If there’s one reason people love Star Trek — beyond social commentary and endless optimism — it’s almost certainly the...
The series premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is still a long way off, but Lower Decks just threw a potentially huge curveball into the...
We’ve known since before Lower Decks debuted that it would have a substantial connection to the entire canon of Star Trek. Ahead of the show’s debut...
Small alien parasites invading tender human bodies are a classic science fiction trope. From Robert Heinlein’s novel The Puppet Masters (1951) to Invasion of the Body...
There are two ways to think about Star Trek: Lower Decks. On the one hand, it’s the most accessible version of the franchise, because a new...
Star Trek: Lower Decks is set in 2380, which means the status quo of the Federation is close to how we remembered the TNG, Voyager, and...
This allows Boimler to feel like he does know a thing or two about not falling for various alien schemes, even though he’s spent the entire...
If you had told me three years ago that the Star Trek universe needed a comedy show in the vein of Big Mouth and Rick and...
Throughout the first episode — “Second Contact” — she also demonstrates a habit for breaking Starfleet protocol in order to do the right thing. Star Trek’s...
In The Original Series episode “By Any Other Name,” Scotty drank aliens under the table, famously imbibing something he couldn’t identify and simply saying “It’s green.”...