Star Trek: Lower Decks Final Season Trailer

Paramount+ has released a new trailer for Star Trek: Lower Deck's fifth and final season that is set to premiere on October 24 with two episodes. The 10 episode season will have its finale on December 19.

Star Trek: Lower Decks Tendi Clip

Star Trek: Lower Decks will return for its fifth and final season on October 24. Here is a clip with Tendi who ended season 4 agreeing to return to her Orion family.

Happy Star Trek Day 2024

Today is the 58th anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek on September 8, 1966. To celebrate Star Trek Day, Paramount is making the premiere episode of most of their Star Trek shows available for free to watch on YouTube (playlist). They are also doing "pop-up activations" for fans in Chicago, Vancouver, and Berlin for "Take the Chair, Make An Impact". 

This is a global campaign with Star Trek making a donation to Code.org, DoSomething.org, and Outright International while encouraging the same for fans. Additionally the official Star Trek Shop will donate 25% of sales on select items to those charities. More details on the charities and the pop-up are on StarTrek.com.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture 4K Steelbook Announced

For the 45th anniversary of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Paramount Home Entertainment has revealed a 4K UHD Steelbook edition of the movie. The edition will come with original theatrical cut in 4K, remastered Blu-ray, digital code, and booklet that shows original marketing materials and images from their archives. You can currently pre-order the Steelbook on Amazon.

James Darren 1936 - 2024

Deep Space Nine has lost a crew member as James Darren died at 88 on September 2nd. The news was shared by his friend Nancy Sinatra who wrote "One of my dearest, closest friends in all the world, of all my life has passed away. Godfather to my daughter, AJ. Wishing him a fast and beautiful journey through the Universe and beyond. Godspeed, sweet Jimmy. My heart is torn but full of love for Evy, Christian, Anthony and Jimmy, Jr."

For Star Trek fans he is forever Vic Fontaine, the holodeck club owner who was available to offer advice or a quiet place for the crew during the Dominion War. For others, he was the partner to William Shatner in the TV series TJ Hooker. His other work includes being the lead in Gidget series of films, All the Young Men, The Guns of Navarone, and other movies. For TV he was in Hawaii Five-O, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and more. He also directed with credits on The A-Team, Walker Texas Ranger, Beverly Hills 90210 and more. He had a long and good career that touched onto a lot of today's pop culture milestones. 

As William Shatner wrote, "What a wonderful man - so talented; so loving. I had the best time with him. The world is less because of his loss." You can find a two hour interview with the actor from last year on The Shuttlepod Show.

He is survived by his wife Evy, three sons, five grandchildren and 1 goddaughter. Condolences to his family for their loss.