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10 Things We Want From Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3

Walter koenig interview: star trek the original series & the 7th rule podcast, 8 star trek: discovery things to know before season 5.

• Star Trek fans have a lot to look forward to in 2024, with virtual and in-person conventions, Star Trek Day, podcasts, and new series announcements.
• Despite uncertainties, the production of Star Trek: Section 31 and Lower Decks Season 5 are progressing smoothly.
• The final season of Star Trek: Discovery is set to premiere in April 2024, marking the end of Captain Burnham's voyages.

Star Trek has a big 2024 on tap, and here are 8 things to look forward to from the final frontier this year. Although the dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes halted Hollywood production and the ability of talent and creatives to promote their work for much of 2023, Star Trek had a phenomenal year. Star Trek: Picard season 3, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, and Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 released a cumulative 30 episodes, were highly acclaimed as some of the most innovative Star Trek in years, and many episodes charted in the Nielsen streaming Top 10. All in all, 2023 was a great year to be a Star Trek fan.

Significant questions loom over Star Trek in 2024, however. Paramount may be up for sale, which would certainly impact Star Trek on Paramount+'s various series and projects. There remains no new Star Trek theatrical movie in development, going on 8 years since Star Trek Beyond hit theaters in the summer of 2016. And there is no indication that Paramount+ will greenlight Star Trek: Picard 's proposed spinoff, Star Trek: Legacy , in spite of the same type of dedicated fan campaign that helped Star Trek: Prodigy jump to Netflix after it was canceled by Paramount+. The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes also delayed production of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, which likely won't premiere until 2025. Still, Star Trek has a massive 2024 planned , and here are 8 things for fans to be excited about.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 is in production now, and hopefully the next 10 episodes will deliver on these storylines and plot threads.

8 Star Trek Has Amazing Podcasts

The 7th rule, the shuttlepod show, inglorious treksperts, the delta flyers, and more.

Star Trek has podcasts to satisfy every type of fan , and they're available to watch on YouTube or stream wherever you get your podcasts. Walter Koenig joins The 7th Rule with Cirroc Lofton and Ryan T. Husk to discuss his episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. The Delta Flyers: Through The Wormhole added Terry Farrell and Armin Shimerman, who join Star Trek: Voyager 's Garrett Wang and Robert Duncan McNeill to review episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nin e. Inglorious Treksperts hosts Mark A. Altman and Daren Dochterman continue their unrivaled expertise of classic Star Trek with podcasts and live panel shows. Sadly, The Shuttlepod Show 's co-host Dominic Keating has left the podcast, but hosts and producers Connor Trinneer, Erica LaRose, and Mark J. Cartier will continue to dive deep into the lives and careers of their illustrious Star Trek guests. Star Trek fans have a wealth of podcasts to enjoy in 2024, with new episodes weekly.

Screen Rant interviews Walter Koenig about his joining The 7th Rule podcast to review Star Trek: The Original Series, his Trek memories, and more.

7 Star Trek Virtual & In-Person Conventions

Trektalks, virtual trek con 5, the llapy awards, stlv, and more.

Star Trek has a connection to its fans unlike any other in entertainment, and thanks to the various Star Trek conventions, both virtual and in-person, Star Trek fans have the privilege and ability to meet and hear from their favorite talent and creatives. Star Trek essentially pioneered the fan convention and 2024 kicks off with two huge virtual events: TrekTalks 3 , hosted by John Billingsley of Star Trek: Enterprise and Bonnie Gordon of Star Trek: Prodigy, streams live on YouTube on January 13th with a full day of panels featuring over 30 Star Trek guests, all to benefit the Hollywood Food Coalition. TrekTalks 3 will also feature a can't-miss Star Trek: Picard season 3 panel.

Virtual Trek Con 5 , from Cirroc Lofton of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Ryan T. Husk, and The 7th Rule podcast, streams on YouTube from February 15-19 with 4 days of Star Trek panels with numerous special guests. VTC5 is capped off by the 3rd annual LLAPy Awards , the only Star Trek awards show voted on by fans , which streams live on YouTube on Sunday, February 19. For in-person Star Trek cons, two of the biggest are Creation Entertainments ST:SF in San Francisco in March and STLV: Trek to Vegas in Las Vegas in August, both featuring dozens of Star Trek talent. And, with no strikes this year, Star Trek on Paramount+ will no doubt return once again with huge panels at San Diego Comic-Con in July and New York Comic-Con in October.

6 Star Trek Day 2024

Star trek celebrates the franchise in person again.

2023 sadly saw Paramount+'s annual in-person Star Trek Day event canceled because of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Since 2021, Star Trek Day has been a celebration of the franchise bringing together talent and creatives from Star Trek on Paramount+'s series and Star Trek 's legacy shows and films. Held at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and streamed on Paramount+ and Star Trek 's social channels, Star Trek Day is expected to return in September 2024, with a likely agenda of honoring the departing Star Trek: Discovery and looking ahead to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 and more.

Screen Rant was on the red carpet for Star Trek Day 2022 .

5 Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Announcements

Expect information about the newest star trek series.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was announced by Paramount+ in April 2023, and nothing more is known about the newest upcoming Star Trek series besides the fact that Star Trek executive producer Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau ( Nancy Drew ) are the showrunners, and the writers' room includes Tawny Newsome of Star Trek: Lower Decks . 2024 should finally see more information about Starfleet Academy, which will hopefully announce the actors/characters of the show, and perhaps even confirm that Starfleet Academy is set after Star Trek: Discovery season 5 , as expected.

4 Star Trek: Section 31

Star trek's first made-for-streaming movie..

Announced in April 2023, Star Trek: Section 31 finally begins production from January to March in Toronto for a possible release in late 2024. Section 31 stars Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh , who reprises her Star Trek: Discovery anti-hero, Emperor Michelle Georgiou, and Yeoh used her clout from her Best Actress Oscar to ensure Section 31 is made. Star Trek: Section 31 is directed by Olutande Osunsanmi and written by Craig Sweeny, but nothing else is known about the first Star Trek movie made exclusively to stream on Paramount+ . Section 31 's potential success could lead to the plan for a new Star Trek streaming movie every 2 years to come to fruition. Even if Star Trek: Section 31 doesn't premiere in 2024, fans should at least finally learn what other characters are in the movie and what era of Star Trek Section 31 is set in.

3 Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5

Premieres in 2024 on paramount+..

Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 may have been the animated comedy's best season yet, and hopes are high that Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 will top it. The SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes didn't affect the production of the animated series, and Star Trek: Lower Decks was able to complete its scripts, with 10 new episodes in production for the show's traditional late summer/early fall release date on Paramount+. Little is known about the stories planned for Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 and the newly-minuted junior Lieutenants of the USS Cerritos, except that there will be more exploration of the Orion culture through the eyes of former Lt. D'Vana Tendi (Noel Wells). And while there are fears that season 5 could be the last for Star Trek: Lower Decks, hopefully, the 2023 crossover with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds created more fans of Lower Decks, and creator Mike McMahan's hilarious animated show can continue for years to come.

2 Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 - The Final Season

Premieres april 2024 on paramount+..

The only live-action Star Trek series on Paramount+'s 2024 schedule, Star Trek: Discovery season 5 is the final season marking the end of the voyages of Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the USS Discovery. It was Star Trek: Discovery' s success on CBS All-Access, which became Paramount+, that led to Star Trek 's current TV renaissance. Although Discovery season 5 was not originally planned as the final season, following Paramount+ canceling the series in March 2023, reshoots were completed to turn Discovery 's season 5 finale into a proper ending for the entire series . Star Trek: Discovery season 5 is also a shift in tone to an Indiana Jones -like intergalactic treasure hunt adventure, according to Jonathan Frakes, who directs the penultimate episode of Discovery . Premiering in April 2024, Star Trek: Discovery will be the Star Trek event on Paramount+.

Star Trek: Discovery returns for season 5 in 2024 after a 2-year hiatus, and here's what you need to know about Captain Burnham's final adventures.

1 Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2

Premieres in 2024 on netflix.

With a huge global audience discovering the all-ages animated series on Netflix, Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 is possibly the most anticipated Star Trek event of 2024 . Netflix premiered Star Trek: Prodigy season 1 on Christmas Day, priming viewers new and old for 20 all-new Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 episodes from creators and showrunners Kevin and Dan Hageman and their team. Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 promises to go even bigger than season 1's high stakes, taking Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and the young ragtag former crew of the USS Protostar into an alternate 25th-century future and beyond. Star Trek: Prodigy season 2's massive scope will reportedly touch upon the entire Star Trek franchise, and the already-announced new castmember The Doctor (Robert Picardo) as well as the new USS Voyager-A are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the surprises, fun, and adventure Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 has in store.

Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Lower Decks are streaming on Paramount+. Star Trek: Prodigy is streaming on Netflix.

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The Cast Of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ To Receive Special Lifetime Achievement Saturn Award

| January 31, 2024 | By: Anthony Pascale 26 comments so far

This is going to be a big weekend for Star Trek at the Saturn Awards, with a total of 15 nominations , a franchise record. And the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror has announced the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation will also be honored with an additional special award.

TNG cast awarded with special Saturn

The cast of  Star Trek: The Next Generation  will receive The Lifetime Achievement Award at the 51st Annual Saturn Awards, being held in Los Angeles this Sunday. For 2024 the Academy is doing something different for the TNG cast with this award. A statement from the Academy to TrekMovie explains:

“The Lifetime Achievement Award is usually presented to an individual for their contributions to genre entertainment. Top luminaries like Stan Lee and Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock himself, have received this top honor. It’s not new, but we extended this award to cover the entire cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation , due to its continued influence on the face of general television. It was originally doomed to failure since it was following in the footsteps of the original Star Trek, yet it carved its own identity, and its diverse cast was light years ahead of its time!”

Star Trek: The Next Generation launched as a syndicated drama series in 1987, running for seven seasons. TNG was nominated six times by the Saturn Awards for Best Genre Series, winning twice. Stewart also won for Best Actor in 1990. The series was also nominated for 58 Emmys during its run, with 18 wins. The Next Generation helped launch a new era of Star Trek, ushering in two additional TV series in the 1990s ( Deep Space Nine and Voyager ), along with 4 feature films.

Season 3 publicity photo for Star Trek: The Next Generation (Paramount)

The Saturn Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to the TNG cast by producer and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, who is an avowed Star Trek fan. On hand to accept the award will be Sir Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, and Wil Wheaton. While not present, TNG cast members LeVar Burton and Jonathan Frakes are also being bestowed with this honor. Both actors had to send their regrets due to scheduling conflicts.

In 2023 Spiner, Sirtis, Dorn, Burton, McFadden, and Frakes joined Stewart for the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard , which picked up a total of 7 nominations (see full list below).

Shatner to present MacFarlane with special award

There will be other special awards handed out during the event including The Robert Forster Artists Award going to Seth MacFarlane, the actor and producer behind The Orville , Family Guy , Ted , and much more. Presenting the award will be Star Trek icon William Shatner.

This year’s show is dedicated to the memory of Saturn Awards winner (and onetime host) Lance Reddick. The Academy is also introducing the Lance Reddick Legacy Award with the inaugural award going to actor Keannu Reaves, presented by actor Titus Welliver. Christopher Nolan will receive The Visionary Award, presented by Emily Blunt. The George Pal Memorial Award will go to Dave Filoni (Lucasfilm’s CCO), presented by Ming-Na Wen. The Walking Dead Franchise is being presented with the Dan Curtis Legacy Award. And finally, actress and director Jodie Foster will receive the Life Career Award, presented by writer/producer Issa López.

Shatner is no stranger to the Saturn Awards, including winning the Life Career Award (along with Gene Roddenberry) in 1980. He has been nominated six times, with two wins. His first win was for Star Trek II and his latest was in 2016 for a guest role in the Syfy series Haven .

15 Saturn nominations for Star Trek

In addition to the special award, Star Trek is set to take home more gold at this weekend’s Saturn Awards. Here is a complete list of the 7 categories where Star Trek is nominated…

Best Science Fiction Television Series:

Andor (Lucasfilm/Disney+) Foundation (Apple TV+) The Mandalorian (Lucasfilm/Disney+) The Peripheral (Amazon) Silo  (Apple TV+) Star Trek: Picard (Paramount+/CBS) Star Trek: Strange New Worlds  (Paramount+/CBS)

Best Animated Television Series or Special:

Chainsaw Man  (Crunchyroll) Gremlins: Secrets of Mogwai (HBO/Max) Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix) Harley Quinn (HBO/Max) My Adventures with Superman (Cartoon Network/Adult Swim) Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+) Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Lucasfilm/Disney+)

Lower Decks’ “Old Friends, New Planets” (Paramount+)

Best Actor in a Television Series:

Tyler Hoechlin , Superman & Lois (Warner Bros. Television) Sam Heughan, Outlander (Starz) Diego Luna, Andor (Lucasfilm/Disney+) Anson Mount, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+/CBS) Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us (HBO/Max) Harold Perrineau, From (MGM+) Patrick Stewart, Star Trek: Picard (Paramount+/CBS)

Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series:

Jonathan Frakes, Star Trek: Picard (Paramount+/CBS) Harvey Guillen, What We Do in the Shadows  (FX/Hulu) Ernie Hudson, Quantum Leap (NBC/Universal) Ethan Peck, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds  (Paramount+/CBS) Ed Speleers, Star Trek: Picard  (Paramount+/CBS) Matt Smit, House of the Dragon  (HBO/Max) Todd Stashwick, Star Trek: Picard (Paramount+/CBS)

 Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series:

Jess Bush, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds  (Paramount+/CBS) Celia Rose Gooding, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds  (Paramount+/CBS) Genevieve O’Reilly, Andor  (Lucasfilm/Disney+) Jeri Ryan, Star Trek: Picard  (Paramount+/CBS) Katee Sackhoff, The Mandalorian (Lucasfilm/Disney+) Sophie Skelton, Outlander (Starz) Rebecca Wisocky, Ghosts  (CBS)

Best Guest Star in a Television Series:

Gael Garcia Bernal, Marvel’s Werewolf by Night (Marvel/Disney+) Giancarlo Esposito,  The Mandalorian (Lucasfilm/Disney+) Nick Offerman, The Last of Us (HBO/Max) Amanda Plummer, Star Trek: Picard (Paramount+/CBS) Andy Serkis, Andor  (Lucasfilm/Disney+) Paul Wesley, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds  (Paramount+/CBS) Catherine Zeta-Jones, Wednesday (Netflix)

Anson Mount as Capt. Pike and Ethan Peck as Spock in “Charades” from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+)

Best 4K Home Media Release:

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 4K (Criterion) The Exorcist 50th Anniversary Edition 4K (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment) Cujo 4K (Kino Lorber) John Wick, Chapter 4 – 4K (Lionsgate Home Entertainment) Needful Things 4K (Kino Lorber) To Live and Die in L.A. 4K (Kino Lorber) Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition 4K (Paramount Home Entertainment)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture 4K Blu-ray  

This year the Saturns Awards is hosted by actor and comedian Joel McHale. The show will be held on Sunday, February 4, 2024, at the L.A. Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel. The ceremony will be livestreamed on ElectricNOW .

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This warms my heart so much. My favorite cast from my favorite show to be recognized like this is amazing. The TNG cast certainly deserves it. And Kevin Feige will be presenting to them as well. Pretty cool. I read All Good Things is his favorite TV episode, period.

If Picard season 3 is truly the last time we see all those characters together again like that, then they went out with a bang.

Also great to see so many nominations for both PIC and SNW! Hope we get a few winners. Well done team! 😀🖖

Yup, IIRC All Good Things inspired the time traveling escapades of Avengers: Endgame

Yeah when I heard that I was very excited to see the movie at the time. It’s nice to see when Trek influences other things out there.

Other fans believe the signatures at the end of that movie was inspired by The Undiscovered Country as well.

Don’t know how true that one is but I’ll take it! 🙂🖖

The signatures in Endgame being inspired by TUC is 100% true, read it in an interview. Same with the time traveling as mentioned by amirami. Also the destruction of Asgard in Thor Ragnarok was inspired by the destruction of the Enterprise in Search for Spock – the writers felt that for the third movie, the heroes had to lose something in a big way, like in SFS. Also there was a recent interview where Final Frontier’s campfire scenes inspired a lot of the “plainclothes” scenes of the superheroes across the Avengers movies, because it was like seeing your heroes out of costume just being regular people that you like and want to hang out with, and enjoy hanging out with each other. So yeah, Trek’s DNA is all throughout Marvel, in all the best ways.

Wow thank you! 🙂

If I could give you a like for this post I would give you several. I didn’t know that about Ragnarok or the plain clothes scenes either.

Well said. This is fantastic news.

Wow, that’s really something. Congrats, gang. Well deserved.

This is so damn cool. This whole cast deserves this.

Congratulations…

That is great! Congratulations to the cast!

GREAT NEWS! WELL DESERVED!

Wow congratulations to the whole crew!!!!!

Way to go and soooooo good! My favourite ensemble cast of all time finally, collectively being acknowledge for all their hard work and for being so much a part of of our lives! Living long and prospering… making it so!

Niiiiice!!!!

Nearly 40 years later and TNG is still receiving major accolades decades later! It’s still an amazing show with a great cast and well deserved!

Sweet. So deserved.

That award looks like that game/virus that the D crew got addicted to.

Well deserved. Picard s3 = Best Trek since 1996 First Contact!!

Well, I would say best Trek season since 1997-1998 DS9 Season 6. But close enough!

I agree with this too. Picard season 3 was on par with the last seasons of DS9. Just great television and the Star Trek I been sorely missing.

Whole cast? WHOLE CAST???

Polaski or GTFO!!!

AAAActually, Diana Muldaur was never a main cast member. Like Whoopi Goldberg, John de Lancie, and Colm Meaney, she was just a guest star (granted, her credit read “special appearance by” but still not a main cast member).

Yeah I think she was in every episode in season 2, but only as a guest star role. Now THAT said, she and Whoopi Goldberg were in all the cast photos in season 2 as well. So while technically neither were considered main cast members they were promoted as such back then. You never saw Garek or Gul Dukat in any main cast photos for DS9 as an example.

This is so cool. Ok, I will watch Picard Season 3 again. Twist my arm.

I love these people so much. Also really cool that Shatner will be there as well. Star Trek has so many amazing fans that are really talented. I’m hoping that since 2024 is the 60th anniversary of Star Trek (The Cage being from 1964), Shatner and Stewart will team up for an event or something while they still can, given that it’s also the 30th anniversary of Generations, and we’re blessed that they’re both still around to do something. I’ve been in talks with people at the TOS set in Ticonderoga to see if we can do an event, hopefully with the blessing of CBS as well. If anyone knows how we can make this happen, I would love to somehow get in touch!

Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) appear in an alternate future timeline in "All Good Things..."

Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Picard (Stewart) and Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) in a scene from "All Good Things..."

A scene from TNG 's penultimate episode, "Preemptive Strike," directed by Patrick Stewart. 

The cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Patrick stewart knows how important star trek is to you (exclusive), for the 30th anniversary of star trek: tng 's series finale, the legendary actor reflects on both it and captain picard's legacy..

It’s ironic (and somewhat fitting) that the last scene filmed for Star Trek: The Next Generation ’s series finale involved the beginning of life on our planet.

TNG ’s two-part finale, “All Good Things…,” centered on Captain Picard’s (Patrick Stewart) attempts — across three different time periods — to save the galaxy from a spacial anomaly made of anti-time. With a little help from Picard’s omnipotent nemesis, Q (John de Lancie), the past, present and future crews of the Enterprise-D struggled to restore temporal balance to the galaxy as Picard and Q paid a visit to primordial Earth. There, the anomaly — which gets larger the farther back in time we go — causes the building blocks of all life on Earth to never form, thus wiping out humanity before it ever had a chance to exist. The weight of this scene — and how the show’s pending conclusion would impact fans — was not lost on Stewart, who recently spoke to the Television Academy about his experience filming the finale. Shooting this pivotal sequence late at night — on TNG’s infamous “Planet Hell” set, which was often home to rock or cave-like planets — proved to be, well, we’ll let Captain Picard himself explain:

“We wrapped it at about 1:30, 2 in the morning, when everyone was absolutely beaten,” Stewart says. “Just the crew, exhausted, and the director [the late Winrich Kolbe] dragging John de Lancie and myself to the finish, practically. And that was the last scene we shot. We wrapped seven seasons of Next Generation with two actors, John and myself.”

While the series was done with Picard and his shipmates, Star Trek was not. Stewart, after having been in nearly every scene of the finale and having directed the series’ penultimate episode, “Preemptive Strike,” had less than two weeks off before he reported to film the first Trek movie featuring the Next Gen cast, 1994’s Star Trek: Generations . The transition from fans’ television screens to the silver screen was, occasionally, a bittersweet one for Stewart and his costars. “While we all realized that we would no longer be working together on a series, we did have the movies to look forward to,” Stewart explains.” “But it was still very emotional, ending the series.”

In honor of the recent 30th anniversary of “All Good Things…”, Stewart reveals what it was like shooting key sequences of the finale and how season seven came to be Next Gen ’s last.

Television Academy: Prior to shooting “All Good Things…,” you had directed the previous episode, “Preemptive Strike,” and I can't imagine how stressful it must have been for you at that time. Can you recall how difficult it was for you to go from directing that episode to being in nearly every scene of the finale?

Patrick Stewart: Well, the difficulty was not getting enough sleep. [ Laughs ]

Because you have to prep shows before you start shooting them. But while I was prepping one show, I was shooting another one as well as playing my own role. So it was a very intense and crazy time. It had never been planned that there would be seven seasons. And I think it was around season three when it was confirmed that there will be six seasons. And, of course, we were thrilled. It was a big compliment to the work that everyone had been doing — the writers, directors, crew, producers, studio. And I think when we were approaching, we were about halfway through season six that I was asked about doing a seventh season.

How did you react to that ask? What did you think?

Well, what I did was immediately go and talk to all of my fellow actors, because I had a marginally different status in the production, I think, as the leading character. But I only wanted to do what they wanted to do. So I talked to everybody: Jonathan [Frakes], Brent [Spiner], Michael [Dorn] LeVar [Burton], Gates [McFadden], Marina [Sirtis], as well as our directors and our producers. And everyone said, “Yes, let's give it a shot.” In fact, I think there were one or two of my beloved friends [on TNG ] who would have liked to have gone on and done seasons eight, nine and 10. [ Laughs ] The series had already taken up seven years of my life — and five more were going to be taken up with the movies that we made, that we were going to shoot. So it had been an intense period of my life, a period of my life I had never expected to experience at all. Doing a television series that would run for year after year after year, that was not on my list of ambitions. And it, of course, had such an impact on my life. I had never experienced anything like it. And critical to that was my relationship with the rest of the cast, whom I met first in 1987. And every day that I don't see them now in 2024, I miss every one of them. And I don't think I've ever had so much fun as I have shooting Next Generation .

Did you have fun shooting the finale’s scenes where Picard was in old age makeup, sporting a beard for the first time on the show?

I loved it. Let me say, first of all, that we had a brilliant makeup team with Michael Westmore. The Westmore family. At one time, I believe every one of the major studios in Hollywood had a Westmore. I’ve always enjoyed the fun of sometimes appearing as a character whom the audience would know was Captain Picard, but he would appear in a funny or different costume or in makeup.

How did you celebrate when they finally wrapped on season seven?

I can't remember what I did exactly, but I do think I slept for several days.

I was going to say, I hope they gave you some time off between wrapping and starting Generations . I heard it was something like two weeks —

Oh, it was much shorter than that. [ Laughs ] They had already started shooting some of the movie when we were shooting the final episode. There were lots of scenes with Bill Shatner in them that we were not in. And so they were already working, and it meant that we could sneak in, because they were filming on the Paramount lot where we shot, well, not all of our episodes. Of course, about every four episodes or so, we would go on location somewhere — which was always a little bit like having a holiday. At least we treated it as a holiday.

I am guessing the cast was fairly emotional when shooting the famous poker table scene that ends “All Good Things…,” which you and the cast recreated for the finale of Star Trek: Picard . I know it’s been 30 years, but how was it for you filming what would become such an iconic moment for the franchise?

Well, it was intense. But we still had a few more days of work ahead of us. It was not the last scene of the series that was shot. The scene that John de Lancie and I had on [primordial Earth], that was the last scene we shot. We wrapped it at about 1:30, 2 in the morning, when everyone was absolutely beaten. And throughout the day, we'd had visitors. It's one of the reasons we were so far behind. We had so many visitors — important, distinguished visitors. And as we got into the evening shooting, of course, the visitors thinned out. And the later it got, there were no visitors at all. Just the crew, exhausted, and the director, Kolbe, dragging John de Lancie and myself to the finish, practically. And that was the last scene we shot. We wrapped seven seasons of Next Generation with two actors, John and myself. And for the poker scene, of course emotions ran high. I believe, just off the set somewhere, behind the wall there to where they were playing poker, crew members and executives were on set to observe [filming], and it’s safe to say there were few dry eyes in the house. While we all realized that we would no longer be working together on a series, we did have the movies to look forward to. And we were aware that this would also have an impact on the fans, for without them, we wouldn’t be here still talking about the work we achieved. But it was still very emotional, ending the series.

Speaking of the late Winrich Kolbe, the writers of “All Good Things…” and Frakes, they’ve all said that he was one of their favorite directors, and that they were very happy that he got the assignment for the finale. Can you recall what your relationship was like working with him?

It was wonderful. He was wonderful; a mixture of stern and serious instructions as well as lightheartedness. And we enjoyed him [on set] very much. But everything that I've just said would have applied to several more directors as well. And, of course, when Jonathan began directing, that was wonderful. And Gates, too. LeVar did several as well. Both he and Jonathan have both got great directing careers.

How would you rate your experience directing episodes of Next Gen ?

I loved every moment of directing, because I never thought it was something I would do. I didn't have ambitions to do it. But when we saw what Jonathan was doing, and then I think when I saw what LeVar was doing, I went along and said, “Please, sir, can I have a go, too?”

The Western episode you directed, “A Fistful of Datas,” is a popular one among the fans.

I'll tell you a secret about that. We filmed the Wild West town village on the Warner Bros. lot. And they had an extraordinarily extensive outdoor set of a Western town. And so I was told, “Okay, we're going to shoot all the Western scenes, the exterior scenes at Warner Bros.” And I said, “Great, but there's an awful lot.” And they said, “Yes, there is. We're going to have to be very tight and work very hard to get everything in.” And we actually started filming the first shot in the dark. The sun hadn't come up. And I said, “Hang on a minute. It doesn't matter that there's no sunshine. We could film this in the dark, to help save us some time.”

And [the shot] was Brent, as his cowboy character, hiding around a corner. It just looked like a dark, shadowy corner, which was helpful for our intentions. And then we raced through the day. I mean, we just didn't have the time to spend, because if we didn't shoot it, it wasn't going to get shot. But we did. And that was very challenging to a new director shooting his first Western.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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The Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: TNG movies will return to Paramount+ in July

P aramount is once again juggling its Star Trek projects. At the start of 2024, all ten of the Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation movies vacated the streamer because of a licensing deal with Max. With that deal ending, the movies will be returning to Paramount+ beginning July 1st, according to Trekmovie .

It's a rather convenient time for the movies to return on the exact same date as Star Trek: Prodigy launches its second season on Netflix. The animated series was unceremoniously cancelled by Paramount+ in April of last year after the streaming channel called itself "the home of Star Trek." That home is still missing a room without Prodigy.

With all ten of the classic movies back on Paramount+ and the three Kelvin Timelines movies available as well, Paramount+ will be the sole host of the films...at least for now. There's no way the streamer won't be looking to build on its revenue by seeking licensing deals with other streamers, especially considering Paramount+ hasn't made a profit since its inception.

Another movie, Section 31 , will be exclusive to Paramount+ is complete, but a release date has not been scheduled yet. And a Star Trek: Origins movie is reportedly in production while Star Trek 4 continues to struggle to find its footing. The three could potentially bring in substantial income to the streamer, which it desperately needs. Recently, Paramount+ CEO George Cheeks announced at an employee town hall, via MSN Money , that the streamer had hired investment bankers to sell off some assets in an attempt to reduce debt.

In addition, the streaming channel is increasing its prices for new subscribers both ad-free and ad-supported content beginning in August. Paramount+ with Showtime will cost an additional $1.00 ($12.99) while Paramount Essentials (ad-supported) will increase by two dollars ($7.99). The price increases will go into effect for current subscribers beginning September 20th, according to a report by Variety .

This article was originally published on redshirtsalwaysdie.com as The Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: TNG movies will return to Paramount+ in July .

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