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Ah, yes... the infamous "Get the cheese to sickbay!" episode. I may have actually stopped watching Voyager after one, can't quite remember. I did check in sporadically over its run but not much improved, so I sat out almost the entire show until I got the DVD box set... and suffered my way...

You cited some excellent counter examples that exemplify stories involving actual drama and stakes, "Khan" in particular because Nimoy's future involvement in Trek was assumed to be nil. When viewed in 1982, this movie stunned because it personally affected Kirk, his crew, and the audience...

Yes... because it tends to go with an over-reliance on "artificial excitement," as David Gerrold put it in "The World of Star Trek." To wit: it's far easier to show "exciting" things happening when nothing of import is actually happening, or personally involves anyone—except superficially. Lots...

I could rant, but this show really lost me when they installed flame-shooters on the bridge of the NCC-1031-A. Sparks still fly and "rocks" still ricochet everywhere when consoles made of programmable matter explode. You'd think after 930 years, someone would invent the fuse box.

I started rewatching Star Trek: TOS season one and it's pretty apparent that women aboard the ship are just not respected by the men. Or if they are tolerated, it's because they wear a bangin' outfit and make a great cup of coffee. Male crew members are shown either openly leering at women...

What if a future episode was a total reshoot of "The Cage"? Brains would melt. Especially if Discovery established exactly why there is a freaking DEATH PENALTY for visiting Talos IV.

Sounds like a tune in search of a theme.

I just thought of a new way this news could be even worse, given the copyright situation: Star Trek: John Harrison. The wrath of John.

"It was only the fact of my genetically engineered milk ducts that enabled us to survive..."

This is the most creatively-bankrupt Trek thing I've heard since... well, the last time they milked the Khan teat and came up powdered milk.

I choose to believe that "our" timeline was created by the antics of Gary Seven, Roberta Lincoln, and Isis. The remainder of the Star Trek narrative stuck to the "original" timeline until after Nemesis, when it diverged again. We ourselves are living in an alternate universe that sprang into...

I haven't yet told my parents about this show, even though my dad is the one who got me into Star Trek as a child and eats it up. But they have no Internet, nor will they ever get Internet. Or a cell phone. Or virtually any technology that doesn't involve steam turbines or hand cranks. My mom...

Having reviewed the show's costumes and props in close-up, I'll admit to no longer being horrified. In fact, I'm sensing a concerted attempt to not arrogantly refute 50 years of established Star Trek for no reason (even though they did change the frakkin' helmets). Having seen more of the...

Odd they would nail the communicator design, yet go off the reservation with Klingons. There have never been discrepancies in the Klingon look...

The current encyclopedia, which weighs almost 12 pounds, includes everything up until Star Trek Beyond, which was excluded due to release timing. All the "Kelvin" entries and mentions use a solid dot to differentiate them from "real" Star Trek.

Seriously?

THEY CHANGED THE FRAKKIN' HELMETS!

The "Enterprise" insignia was intended from the beginning to be the standard for all starships. It was only due to an oversight by the costume department that we saw something different for the starships Exeter and Constellation. This was rectified (and then ambiguously photographed) for the...

"The Cage" (pictured above) was 13 years before Kirk's turn as captain. Roddenberry himself said the Enterprise was an old girl, a ship with a long history. (Admiral Morrow's comments in Star Trek III that she was "20 years old" flies in the face of canonical episodes; the refit itself was about...

Based on that trailer, I'd find better acting inside a pizza box. With less cheese, more pepperoni.

LORD Garth!

Actually, those are just what regular humans from Earth look like now.

Those can't— There's no way that— Oh, no you can't have— I mean—

I would say by the looks of her, Discovery is neither the same ship class (Constitution) or ship type (heavy cruiser) as the Big E from TOS. Clearly from Starfleet, based on her having a Naval Construction Contract (NCC) number. I wonder how they'll retcon the existence of this ship (like...

A few moments before we see that Enterprise NX-01-like ship, they show various shots of the Discovery as presented in the teaser. So I would guess that the ship above is just another ship.

The show's music composer, Charles Henri Avelange, Tweeted a recording session. He identified it as "My first @StarTrek theme" in the service of CBS. It sounded nice, and I'm no composer, but structurally the excerpt felt like grandiose orchestration in search of a theme (like Jerry Goldsmith's...

Filming starts Monday. Tractor beam won't be installed until Tuesday.

Fascinating. I was literally thinking to myself the other day that the one thing Star Trek has been missing for these past 50 years is a "fungus expert." And whaddya know, they cast someone in the part! Thank goodness, I can finally rest. Honestly, I'm not sure if I'm being sarcastic or not.