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Star Trek Is Finally Making That Starfleet Academy TV Series
For years, Paramount has been trying to figure out a show centered around Star Trek’s Starfleet Academy — you know, the place where Starfleet educates its captains, science officers, engineers, etc. before sending them out on five-year missions to explore strange new worlds and whatnot. Well, now they’ve found the answer, because the studio has just…
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Star Trek: Picard Almost Brought Back a Different Classic Villain
Star Trek: Picard’s final season is going all in on the nostalgia, bringing back the Next Generation cast for one last big adventure. But it’s quickly proven itself to be nostalgic for more than just TNG when it comes to Star Trek’s past… including with its major villain, who was almost replaced by another familiar…
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FX Cancels Kindred After Only One Season
In some genuinely disappointing news, FX has cancelled Kindred, the television adaptation of Octavia Butler’s seminal novel about a young woman who travels back and forth in time between her ancestor’s slave-holding estate in Baltimore and her life in present-day California. While I found the show a little slow at first it ended on an…
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2022 Was Star Trek’s Year
When a world of new Star Trek shows was still a glimmer in the mind’s eye of CBS, the thought of a world where there was “all Star Trek, all the time” after years of the franchise’s dormancy on TV seemed unfathomable. In 2022, however, the idea finally felt actually quite fathomed.