As I promised last week, we’ll start this review with the big question for those who haven’t jumped onto the CBS All Access bandwagon yet: Is Star Trek: Discovery worth paying for a subscription? Nope. Not yet, ladies and gentlemen. This week’s offering, the ridiculously long-titled “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry,” […]
I’m going to start these reviews out with a spoiler-free section, for those who aren’t sure if it’s worth the financial plunge to buy CBS All-Access, but are curious how the show is shaping up. And, for those people, I would say that the series is off to a strong start, but I still wouldn’t […]
Star Trek: Discovery has had a difficult path to its premiere, from losing its highly-touted showrunner (Bryan Fuller, who had to step away after crafting these first two episodes to focus on his commitment to Starz’s equally ambitious American Gods series), to production delays, to a premiere that was pushed back months. So what was […]
The CBS Upfront presentation was last Wednesday and the network revealed the first trailer for the much-anticipated upcoming series, Star Trek: Discovery. This new show will only be available on CBS All Access, which is the network’s subscription streaming video on demand service. It costs $5.99 a month, or $9.99 for a commercial free option. […]
Rainn Wilson, best known for his role as Dwight on The Office, has been cast in Star Trek: Discovery, according to Variety. It is unknown as this time how many episodes he will appear in, but we did find out who he will be portraying. Wilson will play Harry Mudd, a charismatic con man who is […]
The Star Trek franchise is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year. It has become a sci-fi juggernaut, spanning six TV series with the seventh in production, 13 movies have been made, featuring the Original, Next Generation and Reboot casts and has spun-off into novels, comics and video games. It has a large mythology that spans […]
Star Trek: The Original Series was, arguably, one of the most important television shows in the history of television. It’s legacy can be felt in nearly every scifi television show that emerged in its wake. Throughout the years, Star Trek broke down important barriers, offering the first ever interracial kiss on TV, presenting diverse casts […]
BBC America will air digitally remastered episodes of Star Trek during a four-day marathon in September. The episodes of Star Trek: Uncut will be drawn from the first two seasons of the original series, and the air date of the first episode will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the premiere NBC broadcast on Sept. […]
The new CBS Star Trek series will likely have a female lead, perhaps even a woman of color, co-showrunner Bryan Fuller revealed to Deadline. Fuller, who will lead Star Trek: Discovery with co-showrunner Alex Kurtzman, revealed that almost all of the women who have been seen for the lead role so far are either African-American […]
Star Trek Beyond has been eagerly anticipated by fans – the third instalment in the reboot franchise, and under the helm of Justin Lin while J. J. Abrams was off doing Star Wars instead. The first most noticeable difference between ‘Beyond’ and its two predecessors is the decided lack of lens flares … and the film […]
