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The Latest Star Trek Short Is… Certainly Something
When Paramount launched very Short Treks a few weeks ago, it did so with a short that trod a very fine line between being crass and flexing some knowingly Trek humour. But as it’s progressed, things have only gotten a closer to the former. This week’s entry, “Worst Contact,” sees Jonathan Frakes and Gates McFadden return…
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Lower Decks Offers a Perfectly Star Trek Answer to How to Live in Starfleet’s Duality
When CBS revived Star Trek and promptly turned it into a swath of new series about boldly going, these myriad projects all found themselves grappling with a familiar question. It’s one that’s underpinned over half a century of the franchise: is Starfleet a scientific organisation, or a military one? The time has come for Paramount+’s…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Mike McMahan on Making Sure Cameos Matter
Lower Decks is a show that rejoices in the nerdy little details of Star Trek. From Pakleds to Exocomps, from Kirk punches to movie riffs, its first season delivered a show that earnestly loved Trek’s ideals and the callbacks that made it such a rich franchise in the first place. But when the show wanted…