14 Star Trek Episodes That Capture The Christmas Spirit

Picard looks through a frosted window

The "Star Trek" franchise has spanned more than fifty years, nine television series, thirteen feature films , and over 800 episodes — but, largely thanks to creator Gene Roddenberry's secular attitudes, has never produced a single Christmas episode. Outside of a few off-hand mentions, Earth religions have never had a big part in the franchise, so you're not going to find an episode where the crew gathers for Christmas dinner or exchanges gifts beneath a lit tree.

But despite never having had a celebratory Christmas episode, the franchise has had plenty of stories that capture the meaning of the holiday just the same. While the show has waded into darker territory and featured stories of all kinds, it's always been at its best projecting hope and positivity. It's the franchise's uplifting, inspirational values that have helped it resonate for more than half a century, with episodes built on messages of hope and love, charity and good deeds, more like the best Christmas stories have to offer than dystopian science fiction. 

This Christmas season, rather than compile a list of "Star Trek" episodes that mention the Holy Spirit, Santa Claus, or Ebenezer Scrooge, here are specific episodes from nearly every series that embody the Christmas spirit.

14. Journey to Babel (Star Trek, Season 2, Episode 10)

The Enterprise is on its way to a peace conference on Babel when they stop to pick up an Ambassador — a sagely Vulcan named Sarek  — who is revealed to be none other than Spock's own father. Everyone is surprised but Spock, and it soon becomes clear there's bad blood between the father and son. It's the first episode to delve into the heritage of Spock, a man torn between his human and Vulcan sides, never fully welcomed by either culture. 

Kirk's peace mission to Babel is derailed when the delegates refuse to get along, seemingly at odds over the admission of the Coridan to the Federation. There have always been tensions between these groups, and Sarek is distrustful of the Tellarites' motives. When the Tellarite ambassador Gav turns up dead, Sarek is implicated in the murder. Sarek however falls suddenly ill, and only the aggrieved Spock can save him. 

Amidst this family crisis, there's an assassination attempt on Captain Kirk just as a mysterious ship attacks, and it's clear not all is as it seems. Someone is intent on disrupting the peace conference, and saving Sarek and the Enterprise will require everyone to put aside their distrust and work together. There may not be any tinsel or sleigh bells, but "Journey To Babel" captures the spirit of Christmas with themes of love, family, and charity, and looking past our differences to work together in friendship. 

13. Transfigurations (Star Trek TNG, Season 3, Episode 25)

In one of many under-appreciated episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation,"  "Transfigurations" sees the crew take in an alien refugee, a man with amnesia they call John Doe, who seems to be in some sort of danger and is exhibiting strange abilities. He can heal others with a touch, and his mere presence seems to bring joy and happiness to everyone around him.

But an alien ship comes looking for him, calling him a dangerous escaped criminal, and demands his return — for an execution. The crew of the Enterprise, including Dr. Crusher (who has fallen in love with him), can't reconcile that description with the man they've come to know. He saved Worf's life, helped Geordi become a happier, more confident version of himself, and has done nothing but bring positivity and good spirits to the Enterprise. In the end we learn that his race is slowly undergoing an evolution into a new form of life, one that carries with it incredible insight and enlightenment. John Doe's people fear those who have undergone this change, and want them eliminated.

It certainly isn't mentioned among anybody's rankings of the best "Star Trek" stories, but "Transfigurations" is a strong episode nonetheless, one that deserves recognition. It deals with themes of rebirth, and the power of love and light, making it perhaps the truest expression of the Christmas spirit in "Trek" history.

12. The Inner Light (Star Trek TNG, Season 5, Episode 25)

Frequently cited as one of the best "Star Trek" episodes ever, "The Inner Light" tells a heartwarming family tale that begins with the Enterprise encountering a strange alien probe. Struck by a beam of energy from the craft, Picard is knocked unconscious, and wakes up on a strange planet in a new life. His name is Kamen, he is married and living on a far-off planet called Kataan — one he soon learns is slowly dying of some form of climate change.

Over the course of the story Picard lives an entire lifetime on Kataan as Kamen, fathering three children (even grandchildren), all the while trying to help his community find a solution to the planet's climate woes. He loses his best friend to illness, watches his wife die by his side as the planet withers, and he knows his grandchildren may not have a community left as they get older. But he learns the government is preparing a latch-ditch effort to save their species, a space-faring probe that will carry with it a sophisticated technology allowing others to experience life on their world.

When Picard wakes up, he struggles to remember he is Jean-Luc Picard, having just lived an entire lifetime in an instant. He was person their probe found, and he alone is left to carry the memory of their people. "The Inner Light" is a celebrated story with an important lesson at its core: Treasure those you love, because you never know when they might not be there anymore.

11. Tapestry (Star Trek TNG, Season 6, Episode 15)

Best described as a "Star Trek" version of "A Christmas Carol," Picard dies at the start of "Tapestry," only to be met by Q in the apparent afterlife. But he's not here to usher the captain to heaven, instead offering Picard the chance to change his past. Finding himself back in his early Starfleet days, he's aboard a space station with two fellow graduates, awaiting their first assignments. It's a period when Picard was more arrogant and reckless, and he's here to avoid a confrontation that would get him impaled through the back.

But while attempting to chart a more responsible course for himself, he becomes romantically linked with a young cadet he'd regretted never pursuing. Trying to play the role of mature, responsible officer, Picard succeeds in alienating his best friend. Having made the changes he wanted, Q snaps him back to the present, where he's no longer dead — and no longer Captain Picard — but a low level crewman aboard the Enterprise. Picard now realizes that the mistakes he made in his youth helped him become the man he was.

Putting aside an uncomfortable scene where 52-year-old Patrick Stewart gets physical with the 18-year old actress playing his old flame, it's one of the series' best installments  — a story of life, love, and regret where every moment is shown to be precious.

10. In The Cards (Deep Space Nine, Season 5, Episode 25)

Perhaps the closest  "Deep Space Nine" ever came to a Christmas special , "In the Cards" presented Jake Sisko, who was looking to cheer up his father when he noticed the war taking its toll on the Captain. 

The Dominion War, of course, hasn't been good for anyone on the station. But Jake thinks by helping his father it will help everyone, since the elder Sisko is both the station's commander and the Emissary of the Prophets. When an auction at Quark's bar reveals a vintage 20th century baseball card for sale, Jake sets out to acquire it as a gift, but it falls into the possession of a mysterious visitor instead.

The visitor turns out to be a scientist studying the nature of death, demanding a collection of strange items in exchange for the card — items needed to complete his latest experiment. To acquire what he's asking for, Jake — aided by his friend Nog — must do a series of favors for a number of people on the station. In getting the card for his father, they end up lifting the spirits of everyone involved, including the Federation's most vile enemies. In the middle of the Dominion War, "In the Cards" proves to be an uplifting, inspiring series entry that shows not just the importance of family, but of how far one charitable deed can go, and the effect a little joy can have on people.

9. The Visitor (Deep Space Nine, Season 4, Episode 2)

Along with "The Inner Light," the "Deep Space Nine" episode "The Visitor" is often voted  among the best  —  or at least the most powerful  — episodes of the franchise, and for good reason. Its message of love and family will speak to anyone with a parent or child in their life.

"The Visitor" sees the apparent death of Captain Sisko in the episode's opening scene, when after a crisis aboard the Defiant he is attempting to syphon energy from the warp core. This devastating loss happens right before the eyes of his teenage son Jake.

The younger Sisko struggles to deal with his father's death, falling into a deep depression. One night, however, Jake is thrown for a loop when his father materializes in front him, lost and confused by what has happened. But just as soon as he appears, he vanishes again. 

The crew soon discover that Captain Sisko isn't dead, but lost in a layer of space that sees him reappear during a rare cosmic cycle, and it is tied to the presence of his son. Over the next sixty years, Jake Sisko abandons his wife and career and devotes his entire life to bringing his father back. It all ends with time being reset, and the father and son getting a fresh start. But "The Visitor" is more than a mind-bending time travel tale — it's a story of family, of second chances, and how the bond between loved ones cannot be bound by space or time.

8. The Sound of Her Voice (Deep Space Nine, Season 6, Episode 25)

Perhaps overshadowed by the season finale that followed it, "The Sound of Her Voice" dealt with the effects the war was taking on the station's crew. A distress call from the U.S.S. Olympia reveals that its captain, Lisa Cusak, is the sole survivor of an accident that left her stranded on an inhospitable planet. Her situation is dire, her food and medical rations running low, and the Defiant is days away at maximum warp. Sisko immediately changes course, but the clock is ticking as Cusak is suffering from a rapidly deteriorating illness.

The crew takes turns over the next three days keeping the stranded officer company over subspace radio, and their discussions become therapy sessions, with Captain Cusak helping them understand the heavy toll the war is taking on them. Emphasizing that the burden need not be shouldered alone, and to hold on to dear friendships in times of need, the Defiant's crew take her words to heart.

As the crew adopts this newfound vow not to let the war pull them apart, and to cherish their time together, it becomes especially poignant given that the series was entering its final season. Though the episode would conclude on a more somber note than most on this list (including a twist ending), it leaves the audience with a message of love and hope, of family and friendship that resonates more loudly during the Christmas season. 

7. 11:59 (Voyager, Season 5, Episode 22)

Take away the opening and closing scenes set aboard Voyager and you might mistake this one for a genuine Hallmark Christmas special. Essentially one long flashback, the episode has Janeway telling the story of her ancestor Shannon O'Donnel, who reportedly helped build a historic Earth monument more than 300 years prior (at the dawn of the 21st century), something the Captain takes great family pride in.

Flashback to just after Christmas in the year 2000 when we meet Henry Janeway, a disgruntled book shop owner refusing to sell his store and home to a corporate bigwig who wants to build a massive "self-sustaining civic environment" that Janeway sees as little more than a glorified shopping mall. Along comes a stranger — Shannon O'Donnel — a down-on-her-luck passerby who Janeway gives accommodations. Over the course of the story, O'Donnel is determined to convince Janeway there is value in selling his home, and that this "Millennium Gate" may be for the best interests of the community. Along the way, Shannon and Henry fall in love, and the rest is history.

As the episode closes, Captain Janeway realizes that family stories through the years have exaggerated O'Donnel's role in the project, but she takes pride nonetheless. It's a holiday story of love, heritage, starting over, and accepting people for who they are rather than what we may want them to be. If it hadn't been an episode of "Star Trek," it just might have become a '90s TV Christmas classic.

6. The Gift (Voyager, Season 4, Episode 2)

Following on the heels of "Scorpion," Borg drone Seven of Nine is left aboard Voyager. Isolated from the hive mind but still brainwashed by the Borg and uninterested in what Voyager has to offer, Seven demands to be returned to the collective. Janeway is unwilling to give up on the lost soul Seven, but just when they think they've found a way to bring back her humanity, her cybernetic implants start killing her. With little knowledge of Borg physiology, The Doctor is at a loss, and unless the problem is corrected, they may lose their newest friend. 

Elsewhere, Kes is undergoing a strange and sudden biological change, with her telepathic abilities becoming more and more powerful. With Seven in danger, it's Kes who uses her new and improved insight and telekinesis to locate the problem and correct the fault in her implants, saving the ex-Borg. But when Kes's telepathic powers get out of control, she begins posing a danger to the entire ship, and realizes her time on Voyager is coming to an end.

Undergoing a remarkable transformation, Kes leaves the ship — and the series. But out of gratitude for having welcomed her into their family and guiding her to adulthood, she gives Voyager one final gift, using her newfound power to catapult Voyager ten years closer to home. Touching on themes of gratitude, charity, and faith, "The Gift" also teaches us never to give up on those in need.

5. Barge Of The Dead (Voyager, Season 6, Episode 3)

You might not expect an episode titled "Barge of The Dead" to be an uplifting one, but it's as close to a Klingon Kristmas Special as you will get on "Star Trek," as the ship's resident half-Klingon struggles with matters of faith and family. In the episode, Torres (who has always resented her Klingon side) begins to have visions of the Klingon Barge of The Dead, a mythical vessel said to ferry the souls of dishonored Klingons to the netherworld Gre'thor. But aboard the barge she meets her mother Miral, on her way to Klingon hell ... and it's her fault.

According to the barge's captain Kortar, Miral's dishonor came from her daughter's rejection of the Klingon faith; to save her, B'elanna must finally embrace her heritage. Realizing that to save her mother, she herself may have to go Gre'thor in Miral's place, she at first tries to use Voyager's technology to cheat fate and save her mother. Kortar sees through her ruse, but Miral helps her understand the real solution: live as an honorable Klingon, believe and have faith. When she reawakens on Voyager, B'elanna is left to wonder if it was all a dream, or perhaps something more? In the end it doesn't matter, it's her belief that means the most.

4. Terra Nova (Star Trek: Enterprise, Season 1, Episode 6)

A fascinating tale of family and acceptance begins with Archer and the Enterprise visiting a lost colony called Terra Nova, settled by humans almost 75 years earlier, but which lost contact with Earth shortly after its founding. 

Here to solve the mystery of what happened to them, the crew finds no trace of the colonists, but instead encounter a violent, primitive race of subterranean aliens ready to kill them on sight. These barbarians believe Archer and his crew are the same people who "gutted" their people once before.

But Enterprise learns that these "aliens" are no aliens at all, but descendants of the original Novan colonists, whose settlement fled underground after a meteor strike. When radiation poisoning killed all of the adults, only the youngest children were left to fend for themselves. Archer tries to convince them they are the same race, but the Novans are steadfast in their hatred of humans and refusal to make peace. After helping cure one of the Novans of cancer aboard the ship, trust slowly develops, and Archer wants to return them to Earth to start over. 

But the Novans have no interest in going, and so the crew must find a way to help without destroying their newfound culture. Archer must accept that the Novans may be part of the great human family, but they have found their own path that they must walk alone.

3. Carbon Creek (Star Trek: Enterprise, Season 2, Episode 2)

"Carbon Creek" touches on themes of understanding, tolerance, acceptance and keeping an open mind to those who are different. Recalling the "Voyager" episode "11:59," we're once again taken into the past with a series star playing their own ancestor, this time Jolene Blalock as T'Mir, the great-grandmother to T'Pol. The year is 1957, and T'Mir is aboard a Vulcan survey ship when they detect Earth's first artificial satellite. Investigating this new human space technology, they divert to Earth, crash landing in Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania.

Realizing their wait for rescue may be long, the Vulcans make a life for themselves in the rural town. While T'Mir wants the team to keep their distance from humans (harshly judging them for their backwards ways), officer Mestral grows a fondness for the people he meets — fascinated by their world, even forming friendships with them (much to T'Mir's dismay). 

But T'Mir doesn't understand Earthlings, and is skeptical of human nature and the vast differences between their cultures. She eventually does form a bond with a local boy struggling to get into college, and leaves him a parting gift before her return to Vulcan. In the end, however, it's Mestral who gets the happy ending, as his affection for humanity causes him to remain on Earth, building a new life in Carbon Creek. 

2. New Eden (Star Trek: Discovery, Season 2, Episode 2)

This episode has Burnham wrestling with her vision of an angel, as Stamets grapples with his own visions of his dead husband. Meanwhile, on the search for a mysterious signal, the U.S.S. Discovery — under command of the Enterprise's Captain Pike  — investigates a world known as New Eden. 

This far-off planet on the other side of the galaxy is inhabited by humans who were mysteriously transported there by an angelic being some 200 years before. Their society has evolved independent of Earth, Starfleet, and the Federation, and they have created a mono-theistic belief system that appears to be a homogenized blending of all Earth's religions.

One of the few episodes to directly confront issues of religion, "New Eden" explores faith, tolerance, acceptance, and rebirth, and even touches on matters of family as Burnham reconnects with her estranged foster brother Spock. While the season-long mystery of the Red Angel would have no ties to Earthly theology, its visual symbolism and role in "New Eden" is rife with religious significance that's given more meaning at the holiday season.

1. Et in Arcadia Ego (Star Trek: Picard, Season 1, Episode 10)

Though it might be hard to watch as a standalone episode, given the single-story nature of "Star Trek: Picard," this double-length final episode of the show's first season saw a bitter sweet end to the story, as Picard fought to save a colony of artificial life forms from extinction at the hands of the Romulans. 

Over the first half of the series, audiences saw how Federation and Starfleet had lost their way, and Picard had come out of retirement to try to set things right. In the finale, the former captain of the Enterprise risks everything to save the wayward androids, getting a little help from Starfleet (and his former first officer) along the way.

In another bittersweet but inspirational ending, we say a final goodbye to a beloved member of the "Star Trek" family in what ranks among the franchise's most touching, emotional moments. At the same time, we see the renewed spirit of Jean-Luc Picard — both literally and figuratively — and see the Federation returned to its former glory as protectors of the less fortunate. While the debut season of "Star Trek: Picard" had its flaws, this episode established that it is ultimately a tale about beginnings and endings, life, death, and rebirth, with messages of charity and selflessness — and what's more Christmas than that?

The Collected Star Trek Christmas Carols

We all know that, every year, Trekkies gather around the yule log to hear Captain Picard sing "Let It Snow ." But they also enjoy other traditional Trekmas carols remixed by John C. Worsley, such as "Enterprise Rock", a take on Bobby Helms's " Jingle Bell Rock " by the crew of the Enterprise NX-01 . . .

. . . "Wonderful Deep Space Nine," inspired by Paul McCartney's " Wonderful Christmas Time " . . . 

. . . and "Happy Trekmas," which is Worsley's take on John Lennon's " So This Is Christmas ."

For those who can't sing, there is the instrumental (or instrument panel) version of "Jingle Bells."

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Star Trek Christmas: William Shatner “sings” Christmas songs, kind of

By chad porto | dec 25, 2020.

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - OCTOBER 12: Actor William Shatner speaks during the opening of the new Rocket Lab factory on October 12, 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand. The new building includes a new Mission Control Centre, which will oversee launches from Rocket Lab's Mahia Peninsula launchpad and chief executive Peter Beck says 16 flights are planned for next year. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

William Shatner made a name for himself to many Star Trek fans as Captain Kirk, but after his days in the big chair were over, he released spoken-word albums.

William Shatner is known to many as Captain James T. Kirk, of the U.S.S. Enterprise, a role he played for three seasons of television and four movies. Before Jean-Luc Picard arrived in the late-’80s, Kirk was the best captain in all of science fiction without a debate being needed. Then Picard came around and the debate was on. Fans flocked to take sides and looked at each character, and actor’s resume to see if one side couldn’t find an advantage. When looking at Shatner’s history, he may have one leg up on Picard (Patrick Stewart). Well, a leg up depending on how you feel about spoken-word albums.

You see, Shatner has a series of albums that he’s released in his career that sees him, well, not singing, but talking. Talking to a song. It’s as bad as it sounds. It’s made even worse when you realize that his long-time friend and colleague Leonard Nimoy (Spock) released his own albums of him singing ( and singing well .)

Considering the Christmas season caps off the year that was 2020 and some levity needs to be had, we figured it was a good idea to let you guys sample some of Shatner’s Christmas Album, which came out in 2018 . The album features an icon of the punk and spoken word genre, Henry Rollins and if you know how Rollins is, then this should give you an idea what kind of nonsense you’re about to get into.

If you’re curious about getting into the album during your Christmas festivities, here’s what you can expect.

"Shatner Claus – The Christmas Album Tracklist:01. Jingle Bells (feat. Henry Rollins)02. Blue Christmas (feat. Brad Paisley)03. Little Drummer Boy (feat. Joe Louis Walker)04. Winter Wonderland (feat. Todd Rundgren & Artimus Pyle of Lynyrd Skynyrd)05. Twas The Night Before Christmas (feat. Mel Collins of King Crimson)06. Run Rudolph Run feat. (Elliot Easton of The Cars)07. O Come, O Come Emmanuel feat. (Rick Wakeman of Yes)08. Silver Bells (feat. Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull)09. One for You, One For Me10. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (feat. Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top)11. Silent Night (feat. Iggy Pop)12. White Christmas (feat. Judy Collins)13. Feliz Navidad (feat. Dani Bander)14. Jingle Bells (feat. Henry Rollins) (Punk Rock Version)"

You read that last part right, a punk rock version of Jingle Bells . Oh boy. What have we released upon you?

Next. Watch: Classic Star Trek commercial starring Leonard Nimoy to help usher in the Holidays. dark

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Holodeck the Halls With These 10 Classic Christmas Episodes

Star Trek Christmas

| December 22, 2014 | By: Jared Whitley 20 comments so far

Christmas is this week, meaning there will be plenty of time with friends and loved ones to binge on episodes of Star Trek. But what might be the most appropriate for the season? Well just as we did for Halloween , we at TrekMovie have got you covered.

10. Dagger of the Mind (TOS) The question as to whether or not humans of the future celebrate Christmas is answered in this episode, as we meet a comely young scientist who hooked up with Kirk after the “science lab Christmas party.” Best of all the character’s name is Dr. Noel .

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I love the image of a Christmas party for just one science lab that Kirk hears about and stumbles into, hoping to score some Saurian brandy off of his junior officers. Also it’s the first episode to feature the Vulcan mind-meld – and isn’t that what Christmas is really all about?

9. Good Shepherd (VOY) Because Gene’s vision of the future was pretty secular-humanist, there aren’t many oblique references to religion in the whole franchise. The only Trek episode with an explicitly Christian title, this engaging episode of Voyager features Captain Janeway tending to three losers (though she more generously refers to them as “lost sheep”).

8. The Child (TNG) OK this might be a little sacrilegious, but “The Child” does technically feature an immaculate conception as an energy being quickens Troi’s womb:

This episode is also remarkable as the first appearance of Guinan. With those crazy hats of hers, they kind of look like an angel’s halo, right?

7. Bread and Circuses (TOS) Along the lines of Good Shepherd, “Bread and Circuses” is one of the few Trek episodes with an explicit Christian theme. Set on a Roman-like planet, Lt. Uhura teaches our Holy Trinity the difference between “sun” and “son” worshippers:

roman

6. Once More Unto The Breach (DS9) Though the name comes from a Shakespearean call to battle, the theme of this episode – a Klingon general learning the value of forgiveness – is perfectly appropriate for Christmas time. Also if you aren’t singing this warrior chant with your egg nog or other seasonal beverage, I hope you choke on your gagh .

If this episode isn’t your speed, but you still want to get your Kling on, then try “Rightful Heir” (TNG) which features the second coming of the Klingon Messiah.

5. Death Wish (VOY) Through the magic of the Q, Voyager is literally transformed into a Hallmark Christmas ornament – proving that while the Trek creative staff may have been cautious about the religious aspect of the holiday, the marketing folks were only too happy to capitalize on the commercial part of it.

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4. Silicon Avatar (TNG) We’re stretching here, but the antagonist of this episode is described as a “giant snowflake,” and what would Christmas be without a little snow?

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3. Generations While not one of the more celebrated entries in the film franchise, Generations features the only instance in Trek canon of people actually celebrating Christmas:

Just try not to remember that Picard is celebrating Christmas while mourning the death of his brother and nephew. Also shouldn’t his fantasy family have been the same one from The Inner Light ?

2. Devil’s Due (TNG) You probably saw this one coming. “Devil’s Due” starts with Data playing Scrooge on the holodeck in a re-creation of A Christmas Carol . As an allegory for the rest of the episode – overcoming superstition – it doesn’t really work, but it is a charming scene:

If you want more of a Judeo-Christian devil, may I suggest this entry from The Animated Series .

1. A Christmas Carol If that Data scene is the figgy pudding for fans of both Trek and Charles Dickens, the roast beast would be the USA version starring Patrick Stewart. Magnificently produced, this is definitely worth watching (and rewatching).

Honorable Mention: Xmas Story (Futurama) There are enough Trek jokes in Futurama to make any fan happy, so the episode  Xmas Story , where the crew of Planet Express fight Robot Santa, is definitely a “must see.”

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Merry Christmas, Trek fans! May all the good tidings of the season energize into your celebrations, and may you warp into a happy new year.

*Header image is a real gingerbread Enterprise made by Blackmarket Bakery in California.

UPDATE: Thanks to commenter Corylea who linked us to this imgur album of more pictures of the incredible gingerbread Enterprise and it’s pepperminty beam of destruction.

Gingerbread USS Enterprise

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Trek the Halls, everyone!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, my fellow Trekkers.

I would also recommend Patrick Stewart’s reading of A Christmas Carol from Simon & Schuster Audio. It’s based on his award-winning one man show and is quite charming.

Fun article – Happy Holidays, everybody.

Great work, Jared.

Happy Holidays, everyone!

And Merry Christmas to you, Mr. Whitley, and to everyone at TrekMovie!

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Those three guys “the three wise men”? Ha? LOL

Cool stuff.

RE: 8. Aren’t all Jedi conceived this way, or just the chosen ones?

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good Trek.

So, only 9 then?

Maybe the next BR film will give us a real “Christmas” moment, with the crew celebrating Christmas together for the first time in deep space away from their families. Maybe we can finally find out what Orci contemplated for Kirk’s upbringing and whereabouts of his mom.

Surprised that Voyager’s fourth season episode “Mortal Coil” wasn’t included. It’s the Talaxian festival of Prixin and all Neelix wants to do is kill himself after learning there is no afterlife.

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Troi’s child in “The Child” was a virginal birth, not an immaculate conception.

In Catholic doctrine, the immaculate conception refers to the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, being conceived without the stain of original sin on her soul. But from the physical standpoint, she was conceived in the normal way.

What about the Star Trek TOS episode Friday’s Child?

Thank you for NOT repeating the blunder TV Guide did with its online site earlier this month by including item #3 at this list — which somehow STILL remains uncorrected on TV Guide’s website: http://www.tvguide.com/PhotoGallery/Craziest-Christmas-Specials-1089530#1089535

Where did TV Guide’s “A Most Illogical Holiday” episode of “Star Trek” come from? The TV Guide “reporter” who did the research for that list went to — and got completely bamboozled by — this 10-year-old Internet satire that was used as the source (and, come one, NOBODY at TV Guide is even a casual enough of a “Trek” fan to have caught this?): http://whatever.scalzi.com/2004/12/01/the-10-least-successful-holiday-specials-of-all-time/

More pictures of the fabulous gingerbread Enterprise made by Blackmarket Bakery can be seen at http://imgur.com/a/pvtYQ

Merry Christmas, everyone!

The closest ENT had to to a “Christmas moment” was when Captain Archer stated December 25th as the date in a log entry. (The rest of the entry had nothing to do with Christmas though.) Oh, and Phlox mentions that he once has attended a mass at St. Peter’s Square in Rome – but that might just as well have been the Easter mass.

Thanks, Corylea! Added the imgur album to the story and gave you credit for pointing us to it.

Troi was not a physical virgin when she conceived “the child”. She had had a relationship with Riker. However, the conception was not brought about through the full physical sexual union of a man and woman. Nor was it the result of artificial insemination or IVF.

I see Mary’s conception of Jesus as being like that of Troi’s. Mary was supposed to be a virgin (not ever having had relations with a man). Catholic doctrine may or may not correct as to Mary’s true spiritual status. Similar beliefs surround the status of the Buddha’s mother…bear in mind, the one who became known as the Buddha was born 500 years before the one they call Jesus.

The baby that the pregnant woman carried in Friday’s Child was conceived in the usual way. She had been recently widowed.

I’m surprised with all the discussion of Dickens, no mention was made of “All Good Things” which was essentially “A Christmas Carol”

Tisk, Tisk. Kirk did not hookup with Dr. Noel. The idea that he did was planted in his mind by Dr. Adams. Kirk clearly had a passing attraction to her, but he’s too much of a professional to hookup with one of his own underlings.

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Star Trek May Not Have Christmas, But It Has More Holiday Spirit Than You Think

The Federation may not celebrate Christmas in Star Trek, but there's more holiday spirit in the sci-fi series than you think.

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Since its first entry “The Man Trap” aired on Sept. 8 1966, Star Trek has released almost 900 episodes and 13 feature films. And yet, none of those TV episodes or movie releases have delved into that most popular of genres, the Christmas story. 

Anyone who knows about the production of The Original Series can understand the reason for that omission. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry placed religion alongside racism and capitalism as divisive tendencies from which humanity evolves. So of course a holiday based on Christianity and/or shopping would fade away as humans looked toward the stars. 

But as is often the case, the actual execution of Star Trek differs wildly from Roddenberry’s intentions. Even though the franchise never openly embraces Christmas, some aspects of the holiday do catch up with it, no matter how far it boldly goes. 

Does Starfleet Know It’s Christmas Time at All? 

The first mention of Christmas in the Star Trek universe appears in the season one Original Series episode “Dagger of the Mind,” in which Kirk mentions a Christmas Party on the Enterprise. Most viewers can explain away that contradiction in the same way they don’t get hung up on early fudging of Starfleet history or Data using contractions. 

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However, a scene with Data later on might help provide some headcanon for those who need it. In the Next Generation season four episode “Devil’s Due,” Data mentions his preparations to play Ebenezer Scrooge in a production of A Christmas Carol . Religious implications aside, A Christmas Carol falls in line with Data’s love of classic English literature, which also drove him to Sherlock Holmes, Robin Hood, and other works of the era.

In fact, as the title “Dagger of the Mind” reminds us, English literature remains incredibly influential in the 23rd and 24th centuries. So the Enterprise crew may have thrown a Christmas party as an extension of their interest in the culture, not as an expression of religious observance and certainly not as a capitalist exercise. That interest might also explain the various passing references to Christmas from various other characters, such as La’an Noonian-Sihgn comparing shore leave to Christmas in Strange New Worlds or Tom Paris mentioning Scrooge’s ghosts in the Voyager premiere. 

Of course, none of that explains the most overt use of Christmas in Star Trek history: Picard’s Dickensian fantasy in Star Trek: Generations . The fantasy occurs when Picard enters the Nexus, a transdimensional space that, according to Guinan, is “like being inside joy.” It urges inhabitants to stay inside of it by giving them their greatest desires. Apparently, Picard — a man who dislikes children, spends his downtime reading hardboiled detective fiction, and has a passion for exploration and archeology — secretly desires Christmas with his large family. 

Look, there’s no way to justify the scene, just one of many out-of-character Picard moments in the Next Generation films. The best we can do is concoct some headcanon about the Nexus giving people false desires, which might also explain the domestication of one James T. Kirk. 

This one lapse notwithstanding, it’s clear that while people know about Christmas in Star Trek ’s future, it hardly carries the same significance as it does to many people today. 

Star (Trek) of Wonder, Star (Trek) of Light

All of that said, Trek ’s aversion to religion has been overstated. There are Trek stories that have included more sympathetic views of religion. That’s most pronounced in Deep Space Nine , in which the Bajoran religion certainly can be a means of domination (don’t forget about Kai Winn, my child), but it also drives Kira and others to resist their oppressors. Even the Vulcans, who have largely moved past religious beliefs, respect the spiritual value of symbols such as temples and vestments. 

One of the best demonstrations of the franchise’s complex feelings about religion involves Neelix, of all people. The Voyager season four episode “Mortal Coil” (more Shakespeare!) revolves around the Talaxian holiday Prixin, during which family gathered to share food and strengthen their bonds. Okay, that’s not the most obvious Christmas parallel, but the episode did first air on Dec. 17, 1997 and explicitly deals with religious beliefs. Written by Bryan Fuller and directed Allan Kroeker, “Mortal Coil” begins with Neelix’s death and eventual resurrection, 19 hours later. The experience shocks Neelix and forces him to question his religion. But through the help of Chakotay and (sigh…) a vision quest, Neelix learns to balance his beliefs with his new knowledge. 

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That balance actually shows up way back in TOS , in the season two episode “Bread and Circuses,” directed by Ralph Senensky and written by Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon. Most of the episode plays like the standard Earth-like planet story, in which the Enterprise finds a planet on which the Roman Empire continued through the 20th century. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy fall in with a group of rebels, who reject the warlike nature of the Empire and seek out peace. Throughout the episode, the away team take the rebels’ descriptions of themselves to mean that they worship the sun. But back on the Enterprise, Uhura corrects their mistake. The rebels don’t worship the sun — they worship “the Son,” that is the Son of God, Jesus. 

Instead of ending on that reveal, the episode lingers for a few seconds to let Kirk marvel at the idea that Christ has developed alongside Caesar, even on this new planet, briefly entertaining the desire to watch how this Son and his followers will respond to the empire. That interest suggests that, even if Kirk and his fellow explorers don’t share Christian beliefs, they at least respect Christ’s peaceful teachings. 

Yule Life and Yule Civilizations

There are more than a few parallels between the meaning of Christmas and Star Trek ideals. Within the world of the franchise, humanity followed the destruction of World War III by pursuing peace on Earth. As they travel through the cosmos, they seek goodwill toward men, women, and all other lifeforms they encounter. Whether it is Kirk refusing to fight the Gorn captain, Picard standing in the way of a drumhead trial, or Michael Burnham urging Starfleet against attacking Species Ten-C, Starfleet time and again puts respect and understanding over selfishness and war. 

Even if Picard never commanded “Make it snow” and Neelix never whipped up some nightmare akin to figgy pudding, Star Trek continues to follow the model of Data’s character Ebenezer Scrooge at the end of A Christmas Carol , honoring Christmas in its heart, and following its ideals all the stardates.

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Christmas was an annual Earth religious and cultural holiday that commemorated the birth of Jesus Christ and was celebrated on December 25 . While central to the faith of Christianity , it also expanded to include such fixtures as Santa Claus , Christmas trees and wreaths .

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Celebrations and traditions [ ]

In 2000 – while recording a personal journal entry on December 27 – Shannon O'Donnel noted that, while she wasn't looking forward to New Year's Eve , at least Christmas was over. Despite this, Alexandria Books was still decorated for that holiday, including a star and an ornament of a reindeer pulling a sleigh . ( VOY : " 11:59 ")

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Jean-Luc Picard alongside a Christmas tree

In 2265 , a Christmas party was held for personnel in the science labs of the Federation starship Enterprise . ( TOS : " Dagger of the Mind ")

Christmas is the setting of A Christmas Carol , a play in which Data was going to be performing as Ebenezer Scrooge in 2367 . ( TNG : " Devil's Due ")

While trapped in the Nexus in 2371 , Captain Jean-Luc Picard experienced a Christmas – complete with a Christmas tree, presents and dinner – with his illusory children and wife, before being shaken from his reverie and resuming his mission to stop Tolian Soran from destroying the Veridian system . ( Star Trek Generations )

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While attempting to escape Q in 2372 , Quinn briefly tried to hide the USS Voyager , disguising it as an ornament on a Christmas tree. ( VOY : " Death Wish ")

In the Julian Bashir, Secret Agent holoprogram , Julian Bashir gave Anastasia Komananov a set of exploding earrings for Christmas of 1963 . ( DS9 : " Our Man Bashir ")

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In 2152 , Jonathan Archer sarcastically suggested that he thought the Kreetassan reconciliation demands might involve " standing on one foot with my eyes shut reciting " The Night Before Christmas ". " ( ENT : " A Night in Sickbay ")

Lieutenant La'an Noonien-Singh enjoyed the quiet and solitude of staying behind while the crew was on shore leave , describing it to Lieutenant Commander Una Chin-Riley as "like Christmas". ( SNW : " Spock Amok ")

When telling Harry Kim about why he finally confessed to his incidence of pilot error , which killed his shipmates, Tom Paris referenced A Christmas Carol and joked that " the ghosts of those three dead officers came to me in the middle of the night and taught me the true meaning of Christmas " . ( VOY : " Caretaker ", " Non Sequitur ")

In 2376 , overwhelmed with gifts from various visitors, Kathryn Janeway rhetorically asked Chakotay if it didn't look like Christmas morning in here . ( VOY : " Survival Instinct ")

Also that year, the holographic character Michael Sullivan mentioned Christmas twice, once when he described Harry Kim and Tom Paris as being " trussed up like Christmas turkeys ", and when Janeway gave him a copy of Mark Twain 's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court , asking her if it was " Christmas come early " ( VOY : " Spirit Folk ")

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Background information [ ].

In the same year as the production and first airing of the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Death Wish" (featuring Quinn's brief attempt to hide the USS Voyager by disguising it as an ornament on a Christmas tree), Hallmark released a Christmas tree ornament of Voyager . ("Death Wish" text commentary )

Apocrypha [ ]

  • Christmas was also a central story element in " Spirit in the Sky! ," an issue of DC Comics ' Next Generation comics miniseries.

External links [ ]

  • Christmas at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
  • Christmas at Wikipedia
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Star trek celebrates christmas after all: see tng cast in 1987 holiday parade.

Christmas may not be regularly celebrated in Star Trek, but The Next Generation crew still managed to have some holiday fun in a 1987 parade.

  • The cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation appeared in full Starfleet uniforms at the 1987 Hollywood Christmas Parade, including Michael Dorn in Klingon makeup.
  • The show initially faced some skepticism but won over fans with its beloved characters and went on to produce outstanding science fiction television.
  • Captain Picard, although not at the parade, got into the holiday spirit with a viral music video featuring the TNG crew singing a Trek version of "Let it Snow".

The cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation appeared in their full Starfleet uniforms in the 1987 Hollywood Christmas Parade. The first live-action Star Trek show to premiere since the end of Star Trek: The Original Series in 1969, TNG introduced the world to Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the USS Enterprise-D. The show got off to a rocky start, with die-hard TOS fans uncertain of the new crew and a somewhat lackluster first season. Still, the characters captured the hearts of new and old fans alike, and TNG went on to produce some of the best science fiction television of all time .

Just a few months after TNG aired its first episode , the cast took a break from exploring strange new worlds to make an appearance in the annual Hollywood Christmas Parade on a Paramount Studios, Starship Enterprise-inspired float . Wearing their Starfleet uniforms, Jonathan Frakes, Denise Crosby, Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn (in full Klingon make-up), and Wil Wheaton waved at fans, as they made their way through the streets of Hollywood. TrekCore.com's official Twitter/X account shared a throwback video of this iconic parade appearance. Check it out below:

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Captain picard joins in on the holiday fun with a viral music video, "make it so, make it so, make it so.".

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Christmas may not officially be celebrated in Star Trek , but that doesn't mean the characters can't get into the holiday spirit. While Commander Riker, Lt. Worf, Lt. Yar, Counselor Troi, and Wesley all got to appear in the 1987 Christmas parade, Captain Picard got involved in the holidays in a different way. In 2013, YouTube user jamesconvenant combined various clips from Star Trek: The Next Generation to make a Trek version of the classic Christmas carol, "Let it Snow. " With Picard's iconic phrase, "Make it So," standing in for "Let it Snow," this mash-up should make even the most Scrooge-like Trek fan smile.

The video, which has 4.1 million views on Youtube, includes appearances from most of the senior officers on the Enterprise-D, as their lines are mashed together to form the song's lyrics. While it may have taken some editing magic to make the TNG crew sing a Christmas carol, the message of Star Trek feels surprisingly appropriate for the holiday season . Star Trek celebrates everything good about humanity, imagining an optimistic future where people from all different backgrounds have come together. Above all else, Star Trek celebrates hope, and if that's not a great reminder of the holiday season, then we don't know what is.

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Music Etc.: William Shatner—Trekking Through Christmas

"Captain Kirk" himself talks about recording his new Christmas album, hanging out on Brad Paisley's tour bus, and what the recent Mars landing might mean for our future.

By Jacques Sonyieux

“Captain Kirk” himself talks about recording his new Christmas album, hanging out on Brad Paisley’s tour bus, and what the recent Mars landing might mean for our future.

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William Shatner is a cultural icon whose influence spans many generations. Many think of him as Captain Kirk on Star Trek , inspiring intergalactic curiosity, but aside from his decades long career as an actor, he is a competitive horse rider, a published author, a famous pitch man for a hotel booking site and alas, a recording artist with no less than eight albums under his belt. Now, at the ripe age of 87, Shatner brings us Shatner Claus —a new Christmas album featuring several Christmas songs, ‘reimagined.’ But wait, there’s more: Shatner made the album with artist contributions from Brad Paisley, Todd Rundgren, Henry Rollins, Iggy Pop, Judi Collins, Mel Collins [King Crimson], Elliot Easton [The Cars], Billy Gibbons [ZZ Top], Rick Wakeman [Yes], Artimus Pyle [Lynyrd Skynyrd] and more. Pro Sound News wanted to find out what the attraction was and why another Christmas album.

On visualizing songs

Out the blue, my label, Cleopatra, called me and asked if I would be interested in doing a Christmas album. I thought, “What a great challenge that could be considering my musical limitations.” So I said yes and began to compile a list of the standard Christmas songs, knowing that I would want to bend them a little to make them uniquely mine. So for each song, I envisioned myself as a film director and imagined what I would do to make each track a little different. For example, on “Jingle Bells,” I envisioned two guys on a sled, being pulled by horses which are filled with the joy of being in the snow and in the cold. But then the horses start to run off. On “Blue Christmas,” I imagined that I was stuck in a club due to a blizzard outside. I’m drinking at the bar and I’m blue because I can’t get home. Then all of a sudden, there’s Brad Paisley and he starts to sing. And I am like, “Oh my God, Brad Paisley is locked in here, too!” So each of these numbers has its own visual context that the listener may or may not get, but it doesn’t matter. For me, this gives each song a flavor that it would not have otherwise had.

On a soldier’s Christmas poem

There is a poem by Blaze Anthony, a wonderful poet and a veteran who has been emotionally disturbed by battle. I had a sheaf of his poetry that I loved, so I asked him if he could write me a Christmas poem. He ended up writing a poem from the perspective of a soldier, presumably in Afghanistan, who is writing to see what it is like back home. He asks, “Is there a gift for you and one for me?” So I called the poem “One for You and One for Me” and had some music put music to it. The arrangers would bring in the music, and I would make adjustments, telling them how I felt about the poem: “There is not enough battle” or “There’s not enough sadness” or “The joy of Christmas.” I wanted all those themes mixed into the music so they would support the poem. Eventually, we got there and I think it is an epic Christmas song about a soldier who has written home, asking “What’s it like at Christmas there, because it’s no fun here.”

On audience reaction

Having been doing this for many years, you don’t know if a project is successful or not until the audience tells you. It doesn’t matter if it is a written play, if it is a stand-up comic routine, or an ad-lib improvisational performance. The audience will tell you by their applause, by their laughter, by their tears, or by their trying to access whatever you are doing by buying tickets or albums. So when I finished the album and I listened to it, I thought, “God, this is really good! I wonder if this is as good as I think it is.” I feel that we have created, along with these other incredibly talented artists, something very special about Christmas. And how many times have people tried to do that?

On artist participation

Brad Paisley was playing in Los Angeles, and I was visiting with him on his bus. I said to him, “I want you to do a Christmas song with me, Brad.” And he said, “Great, what is the title of your album.” I said, “I don’t know, I haven’t named it yet.” And right then and there, he said, “Well, what about Shatner Claus ?” And we all started laughing. So that’s what I used. The artists that came to participate on this album is mind boggling, and the credit goes to my record label for that. I have done other albums where they were instrumental in collecting a diverse and genius pool of talent. It turns out that a lot of these men and women wanted to be on the album, so when it was announced, my label got a lot of phone calls. I am starstruck by all these guys, but I am more starstruck by their talent than their reputations. The technology of today allowed us to ask somebody in upstate, New York to lay down a track and then send it to us. Then we would put it together.

On the recent Mars landing

I’ve been following the Mars landing and I’ve got my fingers crossed. It is an incredible adventure into the unknown. We will never solve the mystery of what’s out there, but we can get occasional peeks at the awesomeness of space and the final frontier. The glimpse of what has transpired in the past by our voyage to Mars is merely lifting the corner of a curtain to a vision that is so complex and yet so simple, that we humans cannot encompass it. But we can get a feel for it by this voyage to Mars.

Jacques Sonyieux is a devout explorer of recording studios and the artists that occasionally inhabit them. Please send any tips or feedback to Jacques at: [email protected] .

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A behind-the-scenes look at how composer Nami Melumad and main title theme composer Jeff Russo created the music of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds .

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, South Korea, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In addition, the series airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave in Canada and on SkyShowtime in the Nordics, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Central and Eastern Europe. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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