The Star Trek world lost one of it's founding fathers this past Friday when Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock) passed away at the age of 83. I know when I read the news that I immediately felt a sense of emptiness as my heart just sank. I never knew the guy personally or even met him at a Star Trek Convention, but I was a devoted fan of the man for just about as long as I can remember.

(Originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) Among a good majority of Star Trek fans, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine holds a special place in our hearts. When you look at the formula for Star Trek, it goes a little something like this: Crew members on spaceship exploring the cosmos Weekly conundrum involving either an alien species or some technological issue with the ship…

(Originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) Paramount’s done a pretty nice job in fleshing out their new Star Trek series on Paramount+ As it stands, Paramount+ has given us a number of new Star Trek series since first launching Star Trek: Discovery in September of 2017. Those new series include: Discovery (4 Seasons), Star Trek: Picard (3 Seasons), Star Trek: Lower Decks (4 Seasons), Star Trek: Prodigy (1 Season), and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2 Seasons).

(Originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) One common practice of Star Trek over the years has been to take a pause from the weekly exploration of the cosmos to center on the exploration of ourselves, our own rules or laws. They’ve done this traditionally by holding trials. Sometimes it’s because of something that has happened in the everyday operations onboard the starship; other times it has to do with a new occurrence of the week.

(Originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) For as interesting as her rise to Captain on Star Trek: Discovery has been, Michael Burnham is the weakest written female Captain in Star Trek history. In Star Trek’s over 50 year history, we’ve had a number of female Starfleet Captains, and most of them have benefitted from a writing staff who cared deeply to make them strong characters.

(Originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) Last month, Scopely’s Star Trek Fleet Command celebrated its 5-year Anniversary. For those of you who haven’t tried out Star Trek Fleet Command (available for Android, Apple iOS, Mac OS & Windows), it’s a mobile strategy game published by Scopely & CBS Interactive. When the game first launched, visually, it centered around the crew, ships, and content associated with the Star Trek 2009 rebooted series of movies that starred Chris Pine as a young James T.

(originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) Neelix started out quite the questionable character on Star Trek: Voyager. When we first meet Neelix, he’s tending to his debris field where he seemingly would be selling off junked starship parts that he procured via numerous, possibly underhanded ways, and selling them off for profit in order to survive in the Delta Quadrant. The one commodity he seemingly could not obtain was something that Federation ships were able to synthesize in an instant: water.

When The Orville launched, many of the show’s characteristics matched what we loved about Star Trek more than Star Trek: Discovery did. (originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) So I wanted to come on here and take a look back to 2017. You see, for fans of science fiction, and more importantly, Star Trek, 2017 was going to be a big year for us because while Star Trek had been given a fresh coat of paint and a revival, so to speak, with the JJ Abrams’ movies starting in 2009 and continuing on with Into Darkness in 2013 and Beyond in 2016, CBS announced plans to produce a new Star Trek television series for the first time in 12 years!

(originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) Why do Trekkies try so hard to resist accepting new content? So it’s no secret, we as Trekkies (or Trekkers as some prefer to be called) hold Star Trek canon in high regards. So much so, that when new content is released, often we’re hesitant to fully accept it. This was the case back in the day with series we now hold sacred like Voyager, Enterprise, and even The Next Generation!