Tag: Star Trek
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Kate Mulgrew Knows What She’d Like Her Star Trek Bridge Crew to Look Like
Star Trek had a strong presence at New York Comic Con this weekend, with cast members from Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Discovery, and Star Trek: Prodigy beaming down to share what fans can come to expect from the upcoming seasons of each series. During the Star Trek: Prodigy portion of the panel, a fan…
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Inspired by ‘Star Trek,’ Leni Lauritsch’s Space Thriller ‘Rubikon’ Grapples With Questions of Ethics and Morality
In Leni Lauritsch’s gritty sci-fi thriller “Rubikon,” the final frontier could well be humankind’s last refuge.The film, which stars Julia Franz Richter, Georg Blagden (“Versailles”) and Mark Ivanir, screens in the Zurich Film Festival’s Focus Competition.Set in a dark future in which a polluted and barely sustainable Earth is plagued by corporate armies battling for…
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‘Star Trek’ Sequel Removed by Paramount From Upcoming Film Slate
Paramount has removed its untitled “Star Trek” sequel from its upcoming film slate. The project, produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, had been dated to hit theaters on Dec. 22, 2023.The rather inevitable news comes roughly one month after director Matt Shakman exited the “Star Trek” film, which was nominally set to be the fourth…
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Star Trek 4 Has Been Removed From Paramount’s Upcoming Release Slate
The last “Star Trek” film to be released as part of the Kelvin timeline was the woefully undervalued “Star Trek Beyond,” arguably the best of the three newest entries. Since then, “Trek” fans have been waiting for a fourth entry in the new film franchise, and it seemed like there was hope when it was…
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Best Sci-Fi Inventions in Movies & TV That We Wish Were Real
Here we are, in 2022. We live in an unprecedented age of discovery and creation: smart phones, 4K televisions, virtual assistants like Siri, electric cars. All things that would have made our forefathers’ heads explode. But, dammit, we were promised more! Where are the flying cars of The Jetsons? The Star Trek transporters? Soylent Green?…
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What Happened to J.J. Abrams’ Multimillion Dollar Project Demimonde?
While J.J. Abrams is now most famous for his work in big blockbusters like some of the most recent Star Wars movies or Star Trek, he began to take off in pop culture in the world of television. It was the TV show Alias that put him on the map as an artist while his…
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Seth MacFarlane Isn’t Afraid To Flip The Orville On Its Head
In 2017, Seth MacFarlane created the sci-fi comedy-drama, “The Orville,” as a homage to the original “Star Trek” and its “Next Generation” successor. Despite its appreciation for “Stark Trek,” “The Orville” never shies away from parodying the source material it is so inspired by, subverting space drama tropes in the process. Season 3 of the…
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‘Star Trek’ Cast and Creator’s Ashes Will Be Flown to Space for ‘Graveyard Orbit’
The late stars of “Star Trek: The Original Series” will live long and prosper in space, thanks to a pioneering new mission.After legendary “Star Trek” actress and NASA collaborator Nichelle Nichols died in July 2022 at age 89, memorial spaceflight organization Celestis contacted Nichols’ son Kyle Johnson about her remains being put into orbit. Named…