Captain's Log: Before He Ever Gave That Order, Kirk Refused It
This week's Strange New Worlds has a young Lt. Cmdr. Kirk get thrown off his own bridge for refusing to carry out General Order 24 — the same planet-killing command Kirk himself will threaten to use, successfully, fifty-nine years ago in the original series. That's not a coincidence. That's the whole character laid bare.
John Williams, 94, Made a Surprise Return to Conduct the Imperial March
John Williams wasn't on the bill. At 94, in a wheelchair, making his first public conducting appearance since February 2024, he walked out anyway at the Hollywood Bowl's tribute to his own career and picked up the baton one more time — for the Imperial March. Thousands of lightsabers lit up the amphitheater before he'd conducted a single note.
Twenty Years Late: Stargate Worlds, the MMO That Never Launched, Is Finally Playable
Stargate Worlds was supposed to launch in 2010. Then its studio collapsed, and the game vanished into the pile of great Stargate ideas that never made it to release. Sixteen years later, a volunteer team called The Fifth Race has done what MGM, Amazon, and every publisher in between couldn't be bothered to: they finished it.
Captain's Log: 934 Hands, One Salute — Star Trek Just Broke a World Record for Turning 60
On Star Trek Day, London's Science Museum gathered 934 fans to hold the Vulcan salute for a full minute and set a new Guinness World Record. It's a small, strange, perfect way to mark sixty years of a franchise that was never really about starships.
Star Wars Finally Wrote a Horror Novel, and Vader Is the Monster
Random House quietly published Star Wars' first dedicated horror novel on September 1 — Hiding from the Dark by Kiersten White, a middle-grade book that casts Darth Vader as the thing hunting a little girl through the dark. It's a small release with a genuinely bold premise: Star Wars finally admitting its scariest villain was always built for this genre.
Rey's Movie Might Not Be Dead After All — Here's the Actual Update
Two weeks after Rey's New Jedi Order movie quietly vanished from Disney's release calendar, a fresh Production Weekly listing has both that film and Dave Filoni's own untitled MandoVerse-culmination project showing up in active pre-production tracking. Take it as a genuine sign of life — but not, yet, as a greenlight.
The Petition Just Hit 120,000 — And a Very Unconfirmed Rumor Has the Fandom Holding Its Breath
The #SaveStargate petition crossed 120,000 signatures this week, with organizers taking the campaign straight into DragonCon's crowds in Atlanta. And now there's a rumor floating around — thin, unconfirmed, and worth exactly the grain of salt it comes with — that Amazon might not be as done with this as it's pretending to be.