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Zoe Saldaña says years in franchise films has made her feel “artistically stuck”

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Zoe Saldaña has quite the impressive resume. Just in the last decade or so, she’s appeared in Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy (as well as multiple Avengers movies), and Star Trek.It’s fair to say that working on projects like that, sometimes back-to-back, can become draining. In a new interview, Zoe Saldaña says it has drained […]

Star Trek: Discovery will be “hard PG-13”, but no nudity

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Star Trek: Discovery will be going where no Trek series has gone before this September as it returns to the small screen on the streaming service CBS All Access, free of the restrictions of broadcast television. Which means, according to showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg, that Discovery will be going “hard PG-13”, although it […]

Star Trek: Discovery teasers showcase Original Series-era technology

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In the build up to this Saturday’s panel at the San Diego Comic-Con International, CBS has unveiled three teasers for the upcoming TV series Star Trek: Discovery, showcasing the Original Series-era phaser, communicator and insignia; check them out here…SEE ALSO: Star Trek: Discovery producer on honoring the spirit of The Original Series Set phasers to […]

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 you […]

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 series […]

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 respectively […]

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 that, […]

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 Pine […]