A complete expanded edition of Dennis McCarthy’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek: Generations is released on GNP Crescendo Records. 
A complete expanded edition of Dennis McCarthy’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek: Generations is released on GNP Crescendo Records.
The movie Star Trek Into Darkness opens in American theaters, having already opened overseas. This movie reunites director J.J. Abrams and the cast of the 2009 Star Trek movie, set in an alternate timeline from the original TV series and its big and small screen descendants. Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), Peter Weller (Robocop) and Alice Eve also star.
BSX Records releases a CD, Star Trek: Music From The Video Games, containing newly-arranged and performed music from many Star Trek video games and computer games from the 1990s onward.
GNP Crescendo records releases an expanded edition of Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek: Insurrection, remastering and expanding the original 1998 album with additional material, including music not used in the film.
The second episode of the fan-made internet series Star Trek Continues premieres. Guest stars include Fiona Vroom, Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk), Erin Gray (Buck Rogers In The 25th Century), and Daniel Logan (Star Wars Episode II).
Director Cliff Bole, a Hollywood veteran with episodes of such classic shows as The Six Million Dollar Man, MacGyver, and Spenser: For Hire under his belt, dies at the age of 75. Best known for his very frequent returns to the Paramount lot, Bole directed episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, including the all-time fan favorite TNG two-parter The Best Of Both Worlds (1990). He also directed other genre shows such as The X-Files, Supernatural, and Millennium.
The fan-produced Star Trek production Starship Exeter releases its second episode after a delay of several years; though filmed in 2004 (and partially released at the time), the complete episode has not been released until now. The episode is co-written by Dennis Russell Bailey, who also had a hand in writing the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Tin Man.
The Star Trek fan production Prelude To Axanar is released to the internet as part of a crowdfunding campaign for a full-length Axanar project. The record-setting amount raised by the crowdfunding effort, as well as later Axanar merchandising efforts and questions about what is done with the funds raised, lead to a lawsuit and, later, CBS setting down much more restrictive rules for fan-generated Star Trek video content.
Four-time Emmy winning film and TV director Joseph Sargent, who directed the influential Star Trek episode The Corbomite Maneuver (the first to be filmed after NBC picked up the series), dies at the age of 89. Having worked until he was 84, Sargant also directed episodes of Kojak, The Man From UNCLE, and the Fugitive, and movies and TV movies such as The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and the 1991 Leonard Nimoy drama Never Forget.
Actor Barrie Ingham, one of the few actors to have played speaking parts in both the Doctor Who and Star Trek franchises, dies at the age of 82. Having appeared alongside William Hartnell in the 1965 Doctor Who story The Myth Makers, Mr. Ingham went on to play a more visible role as Alydon with Peter Cushing in the movie Dr. Who And The Daleks. He also appeared in the 1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Up The Long Ladder as the leader of a throwback space colony.
Actor Leonard Nimoy, known for nearly half a century as the face and voice of Star Trek‘s Mr. Spock, dies at the age of 83, several days after news reports that he has been rushed to a hospital with severe chest pains. A busy actor and director on stage and screen for most of his career, Nimoy became forever associated with Star Trek, and in turn became the “face” of the unlikely hit show (despite the fact that he wasn’t the show’s nominal star). Nimoy was the only cast member to carry over from the 1964 pilot, The Cage, into the rest of Star Trek in the same role. He directed several movies, including the hit comedy Three Men And A Baby, Star Trek III and Star Trek IV, but turned down an invitation to direct Star Trek: Generations in 1994. At one point, he was attached as director to a 1990s TV movie revival of Doctor Who, though he had to pass on that project as well. Mr. Nimoy had revealed, months before his death, that he was suffering from COPD.
The fourth full-length Star Trek Continues webisode, The White Iris, debuts on YouTube. Guest stars include Colin Baker (Doctor Who) and Adrienne Wilkinson (Xena: Warrior Princess), and the story refers back to the events of numerous episodes of the original Star Trek.
Writer George Clayton Johnson, who co-wrote the 1967 novel Logan’s Run with William F. Nolan and wrote episodes of both The Twilight Zone and Star Trek, dies at the age of 86. As part of the legendary “Green Hand” collective of golden-age SF writers, Johnson penned his stories in the company of such fellow southern California writers as Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson, Jerry Sohl, Robert Bloch, and Rod Serling (who paid Johnson for his first produced television work). For The Twilight Zone, Johnson wrote such memorable stories as The Four Of Us Are Dying, A Penny For Your Thoughts and Kick The Can, and for Star Trek he wrote a monster story called The Man Trap, which became that series’ first aired episode. Logan’s Run was adapted into a glitzy big-screen romp – arguably the last major theatrical SF event before the age of Star Wars – in 1976.
Actor Anton Yelchin, perhaps best known to genre fans for taking over the role of Ensign Pavel Chekov in the series of Star Trek reboot movies since 2009, dies in a freak car accident at the age of 27. Yelchin was already considered a rising talent because of his performances in Charlie Bartlett, Like Crazy, Hearts In Atlantis, Terminator: Salvation, and a remake of Fright Night (in which he starred opposite David Tennant of Doctor Who fame). His final movie as Chekov, Star Trek Beyond, is due to be released in July 2016.
The movie Star Trek Beyond opens in American theaters, having already opened overseas. Though still produced by J.J. Abrams, this third movie is directed by Justin Lin (The Fast & The Furious) and co-written by Simon Pegg, who also plays Scotty in the new movies. Idris Elba (Mandela: The Long Walk To Freedom, The Dark Tower The Wire, Luther), Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Lydia Wilson (Misfits, Ripper Street) also star.
At an all-star San Diego Comic Con panel celebrating 50 years of Star Trek, Bryan Fuller, the showrunner of the upcoming series (announced in late 2015), reveals key details of the show: the series is titled Star Trek: Discovery, following the U.S.S. Discovery, NCC-1031, in a time period between the original series and the early 21st century prequel series, Star Trek: Enterprise. Test renders of the ship are shown, hearkening back to an abandoned Ralph McQuarrie redesign of the Enterprise from the never-made 1970s movie Star Trek: Planet Of The Titans. The series takes place in the “prime” timeline of all of the previous TV series, rather than the alternate timeline of the J.J. Abrams-produced movies since 2009.
La-La Land Records releases the four-CD Star Trek: The 50th Anniversary Collection soundtrack box set primarily featuring music from the original series and The Next Generation, along with new works by Ron Jones and the premiere of a reconstructed selection of music from the 1970s Star Trek animated series.
CBS premieres the first episode of Star Trek: Discovery, the first new Star Trek TV series in 12 years, starring Sonequa Martin-Green (The Walking Dead) and Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Marco Polo). The second episode also premieres on this date, but instead of airing on CBS, it streams on CBS’ fledgling CBS All Access paid streaming service. Despite the unusual distribution arrangement for a two-parter, the premiere is watched by over nine million viewers.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the second episode of Star Trek: Discovery, starring Sonequa Martin-Green (The Walking Dead) and Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Marco Polo). This episode drops immediately after the conclusion of the first episode’s broadcast premiere on CBS.
Streaming service CBS All Access premieres the third episode of Star Trek: Discovery, starring Sonequa Martin-Green (The Walking Dead) and Jason Isaacs (the Harry Potter movies’ Lucius Malfoy). Rekha Sharma (Battlestar Galactica) guest stars.
Streaming service CBS All Access premieres The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For The Lamb’s Cry, the fourth episode of Star Trek: Discovery, starring Sonequa Martin-Green (The Walking Dead) and Jason Isaacs (the Harry Potter movies’ Lucius Malfoy). Rekha Sharma (Battlestar Galactica) guest stars.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the fifth episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Rainn Wilson (The Office) guest stars as Harry Mudd, a character originated in the original 1960s Star Trek series, and Jayne Brook (Chicago Hope) guest stars as Admiral Cornwell.
The tenth full-length Star Trek Continues webisode debuts on YouTube. Guest stars include Nicola Bryant (Doctor Who) and Amy Rydell.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the sixth episode of Star Trek: Discovery. James Frain (True Blood) and Jayne Brook (Chicago Hope) guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad, the seventh episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Rainn Wilson (The Office) and Katherine Barrell (Wynonna Earp) guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the eighth episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Jayne Brook (Chicago Hope) guest stars.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the ninth episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Jayne Brook (Chicago Hope) guest stars.
The eleventh full-length Star Trek Continues webisode debuts on YouTube. Nicola Bryant (Doctor Who) and Amy Rydell guest star in the final episode produced.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the tenth episode of Star Trek: Discovery, entering an extended story arc taking place in Star Trek’s storied “Mirror Universe” alternate timeline.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 11th episode of Star Trek: Discovery, continuing an extended story arc taking place in Star Trek’s “Mirror Universe”. Michelle Yeoh and James Frain guest star.