Star Trek: Prodigy cancelled
Streaming service Paramount Plus abruptly announces that the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman, will be leaving the service a week after the announcement, at the end of June. The second season, deep into the post-production process, will be completed, and an attempt will be made to sell both the first and second seasons to another distribution outlet (though, as with recent cancellations on other streaming services, there is also a possibility of the show being shelved entirely as a tax write-down). After the announcement that Star Trek: Discovery’s upcoming fifth season will be its last, Prodigy is the second Star Trek series to be cancelled in 2023. (It is one of several shows to leave PAramount Plus on extremely short notice at the end of June.)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 soundtrack
Lakeshore Records digitally releases an album of selections from JNami Melumad‘s soundtrack to the first season of the streaming series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Star Trek: Picard Season 3 soundtrack
Lakeshore Records digitally releases an album of selections from Stephen Barton and Frederik Weidmann‘s soundtrack to the third and final season of the streaming series Star Trek: Picard.
Star Trek: Picard: Disengage
Streaming service Paramount Plus debuts the 22nd episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, and Jeri Ryan. Amanda Plummer, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes and Gates McFadden guest star.
Star Trek: Picard: The Next Generation
Streaming service Paramount Plus debuts the 21st episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, and Jeri Ryan. Jonathan Frakes and Gates McFadden (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star in the heavily hyped third season premiere, which promises to reunite the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast.
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Grounded
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the 21st episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). James Cromwell (Babe, Star Trek: First Contact) guest stars.
Star Trek: Picard Season 2 soundtrack
Lakeshore Records digitally releases an album of selections from JJeff Russo‘s soundtrack to the second season of the streaming series Star Trek: Picard.
Star Trek: Prodigy: Time Amok
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the eighth episode of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman. Robert Beltran (Star Trek: Voyager) guest stars.
Star Trek: Prodigy: First Con-tact
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the seventh episode of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman. Robert Beltran (Star Trek: Voyager) guest stars.
Star Trek: Prodigy: Kobayashi
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the sixth episode of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman. Robert Beltran (Star Trek: Voyager) guest stars.
Star Trek: Discovery: Anomaly
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the 44th episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Chelah Horsdal (The Man In The High Castle) guest stars.
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Star Trek: Discovery now streaming on Paramount Plus
Star Trek: Discovery: Kobayashi Maru
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the 43rd episode of Star Trek: Discovery, opening the series’ fourth season. Chelah Horsdal (The Man In The High Castle) guest stars.
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Star Trek: Prodigy: Terror Firma
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the fifth episode of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman. Though originally intended to run concurrently with Star Trek: Discovery’s fourth season, the series goes on hiatus after this episode in order to allow post-production to catch up, with many elements of production having reverted to remote work due to a surge of a new variant of COVID-19. It is the first time since May 1999 that two Star Trek series have aired new episodes in the same week.
Star Trek: Prodigy: Dreamcatcher
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the fourth episode of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman.
Star Trek: Prodigy: Starstruck
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the third episode of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman.
Star Trek: Prodigy: Lost And Found
Streaming service Paramount Plus premieres the two-part pilot episode of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman. The first Star Trek series in over 40 years designed for a younger audience, the series features the voices of Brett Gray, Ella Purnell, Jason Mantzoukas, Angus Imrie, Rylee Alazraqui, and Dee Bradley Baker, with Kate Mulgrew reprising the role of Captain Janeway.
Blue Origin NS-18
The second crewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital space capsule lifts off on a ten-minute parabolic trajectory. Of major interest to the press is the presence of Star Trek actor William Shatner aboard the flight, riding in a seat donated by Blue Origin. At 90 years old, Shatner replaces previous New Shepard passenger Wally Funk as the oldest human being in space, and returns from his trip visibly moved by the experience. Along with Shatner for the ride are Audrey Powers, Blue Origin’s VP of mission and flight operations, former NASA engineer Chris Boshuizen, and Dassault Systèmes executive Glen de Vries. (The latter two each paid $250,000,000 for their seats.)
Herbert F. Solow, producer, dies
Hired by Lucille Ball to help turn around the fortunes of Desilu Studios in the 1960s following her divorce from studio co-founder Desi Arnaz, producer and production executive Herbert F. Solow became known as “the man who sold Star Trek” – namely, he pitched the series to the networks, and finally made a sale to NBC, getting the storied science fiction series on the air at last. Solow also sold CBS on the spy-fi series Mission: Impossible at the same time, and later scored another major sale to CBS in the form of the detective series Mannix. He adapted (from a novel) and produced the early 1970s TV movie adaptation Killdozer, and co-created the late ’70s sci-fi series Man From Atlantis. He also went on to add “movie producer” to his resume; in later years, he looked back fondly upon his role in starting the Star Trek franchise with such biographical books as “Inside Star Trek: The Real Story“. Herb Solow died at the age of 89.
Star Trek: Discovery: You Are That Hope
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 30th episode of Star Trek: Discovery, opening the series’ third season, which has been delayed for the better part of a year due to the COVID-19 outbreak forcing an unexpected switch to remote post-production. David Ajala (Doctor Who) joins the series’ regular cast for the third season, which takes place in a future centuries beyond what has previously been chronicled in any prior Star Trek series.
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: Moist Vessel
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the fourth episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense) guest stars.
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Temporal Edict
Streaming service CBS All Access premieres the third episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). Neil Casey (Other Space, Avenue 5) guest stars.
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Envoys
Streaming service CBS All Access premieres the second episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). Jess Harnell (Animaniacs) guest stars.
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Second Contact
Streaming service CBS All Access premieres the first episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) as the first ongoing animated Star Trek series since the early 1970s. Chronicling the voyages of a new set of characters aboard the 24th century U.S.S. Cerritos, Lower Decks stars Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders).
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The year sci-fi took over the Emmys
The nominees for the 72nd annual Emmy Awards are announced, and genre shows are unusually well represented. HBO’s comics adaptation Watchmen raKes in 26 nominations, including Outstanding Limited Series and the best actor, actress, writing, directing, music, costuming, and design awards in the Limited Series category. The Mandalorian is nominated in 15 categories, including Best Drama Series, music, guest actor, voice-over performance, and visual effects; Westworld is nominated in 11 categories, The Handmaid’s Tale is nominated in ten (including Best Drama Series), Stranger Things nets eight nominations (including Best Drama Series), Star Trek: Picard is nominated in five categories, and Space Force is nominated in four. One nomination each goes to Star Trek: Short Treks, Star Wars: Resistance, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Lost In Space, Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance, Chasing The Moon, The Boys, Black Mirror, and the interactive feature Doctor Who: The Runaway. CNN’s Apollo 11 documentary is nominated in five categories.
Grant Imahara, actor, dies
Grant Imahara, who played Lt. Sulu in the fan-made series Star Trek Continues but is probably better known for his part in the popular TV series Mythbusters, dies from a ruptured brain aneurysm at the age of 49. As a member of Mythbusters’ “Build Team”, he used his background in electrical engineering and robotic design to help create real-world proofs of the sometimes outlandish ideas being tested in the show. Prior to that, Imahara worked at Industrial Light & Magic, and had built and operated droids (including R2-D2) for the Star Wars prequel trilogy, as well as doing similar work for movies such as Galaxy Quest, AI, Terminator 3, and the Matrix trilogy. He had roles in Sharknado 3 and episodes of Eureka.
Star Trek: Picard: Et In Arcadia Ego – Part 2
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the tenth episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager), Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star in the first season finale.
Star Trek: Picard: Et In Arcadia Ego – Part 1
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the ninth episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager) and Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star.
Star Trek: Picard: Broken Pieces
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the eighth episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager) and Tamlyn Tomita (Babylon 5) guest star.
Star Trek: Picard: Nepenthe
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the seventh episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis reprise their Star Trek: The Next Generation characters, Will Riker and Deanna Troi.
Star Trek: Picard: The Impossible Box
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the sixth episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jonathan del Arco (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest stars.