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30 Years Ago Today, Deep Space Nine Made Star Trek’s Deadliest Threat Clear
There is a lot to love about Deep Space Nine before it quote unquote “Gets Good.” The show’s first two seasons are, in a lot of ways, about the things many praise DS9’s back half for dealing with: the cost of compromising Star Trek’s utopian future on the furthest fringes of its final frontier. But…
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Star Trek’s New Starfleet Academy Show Is Set In the Far Future to Give Its Heroes Hope
Starfleet Academy will not take place in Trek’s ‘contemporary’ late-24th-century era, but Discovery’s 32nd century–and for very good reason.
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Star Trek: Discovery’s Crisis of Faith Gets Lost in the Woods
Just a few weeks after Discovery showed how much confidence it had in taking a Star Trek trope it knew it was good at and damn near perfecting it, this week we get the series diving into another—and not really finding much interest in why it even took it on in the first place. “Filler”…
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Star Trek Online Will Now Let You Throw Asteroids at Other Ships, Picard-Style
Although it took a long time for Paramount to return the favor, Star Trek Online has long done a great job of bringing in material from the more recent shows into its own imagining of at 25th-century era for boldly going. But its latest drop might be one of its most fun. STO developer Cryptic…