New Featurette Takes You Behind The Scenes With Jaylah
Soufia Boutella (Jaylah), Simon Pegg, JJ Abrams, and Justin Lin talk about the new mysterious character of Jaylah.
July 2016
Shuttle Pod Podcast Supplemental – TrekMovie’s Predictions for Star Trek Beyond
This week, the Shuttle Pod team talks our predictions for what we think we are likely to see in Star Trek Beyond.
First Reactions to Star Trek Beyond Overwhelmingly Positive
The first reactions to Star Trek Beyond are here! And, everyone seems to be in agreement: it’s fantastic. UPDATE: Simon Pegg opens the LA press screening, pays tribute to Anton Yelchin.
REVIEW: IDW’s Star Trek New Vision Special ‘The Cage’ Disappoints
Promising readers an extra-length tale that reinterprets and adapts the original Star Trek pilot, “The Cage”, what readers are truly left with is an oversized fotonovel like the original Bantam Books from the late 1970’s. The only new part of this adaptation is the fact that “The Cage” had never been published as a fotonovel previously. Now it has.
Review: IDW’s Star Trek #59 Offers Truly Unique 50th Anniversary Story
Both crews of the prime and Kelvin timeline Enterprises encounter the same irregularity in space.
New Star Trek Beyond Clip Features Jaylah and Scotty
In a new clip from Star Trek Beyond, Scotty meets the mysterious new Jaylah. Not that we need to say it here, but… beware of spoilers!
Jordan Hoffman: The TrekMovie Interview, Part 1
Jordan Hoffman is a man on fire in the Star Trek universe. He is the host of the all new Engage: The Official Star Trek Podcast (the first of its kind) and was just announced as the emcee of CBS and ReedPop’s Mission New York convention this September. TrekMovie sat down with Jordan to talk Trek, get the skinny on his plans for the podcast, and more.
Current and Upcoming Novels From Star Trek’s Extended Universe
Get the details on the up and coming Star Trek novels, and learn why you should be reading them. In Part II of our coverage of Phoenix Comicon, we hear from Larry Nemecek who talks Star Trek’s extended universe.
Simon Pegg Talks Sulu, George Takei, And Canon
Simon Pegg took to his personal blog to discuss the reaction to the recent news about Sulu’s sexuality, George Takei’s reaction to it, and how the Kelvin timeline works.
Star Trek Online Agents of Yesterday First Impressions + More From STO’s Executive Producer
Star Trek Online’s Agents of Yesterday expansion officially rolled out to players on Wednesday and I have played my way through it with great pleasure. Cryptic Studios have really put together an excellent expansion that brilliantly recreates the look and feel of The Original Series and places players in missions that are related to, and at times in the middle of, TOS episodes.
Romulans Always Get the Damage Waiver: Enterprise Rent-A-Car Partners With Star Trek Beyond
Here’s a marketing partnership done right: Enterprise Rent-A-Car has released their first commercial featuring their Star Trek partnership, and it’s perfect.
Trek Stars Shine Bright at STAR TREK BEYOND World Premiere in Australia
Star Trek Beyond made its world premiere in Australia last night, and the film’s stars were there in force.
Takei Disagrees with Decision on Sulu’s Sexuality, Beyond Cast Respond
Update: George Takei criticized the move to reveal Sulu as gay, but Beyond stars Zachary Quinto and Simon Pegg disagree, the latter suggesting such a move would have been “tokenism.”
In One Of His Final Interviews, Anton Yelchin Talks Rachmaninov, Nazis, and Trek
Last year, when he was Anton Yelchin was promoting the movie Green Room at the Cannes film festival, he gave an interview to writer John Bleasdale that seems especially poignant now. It gives great insight into Yelchin’s background, his goals, and his appreciation for the franchise that was so fun for him to be a part of.
Celebrate The Launch of Star Trek Online’s Agents of Yesterday Expansion By Winning a Free Starter Pack from TrekMovie
Star Trek Online’s TOS-themed Agents of Yesterday expansion launches today. TrekMovie is celebrating by giving away 50 codes each redeemable for the Temporal Agent Starter Pack. Hit the jump for details on how to win.
TrekMovie Interview: David Mack
Prolific would be an understatement when describing author David Mack’s contribution to the Star Trek legacy. Mack has written 26 novels, 13 novellas and four comic books set in The Final Frontier, with his latest release, Star Trek Legacies, Book 2: Best Defense, as part of Pocket Books “Special 50th Anniversary Trilogy”. While most of the author’s Star Trek work has come over the last 15 years, his writing roots inspired by Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future stretches back much further, with writing credits on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes “It’s Only a Paper Moon” and “Starship Down”. Rich Schepis spoke with the author about his Star Trek fandom, his favorite novel and the franchise’s enduring legacy.
Zachary Quinto and Simon Pegg Talk About The Impact of Losing Anton Yelchin
Both Zachary Quinto and Simon Pegg have been finding it difficult to talk about Anton Yelchin this week, as they do the rounds promoting Star Trek Beyond.
VFX of Star Trek Beyond
The Visual Effects of Star Trek Beyond are being handled by the excellent crew of Double Negative. Their work has won them acclaim and a couple of Oscars too (for Ex Machina and Interstellar). Kevin H. Martin, a Trekkie, and active member of online Trek communities – including TrekMovie, has a new article for HD Video Pro Magazine where he interviews co-founder and VFX supervisor Peter Chiang about Beyond.
Declare Your Independence With These Classic Episodes
Today is the 4th of July, America’s birthday. Now Star Trek represents a future where divisions based on nation states have disappeared in favor of a unified government where all of human kind is united in peace and harmony. But with the exception of one particularly notable Frenchman, all of Starfleet’s future captains seem to hail from America, so we thought it would be important to help ‘Murrica blow out a few space candles this year. So with that, here are our five top episodes to help you declare your independence.
New Beyond clip shows Uhura/Spock and Spock/McCoy dynamics
Paramount has posted a new clip through Facebook featuring Spock/Uhura drama plus some sage words from the good doctor, this gives a glimpse of the new emphasis on the Spock/McCoy relationship, that we’ve heard was in Beyond. As with all clips, this comes with a warning of spoilers for those trying to stay pure before July 22.