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1964: Desilu Studios tries to sell Star Trek to CBS, which declines and decides to air Lost in Space instead.

Sept. 1966: NBC broadcasts first episode, The Man Trap: Kirk outwits a vampire-like alien who has eyes for McCoy.

March 1967: McCoy says, "Dammit, Jim, I'm not a bricklayer, I'm a doctor!" First variation of this phrase.

1967: Even at its ratings peak, Star Trek ranks No. 52, behind such shows as Mr. Terrific and Iron Horse.

Dec. 1967: Trouble with Tribbles, peak of Star Trek humor.

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Published Jul 17, 2014

50th Issue of The Official Star Trek Magazine Out Now

The Official Star Trek Magazine is celebrating its 50th edition just as Star Trek itself approaches the big 5-0. To celebrate the franchise, the magazine -- which is out now -- kicks off with a special feature about the iconic Enterprise, recalling where she came from, where she went and what she represents.

To commemorate the 50th issue, Star Trek Magazine editor Christopher Cooper lists 50 reasons why he loves Trek . Also included is an interview with Tim Russ in which he talks about his post- Voyager experiences and how Tuvok still plays a major role in his life. Plus; there are details about how you can win tickets to Destination Star Trek 3 in London.

And there's more: " Trek Britain," which details how British audiences were first won over by a glitzy US import called... Star Trek ; a piece about Star Trek Online 's anniversary; plus exclusive original fiction aboard the Enterprise-F. And, there are details about how you can win tickets to the upcoming Destination Star Trek 3 in London .

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With three shows warping through our airwaves, a fourth show, and a movie in the works, we are truly living in the new golden age of Trek. To celebrate this era the relaunched Star Trek magazine, now renamed Star Trek Explorer, returns on November 16th with interviews, articles, fiction, puzzles and more!

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As we previously reported back in August , the official Star Trek Magazine is being rebooted with a new look and a new name. Originally expected to arrive on November 2nd, the first issue of Star Trek Explorer is now set to be released worldwide in both physical and digital forms on Tuesday.

The first one-hundred-page issue includes interviews with  Star Trek: Discovery stars Blu del Barrio , Ian Alexander , David Cronenberg , and showrunner Michelle Paradise . Celebration/breakdown/analysis articles like A definitive guide to Star Trek: Enterprise and Inside Trek : Captain Kirk are also included. A fun new addition that is sure to start some social media discussions, The Q Continuum is a part of Explorer as well. In each issue, prominent cast and crew members across Trek are asked a big question and their answers are published in the issue. In the first issue, they’re asked “Who Belongs In A Star Trek Hall of Fame?” and the stars respond.

The magazine is chock-full of high-quality photographs, exclusive artwork, quizzes, brainteasers, and much, much more! Subscribers receive an exclusive cover for each issue and along with the print magazine, they receive a digital supplement including two additional short stories. The premiere issue contains stories written by Lisa Klink and Christopher Cooper .

Star Trek Explorer issue one hits newsstands on Tuesday, November 16th .

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Starship enterprise: the extended mission.

A half-century after its television debut, notable space and entertainment figures explore the impact of Star Trek.

“The Man Trap” was not the first episode of Star Trek to be produced, but it was the one NBC chose to air first, on the evening of September 8, 1966. The plot involved the last of a race of shape-shifters, one that kills crew members of the starship Enterprise because it needs the salt in their bodies to survive. At the end of the episode, a creature that has variously taken the form of an attractive woman or man—whatever form each of its victims finds most alluring—is revealed as a bizarre-looking monster. NBC considered that element quite salable—a nod to the creature-features more familiar to viewers than the kind of high-minded, unsubtly allegorical science fiction for which Star Trek would become famous. Eighteen months earlier, the network had rejected “The Cage,” Star Trek’s first pilot, as too cerebral, but taken the then-unprecedented step of commissioning a second pilot.

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Over the course of the series’ three seasons, NBC and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry would clash frequently. The show never got the kind of ratings that might have inclined executives to overlook its habit of riling censors and sounding off on topics like the Vietnam War and race relations. Only in syndicated reruns did Star Trek become a sensation, paving the way for a series of feature films that began with Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979 and spinoff TV series starting with Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987. ( Star Trek Beyond , the 13th movie in the franchise, opened in July, while the seventh small-screen series, Star Trek: Discovery , will premiere in January 2017.) Made in a tumultuous era of American history, Star Trek ’s promise that by the 23rd century, humankind will be but one of many peace-loving races in a space-faring United Federation of Planets had a profound influence on at least two generations of explorers and innovators. The show’s importance in popular culture has won the original studio model of the Enterprise a prominent place in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall at the National Air and Space Museum.

Fred C. Durant, a former rocket engineer and U.S. Navy test pilot who served as an assistant director at the Museum until 1980, corresponded with Roddenberry throughout the 1970s. Durant pointed out that rocket pioneers Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert H. Goddard, and Hermann Oberth all acknowledged the 19th century science fiction author Jules Verne as an influence on their work. “The Star Trek series represents the same kind of invitation to imaginative thinking,” Durant wrote in a 1975 letter.

To prove it, Air & Space asked a panel of scientists, astronauts, and influencers what it is that has made Star Trek live long...and prosper.

“The Bad Astronomer.” Author, Bad Astronomy and Death from the Skies . Slate columnist.

Favorite Star Trek story : Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). Not even close.

Favorite character : The starship Enterprise . You may argue it wasn’t a character; but if not, why did almost every single episode end with a shot of it moving on to the next adventure? Seeing the original Enterprise , fully restored and in gorgeous shape, at the National Air and Space Museum was truly lovely.

Fondest memory : When I was a kid, sci-fi movies and TV shows were about humans beating (or being beaten by) monsters. The Original Series episode “Devil in the Dark” showed that who was the monster isn’t always that clear-cut, and that had a deep effect on me.

Trek tech I wish were real : I want one of the projectors from the Astrometrics Lab seen in Star Trek : Generations (1994).

Something Trek got wrong : I’m willing to forgive a lot of scientific transgressions, but when distances are messed up it bugs me. At warp 9, the Enterprise could cover the distance from Mercury to the sun in a tiny fraction of second, but in [1986’s Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ], it still took quite some time. Things like that of course aren’t a huge deal, but they distract me and make it harder to suspend my disbelief. [Editors’ note: While explanations of Warp technology have been refined over time, generally speaking, Warp 1 is roughly the speed of light, and each Warp factor represents an exponential increase. Warp 2 is four times light speed; Warp 9 would be 729 times the speed of light.]

Terry Virts

U.S. Air Force colonel; NASA astronaut, pilot of space shuttle mission STS-130. F-16 pilot with more than 4,300 flight hours in more than 40 types of aircraft.

Favorite character : Captain Kirk, of course. The original. What else can I say?

Fondest memory : I remember going to see that first Star Trek movie with my dad in the theater and being excited to see what they might have dreamed up as the storyline or new technology. It came out before I was even a teenager, and I was just completely excited about space and science fiction at the time.

Lesson or inspiration : We actually studied leadership via Star Trek at the Air Force Academy. There were a lot of practical lessons to learn about decisiveness versus being too rash, or performing your specific role well to help the team. It was an interesting study in real-world leadership through this fictional show.

Trek tech : The machine that makes food automatically [the Replicator] would be pretty cool, but of course you cannot beat the Transporter. Interestingly enough, the communicator has become real.

Something Trek got wrong : When you’re out in space you float; you cannot walk around like you were on Earth when you’re in orbit or traveling between planets. But it makes the production costs a lot cheaper not to have to visualize weightlessness on the big screen. [Editors’ note: Vessels in Star Trek are equipped with artificial gravity. In 1991’s Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country , we see the inside of a Klingon vessel after its gravity device has been damaged, and the crew members are floating. Indeed, this visual effect would have been beyond the resources of the TV show 25 years earlier.]

Samantha Cristoforetti

Italian air force captain, European Space Agency astronaut. Crew member, International Space Station expedition 42 and 43. 199 continuous days in space.

Favorite story : Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan .

Favorite character : Jadzia Dax. [Editors’ note: Jadzia Dax is a symbiotic being from the 1993–1999 series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . She bears Jadzia’s humanoid appearance, but her consciousness is shared with Dax, a benevolent 300-year-old creature who lives inside her body, giving her access to the skills and memories of Dax’s previous hosts.]

Fondest memory : Watching overnight Star Trek marathons in college.

Trek tech : Definitely the Warp Drive.

Something Trek got wrong : Too many species looking too much like humans (probably due to the limitations of makeup and special effects).

James B. Garvin

Chief Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Recipient of two NASA Outstanding Leadership medals for his work on the Mars Exploration Program.

Favorite story : I adored most of the episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994) and Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001). The Original Series was fantastic, but I was too young when it aired to be as moved as I was by the later series.

My single favorite is the Voyager episode “One Small Step,” about a doomed 21st century human mission to Mars and how that mission’s loss became a catalyst for the Voyager’s creation. This connected to me personally since I have been working on Mars exploration for my entire career, more than 30 years.

This episode highlighted how past failures open the door to future successes. This is what happened in our Robotic Mars Program when we lost two of our missions, the Mars Polar Lander and the Mars Climate Orbiter, both in 1999. After that, we went on to build our present Mars program with the Curiosity rover, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the Mars 2020 Rover.

Fondest memory : Watching the entire Voyager series with my children one summer. We found a low-cost DVD set and went through the whole thing over the course of about two months. My kids were both teenagers at the time. I loved seeing how they reacted to the wonders of Star Trek as an idea, melding what science and engineering in the future might bring with the hopeful, optimistic spirit of human-based exploration.

Something Trek got wrong : To me, the miracle is how much it got right , not the science inconsistencies or other factors that some colleagues lament. But I’ll name two things Star Trek might have done better.

(1) How human interaction with IT is presented. When [the Original Series] was conceived, creating a cyberspace future that goes vastly beyond today’s capabilities would’ve been impossible, but I do believe the way people and computers (if we’re even still calling them that in a few hundred years) interact is oversimplified. Will we still be talking to computers via tablets or voice commands? Perhaps Lieutenant Commander Data [the android officer from The Next Generation ] or the Emergency Hologram Doctor [from Voyager ] are better projections of how we will engage with IT.

(2) Situational awareness on a starship via a large window-like view screen. I can imagine a more futuristic projection of how the crew would “see” where the ship is going and what is happening.

Filmmaker. Director, Star Trek Beyond , as well as installments 3 to 6 in The Fast & the Furious franchise.

Favorite character : [USS Enterprise physician Leonard “Bones”] McCoy, hands down. I just love his dry humor, and the curmudgeon aspect of McCoy. He was always my favorite.

Fondest memory : I was eight years old the first time I saw [the Original Series]. I didn’t realize they were reruns for a long time! It took me a while to figure out that it wasn’t a new show every night. We had just moved to the States from Taiwan. Watching those old episodes was kind of the only time I got to spend with my parents.

Lesson or inspiration : To see this crew on this exploratory journey together really redefined for me the idea of family. That it could be a crew. Family isn’t just by blood. I didn’t realize it until this movie, but the family aspect of my Fast films—I think that’s from the mark Star Trek left on me as a kid.

Trek tech : I always thought the beaming was the coolest. We have a scene in Star Trek Beyond in the Transporter bay, and as soon as I walked onto that set all these memories from my childhood just hit me. So I’m going with the Transporter Beam.

Co-screenwriter, Star Trek Beyond . Played Enterprise Chief Engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott in three films, beginning with the 2009 reboot Star Trek .

Favorite story : I always come back to “The Corbomite Maneuver,” one of the earliest episodes from the first season. It had Clint Howard as this strange little boy who had this sort of alien proxy that he would use to intimidate ships, a character called Balok. As a child he terrified me, because his visage was featured in the photo montage under the closing credits. It’s just a great episode, one of those classic chess matches between Kirk and the crew and their adversary.

Favorite character : Scotty aside, I’d probably say Spock. I love that he’s almost like this stern father figure who you constantly look to for emotion, and they don’t often give it, but when they do, it’s absolutely delightful. In episodes like “Amok Time” or “Shore Leave,” where Spock would drop his Vulcan discipline and bits of his humanity would creep out, that was always so welcome and so fun. He was this cypher, who somehow managed to suppress his human emotions, but whenever they crept out you were just so pleased to see he was actually a good guy.

Trek tech : So much of it is coming to pass. The Universal Translator is almost with us; you can get real-time translation on your iPhone. So it’s got to be the big ones left to discover. Warp drive, so we could get out into the galaxy. I don’t know if there’s intelligent life out there. We might just be an abomination. I expect there are other planets with life on them, but the odds of them being at the same evolutionary stage as us are infinitesimal.

Carolyn Porco

Planetary scientist. Director, Mission Operations, Cassini Imaging Team. Member, Voyager Imaging Team. Saturn expert. 2010 recipient, the American Astronomical Society’s Carl Sagan Award. One of Time magazine’s 25 Most influential People in Space, 2012.

Favorite story : The Motion Picture , where the Voyager spacecraft is the mystery guest star. And The Wrath of Khan , with the Genesis planet.

Favorite character : Spock, of course. And Kirk. And [ Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Enterprise-D captain] Jean-Luc Picard.

Lesson or inspiration : Star Trek presented to us a Utopian vision of ourselves, wedded to the enduring saga of good versus evil, writ cosmically large across the galaxy and into the future, and played out by a cast of beloved characters.

It gave a comforting assurance that humanity has what it takes to become an interstellar civilization, that we do indeed have a future beyond Earth.

Trek object you wish were real : The Transporter Beam, without a doubt!

Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry Jr.

President, The Roddenberry Foundation. Executive Producer, Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access, 2017).

Favorite story : The Next Generation is my favorite series, but the one I’ll choose is The Original Series episode “Devil in the Dark.” My idea of television up to that point was fairly one-dimensional: There was a good guy and a bad guy, and the good guy wins in the end. In that one, you had this rock monster—the Horta—where we’re killing its young by mining its eggs. I love that they communicate with it rather than just trying to kill it. I didn’t know television could do that. I love it when there’s depth and complexity to the bad guy.

Favorite character : Lieutenant Commander Data, would be the short answer. But Spock, Hologram Doctor, [liberated Borg drone] Seven of Nine. All the alien characters that make us look back at our humanity. The Roddenberry characters, I like to call them.

Fondest Memory : When I was six or seven, my father had his old 16-millimeter projector in his home office. And he would play the blooper reel for me. I would just sit on the floor and laugh, because it was all people falling down or running into doors. I didn’t yet know what Star Trek was, but that’s my earliest vivid memory of it.

Trek tech : The replicator. The minute we can control the atom and replicate anything we want—including the replicator, so everyone has access to a replicator—money loses all value. What then becomes valuable is the individual. The idea. The point of view. The differences that we all share. It wouldn’t solve every problem, but the hope is that everyone has access to food and what they need to take care of their family, there will be less need—depending on whether religion gets involved or not—to create chaos.

Something Star Trek got wrong : Homosexuality. Star Trek never hit that head on, and in the ’60s, there’s no way that would’ve happened. Even in the ’80s and ’90s, the studio would not have let it be addressed directly, though they did skirt around it in some Deep Space Nine episodes. [ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine aired from 1993 to 1999.] So the LGBT community asked the question, and my father’s response to it—which was sort of a sidestep, but a beautiful one—was that in the 23rd and 24th centuries, sexual orientation is just a non-issue. It’s not something that even needs to be discussed. So he didn’t need to have a rainbow flag, or some stereotypical representation of gayness, to show that. There were many gay crew members aboard the Enterprise , is what my father said.

Edward Michael Fincke

U.S. Air Force colonel, NASA astronaut. Recipient of two NASA Distinguished Service medals and three Spaceflight medals. Crew member, Expedition 9 and Expedition 18. Mission specialist, STS-134. 381 days in space; nine spacewalks totaling nearly 49 hours.

Favorite character : Naturally, I am drawn to the captains for my inspiration. I really like Scott Bakula’s Captain Archer [on the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise , which aired 2001–2005], as well as both William Shatner and Chris Pine’s versions of Captain James T. Kirk.

Fondest memory : I was invited to the set of Star Trek: Enterprise by Scott Bakula. The show’s scenic art supervisor, Michael Okuda, showed fellow astronaut Terry Virts and me around the set. It was amazing to see the magic of taking wood, plastic, nails, and glue to make a starship. Both Terry and I were impressed with the craft it takes to make a television show. There are many moving parts and everyone needs to be always on their A-game—just like at NASA.

Lesson or inspiration : Gene Roddenberry was an optimist and his optimism is contagious. The Original Series really impacted our national psyche by showing humanity at its finest.

When human beings work together we can accomplish miracles. We have 15 countries working together on our beautiful and magnificent International Space Station. Star Trek inspired? Yes. Humanity at its finest? Yes.

Margaret Weitekamp

Curator, National Air and Space Museum, specializing in the social and cultural dimensions of spaceflight

Favorite story : Star Trek: First Contact (1996) because I have a soft spot for time travel stories, and we learn that the Smithsonian exhibits Dr. Zefram Cochran’s Phoenix Warp ship after its history-making flight in 2063. I should be retired by then, but maybe they’ll let an old-timer come to the donation ceremony. [Editors’ note: In the film, it is Cochran’s invention of the warp drive that persuades the Vulcans to make “First Contact” with humans, a species they had previously deemed too primitive to engage.]

Favorite character : Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, because her presence as a member of the Enterprise crew in the late 1960s resonated so powerfully as an example of men and women of different races working together. Actor Nichelle Nichols actually helped recruit astronauts for the space shuttle program in the 1970s. I was thrilled that I got to interview her for an article I wrote about the Uhura character.

Trek Tech : Transporter. I’d probably still be late to things, but it would be nice to avoid D.C. traffic.

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Star Trek 's Future Includes More Movies, More TV, and More Michelle Yeoh

A wide-ranging look at the future of star trek gives us major updates on section 31 , starfleet academy , and trek 's hopes for a return to the box office..

Star Trek ’s streaming revival finds itself at a bit of a crossroads. Discovery , the series that brought the show back to its current heights, is preparing to begin its final season next week—and Picard , arguably one of its biggest successes, came to an end last year. But things ending has never stopped Star Trek from looking ahead to what’s next, and there’s plenty on the way.

As part of a wide ranging feature for Variety , Paramount has revealed a swath of hints about what to expect as Star Trek transitions from the stable of shows it has developed in the years since Discovery revived the franchise in 2017 (for what was then CBS All Access, now Paramount+), to a franchise looking to push itself on screens big and small once again.

Several of the shows that form Star Trek ’s current streaming era will of course continue—like the smash-hit success Strange New Worlds , currently filming its third season; the animated series Lower Decks ; and the kids-focused 3DCG series Prodigy , which has found a new streaming home at Netflix after being suddenly and controversially axed from Paramount+ last year. But now Star Trek ’s future beyond them is anchored in not just at least one more new TV show—the upcoming Starfleet Academy , now explicitly confirmed to be set in the 32nd Century setting established by Discovery ’s last three seasons—but experimentations in film in both theatrical and streaming formats.

The most major of these is Section 31 , the Michelle Yeoh-helmed series-pitch-turned-streaming film that follows her Discovery character, Phillipa Georgiou (actually the Mirror Universe variant of Yeoh’s character, who perished in its opening episodes) as she finds herself involved in the titular shady Starfleet secret police division introduced in Deep Space Nine . It’s now seemingly been confirmed that Section 31 will be set in the time period between Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and Star Trek: The Next Generation , as a major character joining Yeoh in the film will be a young Rachel Garrett, played by Kacey Rohl—the captain of the Enterprise -C introduced in the TNG episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise.” Also floated as a potential continuation of this streaming movie format beyond Section 31 is more from the world of  Star Trek: Picard —apparently not the so-called Legacy spinoff cast and crew have been asking for since the series concluded last year, but a movie previously teased by Patrick Stewart that would, presumably, continue to focus on Picard after the events of the show.

Paramount+ is not the only home for future Star Trek film content however. Plans are still underway to make a fourth and final film with the remaining cast of the Star Trek 2009 reboot movie—known as the alternate “Kelvin Timeline” continuity—with The Flight Attendant ’s Steve Yockey drafting the latest script for the latest iteration of the film, which has been trying to get off the ground in various forms since 2018, having most recently lost director Matt Shakman to Marvel’s The Fantastic Four . Further along the line than Star Trek 4, however, is another tentpole Trek movie: first reported on earlier this year as being written by Seth Grahame-Smith and directed by Andor ’s Toby Haynes, this film is now explicitly described as “an origin story of sorts” for, not as previously assumed, the aforementioned Kelvin timeline, but the “Prime” Star Trek canon, suggesting a return to the time period first explored in Star Trek: Enterprise .

All this, of course, remains in flux— Star Trek has few rivals in the Hollywood world when it comes to announced projects not actually making it out to audiences in one form or another (the galaxy far, far away says hello to its fellow Star franchise). But suffice to say Paramount has big, big plans for Star Trek in a bunch of forms across TV and film, and they’re unlikely to slow down any time soon.

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A documentary on the “Star Trek” actor unboldly goes where other profile movies have gone before.

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The line between star and character gets thoroughly blurred in “William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill,” a profile documentary that treats Shatner, the sole interviewee, as if he were as polished as Capt. James T. Kirk — as opposed to merely being the durable, hard-working actor who played him on “Star Trek” and a terrific raconteur.

The director, Alexandre O. Philippe, churns out movie-themed documentaries that veer between insightful ( “78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene” ) and obsequious ( “Memory: The Origins of Alien” ). The fawning “You Can Call Me Bill” makes you like Shatner. Still, listening to the actor’s wit, wisdom and drippy insights for 96 minutes is enough to tempt any viewer to channel his or her inner Spock. (“Most illogical!”)

“You Can Call Me Bill” is tedious when Shatner shares his thoughts on animals and spirituality (“You reach a connection with a horse that can be something mystical”) but sharp when he reflects on acting. It’s interesting to hear that he felt influenced both by the traditionalism of Laurence Olivier and the Stella Adler training of Marlon Brando; he suggests that split was related to his being Canadian, torn between British and American cultures. He probes deeply into his craft when speaking of selecting differentiated traits that an audience could identify in scenes that featured multiple Kirks and of wanting another take of his death scene close-up in “Star Trek: Generations” (1994).

It’s hard not to smile during footage of Shatner, then 90, becoming the oldest person ever to travel to space . But “You Can Call Me Bill” is fundamentally a case of an actor presenting himself as he wants to be seen.

You Can Call Me Bill Rated PG-13 for some language that would mostly pass on 1960s television. Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. In theaters.

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The actor believed his death scene performance came off more "fearful" than full of "wonder."

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William Shatner is getting another shot at Captain Kirk’s Star Trek Generations death scene. 

One week after the actor revealed that he wasn't pleased with Kirk’s final line delivery in the 1994 film, Shatner was offered a chance to recreate the dramatic the scene while visiting Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday. 

Shatner explained on the talk show that his problem with his original performance — which sees a bloodied Kirk say, “oh my,” before dying — was that the USS Enterprise captain sounded afraid of dying, rather than full of wonder at the prospect of the next adventure.  

“I think you die the way you live,” he said. “So, Captain Kirk always had these grotesque things happening, 'Oh, look at that! It’s an animal! I think it’s going to eat me,' you know? But without fear… with joy and love and opportunity to see what’s better.” 

So he attempted to see death through Kirk’s eyes. “I thought I had lived the ‘Oh my,’” he said. “I thought that he would see death — old man with a scythe on his shoulder — and look at it and wonder.” 

Instead, Shatner said that his take in the film “sounded fearful,” adding, “and I didn’t want to be fearful.”

Host Jimmy Kimmel then asked Shatner if he'd like a “do over,” before grabbing some fake rocks and debris to scatter around the 93-year-old as he got comfortable in his chair. Kimmel also offered Shatner some “ketchup as blood” if he’d like, but was swiftly turned down. 

Turned towards the camera, Shatner then performed a dramatic new rendition of Kirk’s “Oh my” scene, this time decidedly less fearful. To show his performance was over, he remarked, “...And he dies.”

“Wow,” Kimmel said as the audience cheered. “That was good.”

Earlier this month, Shatner admitted in an interview with ScreenRant that he “never quite hit” what he was trying to accomplish with the tragic scene.

“I never quite got that nuance that I was looking for,” he said. “I had another couple of takes, but they they didn't understand what I was doing.”

Watch Shatner get a second chance in the clip above.  

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• Callum Keith Rennie joins Star Trek: Discovery as Kellerun Captain Rayner, revealing the obscure species from Deep Space Nine .
• Rayner's Kellerun backstory is crucial to Rayner's characterization and mission, with the showrunner promising a focus on his personal history.
• Discovery continues the tradition of exploring one-off alien races with new characters, adding depth and diversity to the final season.

Veteran actor Callum Keith Rennie will join the cast of the final season of Star Trek: Discovery as the alien Captain Rayner, and now we know what species he is. Fans have speculated that Rayner's pointed ears mark him as a Vulcan or a Romulan, but a new interview reveals that he is a member of the Kellerun, an obscure species from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . TrekCore.com has the details from SFX Magazine's feature on Discovery 's upcoming fifth season , which will premiere on Paramount+ early next month.

Rayner's species will apparently be important to his characterization and the mysterious mission he joins the USS Discovery crew for, as they race against time in the show's final bow. Says showrunner Michelle Paradise , "He’s Kellerun, which is a minor planet mentioned in one of the other iterations… we learn more about his personal backstory and how that plays into who he is, and why he is how he is. We learn about that as the season goes on, and the planet he’s from has a lot to do with that." It won't be the first time an important character on Discovery comes from a one-off alien race; Commander Nhan ( Rachael Ancheril ), who debuted in the series' second season, is a Barzan, a race that had up to that point only appeared in the third-season Next Generation episode "The Price".

Who Are the Kellerun?

The Kellerun made their first and (so far) only appearance in "Armageddon Game", which first aired in 1994 as part of Deep Space Nine 's second season. A species with distinctive large, pointed ears, they had been at war for centuries with their neighbors, the T'Lani, in a conflict that utilized the Harvesters, deadly biological weapons. After the two races made peace with each other, Starfleet sent in Deep Space Nine crew members Dr. Julian Bashir ( Alexander Siddig ) and Miles O'Brien ( Colm Meany ) to help dismantle the remaining Harvesters. However, the Kellerun and T'Lani insist that all knowledge pertaining to the Harvesters must be destroyed - which means killing Bashir and O'Brien, too. The two have to make a desperate race for survival as their friends try to save them from the two alien species.

Although the Kellerun did not appear on the series again, the episode established Bashir and O'Brien's friendship, which endured for the rest of the show's run. Canadian actor Callum Keith Rennie is a veteran of science fiction productions, having starred in Battlestar Galactica , Impulse , The X-Files , Jessica Jones , and The Umbrella Academy . Discovery will be his first Star Trek appearance.

Star Trek: Discovery 's fifth and final season will premiere April 4, 2024 on Paramount+ , wehere past seasons are also streaming. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates, and watch the trailer for Discovery 's fifth season below.

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Has Capitalism Been Replaced by “Technofeudalism”?

By Sheelah Kolhatkar

“I never planned to be a politician. Never. Not in my wildest nightmares,” the economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said the other day. He was fighting his way toward the exit at Columbia University’s Alfred Lerner Hall, where he’d just spoken at a conference on sustainable development. A man blocked his path: “Five minutes, Professor?” He introduced himself as a U.N. employee. “I’m Italian,” he said.

“Nobody’s perfect,” Varoufakis said, laughing. “I’m Greek.”

Varoufakis, who is tall and bald, with a rakish demeanor, wore boots and a black trenchcoat, like a character from “The Matrix.” In 2015, amid one of the worst financial crises in Greece’s history, he was appointed by the country’s new left-wing government to try to save the financial system and to fend off punishing austerity measures that the country’s creditors had proposed in exchange for a bailout. (During the negotiations, the Financial Times called him “the most irritating man in the room.”) The press referred to Varoufakis as the “rock-star finance minister” and noted his leather jackets and glamorous artist wife, Danae Stratou. “So what that I have a motorcycle,” he said. “I live in Athens—there’s no way you can get around in a car.”

Varoufakis is still bitter about the way his tenure ended, six months in. He was criticized for appearing in a flashy Paris Match spread at a time when Greeks were suffering economically, and, shortly before the country’s Prime Minister abruptly agreed to the type of bailout that Varoufakis had been resisting, he resigned. (“I shall wear the creditors’ loathing with pride,” he wrote on his blog.)

“I wanted to do one thing,” he said, hailing a cab to take him to the Guggenheim Museum, a regular New York stop. “Restructure Greece’s debt. If you’re bankrupt, and your bankruptcy gets bigger by getting more credit cards, this is a cycle. I wanted to break this doom loop. And I failed.” He added, “I don’t regret it for a second. But politics stinks.”

Varoufakis just published his seventeenth book, called “Technofeudalism.” Capitalism, he argues, has been replaced by a new economic system that’s more dangerous than anything Marx could have conjured. The big tech companies—Meta, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet—control our attention and mediate our transactions, he says, turning humans into digital serfs incessantly posting, scrolling, and buying on their platforms. Rather than chasing profits that derive from labor, the tech overlords, whom he calls “cloudalists,” extract “rents.”

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In the book, Varoufakis refers to Homer, Hesiod, “Mad Men,” F.D.R., Batman, and Thomas Edison to illustrate what has happened since people started staring at smartphones for most of their waking hours. Under feudalism, a landowner would grant fiefs to vassals, who would farm the land and give a portion of the yield to the landowner. Varoufakis writes that Jeff Bezos’s “relationship with the vendors on amazon.com is not too dissimilar.” But the new setup is a bigger threat to representative government than even the old capitalism was.

The cab pulled up to the Guggenheim. As Varoufakis paid the fare, he explained that although he’s a critic of technology, he still uses it, especially X. “I’m all day on Twitter,” he said. “I hate it. Was it Stephen Fry, the English writer and actor, who said that it’s like taking all the graffiti from male toilets and posting it online?”

Varoufakis hadn’t checked the museum’s exhibition schedule but said that he liked surprises. A show called “Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility” featured images of people wearing hoodies and shrouds, and eerie sculptures of staggering giants bathed in green light. As he peered at the shadowy figures, he said that the only thing that could counter the new tech feudalism was a revolution in which citizens took control of the algorithms and put them under democratic oversight. “A tall order,” he admits in the book.

He stared at a large Chris Ofili painting that was almost entirely blue. “When I get seriously depressed, it’s art, music, and ‘Star Trek,’ ” he said. “I’m a Trekkie, by the way. Absolutely fanatical. I’ve seen every single one.” He especially loves “The Next Generation,” in which Patrick Stewart plays Captain Jean-Luc Picard. “The major reason why I like it is because it’s a post-capitalist, socialist world,” he said. “There’s no money. There’s no profit. And there is the primary directive: We do not interfere with other races. Which is exactly the opposite of the imperialist directive.”

He recalled a favorite episode, in which the Enterprise crew thaws several people who were cryogenically frozen: “There is a fantastic dialogue between Captain Picard and a businessman from the nineteen-nineties who demands to see his lawyer because he had a lot of investments on Wall Street. And Picard says, ‘My friend, these were all illusions which are no longer current. We have overcome the need for material possessions.’ ”

The ideal system, Varoufakis went on, might be called “anti-technofeudalism.” “With technology working for all of us in a perfectly democratic way, and the removal of systematic exploitation on the basis of who owns what—that’s ‘Star Trek,’ ” he said. “Whereas I hate ‘Star Wars.’ ‘Star Wars’ is the Middle Ages, with laser guns.” ♦

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The actor attended the premiere of his documentary you can call me bill.

Space looks good on William Shatner  who had fans doing a double-take when he stepped out the day before his 93rd birthday in Los Angeles.

The Star Trek legend looked decades younger than his age as he put on a youthful appearance at the premiere of his documentary, You Can Call Me Bill  on March 21. 

In the photos, William was smiling and looked casual and carefree in a cool leather jacket and grey shirt. 

The star - who is most famous for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek -  been busy promoting his documentary which takes a deep dive into his decades-long career and life. 

He told People  ahead of the premier that he felt a little "awkward" about the project. 

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"It's a documentary about me, and I'm expected to help sell it by going out and talking about me, and I don't like to talk about me," he said. 

"In doing a serious film that in the end, my children and my children's children watch, I didn't want to be facetious or marginal about any of the answers."

William added: "So there I am somewhat naked, a mixed metaphor, if you will. And so the film is more the truth and more about me than I can manage, or as much as I can manage, but it's a little awkward. It's like getting undressed."

While promoting the documentary on  Today  this week, host Craig Melvin  asked his guest the secret to his longevity. 

William quipped:  "Don't tell anybody," while remarking on his age.

He previously confessed that he wanted to make his latest documentary "as a way of reaching out after I die".

As a grandfather-of-five, he's incredibly family orientated, and told The Guardian in 2014: "Being a grandparent is the greatest joy for me. I have the time now to grab a grandchild and talk, and hug and kiss them and make sure that I'm taking time to be with them and to give them some aspect of the things I've learned'.

"Family life is totally encompassing."

His recent appearance set social media alight, with fans called him "age-defying" with many in disbelief at William's age.

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William Shatner Gets a 'Do-Over' at Captain Kirk's Death Scene on Star Trek – Watch!

Shatner reflected on his iconic death scene one day before he celebrated his 93rd birthday

William Shatner had the chance to redo one of his most iconic performances.

On Thursday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live , Shatner, 93, opened up why he wasn’t a fan of Captain Kirk’s death scene in Star Trek . 

“You said in the documentary [ You Can Call Me Bill ] that your last appearance as Captain Kirk, you didn’t love your acting or your take on your line in the movie,” host Jimmy Kimmel told the actor.

“Well, yes. Somehow when you say it, it sounds awful,” Shatner clarified before going on to “rephrase” Kimmel’s interpretation. 

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“As an earnest artist, the take is on me. Captain Kirk is dying. So how does a person die? How do you die? How do you know when you’re dying?” he asked.

“I think you die the way you live,” he continued. “So Captain Kirk always had these grotesque things happening, ‘Oh look at that. It’s an animal. I think it’s going to eat me.’ But without fear, but with joy and love and opportunity to see what’s better.”

The pair then watched the scene from 1994’s Star Trek Generations which saw Captain Kirk fatally injured when attempting to stop Tolian Soran from destroying a planetary system. In the pivotal moment, Kirk says the phrase “oh my” as blood streams out of his mouth before his death.

“I ad libbed the, ‘Oh my.’ I thought he would see death, an old man with the scythe on his shoulder, and look at it and wonder,” Shatner explained.

He added that he ultimately “sounded fearful” in the performance and he “didn’t want to be fearful.”

Kimmel then gave him the opportunity to “do-over” the scene. The talk show host surrounded him with fake rocks and asked if he wanted to use ketchup as a replacement for blood. He performed a redo of the memorable scene for the audience, which you can watch above.

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