Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 12th episode of Star Trek: Discovery, continuing an extended story arc taking place in Star Trek’s “Mirror Universe”. Michelle Yeoh guest stars. 
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 12th episode of Star Trek: Discovery, continuing an extended story arc taking place in Star Trek’s “Mirror Universe”. Michelle Yeoh guest stars.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 13th episode of Star Trek: Discovery, concluding an extended story arc taking place in Star Trek’s “Mirror Universe”. Michelle Yeoh and Rekha Sharma (Battlestar Galactica) guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 14th episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Michelle Yeoh, Jayne Brook (Chicago Hope) and James Frain guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 15th episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Michelle Yeoh, Jayne Brook (Chicago Hope), James Frain, Clint Howard (Star Trek, Space Rangers) guest star in the season finale, which offers this series’ first glimpse of the Enterprise, leading into the second season’s storyline.
A very brief untitled extra scene following on from the season finale of Star Trek: Discovery is made available on YouTube by CBS All Access, starring Michelle Yeoh and Alan Van Sprang in a setup for a storyline in Discovery’s second season. The short scene also serves as a trial run for an upcoming series of short stories set in the Star Trek universe, Short Treks, which will debut later in 2018.
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the first episode of Short Treks, a series of 15-20 minute short stories set in the Star Trek universe (in this instance, aboard the U.S.S. Discovery from Star Trek: Discovery). Mary Wiseman stars.
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the third episode of Short Treks, a series of 15-20 minute short stories set in the Star Trek universe (in this instance, aboard the U.S.S. Discovery from Star Trek: Discovery). Doug Jones and Michelle Yeoh star.
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the second episode of Short Treks, a series of 15-20 minute short stories set in the Star Trek universe (in this instance, aboard the U.S.S. Discovery from Star Trek: Discovery, though in this story significant time has passed sinece the events seen in the series to date). Aldis Hodge stars.
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the fourth episode of Short Treks, a series of 15-20 minute short stories set in the Star Trek universe (in this instance, aboard the U.S.S. Discovery from Star Trek: Discovery). Rainn Wilson (The Office) stars and directs.
British-born actor William Morgan Sheppard, a genre casting favorite ever since his 1985 appearance as Blank Reg in the original Max Headroom TV movie (a role that permanently relocated him to the United States for the U.S. Max Headroom series), dies at the age of 86 in Los Angeles. With his wizened features (the result of a surgical procedure that cost him one of his eyes), classical stage training, and distinctive, vaguely-Irish-accented voice, Sheppard would go on to appear in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark, Quantum Leap, Star Trek VI, seaQuest DSV, Babylon 5 (a series in which he was a close runner-up for the role of G’Kar), Star Trek: Voyager, Doctor Who, and the 2009 Star Trek movie relaunch. He was the father of actor Mark Sheppard, a genre favorite in his own right, with whom he appeared in both Doctor Who and NCIS, playing older and younger versions of the same character. Prior to leaving the U.K., Sheppard had appeared in such series as The New Avengers, Hammer House Of Horror, and Day Of The Triffids.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 16th episode of Star Trek: Discovery, the beginning of the show’s second season. Anson Mount joins the series as Captain Christopher Pike (a character first devised by Gene Roddenberry for the 1964 Star Trek pilot, The Cage). James Frain and Tig Notaro guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 17th episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Sheila McCarthy (Little Mosque On The Prairie) and Andrew Moodie (Dark Matter) guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 18th episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Michelle Yeoh, Alan Van Sprang (Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments, The Tudors) and Bahia Watson (The Handmaid’s Tale) guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 19th episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Tig Notaro, Rebecca Romjin (X-Men, The Librarians) and Bahia Watson (The Handmaid’s Tale) guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 20th episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Michelle Yeoh, Alan Van Sprang (Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments, The Tudors) and Bahia Watson (The Handmaid’s Tale) guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 21st episode of Star Trek: Discovery.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 22nd episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Michelle Yeoh, James Frain, Alan Van Sprang (Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments, The Tudors), and Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You) guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 23rd episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Melissa George (Roar, Alias, Heartbeat), Alan Van Sprang (Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments, The Tudors), and Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You) guest star in an episode which hearkens back heavily to the original Star Trek series pilot, The Cage.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 24th episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You) guest stars.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 25th episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Michelle Yeoh, Alan Van Sprang (Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments, The Tudors), Sonja Sohn (The Wire), and Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You) guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 26th episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Michelle Yeoh, Alan Van Sprang (Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments, The Tudors), Sonja Sohn (The Wire), and Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You) guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 27th episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Tig Notaro, Kenneth Mitchell, and Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You) guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 28th episode of Star Trek: Discovery, part one of the second season’s two-part finale. Tig Notaro, Rebecca Romjin (X-Men, The Librarians), Michelle Yeoh, James Frain, and Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You) guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 29th episode of Star Trek: Discovery, closing out the series’ second season and marking Anson Mount’s final appearance as a series regular in this particular Star Trek spinoff. Tig Notaro, Rebecca Romjin (X-Men, The Librarians), Michelle Yeoh, and Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You) guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the fifth episode of Short Treks, a series of 15-20 minute short stories set in the Star Trek universe (in this instance, with scenes on the U.S.S. Enterprise prior to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds). Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn guest star in a short that seems like a trial run of (yet to be announced) Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the fifth episode of Short Treks, a series of 15-20 minute short stories set in the Star Trek universe (in this instance, with scenes on the U.S.S. Enterprise prior to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds). Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel) and H. Jon Benjamin (Archer) guest star.
BSX Records releases Dennis McCarthy and Kevin Kiner’s soundtrack from the documentary What We Left Behind.
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the fifth episode of Short Treks, a series of 15-20 minute short stories set in the Star Trek universe (in this instance, with scenes on the U.S.S. Enterprise prior to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds). Anson Mount stars as Captain Pike; Amrit Kaur (Anarkali) guest stars.
Dorothy Catherine Fontana, better known by her “indeterminate gender” pen name D.C. Fontana, dies at the age of 80. Originally setting out to be a novelist, she found herself drawn to the business of writing for the then-new medium of television, working her way from secretarial jobs to production assistant and script editor. Some of her earliest work, for TV westerns such as The Tall Man and Ben Casey, went out under her full name; by the time she sold scripts to The Wild Wild West, she found it easier to use a pseudonym (often “Michael Edwards” or “Michael Richards”). As the production secretary for a new series launched in 1963 called The Lieutenant, she was nominally working for executive producer Del Reisman, but often worked alongside the show’s creator, a junior producer named Gene Roddenberry. When The Lieutenant was cancelled after a single season, Roddenberry hired her to work on his next project, a sci-fi series called Star Trek, of which she became the story editor and a frequent scriptwriter, creating several critical points of the series’ backstory, especially involving Spock’s home planet of Vulcan. Work for such shows as Bonanza, Circle Of Fear, The Six Million Dollar Man, Land Of The Lost, and The Fantastic Journey followed; she was effectively the showrunner of the early 1970s animated revival of Star Trek, even though she was credited only as an associate producer. She served as story editor once again on the TV version of Logan’s Run, and, with fellow Star Trek writer David Gerrold, did significant work developing a modern (late 1970s) revival of Buck Rogers for television, only to see much of that work go unused by the eventual showrunner, Glen A. Larson. (She did still write a script for the series, however.) Between 1986 and 1987, she was one of numerous alumni of the original Star Trek to be brought aboard to develop the TV spinoff Star Trek: The Next Generation, but she found the working environment (dominated by Roddenberry’s attorney, Leonard Maizlish) to be stifling, and made no contributions past the first season. (She also had to fight for co-writing credit on the series premiere, Encounter At Farpoint.) Later writing assignments included War Of The Worlds, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Hypernauts, ReBoot, and the posthumously-produced Roddenberry series Earth: Final Conflict.
Actor Robert Walker Jr., perhaps best known as the troubled Charlie Evans from the classic Star Trek episode Charlie X (1966), dies at the age of 79. The son of a Hollywood acting power couple, Walker was expected from an early age to follow in his father’s footsteps; even after his parents divorced, his new stepfather, David O. Selznick, was a guiding force in his career. Early attempts at movie breakout roles proved less than successful, but Walker made a huge impression on TV audiences, with memorable appearances on Star Trek, The Invaders, and The Time Tunnel in rapid succession; movie success did eventually follow in such films as 1969’s Easy Rider and 1972’s Beware! The Blob, but it was television that provided much of his work. Later TV appearances included guest roles on The Six Million Dollar Man, CHiPs, Dallas, In The Heat Of The Night, and L.A. Law.