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This week: The firstStar Trekfilm with actual characters. Last week:The beautifulStar Trekfilm about space fog. Next week: The beginning of director Leonard Nimoys duology. WhenWrath of Khanstarts, everybody dies. Its a scene youve seen a hundred times, if youre any kind ofStar Trekperson. Theres a new face in the Captains Chair Kirstie Alley! and if youre coming toWrath of Khanchronologically, you notice the new uniforms. But the variables only make the constants feel more concrete....

Last week:Chris HemsworthsfirstStar Trekmovie.Later this week: Beyond. Just think about all that money.Star Trek Into Darknesscost $185 million, that we know of. In 1979, the firstStar Trekmovie cost $46 million. Picasa There was nothing runaway aboutInto Darkness. Paramount got what they paid for; they wanted something that looked like it cost something. And howawesomewould it be, to spend that kind of money? Picasa Think of how fun it is to buy things; imagine buyingeverything....

This week: The onlyTrekfilm that feels like a Howard Hawks comedy. Last week:TheTrekfilm about the clashing egos of William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. Next week: Shatner unleashed. In 1965, Leonard Nimoy said the first words ever uttered in theStar Trekuniverse. says Spock at the start of The Cage, the original pilot forStar Trekand the first timeStar Trekwas boring. NBC didnt likeStar Trek, didnt like Spock. A year later, Gene Roddenberry filmed a new pilot....

This week: Tom Hardy as Picards vengeful alien clone brother-son. Last week:The one where age is just a number. Next week: Jeffrey Jacob Abrams. Dune buggies and clones and colliding spaceships, oh my!Nemesisisnt trash, its a trashcan fire. Its also the onlyNext Generationmovie I ever want to watch again. Hardys flanked by Ron Perlman, our Karloff, still recognizably himself despite a mountain of bat-creature makeup. Perlman is The Viceroy, a Reman....

Entertainment Geekly’s ‘Star Trek’ series looks at Nicholas Meyer’s clever political fantasy. Last week:William Shatner versus God.This Friday: Kirk meets Picard. At the beginning ofStar Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the opening credits play over a starscape. Opening credits always do that inStar Trek. But somethings gone wrong this time.Cliff Eidelmans scoreis minor-key, insinuating,infesting. It puts you on edge. The final credit flashes onscreen: Directed By Nicholas Meyer. The stars shine dark....

The fourthStar Trekfilm is boldly going back in time. TheThoractor appeared in J.J. Abrams 2009Star Trekas George Kirk, but was killed in the films opening minutes. No word yet on who would replace Anton Yelchin in the cast. TheTrekscript will be written by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay. No director was announced for the project; Justin Lin was behind the camera forStar Trek Beyond. Theres something that hopefully were figuratively minutes away from talking about,he saidof Hemsworths possible return....

Star Trek: DiscoveryPremiere Photos Ahead of the Sept. 24 premiere ofStar Trek: Discovery, the CBS All Access show’s new cast (including star Sonequa Martin-Green, pictured above) and some old favorites came together for the franchise’s latest premiere. See photos ahead. Sonequa Martin-Green Nichelle Nichols and Sonequa Martin-Green William Shatner Nichelle Nichols Gates McFadden and Jonathan Frakes Rainn Wilson and “guest” Jason Isaacs Michelle Yeoh Doug Jones Clare McConnell Anthony Rapp Shazad Latif Emily Coutts Sam Vartholomeos Executive producer Alex Kurtzman and “guests” Wilson Cruz Anthony Montgomery Todd Williamson/Getty Images...

Last week:The nexus of television and cinema. Next week: “Have you noticed how your boobs have started to firm up?” Instead, here two creatures who are not quite “creatures” in any biological sense. Credit: Paramount Pictures Data is an android, a soy-plastic fauxganism built for maximum strength and cosmic intelligence but zero EQ. And there is another character. She “she” represents the Borg, a race of cyborgs who resemble the copulatory midpoint of H....

Entertainment Geekly’s ‘Star Trek’ series goes to utopia. The best book ever written about screenwriting in the 20th century is William GoldmansAdventures in the Screen Trade. His definition of comic-book picture includesThe Thing,The Deer Hunter, andThe Wrath of Khan. Times change, sometimes for the worse. Horror films, terrible war movies, and space-submarine screamfights all get respectable, if they last long enough. Eighteen years ago, William Goldmans bookAdventures in the Screen Tradetaught me how to be a writer....

When the fourthStar Trekfilm arrives in theaters, it will do so without Pavel Chekov. I would say theres no replacing him. I cant possibly imagine that, and I think Anton deserves better,Abrams said. Credit: Kimberley French Yelchin died in June after being crushed by his car in front of his home. But only by years,he added. He was as wise and clever and intellectually curious as anyone we ever knew....

Karl Urban has paid tribute to his lateStar Trekfranchise costarAnton Yelchin. Its just still very fresh, this only happened a matter of weeks ago. Were a little floored. Credit: Jeffrey Mayer/Wireimage We miss him terribly. He should be here. Yelchin, 27,died last monthat his home in California in an accident involving his car. Asked if he had any particular memories of the late actor, Urban replied, Yeah, many. All Ill really say is, that kid had a laugh that youll never forget....

Simon Pegg knowsStar Trek. Pegg shared his thoughts on the first six movies in theTrekseries. The Motion Picture The first one was very talky. Credit: Todd Williamson/Getty Images SO when this came out in 79, it wanted to be a little more like2001. It was a little more grand, austere. When you watch it back, its a little more still than you might imagine it being. The Search for Spock and The Final Frontier IIIa weird one....

Kirk meets Lincoln and has a fistfight with Genghis Khan, in one episode! In another episode, hes on a planet of the Nazis! On another episode, he meets the Greek God Apollo! Credit: Everett Collection Thats David A. Goodman, a TV writer with a longTrekhistory as both fan and creator. Goodmans encyclopedic knowledge ofTrekled him to write the faux-historicStar Trek Federation: The First 150 Years. (The foreword is written by Dr....