We speak with Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 5 co-writer Tawny Newsome and returning Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star Cirroc Lofton on honoring Captain Sisko and Avery Brooks in this week’s Starfleet Academy.
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We speak with actor and artist Bruce Horak, who played Hemmer on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, on his new crowdfunded documentary Boldly Going.
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Universal Studios Hollywood is more than just the home to some of the best attractions and cinematic immersive experiences. It’s also the place where fans can be a part of the movies and see how movies are made.
Continue reading “Universal Fan Fest Nights Brings Guests into the Worlds of Star Trek, D&D, One Piece, and More”
There has been much discussion within the Star Trek Universe about the morality and ethics of the Starfleet clandestine operatives of Section 31.
Continue reading “‘Section 31’ Cast and Creatives on the Ethics of Star Trek’s Most Clandestine Organization”
We speak with the main cast of Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 on what adventures wait for the USS Cerritos.
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On October 2, podcast host and Survivor outcast, Jon Lovett will be hosting a Star Trek-studded benefit for the Harris-Walz campaign. Proceeds from tickets for the live-stream and in-person event will go to Vote Save America in support of the highest-impact down-ballot races, as well as state-level grassroots organizations and voter protection efforts across the country.
Continue reading “Crooked Media Teams with ‘Star Trek’ to Boldly Go to the Polls and Elect Kamala Harris”
We speak with series stars Sonequa Martin-Green, Wilson Cruz, Mary Wiseman, Blu De Barrio, Doug Jones, David Ajala, and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise about what to expect in Star Trek: Discovery Season 5.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds balances an ensemble cast of beloved legacy and new characters on the USS Enterprise. Chief among those known is the future Lieutenant, here an Ensign, Nyota Uhura, played to spectacular fare by actor Celia Rose Gooding.*
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As we are halfway through our return to the 25th Century, we can pretty much settle into the rhythm of Star Trek: Picard. It’s a bit of a clunky narrative but a lot of fun character work for new and returning players. Most discouraging but perhaps least surprising is for all the things Season 3 has done to get us those wonderful character moments, it can’t escape the Kurtzman of it all and has at its center a big dumb mystery around Jack Crusher.
Continue reading “How I Learned to Stop Worrying About ‘Star Trek’ Canon and Enjoy the Big Dumb Mystery”
Yellow alert! This was still an overall enjoyable episode with a mix of good and somewhat forced character beats. However, some of the internal logic is starting to be concerning.
Continue reading “‘Star Trek: Picard’ is Really Worried about Mom and Dad Fighting”
Mercifully, Picard is not hiding the ball. A recurrent problem with a lot of serialized shows is setting up a lot of mysteries that are slowly dripped throughout the season and you have to hope the mystery at the end is worth it.
Continue reading “‘Star Trek: Picard’ — That’s Not How Accents Work”
Star Trek has always wrestled with managing its legacy and the ability to do something new. Fans are always a prickly bunch judging a new series, movie, or a given episode as to whether or not it feels like Star Trek.
Continue reading “‘Star Trek: Picard’ — Once More Unto the Breach”
In anticipation for the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard, Keith welcomes his brother Raymond to Hard NOC Life as they countdown their top five episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation!
When we last saw Dal (Brett Gray) and Gwyn (Ella Purnell), along with the rest of the crew of the USS Protostar, they had made a daring escape from Gwyn’s father The Diviner (John Noble), but not before he revealed the reasons for Gwyn’s existence. But Gwyn lost her memory in the midseason finale, leaving where her journey will go more uncertain as she and her friend get closer to Starfleet. What will the latter half of this season of Star Trek: Prodigy have in store for her, Dal, and the rest of their crew?
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It was a landmark moment for the Star Trek franchise when Kate Mulgrew, Captain Kathryn Janeway herself, returned to voice a version of her character in the thrilling Paramount+ Nickelodeon animated series Star Trek Prodigy. The twist was that she would be playing an AI version of the character, one who guides the next generation in the ways of Starfleet.
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Kim Rhodes only had one demand when she was offered a role on Kung Fu – her character CANNOT be a “Karen.”
“I did not want that,” Rhodes tells The Nerds of Color. “And they didn’t want to write her that way.”
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On Wednesday, September 8, 2022, the Star Trek fandom community and many of the stars and creators of that universe marked the 56th anniversary of The Original Series’ premiere with a teaser-filled celebration at Los Angeles’ Skirball Cultural Center, and The Nerds of Color were there on the star-crowded purple carpet and in the fan-filled theater to witness a gathering that was, underneath it all, about the power of found family and the magic of finding a place in which to belong.
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Hello Folks,
It has been a minute. I’ve been working on too many projects so I’m not able to write as much as I would like for NOC. I wanted to show folks some of the stuff I’ve been crafting while I’ve been away.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds takes us back to the original Star Trek era where Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) led the Enterprise and her crew on daring missions to explore the vastness of Space and make new discoveries and advancements on behalf of the Federation. The crew of the Enterprise is has a vast range of experience and skill they bring to their mission, and one Dr. M’Benga, played brilliantly by Babs Olusanmokun, gets his own featured episode this week.
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Celia Rose Gooding is a woman of her time just like the iconic character she plays on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Cadet Nyota Uhura.
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Finally, the mystery of Species Ten-C has been resolved. In a stunning finale, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and her crew of the USS Discovery figured it out with galaxy-spanning ramifications. In this race to the finish with her lover Clevand Booker (“Book”) (David Ajala), who had gone renegade this season in his own pursuit of justice, Star Trek: Discovery delivered yet another stunning finale, with limitless pathways to pursue in Season 5. After this finale, I’m incredibly excited for the next journey of Discovery.
Continue reading “Director/Producer Olatunde Osunsanmi on What’s Next for ‘Star Trek: Discovery’”
Hiro Kanagawa has been on our tv screens for decades, appearing in such favorite shows as Smallville, iZombie, Legends of Tomorrow, Inuyasha, The X-Files, Altered Carbon, and much more. Now, joins the critically acclaimed Star Trek: Discovery as the inquisitive Dr. Hirai, one of the Federation’s leading specialists in astrolinguistics, xenophonology, and theoretical semiotics in the 32nd Century. As the Federation prepares to engage with the extra-galactic Species 10-C, Dr. Hirai is pivotal to establishing first contact.
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Star Trek: Discovery has returned to our streaming screens for another spectacular season as the Discovery crew and the Federation of the future must deal with a galaxy-threatening anomaly. It’s unlike anything the Discovery crew has faced before, and resultingly Captain Burnham and her crew and loved ones are pushed to the brink in so many ways. What goes into making such a spectacular adventure that we watch every week?
Continue reading “‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Director and Executive Producer Olatunde Osunsanmi Discusses Season 4”