Star Trek: Enterprise: These Are The Voyages…

EnterpriseThe 96th episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN. Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis reprise their roles in a series finale that proves somewhat controversial within fandom. This is the final Star Trek production with Rick Berman as the executive producer. Read more

Star Trek Phase II: To Serve All My Days

Star Trek Phase IIThe internet-based fan film Star Trek: Phase II releases its third full-length episode, To Serve All My Days. Walter Koenig guest stars as Chekov in a new script written by original Star Trek TV story editor D.C. Fontana. Read more

Star Trek Phase II: The Child

Star Trek Phase IIThe internet-based fan film Star Trek: Phase II releases its eighth full-length episode, The Child, based on the original version of a Star Trek: Phase II story written in the 1970s (which was eventually hurriedly recycled into TNG’s second season finale after the 1988 Writers’ Guild strike). Jon Povill, the original co-writer of the 1970s script, directs. Read more

Grace Lee Whitney, Star Trek actress, dies

Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Janice RandActress Grace Lee Whitney, a familiar face of ’60s TV who had a recurring role in the first season of Star Trek as Yeoman Janice Rand, dies at the age of 85. Compared to most of her castmates, her brief tenure aboard the Enterprise was tumultuous, ending just eight episodes into her stint as an intended semi-regular character. Her dismissal from the show led to a career downturn and battles with alcohol addiction, from which she recovered, reprising the role of Rand in cameo scenes in several of the Star Trek films, an episode of Voyager, and the Hugo-nominated fan-made episode World Enough And Time in 2007.

Star Trek Continues: The White Iris

Star Trek ContinuesThe 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. Read more

Star Trek re-re-generated

Star TrekTen years after the last Star Trek TV project left broadcast television, CBS (corporate heirs to the television rights to Star Trek) announces that a new series is in preparation for a January 2017 premiere on CBS. But current plans call for only the pilot to air on CBS; future episodes will be streamed exclusively on CBS’ paid streaming service. (Territories outside the United States will get to see the new show on television and not just the web.) The new series is being overseen by Alex Kurtzman, co-producer of the two “reboot” movies to date, though CBS is quick to distance the new TV/streaming project from those movies.

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Gary Hutzel, Star Trek effects supervisor, dies

Gary HutzelFormer Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica visual effects supervisor Gary Hutzel dies. His duties as a visual effects coordinator on Star Trek: The Next Generation led to a supervisory role on both that series and its spinoff, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Hutzel’s work continued in the 21st century re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica and its own spinoff series, Caprica. His other credits include the movie Spy Kids and the Syfy series Defiance. Mr. Hutzel was 60.

Barry Jenner, actor, dies

Barry Jenner as Admiral RossActor Barry Jenner, a fixture on American TV since the 1970s, dies at the age of 75. Among the many series in which he played recurring roles (among them Dallas, Knots Landing and Family Matters), genre fans remember him best for the role of Admiral Ross, to whom Captain Sisko reported in the final two seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He also appeared in such genre series as V and Starman.

Star Trek: Discovery: The Vulcan Hello

Star Trek: DiscoveryCBS 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. Read more

Star Trek: Discovery: Battle At The Binary Stars

Star Trek: DiscoveryStreaming 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. Read more

Star Trek: Discovery: Context Is For Kings

Star Trek: DiscoveryStreaming 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. Read more

Star Trek: Discovery: The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For The Lamb’s Cry

Star Trek: DiscoveryStreaming 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. Read more

Star Trek: Discovery: Choose Your Pain

Star Trek: DiscoveryStreaming 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. Read more