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Special eclipse event.

Yes – we will be open on Eclipse Day, Monday April 8, 2024!

In honor to the eclipse, we will be running Moonlight Tours all day. As the skies darken outside, enjoy our special darkened tours by the gorgeous colors of the console accent lights. It is a unique and beautiful way to tour the USS Enterprise! Ticonderoga is at the edge of the totality so plan an exciting day watching the skies and dreaming of the stars! Only at the Star Trek Tour! Get your tickets today!!

RETURNING DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND – THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES TOURS!

The Tribbles have taken over the ship, again! On Saturday, April 13, James Cawley and the Star Trek Set Tour are proud to present famed author David Gerrold! David is the creator of Tribbles and the writer who brought  The Trouble with Tribbles  to the screen. He will be leading tours and greeting fans. Plus you will have a bonus free screening at the end of your tour of  The Trouble with Tribbles  with David providing commentary. This tour is very popular – get your tickets today before it sells out again and see the ship with someone who was there when it all began – and bring a Tribble home!  Please allow 2 hours for your tour and screening with David!

Trekonderoga 2024

Change of plans for brent spiner.

We are very sad to announce that Brent Spiner has cancelled his appearance at Star Trek Tour for our annual Trekonderoga event. We are all disappointed that he will not be appearing but hope to see him at future events. Ticket holders for events with Mr. Spiner will be contacted by Star Trek Tour staff.

LeVar Burton to Attend Trekonderoga 2024!!!!

We are delighted to welcome for the first time LeVar Burton!!! We all know Geordi LaForge as the amazing Chief Engineer of the Next Generation Starship Enterprise. He reprised his role in the recent Picard series. Join LeVar Burton on tours of the original Enterprise, chat with him on the bridge or just be photographed or get the autograph of this amazing star!

Trekonderoga will be May 17, 18, and 19 this year. The Star Trek Set Tour is excited to welcome back Jonathan Frakes, from the Original Series Walter Koenig, and for the first time Clint Howard!!!

Trekonderoga is also excited to welcome the Inglorious Treksperts Mark A. Altman (Free Enterprise, The Fifty-Year Mission), Ashley Miller (Thor and X-Men First Class), and Daren Dochterman (ST: TMP – Director’s Edition)! They are the ultimate authority in Star Trek podcasting! They will be available to sign autographs, greet fans, and host a Live on Stage. Tours with the Trekperts will be available on the ticket page soon! inglorioustreksperts.com

Please return to this page for a schedule link in April!

New COSPLAY Adventure!!!

The Star Trek Set Tour is excited to announce our brand new ticket, Cosplay Adventure Tours! Starting on May 21, 2024 find yourself in the episode, acting and interacting with Original Series™ characters!!!

Wear your uniform and prepare to interact with Original Series™ recordings throughout the ship! We will provide the scripts for you to act out your Star Trek dreams! Our tour guides use your phone to film you and take photos as you interact with 5 different stations throughout the ship, including the transporter. These are your memories to keep and cherish. Nowhere else on earth can you do this on a licensed Star Trek set. Get your tickets and live the episodes, and your dreams, today!!!

Please allow up to 2 hours for your Cosplay Adventure. Due to time constraints parties must be 3 people or fewer. For bigger parties please contact us about hosting a private event.

1 Person – $100 2 People- $190 3 People- $280

July 12, 13, and 14

The Captain, William Shatner returns for his first visit in 2024!

Special Photo Tours!

Come take a special photo tour of the set! Wear your Starfleet finest and our photographer will photograph you in each room.  We will take 2 or 3 shots in each room in fun poses! You will receive your photos by digital download* to enjoy!  Prices start at $49.99. Your Star Trek memories are priceless. Book your photo tour today!!!!

*Digital delivery by email only. Call us at 518-503-5497 for more information.

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Cast and Crew of Original ‘Star Trek’ Pilot Reunite for Virtual Set Recreation by Otoy

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Making good on their promise to deliver a singular virtual fan experience, the cloud graphics company Otoy has mounted its first project under a sweeping rights deal with “ Star Trek ” creator The Roddenberry Estate.

Variety reported last summer that Otoy would produce everything from holographic and digital renderings of the famous Starship Enterprise vessel to TV and movie sets. In its first staging, the company has reunited the living original cast and crew of the first-ever “Star Trek” pilot for a rendering of a founding set.

In an episode titled “The Cage,” director Robert Butler provided extensive behind-the-scenes materials to help in the recreation. Additional team returning included Sean Kenney, who played Captain Pike beginning in “Star Trek: The Menagerie,” and Chris Hunter, son of Jeffrey Hunter, who played Captain Pike in the pilot. Sandy Gimpel, who played a Talosian alien, and Dave Blass, production designer for “Star Trek: Picard,” were also in the mix.

The Roddenberry Archive is in construction on a life-sized “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” USS Enterprise model. The ship was featured at Apple’s keynote event in October 2021. Reconstruction work on the Roddenberry Archive project will eventually cover the entire 40-year legacy of the original USS Enterprise.

“Star Trek” artists Doug Drexler, Dave Blass and Daren Dochterman are overseeing production and scanning assets and recreations alongside Denise and Mike Okuda.

“Gene Roddenberry created an entirely new way of seeing the world, pushing us to explore the limits of space, technology and what it means to be human. Today, new archival tools and media formats are reshaping how we share and experience history,” said Jules Urbach, CEO and founder of OTOY. Future plans for the technology include offering the virtual experiences at fan conventions around the world.

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You Can Tour This Wildly Accurate Recreation of the Original Star Trek Set

A project decades in the making.

How accurate? Well, it's located on the lot where the original series was shot — what once was Desilu Productions, owned by Lucille Ball, and is now Paramount Pictures. James Cawley, a Star Trek super-fan whose IMDB page is littered with Trek fan films, including ones where he plays Capt. James Kirk, has been put in charge of the recreation. He started recreating Star Trek sets in 1997, when he got a copy of the original blueprints from original series costume designer William Ware Theiss.

Decades later, after analyzing still images and finding vintage items, he's ready to show his creation to the world. "To me," he told StarTrek.com , "there is no other franchise around that is more enjoyable and more socially relevant than Star Trek." While the official tour page is short in details, one expects that they'll be forthcoming.

It's also worth remembering that when engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott recreated the deck of his Enterprise in the holodeck in the Next Generation episode " Relics ," he grew depressed at no longer being able to live his past and determined that in order to move forward with his life, he had to delete the simulation.

Just something to keep in mind, Mr. Cawley.

Source: io9

David Grossman is a staff writer for PopularMechanics.com. He's previously written for The Verge, Rolling Stone, The New Republic and several other publications. He's based out of Brooklyn.

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‘The Star Trek Original Set Tour’ takes Trekkies on a surreal trip back in time — and warps them into the future

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James Cawley, owner and creator of the 'Star Trek Original Set Tour' in Ticonderoga, N.Y.

Another view of the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise in a recreated set based in upstate New York.

A control panel on the captain's chair of the U.S.S. Enterprise, recreated in every detail for a special tour in upstate New York.

A recreated sickbay.

The bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise, based on detailed blueprints from the original "Star Trek" set.

Who knew the quickest way to reach the final frontier was in upstate New York?

Just a stone’s throw from Fort Ticonderoga, and just a few minutes from Lake George, is a hidden gem that has drawn in Star Trek fans and stars from around the globe.

“The Star Trek Original Set Tour” is a unique experience tucked inside an old building that decades ago housed a supermarket. Inside is a sprawling, intricately detailed recreation of the U.S.S. Enterprise, as seen on the original 1960s classic science fiction series.

“Not only does it give you a sense of what the original studio would have been like, but it gives you a sense of the fictional world at the same time,” owner James Cawley told the Daily News.

“We wanted to be able to educate you about how they made the show, but at the same time we wanted you to feel like you were in the 23rd century,” he said.

The recreated sets include everything, from the famed bridge, the transporter room, Dr. McCoy’s sickbay, to the sprawling engineering section. You can even pop in to look around Captain James T. Kirk’s personal quarters and marvel at the infamous Tantalus field.

One of the reasons the recreations are so perfect is because Cawley based the designs on the original blueprints used to construct the sets in 1966.

During the 1980s, Cawley befriended Bill Theiss, the celebrated costume designer for “Star Trek,” who also worked on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

“We were kinda like pen pals, but like telephone pen pals,” he explained.

Shortly after Theiss died in 1992, Cawley received a box full of items the designer kept from the original series. Most were small knick knacks, such as buttons and pieces of fabric. But there were several rolls of paper that contained a very rare find.

“They were a set of blueprints from the original show that he had saved,” he said.

The detailed plans included exact dimensions of the set, allowing Cawley to recreate everything to the precise size and scale of the original. As a result, when you step onto the Enterprise bridge, everything is exactly the same as it would have been when they filmed the series.

Original cast members Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig have visited and last year, Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, took his place in the captain’s chair during a special event.

A life-long Star Trek fan, Cawley started building bits and pieces of the shows set in his grandfather’s workshop. He has worked as an Elvis impersonator for more than 30 years, and used the money he earned touring the country to build the sets.

“There are elements of it that were built in a couple of other places over the years, but the vast majority of what’s here now has been rebuilt, because we wanted it to stand up to the human eye and high definition photography,” Cawley explained.

But don’t ask how much he has spent over the years on control panels, sliding doors or the Jefferies tube.

“I don’t really know, because I built a lot of this prior to this becoming a business, and it was for the enjoyment out of it,” he said with a laugh. “And I remember telling myself… if you really keep track of every dime that you’ve put into this thing, it’s no longer going to be fun. And if it isn’t fun, then you shouldn’t be doing it.”

Early versions of the set were featured years ago in a fan web series, “Star Trek: New Voyages.” Cawley played Kirk in most of the 11 episodes. Afterward he got license from CBS allowing him to create the tour, and opened the doors to the experience four years ago. Since then, it’s been visited by thousands of Star Trek fans from around the world.

The “Star Trek Original Set Tour” has also hosted special gatherings such as Trekonderoga, where notable actors from Trek history have appeared. Last year, guests included Terry Farrell from “Deep Space Nine,” Robin Curtis from “Star Trek III,” along with Ethan Peck (the grandson of Gregory Peck) who played Spock in the last season of ‘Star Trek: Discovery.”

Although closed for several months because of coronavirus, Cawley recently began welcoming visitors once again. There are now limits to what people can touch, and masks are required, but the experience is still surreal.

“It’s my hope here that we can get through the pandemic, all of us, and we’ll be able to grow this and do a lot more,” he told The News.

Plans are in the works to expand the tour. Cawley noted he hopes to open up more space and include items from “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” There are also designs in the future to build a replica of the bridge from that show’s Enterprise D.

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It’s happened to just about every Star Trek fan young and old: the inescapable fantasy to step onto the bridge of our favorite starships, to walk through the corridors, and stare out at a brilliant starfield as the ship whisks you – and your imagination – into the… Final Frontier .

Stage 9 developer Rob Bryan steps into this fantasy every day. And now, so can you.

A Virtual Enterprise-D Recreation

This is all thanks to virtual reality, both in the conceptual sense of a 3D image on a 2D display, like most video games, and in the sense of the still nascent but inherently  Star Trek -esque VR technology like the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. Indeed, our first glimpses of this kind of technology were seen first on The Next Generation , so what better place to replicate in virtual reality than the legendary Enterprise-D herself?

Bryan, along with a dedicated and enthusiastic team of developers at Stage 9, is recreating the entirety of the Enterprise using Unreal Engine 4, a game engine known for its level of detail and relative ease of use. And while their work-in-progress is steadily advancing toward Trekkie perfection, the results so far are still, in a word, amazing.

The Enterprise-D bridge, as recreated in Stage 9

Building the Enterprise, One Room At A Time

“ Star Trek has been important to me as long as I can remember, and throughout every episode of TNG specifically, I thought about how great it would be to actually walk around that ship myself,” Bryan told TrekNews.net. “I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to do that.”

Players have the freedom to roam the  Enterprise , traversing decks, entering rooms, and interacting with objects in the world. Stage 9 is designed using sets seen on the show, and lesser-known sources like production plans that designer Rick Sternbach released in the 1990s. And for those parts of the ship that have no reference material at all, Bryan and his team sometimes indulge in their own inspiration to faithfully recreate these never-before-seen parts of the ship. The result is a massive, explorable environment that isn’t so much a game, as a simulation.

The technology to accomplish this goal has only recently become available, but attempts have been made before. Consider, for example, the secret room in the 1991 game Duke Nukam . A neat little easter egg, but far from a fully realized recreation. Or consider the excellent  Star Trek: Elite Force and its “virtual Voyager” mode, where the player could walk the corridors and rooms of Voyager . Pretty neat and surprisingly immersive,  but the technical limitations of 2001 still held the mode back from the realistic feel many were yearning for. Now, the power of modern video game technology allows Bryan and his team to faithfully recreate intricate details on the Enterprise. And with the release of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Blu-Rays, more detail than ever is available for reference.

Which chair will you sit in?

The Method Behind the Madness

So why the Enterprise-D ? Well, that comes down to creator preference. Bryan says he grew a stronger connection to TNG than the other  Star Trek shows, thanks to that show’s “sense of wonderment” which accompanied the adventures of Captain Picard and his crew. But more than that, Bryan found a “comforting” aesthetic to the Enterprise set he felt was missing from other shows. But as Bryan notes, recreating that set isn’t as easy as mimicking design. This is where the project’s greatest challenge presents itself.

“The fact that making this an actual 3D space that made sense was great fun for everyone involved, but definitely challenging,” explains Bryan. “How do we make this area ‘feel’ like something you’d see on the show? How would we approach the decor? What purpose would this particular room serve?”

The rarely seen Shuttlebay 1, expanded by the Stage 9 team.

It’s questions like these the developers ask themselves when recreating parts of the ship, especially parts viewers have only caught glimpses of. Take for example Shuttlebay 1, the biggest shuttle bay on the ship, but one we’ve only seen a part of in the episode “Cause and Effect.” There’s not a lot of reference material, even with Sternbach’s designs, so the Stage 9 team had to take great care in maintaining the aesthetic of the show, while making this mostly-new space interesting for the player to walk around in.

It may surprise people that this labor of love is completely free to use, especially since Bryan and others work hours upon hours every day to push out frequent updates and improvements to the stimulation.

“ Star Trek is something that means a lot to many people, including all of us involved in Stage 9. This is something Patrick Stewart himself said when  announcing his return to Picard, and it resonated significantly with the Stage 9 team: ‘ The Next Generation brought people comfort, saw them through difficult periods in their lives or how the example of Jean-Luc inspired so many to follow in his footsteps, pursuing science, exploration, and leadership.’ Stage 9 itself is our way of paying respect to something we all love.”

Those who wish to step onto the Enterprise with or without a VR headset can do so simply by going to the Stage 9 website . Just check to make sure your computer meets the required specifications. You can also join the team’s Discord to contribute your feedback and help make the stimulation better.

The future is bright for the Stage 9 team. While they still have plenty of work on the Enterprise-D ahead of them – including (at some point in the future) implementing the most requested feature: multiplayer – recreations of other ships are viable down the line. For now, players can be treated to an increasingly immersive recreation of the ship seen most in Star Trek . While players will have to deal with some bugs and performance issues, the trade-off is an opportunity to indulge in our imaginations. Indeed, what better way is there to describe Star Trek ?

Check out the gallery below to view more images from Stage 9’s impressive recreation.

Connect with us on social: @TrekNewsNet on Twitter , @TrekNews on Facebook , and @TrekNews on Instagram .

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August 22, 2019 at 8:31 pm

Seems the VR version is not available for download on their site. A temporary bummer!

Paramount/CBS killed a similar project a few years back. I would download a copy of this sooner rather than later if you are eager to play with this at some point.

Still looks like a flying dentist’s office, but dated aesthetic or no, I am hot to try this.

THAT’S THE GREATEST THING!! A thing I dreamed of almost all of my life!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

I just got an Occ Rift and can’t think of better use than reliving all those hours spent watching THG. I can see a possible future where you could be in the middle of an episode either as a virtual Q, just watching the story unfold, or taking the place of a minor crewman that can watch and interact without affecting the actual story.

Great coverage of Stage9! Glad more people are seeing this develop. Correction: ‘ the secret room in the 1991 game Duke Nukam’ should be: ‘1996 game Duke Nukem 3D’

Although they say they’re just doing the Ent-D, one of the gallery images above clearly shows the TOS bridge, presumably from the “Relics” holodeck recreation, so there’s still that. This isn’t the first time something like this has been done: way back in the 1990s there was a similar walkthrough produced, though I don’t think it was as immersive (it was more a case of jumping between rooms). The idea of a fully immersive 3-D walkthrough of an Enterprise has been a dream of a lot of people for decades. Way back around 1980 the “Bill Budge 3-D Graphics Tool” came out for the Apple II Plus and I know some people were trying to create a walkthrough of the Enterprise. So this is a dream come true if it all comes together.

Jeff Mullins

Enterprise D looks so much better than that ugly Discovery ship.

This is amazing! The D is the only Enterprise for me!

AnEmptyStreet

The stage 9 website, facebook, and youtube have all been scrubbed of content. The Discord is also closed and in read only. Did CBS do its CBS-thing and force these guys shut this down?

CBS shut this down with a cease and desist letter.

CBS Killed it… F*ck CBS.

Are you going to cover CBS shutting down this project after you covered it, or are you just going to ignore it like the Discovery plagiarism lawsuit? https://www.pcgamer.com/cbs-lawyers-phase-out-fan-recreation-of-star-trek-tngs-enterprise/

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The Roddenberry Archive Recreates Sets From First ‘Star Trek’ Pilot “The Cage”

| May 4, 2022 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 61 comments so far

The Gene Roddenberry estate is developing “The Roddenberry Archive,” which is a multi-decade collaboration to collect and preserve Gene Roddenberry’s legacy at the highest levels of fidelity and historical accuracy. A number of Star Trek veterans are involved in the project, including artists Denise and Mike Okuda, Doug Drexler, and Daren Dochterman who are all working with the cloud graphics company OTOY.

Their first project is to create a 1:1 virtual experience of The Motion Picture USS Enterprise. And they have just announced another ongoing project to recreate elements of the first Star Trek pilot “The Cage,” bringing in even more Star Trek veterans.  The Roddenberry Archive has released new details and a video showing how this intriguing new project is being put together.

A virtual “Cage”

The Roddenberry Archive team has enlisted the help of two of the surviving cast and crew of “The Cage” director Bob Butler and Sandy Gimpel (who played a Talosian). Also helping are Sean Kenny who played Pike in “The Menagerie”, and Chris Hunter – son of original Captain Pike actor Jeffery Hunter.

The official announcement explains the process:

The Roddenberry Archive team has allowed the cast and crew of “The Cage” to step back in time 58-years and revisit 1:1 life-size virtual sets, costumes, characters, and props (including fully working Enterprise interiors). The Cage, which predates  Star Trek: The Original Series  by two-years was written and produced by Gene Roddenberry, and directed by Robert Butler. Mr. Butler has provided the archive with hours of behind the scenes materials, and in March 2022, reviewed the 1:1 scale USS Enterprise’s bridge in a virtual production environment to confirm that it faithfully matches the physical set he filmed nearly 60-years ago.

A close match to original actress Laurel Goodwin is scanned in costume for the recreation, as these split screens demonstrate.

The project members show off their work in the following announcement video:

The Roddenberry Archive is recreating Enterprise’s legacy

Reconstruction work on the Roddenberry Archive project will eventually cover the entire 40-year legacy of the original USS Enterprise from 2245 to 2285. The project aims to “recreate life-sized representations of almost a dozen canonical Enterprises by the end of this decade.” The goal is to allow “future generations to immerse themselves in the evolution of the legendary starship.”

This video from last summer shows off some of the early work on recreating the Enterprise.

You can learn more about The Roddenberry Archive and the Enterprise recreation at OTOY’s site here.

There are no specifics on how or when people will be able to see these projects. However, OTOY says the plan for eventual distribution for The Roddenberry Archive will include using innovative techniques such as VR/AR and holographic display panels.

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First! Fantastic. I’ve found the sets of the Cage more futuristic and more cinematic than those of TOS and at the same time inspired by the late 50s design like Forbidden Planet.

I’ve always felt the same.

We can now duck, while the TOS 1701 gang weigh-in in disbelief.

Mike and Denise Okuda have such a passion for Star Trek, I’m glad they’re involved.

So true! It’s great to see them so involved in all things Trek again!

Having the Okudas in leadership roles in this project truly helps with the trust that it will capture whatever can be documented and recreated at this point in time.

This now fully explains why the fan-made VR tours of the Enterprise were shutdown by CBS and Paramount in 2018.

I am involved on this project and was also involved in the Stage 9 Enterprise-D recreation, the shutdown was unrelated to this.

I really, really, really hope they make this avail to all people and not limited to conventions, museums and wealthy people.

This sounds pretty impressive.

Amazing!! Star Trek has become so disappointing to me personally since the Rick Berman era ended, but this gets me excited again even though I am not 100% sure what it is about!

One thing seems obvious to me though, if they can recreate the ship and the sets then one day they will be able to recreate the likeness of the actors. How far will they / can they / should they go with that and what would it mean in terms of copyrighting a person?

We get a 5th Season of Enterprise, years 4 & 5 of the original 5 year mission etc Could go back and give us new episodes / movies from the old casts

…………..interesting!

Deepfake technologies are already pushing those boundaries. For example, with the Mandalorian, Mark Hamill did not record a single line of dialogue and had his face superimposed over a younger body double.

Carrie Fisher used to joke that one day when she looked in a mirror she’d have to send George Lucas $5.00. Maybe she was being prophetic

I’ve been foreseeing this for some time in the future. What I would love to see: The Star Trek movies of the 70s that never made it and the Phase II series. I know that some find it boring, but I love those 70s designs!

Hope they will remember the awesome work people did recreating the D-Enterprise in Unreal and for VR. Until CBS dumped the project for no (official) reason…

They do remember it, some of us involved in that project are now working on this! :)

Can you address whether Light Field Lab is still involved on this? I interviewed with them — their main thing is holographic presentation — in summer of ’20 and this Enterprise recreation was something they were supposed to be partnering with Rod on.

How much will all this cost?

The goal of OTOY and the Roddenberry estate is for it to not be monetized, as stated publicly on Twitter.

That’s fine and dandy and all, but if I gotta shell out $50 or whatever to walk through any version of the Constitution Class Enterprise on my Oculus Quest 2, OTOY can take all of my money!!!

Speaking of which… how are we going to be able to interact with these amazing VR 3D models? I need this in my life, like, yesterday.

I agree! I didn’t see anything about how this will be implemented. But, I’m seriously hoping it’s for VR headsets like the Oculus Quest 2. To be able to walk/fly/move around Trek ships and locations would be seriously awesome.

This virtual set project is interesting, but what are the makers hoping/planning that it will be used for? Do they intend for it to be used in the shows and movies eventually? Gaming? Theme park attractions?

And “they” say that “they” can’t recreate the show exactly like it was, in order to maintain continuity. Sigh. Still, this “experience” is a neat concept, and I am looking forward to its completion. Kudos!

“They” are, for better or worse, producing series to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. These folks, bless them, are looking to please themselves and a fanbase of purists and nerds. Not the same thing at all.

(And yeah, “The Cage” stuff is especially cool.)

“Not the same thing at all” you say. Not criticizing but just to say–today’s brand new audience *will be* the purists and nerds of tomorrow in however many decades from now anybody cares to mention, if some of them take the most recently made films and series to their hearts and into their futures like so many old-time fans have (or did). Indeed, of so many working on this preservation project, that is their exact story. So don’t knock the nerds and purists lol – they’re like that for pretty good reasons and were (are) also that wide audience! Additionally, ‘”the project aims to “recreate life-sized representations of almost a dozen canonical Enterprises by the end of this decade’: unless that figure also encompasses the three aircraft carriers, the Shuttle test vehicle, the Star Trek Online future ships and also the J, I don’t believe there have been twelve Starships Enterprise actually seen on-screen…so if the Rodenberry Archive team want to be complete and comprehensive regarding that dozen, and are sticking only to TV/movie models and sets…the Abrams films’ ship and of course the very latest, Discovery/Strange New Worlds’, will be digitally recorded for posterity to benefit today’s and the next, coming generations, too. In fact I’d be shocked if those last two’s physical sets *weren’t* already digitally scanned for future filmed production/gaming/VR-entertainment and theme park purposes. It’s only logical. =)

Re “NuTrek” I understand there’s likely a whole lotta licensing issues with anything made after 2009 in relation to what’s being done here. Others will know more than me, however I think my points still stand about recreating that ‘dozen’!😅

Get a life nerd

Is that like telling someone to ‘get a life partner’ or are you just being a jerk who deserves a warning?

I saw this last night and it’s incredible, especially in how the Yeoman Colt actress looks a lot like the late Laurel Goodwin. The Enterprise from the Cage era looks great as well.

When you guys go to OTOY’s website, they have a video involving Yeoman Colt.

The actress is a spitting image of Colt. They should have used her in Strange New World’s.

Why couldn’t they cast that actress as Colt in Strange New Worlds? She’s a spitting image of her.

I am delighted to see such interest in preserving the origins of the Star Trek phenomenon. There is no other entertainment franchise with quite the combination of strength, influence, history, prestige, and pop cultural importance that Star Trek has had and continues to have. Others may exceed it in history (e.g., James Bond) or box office draw (e.g., the Star Wars and Marvel franchises), but Star Trek has a unique position because of its positive message and vision for humanity which have impelled it to incomparable heights in such characteristics. Part of the success of Star Trek is the care that those involved have demonstrated to preserve its elements, beginning with its roots. Attention to detail is part of this care. Demonstrative of this is the invitation of a key figure from the 1960s production of the first pilot; another is the effort devoted to accuracy, as seen in the startling resemblance between the original actress who played J. M. Colt and the current one.

This is great, lots of hard work going on to retain, recreate and archive the legacy of these great creators. Well done and thank you to everyone involved!

Looks great!

Wow! This is hugely impressive, and exciting! The work that’s going into these digital creations is just insane! Can’t wait to experience the fruits of their hard labours. Love The Cage’s designs, and TMP – So this looks like heaven!

Wouldn’t the Roddenberry Archive being “a multi-decade collaboration to collect and preserve Gene Roddenberry’s legacy at the highest levels of fidelity and historical accuracy” be best served by also putting a great deal of effort behind preserving the two Star Trek series needing restoration, Deep Space Nine and Voyager? Yes, I know they’re owned by CBS, but still.

(P.S. no disrespect at all intended to the people working on this project… I’m just saying, it would be really nice if ALL of Star Trek were being tended to by the powers that be.)

It would be great to have Voyager and Deep Space Nine in better than VHS quality. Like to finally have a real HD scan not made for 240 lines interlaced, for VHS and Laserdisc era video.

Way better than the over the top and oversized tacky sets made for the Kurtzman era. The Cage bridge looks functional and doesn’t waste space.

Watched “The Cage” last night, and it’s just as riveting and fascinating as it’s always been for me! To come full circle with a whole series centered around Pike is such a treat.

Btw, seems like tomorrow is one of the most special days in the 56 year history of Trek: Have we ever before been gifted a season finale and a series premiere on the same day? Enjoy! 🖖

Good point, I doubt it!

This is probably the longest amount of time between pilot and series in television history.

wow. also, wow.

Hadn’t realized that Laurel Goodwin passed recently….

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is opening next year in Los Angeles.

This seems like a perfect project for an interactive exhibit, and it would draw tons of people.

So Star Trek is really becoming a historical document. LOL, lets wait for the aliens to view them then :)) On a more serious note though, this is an excellent idea, to digitally preserve what came before for the future generations. One question I have though will this only be accessible for research purposes or can they use these assets for the TV shows as well? It’ll probably involve lots of contracts and people needing to signing off things.

Also, so awesome to see Robert Butler still alive and kicking. I was always impressed with his directing on The Cage, it was low-key but memorable. Almost like an independent motion picture but out in Space.

I just found out Joe D’agosta is also still alive (and doing interviews, according to my friend at Facttrek.) But Butler is the guy I’d probably most want to speak with. He has an enormous interview already on file, I think it is on the DGA website. The guy did so many different kinds of successful pilot episodes, plus he was the original director for THE DAY AFTER (had to honor a commitment to REMINGTON STEELE and bow out, after doing that show’s pilot, showing how STEELE messed with careers at both ends of its run, since it’s late renewal after being cancelled is what originally cost Brosnan Bond back in 86.)

The one interview I remember best with Butler was I think in Asherman’s STAR TREK INTERVIEWS (either that or an Ed Gross book from late 80s/early 90s), one where he talks about being approached to direct KHAN by Bennett, and how he was very firm in wanting to do things messy (which I guess was also in mind back at the time of CAGE.) He wanted uniforms that were stained by coffee, aging equipment … kinda makes me think Bennett took some of his ideas and used them WAY out of context as excuse for retiring the ship in TSFS. Considering Butler was just coming off the HILL ST BLUES pilot, I’m kinda surprised that he wasn’t more in demand, and that Bennett didn’t take his unorthodox approach to TREK more seriously, given the lack of enthusiasm he seems to have gotten from so many others (I gotta figure that with only one feature credit as director, Meyer had to be pretty far down his list of possibles.)

This blows me away! So impressive! BTW, I’m glad that Robert Butler has seemingly mellowed and seems to have a better appreciation of the lasting impact of ‘The Cage’ and Star Trek in general.

PS – That actress is an absolutely stunning look-alike of Laurel Goodwin! I wish that she had lived to see this project come to fruition.

Me too… Laurel sadly passed just weeks before they both would have met for the interviews.

 https://twitter.com/JulesUrbach/status/1521639344993361923 ?

Now THIS is what the Enterprise looks like. TNG got that right (the one with Scotty). DS9 got that right (Tribbles). ENT got that right (USS Defiant).

Discovery and SNW cannot be the prime universe.

(I’m going to regret this…)

If you think about all of the temporal excursions we’ve seen on Star Trek, there are going to be changes to the timeline. That’s why Enterprise exists at all. Maybe in the original timeline there was a Captain Archer and crew on the first Warp 5 ship, but that ship was not named “Enterprise”, hence why it wasn’t seen in TMP. After Picard and crew saved the future, in First Contact, Cochrane and Lily Sloane knew the importance of the name “Enterprise”, and thus the NX-01 is now “Enterprise”.

Thus the technology and ship designs changed. Look at the (silly) Temporal Cold War. If that didn’t have an effect on the timeline, I don’t know what does.

Discovery and SNW can be in the Prime Universe thanks to changes in the time stream due to time travel.

Actually, you won’t regret this. While I won’t agree with your assessment, your line of argumentation is inherently sound. And the first and only explanation I have heard as to why stuff is and looks different. Other than having to pretend that it has always been exactly this way.

Plus… how can I disagree with Star Trek’s best Captain?!

The suggestion has been made before that the general layout of the NX class was based on the couple of glimpses Zefram Cochrane got of the two-centuries-more-advanced (at the time of the launch of the NX, three when he saw it) Sovereign class. It makes sense – IMHO – that without that influence the first Earth attempt at a warp 5 engine/ship may well have been based on an effort to copy Vulcan designs already capable of warp 6.5 to 7, which would fit perfectly with the design of the “ring ship” (sometimes listed with the registry XCV-330, but that doesn’t preclude it being the equivalent of the NX-01, assuming different choices were made with regard to class naming & registry-assignment conventions) seen in the rec room in TMP.

So…the Star Trek Multiverse?

Connected by the single Great Bird of the Galaxy which effortlessly travels through all the iterations…and now as I think about it, as the vision of Dr Soong relayed to him in Data’s buried computer program in that episode of TNG, *we* are the Bird…

Too deep??=D

So that’s why they’re suing everyone into the ground, who just attempts to do something like this …

This project is so cool! I wish the new Strange New Worlds looked more like the original.

The possibilities are endless now with this technology. Using it to make new episodes or films? Have fans dress up and become characters? Make short films for personal use? Explore the Trek universe deeper than ever, where no man has gone before….

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The restored star trek enterprise-d bridge goes on display in may, the bridge is going on display at sci-fi world musem in santa monica, california..

Jonathan M. Gitlin - Mar 22, 2024 4:48 pm UTC

More than a decade has gone by since three Star Trek: The Next Generation fans first decided to restore the bridge from the Enterprise-D . Plans for the restored bridge morphed from opening it up to non-commercial uses like weddings or educational events into a fully fledged museum , and now that museum is almost ready to open. Backers of the project on Kickstarter have been notified that Sci-Fi World Museum will open to them in Santa Monica, California, on May 27, with general admission beginning in June.

It's not actually the original set from TNG , as that was destroyed while filming Star Trek: Generations , when the saucer section crash-lands on Veridian III. But three replicas were made, overseen by Michael Okuda and Herman Zimmerman, the show's set designers. Two of those welcomed Trekkies at Star Trek: The Experience , an attraction in Las Vegas until it closed in 2008 .

The third spent time in Hollywood, then traveled to Europe and Asia for Star Trek: World Tour  before it ended up languishing in a warehouse in Long Beach. It's this third globe-trotting Enterprise-D bridge that—like the grit that gets an oyster to create a pearl—now finds a science-fiction museum accreted around it. Well, mostly—the chairs used by Riker, Troi, Data, and some other bits were salvaged from the Las Vegas exhibit.

Unlike the actual set, which was made from wood, the replica is made of metal and fiberglass. The restoration was originally supposed to take up to two years , but the project ended up being a far bigger challenge.

When Ars checked in with the Enterprise-D bridge restoration in 2014, the science-fiction museum plan had taken shape. But that change of plans did not sit well with some of the project's original supporters, particularly after an imperfect re-creation of the captain's chair—which remained lost until recently—was sold on eBay.

Things got even uglier in 2018 when Huston Huddleston, who led the project, was arrested and then convicted for possessing child pornography. Although Huddleston still appears listed as the project's CEO on its Kickstarter page , that appears to be an artifact of its creation, and John Purdy is listed as the CEO of the Sci-Fi World Museum on its About Us page . However, Huddleston's mother remains as the museum's Chief Financial Officer.

The Enterprise-D isn't the only bridge you'll be able to find at the museum —there's also a replica of the bridge from Star Trek: The Original Series , which previously lived in a wax museum in Buena Park, California. Other exhibits include a hall of robots, as well as the "Bubbleship" and a drone from the movie Oblivion .

It's also not the only recent re-creation of the Enterprise-D's bridge. Okuda and his wife Denise both helped Paramount re-create the iconic set for the third season of Picard . The new Enterprise-D set can even be explored on Google Maps .

And earlier this month, it looked like Jean-Luc Picard's long-lost chair might be sold at auction. However, the day saw an agreement between CBS Studios and the auctioneer Propstore, which will return the chair to CBS's Star Trek Archive, which plans to restore and display it in the coming year.

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If Vic Mignogna bears a passing resemblance to James Tiberius Kirk, there's a reason for it: with a group of like-minded fans and a whole lot of attention to detail, he's executive-producing (and directing, and starring in) Star Trek Continues , a fan project that extends the show's original mid-’60s CBS run another two seasons. The Trekkers have reproduced everything from costumes to lighting to the flight bridge of the USS Enterprise, all in an aim to help realize the show's five-year mission. Our new video series "Obsessed" has its own five-part mission: to tell the tale of Mignogna's passion project, and keep you entertained along the way. The first two episodes are here, and subsequent installments will appear on WIRED's YouTube channel . Live long and prosper, y'all.

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Designing The Motion Picture’s Recreation Deck

The recreation deck of Star Trek: The Motion Picture grew out of Director Robert Wise’s desire to show the scale of the new Enterprise .

“When I came on the show, I saw a number of the old episodes,” he told Cinefantastique in late 1979, “and I was struck with the fact that they were always talking about having a crew of 460 or something, but all you ever saw were the main characters and a few extras walking around the back. They didn’t have any scope.”

So I felt it was very important that there be one place in the picture where we would have a big rec room and see a good part of the 400 people in one group, so we illustrate the size of the Enterprise and that it’s manned by all these people.

The question for the design team was where on the ship this reaction deck could be.

Illustrator Andrew Probert’s suggestion was to put it below the officers’ lounge. He submitted a concept art that showed how Spock’s arrival could be dramatized by observing his shuttle through the enormous windows of such a new facility.

Today such a scene would be shot on a blue-screen stage. At the time, Production Designer Harold Michelson’s problem was that he couldn’t possibly get glass in the required size to build that set.

He proposed to put the recreation deck in the back of the saucer section, next to the impulse engines. There were already windows on the model there, and Michelson felt he could build the right set for it.

Probert saw a problem, though: the saucer curves downward at the edges. He submitted a concept art for a terraced recreation room that would both maintain visual continuity and make the scene more interesting.

But Michelson rejected this as too complicated. Probert remembered him saying: “No one goes to a movie with a slide rule in his hand.”

Michelson defended his decision in an interview with Starlog in January 1980, arguing that there was a danger in being too logical about designing sets.

“We were bamboozled by technical advisors, people from NASA and other scientists,” he said. Michelson felt they were apt to lose sight of the drama in their insistence on accuracy.

And there was always a time element — no way we could do everything anybody might want us to do.

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Recreation room 6, on deck 3

A recreation room on deck 5

The recreation room , often abbreviated to rec room , and also known as a crew or crewman's lounge , was an area of a starship where crewmembers could go to enjoy games and other activities when off duty. They typically contained food synthesizers .

Constitution -class starships, such as the USS Enterprise , had several recreation rooms. Recreation rooms 3 and 6 were located on deck three. Another recreation room 3 was located on deck five. ( TOS : " Charlie X ", " Let That Be Your Last Battlefield ")

In 2266 , a bored Kevin Riley called the rec room in search of someone to talk to. ( TOS : " The Conscience of the King ")

A recreation room on deck five was also the place where Captain Kirk came to eat a chicken sandwich and drink coffee , in 2268 , only to discover tribbles had also gotten into the food delivery machinery. ( TOS : " The Trouble with Tribbles ", DS9 : " Trials and Tribble-ations ")

In 2268 , Pavel Chekov and two security guards attempted to arrest Kirk and Spock near recreation room E. ( TOS : " And the Children Shall Lead ")

A holographic projection of a rec room on a Constitution class ship

At least one type of recreation room was capable of generating a holographic simulation of environments . By 2270 , the Enterprise was outfitted with such a room in area 39 of the ship. This rec room was capable of creating pre-programmed illusions using holographic scenes , simulated weather including wind and temperature , and sounds played from audio tapes . The scenes it created included an 18th century European hedge maze , forests , blizzards , and a beach with seagulls . Even though the scenery extended beyond the room, one would still be able to walk up to and touch the walls during a simulation. ( TAS : " The Practical Joker ")

The location of crew lounges in the Enterprise-B

In the late 23rd century , the Excelsior -class starships had two crew lounges. There was a crew lounge in the bow of the primary hull and there was a crew lounge in the aft of the secondary hull . In 2293 , the location of these crew lounges were labeled in the USS Enterprise -B master systems display on the ship's bridge . ( Star Trek Generations )

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Appendices [ ]

See also [ ].

• Briefing lounge
• Recreation deck

Appearances [ ]

• " The Naked Time "
• " Charlie X "
• " The Conscience of the King "
• " Court Martial "
• " The Alternative Factor "
• " The Trouble with Tribbles "
• " By Any Other Name "
• " Day of the Dove "
• " Let That Be Your Last Battlefield "
• " The Mark of Gideon "
• " The Way to Eden "
• TAS : " The Practical Joker "
• DS9 : " Trials and Tribble-ations "
• VST : " Holograms All the Way Down "

Background information [ ]

The holodeck-like technology seen in TAS : " The Practical Joker " was presumably considered distinct from later holodecks , as VOY : " Flashback " established that holodecks did not exist during this era.

In Star Trek: The Original Series , the recreation room was a redress of the briefing room set, built on Stage 9 at Desilu 's main Gower Street studio lot. ( These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One , p. 110)

In TOS : " Charlie X ", there is an off-screen area where some laughing crewmembers stand, their silhouettes cast on a nearby wall that is shown in the episode. The episode's final draft script made it clear that the off-screen area was recreation room 6.

In the final draft script of ENT : " In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II ", a scene description stipulated that the "rec deck" aboard the USS Defiant was to be "a redress of the briefing room ."

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Star trek confirms next tv show set in discovery's 32nd century, starfleet academy details reveal biggest set ever.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's time period and setting have finally been confirmed as a new report reveals details about Star Trek's next TV show.

• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy in set in Star Trek: Discovery's 32nd century will have the largest set Star Trek set ever.
• Starfleet Academy will also return to San Francisco after Discovery set the school in outer space.
• Alex Kurtzman and his team are exploring futuristic Star Trek designs.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is confirmed to take place in the 32nd century of Star Trek: Discovery and a new report reveals the next Star Trek series will be filmed on the largest set ever constructed for Star Trek . Announced in April 2023, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is a YA-aimed series executive-produced by Alex Kurtzman and co-showrunner Noga Landau. Starfleet Academy will be about young Starfleet hopefuls trying to attain their dreams while also learning of a grave threat to the United Federation of Planets.

Variety 's cover story about the future of the Star Trek franchise went behind the scenes of the preproduction for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy , revealing the scope of the series' sets, including that Starfleet Academy will return to its original San Francisco setting after Star Trek: Discovery depicted the school in outer space. Read the details from Variety 's article below:

In one of Kurtzman’s several production offices in Toronto, he and production designer Matthew Davies are scrutinizing a series of concept drawings for the newest “Star Trek” show, “Starfleet Academy.” A bit earlier, they showed me their plans for the series’ central academic atrium, a sprawling, two-story structure that will include a mess hall, amphitheater, trees, catwalks, multiple classrooms and a striking view of the Golden Gate Bridge in a single, contiguous space. To fit it all, they plan to use every inch of Pinewood Toronto’s 45,900 square foot soundstage, the largest in Canada.

But this is a “Star Trek” show, so there do need to be starships, and Kurtzman is discussing with Davies about how one of them should look. The issue is that “Starfleet Academy” is set in the 32nd century, an era so far into the future Kurtzman and his team need to invent much of its design language... “For me, this design is almost too Klingon,” Kurtzman says. “I want to see the outline and instinctively, on a blink, recognize it as a Federation ship.”

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Starfleet academy will be accessible to new viewers and star trek fans, everyone is welcome to starfleet academy.

As revealed in Variety 's Star Trek cover story, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will be accessible to the show's target audience of teens and tweens , who are not expected to be experts on Star Trek - " which puts them on the same footing as the students depicted in the show," as noted by Variety. Co-showrunner Noga Landau adds, “ These are kids who’ve never had a red alert before. They never had to operate a transporter or be in a phaser fight.” In a way, Starfleet Academy has similar aims to Netflix's CGI animated Star Trek: Prodigy , which is designed to convert even younger audiences into Star Trek fans.

Tawny Newsome of Star Trek: Lower Decks is also one of the writers of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is targeting a late summer 2024 start of production , and they plan to film season 1's 10 episode order in Toronto for several months. Alex Kurtzman said at SXSW that with post-production and visual effects, Starfleet Academy may not premiere until 2026 on Paramount+. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is certainly going to be an ambitious undertaking, but the goal is to create the next generation of Star Trek fans.

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A wide-ranging look at the future of star trek gives us major updates on section 31 , starfleet academy , and trek 's hopes for a return to the box office..

Star Trek ’s streaming revival finds itself at a bit of a crossroads. Discovery , the series that brought the show back to its current heights, is preparing to begin its final season next week—and Picard , arguably one of its biggest successes, came to an end last year. But things ending has never stopped Star Trek from looking ahead to what’s next, and there’s plenty on the way.

As part of a wide ranging feature for Variety , Paramount has revealed a swath of hints about what to expect as Star Trek transitions from the stable of shows it has developed in the years since Discovery revived the franchise in 2017 (for what was then CBS All Access, now Paramount+), to a franchise looking to push itself on screens big and small once again.

Several of the shows that form Star Trek ’s current streaming era will of course continue—like the smash-hit success Strange New Worlds , currently filming its third season; the animated series Lower Decks ; and the kids-focused 3DCG series Prodigy , which has found a new streaming home at Netflix after being suddenly and controversially axed from Paramount+ last year. But now Star Trek ’s future beyond them is anchored in not just at least one more new TV show—the upcoming Starfleet Academy , now explicitly confirmed to be set in the 32nd Century setting established by Discovery ’s last three seasons—but experimentations in film in both theatrical and streaming formats.

The most major of these is Section 31 , the Michelle Yeoh-helmed series-pitch-turned-streaming film that follows her Discovery character, Phillipa Georgiou (actually the Mirror Universe variant of Yeoh’s character, who perished in its opening episodes) as she finds herself involved in the titular shady Starfleet secret police division introduced in Deep Space Nine . It’s now seemingly been confirmed that Section 31 will be set in the time period between Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and Star Trek: The Next Generation , as a major character joining Yeoh in the film will be a young Rachel Garrett, played by Kacey Rohl—the captain of the Enterprise -C introduced in the TNG episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise.” Also floated as a potential continuation of this streaming movie format beyond Section 31 is more from the world of  Star Trek: Picard —apparently not the so-called Legacy spinoff cast and crew have been asking for since the series concluded last year, but a movie previously teased by Patrick Stewart that would, presumably, continue to focus on Picard after the events of the show.

Paramount+ is not the only home for future Star Trek film content however. Plans are still underway to make a fourth and final film with the remaining cast of the Star Trek 2009 reboot movie—known as the alternate “Kelvin Timeline” continuity—with The Flight Attendant ’s Steve Yockey drafting the latest script for the latest iteration of the film, which has been trying to get off the ground in various forms since 2018, having most recently lost director Matt Shakman to Marvel’s The Fantastic Four . Further along the line than Star Trek 4, however, is another tentpole Trek movie: first reported on earlier this year as being written by Seth Grahame-Smith and directed by Andor ’s Toby Haynes, this film is now explicitly described as “an origin story of sorts” for, not as previously assumed, the aforementioned Kelvin timeline, but the “Prime” Star Trek canon, suggesting a return to the time period first explored in Star Trek: Enterprise .

All this, of course, remains in flux— Star Trek has few rivals in the Hollywood world when it comes to announced projects not actually making it out to audiences in one form or another (the galaxy far, far away says hello to its fellow Star franchise). But suffice to say Paramount has big, big plans for Star Trek in a bunch of forms across TV and film, and they’re unlikely to slow down any time soon.

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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that even among the greatest television shows in Star Trek history, most of them take two seasons to stop being kind of bad. Never has that been more true or more excruciating than in the case of Star Trek: Discovery .

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Often it felt like what Discovery was really doing in its early seasons was discovering what didn’t work. Strong performances from a great cast? That works. A Klingon design that absolutely nobody liked ? Definitely not. But despite the stumbles, Discovery season 1 had still averaged C’s and B’s with reviewers, and had built an audience and a subscriber base for Paramount Plus. On the strength of Disco ’s first season, Paramount greenlit Star Treks Picard , Lower Decks , and Prodigy , three new shows covering a huge range of ages and nostalgic tastes. And spinning out of Disco ’s second season, which introduced familiar , nostalgic characters and a brighter, more Star Trek-y tone, Paramount produced Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , inarguably the best new addition to the franchise since 1996.

Star Trek: Discovery crawled so that the rest of modern Trek could run... and then it started to walk. The show’s third season saw the USS Discovery and crew in the place that should have been their starting blocks: the bleeding future edge of Star Trek’s timeline. Thanks to season 3’s groundwork, season 4 became the first time that Discovery had a status quo worth returning to. In its fifth and final season, Star Trek: Discovery is finally free — free in a way that a Star Trek TV series hasn’t been in 23 years.

Star Trek: The Next Generation is such an elder statesman of the television elite that it’s easy to forget that it was daring. The show’s triumph wasn’t just that it featured a new cast of characters, but also its audaciousness in imagining the future of the future — and making that future unmistakably different . The Original Series showed a racial and national cooperation that seemed fantastical in its time, with an alien crewmember to denote the next frontier of embracing the other . Next Generation saw that bet and raised it, installing a member of the Klingon species, the Federation’s once-feared imperialist rival state, as a respected officer on the bridge of Starfleet’s flagship.

Next Generation ’s time period — one century after Kirk’s Enterprise — wasn’t a nominal choice, but a commitment to moving the story of Star Trek forward. From the show’s foundations, Gene Roddenberry and his collaborators, new and old, set a precedent that the Federation would evolve. Therefore, in accordance with the utopian themes of the franchise, old enemies would in time become friends. Next Generation embraced The Original Series ’ nemeses and the rest of ’90s Trek saw that bet and raised it again, pulling many of Next Gen ’s villains into the heroic fold. Voyager welcomed a Borg crewmember and disincorporated the Borg empire; Deep Space Nine gave the franchise the first Ferengi Starfleet cadet, and brokered a Federation-Klingon-Romulan alliance in the face of an existential threat.

But Discovery — at least until it made its Olympic long-jump leap 900 years into the future — couldn’t move Star Trek forward. So long as it was set “immediately before Kirk’s Enterprise,” hemmed in by the constraints of a previously established era of Star Trek history, it could graft on new elements (like Spock’s secret human foster sister) but it couldn’t create from whole cloth (like a galaxy-wide shortage of starship fuel that nearly destroyed the Federation). Like its predecessor, the ill-fated Star Trek: Enterprise of the ’00s, it was doomed to hang like a remora on the side of the events of The Original Series , or, if you’ll pardon another fish metaphor, doomed like a goldfish that can only grow as large as its half-gallon fishbowl will allow.

Discovery ’s later, free seasons in the 32nd century have shown the Federation at its most vulnerable, a subtler echo of Picard ’s own season 1 swing at fallen institutions . (Fans of Voyager and Deep Space Nine know that this is an extremely rich vein of Trek storytelling.) In its third season, Discovery solved a galaxy-wide fuel crisis that had shattered the community of the Federation. In its fourth it fought for a fragile new Federation alliance and its millennia-old ideals.

And those seasons have also boldly committed to the idea of imagining the future’s future — 900 years of it. The centuries-old rift between Vulcans and Romulans is long healed, Ferengi serve as captains in Starfleet, the work of Doctor Noonien Soong has brought new medical technologies to the fore.

Even still, Discovery hasn’t been truly free in its third and fourth seasons. Star Trek: Picard was out there, forming new past elements of a post- Next Gen / Voy / DS9 era that Discovery had to abide by. And, after all, the show still had to make sure there was something for its own next season to come back to.

But now — with Prodigy and Picard finished, and Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks locked into their settings of Star Trek’s established past, and Starfleet Academy and Section 31 not yet in production at the time that its final season would have been written — Discovery has reached the final final frontier for a Star Trek show. If you’re a Star Trek fan, that should excite you.

Not since Deep Space Nine in 1999 and Voyager in 2001 has a Star Trek series had the freedom to wrap up its run with the Federation in any state it wants to. With franchise flagship Next Generation at an end, and Voyager restricted to the Delta Quadrant only, Deep Space Nine used its last seasons to throw the Federation into all-out war, making sweeping changes to the established ficto-political norms of ’90s Trek. Voyager used its finale to do what Captain Picard never could: defang the Borg (mostly).

We don’t know exactly what Discovery will do with that freedom. Season 4 directors have talked about reaching “ into the past to get further into the future ,” and likened it to Indiana Jones. Official news releases have said the crew will “uncover a mystery that sends them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries.” But speculating on what that means would be beside the point.

Discovery , the show about an intergalactically teleporting starship, can finally, actually, go anywhere. It’s been almost a quarter of a century since a beloved Star Trek series was so free to boldly go. Let’s hope they’re very bold indeed.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5 premieres with two episodes on April 4 on Paramount Plus.

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Where We Left Off with Star Trek: Discovery

Here's a quick refresher before Discovery returns with Season 5 on April 4!

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Star Trek: Discovery returns with its fifth and final season on April 4, and the series’ highly-anticipated conclusion promises a tale filled with adventure, intrigue, and a quest for an ancient power.

As we stand ready to reunite with Captain Burnham and the U.S.S. Discovery -A, let’s refresh our memories about each crew member’s journey through Season 4 and look back on where we left off with them at the end of last season.

Captain Michael Burnham

"Coming Home"

When the Dark Matter Anomaly (DMA) endangered a resurgent Federation and the galaxy as a whole, it also jeopardized the loving relationship that Captain Michael Burnham and Cleveland "Book" Booker had forged. Though her diplomatic approach to first contact with the DMA's creators put her at odds with Book, Captain Burnham successfully uncovered the cultural context necessary to communicate with the enigmatic Species 10-C and convinced them to halt their destructive mining efforts.

Initially believing her partner — her "one" — had been killed in the encounter, Burnham was elated to learn the 10-C revealed that they had rescued Book before his ship had been destroyed. A practical matter cut their rejuvenated joy short, as Burnham was forced to part with Book when the Federation sentenced him for violating numerous statutes. The captain resolved to see him again before turning to witness a momentous announcement — United Earth and Titan planned to rejoin the Federation. Having solved The Burn , overcome the DMA, and brought the galaxy closer, Captain Burnham expressed optimism and hoped to focus on exploring the stars.

During his leave from Discovery , Captain Saru guided Su’Kal on his return to their homeworld and encouraged the Kaminar High Council to embrace a return to its spacefaring ways. However, the threat posed by the DMA motivated him to go back to Starfleet and serve as Captain Burnham’s Number One. His steadfast support proved vital, and his regular presence aboard Discovery and at Federation Headquarters provided him with a chance to get better acquainted with Ni'Var's President T'Rina.

Saru played instrumental roles in bringing Ni’Var back into the Federation fold and establishing a meaningful dialogue with Species 10-C, and — by the time the crisis had been averted — he was finally prepared to let T’Rina know how he felt. As they both realized how much they meant to one another, Captain Saru and President T’Rina opted to begin spending their off-duty hours together, leaving many to wonder what the future may hold for their relationship.

Paul Stamets

Though much of his attention was dedicated to unraveling the mysteries behind the DMA, Commander Paul Stamets also navigated a series of interpersonal eddies that included opening up to Book about nearly losing his own family on the dilithium planet, collaborating with Tarka, confronting his uncertainty over trusting Zora, and showing concern for Dr. Hugh Culber's growing anxieties. Stamets strengthened his parental bond with Adira, as the two worked in tandem to bring Discovery through the Galactic Barrier and to the 10-C's hyperfield.

When the 10-C entrapped Discovery in an orb, Stamets developed a strategy to break the ship free that temporarily burned out the spore drive. As Captain Burnham stood before the 10-C to present her case, the astromycologist employed his research into the hydrocarbons obtained from the 10-C's original homeworld and oversaw the communication process from Engineering. Once a peaceful resolution was achieved, Stamets pivoted to personal matters. Having recognized signs of exhaustion and stress in Dr. Culber throughout the pursuit of the DMA, Stamets planned a much-needed retreat for the couple on Earth that would involve rest, relaxation, and non-replicated mavi.

Sylvia Tilly

Experiencing doubts about her path forward, Lieutenant Sylvia Tilly bravely asked Dr. Culber to counsel her in a professional capacity. Confident she needed to leave her comfort zone, Tilly embarked on missions to capture a Qowat Milat operative and accompany Starfleet Academy cadets on a routine survey. The latter undertaking proved fateful, as helping future Starfleet officers through a deadly trial led her to accept Dr. Kovich's offer to leave Discovery and become an instructor at the Academy.

As Discovery tried to converse with Species 10-C, Tilly joined Admiral Charles Vance in a last-minute struggle to evacuate as many people as possible from United Earth before the DMA could devastate the planet. She entrusted the admiral with the fact that she had found her purpose in life, ultimately sharing a grateful drink with Vance upon learning that the DMA no longer posed a threat to Earth. Tilly gathered with her friends at a celebration aboard Discovery , beaming at the sight of the progress Adira had made with social interactions.

Dr. Hugh Culber

"The Galactic Barrier"

While his medical training typically involved a cursory assessment of his patients’ psychiatric wellbeing, Dr. Hugh Culber added being a full-fledged "ship’s counselor" to his extensive repertoire in the wake of Discovery 's jump into the 32nd Century. In-between missions, Culber sat in sessions with Book and Tilly to discuss their mental health concerns and shepherded Adira through Gray's incorporation, but the overwhelming burden of counseling evacuees from an Akaali asteroid colony caused him to recognize that he had his own issues to explore.

Discovery 's voyage into extragalactic space afforded Culber a chance to visit an old 10-C nursery, where the species' emotion-inducing hydrocarbons propelled him to acknowledge that he was "not okay." Subsequently, his eyes opened by Captain Burnham’s pain when she believed she had lost Book at the 10-C's new homeworld, Culber chose to remain with Stamets and Adira — his family — as the crew departed to engage directly with Species 10-C. Upon their triumphant return to Federation Headquarters, Culber conveyed his thanks to Stamets for arranging a tranquil vacation to Earth.

Cleveland "Book" Booker

"Stormy Weather"

The 32nd Century courier known as Cleveland "Book" Booker thrived on his love for Captain Burnham and a newfound relationship with his family, but the DMA's arrival erased Kwejian from existence and took the lives of his brother and nephew. Book wrestled with his grief and guilt, eventually growing dissatisfied with the Federation's policies and allying himself with Ruon Tarka. Despite the fissure he created by aiding Tarka in his theft of the next generation spore drive and the deployment of an isolytic weapon, Book maintained faith in Burnham's leadership abilities.

At Species 10-C's hyperfield, an imprisoned Jett Reno broke through to Book and emphasized Tarka's illogical rationale. Tarka locked Book out of the autopilot, so General Ndoye crashed a shuttle into the ship to prevent it from reaching the DMA's power source. Book’s signal disappeared mid-transport, leading Burnham to believe he died when his shuttle struck the hyperfield. Fortunately, the 10-C recovered his pattern and materialized the courier in front of an appreciative Burnham. Book recounted the destruction of Kwejian to the 10-C, convincing them to cease using the DMA altogether. Sentenced to help families displaced by the DMA, Book said farewell to Burnham with the Kwejian phrase Kwakoni Yiquan — indicating his intention to speak with her soon and reaffirming his love for her.

As an official member of Discovery 's crew, Ensign Adira Tal accompanied Gray as their partner was incorporated into a synth body, but their skepticism in regard to meeting new people and opening up to fresh experiences persisted. Being stranded on a frozen moon alongside cadets helped break the ice, but Adira endured another social hiccup when Gray decided to leave the ship and study on Trill. The ensign shared their doubts with Jett Reno, who encouraged Adira's interest in befriending Lt. Commander Detmer.

Mustering the courage to chat with Detmer benefited Adira on a personal level, but Discovery 's venture into extragalactic space saw them excel in a scientific capacity alongside Stamets in Engineering. They participated in devising a way to use the spore drive to break free of the orb in Species 10-C's hyperfield and transmitted an update language algorithm so Captain Burnham could converse with the 10-C. Once back at Federation Headquarters, Adira's social skills impressed Tilly at the party commemorating Discovery 's diplomatic victory, though the ensign admitted that socializing was still difficult on occasion.

The Future Frontier

Replenished dilithium supplies and an emboldened Federation granted Season 4's early moments with a buoyant tone, but the DMA's arrival threw the circumstances — both personal and political — into a state of chaos. Nevertheless, with that peril behind them, Discovery 's crew ended last season on a high-note and managed to become even more tightly knit.

How will Captain Burnham and her colleagues handle their next monumental task? We’ll find out when Season 5 premieres on April 4!

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Star Trek: Discovery Seasons 1 through 4 are currently streaming exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., the UK, Switzerland, South Korea, Latin America, Germany, France, Italy, Australia and Austria. Seasons 2 and 3 also are available on the Pluto TV “Star Trek” channel in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. In Canada, the series airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel. Seasons 1 to 4 of Star Trek: Discovery is also available to stream on SkyShowtime. Star Trek: Discovery is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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