Star Trek: The Motion Picture hit theaters in 1979, it was a genuine cultural phenomenon. Today, the Star Trek franchise is considered one of the crown jewels of the Paramount library. Though arguably outshined by its most prosperous spinoff, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: The Original Series holds up remarkably well for a vision of our future imagined nearly 60 years in our past. It’s a space adventure series that tackles social or political issues from what was, at the time, a daring and progressive perspective informed by the contemporary civil rights movement, sexual revolution, and backlash against the Vietnam War. Conveying these values through fanciful science fiction didn’t only allow its writers to get away with a lot of subversive messages, it also delivered them in a way that remains fun to watch decades later — fun enough that fans are willing to forgive when its ideas, or its special effects, crumble under modern scrutiny. These 10 episodes, however, unquestionably stand the test of time, and thanks to the continuity-light nature of mid-20th century television, any one of them could be your first Star Trek episode. (Be aware, however, that the order in which classic Trek episodes are listed varies depending on the source. For our purposes, we’re using the numbering from streaming service Paramount+.)

10. Mirror, Mirror (season 2, episode 4)

Just a few years after rebranding CBS All Access into Paramount+, the streamer has become one of the largest in the country, now holding over 60 million subscribers. With tons of original programming, a large collection of Paramount movies, and even an option to bundle in Showtime, the streaming service has lots to love.

It should also come as no surprise that Paramount+ has tons of excellent sci-fi movies since the streamer is probably best known for its massive collection of Star Trek shows and movies, including tons of originals. If you're looking for some great sci-fi movies to watch this summer, here are five you definitely need to check out. Interstellar (2014)

For decades, Deep Space Nine was “that other Star Trek show.” It debuted in 1992, during the run of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the first Trek series to achieve mainstream popularity. DS9 overlapped in first-run syndication with TNG until 1994, and then with Voyager — which ran on primetime network television — from 1995 to 2001. Throughout its seven-year run, Deep Space Nine was never a top priority for studio Paramount or franchise executive producer Rick Berman. While this was a source of frustration for the cast and crew, the studio’s neglect also allowed them to take greater creative risks. Under showrunner Ira Steven Behr, DS9 gleefully subverted the Star Trek formula, pulling open the cracks in the franchise’s futuristic utopia and refusing to be bound by the episodic nature of weekly television. DS9’s serialized stories and long character arcs may have made it harder to keep up with when it first aired, but it’s perfect for the modern binge-streaming model, which has introduced it to a whole new generation of fans. Thirty years after its debut, Deep Space Nine is finally receiving the respect it always deserved. Selecting just ten episodes of DS9 to showcase is a challenge, as many of its most compelling stories are spread out across multiple episodes. Some of the episodes below are totally standalone stories, some are standout chapters in multi-part arcs that can be appreciated on their own, and some are two-parters that we simply couldn’t separate and had to list as a single entry. We hope you don’t mind us bending the rules just a bit — after all, that’s part of what made DS9 great to begin with.

10. In Purgatory’s Shadow/By Inferno’s Light (season 5, episodes 14 and 15)

20 out-of-this-world moments from the Star Trek anniversary convention

From a Borg-assimilated Darth Vader to a remote-control Horta, the 50th anniversary Star Trek convention in Las Vegas had plenty of surprising, weird and wonderful moments. Engage!

A quartet of Guinans

Star Trek turns 50 in 2016, marking a momentous milestone. To celebrate, thousands of fans came together with Trek luminaries ranging from William Shatner to Kirstie Alley at the official Star Trek 50th anniversary convention in Las Vegas last week. Spectacular costumes, entertaining celebrity panels and sci-fi hijinks ensued.

The 50th anniversary celebration also marked Whoopi Goldberg's very first Star Trek convention. Goldberg played the mysterious alien Enterprise bartender on "The Next Generation." She asked these three Guinan cosplayers to join her up on stage.

Kirkiest entrance ever

Captain Kirk himself showed up for the 50th anniversary Star Trek convention in Las Vegas. His arrival, accompanied by a scantily clad woman wearing strips of silver material, may have been the Captain Kirkiest stage entrance ever made. Shatner spoke about diverse topics, including "The Twilight Zone," Pokemon Go and Star Wars.

The USS Balloon Enterprise

A massive balloon version of the USS Enterprise graces one of the halls at the Star Trek 50th anniversary convention in Las Vegas. The front of the ship even lights up.

So many tribbles

The Star Trek 50th anniversary convention offers quite a few opportunities for fans to arrange their own themed photo ops. This spot includes a large screenshot from the classic Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles." The herd of tribbles on the floor are all battery-powered and chirp and tremble when you pick them up.

Edible salt monster

Quark's Bar is a special location within the Star Trek 50th anniversary convention. The bar hosted a collection of edible Star Trek art in the form of specialty cakes. This cake does an excellent job of capturing the look of the Salt Monster from original-series episode "The Man Trap."

City on the edge of today

"City on the Edge of Forever" is widely regarded as one of the best episodes of Star Trek ever made. This prop replicates the time/space portal from that show. It doesn't actually take you back to New York in the 1930s, but it does offer a great photo op where you can pretend you're returning from saving Doctor McCoy and the entire future of Starfleet.

LeVar Burton confesses

Here's LeVar Burton holding up a phone during a panel at the Star Trek 50th anniversary convention in Las Vegas. It's hard to tell from this image, but he's sharing a photo of fellow "Next Generation" actor Brent Spiner wearing Geordie La Forge's visor. This was part of the answer to a question about whether he kept any souvenirs from his time on the series.

Darth Vader met the Borg...and lost

It's fun to imagine different sci-fi franchises colliding. This fan has an answer to what would happen if Darth Vader from Star Wars came up against the Borg from Star Trek. The Sith Lord would be assimilated. Resistance is futile and Darth got turned into a cyborg with a lightsaber attached to the end of his robot arm.

Resistance is futile

I went to the Star Trek 50th anniversary convention and all I got was assimilation by the Borg. This wonderfully done prop lets fans join the Borg collective. You, too, can be just like Captain Picard.

The Trimbles

You might not recognize these people, but they were instrumental in making Star Trek the phenomenon it is today. Bjo and John Trimble were honored on stage at the Star Trek 50th anniversary convention.

Let's go back into the '60s. "Star Trek" was in danger of cancellation after its second season. Bjo Trimble started a grassroots letter-writing campaign to organize fan support and call for a third season. It worked. "Star Trek" was renewed and then eventually revived in the late '70s with the start of the movie series. That may never have happened if the show was shut down after only two seasons. That's why Bjo Trimble is known as "the woman who saved Star Trek."

"The Devil in the Dark" is a memorable original-series episode thanks to Leonard Nimoy's acting and the unusual alien known as the Horta. The Horta is a silicon-based life form that just wants to protect its babies. This remote-control Horta roamed the show floor at the 50th anniversary Star Trek convention in Las Vegas.

How celebrity photos are made

A highlight for many Star Trek convention fans: meeting their heroes and having a picture taken. The lines are long, but they move quickly. This massive bank of industrial photo printers generates the photos for fans to take home. A graphics specialist from Creation Entertainment, the convention producer, personally checks each photo before it goes to the printer.

Tribble claw game

Most claw games are full of stuffed bears or action figures. This claw game is full of tribbles. It's hard to tell if they've been breeding in there, but there are plenty of tribbles for the taking for anybody who has the skill, patience and spare change to play the game.

On the bridge of the NCC-1701

Fans at the Star Trek 50th anniversary convention in Las Vegas get to captain their own starship when they step into this colorful, lit-up replica bridge from the NCC-1701. The bridge set is incredibly elaborate, right down to the dedication plaque on the wall near the turbolift doors.

The Roddenberries

There aren't a lot of Star Trek tribute bands in the world, which makes The Roddenberries an extremely special act. Here, they party while playing the original-series theme song in front of the 50th anniversary logo. The Roddenberries provide entertainment every evening during the 50th anniversary convention at Quark's Bar.

A lot of fans opt for Starfleet uniforms or alien costumes for their fashionable convention-wear. This fan decided to go just plain weird with a Santa Claus Gorn outfit. The green lizard-like alien might have wanted to kill Captain Kirk, but this one just wants to spread cheer.

Hundreds of Trek cosplayers

Hundreds of Star Trek cosplayers stand on the main stage for a photo op during the 50th anniversary convention in Las Vegas. There are Starfleet officers, Klingons, tribbles, Andorians and unique characters from across all the series and movies. There were so many costumed fans, some had to stand on the floor.

Plush phaser

The vendors' room at the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas is full of costumes, action figures, autographed photos and a few oddball items like this extremely large, plush phaser. The droopy phaser looks like it would make for a very comfortable pillow to throw on your couch while you're marathoning your favorite Star Trek series.

Costume contest

Costume-contest guest judge Terry Farrell (Jadzia Dax from "Deep Space Nine") inspects an elaborate costume depicting the Crystalline Entity from "The Next Generation."

Behind the scenes

Thousands of fans attend the Star Trek 50th anniversary convention in Las Vegas. What they don't see is all the behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping the show rolling. This peek out from backstage looks out into the main auditorium, capable of seating 6,000 people. It was near capacity for Kirstie Alley, who played the Vulcan Saavik in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." This was her first Star Trek convention.

Bonus: Peek at the Sharpie stash

Most of the Star Trek celebrities who attend the convention in Las Vegas also spend time signing autographs for fans. This collection of Sharpie pens sits behind the scenes, waiting to be distributed as needed. It takes a whole lot of Sharpies to keep the autograph lines going.

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I Forgot About Captain Picard Day, But So Did Star Trek

• Captain Picard Day was overshadowed by recent Star Trek franchise developments, such as the end of Discovery and new casting announcements.
• Fans celebrated Captain Picard Day on June 16, a real-world occasion inspired by Star Trek, but Paramount+ did not acknowledge it this year.
• Despite not being commemorated by Star Trek, Captain Picard Day remains a significant event for fans and a tie-in for the beloved character.

I forgot about Captain Picard Day this year, but so did Star Trek . June 16 is Captain Picard Day, which is one of the three holidays Star Trek celebrates in the real world, along with First Contact Day in April and Star Trek Day in September. Fans remembered Captain Picard Day, and it was commemorated by dedicated fan-run Star Trek websites. But the occasion came and went without fanfare from Star Trek on Paramount+ or me.

Captain Picard Day didn't register for me as it did in the past because so much has recently happened in the Star Trek franchise. Star Trek: Discovery ended on May 30th after 5 successful seasons, and it was a lot to unpack. Meanwhile, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 wrapped filming. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy , which is going into production in the fall, dropped two huge casting announcements, tapping Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter as the series lead and Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti as the next Star Trek series' recurring main villain. Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 finally announced its July 1st release date on Netflix, and Star Trek received a Peabody Institutional Award . With so much happening, Captain Picard Day got lost in the shuffle.

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Why Star Trek Celebrates Captain Picard Day

"i'm a role model".

Captain Picard Day was introduced in Star Trek: The Next Generation season 7, episode 12, "The Pegasus". It was a special occasion organized by Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) to allow the children aboard the USS Enterprise-D to celebrate their heroic Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). Captain Picard Day was a memorable bit of whimsy in TNG that was later acknowledged by the older Admiral Picard in Star Trek: Picard season 1.

Captain Picard Day is celebrated on June 16, which is the Gregorian calendar's equivalent to stardate 47457.1 in Star Trek: The Next Generation 's "The Pegasus".

Star Trek recognized how fans took to Captain Picard Day and turned June 16th into a real-world occasion. In 2019, StarTrek.com marked Captain Picard Day with an entire week of festivities. Captain Picard Day was also a convenient tie-in for Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+ when the series bringing back Patrick Stewart in his iconic role premiered in 2020, running for three seasons. This year, however, Captain Picard Day celebrations ended up taking a back seat for a few reasons.

This time last year, Hollywood writers were on strike. Now, many can’t find work

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WRITER'S STRIKE'S FIRST ANNIVERSARY

Striking Writers Guild members picket alongside SAG-AFTRA members outside Netflix studios in September 2023. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption

This time last year, Hollywood writers were picketing outside the offices of major studios and streaming companies. Throughout their nearly five month-long strike, writers often convened at Bob’s Big Boy, where TV host Drew Carey often picked up the check.

“I remember eating a lot of hash browns, and then if it was dinner, they’ve got a good soup situation,” says Taylor Orci, who recently returned to the Burbank diner to reminisce with writer Bill Wolkoff.

“It saved us,” Wolkoff nods. “It was a vote of confidence that ‘I believe in writers.’ Thank you, Drew Carey, for that.”

Wolkoff writes and produces the series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . Last year, when the show took a pause, he was a Writers Guild of America strike captain outside CBS Studios in L.A. Thanks to the union’s new contract, he’s looking forward to getting higher streaming residuals with each hit season.

“That’s going to be a noticeable difference in my life,” Wolkoff says. “And the AI protections too. I mean, we got in our contract language that ensures that AI will not replace writers. That’s huge.”

But, he admits, he’s one of the lucky few Hollywood writers still working these days.

Like many others, Taylor Orci still struggles. One writing job fell through recently, and they’re still living on loans, with max’d out credit cards and a baby on the way.

Writer Taylor Orci outside Bob's Big Boy, a diner in Burbank. Mandalit del Barco/NPR hide caption

“I knew it was gonna be slow, but I thought I’d have a job,” they say. “It’s tough right now to find work, especially if you didn’t have a job before.”

'We needed a sea change'

Across town in Encino, Lannet Tachel says that the union’s gains are helpful, but, “in the long run, you still have to be one of the lucky few to get in so that help applies to you.”

Her writing partner Corey Grant agrees: there’s not much production these days.

“It was hard before the strike. It’s even harder now,” he says. “I think it’s a backlash because of the strike. I think they’re trying to … shore up their pockets a little bit, but it’s less TV, less episodes getting made, tighter budgets, half the shows got canceled.”

Lanett Tachel and writing partner Corey Grant. Mandalit del Barco/NPR hide caption

NPR reached out to eight major studios and streamers for a response. They didn’t get back to us. But the president of the WGA West, Meredith Stiehm, says those production changes started before the strike, not because of it. She says there had been a boom, with streaming companies ordering a glut of new shows. But in 2022, so-called “peak TV” went bust.

“Netflix announced that they'd lost subscribers. Streaming was not profitable for anybody. It was kind of a failed model. Everybody started retreating. At the same time,” she says, “our contract was untenable and we needed a sea change.”

Writers union votes to ratify contract, ending one of Hollywood's longest strikes

The WGA spent nearly five months on strike last year starting in May. Actors and performers in the union SAG-AFTRA also went on strike last summer. The writers union reached a tentative deal with studios in September , with new residual models in streaming, new minimum lengths of employment for TV gigs, more guaranteed paid work for feature films and other protections. Then, SAG-AFTRA reached their own tentative agreement in November .

“When we all returned to work, the decline continued, meaning not as much content is being ordered,” Stiehm says. “And it seems that the studios are sort of regrouping, and writers are feeling the post-Peak TV pinch.”

Actors and studios make a deal to end Hollywood strikes

During a recent earnings call, SONY Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra said his company was hit by more than just the streaming revolution.

“We had to go from a pandemic where production was severely limited, to a strike, where there was no creative work being done for literally seven or eight months,” he said. “It had to restart. And that's what you're seeing right now.”

The industry continues to transform, with shrinking ad revenue and layoffs at just about every entertainment and media company. Last month, Netflix announced it would produce more non-scripted material , like reality shows and game shows. Disney said it will offer even more live sports through ESPN over the coming years.

Nick Geisler got his first writing job in Los Angeles in 2018. He was a strike captain outside Amazon Studios last year. After the strike ended, he says, he returned for a few months to the writers room for the Disney show Bunk’d: Learning the Ropes . But he says he hasn’t had much luck with other studios.

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“There’s just no appetite for risk,” Geisler says. “And there's a lot of requests for rewrites. A lot of them are free. There's a lot of, ‘Hey, we're so, so close. Can you just make these changes and get it over the line?’ ‘Hey, we're turning it into our higher ups tomorrow. Can you do this in three hours?’ I don't think that's really changed much. Because of the climate we're in, there’s a lot of ‘Well, I’ll just get this done because there’s not a lot going on.’”

Now, he says, “I'm actually working on a short film for a writer that I met on the picket line.”

'This time feels different'

Things are tough for those who’ve been in the business for decades, too.

“I reach out to my agent and he tells me it’s really bad out there. Hopefully it will turn around,” says Jon Sherman, who hasn’t had a writing assignment for three years.

Jon Sherman began his career in Hollywood three decades ago. Mandalit del Barco/NPR hide caption

He began his career 30 years ago , writing for Bill Nye the Science Guy. He also wrote and produced for the original TV series Frasier. Sherman was a WGA strike captain outside Amazon Studios last year.

“It's been the first time in a long career, for which I'm grateful, that I've had a real long layoff. I’ve reached a point where I'm like, ‘Oh, this time feels different.’”

To pay the bills, Sherman says he was in a focus group for dried fruit and in a UCLA research study on exercise. He’s also now a TV game show contestant. But he sure would still love to write for television.

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The Split star's BBC Northern Ireland drama Dead And Buried gets first look

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Coming later this year to BBC One Northern Ireland and top streaming service BBC iPlayer , this four-part drama is a story of revenge and deception.

In the series, Cathy (Scholey) and her young son have a chance encounter with Michael ( The Fall' s Colin Morgan) in a supermarket, kickstarting a quest for vengeance.

Michael was convicted of murdering Cathy's brother 20 years earlier, but he's since built a life for himself as a successful businessman and family man.

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Cathy is determined to make Michael pay for his actions by striking up a clandestine relationship with him, all the while masterminding a secret harassment campaign to expose his past.

Dead and Buried comes from writer Colin Bateman, who has previously worked on Doc Martin and Murphy’s Law .

Joining Scholey and Morgan in the cast of Dead and Buried will be Kerri Quinn ( The Witcher: Blood Origin ), Waj Ali ( Carnival Row ), Owen Roe ( Vikings ) and Niamh Walsh ( The Sandman ).

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Micheal Hanna and Joanne Crawford ( Blue Lights and Line of Duty ) have supporting roles in the series as well.

Scholey was also recently confirmed to be returning to The Split for a two-part miniseries called The Split: Barcelona , in which she'll reunite with Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan.

Series creator Abi Morgan has revealed that the new episodes reunite the Defoe family for a destination wedding filled with "problematic prenups, scandalous wedding crashers, and low-flying marriage proposals".

Scholey has told Digital Spy that she expects The Split 's special episodes to air around Christmas , though a transmission date has yet to be confirmed by the BBC.

Dead and Buried will premiere on BBC One Northern Ireland and the BBC iPlayer this autumn, while The Split: Barcelona is currently in production.

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The trek was previously postponed due to Hill's vocal strain.

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Wave your hands in the air, because ready or not, here they come again: Ms. Lauryn Hill and The Fugees are going back on a joint tour! The 21-date trek, announced on Monday (June 24), will mostly play in the United States before wrapping up with four dates overseas.

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According to the press release, $2 from each ticket sold will go to the MLH fund, which benefits organizations that provide resources for mental health issues, women’s wellness, small business development, education and more.

The Miseducation Anniversary Tour was previously postponed in November due to Hill experiencing vocal issues. “As many of you may know, I’ve been battling serious vocal strain for the past month. I made it through each show by taking prescribed prednisone, but this can be detrimental to the body when taken in large amounts over long periods of time,” she wrote on Instagram at the time. “In order to prevent any long term negative affect on my voice and my body, I need to take time off to allow for real vocal recovery so that I can discontinue the medication completely.”

“The shows that were cancelled this year will be rescheduled for early 2024 AND because of the overwhelming response, we’ll be adding new cities to the tour, including overseas,” she added at the time.

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Post Malone is set to hit the road this fall in support of his first country album, F-1 Trillion .

The musician will play a mix of stadiums and amphitheaters on the 21-show trek, which kicks off Sept. 8 at the Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre in Salt Lake City and wraps Oct. 19 at Nissan Stadium in Nashville. The run also includes a previously announced headlining set at the Global Citizen Festival in New York City on Sept. 28.  

Tickets for the tour will go on sale July 1 at 10 a.m. local time via Live Nation. Citi cardholders will have access to presale tickets starting June 26 at 10 a.m. local time, while fans can also register for pre-sale access on Post Malone’s website . 

“I love y’all so very much and I’m so excited to get out and play new music for you,” Post Malone said of the trek in a statement. 

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Before kicking off his fall tour, Post Malone will play a handful of festival dates this summer, including a set at Outside Lands in San Francisco. He’s already teased his country era with a surprise performance at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium earlier this year before playing a set of country covers at Stagecoach , where he was joined by Brad Paisley, Dwight Yokam, and Sara Evans. 

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Celebrating Star Trek: The Motion Picture's 35th Anniversary

Star Trek fans are used to seeing the U.S.S. Enterprise on the big screen these days, but when Star Trek: The Motion Picture opened in theaters 35 years ago today – December 7, 1979 – it marked the first time Star Trek ’s majestic, iconic starship ventured into cinemas. The jury remains out on The Motion Picture , which was directed by Robert Wise, the man behind The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Andromeda Strain, West Side Story and The Sound of Music . Some people find it slow, even boring. Others love it, especially its basic story, which echoed the thinking person’s sci-fi so associated with The Original Series . And, no question, the DVD version, Star Trek: The Motion Picture: The Director’s Edition , vastly improves upon the initial release. To celebrate the film’s 35th anniversary, StarTrek.com offers up some tidbits, factoids and anecdotes Trek ’s first theatrical voyage.

-- TMP rose from the ashes of Star Trek: Phase II , the abandoned television series that would have brought the Enterprise and most of the TOS cast back to the small screen. And, as the story goes, Phase II rose out of the ashes of a proposed TOS feature that was to have been directed by Philip Kaufman.-- Filming on TMP commenced on August 7, 1979 and wrapped on January 26, 1979. The wrap party was held on February 10, 1979, at Liu's Chinese Restaurant and Chez Moi Disco.

-- “I wasn't a Trekkie, though I'd seen a few episodes," Robert Wise recounted to the Philadelphia Daily News during an interview back in 1994. "The reason I did it was I'd done The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and The Andromeda Strain (1971), which were earthbound, and I thought it was time I got into the heavens. By far, and for various reasons, it wasn't one of my favorite experiences," Wise went on to say. “The day-to-day on the set, directing the actors and working with Gene (Roddenberry), was fine, but we were rewriting the script every day, to the very last day of shooting.”

-- TMP cost approximately $46 million to make, an astronomical sum for its day, but also an unfair number. That figure took into account the costs associated with Phase II and also the oft-told TMP special effects debacle saga.

-- Klingon was spoken for the first time in TMP .-- The V'ger sound effects were performed using a blaster beam. What’s a blaster beam? It’s a musical instrument invented by Star Trek actor Craig Huxley, who was known as Craig Hundley when, on The Original Series , he played Peter Kirk in “ Operation: Annihilate! ” and Tommy Starnes in “ And the Children Shall Lead .” He also created the music for the Project Genesis simulation in The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock .-- Several familiar Trek figures made uncredited cameos in TMP , among them Bjo Trimble, David Gerrold, Susan Sackett and Christopher Doohan.

-- One of the film's publicity shots famously has a long two-by-four clearly visible at the top right of the frame (see above, no pun intended.) -- Leonard Nimoy, in a 1983 special titled Leonard Nimoy: Star Trek Memories , made the following, perfectly logical, statement about TMP : “It was a very finely crafted film, and it did well. But from the actor's point of view frankly, it was frustrating. We didn't feel that we were getting to play the characters that we enjoyed playing in the way that we knew how to play them. And it was frustrating for Gene Roddenberry too. It wasn't the story or script he had wanted, and the gaps seemed filled with too much emphasis on special effects.”

-- Robert Wise, were he still alive, would have turned 100 years old on September 10, 2014. Sadly, the respected director died of a heart attack on September 14, 2005, at the age of 91.-- TMP had its world premiere at the K-B MacArthur Theater in Washington, D.C. The screening was held on December 6, 1979, and was part of a fundraiser for the National Space Club.-- TMP received three Oscar nominations: Art Direction, Music and Visual Effects.

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