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Star Trek: Discovery made this the perfect weekend to watch For the Love of Spock

2019-03-01T12:01:20-05:00

There are so many streaming options available these days, and so many conflicting recommendations, that it's hard to see through all the crap you could be watching. Each Friday, The Verge's Cut the Crap column simplifies the choice by sorting through the overwhelming multitude of movies and TV shows on subscription services and recommending a single perfect thing to watch this weekend.

What to watch

For the Love of Spock, a 2016 documentary that began as a father/son project between director Adam Nimoy and his father Leonard Nimoy.

The film took on a different shape after the elder Nimoy's death in early 2015 at age 83, at which point Adam …

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Star Trek: Discovery gets a third season and a fifth showrunner

2019-02-27T14:11:07-05:00

CBS All Access has announced that Star Trek: Discovery will return for a third season, and that Michelle Paradise (one of the show's co-executive producers) will join Alex Kurtzman as a co-showrunner.

Paradise marks the fifth official showrunner for Discovery, following Bryan Fuller (who left the project), Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg (fired over budget disputes and complaints of abuse from multiple writers), and Alex Kurtzman (current showrunner and lead architect of CBS' Star Trek TV projects for the foreseeable future). Hopefully, the show will finally enter a slightly more stable phase of production in season 3, after all its pre …

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You can now watch Star Trek: Discovery’s season 2 premiere on YouTube

2019-01-26T14:55:32-05:00

When CBS's Star Trek: Discovery debuted last year, it did so with a special premiere on the network's television channel, a way to drive signups for the network's streaming service, CBS All Access. While the premiere of the show's second season has already come and gone, the network has decided to put this season's debut episode, "Brother," up on YouTube.

Presumably, the episode is there to remind non-subscribers - or lapsed subscribers - that the show is back and that it's worth watching. Discovery seems to have done a good job bringing in new viewers when it first premiered in 2017 - CBS claimed at the time that signups for the service b …

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Star Trek: Discovery’s mansplaining takedown returns to the series’ roots

2019-01-23T12:50:13-05:00

Warning: spoilers ahead for season 1 of Star Trek: Discovery, and for the season 2 premiere episode, "Brother."

When Star Trek: Discovery returned for its second season last week, it came with an insurance plan and a risk.

First, the premiere episode, "Brother," welcomed Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), the captain who helmed the original series' USS Enterprise in its rejected initial 1965 pilot, before Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was asked to create a new pilot with the now-iconic James T. Kirk in the chair. Whatever grumblings Trekkies may have had about the bald fan-service decision to bring Pike and his first officer, the also-iconic …

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Celebrate Star Trek: Discovery’s return with one of the best episodes of the most neglected Trek series

2019-01-18T11:46:51-05:00

There are so many streaming options available these days, and so many conflicting recommendations, that it's hard to see through all the crap you could be watching. Each Friday, The Verge's Cut the Crap column simplifies the choice by sorting through the overwhelming multitude of movies and TV shows on subscription services and recommending a single perfect thing to watch this weekend.

What to watch

"Yesteryear," a 1973 episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series. Written by D.C. Fontana (a key contributor to the original 1960s Star Trek, who penned 10 episodes and served as the story editor), "Yesteryear" takes place in the wake of a routine …

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A new trailer for Star Trek: Discovery ups the stakes for season 2

2018-12-13T14:02:42-05:00

CBS has released a new trailer for its upcoming second season of Star Trek: Discovery, highlighting the peril that will face the crews of the USS Discovery and USS Enterprise when the show returns in January.

After the show teased his appearance in two earlier trailers, Ethan Peck's bearded Spock is front and center, telling his half-sister, disgraced Starfleet officer Michael Burnham, that they're facing a major challenge - one that could be a "defining moment for multiple civilizations, [and] billions of lives." Their actions, he says, might determine the future of the galaxy - a fair statement, since Discovery is a prequel set before the …

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Star Trek: Discovery’s Spock will be played by Gregory Peck’s grandson

2018-08-14T14:30:57-04:00

Earlier this summer, at 2018's San Diego Comic-Con, Star Trek: Discovery showrunner Alex Kurtzman confirmed that Spock, the beloved half-Vulcan second-in-command of the original Star Trek's U.S.S. Enterprise, would be appearing in the newest Trek series. After much searching, CBS has announced that the show has cast the role. Ethan Peck, whose previous credits include playing Patrick Verona (the Heath Ledger character) in the TV adaptation of 10 Things I Hate About You - and who also happens to be the grandson of legendary actor Gregory Peck - will fill the TV shoes of the late Leonard Nimoy. (Peck is not related to Zachary Quinto, who curre …

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Star Trek is getting a series of standalone mini ‘Short Treks’ episodes

2018-07-20T18:35:13-04:00

When Star Trek: Discovery's original showrunner, Bryan Fuller, first met with CBS executives about bringing a new Star Trek series to the small screen, he proposed the new property as an anthology series, similar to the format and style of Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story. That would allow a much wider lens on the larger Trek universe than any of the previous series or films had been able to accomplish. CBS was reportedly interested, but suggested he start with a serialized story first to test the waters.

With his exit from the show in October 2016 went any chance of a more eclectic take on Discovery - until now. This afternoon at the Di …

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Star Trek: Discovery’s season 2 trailer teases Spock, Christopher Pike, and Tig Notaro

2018-07-20T18:13:03-04:00

CBS held a big panel on Friday for the latest installment of the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek Discovery, offering the first look at the upcoming season of the show on CBS All Access.

Star Trek Discovery launched last year on the channel's much-maligned digital platform, and it was a new look for the Trek franchise: it broke a number of the series' traditional conventions and ended up being a much darker show than previous series installments, a move that has divided the fandom. The show, set about a decade before the original 1966 Star Trek aboard the eponymous USS Discovery, follows the disgraced Starfleet officer Michael Burnham after s …

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By going dark, Star Trek: Discovery freed itself to look at the future in a new way

2018-03-04T10:00:02-05:00

When Star Trek: Discovery launched on CBS last September, it went where no Star Trek show had gone before. Instead of focusing on standalone episodes like its predecessors, its first season was a single, extended story arc about a war between the Klingons and the Federation. Rather than scientific exploration, cultural exchange, and diplomatic missions, the USS Discovery's captain, Gabriel Lorca, was hell-bent on defeating the Klingons, even when it meant venturing into ethical gray areas. Over the course of the first season, the show repeatedly pushed the crew (and sometimes the audience) beyond their comfort zones, with episodes that dealt …

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