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Scott Mantz Throughout “Star Trek’s” long 56-year history, the Starship Enterprise has been designed, redesigned, reimagined, blown to smithereens and then reimagined again for the various TV incarnations and feature films based on the classic series created by Gene Roddenberry.But for the prequel series “Strange New Worlds,” which recently concluded its highly-praised first season, the responsibility to get the Enterprise just right was not lost on production designer Jonathan Lee. This was, after all, the Enterprise that was commanded by Captain Christopher Pike (played by Anson Mount), which was the immediate predecessor of the Enterprise that Captain James T. Kirk first made famous back in 1966 with “The Original Series.” “We were all of the mind that the Enterprise is a star of the show,” Lee explains.

The ashes of a number of members of the Star Trek cast are set to float in space forever.The ashes of DeForest Kelley (Dr McCoy), James Doohan (Scotty) and Nichelle Nichols (Lt Uhura) were on boad The Peregrine spacecraft, which was set to give the actors a final resting place on the Moon. However, the jet has since suffered a fuel leak and now only has a few hours of power left. Astrobotic, the company behind the project tried an "improviesed manoeuver" to recharge the craft's batteries by pointing it towards the Sun.

EXCLUSIVE: In a continuation of a recent signing hot streak, Independent Artist Group has brought in Sonequa Martin-Green, the star of Star Trek: Discovery, who has made history in recent years as the first Black woman to topline a project in the Gene Roddenberry franchise, as well as its first Black female Starfleet Captain.

On this day in 1966, Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek: The Original Series launched on NBC.

EXCLUSIVE: Manny Coto died on July 9th at the age of 62. Nearly 35 years to the day earlier, he and I are on Beverly Boulevard picketing in front of CBS.

premiered in 1987, Denise Crosby helped Patrick Stewart and co. launch a new chapter of Gene Roddenberry's universe. But unlike Captain Picard and other OG characters, security chief Lieutenant Tasha Yar didn't survive s inaugural outing — let alone reunite with the Enterprise crew during Star Trek: Picard's final season.ET was on the set of «Skin of Evil» in 1988, as Crosby filmed Tasha's now-infamous death scene, following a sit-down between the actress and Roddenberry, who «came together agreeably» while discussing her exit from the series.«I am leaving the show.

dug into the U.S.S. 1701 origins, including a very close encounter with one of the franchise’s most infamous foes. ET exclusively debuts a first look at the deleted scenes from the season 1 Blu-ray set, which hits shelves March 21.

“Star Trek: Discovery” is blasting off for one last adventure.

The end is in sight for Star Trek: Discovery. Paramount+ announced today that its longest-running original drama series will end with its upcoming fifth season in early 2024.

EXCLUSIVE: Outfest will honor the Star Trek franchise with its Visionary Award at the 2022 Outfest Legacy Awards, taking place at Paramount Studios on Saturday, October 22nd. 

“Never a dull moment,” proclaims Star Trek: Discovery’s Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in the just released trailer for the upcoming fifth season of the Paramount+ series.

“Star Trek,” the television series, was set in the 23rd century and followed the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise as they explored the galaxy.

when Seven of Nine, an ex-Borg drone on the long road back to her humanity, was transported onto the wayward Intrepid class ship 25 years ago.To celebrate this milestone and the indelible mark the character left on Gene Roddenberry’s universe, ET is looking back at Ryan’s groundbreaking introduction and Seven’s journey to becoming one of the franchise’s most important stories. In ’s season three finale («Scorpion» Part I"), a game-changing cliffhanger teased a brand new era for Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and crew. As part of a peace agreement, the Borg offered a liaison to Voyager as the ship continued traversing the Delta quadrant.

A portion of Nichelle Nichols' ashes will be flown into space on a special memorial flight. Officials at Celestis Inc. , a company that specialises in memorial spaceflights, announced on Thursday that they would be sending a "symbolic portion" of the Star Trek actress' cremated remains into space following her death in July.

died on July 20, 2022, at the age of 89.As a final hurrah to celebrate her legacy, the star’s ashes will be blasted into space aboard a special “Enterprise mission” later this year.The launch aboard the Vulcan rocket will ensure Nichols’ remains will join late “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, who died in 1991.Nichols’ ashes will also join that of Roddenberry’s deceased wife and “First Lady of ‘Star Trek’” Majel Barrett Roddenberry, who died in 2008.Late “Star Trek” actor James Doohan’s ashes will also be launched into space along with Nichols’. Doohan died in 2005.

Late "Star Trek" actress Nichelle Nichols’ ashes will boldly go where few have gone before when they are launched into space aboard a historic Enterprise Flight later this year. Nichols, who was known for playing the iconic Lieutenant Nyota Uhura on all three seasons of the original show from 1966-1969, died on July 31. She was 89.

The ashes of actors Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) James Doohan (Scotty), Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Nurse Chapel), and the TV series creator Gene Roddenberry and visual-effects wiz Douglas Trumbull are headed into outer space.

Late actress Nichelle Nichols, who passed away in July, will return to space with several of her “Star Trek” crew members as part of a mission to set their remains into orbit.

US & throughout the world. I will certainly miss her. "  George Takei, who as helmsman Sulu shared the bridge with Lieutenant Uhura, called her "trailblazing and incomparable.

US’s first small-screen kiss between a black woman and a white man, Uhura and Captain Kirk (played by William Shatner), in 1968. When Nichols considered leaving Star Trek at the end of the first run, a chance meeting with the civil rights leader Martin Luther King at a fundraising event changed her mind. “He said I had the first non-stereotypical role, I had a role with honour, dignity and intelligence,” she recalled in a 2011 television programme.

Star Trek series, as well as movies and voicing an animated version of her character, has died at 89. Her son, Kyle Johnson, announced on Nichols Facebook page that she had died July 30 (no cause of death was given). Nichols was groundbreaking both as a Black woman co-starring on a TV series in the 1960s, and for one of the early interracial kisses -- with William Shatner's Captain Kirk.

Nichelle Nichols is dead at age 89. The Star Trek actress died on Saturday, July 30, in Silver City, New Mexico.

Star Trek actor Nichelle Nichols has died, aged 89.News of her death was shared today (July 31) by by Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, the son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and an executive producer of several franchise series.“It is with great sorrow that we report the passing on the legendary icon Nichelle Nichols,” Roddenberry tweeted. “No words.”Nichols’ cause of death was not shared.

Star Trek has left this world. Nichelle Nichols, best known for her role as Nyota Uhura on the original Trek series, has died at the age of 89. News of Nichols passing came via social media, and fans across the web are mourning the loss of the actress who broke barriers with her portrayal.

Star Trek legend Nichelle Nichols has died at the age of 89. The acclaimed actress was one of the first Black women on network TV in the 1960s when she took on the role of Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek original series, alongside William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.

“Last night, my mother, Nichelle Nichols, succumbed to natural causes and passed away,” Johnson’s statement read. “Her light however, like the ancient galaxies now being seen for the first time, will remain for us and future generations to enjoy, learn from, and draw inspiration. Hers was a life well lived and as such a model for us all.”“Today, my heart is heavy, my eyes shining like the stars you now rest among, my dearest friend,” Nichols’ co-star George Takei tweeted.

Nichelle Nichols has sadly died.

Carmel Dagan Staff WriterNichelle Nichols, who portrayed chief communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original “Star Trek” series, sharing with William Shatner one of the first interracial kisses in television history, died in Silver City, N.M.

The Star Trek cast and crew is ready to say goodbye to Picard.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the Season 1 finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds that dropped today on Paramount+.

Joshua Alston Science fiction (and speculative fiction, its bespectacled cousin) have always been uniquely fertile ground for political allegory. And sci-fi’s metaphorical potential only grows stronger when the politics and culture of real-life society start to resemble the surreality of a dark parallel universe or an alternate history.That frisson of topicality is what made Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” a critical and commercial success in its early seasons.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – the 10-espiode prequel to the most popular American sci-fi franchise of all time – debuts Thursday, 5th May, on Paramount+ and is available to stream now. Excited to join Captain Pike and Science Officer Spock on the USS Enterprise? The show is exclusive to Paramount+, which leaves UK viewers in the lurch. Or so you might think.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterMaking good on their promise to deliver a singular virtual fan experience, the cloud graphics company Otoy has mounted its first project under a sweeping rights deal with “Star Trek” creator The Roddenberry Estate.Variety reported last summer that Otoy would produce everything from holographic and digital renderings of the famous Starship Enterprise vessel to TV and movie sets. In its first staging, the company has reunited the living original cast and crew of the first-ever “Star Trek” pilot for a rendering of a founding set.In an episode titled “The Cage,” director Robert Butler provided extensive behind-the-scenes materials to help in the recreation.

Zack Handlen For the first 40 years of “Star Trek” history, the character of Christopher Pike was little more than a footnote in the franchise’s lore. Captain of the Enterprise in the failed original NBC series pilot “The Cage,” Pike, as played by Jeffrey Hunter, wound up as the dry run for William Shatner’s James T.

Jordan Moreau Harold Livingston, an American novelist who wrote the screenplay for “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” in 1979, died early Thursday morning, Bobby Livingston confirmed to Variety. He was 97.“Star Trek: The Motion Picture” was Livingston’s most famous writing credit, and he also wrote for several TV shows, including “Mission: Impossible,” “The Six Million Dollar Man” and more.“Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry and sci-fi author Alan Dean Foster, who penned several “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” novels, also contributed to the story and script development alongside Livingston. The 1979 film was the first movie in the “Star Trek” franchise, and it starred the original TV series cast members, including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Persis Khambatta and Stephen Collins.

Paramount+‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.”Wesley was in for quite a surprise on Tuesday when he found himself sitting next to Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, on a plane.The “Tell Me A Story” actor tweeted out a snap of the two men smiling from behind their masks on the aircraft.“I am deeply humbled and still a little startled to have been given the honor of playing the inimitable James T Kirk,” Wesley wrote. “Ever since I was a kid, I have been awed by the imaginative world Gene Roddenberry created,” he noted.