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How I Built the Star Trek control panel of my dreams

2026-02-13T12:00:39-05:00

Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) using the LCARS in Star Trek: The Next Generation. | Image: CBS via Getty Images

One of my pandemic hobbies that stuck was home automation. I discovered Home Assistant - the popular open source, extremely customizable home automation platform - and all the intricate things you can do with it to make your home work better.

I have ADHD and have found Home Assistant to be a valuable tool for managing executive dysfunction. I use it for audible calendar reminders, laundry reminders, timers, and monitoring my doorbell camera and my nanny cam for my dog. Its also a great source of pure nerdy joy for me. And I recently took the most joyously nerdy step yet in my home automation fixation.

Home Assistant lets you create custom …

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Paramount Skydance is working on a new Star Trek movie

2025-11-14T15:03:11-05:00

Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of Paramount Pictures' Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. | Photo: Getty Images

Paramount Skydance head David Ellison made it very clear that he was interested in restarting the studio's Star Trek movie franchise with some new blood, and it seems like that plan is moving forward.

Deadline reports that Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves co-directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley have signed on to an all-new Star Trek feature that will be "a completely new take" on the IP with no direct connections to any past series or films. There's no word yet on a production timeline, story details, or which actors Paramount Skydance is eyeing to star.

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Lego’s first Star Trek set is a $400 Enterprise with Data, Picard, and Worf minifigures

2025-11-06T11:28:23-05:00

Lego boldly goes where the company hasn’t gone before. | Image: Lego

Lego's Star Wars partnership helped the company endure financial uncertainty in the late '90s, but for the first time it's announcing a collaboration with that other iconic space franchise. Lego's first Star Trek set is a 3,600-piece replica of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation measuring nearly 2 feet long. It will be available starting on November 28th from Lego's online and brick-and-mortar stores for $399.99, and if purchased before December 1st, it will come with an additional set featuring a Star Trek: Type-15 Shuttlepod.

The Enterprise NCC-1701-D model features a detachable command saucer, a pair of war …

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Paramount Plus slashes prices to $2 for two months

2025-07-03T13:43:49-04:00

The deal includes the Paramount Plus Premium plan, which combines Paramount Plus and Showtime content. | Image: Marni Grossman / Paramount Plus

If you’re looking for an affordable way to kick off your July 4th weekend, Paramount Plus has a deal worth checking out. Just in time for the July 17th premiere of the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, new subscribers can enjoy two months of Paramount Plus Premium (normally $12.99 per month) or Plus Essential (regularly $7.99 a month) for just $0.99 per month as part of the Summer Sale.

Either deal includes all the features of the base Paramount Plus Essential plan, but the Paramount Plus Premium plan offers better value by providing extra perks at the same discounted price. Premium grants access to both Paramount Plus and Showtime, so you can stream Star Trek shows as well as Yellowstone prequels 1883 and 1923, Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Chi, Dexter, Billions, and Yellowjackets. The plan also includes a wide variety of acclaimed films, ranging from Love Me, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and Gladiator 2 to classics like The Godfather and Pulp Fiction.

Paramount Plus Premium (monthly)

Paramount Plus Premium grants you ad-free access to live sports as well as movies and shows from both platforms, including Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Yellowstone catalog, Star Trek shows, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Twin Peaks, Dexter, and more.

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~~$12.99~~ $0.99 at Paramount (monthly)

What’s more, Paramount Plus Premium will also let you livestream the upcoming 2025 NFL season, watch 24/7 live news from CBS News, and catch UEFA Champions League matches. And unlike the base plan, Premium is ad-free and allows you to download content to your mobile device for offline viewing, making it perfect for streaming on the go.

Unfortunately, after the two-month promotion period ends, prices return to normal: $12.99 per month for Paramount Plus Premium or $7.99 for Plus Essential. If you’d rather not pay for either, be sure to set a reminder to cancel.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is getting a fifth and final season

2025-06-13T06:07:47-04:00

We're still over a month away from the premiere of season three, but Paramount has announced that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is getting a fifth season - and that it will be its last.

While Strange New Worlds' first four seasons are (or will be) all ten episodes long, the fifth will run for just six. Still, executive producers Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers, and Alex Kurtzman said in a joint statement that they'll "complete our five-season mission, just as we envisioned it."

"From the very beginning, Strange New Worlds set out to honor what Star Trek has always stood for - boundless curiosity, hope and the belief that a better future …

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds sets phasers to kitsch in new season 3 trailer

2025-04-03T12:45:56-04:00

Though the last season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ended on a perilous note, when the Paramount Plus series returns, it's going to lean into the whimsical energy that made the original '60s show feel fun.

Ahead of Strange New Worlds' season three premiere, Paramount Plus has dropped a new trailer teasing how the USS Enterprise's crew are going to find themselves trapped in some kind of anomaly that transforms them into the stars of a kitschy sci-fi program meant to "give audiences a reflection of their own world through the lens of fantasy."

Captain Kirk (Paul Wesley), Lt. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia), and Number One / Una Chin-Rile …

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A new Mission to Zyxx spin-off podcast is on the way

2025-03-18T20:24:31-04:00

It has been years since the excellent sci-fi improv comedy podcast Mission to Zyxx ended, but the crew of the Bargarean Jade are getting back together for a new adventure.

While Mission to Zyxx's original Star Wars / Star Trek-lampooning story came to a dramatic close with the show's fifth season, Maximum Fun announced today that it's producing a new eight-episode-long spin-off show. Rather than focusing on the Bargarean Jade's journeys through the Zyxx quadrant, The Young Old Derf Chronicles will delve into the history of Old Derf (Justin Tyler) - one of the legendary Zima Warriors (think Jedis, but with sticks instead of lightsabers) task …

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Star Trek: Section 31 is firing on all cylinders

2025-01-23T08:00:00-05:00

As the very first nontheatrical Star Trek feature (one that's debuting almost a decade after Star Trek Beyond), Star Trek: Section 31 seems like the sort of project that could have easily felt too "made for TV" to tell a satisfying story that does its characters justice. But Section 31 is firing on just about all of its cylinders, and even though Discovery is behind us at this point, the movie charts an exciting new course for Star Trek's potential future.

Michelle Yeoh was an icon long before Star Trek: Discovery, but her performance as Captain Philippa Georgiou was part of what reenergized her career and put her on track to win a much-des …

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Michelle Yeoh’s spy team assembles in Star Trek: Section 31’s official trailer

2024-12-07T16:16:17-05:00

There's a lot of Star Trek: Discovery in the official trailer for the Star Trek: Section 31 movie that Paramount Plus just released - big drama, explosions, and some looming threat that's "unlike anything that Starfleet's ever seen."

The trailer shows off a little more of the film, with moody corridors, some sort of electrified space ball, and brief looks at the spaceships that the show will feature. It also devotes more time to characters besides Michelle Yeoh's Emperor Philippa Georgiou - namely Omari Hardwick's Alok Sahar and Kacey Rohl's future Enterprise C captain, Rachel Garrett. It's still a mystery what trouble Emperor Philippa is l …

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Alexa, where’s my Star Trek Computer?

2024-10-30T09:00:00-04:00

Amazon's Alexa was announced on November 6th, 2014. A passion project for its founder, Jeff Bezos, Amazon's digital voice assistant was inspired by and aspired to be Star Trek's "Computer" - an omniscient, omnipresent, and proactive artificial intelligence controlled by your voice. "It has been a dream since the early days of science fiction to have a computer that you can talk to in a natural way and actually ask it to have a conversation with you and ask it to do things for you," Bezos said shortly after Alexa's launch. "And that is coming true."

At the time, that future felt within reach. In the months following Alexa's launch, it wowed …

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