As Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection delivers a new light-up Planet Killer Special, Clive Burrell considers the origins of ‘The Doomsday Machine’. Out of the depths of space, it came, jagged, pointed, a gaping maw devouring all in its path; the Doomsday Machine. Arriving 52 years ago, the Planet Killer was the first of the supersized, … Read more
Out this month, the first of a new series of deluxe hardback books from the Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection team. For the first time ever these titles provide a chronological history of the Starfleet starships from Star Trek TV shows and movies. Star Trek Shipyards Volume 1 features Starfleet Ships from 2151 to 2293. This in-depth reference book, written … Read more
Production on season 2 of Star Trek: Picard has had to be postponed due to more than 50 positive Covid results among the cast and crew – though Patrick Stewart is not among them. Work on the second season was just about to begin following the Christmas break when results from the test came in with more than … Read more
New Launch! Star Trek: The Next Generation: Build the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D! It’s iconic! It’s huge! It lights up! It can be yours! This new fully authorized Star Trek build-up lets you construct your own massive model of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D as it appeared in seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Measuring over 28 inches long, this die-cast metal model is based … Read more
Coming soon to Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, an XL model of the refitted 32nd century U.S.S. Discovery. After its unexpected and violent arrival in the 32nd century, the U.S.S. Discovery NCC-1031 received an extensive upgrade at the Federation’s headquarters. Refitted with futuristic technology over long weeks of engineering, the ship was recommissioned as the U.S.S. Discovery NCC-1031-A! The Discovery’s refit has … Read more
Coming soon from the team behind Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, a new series of ships based on the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks. Launching in January, and now available on pre-order here, take a look at the first XL-size starship in the series, the USS Cerritos NCC-75567, a hand-painted model nearly 10 inches (25cm) in length. The USS Cerritos specialized in second-contact … Read more
25 years on to the day from its first US broadcast date, James Cooray Smith returns to the Wormhole to reassess Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This week, the crew goes uncover as Klingons in ‘Trials and Tribble-ations’. The production of ‘Unification’, in the autumn of 1991, had set something of a precedent for Star Trek … Read more
When Star Trek: Discovery changed the look of the Klingons it caused ruptures in the space-time continuum but it’s not the first, and won’t be the last, time that Trek has tweaked its alien gallery. Rich Handley maps their foreheads from 52 years of Star Trek. It’s a bumpy ride! Ever since the first images of Star Trek: Discovery’s … Read more
As part of Star Trek Day’s event, we’ve been given a lot of new trailers and news. Two of the highlighted shows were new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Discovery Season 4. As fan favorites in Discovery’s season 2, Captain Christopher Pike, Number One and Spock received their very own spin-off show featuring … Read more
Paramount + has shared the first trailer for the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy and, with it, the first glimpse of the show’s new starship, the USS Protostar NX-7688, above. Star Trek: Prodigy follows a motley crew of young aliens who must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search for a better future. These … Read more