Fans of The Next Generation will be very happy with these returning characters. The first season of Star Trek: Picard debuted in January 2020, with fans of the franchise very happy to see the return of Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), even if the plot did kind of lose its way towards the end. The popularity […]

4 years ago

“The trial never ends…” Fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation were served well by the first season of Star Trek: Picard when it arrived in early 2020, thanks to return of Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), as well as a host of other returning characters and actors from the much-loved sci-fi show. Back then, we […]

5 years ago

Here are JOE’s thoughts on the new show’s first three episodes. It has been 18 years since Captain Picard and his crew had their last big screen adventure, in the critically-damned Star Trek: Nemesis. Since then, the world has moved on, both in terms of Star Trek – we’ve had those new movies that rewrote […]

6 years ago

There was a very Last Jedi-esque change felt in the trailers for the new show. Over the decades and different iterations of Star Trek, there has always been one constant: the Federation has been a signifier of hope and optimism for the future. It represented something close to a utopia of ideals, never aiming to […]

6 years ago

Irish fans of Star Trek will absolutely love this. Fans of Star Trek should be pretty used to hearing a strong Irish accent on the show, what with Chief Miles O’Brien (Colm Meaney) appearing on The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, and over the thirteen years on both shows, he did manage to introduce […]

6 years ago

The new Star Trek show launches very soon, and JOE chatted to Jean-Luc himself. Star Trek, like most good science fiction, has never really been about the future. It was a fun/intelligent/scary (delete as necessary) way of looking at the modern world through a futuristic lens, and through the different iterations of the show, we […]

6 years ago