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LEGO is retiring ten fan-favorite Star Wars sets by the end of 2026, and the headliner is the one every serious builder has been bracing for: the UCS Millennium Falcon, gone after a nine-year run. It's leaving alongside a Venator cruiser, a UCS TIE Interceptor, Jabba's Sail Barge — and an Andor-based U-Wing that barely made it a year on shelves.

Three months after killing its Stargate revival for lacking "broad appeal," Amazon told the Edinburgh TV Festival it would "welcome any conversations" about picking up Doctor Who. Michael Shanks had exactly four words for that, and they're the most #SaveStargate thing anyone's said all summer.

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 Wars: Zero Company launched August 27 to the kind of reviews this franchise's games almost never get anymore — 88 on OpenCritic, 91% of critics recommending it, comparisons flying to Rogue One and KOTOR. Four months after I called the pitch 'exactly what we need,' Bit Reactor actually delivered it.

Three months of silence, and it took a hotel ballroom in Birmingham to break it. At Starfury: Ascension 2, Michael Shanks and David Read laid out what the dead Amazon series was actually going to be — a parallel-universe Daniel Jackson, a ship called the Argo, and a version of Stargate that finally sounds like it deserved the fight fans have been putting up for it.

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.

Phil Tippett — the stop-motion legend who brought the AT-AT walkers to life in The Empire Strikes Back and animated the Holochess game aboard the Millennium Falcon — just closed the Berkeley studio that bore his name for 35 years. A three-day liquidation auction wrapped August 30, selling off decades of props and models to the highest bidder.

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.

Disney quietly pulled the untitled Rey movie — believed to be Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's New Jedi Order — off its December 18, 2026 release date, with no replacement slot announced. It's the latest stumble for a film that's cycled through three writing teams in eighteen months, and it says a lot about where Rey Skywalker actually sits in Dave Filoni's Lucasfilm right now.

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.

"Rey Skywalker." Two words closed out the sequel trilogy in 2019 — and at D23 2026, Dave Filoni made sure the door Ben Solo left cracked open stays shut. Between an Ahsoka Season 2 teaser and a full Star Wars: Starfighter reveal, the biggest Star Wars story out of Anaheim was the movie that isn't happening.

Daniel Jackson is dialing himself back in. Michael Shanks just announced a full SG-1 rewatch podcast at Comic-Con's #SaveStargate rally — produced by Dial the Gate's David Read — and it's the clearest sign yet that this fandom isn't waiting around for a studio to change its mind.

Mark your calendars, because Star Wars Celebration is heading to Los Angeles in April 2027. With a stunning homage to the original 1977 poster, we're not just planning a convention—we're celebrating the golden anniversary of the film that changed everything.

Mark your calendars, because Star Wars Celebration is heading to Los Angeles in April 2027. With a stunning homage to the original 1977 poster, we're not just planning a convention—we're celebrating the golden anniversary of the film that changed everything.

The heartbreak of Amazon's cancellation was just the first act. Now, the fans and the cast are fighting back, and the Atlantis team has just joined the front lines.

Lucasfilm is scrambling after a brutal box office drop for its first movie in seven years. Between a desperate 'commentary cut' and the promise of The Ninth Jedi, the franchise is at a crossroads.

A new excerpt from the upcoming novel 'Star Wars: Legacy' reveals Rey and Leia traveling to the ancestral home of the Jedi. This isn't just a trip down memory lane—it's a pilgrimage to the very heart of the Force.

We're staring down the barrel of the biggest anniversary in cinema history, and Lucasfilm isn't holding back. From a theatrical return of the film that started it all to a high-speed plunge into a new gaming frontier, the galaxy is expanding faster than a Kessel Run in record time.

We're staring down the barrel of the biggest anniversary in cinema history, and Lucasfilm isn't holding back. From a theatrical return of the film that started it all to a high-speed plunge into a new gaming frontier, the galaxy is expanding faster than a Kessel Run in record time.

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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The Academy has spoken, and the Force is strong with this one. From the visceral soundscapes of Maul's descent into the underworld to the artistic brilliance of Visions, Star Wars is claiming its place among the television elite.

The Academy has spoken, and the Force is strong with this one. From the visceral soundscapes of Maul's descent into the underworld to the artistic brilliance of Visions, Star Wars is claiming its place among the television elite.

The news of the Amazon revival's cancellation felt like a system failure. But Stargate isn't just a relic of the 90s—it's a blueprint for the kind of world-building we're starving for today.

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.

Ever wondered if we could actually dial a coordinate to a distant galaxy without ending up as spaghetti? Let's dive into the physics of the Stargate and see what's real, what's "movie science," and why the SGC's approach to wormholes is surprisingly grounded.

The Pegasus Galaxy was far from explored, and the war with the Wraith was barely a stalemate. Why did Sci-Fi pull the plug on our favorite lost city?

The Pegasus Galaxy was far from explored, and the war with the Wraith was barely a stalemate. Why did Sci-Fi pull the plug on our favorite lost city?

A decade after the brave souls of Scarif gave everything for a single set of plans, Marvel is bringing the Rogue One crew back to the spotlight. From Cassian's early days to a deep dive into Saw Gerrera's rebellion, these five new comics are a love letter to the franchise's grittiest era.