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Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Peanut Hamper episode was the show's satirical take on Dances with Wolves
Star Trek: Lower Decks showrunner Mike McMahan revealed that Peanut Hamper's episode, A Mathematically Perfect Redemption, was made to poke fun of rosy colonial stories
February 06, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Star Trek: Lower Decks showrunner Mike McMahan would love to take on a live-action Star Trek project
Star Trek: Lower Decks may have concluded, but showrunner Mike McMahan doesn't want it to be the end of the road for him and the Federation
February 05, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's implicit romance between Bashir and Garak is now officially real - sealed with a kiss
Deep Space Nne's Dr. Julian Bashir and Mr. Elim Garak have long been seen as a couple by fans. Thanks to Lower Decks season 5, episode 9, their romance is canon
December 13, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
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Star Trek: Section 31 star Michelle Yeoh says she will never let “Emperor” Georgiou go
At NYCC’s Star Trek Universe panel, Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh talks her passion for playing Philippa Georgiou
November 28, 2024
Jim McDermott
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Star Trek: Lower Decks showrunner reveals the riffing on the show “is fake" (and the cast admits, that’s a good thing)
During the Star Trek Universe panel at NYCC 2024, the cast and creator address riffing on Lower Decks, admitting that it is all an act.
November 28, 2024
Jim McDermott
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ExclusiveStar Trek's big 2025 storyline is "House of M meets Secret Wars" says editor
IDW Star Trek editor Heather Antos teases what fans should expect from the big Trek event of 2025, which literally changes the universe (and puts Data's mad brother in charge) - and we have an exclusive cover image, too
November 26, 2024
Graeme McMillan
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Star Trek fans, make it so with this definitive Jean-Luc Picard & Sir Patrick Stewart box set now 40% off for Black Friday
The Number One in your life deserves this 54-disc set of all of Jean-Luc Picard's Star Trek adventures.
November 22, 2024
Jules Chin Greene
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"Dancing. Murder. Surprise." What fans can expect from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, according to the cast themselves
Star Trek: Strange New World cast and creators came to NYCC with hints and a sneak peek at what to expect when the series returns to Paramount+.
November 21, 2024
Jim McDermott
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Star Trek: Lower Decks comes to NYCC with lots of interesting hints (and a sneak peek!)
Alternate Timelines, Bearded Boimler, a Mystery Targ, and a tablet that knows the future: Lower Decks teases its final season
October 20, 2024
Jim McDermott
Features
No, the real problem is that Star Trek isn't woke ENOUGH
Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery provoked outrage from a certain segment of fandom for being "too woke," but the true issue might be just the opposite
October 02, 2024
Avery Kaplan
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John Cho doesn't know what's going on with the Star Trek movie series (and that's on purpose)
"I don't want to get my hopes up," the Sulu actor told Rose City Comic Con when asked about the rumored fourth film in the series
September 20, 2024
Graeme McMillan
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Star Trek's John Cho knows just which other of his OTHER characters he wants to visit the final frontier
The idea came to him while watching the premiere of 2009's Star Trek, he told a Rose City Comic Con 2024 audience
September 19, 2024
Graeme McMillan
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Denise Crosby reveals that she was in talks to appear in the TV series Star Trek: Legacy
Denise Crosby hopes she can reprise her role as Sela in Star Trek: Legacy.
September 06, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Star Trek: Lower Decks gets a season 5 release date, will premiere with two episodes
The fifth and final season's release date was revealed at San Diego Comic Con, along with a trailer
July 27, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Chris Pine says what everyone's secretly thinking about saving the Star Trek movie franchise, and the problem with blockbuster movies
Chris Pine feels like movie studios spend too much time chasing the wrong audience, and overlooking the fans
July 23, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
It’s time to make Futurama’s Church of Star Trek a reality
“And Scotty beamed them to the Klingon ship, where they would be no tribble at all.”
July 10, 2024
Avery Kaplan
Features
The best Star Trek series, ranked!
Ranking every Star Trek television series from worst to best
July 02, 2024
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
Chris Pine is looking forward to playing an older James T. Kirk in the next Star Trek movie
Captain Kirk will command the Enterprise again. At least if Chris Pine has anything to say about it.
June 26, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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All Star Trek movies, ranked worst film to best film!
3 crews, 13 movies, and more than 1 starship ruined - no wonder we're counting down the best of Starfleet's best
June 25, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
How Marvel Studios' successes hurt the Star Trek revival movies, according to Chris Pine himself
How the rise of the MCU may have toppled the Star Trek film franchise.
June 25, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Starfleet Academy is a show about rebuilding the future from a broken past, says Star Trek boss
The series will be optimistic, funny, and speak to where kids are today, says Alex Kurtzman
May 31, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
Star Trek: Discovery ending explained (and major epilogue twists!)
The show that relaunched Star Trek on Paramount+ finishes its run with high action, big reveals, and a lot of hugs
May 30, 2024
Jim McDermott
Features
Watch the full panelWatch the official Star Trek: Discovery panel from London's MCM Comic Con - free!
The crew steering this latest voyage of the USS Discovery headed to London ahead of their final season together
May 29, 2024
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
Star Trek: Discovery's co-showrunner & director reveal the allure (and the pressure!) of bringing the Breen out of the shadows
Why Star Trek's mysterious Breen were finally demystified for the Discovery final season, according to show's co-showrunner & director
May 28, 2024
Chris Arrant
Features
Star Trek: Discovery's Sonequa Martin-Green and David Ajala prepare us for the series finale, talking legacy and "passing the baton"
"Now having seen the finale season play out, it has impacted me even more." says Star Trek: Discovery's Sonequa Martin-Green
May 26, 2024
Chris Arrant
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Star Trek Discovery's season 2 finale was the most "memorable" episode for show's primary director, but "almost didn't exist"
The two-part Star Trek: Discovery season 2 finale was originally much much shorter.
May 26, 2024
Chris Arrant
News
Holly Hunter boards the latest Star Trek series, Starfleet Academy
The Oscar-nominated actress will play the Captain and Chancellor of the new school for the next generation of Trekkers
May 21, 2024
Graeme McMillan
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X-Men: Dark Phoenix writer/director Simon Kinberg is in talks to take on Star Trek
Kinberg is in talks to produce the in-development prequel, and future movies if it does well, according to reports
May 21, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
C2E2 2023: Watch most of the big panels on VOD, read the biggest news, and more thanks to Popverse
It's time to make our way to Chicago for one of our favorite comic conventions
May 08, 2024
Chris Arrant
Features
The Next Generation ISN'T the most popular Star Trek show of all time, according to Popverse fans
Ever boldly into the final frontier of contrarianism, us Star Trek fans
April 25, 2024
Chris Arrant
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Star Trek: Lower Decks is ending with its fifth season (and for us fans, we knew it was coming)
It's not all bad news, however, as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has already been renewed for its fourth season
April 12, 2024
Graeme McMillan
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All the upcoming Star Trek movies, TV shows, and cartoons in the universe
If you're a Star Trek fan, you have a lot to look forward to on the TV and movie horizons.
April 12, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
Watch USS Improvise: The Next Generation, the musical! is a Star Trek parody like you've never seen before
Make it so (and la, and ti, and do)
April 09, 2024
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
Star Trek: Discovery's final season looks to the Next Generation for its last mission
The Paramount+ streaming show revisits a storyline from 30+ years in the past to find its way forward
April 04, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
Star Trek: Boldly go and pick your favorite Star Trek TV show of all time
As Discovery heads to its final voyage, we ask what the best Star Trek show of all time is.
April 04, 2024
Chris Arrant
Guides
How to watch Star Trek in order: the shows, the movies, the cartoons (in chronological or release order)
Multiple shows, multiple movie franchises, multiple timelines? You'll need more than a tricorder to make sense of the Star Trek franchise
March 30, 2024
Avery Kaplan
Features
Star Trek: Discovery season 5 release date: When will the final voyage of the Discovery come to an end?
Still boldly going where no one has gone before.
March 30, 2024
Trent Cannon
Features
Star Trek reboot cast reuniting for 4th and final voyage, now with a new writer
Steve Yockey, who developed Netflix's Dead Boy Detectives, will pen the script
March 27, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
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Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard to return in a Star Trek movie of his own
Make it so, Paramount Pictures.
March 19, 2024
Chris Arrant
News
Star Trek: John Rhys-Davies is ready to return as Leonardo Da Vinci
John Rhys-Davies only got to do two episodes of Star Trek, and that isn’t fair.
March 19, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Star Trek: Discovery finale appears to going for a Fifth Element vibe
Sonequa Martin-Green's Michael Burnham is someone I'd happy see going full Bruce Willis/Korben Dallas
March 19, 2024
Chris Arrant
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Celebrate the silliness of Star Trek with your own Tribble from the original series
Specific care instructions not included.
March 19, 2024
Trent Cannon
News
Star Trek: Discovery's cancelation wasn't decided until after final season was filmed
A risky maneuver.
March 19, 2024
Fran Ruiz
Features
The coolest Marvel Universe Easter eggs you'll find at Universal's Marvel Superhero Island
A guide to all those little loving details at Superhero Island
December 26, 2023
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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The final seasonThe first look at the last voyages of Star Trek: Discovery in season 5
Burnham, Saru, Tilly, and the rest of the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery return for for an epic finale
December 04, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Star Trek: Another crossover between Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds teased at NYCC 2023
Mike McMahan says the Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover was “so meaningful” to the Lower Decks team
October 20, 2023
Jim McDermott
News
Star Trek: Prodigy picked up by Netflix, with all-new episodes debuting in 2024
The first season of the animated series will be added to the streaming service later in 2023
October 11, 2023
Graeme McMillan
News
Patrick Stewart's rocky start on Star Trek: The Next Generation: "We are not here to have fun"
Turns out, the experience of the English theater almost ruined Star Trek for Jean-Luc Picard
October 03, 2023
Graeme McMillan
Features
James Marsters explains why Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Star Trek are basically the same show
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Star Trek have more in common than you might think.
September 11, 2023
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
Free!Watch the full Star Trek Universe panel with Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Kate Mulgrew, and more at last year's NYCC
Stream the all-star Star Trek panel featuring Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn, Kate Mulgrew, Ella Purnell, Brett Gray, Jameela Jamil, Alex Kurtzman, Rod Roddenberry, Kevin Hageman, Dan Hageman and Ben Hibon.
September 07, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
Features
BOIMLER!Resistance is futile: 5 reasons you should be watching Star Trek: Lower Decks
There's no reason not to be watching Star Trek: Lower Decks
August 31, 2023
Avery Kaplan
Features
Disney+'s Ahsoka is the show for the next generation of Star Wars fans (which may or may not be you)
It's more colorful and obvious, and that's not a bad thing
August 31, 2023
Graeme McMillan
Features
Spoilers!Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 ending explained
Let us help answer your questions about the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 finale
August 10, 2023
Gary Catig
Features
Support Popverse (and get more Popverse!) for only $5.99 a month
Support comics, movie, and TV reporting that sets the standard.
August 04, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' musical episode (and the real singers on the Enterprise crew)
After 'Subspace Rhapsody,' we dive into how musical each cast member of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is.
August 04, 2023
Gary Catig
Features
SDCC 2023: All the big news, magic, and moments from San Diego Comic-Con
4.5 days of comics, movies, TV, and walking (sometimes running). Here's the highlights of SDCC 2023
July 25, 2023
Graeme McMillan
News
Get ready, the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con dates have been confirmed (and its a busy weekend)
What are you doing in late July 2024, anyway? We're doing Comic-Con International: San Diego
July 24, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
MCM Comic Con: Watch Our Flag Means Death, Star Trek, Yu-Gi-Oh, and other panels from the London May 2023 event!
Our Flag Mean Death and the stars of Witcher, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and more are here at MCM Comic Con
July 24, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Star Trek: Lower Decks gets release date, Strange New Worlds gets a... musical?
During the long-running Star Trek Universe panel at San Diego Comic Con 2023, fans heard what's coming to Paramount+ in the near future
July 22, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Star Trek: The Animated Series is returning with new shorts featuring Riker, Quark, and Saru
At San Diego Comic Con 2023, the network announced all-new animated TV spots and an upcoming IDW comic.
July 21, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Spoilers!Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - The beginnings of a beautiful friendship
It's Star Trek: The Original Series happy hour!
July 20, 2023
Gary Catig
Features
Follow along live!SDCC 2023: Star Trek Universe panel features Discovery, Lower Decks, and Strange New Worlds
Star Trek Universe is back at San Diego Comic Con for 2023!
July 18, 2023
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
SpoilersInside the Spock's love triangle at the heart of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Spock is caught between two women.
July 13, 2023
Gary Catig
Features
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds goes back to the beginning with this ferocious alien race
Captain Pike must confront the aliens that caused one of his greatest defeats.
July 06, 2023
Gary Catig
Features
Strange New Worlds' Trial of Number One speaks to my experience as a gay Catholic priest
Sometimes pop culture helps us see ourselves
June 29, 2023
Jim McDermott
Features
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds reintroduces the universe's time police
La'an Noonien-Singh time travels to a blast in the past while she works for a familiar Federation division.
June 29, 2023
Gary Catig
News
Star Trek: Prodigy canceled at Paramount+, but may live on elsewhere
The second season will be completed by CBS Studios, which will then try to find a new home for the show
June 23, 2023
Graeme McMillan
Features
Spoilers!Star Trek: The long shadow of Khan looms over this week's Strange New Worlds
Though 'Ad Astra Per Aspera' focuses on Number One, La'an Noonien-Singh's history and family ties are called into question.
June 22, 2023
Gary Catig
Features
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2: The plot, cast, release date, trailer, and more ahead of the new season
Expect the unexpected (and some important backstory), teased the Strange New Worlds cast at MCM
June 15, 2023
Graeme McMillan
Features
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 2 premiere mixes rocking out with mental health
The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 premiere calls back to one of Spocks hobbies from The Original Series.
June 15, 2023
Gary Catig
Features
Ben Sisko was always my Star Trek captain
Say what you will about Jean-Luc Picard or Kathryn Janeway; Ben Sisko was the Star Trek captain who embodied what it means to be human.
June 08, 2023
Jim McDermott
News
Star Trek: Lower Decks' security chief Shaxs lives his best, violent life in a new one-shot comic this fall
Star Trek: Day of Blood - Shaxs' Best Day writer Ryan North spills the beans to Popverse
June 08, 2023
Graeme McMillan
Features
Full Panel VideoWatch the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 panel with Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Celia Rose Gooding, and Melissa Navia
Watch as Celia Rose Gooding (Uhura), Melissa Navia (Ortegas) | Los Angeles: Rebecca Romijn (Number One), Ethan Peck (Spock) from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 'beams' into MCM to talk season 2
June 07, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds's Spock is "more human" than most other versions according to the man who plays him, Ethan Peck
The actor talked at MCM Comic Con about how he handles the iconic role in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
June 06, 2023
Graeme McMillan
Features
Is Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Erica Ortegas the Riker of this new show? Riker himself, Jonathan Frakes, says "Totally!"
William T. Riker approves of the idea that Ortegas is... the next William T. Riker
June 03, 2023
Graeme McMillan
Features
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will keep voyaging with an early third season renewal
Star Trek: Lower Decks has also been renewed for a fifth season
May 31, 2023
Graeme McMillan
Features
Popverse: Year One - our most popular articles, as decided by YOU!
From controversy in comics to cartoons that make you say 'Woooo!', Popverse's first year was great. Here are the most popular news, panels, features, and guides from year one.
May 30, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
What comics, movies, and TV can teach us about how to Birthday well
Popular culture is here to teach you the important tips to survive Popverse's birthday week
May 26, 2023
Graeme McMillan
News
Popverse: Year One - the big surprises, the big successes, and the big deals you should know about
It's the first birthday of our tour guide to pop culture, Popverse
May 18, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
We've just made it easier for you to keep up with your favourite things
Spend less time searching for the things you love, and more time reading about them.
May 09, 2023
Craig Munro
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Bay Area comic convention SiliCon cancels this year's event due to "financial hardship"
Reports indicate one of SiliCon's major financial backers pulled out of this year's event
May 06, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
Los Angeles Comic Con boasts it beat all its area competitors to be the biggest in the LA area
Los Angeles Comic Con says it just bested others as the biggest LA-area comic convention around
May 05, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
ReedPop VP (and Popverse co-founder) Mike Armstrong is exiting the company after nearly 14 years
After nearly 14 years, ReedPop's Mike Armstrong is leaving the company
May 04, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
Star Trek: Day of Blood is a "lost episode" crossing over multiple generations, says creators
Star Trek: Day of Blood is the franchise's first official comic book crossover event
May 01, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Full Panel VideoStar Trek fan? Watch USS Improvise: The Next Generation, The Musical! from ECCC '23
USS Improvise performs their original, musical comedy at Emerald City Comic Con 2023, and you can watch it here.
April 26, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Star Trek: Picard season 3 ending explained
What happens to The Next Generation Crew and other characters in Star Trek: Picard.
April 24, 2023
Gary Catig
News
Fan Expo St. Louis quietly canceled after nine-year run
As Fan Expo St. Louis closes its doors, St. Louis loses its annual comic convention
April 19, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
Michelle Yeoh returns to Star Trek for a new movie
The Star Trek: Discovery spin-off will start shooting later this year.
April 18, 2023
Graeme McMillan
News
Comic con on a cruise ship? It's coming in 2024
Comic convention + cruise ship? Imagine it all, especially the cosplay with Comic Con Cruise
April 13, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is officially coming to Paramount+
Does this mean that learning is the final frontier now?
March 30, 2023
Graeme McMillan
Features
No frontier too final: Behind Star Trek’s latest successful rebirth
While Star Trek hasn’t been able to make its return to the big screen, its revival on television is just what the franchise needs.
March 28, 2023
Sam Stone
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WonderCon 2024 dates are announced (and its slightly later next year)
The LA area's big comic convention, WonderCon, is returning in 2024
March 24, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Yes, the Changelings are returning in Star Trek: Picard
A refresher on the alien species the Changelings, who make a recent appearance on Star Trek: Picard.
March 23, 2023
Gary Catig
News
Emerald City Comic Con: All the greatest coverage from Popverse at the first big convention of 2023!
Springtime in Seattle, and Popverse is back on the convention circuit with the 20th annual Emerald City Comic Con
March 20, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
Star Trek: Discovery to end with 2024's fifth season, leaving a healthy reboot franchise behind
The end of the voyage is in sight for Michael Burnham and crew
March 03, 2023
Graeme McMillan
Features
The Mandalorian theme song shreds in a heavy metal rendition thanks to the Galactic Empire
There are definitely some Mandalorian darksaber vibes to this cover of the instant classic Star Wars theme
March 01, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Popverse celebrates Black creators and characters for Black History Month
Looking for some awesome articles to read? Check out these great Popverse articles this Black History Month and beyond.
February 24, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
Star Trek's newest captain, Todd Stashwick, boards Enter the Popverse for its first episode
Enter the Popverse debuts February 10, talking about Star Trek Picard, a new Spider-Man live-action TV show, and more
February 17, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Looking ahead at 2023 with Popverse
Popverse Editor-in-Chief Chris Arrant gives you a preview of what's to come in 2023 at Popverse
January 10, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Give the gift of subscriptions - streaming services, digital comics apps, and mystery boxes galore!
From film and TV to comics and collectibles, here are the best subscription gifts for the holiday season
November 24, 2022
Chris Arrant