CBS Studios and Secret Hideout have started on the next chapter of #StarTrekDiscovery... Heres the latest Starfleet Officers trekland has to offer. Word has it these recruits have beamed aboard at Pinewood Studios, Toronto, Canada with Sam
Vartholomeos......Apparently he's signing up as Ensign Connor joining the starship Shenzhou. Maulik Pancholy plays
Dr. Nambue, the Chief Medical Officer aboard the Shenzhou and Terry
Serpico is playing Admiral Anderson as a high-ranking Starfleet
official.
Star Trek Discovery's cast is listed on Memory Alpha: But heres the short version -
Sonequa Martin-Green is Lieutenant Commander Rainsford playing the lead character aboard the starship Discovery NCC 1031.
Doug Jones portrays Lt. Saru as an alien Starfleet Science Officer of an
unknown species -
Anthony Rapp plays Lt. Stamets specializing in astromycology. Duh....what? He's a Science Officer aboard the USS Discovery NCC
1031
James Frain plays Sarek, Spocks father.
Michelle Yeoh plays Georgiou captain of the starship Shenzhou.
Sam Vartholomeos plays Ensign Connor.
Maulik Pancholy plays the USS Shenzhou's CMO Doctor Nambue.
Terry Serpico as Admiral Anderson.
Chris Obi plays T'Kuvma, a Klingon leader seeking to unite the
Klingon houses!
Shazad Latif plays Klingon Kol
Mary Chieffo plays L'Rell (Battle deck commander on a Klingon ship)
Emily Coutts as Conn officer
Set 10 years before the adventures of Kirk in The Original Series,
Star Trek: Discovery sees the return of Star Trek to television. The series is expected to debut on CBS All Access streaming service
sometime this year, with episodes available in the US and on
Netflix in certain areas of the world.
Whats your favorite TV show? Is 7 your lucky number? Have you got CBS or NetFlix?
Live Long and Prosper, trekkers.
Today we have a Star Trek fan taking the reigns at Star Trek Sci Fi Blog! Welcome aboard Adam Joseph from the USS Sports Machine. Adam writes articles and publishes sports stories and now Adams words in science fiction will be energizing our thoughts. Take it away trekker :)
Star Trek is a cult classic that has turned from what once was a small show into a lifestyle for many sci-fi fans. In the 80s and 90s, Star Trek was once again broadcast into the homes of millions with the installment of episodes titled The Next Generation. The series boldly explored "where no-one has gone before" aboard the newly commissioned USS Enterprise NCC 1701-D. Only years after the massive success of Star Trek Next Generation, producers decided to create another series, Deep Space Nine. This series was set upon a space station so as to not conflict with The Next Generation's 176 starship adventures.
Deep Space Nine was vastly underrated by many in the 90s but became much more popular as the years went on. Critics now praise the show for in-depth character building and brilliant stories. This has created a deep fanbase that has continued on until our modern day. With many new novels coming out every year, there is a very strong group of individuals in the Star Trek community who are looking to learn more about this space station. This makes a reboot seem very feasible and likely for Deep Space 9.
Will Deep Space 9 get a reboot or possibly hit the big screen someday?
Hey Trekkers! Have you tasted Kellog's Gornflakes yet?
The original and best, So lets put this to the test.
Heres Captain Kirk's crew on the track of trek's top secret ingredients.
Good grief, now Captain Gorn wants in on the action! But where is this planet?
Rich roasted, saurian flavoured Gornflakes yielding the powers of Star Trek Discovery, Yesss!.
So sit back and geek out in typical alien tradition. Its time for decision!
Just remember, take it easy and enjoy Kellog's Gornflakes!
Axanar Productions, the kickstarter production company have settled with Paramount Pictures and CBS Studios in the Star Trek copyright infringement lawsuit. The trouble began in 2015 after filmmaker Axanar shared some movie plans giving a Star Trek teaser shown at San Diego Comic Con in 2014. News of the "four year war" erupting between the Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire is exciting news in Star Trek. All the rest is in the video.
Its hardly surprising Paramount and CBS Studios found out. So now speculation is mounting over at Deadline.com pointing to the CBS All Access series Star Trek: Discovery covering the same material.
On January 4th a Federal judge denied "FAIR USE" as a defense and scheduled January
31st as the trial date. One mans creation - Star Trek's Creator Gene Roddenberry said
to Johnathan Frakes (Commander Riker TNG) many year ago.
"In the 24th century there
will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.
So Trekker to Warrior - Lets rejoice. Star Trek isn't over! Gene
Roddenberry, Paramount, Axanar and theres us, the Fans we're all friends here. Star-Trek-Lives (1975) on in each of us. So it was coming down to the jury on the 31st Jan
but then Alec Peters settles out of court. Why? Legalize folks, fan film guidelines
and tests - extrinsic and intrinsic. All words, rhetoric and copyrights. Thankfully Keenser must have been hiding somewhere because a warpcore breach was happily contained.
Axanar Productions was created by lifelong
Star Trek fans who raised $1.4 million to celebrate their love for Star Trek. However
there is another side to this lawsuit. Fan-filmGuidelines have been revisited. It would appear two 15-minute episodes are the maximum amateurs can produce now as a combined "Part 1 and 2" on Youtube! not to mention a cap of $50,000 per film in fundraising donations.
The Editor’s note on Trekmovie States
It’s been over a year since a lawsuit was brought against the never made Star Trek fan
film Axanar (including the previously released Prelude to Axanar) and its creators,
namely producer Alec Peters. The suit, which was brought about after an unprecedented
$1.4 million was raised from fan donations and Axanar store purchases (and
subsequently spent, much of it allegedly not on the film itself), has changed the
landscape of Star Trek fan films. The lawsuit prompted the creation of specific and
restrictive fan film guidelines by CBS and Paramount, causing many fan film makers to
pivot (removing direct references to copyrighted Star Trek works) or end production
altogether.
STARFLEET FIRST STRIKE SQUADRON
On the 20th January 2017, both sides settled out of court.
I guess trekkers, we'll never see the like of Star Trek New Voyages again and these rules will be an adjustment for all fan film-makers.
Have you got any favorite, celebrated Star Trek feature length fan films worth watching again? If so, which ones do you like most?
Feel like fighting with Starfleets First Strike Squadron in the "Four Year War"
The 89th Oscar Academy Awards is honoring the best films for 2016 and is set to kick off on Sunday, February 26 2017. So is Star Trek Beyond in with a good chance of winning? OR Star Wars for that matter? Winning what? (I hear you cry,) all right, all right! Apparently trekkers, Trekcore is reporting that Joel Harlow and Richie Alonzo created the cool alien atmosphere for Starbase Yorktown.
So hilarious when Dr McCoy walks onto the USS Enterprise NCC 1701 bridge after Chekov declares: "WOW, That is impressive" "Awe shes a beauty isn't she?" replies Scotty "What a Damn Monstrosity! - Couldn't we just rent some space on a planet?
So now Suicide Squad and a Man Called Ove have to set their Prosthetics on MAXIMUM to beat Star Trek Beyond's high Alien standard.
So okay, In the visual effects preliminary. there were 20 movies. Star trek Beyond got shortlisted yet again just like Star Trek Into Darkness.
Yet Star Trek Beyond did qualify for an Oscar Nomination! Fact. Its true!!! Curiously Star Trek 2009 won an Oscar for makeup and now deja vu, we're back for Best Makeup and Hairstyle in 2017!
Did Star Trek Beyond deserve a final VISUAL EFFECTS Oscar Nomination?
Below Star Trek - Starfleet Academy is spliced together with Star Trek - Klingon Academy. These two video games have been combined into a movie. The good news is you can now watch both (1997) editions right here at Star Trek Sci Fi Blog. Its worth realising Harve Bennett had originally penned "Star Trek: The Academy Years" as Star Trek: The First Adventure. The plan was to project the Star Trek movie missions onto the big screen.
It turns out differences in money, power, creativity, ego, health, availability altered the eventual flow of Star Trek's "First Adventure" in our timeline. While Fans still have "Star Trek Starfleet Academy" (game) and the spliced(movie) to enjoy. What really happened afterwards? Long story short, along came Star Trek 2009.
So I've done a little digging and found an interesting segment on Memory Alpha you might find fascinating.
The 2009 film Star Trek, written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, superficially borrowed the same basic premise of Bennett's film by returning the franchise to the Academy years of the original crew, how they first met, and how they first came aboard the USS Enterprise. Aside from these surface similarities, the plotlines of these two films are significantly different. When asked about the 2009 film, Bennett said, "I did see it. I'm not the audience for that. Rapid cuts. Explosions. Gore for the sake of gore. Either that makes me a dinosaur or there's a generational problem, but that's not J.J.'s fault."
Who deserves the credit for Star Trek's First Adventure? which was also made into a blockbuster movie in (2009)?
1. Gene Roddenberry 2. J.J. Abrams 3. Harve Bennett Merry Christmas Everyone, Live long and Prosper.
On a sad note, well known Land of the Giants, Star Trek actor,
Don Marshall passed away peacefully on Oct 30th. His daughter,
son and twin brother Doug were at his bedside. He was 80. Don
starred in Star Trek's classic "galileo-seven" playing the spirited Lieutenant Boma.
STAR TREKS GALILEO SEVEN
Fans will remember him
for challenging Mr Spock's insufferable logic when the
shuttlecraft crash lands on planet Taurus II. We know the ion
storm threw them off course but heres the thing. The G7 crew
were low on fuel and had to achieve orbit.
So who gets to
choose? demands Boma of Mr Spock. Meanwhile the creatures were attacking! Don Marshall will not be forgotten by fans, RIP
Don and thanks for making us laugh.
Bryan Fuller bids farewell to Star Trek Discovery as the Lead writer and creative trek mastermind. He stays on as Executive Producer while moving on to other projects. Lately trek's fledgling Discovery series has been making headlines withAlex Kurtzman and Bryan Fuller. They wrote Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek 2009, DS9 and Voyager a while ago kicking them up with the super mythological, and psychological extraordinaire.
The sticking point for trek's producers appears to exist in Star Trek TOS. Writers keep drawing upon the magnetic nature of its classic lifeforms, amazing story arcs and strange unknowns.
Meanwhile a conflict of interest has arisen with Fuller organizing his time between Trek, American Gods and Amazing Stories which means one had to go.
So now Star Trek fan Bryan Fuller is stepping aside to juggle his duties. The plan is to clear a path for new ideas giving Star Trek Discovery's lifeforms breathing room to traverse the galaxy, analyze strange unknowns and wow the fans.
It clear CBS welcomed a kindred spirit to explore and develop the continuity of Star Trek's timeline. The word at Variety is Fuller, teased out new revelations to the fan community at Comic Con. Mythological diversity, using a LGBT character, the welcome delight of aliens, and also what greatness a leading woman would take, clearly on the table.
What we're doing is not necessarily new in Star Trek but we get to embrace it in a modern way that Star Trek has not indulged in much in the past.
Over the last few days fans are finding out now Bryan Fuller is stepping away as the showrunner for the new CBS Star Trek Discovery show. So whats happened?
Show
business trekkies!
The day to day
running of Star Trek Discovery leaves Fullers lieutenants - Gretchen Berg and Aaron
Harberts taking over the show. Writer director Akiva Goldman is also expected to join "Discovery" in a top creative role. Supporting Berg and Harberts. Filming will begin next month with a
2017 premiere date - pushed back to May.
Heres what we know about Star Trek Discovery so far:
1. The series is 10 years before Star Trek the Original
Series.
2. Mysterious history will emerge.
3. A fascinating amount of aliens will boldy go where no alien has gone before in
Star Trek's universe.
4. The lead character is not going to be a male captain. Qualities will include: a neurosis, sense of humor and shes female.
5. "Its not on Earth and its not on a planet."
6. New young blood ready to shoot first and ask questions later - all based on TOS iconic
characters of course. Robots get the thumbs up. Don't you just love Robots?
7. No Romulan War, No Kobayashi Maru, maybe some Section 31
and an iteration of Amanda Grayson's storyline, (Spock's
Mother) into the show.
8. Lee Pace as has agreed to play a Vulcan.
9. Seven characters will play key figures in the show.
10. Graphic scenes, profanity is still being weighed up owing
to the wider audience CBS ALL Access will be able to reach.
11. Star Trek Discovery is planned to premiere in the US in January 2017
12. Discovery will be on Netflix by the end of 2017.
14. The rank of the lead character is a Lieutenant Commander and her name is No 1 ?
15. No Captain?!
Will you be watching Star Trek Discovery on CBS or Netflix? Who do you want to be Discoveries Lead Writer? Who are you rooting for? Man, Alien or Woman? What kind of leader are you hoping for? Captain, Alien, Robot or Android? Is Star Trek trying to be too politically correct?
William Shatner, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Terry Farrell, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden, Robert Duncan McNeill, Armin Shimerman, Christopher Lloyd, Martha Hackett and Alice Krige (the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact) but no Nichelle Nichols beam over to the UK to meet the fans for Star Trek's 50th Anniversary.
Many fans eager to meet the stars tweeted while they waited. Trekkers with Admiral VIP Tickets swept by tons of people waiting in queues which took two hours to get past the check points. The only catch is VIP treatment cost £2,999! Standard Tickets were far cheaper.
Adam Nimoy, Leonard Nimoys son is seated in command of the Galaxy Class USS Enterprise NCC 1701-D seen here. Space babes Marina Sirtis and Terry Farrell were also among the stars this weekend at Birmingham's Destination Star Trek Convention.
Over the weekend thousands of Star Trek fans queued for hours to get in on the action with their Star Trek TV/Movie heroes. Marie Gordon flashes her Lieutenant stripes on her red bridge officers duty uniform to curry favor but no can do! It just goes to show. Even Star Trek Lieutenants have to wait. haha!!!
On Sunday William took part in answering questions for the fans. Heres a fun video he made specially for fans.
Walter Koenig appeared with George Takei live onstage at Star Trek's Birmingham Convention. These two Chekov and Sulu navigate and pilot the Starship USS Enterprise 1701
This photograph says it all. Its the launch for Star Trek's UK Destination event and the expression on the stars faces is fascinating...... William Shatner has done it again. The look on Walter Koenig's face is priceless.
DRESSING TO IMPRESS
These sci-fi ladies are making the most out of Star Trek's 50th Destination Event. They probably handed their tricorder, phasers and communicators over to an Ensign during the photoshoot. So whats not to like?
Its Star Treks 50th Anniversary so you'll be sure to have something to enjoy with STAR TREK BEYOND. You might say this is Chekov's last stand in this adventurous new Star Trek movie. The action sequences are thrilling and the visual effects are stunning.
So go see Beyond you'll be delighted that you did. Its got a cold hearted villain Krall who chews up the landscape and interesting to see new Spock trying to understand his own death in the movie- in loving memory of Leonard Nimoy and for Anton.
