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Star Trek’s 2009 Reboot Changed Everything
Star Trek has been an important fixture of sci-fi TV for decades, and alongside its continued existence, movies have helped further flesh out the characters. But in both the movies and TV, the early 2000s weren’t kind to the franchise: 2002’s Star Trek: Nemesis was a critical and commercial disaster, and Star Trek: Enterprise had…
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11 Fairly Competent Time Travellers
Keeping the timeline intact is hard. Just ask the Avengers. Or the Legends of Tomorrow. Or Back to the Future’s Doc Brown, Army of Darkness’ Ash, or… well, you get the idea. About the best a time-traveller can hope for is to metaphorically step on a butterfly that doesn’t have too big an effect on…
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9 Episodes From Deep Space Nine’s First Season That Prove It’s Better Than You Remember
Deep Space Nine, which turned 30 this month, is most remembered for its later seasons, which radically challenged the tenets of Star Trek as a franchise — often to the point that people actively brush aside or look down on its early seasons as skippable, or a trudge to get to the good stuff. But while…
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Star Trek Will Release a Scripted Podcast Following Khan on Ceti Alpha V
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan came out in 1982. Now, 40 years later, its writer-director, Nicholas Meyer, returns to Star Trek to tell the story of Khan and his followers on Ceti Alpha — before the events of the film — in Star Trek’s first scripted podcast. Meyer announced the podcast alongside Paramount+’s…