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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.

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.

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.