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- ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 4 To Debut In July; Watch Teaser Trailer – TrekMovie.com
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 4 Official Teaser | Paramount+ (CCXP Mexico 2026) – YouTube
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Trailer, Premiere Date Revealed
- Paramount+ Finally Confirms the End of Star Trek’s Most Controversial Era
- ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ season 4 gets release date and trailer packed with space cowboys, black holes, and a T-rex | Space
- Star Trek: The Original Series Tops Streaming Charts After 60 Years
- Star Trek: Resurgence isn’t going to live long and prosper – it’s being delisted from Steam around three years on from release | Rock Paper Shotgun
- Star Trek’s Best Series Is Returning With New Official Sequel
- ‘Star Trek’ to be inducted into the Broadcasting+Cable Hall of Fame
- Paramount Confirms New Star Trek Movie, But Details Remain A Mystery
- Buy Star Trek set pieces in upcoming 60th anniversary auction
- William Shatner Just Gave The Lowdown On Those ‘Secret’ Star Trek Rumors: ‘Get A Life’
- Review: ‘Star Trek: Picard: To Defy Fate’ Is A Fun (But Complicated) Trip Through Trek History – TrekMovie.com
- Star Trek alums sign letter opposing Paramount/Warner Bros. merger
- Star Trek Celebs Join Opposition To Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger, Ask Fans To Protest On Thursday – TrekMovie.com
- Review: ‘Star Trek: Picard: To Defy Fate’ Is A Fun (But Complicated) Trip Through Trek History – TrekMovie.com
- Now ‘Star Trek Voyager: Across The Unknown’ Can Be As Easy (Or As Hard) As You’d Like – TrekMovie.com
- 31 Years Later, Star Trek’s Most Punishing Game Echoes A Classic Paradox
- Star Trek: Enterprise Actor Hated Filming Fan-Favorite Mirror Universe Episodes
- New Star Trek retrospective drops this fall
- Star Trek brings back iconic character for “canon-adjacent” adventure | Radio Times
- Watch: Nana Visitor Returns As Major Kira In ‘Star Trek Fleet Command’ Animated Short – TrekMovie.com
- New STAR TREK TIMELINES Book Explores Trek’s Multiverse – TrekCore.com
- Paramount Confirms Middle East Funds Are Backing WBD Buy
- Netflix, Warner Bros., and Universal Secure Landmark 4-Year Pact for Hollywood Stability
- Paramount Skydance Launches New Book Publisher
- Paramount Launches Global Publishing Imprint to Expand Iconic Franchises and Deepen Original Storytelling | Paramount
- PARAMOUNT LAUNCHES GLOBAL PUBLISHING IMPRINT TO EXPAND ICONIC FRANCHISES AND DEEPEN ORIGINAL STORYTELLING
- Warner Bros Discovery vote to approve $110bn merger with Paramount Skydance | Warner Bros | The Guardian
- Paramount Will be 49.5% Foreign Owned After WBD Merger | TV Tech
- Warner Bros. shareholders green-light Paramount takeover
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Here are links to 119 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]
- ‘Star Trek’ ‘City on the Edge of Forever’ Has a Lost Dark Real Story
- Star Trek’s Best Spock Episode Created a 60-Year-Old Gene Roddenberry Sci-Fi Rule
- Star Trek warned us about the perils of AI 60 years ago| Letters
- Star Trek’s First Masterpiece Episode Had a Completely Different Ending (& Caused a Years-Long Feud) – ComicBook.com
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 – 1994) [7 seasons]
- All 7 Seasons Of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Ranked
- One Of Star Trek’s Greatest Villains Was Created Because Of An Unrelated Studio Demand
- The Star Trek Episodes That Changed the Franchise—And TV—Forever
- Why Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Worst-Rated Episode On IMDb Is So Hated
- 5 Forgotten Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes That Still Hold Up Today
- 35 Years Ago, Star Trek Dropped An Absurd Twist It Didn’t Even Need
- 35 Years Later, An All-Time Star Trek Episode Remains Alarmingly Relevant
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993 – 1999) [7 seasons]
- Star Trek’s baseball showdown gets renewed spotlight for MLB season
- 30 Years Ago, Star Trek Went Full ‘Black Mirror’ With One Chilling Episode
Star Trek: Voyager (1995 – 2001) [7 seasons]
- Star Trek: Voyager Almost Had A Storyline That Became The Bones Of Battlestar Galactica
- From Paris, With Glug: The Alcoholic Star Trek Episode That Gave Us Hope
- How Kate Mulgrew Saved Captain Janeway and ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ (Excl)
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001 – 2005) [4 seasons]
- Star Trek Almost Answered a Decades Long Borg Mystery (But the Genius Pitch Was Rejected) – ComicBook.com
- Romulan War, Col. Green, Borg Queen’s Origin: Writers Reveal Untold ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Season 5 Stories – TrekMovie.com
- The Star Trek Series That Flopped 21 Years Ago Is Now One of Streaming’s Best-Kept Secrets
STREAMING SERIES AND MOVIES (in order of premiere)
Star Trek: Discovery (2017 – 2024) [5 seasons]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022 – present) [4th season yet to premier, 5th/final season filmed]
- Original-Cin Chat: Pioneering Trek Prop-Master Emily Hyde on Strange New Worlds’ Objets d’Art — Original Cin
- Star Trek’s Next TV Show Is Already Fixing One Fan Complaint – ComicBook.com
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy [2026 – present] [season 2 will end series]
- William Shatner points out iconic Star Trek kiss amid heated SFA cancellation
- Star Trek’s Robert Picardo Pitched A Voyager Episode For Starfleet Academy Season 3 That I Really Wish We Could See
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was cancelled because people don’t understand Star Trek
- Star Trek Actor Promises ‘Starfleet Academy’ Season 2 Is “Gay AF” After Cancellation and Backlash
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actors to be honored by LGBTQ+ Cinema & Television
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Sets Already Being Torn Down Following Cancellation | Cosmic Book News
- Starfleet Academy was supposed to be Star Trek’s next big thing – so why is it ending so soon? | Film Stories
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s Timeline Confirmed In Season 1 Finale
- Star Trek’s Tim Russ Didn’t Hold Back Speculating Why Paramount+ Canceled Starfleet Academy | Cinemablend
- Star Trek character joining Starfleet Academy was a ‘tough’ loss for the War College
THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES (in order of premiere)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Star Trek (2009)
- Karl Urban Actively Lobbied For His Role In A Major Sci-Fi Movie Franchise
- 17 Years Ago, Star Trek Made A Ballsy Choice That Paid Off In A Big Way
- J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Movies Almost Featured A Marvel Star As Captain Kirk
- J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Prequel Is Also Set Farthest In Prime Timeline
Untitled Star Trek movie by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley
OTHER MEDIA
Star Trek books, audio books
Star Trek video games/board games
- Star Trek Online’s First Contact Day event is offering a new version of one of its first ships | Massively Overpowered
- Star Trek Online Launches New Roadmap & Quick Start Event – Trek Central
Star Trek toys/collectibles/other merchandise
- New Action Figures from Master Replicas:
Geordi Action Figure– Master Replicas
Dr. M’Benga Action Figure– Master Replicas
Starship Library Series – U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E– Master Replicas
Starship Library Series – U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D– Master Replicas
Star Trek Comics/graphic novels/magazines
- ‘Starfleet Academy’ Star Karim Diané Is Heading to IDW’s ‘Star Trek’ Pride Comic (Exclusive)
- Star Trek Officially Announces A Huge Starfleet Academy Hero Is Already Returning With The New Release Fans Deserve
- Star Trek Finally Solves A Big Worf Mystery That’s Been Plaguing Fans For 3 Years
- See The Cadets Explore A Dangerous Alien World In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy – Lost Contact’ #1 Preview – TrekMovie.com
- For The First Time In Official Star Trek Canon, Captain Kirk Is Fighting The Borg
- Star Trek Reveals Deep Space Nine’s Replacement Series
- Star Trek Confirms An All-New Enterprise Replacement
MISCELLANEOUS
Paramount+ / Paramount Skydance
- Jeff Shell Exit Followed “Standard Procedure” Steps By Paramount Board Of Directors, Company Says
- Paramount and Warner Bros.’ 2027 Slate Raises Questions After David Ellison’s 30-Film Promise
- AMC CEO Believes David Ellison Will Release 30 Films a Year
- David Ellison Pushes Theatrical at CinemaCon
- ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ to end with season 5 at Paramount+
- Delaware Supreme Court Rejects Bright Line Rules in Section 220 Books and Records Proceedings – Gibson Dunn
- CBS Is “Developing Other Ideas” for Late Night
- Paramount’s CEO Has Been Asked to Testify The Senate’s Antitrust Subcommittee | Cord Cutters News
- Paramount’s Upfront Pitch Is About Three Things | AdExchanger
- Mark Ruffalo & Others’ Criticism of WBD Merger Gets Response From Paramount
- Paramount investigates ‘The Legend Of Aang: The Last Airbender’ leak, says it didn’t come from the studio | Dailyhunt
- Viewers fume ‘CBS is the new Fox’ as network owner hosts dinner ‘honoring’ Trump | Irish Star
- Paramount Has Big Plans to Change CNN – Here is What We Know | Cord Cutters News
Star Trek related science news
Franchise-wide/Miscellaneous
- Star Trek Enters A Dark Age: Paramount+ Cancellations Leave Fans In The Cold
- 10 Modern Star Trek Episodes As Good As Anything From The Kirk & Picard Eras
- Every Star Trek Animated Series Ranked
- The Spymaster’s Guide to the Secret Agencies of ‘Star Trek’
- Friends Of Gene And Majel Roddenberry Recall Fateful Star Trek Auditions, Polish Presidential Visits, And More – TrekMovie.com
- Paramount to pause Star Trek TV after 2027 finale
- Star Trek Fans Want The Franchise To “Go Away” (And Possibly Never Come Back) – ComicBook.com
- SFA sets were dismantled (but Star Trek isn’t ending)
- Original Star Trek Movies Ranked Worst to Best
- Sci-fi stories never really end anymore, and that’s a problem | Space
- Star Trek Would Be Very Different In 2026 If Discovery Stuck To Its Original Plan
- Every Version Of The Starship Enterprise In Star Trek, Ranked
- Tragic Details About Star Trek’s James T. Kirk
- All 13 Star Trek TV Shows, Ranked By IMDb
- Star Trek And NASA: 1969 And 2026 Cancellations And Milestones
- Rod Roddenberry on Carrying Forward the STAR TREK Legacy – Nerdist
- Star Trek: The Next Generation Movies Ranked Worst to Best
- Why Spock’s Epic ‘Star Trek’ Line is One of Sci-Fi’s Most Powerful Quotes | No Film School
- Alex Kurtzman’s two worst Star Trek shows create an impossible problem for the franchise’s future
- How the Combadge Became the Ultimate Wearable of the ‘Star Trek’ Universe
- Why Gene Roddenberry Didn’t Care About Creating ‘New Civilizations’ For Star Trek
- Beloved Star Trek Character Busted Franchise’s Biggest Myth With Single Line | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT
Convention news/fandom
Actor Watch
- One Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Star Shared Her Perspective On The Negative Response To The Show, And I Appreciate It | Cinemablend
- ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Cadet Actors Talk Cancellation And Handling Online Negativity – TrekMovie.com
- Now ‘Star Trek Voyager: Across The Unknown’ Can Be As Easy (Or As Hard) As You’d Like – TrekMovie.com
- Star Trek Legend Weighs in on AI: ‘Evolve or Die’ – Parade
- Exclusive: Jonathan Frakes Confident Star Trek Will “Resurface,” Decries ‘Starfleet Academy’ “Trolls” – TrekMovie.com
- Star Trek veteran and 90s heartthrob team up for Kiwi co-production | Stuff
- The One Star Trek Show Nana Visitor Wishes Had A Crossover With Deep Space Nine
Main Mission (with an appropriate sound effect)
What is your favorite Alien Races from Star Trek
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