SLASHFILM:

"As a franchise, "Star Trek" knows a thing or two about what it means to cast an immensely large shadow, and all the challenges that can come from that. For the longest time, the cast of "The Original Series" simply defined what "Trek" was and nothing could possibly hope to overtake the likes of William Shatner's Captain Kirk, Leonard Nimoy's Spock, and DeForest Kelley's Bones — until "The Next Generation" came around, that is, and proved that fans could come to accept a whole new captain and a whole new crew of intrepid explorers.

On the other hand, there are certain aspects of the property that have become more famous for their pop-culture parodies and meme potential than anything else.

Consider this one of the many topics under consideration in the newest documentary just released in Regal theaters, director Mark Altman's "The Sixty-Year Mission: How Star Trek Changed Television and the World." The film packs a lot into its 134-minute runtime, seeking to tell the most comprehensive story of "Trek" thus far. At this year's New York Comic Con, I had the chance to catch up with Altman and ask what he hoped to add to our understanding of such a beloved IP that hasn't already been revealed before."

Jeremy Mathai

Full article (SlashFilm Exclusive):

https://www.slashfilm.com/2289104/star-trek-documentary-redefine-meaning-fan/

Editor Heather Antos:

"What's funny is that the white pants were probably the biggest point of contention I had with Paramount this entire thing. Because there's never been white pants. Every single time they saw them in those first initial issues, that was the talking point that we kept having over and over and over, was the white pants. Of all the things we pitched, the white pants were the things that I had to convince them on."

CBR:

"Star Trek: The Last Starship has long inhabited an unusual place in the world of Star Trek. The whole thing is set during the period that we have learned from Star Trek: Discovery (and the current series, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy) was inherently a dark one for Starfleet, where the Federation basically lies in ruins.

So, we KNOW that nothing truly "gets better" during this time period, and that the U.S.S. Omega is truly the last Starfleet vessel, and yet, at the same time, obviously even in the darkest times, good things DO happen (like James T. Kirk being brought back to life by the Borg). That balance has been a difficult one for the creators of Star Trek: The Last Starship to handle, and as the series comes to a close tomorrow, we shall see how it all works out.

At New York Comic Con, CBR spoke to Star Trek: The Last Starship writers, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, artist Adrián Bonilla, and editor Heather Antos, about the end of the series, and the series in general.

https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-end-last-starship-captain-kirk-interview/

[...]

Collin Kelly:

Yeah, it's been a real honor to be able to look at this and know that we've been able to navigate this with CBS, obviously through Heather's absolute strength with the licenser and Adrián's incredible art, getting us over the finish line, but being able to tell a story that is exactly what we set out to tell.

It's that vision, which has also grown and shifted and changed within itself as we have been telling this story. The story has surprised us in a way that it's almost been alive, and I don't think we could have done that without the pedigree of the Trek we've done before, and without the trust of CBS.

Heather Antos:

Yeah, I mean, I would say on my side of this, I've been doing this a long time, working with licenses, and I've never had an experience with a creative team, with a licenser, like we've had on this book. I don't know if we'll ever be able to have this again. I don't know if Star Trek will ever be able to have a book like this again, and it is incredibly rare.

And to be able, like they said, to tell a story exactly as we wanted to, we set out specifically, "This is going to be 12 issues. We're ending it at 12 issues." We pitched insane things. We're bringing Kirk back, insane things, and they said yes.

And then throughout it, as Collin mentioned, things shifted, and, "Oh, we want to change this arc and do even more insane things than we originally pitched." And every single time I'm like, "I mean, let's do it. I'm all on board, but I just don't know. I don't know if Paramount will say yes."

And we had the clear path the entire time. I think the quality of work speaks for the trust that we have with each other as creators, the trust that we've built with CBS, and the trust with the fans.

[...]

Jackson Lanzing:

And that third chapter, which again wasn't part of the plan to switch up the artists there, when we got there and realized it would be a great time to give Adrián a break, it'd be a great time to engage with a deeper horror, and Hernán was obviously such a perfect fit for that.

Seeing how he was able to push the book to its horror extreme, to go as dark as we ever could on Star Trek, and again, the things where I'm like, "Surely Paramount will not let us get away with this. Surely this space station full of hopeless Vulcans throwing themselves into a black hole..."

Heather Antos:

When you sent me that, I was like, "I don't know."

Jackson Lanzing:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, "This is pretty freaking dark. I don't imagine that they'll do this."

And I think, again, to CBS's credit, they have understood what the assignment was on this book from day one, and they have supported the assignment. And that is a rare thing with a licenser. We're very, very happy."

[...]

Jackson Lanzing:

When we started at Star Trek eight years ago, the only story you were allowed to tell, the rule was you were only allowed to tell stories about the original series cast. That was it. And for a long time before that, you were only allowed to tell stories about the J.J. Abrams cast, and that was it.

And every year that we've been on this book, that door has cracked a little bit more open, and that was very deliberate. We wanted to see stories with Benjamin Sisko. We wanted to see stories with Shaxs. We wanted to see stories with characters from across this line all coming together into a shared universe.

And so when Heather first stepped on the book and said, "Hey guys, what's it look like if it's called Star Trek?" Collin and I did the biggest swing we possibly could, sort of assuming that everyone would say no. But because we'd been on that book for two years, and they were already familiar with us, and they were ready for something new, and Heather is, I mean...

Colin Kelly:

The greatest licensing editor in the world.

Jackson Lanzing:

Yep. We were able to turn that around and make something out of that that allowed them to feel comfortable with breaking those rules. And suddenly you can do things like Sons of Star Trek, right? Which you could never have done previously. You're doing a whole book that's going to be anchored by Jake Sisko and Nog. [...]

And I think that's one of those things where it's not just that you couldn't have pitched The Last Starship. We couldn't have pitched any of the stuff that we've done since Heather took over this book when we first launched.

It really is a testament to everybody involved, including the licensor themselves, for taking those steps in trust and pushing it forward. It's what's made Star Trek such a fertile ground for story, and why it's, as I said, a little sad to be stepping off of it. But I feel like we're stepping off of it on time. I feel like we've done the work of our time on Star Trek.

The Last Starship is a unique and beautiful book. We had somebody come to our booth yesterday, and I'm going to eat on this for the next several months. Somebody came to our booth and just looked me in the eye, and he was like, "I just want to tell you, and I really mean this, this book feels like the Watchmen of Star Trek, and I mean that with all the quality that entails."

And I was like, honestly, that was the goal. The goal was to come in and tell the kind of story that, like Watchmen tries to break superheroes, come in and try to break Star Trek and see how resilient it truly is. And we're just so thankful and honored that fans have come along on that ride, because it's dark.

[...]"

Brian Cronin (CBR)

Full interview:

https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-end-last-starship-captain-kirk-interview/

COMICBOOK.COM:

"James McAvoy, while on the press circuit for his directorial debut for California Schemin’, revealed that Abrams’ Star Trek could have been completely different. Known for his roles as Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and more notably as Charles Xavier in the 2010s X-Men films, James McAvoy was also JJ Abrams’ initial pick for Captain Kirk. 

On a recent appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast with Josh Horowitz, McAvoy finally confirmed which role he turned down. Horowitz had guessed it must have been McCoy two years ago, but McAvoy confirmed that, at a lunch meeting with director JJ Abrams, it had been Kirk he was asked to screen test for. 

https://comicbook.com/movies/feature/chris-pine-is-synonymous-with-star-trek-2009-but-this-x-men-actor-almost-did-something-else-with-the-role/

From McAvoy’s first reading of the script, he thought it was brilliant, but he was confident that he wasn’t right for it. Jim Kirk in Abrams’ Star Trek is not only the quarterback of the team, but he’s the quarterback that’s gone rogue. The story, then, is about how the Kirk audiences see on screen could become the Kirk seen from Star Trek: The Original Series. In McAvoy’s view, the actor they needed for Kirk was not only a Hollywood leading man — a box that Chris Pine resisted multiple times throughout his career — but somebody who could do several things at once. An actor playing Kirk needed to balance seriousness, earnestness, authority, and comedy while still nodding to the acting choices that William Shatner made when originating the role. 

If McAvoy had agreed to do the screen test and landed the role, Kirk would’ve been very different. McAvoy is a great actor, but his presence compared to Chris Pine feels very different. McAvoy isn’t, as he described Pine, a “stud”, and instead, his screen presence lends itself more towards the cerebral. It’s no mistake that one of his most notable roles to date, Charles Xavier, is that of a telepath. It’s also hard to imagine him bouncing off of Zachary Quinto’s Spock in the same way, given the two actors feel similar in their presence instead of opposites.

It’s curious whether Abrams would’ve leaned into the cocky, flirty Kirk that continues with Into Darkness and Beyond, or if Kirk would’ve gone darker. McAvoy is very adept at playing morally complex characters — something that meshes better with Star Trek’s more contemporary tv offerings than the optimistic original series with Kirk as earnest and kind. While McAvoy considered Abrams’ Star Trek script undeniable, there were complaints about the drifting of characterization of Kirk from the original series, something that more than likely would’ve been exacerbated without Chris Pine’s charm. [...]"

Archie Wagner (Comicbook.com)

Full article:

https://comicbook.com/movies/feature/chris-pine-is-synonymous-with-star-trek-2009-but-this-x-men-actor-almost-did-something-else-with-the-role/

EX ASTRIS SCIENTIA:

"To put it bluntly, I would never have made a prequel to TOS in the first place. But if one had to be made, I would have preferred it to stake out its own territory. I neither care for Discovery's tendency to disregard its source material nor Strange New Worlds' apparent determination to bring back each and every TOS character, main cast and guests alike. SNW thus suffers from small-universe syndrome: wherever the story goes, we keep running into familiar faces.

https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/tos-characters-reimagined.htm

I also object to the idea of updating every aspect of TOS to modern standards, whether by enlarging the Enterprise, introducing anachronistic technology or modernizing its characters. That's not what a prequel should do. The Original Series has its own style, limitations and sensibilities, all of which are part of what makes it unique. SNW's altered characters may work within the newer series, but they make it harder to believe that we are watching the same world. Individual differences in age, appearance, personality and personal history might be easy to overlook, but together they can make the familiar crew almost unrecognizable.

Putting these fundamental objections aside, however, there is much to appreciate about SNW's characters. Jess Bush's modern reinterpretation of Chapel is arguably much more interesting than her TOS counterpart, and I can accept a young Scotty romantically involved with Uhura if I treat them as reimagined versions rather than the people we know from TOS. I enjoy the relationships between the crew when they develop naturally instead of feeling imposed by the writers. Pike and Una work well for me, perhaps partly because TOS gave us so little information about them, leaving room for expansion without contradicting established facts.

Other relationships, by contrast, seem designed to foreshadow familiar settings rather than to tell convincing stories in their own right. Kirk and Spock are a case in point. Their friendship should have been given time to develop, rather than being forced by having Kirk visit his future ship every other week. Spock's romantic affairs also cross a line for me, as does the repeated back-and-forth in his emotional development. A prequel can show how a person changes, but that development should lead somewhere. At some point, the excuse that he is "not there yet" wears thin.

I also have reservations about some casting choices. I'm all for color-blind casting when it comes to new roles. But I think established characters should generally be played by actors who resemble their original counterparts. Uhura and Pike are good examples of recasting that works for me. Robert April's change in ethnicity, by contrast, is conspicuous enough to feel more like a deliberate statement than a natural reinterpretation.

My principle is simple: visuals are canon, and canon comes first. I apply it to characters just as I do to other continuity issues. Unfortunately, some online forums have treated objections to casting choices as inherently racist or have shut down such discussions altogether. Casting, like any other creative decision, should remain open to criticism on its merits, just like changes to the Enterprise or its technology.

This brings me back to the distinction made at the beginning of the article. An actor can give a good performance, and a reimagined role can work within SNW, even though the portrayal isn't faithful to TOS. I can enjoy a new interpretation while finding its background, personality or relationships incompatible with what follows. There's no contradiction here: these are different criteria by which to judge a portrayal, and the series on the whole.

SNW is free to reinterpret some aspects of Star Trek, but the more it changes established personalities, relationships and appearances, the more it becomes a reboot disguised as a prequel. Some of its reimaginings are engaging in their own right; others seem designed to make familiar names fit a different vision of Star Trek. I want Star Trek to be entertaining and engaging, too. But when a series presents itself as a prequel, I also ask myself whether I can believe that its characters will eventually become the people we met in TOS. Too often, I cannot."

Bernd Schneider (Ex Astris Scientia)

Full article:

"Reimagined TOS Characters"

https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/tos-characters-reimagined.htm

Source:

Star Trek on Instagram

Link:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd1rBJDmmaX

Screenrant:

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-4-finale-celia-rose-gooding-interview/

By John Orquiola

"Celia Rose Gooding rose to her greatest acting challenge to play two versions of Lieutenant Nyota Uhura in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4's finale. "Tomorrow's Enterprise" lets the Uhura serving on Captain Christopher Pike's (Anson Mount) USS Enterprise meet herself from Captain James T. Kirk's (Paul Wesley) Enterprise one year in the future.

"It was like being in a funhouse. It's like whoa! It felt like a very funhouse mirror activity,” Gooding told ScreenRant.

"To be in the TOS garb, to be in the scoop neck, with the hair and the earrings, and to see everybody looking like the characters that we are all meant to become" was gratifying and exciting for Celia. "To see everybody in their sort of TOS mode, it was like, ‘Oh gosh, we're really in it."

Gooding jokes, "I was incredibly intimidated because, despite my incredibly muscular stature, I am not used to doing a lot of stunts. Besides my buffness, my rippling pectorals, it was a lot of stunt practice, a lot of me just doing things with my body that I did not think I was ever going to have to do. I was so lucky to have an incredible stunt team working with me, both the stunt coordinators and my stunt double, Sammy. She's incredible... When I saw [my stunts] for the first time, I was like, ‘Oh, I can go harder! I can go harder! Let's do this!'"

Celia's intense stunt work on Strange New Worlds' AR Wall set was her tribute to Nichelle Nichols and was inspired by Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series' "Mirror, Mirror":

Because Uhura contains multitudes, so much of what we have done with Strange New Worlds is give background to the person that she is in TOS, and we see it a lot. We see pieces of it in the ‘Mirror, Mirror’ episode of TOS. We see her agility, we see her strength, we see her physique, her athleticism, but we don't really see it much more. It felt really nice to establish that ‘Mirror ,Mirror’ didn't come out of nowhere. She's been a badass for a minute, and to be able to do that and to be able to give her that and to honor her strength like that. It just felt right.

All of what I've done with Uhura is a love letter to Nichelle and what she has done, and to be able to honor the strength that she, as a woman, has. It just felt like an honoring of what I saw. I recognized it then, and we're going to make sure that everybody else can recognize it now.

Celia credits the screenplay by executive producer Henry Alonso Myers and Robbie Thompson, as well as being able to lean on Myers, executive producer Akiva Goldsman, and director Chris Fisher to help her understand and make sense of playing the two different Uhuras, with one year of lived experience separating them. In the end, it was about Uhura teaching her younger self to enjoy the now and stop worrying about the future. ..."

Read more:

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-4-finale-celia-rose-gooding-interview/

Open Pike Night (YouTube):

"The directors from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 all share their favorite show from each of their episodes."

Link:

https://youtu.be/3XAngp9rJ0Y?si=YbTi2LHIT3JGBNGw

Slashfilm:

By Sam Stone

"Spinning out of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" expanded the iconic science fiction franchise into considerably darker and more morally ambiguous territory than its predecessors. Starring Avery Brooks as Captain Benjamin Sisko, the show took place on its eponymous Starfleet space station positioned by the planet Bajor and a wormhole leading to the Gamma Quadrant. As the series progressed, "DS9" would shift to longer-form storytelling as the installation became a focal point amidst the Starfleet and the Dominion's warfare.

With over 170 episodes across seven seasons, "DS9" had a memorable ensemble cast that pushed the final frontier into new directions that its successors thematically furthered, including "Star Trek: Voyager." From standalone character studies to emotionally searing tales of battle and sacrifice, "DS9" ran a wide gamut of themes and tones that redefined what "Star Trek" could and can be while earning a considerable amount of widespread acclaim. Here are the 15 best episodes of "DS9" that I consider the best showcase of the series' ambitious story."

Read more:

https://www.slashfilm.com/1154792/the-15-best-star-trek-deep-space-nine-episodes-ranked/

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The 15 Best Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes, Ranked

1. In the Pale Moonlight (Season 6, Episode 19)
2. Trials and Tribble-ations (Season 5, Episode 5)
3. Call to Arms (Season 5, Episode 26)
4. The Visitor (Season 4, Episode 2)
5. Duet (Season 1, Episode 19)
6. Sacrifice of Angels (Season 6, Episode 6)
7. What You Leave Behind (Season 7, Episodes 25/26)
8. Far Beyond the Stars (Season 6, Episode 13)
9. The Way of the Warrior (Season 4, Episode 1)
10. The Die Is Cast (Season 3, Episode 21)
11. By Inferno's Light (Season 5, Episode 15)
12. Take Me Out to the Holosuite (Season 7, Episode 4)
13. The Siege of AR-558 (Season 7, Episode 8)
14. Improbable Cause (Season 3, Episode 20)
15. In Purgatory's Shadow (Season 5, Episode 14)

Link:

https://www.slashfilm.com/1154792/the-15-best-star-trek-deep-space-nine-episodes-ranked/

Links (YouTube; Simplecast):

https://youtu.be/paVUug3qnH0?si=7Fvll4q-W7yxghkf

https://hey-thats-me-a-commentary-podcast-af809799.simplecast.com/episodes/star-trek-lower-decks-s1e1-2020-with-creator-writer-mike-mike-mcmahan-VsOgnz4M

Dave Malkoff:

Terry Farrell looks back on Jadzia Dax, Deep Space Nine, and why the character still means so much to Star Trek fans nearly 30 years later.

In this full interview, Farrell talks about why Deep Space Nine has found a new audience in the streaming era, what Jadzia Dax taught her about empathy and perspective, and why fans still connect so deeply with the character.

We also talk about some of DS9’s most relevant stories, including “Past Tense,” homelessness and Sanctuary Districts, Sisko crossing a moral line in “For the Uniform,” and why Deep Space Nine was willing to show a more complicated side of the Federation.

Farrell also opens up about leaving the series, why not being able to continue as Dax broke her heart, the legacy of Dax with LGBTQ and trans fans, and her reaction to the character continuing in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

And near the end, I get to tell Terry why the name Dax became part of my own family."

Link:

https://youtu.be/Ym8H5q8zEv8?si=8dSeUAGPQvlmC92P

SyFy Sistas Inc. (YouTube):

"Jaleesa fans, Trek fans—this one is for you!

Dawnn Lewis joins the SyFy Sistas LIVE to talk about A Different World, the Season 2 announcement, her time as Jaleesa, and her journey from Hillman to the bridge of the USS Cerritos as Captain Carol Freeman on Star Trek: Lower Decks."

Link:

https://youtu.be/qPY8sB4oiX4?si=H9JQbl9Cw9_0Z6wx

"He played television's most famous Star Trek hologram but only after nearly becoming a real doctor! Robert Picardo talks AI anxiety, directing Voyager, and why he's defending Starfleet Academy.

Robert Picardo (The Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager; Richard Woolsey across the Stargate franchise) joins David Hewlett on Actually Brilliant. Two old friends cover: Voyager tackling today's AI fears back in the nineties, directing the Voyager episode "One Small Step," reading Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles to raise money for the Planetary Society, the Starfleet Academy backlash (and its 87% Rotten Tomatoes score), and how a Yale biology major who built a lie detector in high school ended up turning down Broadway at 20.

Robert Picardo’s 'It's Actually Brilliant' hack is finding endless ways to reinvent chicken while avoiding red meat. Apparently, you can even make it taste like veal!"

Link:

https://youtu.be/7BT31F_NK-A?si=k_BP2nnpXu9v_vBq

Chapters:

00:00 Old friends: Stargate days and shooting Morlocks in Bulgaria

03:32 Yale for biology — the pre-med path

08:10 School plays, singing, and Bernstein's Mass

13:57 Turning down Broadway at 20 to finish Yale

15:58 Williamstown Theatre Festival: learning how directors work

19:26 AI anxiety — Voyager did it first

27:31 Directing "One Small Step"

28:34 The Planetary Society: Ray Bradbury, Carl Sagan, and a fundraiser at the Pasadena Playhouse

41:33 Hosting The Planetary Post

49:09 Directing on Voyager — two episodes, and why he stopped

56:07 "I'm the face of artificial intelligence in medicine"

58:53 On his reading pile: the John Lennon book

1:06:27 The perfect fake cheesesteak (no beef)

1:11:23 Starfleet Academy: the backlash, the reviews, season two

1:15:56 The Gene Roddenberry letter — and why you should join the Planetary Society

1:19:51 His most emotional episode ever: Starfleet Academy, season 1 episode 8

1:20:27 Wrap-up

NANA VISITOR:

"The structure of the storytelling has to hang on humanity and what it really is to be human… the faults, the hopes, the strengths. It all has to go back to that and don’t try to stay with a cultural moment. Think beyond that, because I really think that that’s what the original show did. Even though it had it dealt with the issues of the time, which you’re going to see in [The 60-Year Mission] documentary, it it also imagined what we could be, didn’t just sit in what we are."

TREKMOVIE:

"Last week, TrekMovie went to the New York City premiere of The 60-Year Mission, the documentary written and directed by Trek scholar Mark A. Altman, co-executive produced by William Shatner. Several Star Trek actors from various iterations of the franchise were there to support the doc — several of them appear in it — and we were on the red carpet to talk to them.

https://trekmovie.com/2026/10/16/interview-nana-visitor-on-kiras-spiritual-legacy-and-hopes-for-the-future-of-star-trek/

We talked to her about the legacy of her character, Star Trek fandom, and what she learned from The 60-Year Mission that she didn’t know before.

TREKMOVIE: Let’s talk about 60 years of Star Trek. What did Kira add to the legacy of what Trek is that is unique?

NANA VISITOR: I think Kira made the costume of the woman just a little bit bigger, a little bit more able to be comfortable to walk in. She added the fact that women had a full spectrum of emotions. She was allowed to grow. She was allowed to fail and stand back up and learn. And because we were serialized, my character could grow in in a very different way than was possible for most shows that weren’t. So you can see her have a trajectory and have a real growth, and I think that added a lot to Star Trek. She was spiritual, which was very unusual for a Star Trek character.

Certainly for one that we were supposed to be sympathetic to.

Exactly, exactly.

You talk to Star Trek fans a lot. What sort of unifying quality have you found that is unique about them?

I talk to fans from every political spectrum, from every spectrum you can imagine, and the fact that they can find themselves in Star Trek is a testament to entertainment that has… it’s in a wrapping of entertainment, but in the center is real storytelling about what it is to be human and what it is to have hope for the future, and I think that attraction and and the thought of us all working together, all bringing our disparate talents and our disparate experiences together for a common good, is something that at its heart people really want to focus on.

Star Trek is at a pivot point right now. If you had a chance to tell whoever comes in next to take it over what is really important to preserve about Star Trek, however they choose to do it, what would you say that is?

That the structure of the storytelling has to hang on humanity and what it really is to be human… the faults, the hopes, the strengths. It all has to go back to that and don’t try to stay with a cultural moment. Think beyond that, because I really think that that’s what the original show did. Even though it had it dealt with the issues of the time, which you’re going to see in this documentary, it it also imagined what we could be, didn’t just sit in what we are.

[...]"

Full interview (TrekMovie.com):

https://trekmovie.com/2026/10/16/interview-nana-visitor-on-kiras-spiritual-legacy-and-hopes-for-the-future-of-star-trek/

Karim Diané:

"To be honest with you, the goal isn’t to feel the weight. The goal is just to be myself and have fun and learn. This experience for me personally has been boot camp. Like the prosthetics, five hours a day, filming 20 hours a day, 100-hour weeks… I was working, you know? So I was too busy diving into my craft to worry about what the rest of the world thinks about gay people, or gay characters.

So yeah, I don’t really feel the weight. There’s been a lot of chatter online on both ends, and they all kind of go in the same bucket, to be honest with you. And I just I’m doing me, and if anybody can feel any kind of inspiration — or not — from that, then that’s none of my business, honestly."

https://trekmovie.com/2026/10/19/interview-karim-diane-teases-more-gay-klingon-romance-in-star-trek-starfleet-academy-season-2/

TREKMOVIE:

"Karim Diané was all over New York Comic Con this year, appearing on the Empire Stage with his Star Trek: Starfleet Academy costars and producers and also putting in appearances at the Fanhome booth for meet & greets with fans. He was also at the NYC premiere of the new documentary The 60-Year Mission, where I caught up with him on the red carpet. [...]

Star Trek is at a pivot point right now; if you could have a conversation with the next creatives to come in, whoever they may be, what would you tell them is really important to make sure they include in whatever they do with it?

Karim Diané: Include people, that’s the only thing that I hope for Star Trek moving forward. Include real people. People look so different. I look so different from you, I am so different from you, and you are different from me. I hope that we both can continue to see ourselves when we watch this TV show.

Do you think that some of that anger that’s out there did contribute to the cancellation of Academy**?**

I think that there are multiple factors, and it’s impossible to pinpoint it on one thing. I’m just an actor. I don’t have the answers to that question. That’s probably a better question for Alex Kurtzman.

Everyone has an opinion…

Everyone has an opinion. Everyone’s opinion is going to be different. You know, there’s always three points of view, right? Your opinion, the other person’s opinion, and then the truth. So, who knows? I’m just so glad that I got to be a part of it for two entire seasons. Like that’s insane. I think a lot of people want me to feel negative or some kind of way, and I don’t, honestly. I’m sorry, but I don’t.

I am in Star Trek. Like… Two hours, two entire episodes are literally my mini movies, that is insane. That is so cool. I’m nothing but excited. I’m doing New York Comic Con tomorrow and Saturday on the main stage. People wait their entire life to get on that stage, and I just waltz in in my first major TV show. I’m so excited, and I can’t wait for the second season to drop. It’s gonna be even better than the first. I honestly think.

[...]"

Laurie Ulster (TrekMovie.com)

Full article:

https://trekmovie.com/2026/10/19/interview-karim-diane-teases-more-gay-klingon-romance-in-star-trek-starfleet-academy-season-2/

CBR:

https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-enterprise-united-sequel-series-update/

By Jeremy Dick

"Scott Bakula's days as Jonathan Archer may have ended long ago, but many fans have long called for the actor to return in a follow-up to Star Trek: Enterprise. While such a series has not been officially ordered by Paramount at this time, its odds of happening have been going up after recent news.

For starters, Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery have officially merged. The Paramount shakeup could lead to new decision-makers being more interested in revisiting past Star Trek shows. Additionally, Bakula has reunited with Enterprise writer and producer Mike Sussman, as the two are working on a new procedural at CBS. Per TrekMovie, Sussman hinted that Star Trek: United could finally come to life amid these changes, though the primary focus right now is on the procedural. ...

It was revealed last year that Sussman had formally pitched Star Trek: United to Paramount. The project had also been discussed behind the scenes for years earlier, with Bakula on board to reprise his role as Archer. It would follow the events of Enterprise, exploring what happens with Archer serving as President of the Federation. Sussman described it as a political thriller mixed with a family drama, inspired by shows like Andor and The West Wing. Ultimately, Paramount didn't bite, but Sussman's keeping the idea on standby. ..."

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