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Star Trek: Discovery producer on honoring the spirit of The Original Series

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We’re just a couple of months away from Star Trek’s return to the small screen as CBS prepares to launch the brand new series Star Trek: Discovery, and producer Alex Kurtzman has been chatting to CNET about honoring the “spirit” of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek: The Original Series. “If you are a fan of Trek […]

Alex Kurtzman says Star Trek: Discovery retains Bryan Fuller’s vision, explains reasons for delays

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In 2016, CBS announced that Star Trek would be returning to the small screen with the brand new series, tapping Bryan Fuller – whose early writing credits included episodes of Deep Space Nine and Voyager – to serve as showrunner for Star Trek: Discovery. Sadly for many fans, Fuller was forced to drop out of the […]

Star Trek: Discovery showrunners tease story, Jonathan Frakes joins as director

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With Star Trek: Discovery set to beam onto TV sets this September, showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg have been chatting to EW about the story for the hotly-anticipated series, and while they were reluctant to give too much away, they did reveal that Sonequa Martin-Green’s Michael Burnham is the first human to have attended […]

Star Trek: Discovery adds three new crewmembers

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Star Trek: Discovery is now in production, and the show has added three new actors to its cast as Starfleet officers. The latest cast members are Sneaky Pete‘s Terry Serpico, 30 Rock‘s Maulik Pancholy and The Following‘s Sam Vartholomeos. Serpico will play Admiral Anderson, a high ranking Starfleet official, while Pancholy and Vartholomeos will portray Dr. Nambue and Ensign Connor […]

Paramount makes Star Trek 4 official, confirms Chris Hemsworth return

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Over the weekend we brought you some comments from Star Trek producer J.J. Abrams, who revealed that Chris Hemsworth would be reprising his role as George Kirk from the 2009 movie in the fourth instalment of the relaunched series, and now Paramount Pictures has made it official. The press release for Star Trek 4 states […]

J.J. Abrams reveals that Chris Hemsworth will return as George Kirk in Star Trek 4

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Back in May it was announced that Paramount has already started development on a fourth entry in its relaunched Star Trek franchise, despite the fact we’re still a few days away from the release of the latest chapter, Star Trek Beyond. Naturally, there are very few details available on Star Trek 4 at present; Chris […]

UPDATE: Star Trek Beyond’s Sulu is gay as nod to George Takei, George Takei says decision is “unfortunate”

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Ahead of its release later this month, actor John Cho has revealed that Star Trek Beyond will casually reveal that Hikaru Sulu is in a same-sex relationship, in a nod to original Star Trek star George Takei. “I liked the approach, which was not to make a big thing out it,” Cho tells Herald Sun, […]

Star Trek Beyond tracking up to $60 million domestic opening weekend

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With less than three weeks to go until it beams into cinemas, Deadline is reporting that Paramount Pictures’ Star Trek Beyond is tracking a domestic opening weekend of between $48 million and $60 million. Should Beyond fail to surpass that figure, it would be the lowest opening for the series following its 2009 relaunch, with […]

Star Trek: Beyond Awful Marketing

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Tony Black on the marketing campaign for Star Trek Beyond… So did you notice this week that a third, albeit fairly brief trailer for Star Trek Beyond went online? Probably not. If you’re in the UK, you’ve been too busy watching Game of Thrones or England disgrace themselves in Europe in more ways than one, […]