Articles by T'Nara Vex

At the Broadcasting+Cable Hall of Fame, Rod Roddenberry said the new Paramount understands Trek and that its return is certain, but he wants new stories rather than old casts. Here is what he said, and what it doesn't settle.

Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek arrives with four Commander decks led by Picard, Spock, Worf and the Borg Queen. Here's what is confirmed about the November 13 release, the product range and the convention run-up.

A cast-by-cast check of who is booked where after NYCC: Trek60 Philadelphia (Nov 14-15) has lost Kate Mulgrew, while the Cruise X, Trek to Orlando, FedCon 35 and Destination Star Trek fill out 2027.

Ben Stiller owns a Kirk tunic and a Gorn head. William Shatner owns neither. The Beat's recap of the NYCC Star Trek panel has the details, framed here as one outlet's account.

At NYCC, Paramount+ set the premiere of Starfleet Academy season 2 for March 2027 and announced Bill Nighy and Rosemarie DeWitt as guest stars. Here's what was revealed, plus what happened when Ben Stiller sat down with William Shatner.

Nacelle's NYCC reveal of Star Trek Wave 3 includes a first-ever double set of Gene Roddenberry and Lucille Ball, plus Rand, Chapel, Scotty, Chekov, Sulu, Uhura, McCoy, Spock and Kirk. Preorders open November 20.

IDW has announced Star Trek: Crusher, a limited series written by Gates McFadden for summer 2027, and Star Trek: Roc's Egg, Timothy Zahn's first Trek graphic novel, a DS9 mystery due in October 2027. Here's what's confirmed and what isn't.

Variety reports that Ben Stiller will moderate a conversation with William Shatner at the Star Trek panel at New York Comic Con on October 10. Here's the connection between the two, how the panel is structured, and what to watch for.

New York Comic Con opens October 8 with a Star Trek schedule that goes well past Saturday's Starfleet Academy panel: Nacelle action figures, a Fanhome USS Athena debut, a Borg Queen promo at the Magic booth and a documentary panel with Spiner, Visitor and Crosby.

Star Trek Online's seasonal Fall of the Old Ones event, built on the Original Series' Catspaw, returns this October as part of Cryptic's roadmap through February 2027. Here's what has been confirmed, what hasn't, and why the episode still earns its place.

IDW's second new ongoing Trek series puts Raffi Musiker in command of a starship that stops disasters before they happen, guided by an AI with a familiar face. Here's what the creators have said, and why the premise is so Trek.

Matagot and Gale Force Nine are bringing the Captain Sonar system to Star Trek this October, with Kirk and Spock, Picard and Data, and Khan and Joachim as playable duos. Here's what the game is and why a submarine ruleset fits Trek so well.

With Cindy Holland out and HBO chief Casey Bloys set to run the merged streaming operation, Star Trek has two final seasons ahead and no announced follow-up. Here's what the reporting actually says, and what it doesn't.

John de Lancie's Q now runs a free roguelike mode in Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown, with the Equinox and Captain Ransom arriving alongside. Here's what The Q Trials change, and why the Continuum was always going to end up in Voyager's game.

Looney Labs is reprinting four Star Trek Fluxx games on October 20 — Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager — and adding a brand-new Lower Decks edition. Fluxx is the card game where playing cards rewrites the rules mid-game, which makes it an oddly honest fit for a franchise that has spent sixty years arguing about which rules are absolute.

IDW just released Star Trek: Lower Decks, Vol. 3: Second Second Contact — the licensed comic's third collection since the animated series ended. It's not written by anyone from the show's writers' room, and that's worth being honest about rather than dressing up as something it isn't.

Tonight, at the Broadcasting+Cable Hall of Fame gala in New York, Star Trek receives the very first Franchise of the Year Award — a category invented, as far as anyone can tell, specifically because there was no existing box built to hold sixty years of one franchise's influence on the medium itself.

Modiphius just launched a new edition of Star Trek Adventures: Captain's Log — a solo journaling RPG where you write your own captain's log, one entry at a time, with no other players required. As someone who's opened every column this month with exactly that phrase, I have opinions about why this format fits this franchise better than almost any other.

The Star Trek reboot trilogy is now streaming together on Peacock for the first time, timed to land a week ahead of the franchise's 60th anniversary. It's an odd address for a Paramount property — and a fitting one for a story about the road not taken.

William Shatner will share a New York Comic-Con stage with the cadets of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's last season on October 10 — a 60th-anniversary panel that puts the franchise's first captain across the table from the newest, and final, generation of Starfleet officers it will ever train on screen.

In the Strange New Worlds finale, Paul Wesley finally plays Kirk the way Shatner did — full confidence, no hesitation. He says he learned how from Anson Mount. That's not trivia. That's the show quietly modeling how command actually gets taught, one captain at a time.

"Tomorrow's Enterprise," tonight's Strange New Worlds season finale, sends an older Uhura back to save a younger one — and airs exactly nine years, to the day, after Star Trek: Discovery premiered and kicked off the streaming era this episode now closes out. Some coincidences are just calendar math. This one reads like the franchise doing it on purpose.

Season 37 of Star Trek Online, subtitled Rediscovered, went live on PC September 22 with a remastered classic mission that puts Ethan Peck, archival Leonard Nimoy audio, and Piotr Michael in the same story as three versions of Spock from three different decades of his life. It's a strange, moving way to mark the franchise's 60th year.

Nine days after this column reported Star Trek: Year One sitting unanswered at Paramount Skydance, co-creator Akiva Goldsman gave the clearest verdict yet: the sets are gone, the cast has moved on, and "I don't see it happening." It's the harshest update this Kirk spinoff has gotten — and it lands the same week Strange New Worlds is finally showing fans what that show would have looked like.

Ahead of tonight's "Once La'An a Time," Christina Chong finally explained why her character is drifting toward Kirk instead of Spock — not chemistry, but growth. It's a small piece of casting logic that says more about La'An Noonien-Singh's whole arc than any love triangle usually gets credit for.

IDW's new ongoing Star Trek comic puts Seven of Nine in the captain's chair of the USS Enterprise-G, picking up the story Paramount+ never greenlit as a TV series. Star Trek #1 warps into shops September 23 — here's what the fan campaign called 'Legacy' actually became.

Star Trek Online's next update, "Rediscovered," launches September 22 with a story built around three temporally displaced versions of Spock — Ethan Peck's Strange New Worlds Lieutenant, Piotr Michael voicing the Star Trek VI-era Captain, and Commander Spock speaking in Leonard Nimoy's own archival dialogue. It's a game update. It's also, quietly, one of the more moving things the franchise has done for its 60th year.

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.