Captain’s log. The
Enterprise has been hailing the people of the Eminiar star system. Ambassador Robert Fox is on board, as the Federation is hoping to open up diplomatic relations, but there’s been no response.
Uhura finally gets an answer: a code 710, which is a message that there is conflict and to stay away or risk being damaged. Fox orders Kirk to disobey the 710 despite the very real risk to the
Enterprise, so Kirk sighs and orders yellow alert and goes in. Fox’s orders are to open diplomatic relations with these planets so the Federation can establish a needed port there.
Regardless of your level of enthusiasm for
Star Trek: Picard, if you have any interest at all in the future of the
Trek universe in the wake of
Star Trek: Nemesis specifically, the fates of William Riker, Deanna Troi, and yes, albeit tangentially, Jean-Luc Picard himself you must read this book.
I went in having watched, and re-watched, key moments of
Picard, and having read and written about the first
Star Trek: Picard novel, Una McCormack’s
The Last Best Hope. While that knowledge certainly enhanced the reading experience of Swallow’s exemplary work, none of it is needed to have a thoroughly good time.
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Star Trek: Discovery.]
Season 3 of
Star Trek: Discovery sends the crew of the eponymous science vessel far into the future, setting the series free from the franchise’s established canon. It was a bold move for showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise, letting them explore issues like resource scarcity previously anathema to Trek’s largely utopian principles and show a version of the United Federation of Planets in even greater decline than it is in
As the episodes aired in a world that felt absolutely unmoored due to the combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread social and political unrest,
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CBS’s Star Trek Discovery has been a bold new reimagining of the Trek universe, and with the recent conclusion of Season 3, many fans have been left wondering when will there be a fourth?
[Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek Discovery ahead]
The third season ended rather limply compared to the first two, but overall it’s been a fantastic series. And the decision to jump the crew forward to the 32nd century has also allowed the writers to bring in lots of concepts that were already familiar to fans.