Episode 199: Calm Seas, Stormy Skies

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Main Mission, Part 1 (with an appropriate sound effect)

Starfleet Academy cancelled

• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy EP Confirms Season 2’s Major Risk
• ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Canceled After Two Seasons
• Why Paramount Plus Ended Star Trek: Starfleet Academy After Two Seasons
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Ending With Season 2
• Breaking — STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY Ends with Season 2, Wrapping Known Kurtzman-Era Productions – TrekCore.com
• ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ To End With Season 2 At Paramount+
• ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ to End With Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)
• William Shatner Speaks Out After Starfleet Academy’s Cancellation: ‘That Aspect Of Star Trek I’ve Always Loved’
• William Shatner Breaks Silence on Surprise ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Cancelation – Men’s Journal
• Paramount+ Is Dismantling Star Trek After a Historic 9-Year Streaming Run
• Star Trek is Adrift: Why ‘Starfleet Academy’ is Folding After Season 2
• The Real Reason for Paramount Dismantling Star Trek’s 9-Year Streaming Run Isn’t What You Think
• David Ellison On Cost Savings, Growth, The Tech Stack & AI As WBD Merge
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Cancellation Explained By Robert Picardo
• These 7 Rumored ‘Star Trek’ Shows Could Save the Franchise After ‘Starfleet Academy’s Cancelation
• The Star Trek Series Decades In The Making Lasted Just Over 2 Months
• Why Starfleet Academy’s Cancelation Has Me Worried About The Star Trek Franchise
• ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Offers the Franchise a Unique Way Forward
• STAR TREK’s TV Future Explained by Alex Kurtzman Amid Paramount Skydance Changes — GeekTyrant

Subspace Chatter

• STAR TREK: YEAR ONE Has Already Been Pitched To Paramount Skydance
• STAR TREK: YEAR ONE Pitch Has Officially Reached Paramount Skydance -CBR
• “Star Trek: Year One” Has Been Pitched – Dark Horizons
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Fan Petition Hits Milestone After Paramount+ Cancellation
• Petition · Renew ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ for a third season – United Kingdom · Change.org
• Star Trek: Scouts Final Episodes Released on YouTube
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Remembers When They Weren’t Real Trek | Den of Geek
• NickALive!: The 16th Anniversary Bundle! | Star Trek Online
• 25 Years Later, Star Trek Has Revealed The Hidden Reason Starfleet Actually Began
• PREVIEW — Inside IDW’s THE ART OF STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS – TrekCore.com
  Andy Weir Apologizes To Alex Kurtzman After Slamming Modern STAR TREK
• ‘Project Hail Mary’ Author Stirs Controversy Over Failed Star Trek Pitch, Then Apologizes To Alex Kurtzman – TrekMovie.com
• Andy Weir ‘Star Trek’ Comments Draw Fire From Author Don Winslow
• ‘Star Trek’: How The Beatles Inspired Kirk and Spock’s Reboot Bond
• Leonard Nimoy’s Positive Reaction To Star Trek: DS9’s ‘Trials and Tribble-ations’
• Star Trek: Prodigy Wins Emmy Award
• Land The Shuttlecraft Galileo by Brian Mix — Kickstarter
• STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Season 4 Premiere Expected In Late Summer
• Toy Fair ’26: Nacelle announces Lucille Ball & Gene Roddenberry action figures
• Action Figure Insider » Nacelle Toys Reveal New Star Trek Products at #Wondercon2026

Here are links to 57  additional stories.broken out by series, movies and other categories.

CLASSIC TV SERIES (in order of premiere)

Star Trek: The Original Series (1966 – 1969) [3 seasons]

1. 57 Years Ago Today, Star Trek Released A Time Travel Masterpiece That The Franchise Has Never Beaten – ComicBook.com
2. ‘Star Trek’ Actress Admits She Had a Crush on William Shatner

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 – 1994) [7 seasons]

3. 10 Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes To Skip On A Rewatch
4. Star Trek: TNG’s Chain of Command Is Mandatory Viewing for Every Sci-Fi Fan

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993 – 1999) [7 seasons]

5. One Of Star Trek’s Best Episodes Was Created Out Of Spite

Star Trek: Voyager (1995 – 2001) [7 seasons]

6. The Star Trek Episode That Only Exists Because Of A Sex Joke

STREAMING SERIES AND MOVIES (in order of premiere)

Star Trek: Picard (2020 – 2023) [3 seasons]

7. Why 1 Returning Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Was Disappointed by Picard Season 3’s Reunion – ComicBook.com
8. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Never Confirmed ‘Voyager’s Alternate Future Captain La Forge Reveal
9. Star Trek’s Marina Sirtis Explained Why Comparing Her Experience On Picard Season 3 To TNG Was ‘Depressing’ | Cinemablend

Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020 – 2024) [5 seasons]

10. Star Trek: Lower Decks Made An Abandoned Vulcan Character Franchise Canon
    

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022 – present) [4th season yet to premier, 5th/final season filmed]

11. Star Trek director ‘was very proud of’ arguably the worst Strange New Worlds episode
12. STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Season 4 Promises “Classic” Episodes Alongside Bold New Experiments

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy [2026 – present] [season 2 will end series]

13. Star Trek Officially Confirms It Now Follows One of the Oldest Star Wars Rules – ComicBook.com
14. Starfleet Academy Showrunner Teases Season 2: ‘The Dynamics You Thought Were Going to Be One Way Forever Start to Slowly Shift’ – IGN
15. REVIEW – Star Trek: Starfleet Academy “Rubincon” – Trek Central
16. Starfleet Academy is Star Trek (despite what so-called fans would have you believe)
17. Star Trek’s Most Divisive Spin-Off Warps Past a Major Streaming Milestone
18. Starfleet Academy’s Finale Improved Because It Removed Terrible Star Trek Characters
19. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 1 finale provides 6 unexpected glimpses of the future
20. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Is The Greatest Argument For The Return Of Long TV Seasons
21. Yes, There Will Be a Starfleet Academy Season 2. Here’s What We Know About It – Reactor
22. KUOW – ‘Starfleet Academy’ isn’t for everybody, but ‘Star Trek’ still is (Did ‘Star Trek’ jump the targ?)
23. 39 Years Later, The Star Trek Franchise Just Put Itself On Trial — Again
24. Jonathan Frakes Reacts to ‘Absurd’ Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Gag
25. The United Federation of Planets Has a War College Now — Are We Gonna Talk About It? – Reactor
26. Star Trek just fumbled what could have been an all-time villain reveal
27. Star Trek: 3 Best Things About Starfleet Academy Season 1 (& The 5 Worst) – ComicBook.com
28. Starfleet Academy season 1 finale makes it painfully obvious what’s coming for the Doctor in season 2
29. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Calls Out a Missing Piece of Starfleet Canon 60 Years Later
30. Star Trek actor was Jonathan Frakes’ ‘secret weapon’ on Starfleet Academy
31. Star Trek icon praises Starfleet Academy’s ‘great’ Khionian actor

unannounced “Star Trek: Legacy” series

32. Star Trek: Legacy Is ‘Never Gonna Happen’ Says TNG Icon

Trek series that never were, for one reason or another, [such as “Phase II”]

33. The Lost ‘Star Trek’ Movies and Shows That Almost Happened—and the Stories Behind Them

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES (in order of premiere)

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

34. Tom Hanks Wanted To Play An Extremely Important Star Trek Character
    

Fourth Kelvin-timeline movie [cancelled in 2025 after many false starts]

35. Why Star Trek 4 Isn’t Happening

OTHER MEDIA
Star Trek video games/board games

36. We Boldly Go Hands-On With Star Trek: Infection & Live To Tell About It

Star Trek toys/collectibles/other merchandise

37. March STAR TREK Merch Roundup: Klingon Weapons, STARFLEET ACADEMY Pins, New EXO-6 Figures, and More! – TrekCore.com

Star Trek Comics/graphic novels/magazines

38. Star Trek: The Last Starship #8 Exclusive Preview
39. Star Trek: The Last Starship #6 – Comic Book Preview

MISCELLANEOUS

Paramount+ / Paramount Skydance

40. David Ellison On Cost Savings, Growth, The Tech Stack & AI As WBD Merger

Star Trek related science news

41. A Modest Proposal: Star-Trek-like Communicator Badges for Siri | Scientific American

Franchise-wide/Miscellaneous

42. All 10 Star Trek Series Finale Episodes, Ranked – AOL
43. All 14 Star Trek Movies Ranked According To Rotten Tomatoes
44. Paramount has a Star Trek Strategy Problem. Here Are Five Ways to Fix It.
45. 10 essential Star Trek episodes to watch after Starfleet Academy season 1
46. Every Star Trek First Season Ranked Worst to Best – Reactor
47. Everything We Know About the Future of ‘Star Trek’
48. Column | What ‘Star Trek’ teaches us about the 21st century – The Pitt News
49. Rod Roddenberry on Carrying Forward the STAR TREK Legacy – Nerdist
50. The 10 Best Star Trek Episodes of All Time – ComicBook.com
51. Where did ‘Star Trek’ go? And what does it mean for the future of Paramount – and movie theaters? – East Idaho News
52. 10 Most Uncomfortable Star Trek Scenes Of All Time
53. Star Trek Should Boldly Go Back To Network TV
54. ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ Trivia: Take the World’s Hardest Quiz

Actor Watch

55. Jonathan Frakes Says STARFLEET ACADEMY Could Be His Last Time Directing STAR TREK — GeekTyrant
56. Shatner’s 95th sparks global Star Trek party
57. Shatner Reveals Why He Avoids Watching Star Trek
    

Main Mission, Part 2 (with an appropriate sound effect)

Star Trek: The Cruise 2026

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