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Captains, welcome to the Age of Discovery. This is a landmark event for Star Trek Online as it marks the first time that the game has run parallel with a live Trek television show. We are already experiencing fantastic new synergies collaborating closely with CBS and the show writers. Captains will experience this right away in a re-imagined Federation starting experience working alongside Cadet Sylvia Tilly (voiced by Star Trek: Discovery's Mary Wiseman) as players set out on epic, multi-release adventures.
In AoD’s maiden voyage, players will journey to iconic locations from Discovery, exploring the depths of the Dilithium Mines of Corvan II, boarding the new experimental Crossfield class starship, the U.S.S. Glenn, and defending Starbase 1 from a fearsome attack by the Klingon House of D’Ghor. Captains will also come face to face with the vicious J'Ula, matriarch of the House of Mo'Kai and sister of T'Kuvma who will stop at nothing to reunite the Klingon Empire.
This, however, is just the beginning in Age of Discovery. Multiplayer missions, formerly known as “Queues,” have been expanded and rebranded as Task Force Operations (TFO). This change is certainly not in name only. Throughout AoD, we will be introducing exciting new TFOs that advance the narrative, while remastering and recreating others. This kicks off with the all-new TFO, Defense of Starbase 1, followed shortly thereafter by our first Featured Task Force Operation – Battle at the Binary Stars. In this new 3-Week Event, players will have an opportunity to earn exclusive rewards fighting side-by-side with fellow captains in one of the most important battles in Federation history.
Additionally, Task Force Operations introduce a new engagement feature, which offers captains big bonus payouts for supporting other players by joining Random TFOs. This Random TFO feature further ensures that all captains will easily find groups to experience all the diverse TFO content in the game. Is there is particular TFO that you have never played or have trouble finding groups for? We've got you covered here as well. Select the Task Force Operation that you want to play and it will be quickly filled by other players seeking out the Random TFO bonuses. Stay tuned, as there is much more in the works for this evolving feature.
We’ve also completely overhauled the Mission Journal. Careful handling has gone into this undertaking, ensuring that our very best stories are presented to players early in the leveling experience. Some episodes have or will be undergoing a remastering process, while others have become optional. Another big change here is the removal of level requirements. With the exception of certain pivotal episodes (for training and continuity purposes), players will no longer be level gated in the experience. Captains will also notice that many previously gated Task Force Operations are now unlocked while leveling. This gives newer players greater access to play with friends, get a taste of the end-game experience and a huge head start on Reputation Marks.
And speaking of Reputations, this system has been expanded in Age of Discovery as well. All current reputations have been raised to Tier 6. There are fantastic rewards to be found here, including improved reputation traits, damage improvements for reputation weaponry, Fleet Ship Modules, vanity materials, account-wide reputation gear discounts and much more.
In short, building this first installment in Age of Discovery and working with Mary Wiseman has been an amazing experience for our development team. Additionally, we want to thank you for all the great feedback and continued support. While we have many more stories and features planned in the coming months, we are thrilled to be launching Age of Discovery: Part 1. Thank you again and we look forward to seeing you in game very soon.
Andre Emerson
Executive Producer
Star Trek OnlineStar Trek Online is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online game that allows players to explore the Star Trek universe from within. Players can forge their own destiny as Captain of a Federation starship, champion the Empire through the far reaches of the galaxy as a Klingon Warrior, rebuild the Romulan legacy as the commander of a Romulan Republic Warbird or carry out daring missions on behalf of the Dominion as a Jem’Hadar soldier. Captains can also explore iconic locations from the Star Trek universe, make contact with new alien species and battle alongside other players in customizable starships. Star Trek Online is currently available on PC, PlayStation4 and Xbox One.
To download and play Star Trek Online today for free, visit www.playstartrekonline.com.
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Are you ready for an Ensign-level mission? Then, lower your shields, surrender your candy and get ready to make your own candy-box Borg earrings...
Wondering what to do with trick or treat goodies from Halloween? Luckily, we’ve got an up-cycled project that will put all those mini-candy boxes to good use. It’s the perfect fashion accessory for any queen or drone looking to add stylistic distinctiveness to their own.
Supplies:-2 boxes of mini candy (we used Milk Duds)
-Grey/Silver and Black Acrylic paints
-1 black plastic needle point sheet
-Adhesive or Craft Glue
-Paint brush or foam brush
-1” silver earring hooks (2 of them)
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Empty and enjoy your candy (this is the easiest and most fun step of all)
Step Two:
Run your fishhook earring through the center top of the box from the opened end. It’s important to do this step before sealing your box.
Step Three:Use a small amount of craft glue to seal the flaps shut on the opened end.
Step Four:
Protect your work surface with a newspaper or drop cloth and paint all four sides of the box pewter grey with your acrylic paint. Let dry for at least 1/2 an hour.
Step Five:
While your paint is drying, cut pieces of your needle point sheet to fit all four sides of the box. Those will then be glued to the surface. Also, cut out random shapes from the needlepoint sheets, such as tiny squares and rectangles. These will look like the random ship pieces stuck to the side of the Borg cube.
Step Six:
Once your paint is dry, glue the needle point cut outs to the four sides. Then, add your smaller pieces on top in any way you’d like.
TreknoTip!
If the plastic pieces aren't sticking to the needlepoint sheet, you can glue some dark green felt to the back of the pieces to give more grip.
Step Seven (of Nine):
Allow to air dry and then paint the black sheets with some grey and silver paint to add distress to your ship. Optional: you can add small green or red brads to represent tractor and cutting beams.
Want to add more stylish distinctiveness to your home? Check out our Borg cube tissue box cover tutorial.
Mary Czerwinski is a Los Angeles-based crafter and host of an online DIY-series, Glue Guns & Phasers. She hosts crafting workshops at Star Trek conventions and local businesses. Czerwinski was featured in the Star Trek Craft Book.
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Oyin Oladejo loved every second of both Star Trek: Discovery’s first season and her time at Star Trek Las Vegas a few weeks ago, and for good, deeply personal reasons. Aside from the fact that they were both “fantastic” experiences, Oladejo, in the days before landing her role as ops officer Joann Owosekun, had just about abandoned her dreams of acting. So now, here she was, celebrating Discovery’s first season, meeting excited fans all weekend long and gearing up for the show’s sophomore year. StarTrek.com caught up with Oladejo at STLV to discuss all of the above and more. Here’s what the soft-spoken actress had to say in this, the latest in our series of StarTrek.com interviews building toward the November 13 release of Star Trek: Discovery: Season One on Blu-ray and DVD...
How familiar were you with Star Trek when you became involved with Discovery?I actually did not know much about Star Trek. I had heard of it in the same vein as Star Wars or Lord of The Rings, as things that you should see. But also, I did not know it was Star Trek before getting the job. It was after I got the job that I realized it was Star Trek. I was like, "This is going to be a Southern show or something." Then, the audition was very scientific. I'm like, "How... Southern show?" Then I just decided to let it go.
Can we assume that once you figured out it was Star Trek that you went and did some research?
Yes. Yes. Because I needed to know how they spoke. It was a huge franchise and I spoke to my agent about it, and she said, "You need to watch it from the beginning.” I found out there were 700 episodes. I didn't know how to do this, but then somebody directed me to go to The Next Generation. So, I watched a few of those and I realized that there was more than just a science-fiction aspect to it. I was pulled in. I was sold, like, “This is what I want to do.”
As a woman of color, did you check out Nichelle Nichols at all on The Original Series? She broke a lot of ground.
No, I did not... I did not think about it that way until later on when people started saying, “This is such a huge thing. Nichelle did this, started this and that's how you are able to get on it…” Then, I went and did research about Nichelle and, oh my God, she opened a lot of doors for a lot of people.
What was your audition process like?
It wasn't much. I was ready to quit acting. I was completely done. I love performing. I love the arts. I stumbled into it. It wasn't something I chose to do when I was young. But then I was just feeling that I wasn't being fulfilled, so I decided that I was done with acting. I told my agent that and she said, “Do this one last audition.” Two days later, she was like, “They want you -- and by the way it's Star Trek." I was in Vancouver, cleaning houses and landscaping, and I got the call saying, "You got it. You need to fly back in two weeks."
That's really a life-changing call...Yes, it was. But it was all self-taped. I was like, "Fine I'll do this one last audition." I taped it, did a few takes and I'm like, "Fine, I'll send it in." I did different auditions in the past for film or TV, and I never booked anything because people told me, "Your accent…," or things like that. I was like, "I'm not going to get this TV stuff." But I did.
What's your sense of Joann? Who she is and what she's about? How much of that has to be for backstory in your own head until it's developed on screen?
That's actually what it feels like right now because we don't know where she's going to go, what her backstory is. Watching the way she is on screen right now, I feel like she's very close to me. I feel like she's a very, very strong person and a fighter, but she's very soft inside. She's very sensitive and very spiritual, but she needs to appear very strong in order to deal with life and deal with the expectations of being Starfleet, and for people to take her seriously and want her to be in a position of responsibility.
Which episodes were most interesting for you? Were there certain character moments that you were glad you got to play?
I really loved the Mirror Universe. One, because of Michelle Yeoh. I am a huge fan of her, but also to be on the opposite end, to be on the backside, it's pretty freaking cool. That’s the episode I think that stood out for me the most. I thought my outfit was pretty sexy. I'm not sure I could fight in it if I ever got into a real fight. I went in for a fitting. I saw the dress piece with the long boots and I was sold. Then, they were like, "There's more,” and they put the shield on me. Then, because we are bridge crew, we don't carry any weapons. I have a knife and a phaser. They said, "This is what you're wearing." And all I said was, "Yes, yes, yes."
How did your games of Mafia go? Jason Isaacs swears that Sonequa Martin-Green cheats…Sonequa has the Mafia nights to bring everybody together. She's the best at that game, but she's horrible. She will tell you to your face, "I'm not lying to you." She'll be so serious and you'll believe her. Of course, she’s lying. She's killing us. She's taking every single person out one by one.
How's season two going?So, so good. So good. I feel a bit more relaxed. I feel a bit more comfortable to take risks, make mistakes, and the crew, cast, everybody's just as supportive as last year. The stories that are being told, I'm being moved more than I've ever been moved. Every table read so far, I always leave with tears because the stories just hit you. It's going really, really well.
You're a fresh face to many people. Where are you from and how and why did you got into acting?
It just happened. It wasn't what I wanted to do. I wanted to go to school for law. I had a case that I had to be in court for. I was just watching the way lawyers were and I realized, “I don't want to do this.” That was it. I didn't have anything else to do. I was working as a box office person at a Canadian opera company, answering phones and selling tickets. I got promoted as a supervisor after a few months, saw my first opera and said, "They look like they're having fun. I want to have fun for the rest of my life." A friend said, "Apply to theater school." I googled theater school. This was all in Toronto. I applied to the first theater school that came up in Google. I got in, and since then I've been doing this. It's not something like I've always wanted to do it for my whole life.
You just saw an opportunity and took it…Exactly. I moved from Nigeria when I was 16. That was 2001.
Any other acting credits people should look for?I was in a short, but it was just a snippet. I’d mostly done theater before Discovery. This is really my first gig.
Last question: How happy are you that you decided to do this one last audition for your agent?Very, very happy. I feel like the universe was like, "If you don't do this, then you're stupid."
Star Trek: Discovery on Blu-ray
Star Trek: Discovery: Season One will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on November 13 from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media Distribution. The four-disc Blu-ray and DVD collections, available to U.S. and Canadian fans, will feature all 15 first-season episodes of the CBS All Access series, as well as featurettes and other special features that will include cast and crew interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and deleted and extended scenes.Fans in the U.S. and Canada can pre-order on Amazon.com now.
Star Trek: Discovery's second season will premiere on Thursday, January 17, 2019, in the U.S. and Canada, and in the rest of the world on Friday, January 18, 2019.
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StarTrek.com is saddened to report the passing of actress Celeste Yarnall, who played Martha Landon, Chekov’s love interest in The Original Series episode “The Apple” and was a beloved figure on Star Trek convention circuit. Yarnall succumbed to ovarian cancer on October 7 after a brave four-year battle with the disease, a battle she chronicled in detail for StarTrek.com via a series of guest blogs. She was surrounded by family upon her death, which occurred at her home in Westlake Village, California.
As an actress, Yarnall counted among her credits such television shows as The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Land of the Giants, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Columbo, Melrose Place and on and on, and such films as The Nutty Professor, Live a Little, Love a Little (in which Elvis Presley crooned “A Little Less Conversation” to her), The Velvet Vampire (a cult fave from Roger Corman that, along with Eve and Beast of Blood, established her scream queen cred), Scorpio, Bob and Ted and Carol and Alice, The Mechanic, Funny About Love (directed by Leonard Nimoy) and the upcoming comedy, Unbelievable!!!!!, on which she served as a producer. An utterly stunning beauty in her youth -- and still radiant to the end -- Yarnall was the last Rheingold Girl, earning the honor in 1964.
More recently, she had been a regular on the sci-fi convention/autograph show circuit and authored several books about holistic health care for both humans and pets. She was also an entrepreneur, public speaker and avid dancer (particularly the Argentine Tango), appeared in recent documentaries about Elvis Presley and Star Trek, including William Shatner’s Get a Life!, and served as the muse and inspiration for her British husband’s art.
As noted, Yarnall wrote several guest blogs for StarTrek.com, detailing her illness after she was diagnosed in late 2014 with stage 3 Primary Peritoneal cancer, or ovarian cancer. In her first entry, in February 2015, she kicked it off with the following words: “I have cancer.” She ended it with: “And, I think Dr. McCoy would be proud of this: My doctor has some exciting things for me planned, as we banked a bit of my tumor for future use to make a vaccine to give me to help my body defend itself against this cancer. This is very expensive and not covered by insurance and I will need to travel most likely by air to Texas to get these shots regularly. He has other things in mind, too, but again this requires your help. Please join me on my journey so that I can get well and get back out in the world and be of help to others, which is what I like doing best, through my books, personal appearances, speaking engagements, film production and on and on. However I can reach and inspire people to help themselves personally and help our planet come together in oneness and peace, I want to do it, and sharing my cancer story is part of that. Thank you so much dear friends! All my love and blessings to each and every one of you and Nazim and I wish you all a healthy, happy 2015!” In one of her final public appearances, Yarnall greeted fans and participated in a guest star panel in August at Star Trek Las Vegas.
Yarnall is survived by her husband, Nazim, daughter, Cami, and granddaughter, Gaby. Please join StarTrek.com in offering our condolences to her family, friends, colleagues and fans.
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Star Trek Beyond's Jaylah, the staff-wielding and tech-savvy alien portrayed by Sofia Boutella, proved to be a popular addition to the franchise and inspired numerous cosplayers and fan artists to render their own interpretations of the character. Many viewers identified with Jaylah's disposition and conduct, sympathizing with her nature on a personal level. Let's look at five signs that indicate your temperament might also run parallel with Altamid's most-intriguing resident.
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After enduring a bumpy ride to Altamid's surface in a photon torpedo, Scotty found himself alone and unaware of his surroundings. Several locals attempted to take advantage of Scotty's confused state, until Jaylah intervened and convinced the unruly gang to disperse by displaying her proficiency in hand-to-hand combat. I don't know about you, but I only employ my best martial arts moves when I am hoping to impress a new pal.
Oblivious to their recently established friendship, Scotty mistook Jaylah's need to borrow parts from the downed torpedo as an attempt to steal Starfleet property. Jaylah employed her knife to persuade the engineer of their relationship's cordial nature and offered to help find the U.S.S. Enterprise's surviving crew members in exchange for the Scotsman's technical support. Scotty agreed to the conditions, finally recognizing Jaylah's desire for an amicable alliance.
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Jaylah's status as a music aficionado revealed itself as she worked with Scotty to make repairs on the U.S.S. Franklin. Jaylah did not know it at the time, but her melodic tastes coincided with what Spock later referred to as the classical genre. Like many of us, the intense alien enjoyed passing the time by listening to her favorite songs and tinkering with the starship's varied technological deficiencies. One must appreciate the simple pleasures in life when marooned in solitary on a distant world.
Jaylah's song selections may not be your cup of tea, but the exhilaration and stress relief that accompany such artistic expressions transcends musical styles. The upbeat reactions from Sulu and Chekov upon hearing the unfamiliar sounds aboard the Franklin stand as a testament to music's universal appeal. Of course, the fact that the "beats and shouting" aided the crew's endeavor to destroy Krall's fleet probably boosted the enthusiasm in their responses.
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Rank and ceremony meant little to Jaylah, as her free spirit permitted her words and actions to flow in an uninhibited fashion. While touring the Franklin's bridge, Jaylah casually plopped down in the command chair normally reserved for the officer in charge. A visibly chagrined Captain Kirk stood by her side, yet the defiant young woman either did not notice or felt no inclination to bow to authority. The pattern continued when Jaylah initially refused Kirk's request to go to Krall's base.
Jaylah's rebellious streak also manifested in more exhilarating ways. After finally agreeing to accompany the crew on their rescue attempt, Jaylah showed no qualms about charging into danger on a motorcycle with Kirk at high speed. The insubordinate alien later encouraged the captain to risk everyone's lives and make the Franklin fly in order to pursue Krall and his swarm. Heck, even Jaylah's decision to play Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" and the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" reflected her mutinous mindset.
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Despite the rapport she formed with Kirk and his senior staff, Jaylah still needed to highlight some boundaries between her friends and her belongings. Scotty emerged as the chief culprit, compelling Jaylah to warn the engineer not to set off the traps surrounding the Franklin or break her futuristic boombox during the process of upgrading its capabilities. In the latter situation, Scotty's inability to fine tune the device without shocking himself left Jaylah with no alternative but to complete the modifications herself.
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As the Franklin barreled through Starbase Yorktown's shielded space doors, Jaylah understandably expressed displeasure over the damage done to her house. Kirk's choice to deploy the starship as a barricade to intercept Krall's three remaining vessels inflicted further scars upon a hull which Jaylah undoubtedly never had insured. Considering the ship's Federation origins and Jaylah's assistance in thwarting Krall's attack, hopefully Starfleet opted to foot the bill for any necessary repairs.
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Perhaps Jaylah's most-defining trait was a knack for inventive solutions, which permeated her storyline in Star Trek Beyond. Left with nothing following her escape from Krall's compound, Jaylah went on to discover a crashed starship, set up various contraptions to cloak her whereabouts and form a defensive perimeter, learn an alien language, fix numerous systems on the abandoned craft, survive amid hostile neighbors, and find a nifty staff to ward off any pesky intruders. These feats were all accomplished before she even encountered Scotty and his Enterprise cohorts.
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In the short time span between saving Scotty and protecting Yorktown, Jaylah's ingenuity and technical prowess proved invaluable to her new Starfleet friends. The combination of those skills and Jaylah's bravery made quite the impression on Captain Kirk, who took the drastic step of securing entry to Starfleet Academy for the alien woman. I would say that going from fending for one's own life and living in a scuttled vessel to escaping Altamid and being accepted into a prestigious institution in mere days is about as resourceful as you can get.
Jay Stobie is a freelance science fiction writer who contributes articles to the official Star Trek website and Star Trek Magazine. He can be found on Twitter at @CaptStobie and Instagram @JayStobie.
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There were plenty of questions, and even a few revealing answers, as the cast of Star Trek: Discovery and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin sat down with journalists for a series of roundtable conversations on late Saturday afternoon, right after they’d completed the Discovery panel at New York Comic-Con. There was conversation about season one, some discussion about the Star Trek: Short Treks, and couple of teases about season two. Check out some of the most memorable exchanges:
MARY WISEMAN
Your Star Trek: Short Treks segment, “Runaway,” aired the other day. What did you think of it, and what impact will it have on Tilly moving forward? For example, will we see your mom again?
I don't know. I don't know as far as my mom. I love just adding in a little bit of backstory about who she's dealing with, where she comes from, how she became the person she is today, and beginning to see her grapple with situations where she doesn't have as much backup. She really leans on her many mentors in the first season and this season she'll have to kind of step up a bit more. So, my short, I think it will function more as backstory and an enriching story. If it will come into play in the larger arc of the season, I don't know. I think for right now it's quite a standalone, so people can watch (or not), and it won't ruin the experience if they don't catch up.
DOUG JONES
Your upcoming installment of Star Trek: Short Treks is “The Brightest Star,” in which we’ll see a younger Saru on his home planet, Kaminar. Tell us a bit about the planet…
It's kind of a vacation destination, yes. When you see it you'll be like, “Oh, I kind of want to end up there.” We have rich plant life, we have water, we have landscaping, we have a village. But… you'll see. Think of where would a race of supermodel aliens live.
How helpful, informative, for you was it to learn more about Saru’s background?
It was, because in the short we go back and discover how he grew up and (about) his curiosity, how it got him off the planet. He's the only one of his kind who's ever been off that planet. He's the one who joined Starfleet, and the first to go through the Starfleet and become an officer. So, you find out in the short how much fear I did deal with in my real world, and how it became part of our daily routine. Here was just an inherent thing that we just had to live with, even though it looks euphoric and vacation-like, there's something dastardly going on with our predator species. So, we get to know more about all that through the short and in season two, there's some tie-in.
WILSON CRUZ
We know there's only so much you can touch on this, but regardless of how we're seeing Dr. Culber in season two, what's it like for you to play a character that's dead?
Well, I have to say it was dark. You know, he's my witness (looking at Anthony Rapp next to him), I had to go to a pretty dark place to do some of the stuff that we had to go through this season and just imagine what it would be like to know what it feels like to be away from the people that you love and the things that you love to do -- and the trauma of that.
ETHAN PECK
How quickly did you connect with the character of Spock?
The character that was on the page, the pages that I got, very quickly, because it's a guy who is… what would appear to be someone who had never felt emotions and was trying to make intellectual sense of them. And it seemed to me like sort of an existential crisis. And I felt like, I'm 32, and we all go through that around this age. So, that was kind of recent in my life repertoire.
Your Spock is set 10 years before the Spock we know from Star Trek: The Original Series, so he’s not quite cooked yet, right?
Yeah. That's a nice way of putting it. I think that you have to have somewhere to go with him, right? Nimoy is inimitable and Quinto played an alternate universe Spock. And so, he's written on the page very differently. And slowly but surely, he will become, I think, who we've come to love and adore in The Original Series.
ALEX KURTZMAN & HEATHER KADIN
Shows evolve in a season as they’re going along. What in season one was not planned that really ended up working in ways you didn't even imagine?
KADIN: Well, one thing we didn't intend in the beginning, it was originally a 13-episode order and the last two episodes were born out of our partners being really happy with it and the network wanting more. I think the writers…, as opposed to just extending the story that was there, really came up with more story than was originally intended and we got to spend more time and I think got to unveil a couple things we wouldn't have otherwise. What else?
KURTZMAN: There's a tremendous learning curve at the production level for a show this size in the first season.
KADIN: Are you going to talk about eight ("Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"), because that’s the one I was going to say?
KURTZMAN: Yeah. So, in episode eight, which is the episode where they go to Pahvo, it was our first away mission. There were many things about that episode that didn't exist when we shot it, like the look of the Pahvan, for example. And when we saw the look of the Pahvan, we felt that it was not in keeping with the sort of the scope and scale and feel of our show. We attempted to go practical with the Pahvan, so we had an actor, a dancer, actually, in costume -- and it just didn't look right. So, when we were editing the show, we decided to make the character a visual effect, and that really changed the look of everything. So, we changed the look of the planet, the look of the species. That used to be a person.
ANSON MOUNT
What was lit like stepping into the show as the new kid on the block when the cast had already had a year to mesh together?
Well, technically, it's hard being the new kid because you know you're with a group of people that have found their stride and you're trying to find yours. It's a lot easier if you're all trying to find your stride together. But inter-personally, I couldn't imagine a more welcoming, more hospitable cast.
Star Trek: Discovery's second season will premiere on Thursday, January 17, 2019, in the U.S. and Canada, and in the rest of the world on Friday, January 18, 2019.
Star Trek: Discovery on Blu-ray
Star Trek: Discovery: Season One will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on November 13 from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media Distribution. The four-disc Blu-ray and DVD collections, available to U.S. and Canadian fans, will feature all 15 first-season episodes of the CBS All Access series, as well as featurettes and other special features that will include cast and crew interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and deleted and extended scenes.Fans in the U.S. and Canada can pre-order on Amazon.com now.
Star Trek: Discovery's first season is available on CBS All Access in the U.S. and Space Channel in Canada. It's available on Netflix in the rest of the world.
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Well, this week's StarTrek.com poll question certainly got fans in the corner of one particular favorite character. We asked, Which character deserved to become a Captain? And readers could choose from Data, Guinan, Jadzia Dax, Malcolm Reed, Saru, Tuvok and Uhura. Thousands of fans voted, and here are the results:
Data (48%)
Jadzia Dax (16%, 1,767 votes)
Tuvok (16%, 1713 votes)
Uhura (10%)
Saru (5%)
Malcolm Reed (4%)
Guinan (2%)
Be sure to vote in this week's poll...
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Star Trek: Discovery beamed down to Madison Square Garden today during New York Comic-Con to beat the drum for the show's upcoming second season. During a panel with cast and executive producers, fans were treated to a New York Comic-Con Discovery season-two trailer debut and were given first look at Discovery's Spock, played by Ethan Peck; Number One, played by Rebecca Romijn; and Section 31’s newest recruit, Philippa Georgiou, played by Michelle Yeoh.
Romijn moderated the panel, which featured a conversation with cast members including Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Mary Wiseman, Anthony Rapp, Michelle Yeoh, Wilson Cruz, Mary Chieffo, Anson Mount and Ethan Peck. They were joined by executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin.
StarTrek.com was in the house and is pleased to several major takeaways from the NYCC Discovery panel:
Behold the Red Angel
The trailer revealed that the crew is dealing with a mystery involving seven signals. Additionally, Spock has experienced visions of something called the Red Angel, which Michael Burnham confirms that she's seen, too. "The seven signals, who sent them and what do they mean is the drive of season two," Alex Kurtzman told the audience. "There's a conversation of science versus faith, and what does faith mean?"
Bearded Spock
Fans got their first look at Discovery's Spock... and he's got a beard. Ethan Peck addressed how he landed the coveted role, explaining, "The audition was absolutely outrageous. In the beginning, I didn't know what I was reading for, but toward the end I found out who it was and had a panic attack. A few days later, I got a text message from the casting director that said, 'Welcome aboard, Mr. Spock.'” Later in the panel, Peck touched on a plot point of interest to every fan: "We have to start Spock in a place where we see how he becomes the Spock we know standing beside Kirk on the bridge of the Enterprise."
Paging Mr. Green
Kenric Green, an actor and the husband of Sonequa Martin-Green, will appear during season two. When prompted by Romijn to share the big casting news, Martin-Green could barely contain her joy and pride. "My husband, my amazing husband, Kenric, the love of my life, is going to be on the show. I can't say in what capacity yet. But that's very, very exciting. And I'm incredibly grateful."
Where's Dr. Culber?
Another season-two secret is how Dr. Culber will figure into the proceedings, given that he's dead, but everyone knows that Wilson Cruz will be back on the show. Cruz playfully addressed the situation by saying, "They left me for last because there's only one thing I can say about this whole thing... We find him where we left him. Honestly, I cannot tell you anything more than that. But that's your clue."
Georgiou vs. Georgiou
Baddies have more fun, or so said Michelle Yeoh of the Section 31 version of Georgiou, a/k/a Emperor Georgiou. "She is pure," the actress said of the Mirror Universe counterpart. "My god, she is pure. I have more fun playing Section 31 Georgiou. Poor Captain Pike, he thinks I'm Captain Georgiou. He has no idea who I am. Very few people know who Georgiou really is."
Romijn Goes Dark
Romijn stepped out of her moderator role for a moment to address a fan question about playing Number One. "When I got the role, it was a big secret," she said. "But you've all seen the trailer now. The first thing they asked me was, would I wear a wig. I was a fan of The Original Series. So, putting on that wig, it was pretty mind-blowing."
Star Trek: Discovery's second season will premiere on Thursday, January 17, 2019, in the U.S. and Canada, and in the rest of the world on Friday, January 18, 2019.Star Trek: Discovery on Blu-ray
Star Trek: Discovery: Season One will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on November 13 from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media Distribution. The four-disc Blu-ray and DVD collections, available to U.S. and Canadian fans, will feature all 15 first-season episodes of the CBS All Access series, as well as featurettes and other special features that will include cast and crew interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and deleted and extended scenes.Fans in the U.S. and Canada can pre-order on Amazon.com now.
Star Trek: Discovery's first season is available on CBS All Access in the U.S. and Space Channel in Canada. It's available on Netflix in the rest of the world.
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Photos from the upcoming second season of Star Trek: Discovery have just been released. Among those featured in the photos are Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham, Anson Mount as Captain Pike, Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou, Rebecca Romijn as Number One and Ethan Peck as Spock.
Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green)
Michael Burnham, Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) and Captain Pike (Anson Mount)
Number One (Rebecca Romijn) and Captain Pike
Philippa Georgiou
Michael Burnham
Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman)Season two of Star Trek: Discovery will launch on Thursday, January 17, 2019 on CBS All Access. After the January 17 premiere night, all-new episodes of Discovery’s 13-episode second season will be available on-demand weekly on Thursdays, exclusively for CBS All Access subscribers in the U.S.
Star Trek: Discovery's first season is available on CBS All Access in the U.S. and Space Channel in Canada. It's available on Netflix in the rest of the world.
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Season two of Star Trek: Discovery will launch on Thursday, January 17, 2019 on CBS All Access, executive producer Alex Kurtzman announced today during the packed Discovery panel at New York Comic-Con. Also during the panel at Madison Square Garden, which featured the show’s cast and executive producers, fans were treated to the debut of official season-two trailer, which included glimpses of Discovery’s Spock, played by Ethan Peck; Number One, portrayed by Rebecca Romijn; and Section 31’s newest recruit, Philippa Georgiou, with Michelle Yeoh back in the role.
After the January 17 premiere night, all-new episodes of Discovery’s 13-episode second season will be available on-demand weekly on Thursdays, exclusively for CBS All Access subscribers in the U.S.
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Star Trek crews have been encountering powerful aliens since the very first journey of the Phoenix alerted a passing Vulcan ship. However, only a few of those aliens claimed to be gods, and fewer still had truly god-like abilities to back up those assertions.
Still, some encounters did lead to life forms who wielded genuine power beyond the understanding of our brave human crews. Were they simple aliens, wayward gods, or something in between? Whatever the answer, here are just a few of the most powerful beings encountered by Federation crews over the centuries.
ApolloApollo presented Kirk and the Star Trek: The Original Series crew with an interesting case in “Who Mourns for Adonais?” While he may not have been truly supernatural, he was by all appearances the actual god Apollo of Greek myth. Thousands of years ago, he and others of his species had arrived on Earth to eventually form the pantheon of Greek gods, drawing power from some combination of human adulation and extra-dimensional energy focused through their temples.
But before long the honeymoon was over, the ancient Greeks had moved on to other belief systems, and the alien gods left Earth for greener pastures and new followers. Unfortunately, they landed on Pollux IV, an empty rock without a single worshiper to be found. Trapped and lonely, Apollo’s brothers and sisters eventually ascended to a higher plane, vanishing from our dimension. Apollo refused, believing humanity would soon take to the stars, find him, and finally rejoin their long-lost religion.
Though he was eventually found by the Enterprise, Kirk and crew were unwilling to become slaves to this tiny god, and even less willing to leave behind Palamas, a crewmember and target of Apollo’s love. After Kirk was forced to destroy Apollo’s temple, the ancient god apologized for his behavior and ascended in a fog to join his brothers and sisters, leaving the Enterprise crew to mourn the loss of a living piece of ancient Earth history.
The TravelerExplorer, prophet, god? Whatever the case, Star Trek: The Next Generation’s The Traveler remains one of the canon’s most-intriguing and powerful aliens. He played a key role throughout TNG, especially for young Wesley Crusher.
The Traveler initially appeared as a simple scientist’s assistant and warp field enthusiast in “Where No One Has Gone Before.” While Counselor Troi sensed something was up with the un-readable “assistant,” the truth was fully revealed when The Traveler began phasing into subspace while manipulating the Enterprise warp field.
Over the course of the series it’s revealed that The Traveler was an extra-dimensional alien able to manipulate warp fields, and even space-time itself, purely with his mind. Initially a mysterious figure on a journey of exploration much like the Enterprise’s own, The Traveler eventually formed an intense personal connection with Wesley Crusher, saying he recognized abilities in the young ensign that were far beyond simple genius.
The alien appeared several more times over the years to help the Enterprise crew out of a jam, but his final purpose centered on Wesley, who was also eventually able to phase into subspace. Once the young ensign was older and better educated, The Traveler judged him ready to become a true extra-dimensional apprentice, and together the pair departed the Enterprise for the last time to explore the universe together.
Pah-wraith and ProphetsStar Trek: Deep Space Nine’s wormhole aliens were the most “realistically” god-like in all the series -- capable of powerful psychological influence and communication with believers, but extremely limited in the physical plane. They were also one of the canon’s only examples of “living” gods with an established, active religion still being practiced even into the age of the modern Federation.
Over the course of DS9 it’s revealed that the Prophets were extra-dimensional beings residing in the Bajoran wormhole. Little was known about their origins or true motives, except that they established contact with Bajor thousands of years ago via orbs left in orbit around the planet.
Over time, the Prophets found it necessary to expel criminal or unwanted elements of their own population, banishing the exiles to our universe. Those exiles eventually became the Pah-wraith, a competing faction whose members often presented themselves as fire spirits. The war between the two factions drove the major story developments of DS9 and made the Prophets a key component of the Dominion War, all of Bajoran history, and everything that followed for the Federation.
Stephen Ashley is a freelance writer currently taking a break from Brooklyn in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. He credits the syndicated TNG reruns of his youth for launching his love affair with Star Trek and all things science fiction.
To learn more about this subject, please visit www.LearningForASmallWorld.com. The course "Star Trek: Inspiring Culture and Technology” provides greater depth on this and many more aspects of the history and impact of Star Trek.
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Ensign Sylvia Tilly is the heart and soul of Star Trek: Discovery. Even in the darkest days of the Federation, or in the most twisted versions of the Star Trek universe, she’s a bright spot of light that’s always ready to warm the room with a smile. We here at Star Trek Online feel like that’s the very essence of Star Trek – being a light in the darkness. That’s why we’re #Silly4Tilly, and that’s why we want to reward the Tilly in your life.
For the next week, until October 9th, with the launch of Age of Discovery, we want you to nominate a Tilly in your life. What makes them your shining light that brings out hope in the world? This could be a family member, a friend, a fleetmate, or anyone else who makes your life brighter by being a bouncing ball of joy. Post a short video nominating your friend and describing why they should win to social media with the hashtags #Silly4Tilly and #AgeofDiscovery, and send us a copy at community@crypticstudios.com. We’ll pick our 10 favorites.
Not only that, but two grand prize winners will walk away with a pair of T6 Crossfield Class Science Vessels on PC, one for each of you.
Let’s all take a moment to celebrate the people in our life that never say never, and always focus on the parts of their lives that are so…cool.
Star Trek Online is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online game that allows players to explore the Star Trek universe from within. Players can forge their own destiny as Captain of a Federation starship, champion the Empire through the far reaches of the galaxy as a Klingon Warrior, rebuild the Romulan legacy as the commander of a Romulan Republic Warbird or carry out daring missions on behalf of the Dominion as a Jem’Hadar soldier. Captains can also explore iconic locations from the Star Trek universe, make contact with new alien species and battle alongside other players in customizable starships. Star Trek Online is currently available on PC, PlayStation4 and Xbox One.
To download and play Star Trek Online today for free, visit www.playstartrekonline.com.
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It’s the ultimate Star Trek mashup, as Captain Kirk crosses paths with fellow captains Picard, Janeway and Sisko in Star Trek: The Q Conflict, a six-part comic-book event series coming in January from IDW Publishing. The saga, which pits the iconic characters against each other – and marks the first-ever crossover between The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager -- is written by the tandem of Scott and David Tipton (Star Trek: The Next Generation – Mirror Broken), and features art by David Messina (Cloak and Dagger, Star Trek: Countdown).
Here’s the official synopsis, via IDW: “When a dispute between godlike beings threatens the galaxy, it will take all of Starfleet’s best captains to stop them. James T. Kirk, Jean-Luc Picard, Kathryn Janeway, and Benjamin Sisko must go head-to-head in a competition rigged by the arrogant Q and his nigh-omnipotent cohorts.”
Star Trek: The Q Conflict #1 will be available with multiple covers: connecting regular covers by David Messina, as well as retailer incentive variants by George Caltsoudas and J.K. Woodward.
For additional details, contact your local comic book retailer or visit www.comicshoplocator.com to find a store near you. And keep an eye on StarTrek.com for additional details about the IDW's upcoming Star Trek adventures, as well as exclusive First Looks at covers and preview pages.
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Today is national Improve Your Office Day. Yes, it's a thing. And so, StarTrek.com is here to help you celebrate the occasion -- and up your office game -- by recommending some essential Star Trek-themed products.
Transform the room behind your office door into a corridor on the Enterprise D thanks to this TNG Corridor Door Cover
A handy logbook with charts, inspirational quotes, and room for your many observations during the five-year mission, beam up the Star Trek Captain's Log Notebook
Make it so memorable a cup of tea with this (Tea. Earl Grey. Hot) Mug
Protect your desk with these U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 Coasters (Set of Six)
For diplomats of all stripes who have to play nice with others, be sure to consider a Federation Presidential Rug
The Star Trek Original Series Sticky Notes Booklet lets you find the right notes for every enterprise
Let your mind wander from your desk to relaxation, courtesy of a Escape to Risa Poster
There is one light. And the TNG Bridge Set Lamp is it.
A logical addition for your desk, behold the Starfleet Academy Science Rocks Glass. And there are also Command and Medical Rocks Glasses...
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Aye, laddie, Scotty would drink to this: Silver Screen Bottling Co. has launched James T. Kirk Reserve Bourbon, the newest product in their line of Star Trek-branded spirts that kicked off this past summer with James T. Kirk Bourbon and Ten-Forward Vodka. A high-end, small-batch bourbon, the James T. Kirk Reserve is available for pre-sale and will begin shipping just in time for the holidays.
James T. Kirk Reserve is produced in a very small batch from carefully selected barrels. It exhibits complex aromas of vanilla, oak and toffee. Bottled at barrel strength, James T. Kirk Reserve is surprisingly delicate and can be enjoyed with or without a few drops of Scalosian water.
James T. Kirk Bourbon and Ten-Forward Vodka are available for purchase at www.silverscreenbottling.com, while James T. Kirk Reserve Bourbon can be pre-ordered for $299. Additional product lines will be added in the future.
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“Nice office,” Anthony Rapp jokes. “I thought you were kidding, but you were serious.” Yes, we were. Rapp was conducting several interviews at Star Trek Las Vegas a few weeks ago, in the Mirror Universe exhibit there, and StarTrek.com suggested he come into our office: Emperor Georgiou’s foreboding throne. And, so that’s where we chatted with Rapp about season one of Star Trek: Discovery, his thoughts on the evolution thus far of Lt. Paul Stamets and the actor’s hopes for season two. Here’s what Rapp had to say in this, the latest in our series of StarTrek.com interviews building toward the November 13 release of Star Trek: Discovery: Season One on Blu-ray and DVD...
How satisfied were you with season one?
Oh my, goodness. I was incredibly satisfied. It was my first time being a regular on a TV show, so that was a whole crazy experience unto itself. But to be so spoiled by it being this TV show, I can't even begin to imagine anything better. So, yes, it was profoundly satisfying. I'm so proud. And I'm also really happy and excited with what is to come. It feels like everything got opened up. Everything got cracked open in season one, and now things in season two are getting to settle in what I hope and believe is a very meaningful way. The way it's going to connect up with everything else that's come before, I think, is also really special.
Speaking of connections, how cool were all the threads – some massive, so really subtle – linking Discovery to its TV predecessors?I understand the skepticism in the fan community and the reluctance to believe because they care so much and they're so protective. We've been saying from the beginning, “It’s not spin. Everybody involved in this show cares deeply about Star Trek.” Especially the writers care deeply about the legacy of it and want to make sure that everything's going to be able to match up. It's a long game, though. That's one of the other things that Star Trek fandom isn't quite so used to, is this almost, like, crumbs thing that can happen where there's the long tail to it that has a payoff, but then you've earned the payoff. I believe that that's what we're doing.
What's your sense of where Stamets was when we first met him and when season one ended?Well, so much of what was going on in the beginning was having to do with Lorca, and that getting resolved was a huge shift unto itself. Then, of course, what happened with Hugh was a huge shift unto itself. And in the middle of that was what happened with Stamets and the mycelial network. It's the big stew of all of it, and I feel like season two is where it all settles and coalesces. There's a peering into the unknown. All that stuff happened and now “What's next?” is a big question that I think is getting explored in a really interesting way.
What worked best for you about the Stamets-Culber relationship in season one?
I feel like it was really clearly established how we balanced each other, and how we accept each other and have our own lives and have our lives separate from one another fully, and then how we come together. There was a sense, I think, of a really healthy adult meaningful relationship. I think that that really landed.
How quickly did the relationship between you and Wilson Cruz form -- or re-form? That chemistry was really there.
Thanks. Well, we've known each other for over 20 years because we worked together in Rent. He replaced the original Angel on Broadway. We didn't do it for very long together, like three or four weeks. So, it was pretty brief, but we really connected during that time and we'd stayed in touch over the years. That part was easy. It was just we have an affinity for one another and affection for one another and love for one another as friends. So, you trust all of those things. Great respect. I first became aware of Wilson from My So-Called Life. At the time, I was working on Twister. I saw My So-Called Life, and thought, “This is the kind of work I would love to be a part of.” And he was wonderful in it.
That whole show had such meaning. It felt like a lifeline. Then, to meet him and be a part of Rent, which was my whole beautiful, main, equal experience. The Rent family is so much like the Star Trek family, I swear. All the different people over the years, there's a connection that we all share because it's changed all of our lives.
How ready was the Star Trek community for a gay relationship in their franchise?
It seems to me like 99.9% of them were hugely ready for it and hungry for it. There's the noisy but small minority that had said some nasty things, but that's going to happen.
How much fun did you have playing Mirror Stamets?
It was fun to play Mirror Stamets and play scenes opposite myself. It was a very strange, surreal, challenging experience, but really satisfying.
Did you see Mirror Stamets as an extension of Paul or a different character entirely?We talked amongst ourselves as cast members that the Mirror self is… we have the same soul and the same intellect, but different life experiences and a different world that you live in. So, those things shape you. It's just like different things come to the foreground and different things go to the background. So, I feel like Mirror Paul is more single-minded, manipulative and willing to do anything, because you have to be that way to survive and thrive in that world. Prime Paul is much less that way. I mean, he is single-minded in terms of being focused on his work, but not for nefarious purposes.
Without giving too much away, what do you get to explore in season two?The big exploration is about how to move forward, given everything that's happened, and where will I be going with my work, with my life. How is it to be here without Hugh? Then, those questions lead to more and more questions and then some answers. As far as Hugh, he will be back. His death was meant to be devastating, and it was. And we've been telling people since then, "Be patient. Be patient. Be patient, because our story's not over."
In general, how different in tone is season two from season one?
Star Trek always has some darkness to it, but season two is less grim overall, I would think. There's more time and space for the philosophical and relationship stuff to come to the foreground. There's certainly some action. It's not like we're just sitting around talking all the time, but I feel like there's a little more time and space.
Last question: What did you do during your off season?It seems like so long ago now. I did some concerts. That's one of the things I do. My boyfriend and I went on safari to Africa. It was amazing. I saw a lot of theater in New York, got caught up with friends, because when we're working in Toronto, it's really hard to see friends and family. I got to spend time with my dad, who was living at the time in Washington State. He just moved back to Illinois, where I'm from. It was a lot of really great catching up stuff.
Star Trek: Discovery on Blu-rayStar Trek: Discovery: Season One will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on November 13 from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media Distribution. The four-disc Blu-ray and DVD collections, available to U.S. and Canadian fans, will feature all 15 first-season episodes of the CBS All Access series, as well as featurettes and other special features that will include cast and crew interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and deleted and extended scenes.Fans in the U.S. and Canada can pre-order on Amazon.com now.
Star Trek: Discovery's first season is available on CBS All Access in the U.S. and Space Channel in Canada. It's available on Netflix in the rest of the world.
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StarTrek.com is saddened to report the passing of Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated set decorator John M. Dwyer, who counted among his many credits Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek Generations , Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek Nemesis. Dwyer died on September 15, at the age of 83. His wife, Anita, only confirmed yesterday to The Hollywood Reporter that Dwyer succumbed to complications of Parkinson's disease at a hospital in Encinitas, California.
Dwyer's dozens of film and television credits spanned decades, from the 1960s to the 2000s. He worked on everything from McHale's Navy, Night Gallery, Ellery Queen, Jaws, Coal Miner's Daughter and The Gangster Chronicles to The Thing (1982 version), Beverly Hills Cop, MacGyver, Terminator 2, Alien: Resurrection and Hollow Man. As for Star Trek, he joined The Original Series in 1967, during the show's second season, working on "The Trouble With Tribbles," for which he helped create the iconic furry creatures. He ultimately served as a set decorator on 38 episodes of TOS, sharing a 1969 Emmy nomination with Matt Jefferies for their art direction and scenic design on "All Our Yesterdays."
He returned to Trek in 1986 for The Voyage Home and then spent one season on TNG (during which he coined the word "Okudagram" for Michael Okuda's graphics), before working on The Final Frontier, Generation, First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dwyer was a Los Angeles native whose father and grandfather worked in Hollywood. He turned down a UCLA basketball scholarship in order to enlist in the U.S. Navy and spent time aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany during the Korean War. Following his military service, Dwyer studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in L.A., which paved the way to a job, actually several of them, at Universal Studios. And his career took off from there. He retired to Encinitas in 2002, with Nemesis as his final screen credit.
"The first time I met John Dwyer was during pre-production for Star Trek IV," Michael Okuda told StarTrek.com. "I was on Stage 9, digging through some props to see if there was something we could use. John, who had no idea who I was, walked right up to me, introduced himself with a big smile, and we shook hands. I was in awe of this guy, whose creativity on The Original Series was legend."
"John," the legendary Herman Zimmerman told StarTrek.com, "was my decorator of choice."
Dwyer is survived by, among others, his wife of 29 years, Anita, and a son, Matthew. Please join StarTrek.com in offering our condolences to Dwyer's family, friends, colleagues and fans.
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The four Star Trek: Short Treks will have their Canadian launch on Space and CraveTV, beginning Thursday, Oct. 4 at 9 p.m. ET on Space and streaming on CraveTV the following day, Friday, Oct. 5 at 9 p.m. ET. Featuring new characters and familiar faces from Star Trek: Discovery and the expanding Star Trek universe, the four original stand-alone short stories are set to launch during the Space’s nationwide freeview, with subsequent installments rolling out on a monthly basis - airing November 8, December 6, and January 3 on Space. Each short is available to stream on CraveTV following their broadcast premiere.
Additionally, for the first time ever, all four installments will also be available on SnackableTV, Bell Media’s short-form video app, following their launch on Space and CraveTV.
Star Trek: Short Treks airs as a companion series to Discovery, the most-watched series in Canadian entertainment specialty history, which will return to Space and CraveTV in early 2019. Each short in the Star Trek: Short Treks series runs approximately 10-15 minutes and provides fans the opportunity to examine central themes and characters from Discovery and the vast Star Trek universe. Familiar faces from Discovery include Tilly (Mary Wiseman), Saru (Doug Jones) and Harry Mudd, in a short starring and directed by Rainn Wilson, while Aldis Hodge plays a new character, Craft.
Star Trek: Short Treks are set to roll out as follows:
“Runaway” (premieres Thursday, Oct. 4 at 9 p.m. ET on Space and streams Friday, Oct. 5 at 9 p.m. ET on CraveTV)
Onboard the U.S.S. Discovery, Ensign Tilly encounters an unexpected visitor in need of help. However, this unlikely pair may have more in common than meets the eye. Written by Jenny Lumet & Alex Kurtzman. Directed by Maja Vrvilo.
“Calypso” (premieres Thursday, Nov. 8 at 9 p.m. ET on Space and streams Friday, Nov. 9 at 9 p.m. ET on CraveTV)After waking up in an unfamiliar sickbay, Craft finds himself on board a deserted ship, and his only companion and hope for survival is an A.I. computer interface. Teleplay by Michael Chabon. Story by Sean Cochran and Michael Chabon. Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.
“The Brightest Star” (premieres Thursday, Dec. 6 at 9 p.m. ET on Space and streams Friday, Dec. 7 at 9 p.m. ET on CraveTV)Before he was the first Kelpien to join Starfleet, Saru lived a simple life on his home planet of Kaminar with his father and sister. Young Saru, full of ingenuity and a level of curiosity uncommon among his people, yearns to find out what lies beyond his village, leading him on an unexpected path. Written by Bo Yeon Kim & Erika Lippoldt. Directed by Douglas Aarniokoski.
“The Escape Artist” (premieres Thursday, Jan. 3 at 9 p.m. ET on Space and streams Friday, Jan. 4 on at 9 p.m. ET on CraveTV)Harry Mudd, back to his old tricks of stealing and double-dealing, finds himself in a precarious position aboard a hostile ship - just in time to try out his latest con. Written by Mike McMahan. Directed by Rainn Wilson.
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Avery Brooks, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Benjamin Sisko, turns 70 years old today... October 2. To mark the occasion, StarTrek.com is pleased to share 5 Things to Know About Avery Brooks...
Baby Brooks
Brooks was born in Evansville, Indiana, and grew up in Gary, Indiana, in a house that vibrated with music. His mother, Eva Lydia, served as a choral conductor and music instructor, and taught music in the Brooks family home. His dad worked as a union official, but loved to sing as well, performing with the Wings Over Jordan choir. Brooks went on to study at Livingston College and Rutgers University, and he holds the distinction of being the first African American to earn a master of fine arts degree in acting and directing from Rutgers.
Pre-Trek
Prior to landing his role as Sisko on DS9, Brooks was best known for his stint as the tough-talking character Hawk, first on the popular series Spenser: For Hire and later on his own spinoff, A Man Called Hawk. Brooks also played Hawk in four Spenser: For Hire telemovies from 1993-1995. DS9 fans were quick to take note of the fact that Hawk referred to A Man Called Hawk character as "Old Man," which is what Sisko called Dax. Brooks was also known for his one-man show, Robeson: A Play with Music, in which he portrayed performer and activist Paul Robeson. (Brooks has reprised the production several times, including during DS9's run and as recently as 2011).
Early Days on DS9
Back in season one of DS9, while in production on the series' second episode, Brooks spoke to the Official Deep Space Nine Magazine about the show and his character. He addressed how Sisko had his hands full aboard the space station, dealing with the assorted characters, conflicts and politics, as well as raising his son, Jake. "When we first encounter Benjamin Sisko, you realize he is really struggling with the wars of his past, which left him a widower," the actor said. "The most wonderful of the challenges is to find all of these different colors in him and the different textures of humanity. So far, there have been no two days that are alike, and I like that."
Directing Deep Space
Brooks settled into the director's chair to call the shots on a total of nine DS9 episodes, starting with "Tribunal" in season two and ending with "The Dogs of War" in season seven. In between, he directed the landmark, still-powerful sixth-season entry, "Far Beyond the Stars," which, in the eyes of many fans, remains DS9's finest hour and ranks way up there on the list of the entire Trek franchise's best episodes.
Post-Trek
Following his time on DS9, Brooks pulled back somewhat from the limelight. He acted occasionally, including in the film 15 Minutes, but spent much of his time raising his children and teaching at Rutgers University, where he's a professor of theater at Mason Gross School of the Arts. He also recorded and released the 2009 album, Here, featuring spoken word poetry pieces, as well as blues and jazz covers. Brooks, for many years, continued to make appearances at Star Trek conventions and he participated in William Shatner's 2011 documentary, The Captains.
Please join StarTrek.com in wishing Brooks a happy birthday.
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Big news, and lots of it, on the Star Trek: Discovery front. CBS All Access has revealed that the show will return in January 2019. Additionally, it released a striking poster featuring the tagline "Discover the Next Adventure."
Further, CBS All Access announced that Rebecca Romijn will moderate the Star Trek: Discovery panel set to be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 6, in the Theater at Madison Square Garden as part of New York Comic-Con. As previously announced, Romijn will play Captain Pike's first officer, Number One, during Discovery's sophomore year.
Star Trek: Discovery's first season is available on CBS All Access in the U.S. and Space Channel in Canada. It's available on Netflix in the rest of the world.
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Which First Officer would you trust most? That's the question StarTrek.com asked for our weekly poll, and fans could choose from the following reply options: Chakotay, Kira Nerys, Michael Burnham, Saru, Spock, T'Pol, William Riker and Worf. Thousands of fans voted, and here are the results:
Spock (44%)
William Riker (28%)
Chakotay (9%)
Worf (6% - 609 Votes)
Kira Nerys (6% - 562 Votes)
T'Pol (4%)
Michael Burnham (1%, 131 votes)
Saru (1%, 104 votes)
Be sure to vote in this week's poll...
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Back in 1991, season five of Star Trek: The Next Generation gave us weekly choice cuts of science-fiction filet mignon. “The Inner Light,” “I, Borg,” “Cause and Effect” “The Outcast” and “Unification” all sit atop the pantheon of great Trek episodes. Arguably the most-cherished episode of that golden season is one that regularly ranks high on the list of all-time great Star Trek hours; “Darmok.”
The second episode of the fifth season -- which premiered 27 years ago today, with today coincidentally being International Translation Day -- Picard’s captain's log entry sets the scene.
"Captain's log, Stardate 45047.2. The Enterprise is en route to the uninhabited El-Adrel system. Its location is near the territory occupied by an enigmatic race known as The Children of Tama."
The Enterprise arrives at the world of El-Adrel, holding opposite a waiting Tamarian vessel. While the universal translator could translate individual words, the intent and meaning of the Tamarian words evades them. Speaking in allegory and without understanding the stories of which they speak, communication is virtually impossible. Frustrated at their inability to communicate, the Tamarian captain, Dathon, has himself and Picard beamed down to the surface of El-Adrel IV while a scattering field is raised to make transport off-planet impossible. Dathon utters the phrase "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" and throws Picard a dagger. Picard believes the alien is challenging him to a fight, so refuses the blade, but as night falls and Picard is unable to start a camp fire, Dathon offers him fire, saying "Temba, his arms wide." The following day, they are stalked by a fierce predator, and using the language of metaphor, Dathon tries to formulate tactics with Picard to fight the creature. But as they battle the beast, Picard is caught in a transporter beam from the Enterprise. The crew are attempting to beam him off planet, leaving Dathon to fight the creature alone. Picard is agonizingly stuck in the transporter beam while Dathon is severely injured.
Talks with the Tamarians fails, as does a shuttle mission to retrieve the captain, but the Enterprise crew finally realize what Picard already has, that the Tamarians communicate through example, based largely on allegories from their own folklore. Without a common frame of reference, the language remains unbreachable.
On the planet, Picard tends to Dathon’s wounds and the two begin to narrow the language gap between them. Picard deciphers the meaning of the allegories and their intent, telling Dathon the epic tale of Gilgamesh before the Tamarian captain succumbs to his injuries. Meanwhile, the Enterprise fires on the larger Tamarian vessel, scattering the displacement field and beaming up Picard.
Back on the bridge, and to the surprise of his crew, Picard uses those metaphors to communicate with the Tamarian commander, and as he sends Dathon’s personal journal back to his people they add a new phrase to their language - "Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel."
The episode ends as Picard and Riker discuss the mission, and how a stronger link to their own mythology would help break the wall of language between them and the Tamarians. As Riker departs, Picard lifts the blade and repeats the ritualistic gesture he had seen Dathon do, paying silent tribute to his fallen comrade.
Championed by the late Michael Piller, the episode took two years to come to the screen. Developed from a story outline by Philip LaZebnik, Piller passed the episode to Joe Menosky to develop. Menosky focused primarily on two leaders learning to communicate as well as the story of Gilgamesh, one of our planet’s oldest known literary pieces.
Filmed over 13 days of studio and location shooting in July and August of 1991, “Darmok” is littered with firsts. It was the first time we saw the Type 6 shuttlecraft and also marked the debut of Captain Picard’s new jacket (believe me, it was a BIG deal at the time). The ensemble was comprised of a a grey undershirt reminiscent of the First Contact colors that would arrive five years later and a red leather jacket. It also introduced us to Ensign Robin Lefler, as played by Ashley Judd, who would more prominently reappear in the fifth season’s sixth episode, “The Game,” a month later.
Unbelievably – to those of us who watched it on its initial run back in 1991 – this episode is now 27 years old, but the intervening years of technical evolution and advances in visual effects haven’t diminished the power of the episode one jot. As compelling and engrossing as it ever was, “Darmok” is not only beautifully directed by the late Winrich Kolbe, but is anchored by powerhouse performances from Sir Patrick Stewart and the late Paul Winfield.
Previously best known in Trek circles for his performance as the tragic Captain Clark Terrell in 1982’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, his masterful turn as Captain Dathon in “Darmok” arguably supersedes that.
Every iteration of Star Trek has brought us tales of adventure, exploration, discovery and understanding. Many remain long in the memory, but few are as affecting and distinct as “Darmok,” and for that we salute this most unique of episodes.
"Temba, at rest."
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Federation crews have always preferred to view exploration as a scientific and diplomatic effort. However, some threats were ultimately too horrifying to prompt any reaction except to fight, escape, and survive.
Star Trek’s horror villains, although undeniably terrifying for the affected ships, have come to occupy a beloved section of the canon by virtue of their pulp-heavy science fiction themes -- and the thrill that comes from watching our usually staid and rational Federation crews confront true terror.
Spanning from witches to germs, these are just a few of the scariest villains ever to haunt the galaxy. Again, these are just a few; many fans will cite their favorites, including the Borg Queen, the Zombie-Vulcans from Enterprise, the Salt Creature, Khan's Ceti eel that goes in Chekov's ear, and the creepy aliens in TNG's "Schisms."
Sylvia and Korob
Though based around a distinctly campy version of historical Earth ghost stories, Star Trek: The Original Series established the dramatic stakes immediately in “Catspaw,” as an entire away team returned with the dreaded phrase, “one to beam up.”
Materializing back aboard the Enterprise, the apparent sole surviving crewman immediately collapsed dead on the transport pad. Nonetheless, his lips delivered a message from the surface: The ship is cursed. Leave now, or die.
Captain Kirk, with Scotty and Sulu still unaccounted for on the surface, ignored the warning and assembled a second away team to investigate. It was immediately apparent that circumstances were not as they seemed, as the crew confronted a landscape shrouded in gothic fog and soon discovered an Earth-like castle, contradicting all of the Enterprise’s sensor readings.
Kirk’s team, after falling through a trap door, then met Korob and Sylvia, a be-robed wizard and his shape-shifting “witch” companion. Sylvia was able to manipulate the physical world with her mind, and had enslaved Scotty and Sulu as thoughtless automatons.
Sylvia, during an extended battle of wills, threatened to burn the Enterprise and locked it in an inexplicable force field to prevent rescue teams from launching. It was eventually revealed that Sylvia and Korob were aliens on an unexplained mission from “the Old Ones” that had gone awry once Sylvia experienced biological form and all of its tempting sensations.
Korob soon confessed he could no longer control Sylvia and feared her aspirations, prompting the crew to destroy his wand, seemingly the source of the aliens’ transmutation abilities. Stripped of their powers and reduced to small, feather-like forms, the aliens quickly perished, allowing the away team to escape with graphic memories of their real-life ghost story.
Macroscopic Viruses
Star Trek: Voyager’s “Macrocosm” took its cues straight from the language of cinematic horror, as the teaser found Captain Janeway and Neelix returning from a trade mission with the Tak Tak, only to discover that Voyager was adrift more than a light year from the scheduled rendezvous.
Once aboard, the pair were unsettled by signs that the crew had confronted a threat so terrifying they’d dropped tools in mid-task and vanished. The clues quickly became more ominous as deep buzzing could be heard in the ship, and the two came across holes punched through bulkheads, dripping with slime. After visiting an armory, a tentacle burst into the turbolift to attack Neelix, who fell ill and vanished with a scream soon afterward, leaving Janeway to make her way to the bridge and discover who -- or what -- had taken over the ship.
The true scope of events became clear when Janeway discovered crewmembers in the mess hall, including an infected Chakotay with a growth on his neck that released more of the buzzing attackers.
After being attacked by a mega-version of the creatures, Janeway met the Doctor in sickbay, who revealed that the ship had been taken over by a macrovirus -- small organisms grown large and vicious.
Janeway served as a test subject for The Doctor’s antigen before the pair set out to deliver the cure throughout the ship, with the captain stalking the corridors, phaser rifle in hand. In full hero mode, Janeway soon lured the macrovirus creatures to the holodeck with infrared signatures, then administered the cure to her crew before tossing an antigen grenade into the holo simulation and ending the nightmare.
The Borg
The Borg -- all hail the Borg Queen -- would eventually become a uniquely complex and multi-faceted antagonist, but Star Trek: The Next Generation first presented Picard and crew with a simple, single-minded threat in “Q Who,” the first-ever appearance of the Borg Collective.
It began, as many of Picard’s trials did, with a tantrum from Q, who swore he was ready to forego his omnipotent misbehavior in order to join the Enterprise crew as an advisor and guide to the galaxy’s dangers. Picard and Guinan declined his services, and Q responded by flinging the Enterprise into distant and uncharted space, saying he offered a “preview” of the threats they would soon face.
As if on cue, a Borg cube appeared and transported a drone to the Enterprise’s engineering deck, where it began probing the ship’s systems. In an iconic sequence, Commander Worf was forced to use a full-power phaser blast to stop the drone, only to see it instantly replaced with a new member of the collective that had already adapted its shields to block Federation weaponry.
A scouting team, after temporarily disabling the cube, revealed the true nature of the threat they faced: A sea of mindless automatons, individual cyber-zombies controlled by a hive mind and unstoppable with mere weaponry.
Knowing they had no effective countermeasures, Picard was eventually forced to confess humanity’s helplessness before Q, who finally returned the crew to Federation territory, burdened by the knowledge of what terrors were heading toward Earth from the depths of space.
Stephen Ashley is a freelance writer currently taking a break from Brooklyn in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. He credits the syndicated TNG reruns of his youth for launching his love affair with Star Trek and all things science fiction.To learn more about this subject, please visit www.LearningForASmallWorld.com. The course "Star Trek: Inspiring Culture and Technology” provides greater depth on this and many more aspects of the history and impact of Star Trek.
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My introduction to Star Trek was very definitely Star Trek: The Next Generation - I was seven, the episode was "Yesterday's Enterprise." While I’m sure my brain then failed to grasp the greater implications of that classic, epic TNG hour, nonetheless, I was hooked. I feel a certain love and affinity for the Enterprise-D characters that remains unmatched throughout the franchise, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard is no exception. On the 31st anniversary of "Encounter at Farpoint," I'd like to explore how Picard, as the quintessential Starfleet captain, shaped the series for 30 years and counting.
In casting Sir Patrick Stewart, Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman and the TNG staff received the best of both worlds (pun very much intended; what do you take me for?) in both Stewart's Shakespearean stage training and the gravitas and warmth he brings when in front of a camera. He knows how to interact with an audience, even if that audience is invisible to him as he's filming, reaching out to those of us at home watching the adventures of the Enterprise-D week after week. When I first "met" Picard, it was easy to see why he was the captain. He speaks and moves with authority, especially as he commands the helmsperson to "Engage!" or instructs a crew member to "Make it so," uttering those words for the first time.
Sir Patrick is recognizable in three ways - his distinguished profile, shiny bald head, and voice. I’d argue that his voice is the most-iconic element of his persona, as it is for Captain Picard. When he gets angry, you know it’s for a very good reason and you best watch your step! Woe betide those in Picard's path when his crew or Starfleet is threatened. Just as important is how he uses his tone of voice to get things done. A decisive tone is clearly an imperative part of being in command. Not to malign a fellow captain of the Enterprise (NX), but I found Captain Archer to be very off-putting in the pilot when he simply said "Let's go." I’d just started college, Janeway had been my captain for seven years and I adored her very being. She, too, spoke with authority and certainty. Picard's particular phrasing, however, set the gold standard for the captains that followed. "Let’s go" was not acceptable after "Engage! and "Make it so."
Alongside his signature “Picard maneuver,” those phrases and the accompanying body language – a definitive point forward issued forth from the captain’s chair – allowed Stewart to define Picard’s authority right away. Whether the body language came from a director or the actor’s own choice, these seemingly small choices clearly have a big impact on the viewer and reinforce Picard’s status as a great captain.
Watching from a young girl’s perspective, Picard felt like a captain who’d advocate as much for me as for anyone else. While he had romances, the feminism Picard often displayed was a breath of fresh air compared to some of the other men in charge on TV of the late 80s and early 90s. He listened to Dr. Crusher and Counselor Troi, taking their concerns seriously when dealing with difficult situations. I agree that TNG’s female roles were of the caregiver variety, but the fact that these two female senior staff members had a seat at the table and a voice their captain listened to put TNG ahead of its time.
In the episode "Attached," Captain Picard and Dr. Crusher wake up with implants connecting their thoughts. I loved getting a look at how Picard approaches command through different eyes, especially when Crusher realizes he doesn't actually know which way to go after they awaken on a strange planet. He’s going through the exact same experience she is, but he picks a direction and follows through - a hallmark of command. In my personal life, I often think of this as a "Fake it 'til you make it" moment to spur me forward in times of indecision - which is exactly what Picard is doing. He preserves the illusion of authority and know-how in an instance where he is unsure - not that he'll let you see his uncertainty. He rightfully believes those under his command need to see that certainty and leadership, and look to him for reassurance in difficult and uncertain moments.
A favorite Picard episode is “Starship Mine,” which depicts him not just protecting his crew but also his ship. In a very Die-Hard/JohnMcClane turn, Picard needs to stay ahead of a deadly energy sweep forcefield while also fighting off a team of thieves who want to sell Starfleet materials to make explosives. This episode is a winner because Picard has no other Starfleet officers with whom to interact, but we see him go to bat for the Enterprise and fighting for the safety of unknown innocents who might die should this group acquire and sell explosives. Stewart showcases what makes Picard special while carrying the episode alone as viewers cheer him on.
Captain Picard’s actions and follow-through when it came to upholding Starfleet ideals, not to mention his willingness to put himself in harm’s way both physically and mentally, round out his leadership on the Federation flagship. Picard is known for being a great diplomat at the start of the series, but after the seven-year run and four films, we seem him shedding some rigidity and following his heart more and more often. He can generally get away with this because he’s such a respected officer, and the audience is always all-in for these moments of noble rebellion. Do his actions always make logical sense? Of course not (especially in Star Trek: Insurrection), but sometimes the plot details don’t matter. What matters is Picard always makes his crew feel like they’re in something together, fostering an us-against-them feeling of heroism, and takes the viewer along for the ride.
In celebrating Picard and Stewart’s contributions to what we view as excellent leadership, from Picard in 1987 throughout the series, films, and into Stewart’s personal advocacy on behalf of LGBT+ rights, his stance on domestic abuse as a men’s issue (not a women’s issue), his compassion for animals, and more, we are given a stellar example of how to live the ideals his character espoused 30+ years ago. Now, as he steps back into character that many of us grew up with, he and the Star Trek powers-that-be can once again “Make it so” as they find new stories to tell that’ll undoubtedly provide us with more great leadership in a world where supposed leaders often lack integrity. Some might say that’s just the difference between fiction and reality, but I set a high standard for my leaders and myself because that’s what Picard brought into my live -- and all our lives -- as Star Trek fans, many years ago.
Amy Imhoff is an author, digital media specialist, convention panel host, and sometimes professor who specializes in women’s representation in media. She has appeared on numerous Star Trek podcasts and is featured in “Outside In Makes It So,” a collection of Star Trek: The Next Generation essays available from ATB Publishing. Amy lives outside NYC with her husband, two silly cats and various geeky collections.
Living on the Galaxy's Edge: The Edosians
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The Edosians are a peaceful, polytheistic race from the planet Edos, located on the outer rim of the Milky Way galaxy.
Though not part of it, they have formed a loose alliance with the Federation, coming under its agreements in trade, science, and emergency aid. There has even been a decorated Edosian in Starfleet
Physiology
Edosians are a tripodal species, with three legs, three arms, and three digits on each hand and foot. Their skin is orange, with bony features underneath. Edosians have an extremely long life cycle.
Home World
Edos is a planet in the Triangulum constellation, on the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. It serves as a jumping-off point for science teams studying the great energy barrier beyond the rim. It is home to plant life, such as the Edosian orchid, and sea life including the Edosian suckerfish.
Culture
Edosians are a peaceful species, having never engaged in a war. They worship many gods. All beings on Edos are equal – there are no social castes or class levels.
Due to their long life cycles, Edosians often limit families to just one child. This makes them precious, and Edosian families are extremely close. They also keep detailed ancestral records, dating back for centuries, sometimes even millennia.
Edosian technology is on the same level as that of Earth. Its architectural style favors function over aesthetics. Edosians pass on family and cultural history through story-songs. The sessica, similar to the flute, is one Edosian instrument.
Arex
An Edosian named Arex served as navigator on the U.S.S. Enterprise from 2269-2270, replacing Pavel Chekov, who had been a student of his at Starfleet Academy many years prior.
Though he served as space navigation instructor at the Academy, Arex didn’t attend. He first spent 10 years in the merchant space fleet. He entered Starfleet as a technician and worked his way up to the rank of Lieutenant. Arex first became an officer through a “field commission” during a battle with the Klingons, where he took command of his cruiser after all the officers were killed. He surprised the Klingon ship, disabled her, and brought her to face Federation charges. By the time he served on the Enterprise, Arex was known as the best navigator in the fleet.
During his time in Starfleet, he earned three decorations for bravery and held a Citation for Conspicuous Valor.
On the Enterprise, Arex proved to be a versatile crewman, sometimes manning the science station or the conn. In an emergency, he could even operate the helm-navigation console alone, thanks to his multiple limbs.
Legacy
Much of the flora and fauna of Edos was used by other cultures for medicinal purposes. For example, the Edosian slug, a mollusk native to the planet, was used in the 22nd century by Dr. Phlox, chief medical officer on the Enterprise NX-01. Dr. Phlox also made medicinal use of the Edosian suckerfish.
Because of its similarity to the catfish, when Enterprise-D commander William Riker was playing Enterprise NX-01 chef in the holodeck, he considered using the Edosian suckerfish as a stand-in for a meal.
The Edosian orchid was used in gardens throughout the galaxy, including at the Cardassian embassy on Romulus. The plant produces beautiful flowers, but they are extremely poisonous.
Background
Edosians were introduced to the Star Trek universe with Lt. Arex in Star Trek: The Animated Series in 1973. Though most of the original show’s cast returned to lend their voices to their cartoon counterparts, the budget didn’t allow for all of them, and Walter Koenig’s Chekov was cut from TAS. Instead, Arex was created as a semi-regular character and James Doohan did double duty as the voice of Scotty and Arex (as well as other, smaller roles throughout the run.
Arex was in almost every episode, but he wasn’t given much background – not even a first name. His personal history first appeared in a newsletter written by Gene Roddenberry and D.C. Fontana in 1973. Later, a biography of Arex was published in a 1974 catalog provided by Lincoln Enterprises, the Star Trek merchandising company run by Majel Barrett.
In April 2018, Arex earned another honor. To commemorate the 45th anniversary of TAS, Hallmark announced a convention-exclusive ornament set of Arex and fellow TAS alien, M’Ress.
Robin Berla Meyers is a NYC-based writer and TV producer specializing in pop and geek culture. Her work has been seen all over the world, on things like BBC America, AMC, and The Verge. Her mom introduced her to Trek when she was 3 years old, and she never stopped watching.
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