These days Star Trek can, and is, a collection of tales with multiple settings. From secretive science experiments, to unimportant Starships. In the 1990's Star Trek was seen as only one thing: A crew exploring space on the Enterprise. And there was even pushback to there being a different Enterprise and crew in the 80's before the launch of The Next Generation. But producers of the time weren't w...[Read More]
Way back in 2016 during Star Trek Beyond's red carpet premiere in London, JJ Abrams confirmed there'd be a follow up to the Kelvin Timeline's Enterprise crew with expectations on Beyond being quite high. Despite it being one of the few earners that year for Paramount, it didn't quite meet financial expectations for it's budget.
Lockdown life and life in general have had a weird effect on our time table for... well, everything. Including Comms which had a huge delay earlier this year and we got a late start on for our next issue. But! Despite lockdown stress and life changes in the Communications Office, we're fuill steam ahead on our Summer issue!
Beyond the final frontier lies worlds even stranger than those encountered by heroic starship crews week after week. Running parallel to our world are many more. Some slightly different, some dramatically so and with each possibility time splinters into further alternate realities where everything that could be, is.
The first shot of the crew sitting at their regular stations, only for a new face – Saavik – in the big chair before everyone dies isn't quite the shock now as it was in 1982. Mainly as it's all too familiar to us. By now we all know the story. Admiral Kirk comes back to his old command to inspect Spock's class of cadets as they undertake field duty while, far out in the depths of the final front...[Read More]
Continuing the recent updates to the game, Star Trek Online are adding more elements introduced in Discovery's third season from the 32nd Century following their debut of the Janeway Class and Book's trusty freighter among others. And of course, this is the ship a lot of players have been waiting for as STO is not only adding 32nd century uniforms and tools to their ever expanding content, but ...[Read More]
In just a handful of episodes across three series so far, Q has become a bit of an iconic character since first being encountered at Farpoint where he put humanity on trial for being a barbaric and flawed species. Since then he's revisited the Enterprise, shattered the Continuum by having it's first child since the dawn of existence, tried to mate with Captain Janeway and generally became both a f...[Read More]
Despite following the brave leaders sitting in the Captains chair, or destined to take it, for decades the captains of Starfleet changed the face of the galaxy on a weekly basis. But even deep into the final frontier, you still have to answer to the boss...
While we still recover from the third season of Discovery which wrapped up earlier this year with the Discovery crew warpinng out into the unknown as the face of 32nd Century Starfleet, Paramount+ - the new name from the now rebranded CBS: All Access - has given us a sneak peek at what's to come in the crews next adventure.
As we enter the final month of the year, we’re pleased to announce that after a lot off work from it’s new lead, SFCQ2’s Director off Fleet Operations has given the green light to a new unit being formed under the leadership of returning member Boyd Halliwell. Introducing the USS Artemis! Revealed first on our primary members group, Facebook’s Starbase Europa, Admiral Mitch...[Read More]
Reflecting on the inaugural series of Star Trek Picard, we take a deep dive into how the former Captain returned to adventuring the stars analysing the good, the bad and the history of the new era. And as we review the future, we also celebrate the past as Captain Pike makes his return to the the screen in Strange New Worlds! In Impossible Things we also take a look at the Picard-centric novel, La...[Read More]