Articles by T'Nara Vex

While promoting their new film "Mayday" this month, directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein finally described what their untitled Star Trek movie actually is: a near-real-time institutional thriller in the mold of "Training Day" and "Crimson Tide," built around the question of what happens when Starfleet itself isn't the good guy in the room. No release date, no returning cast — just a genuinely unsettling premise.

A new 60th-anniversary interview with Akiva Goldsman about Star Trek's future doesn't mention Star Trek: Year One once — and that omission is worth noticing. Six months after co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers confirmed the Paul Wesley Kirk prequel had reached Paramount Skydance for review, there's still no public update on where it stands. The pitch itself remains one of the most promising ideas Trek has had in years.

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.

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.

September 8, 1966 to September 8, 2026 — sixty years, arriving tomorrow — and the franchise is marking it with a detail almost too poetic to be planned: the Autry Museum in Los Angeles is screening the very first episode back-to-back with this season's Strange New Worlds, on the same screen, the same night. That's the whole thesis of this column in one double feature.

This week's Strange New Worlds episode let Ethan Peck play both Spock and a twisted double of his half-brother Sybok — quietly answering a casting argument from Star Trek V that Leonard Nimoy lost in 1989. Some ideas just need the right vehicle to finally work.

This month marks 25 years since Star Trek: Enterprise premiered on UPN, and the show still gets treated like the franchise's awkward younger sibling. It shouldn't. Revisit the Xindi arc with fresh eyes and you'll find one of Trek's most ambitious, most misunderstood runs.

Star Trek Day lands on its actual 60th anniversary this year, and Paramount isn't treating it like a marketing bullet point — four restored films back in theaters, TOS episodes on the big screen for the first time ever, a Guinness World Record attempt for the Vulcan salute, and a new season for the franchise's youngest audience yet. Here's the full week, laid out.

In a new 60th-anniversary interview, Kate Mulgrew reflects on what it actually cost and meant to become Star Trek's first female captain — and on the young women in STEM who tell her, decades later, that Janeway is the reason they're in the room. It's worth sitting with what that first season really required of her.

In a new interview, Holly Hunter reflects on Starfleet Academy's cancellation, the backlash over its diverse cast, and William Shatner's blunt response to the critics. It's a fight Star Trek has been having with itself since 1968 — and it's worth remembering who won it then.

A new theatrical documentary, "The Sixty-Year Mission: How Star Trek Changed Television and The World," lands in Regal Cinemas October 9 with Shatner, Koenig, Takei, Frakes, Spiner, and more spanning six decades of the franchise. For once, a Trek anniversary project isn't about a new show — it's about the ones who built the ship.

As we approach the 60th anniversary of the first voyage of the original Enterprise, Star Trek takes over San Diego Comic-Con to celebrate where we've been and where we're going. From Hall H spectacles to the imminent return of Strange New Worlds, the franchise proves that its vision of the future is more relevant than ever.

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While the Enterprise explored the unknown, DS9 stood its ground at the edge of the frontier. By embracing serialized storytelling and moral ambiguity, it redefined what Star Trek could be.

Star Trek is venturing into the realm of psychological horror with a new game from Bloober Team. Featuring the return of Ro Laren, this project promises to explore the darker corners of the final frontier.

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The wait for the next generation of cadets is almost over. With the official trailer now live and a premiere date of January 15, we finally have a glimpse of the future of the Federation.

Star Trek is venturing into the shadows with the announcement of Star Trek: Shadow Frontier. With the return of the incomparable Ro Laren, the franchise proves that the most terrifying frontiers aren't always in deep space, but within.

Star Trek is venturing into psychological horror with the announcement of 'Shadow Frontier,' starring the incomparable Ro Laren. It's a daring departure that promises to explore the darkest corners of the Federation's psyche.

Star Trek is expanding its reach into unexpected territories. From the psychological depths of a horror experience to the strategic heights of colony simulation, the franchise is proving that its universe is too vast for just one medium.

As Strange New Worlds prepares for its fourth voyage this July, the production team is promising a shift back to 'pure storytelling.' Here is why fewer 'big swings' might be exactly what the franchise needs.

Summer Game Fest 2026 just expanded the Star Trek universe in ways we didn't see coming. From the dark corridors of a horror experience to the strategic challenges of colony building, the franchise is venturing into bold new genres.

Decades after its final voyage, Star Trek: The Next Generation remains the gold standard for a reason. It didn't just explore the galaxy; it explored the very best of what humanity could become.

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