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Rene Auberjonois, actor, dies

Actor Rene Auberjonois, best known in genre circles for playing security chief Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for seven years, dies of metastatic lung cancer at the age of 79. A Tony-winning stage actor who didn’t break into films until Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H in 1970, he quickly became a familiar face on TV (Night Gallery, Ellery Queen, The Jeffersons, The Bionic Woman, Man From Atlantis, Wonder Woman, Beyond Westworld) and in movies (King Kong, The Big Bus, Eyes Of Laura Mars); the early 80s saw a new focus on voice roles for animation, including Smurfs, Super Friends, Challenge Of The Gobots), as well as the regular role of uptight chief of staff Clayton Endicott III on the political comedy Benson from 1980 through 1986. After Benson’s run, more voice work beckoned, including the role of Louis in Disney’s The Little Mermaid in 1989. 1991 saw his first appearance in the Star Trek universe, as warmongering conspirator Colonel West in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, a role which landed on the cutting room floor until those scenes were reinstated for the home video release. In 1992, he was cast as Odo, a pivotal regular character on Deep Space Nine, winning him a new generation of fans as the series ran through 1999. Other genre roles include guest stints on The Outer Limits, Poltergeist: The Legacy, Stargate SG-1, Warehouse 13, The Librarians, and Star Trek: Enterprise (though in a role unrelated to Odo). From 2004 through 2008, he was a regular on the William Shatner legal dramedy Boston Legal.

Star Trek: Short Treks: The Girl Who Made The Stars

Streaming service CBS All Access debuts two installments of Short Treks, a series of 15-20 minute short stories set in the Star Trek universe, both of them animated. The Girl Who Made The Stars is the first Star Trek production in 53 years to feature an entirely African-American cast, writer, director, and composer.

Short Treks: Ephraim and DOT

Streaming service CBS All Access debuts two installments of Short Treks, a series of 15-20 minute short stories set in the Star Trek universe, both of them animated. Ephraim And DOT, a comical return to the era of the original Star Trek, is directed by composer Michael Giacchino.

Star Trek: Picard: Remembrance

Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the first episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart as a retired Jean-Luc Picard encountering a mystery that forces him to come out of retirement, set over 20 years after the events of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest stars.

Star Trek: Picard: Maps And Legends

Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the second episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, and Alison Pill. Ann Magnuson and Tamlyn Tomita (Babylon 5) guest star.

Star Trek: Picard: The End Is The Beginning

Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the third episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, and Alison Pill. Jonathan del Arco (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and Tamlyn Tomita (Babylon 5) guest star.

Star Trek: Picard: Absolute Candor

Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the fourth episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jeri Ryan revives the character of Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager.

Star Trek: Picard: Stardust City Rag

Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the fifth episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager) guest stars.

Star Trek: Picard: The Impossible Box

Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the sixth episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jonathan del Arco (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest stars.

Star Trek: Picard: Nepenthe

Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the seventh episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis reprise their Star Trek: The Next Generation characters, Will Riker and Deanna Troi.

Star Trek: Picard: Broken Pieces

Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the eighth episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager) and Tamlyn Tomita (Babylon 5) guest star.

Star Trek: Picard: Et In Arcadia Ego – Part 1

Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the ninth episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager) and Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star.

Star Trek: Picard: Et In Arcadia Ego – Part 2

Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the tenth episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager), Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star in the first season finale.

Grant Imahara, actor, dies

Grant Imahara, who played Lt. Sulu in the fan-made series Star Trek Continues but is probably better known for his part in the popular TV series Mythbusters, dies from a ruptured brain aneurysm at the age of 49. As a member of Mythbusters’ “Build Team”, he used his background in electrical engineering and robotic design to help create real-world proofs of the sometimes outlandish ideas being tested in the show. Prior to that, Imahara worked at Industrial Light & Magic, and had built and operated droids (including R2-D2) for the Star Wars prequel trilogy, as well as doing similar work for movies such as Galaxy Quest, AI, Terminator 3, and the Matrix trilogy. He had roles in Sharknado 3 and episodes of Eureka.

The year sci-fi took over the Emmys

The nominees for the 72nd annual Emmy Awards are announced, and genre shows are unusually well represented. HBO’s comics adaptation Watchmen raKes in 26 nominations, including Outstanding Limited Series and the best actor, actress, writing, directing, music, costuming, and design awards in the Limited Series category. The Mandalorian is nominated in 15 categories, including Best Drama Series, music, guest actor, voice-over performance, and visual effects; Westworld is nominated in 11 categories, The Handmaid’s Tale is nominated in ten (including Best Drama Series), Stranger Things nets eight nominations (including Best Drama Series), Star Trek: Picard is nominated in five categories, and Space Force is nominated in four. One nomination each goes to Star Trek: Short Treks, Star Wars: Resistance, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Lost In Space, Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance, Chasing The Moon, The Boys, Black Mirror, and the interactive feature Doctor Who: The Runaway. CNN’s Apollo 11 documentary is nominated in five categories.

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Second Contact

Streaming service CBS All Access premieres the first episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) as the first ongoing animated Star Trek series since the early 1970s. Chronicling the voyages of a new set of characters aboard the 24th century U.S.S. Cerritos, Lower Decks stars Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders).

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Envoys

Streaming service CBS All Access premieres the second episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). Jess Harnell (Animaniacs) guest stars.

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Temporal Edict

Streaming service CBS All Access premieres the third episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). Neil Casey (Other Space, Avenue 5) guest stars.

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Moist Vessel

Streaming service CBS All Access releases the fourth episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense) guest stars.

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Cupid’s Errant Arrow

Streaming service CBS All Access releases the fifth episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders).

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Terminal Provocations

Streaming service CBS All Access releases the sixth episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). Jack McBrayer and J.G. Hertzler (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star.

Star Trek: Discovery: That Hope Is You – Part 1

Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 30th episode of Star Trek: Discovery, opening the series’ third season, which has been delayed for the better part of a year due to the COVID-19 outbreak forcing an unexpected switch to remote post-production. David Ajala (Doctor Who) joins the series’ regular cast for the third season, which takes place in a future centuries beyond what has previously been chronicled in any prior Star Trek series.

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Strange Energies

Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 11th episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Neil Casey (Other Space), and Phil LaMarr guest star in the second season premiere.

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Kayshon, His Eyes Open

Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 12th episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Vanessa Marshall (Star Wars: Rebels), and Paul F. Tompkins guest star.

Star Trek: Lower Decks: We’ll Always Have Tom Paris

Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 13th episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). Robert Duncan McNeill (Star Trek: Voyager) guest stars.

Star Trek: Prodigy: Lost And Found

Streaming service Paramount Plus premieres the two-part pilot episode of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman. The first Star Trek series in over 40 years designed for a younger audience, the series features the voices of Brett Gray, Ella Purnell, Jason Mantzoukas, Angus Imrie, Rylee Alazraqui, and Dee Bradley Baker, with Kate Mulgrew reprising the role of Captain Janeway.

Star Trek: Prodigy: Starstruck

Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the third episode of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman.

Star Trek: Prodigy: Dreamcatcher

Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the fourth episode of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman.

Star Trek: Prodigy: Terror Firma

Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the fifth episode of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman. Though originally intended to run concurrently with Star Trek: Discovery’s fourth season, the series goes on hiatus after this episode in order to allow post-production to catch up, with many elements of production having reverted to remote work due to a surge of a new variant of COVID-19. It is the first time since May 1999 that two Star Trek series have aired new episodes in the same week.

Star Trek: Discovery: Kobayashi Maru

Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the 43rd episode of Star Trek: Discovery, opening the series’ fourth season. Chelah Horsdal (The Man In The High Castle) guest stars.