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Michael Chabon Takes Showrunner Role of Star Trek Picard

As Star Trek Picard's production cycle continues, with filming on at least four episodes confirmed to be complete, CBS has announced through Deadline that the series has officially found it's showrunner. "Daring, lyrical, humane, whimsical, celebrated: words that describe both Jean-Luc Picard and the literary genius of Michael Chabon," Alex Kurtzman, guardian of Forever in all things Trek at CBS told Deadline, "Despite a laundry list of accomplishments most writers only dream of, Michael shines with the heart and soul of a Trekkie who’s finally found his dream job. We’re so fortunate to have him at the helm as we explore this next chapter in the great captain’s life." Having made his mark in the literally world from Summerland to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Chabon entered the Star Trek world writing the Short Treks episode Calypso before […]

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First Cast Announced for Picard Series

In the run up to the upcoming Picard-focused Star Trek series announced in August last year, CBS has announced two of the new cast members that will join Sir Patrick Stewart in his new voyage. Welcome Aboard! Recognisable for being the apocalypse painting Isaac in Heroes, as Lancelot in BBC series Merlin and more recently in shows such as Little Big Lies and Salvation, Venezuela-born British actor Santiago Cerbera has had an eclectic career split between the UK and US that is now taking him to the stars as part of the new Star Trek line up. Joining Cabrera in the first casting announcement is Michelle Hurd, an actor with just as eclectic a career with recent appearances in Daredevil, Ash vs The Evil Dead, Hawaii Five-0 and much more including recurring roles on high profile shows such as Law […]

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Casting Calls Offer Insight Into Who Will Be Joining Picard on His New Mission.

We might not know where the Picard series will take us, but thanks to a casting call issued recently, we do know who the former Enterprise Captain with take on his next adventure. Initially reported on The Hashtag Show, the developing series main characters (well, the main characters who aren't Picard) have been released on the hunt for the perfect actors for the role. The new character descriptions are as follows - however, let us now throw up a disclaimer that this information hasn't been verified by CBS and is reportedly being cast as 'The Drawing Room' Connie: A mercenary pilot of a transport ship and a widow with a death warrant on her head, issued by her home planet. Casting call asks for an African American in her 30's. Connie is described as having a quick temper while also […]

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Hanelle Culpepper to Direct Picard Series Pilot

Entering the Star Trek world through Star Trek Discovery, Hanelle Culpepper helped present the Mirror Universe in Vaulting Ambition and helmed one of the upcoming episodes of Season 2. Now she's jumping ahead to a new mission as Culpepper takes the reigns of the pilot episode of the new Picard-centric series. Following the life of Picard long after the Enterprise, the untitled show will revive Patrick Stewarts iconic character twenty years after the events of Nemesis as he deals with the fallout of the Hobus Star incident mentioned in the 2009 Star Trek feature film. Helping to shape the new role Picard will find himself in, Culpepper will help set the tone in the pilot episode, bringing her experience from stunning shows with at Starz series Counterpart, AMC's NOS4A2 with Star Trek star Zachary Quinto and multiple other shows including […]

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Discovery Recap: An Obol for Charon (S2E4)

On a mission to hunt down a renegade Spock and find out what he knows about the mysterious Red Angels that have potentially driven him to the brink of madness, Discovery's pursuit gets an unexpected interruption when a mysterious sphere of energy pulls them out of warp and plays havoc with ship systems. With on board functions from life support to translators suddenly failing ship-wide, the crew try to escape the sphere's grasp as Burnham and an extremely ill Saru try to find out what it is and how to escape it as they patch together Discovery. Meanwhile in Engineering, Stamets and Starfleet hitch-hiker Jet Reno are trapped in the spore drive lab as it falls into shutdown, but as systems fail the mycelial network alien Stamets had previously extracted from Tilly escapes and locks itself to the young ensign, […]

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Discovery Recap: Point of Light (S3E3)

While Discovery and it's crew dash through the stars on their new mission, finding a new groove in the process, the Klingons had been left on the sidelines since L'Rell captured the throne to become Chancellor; Tyler in tow hoping to figure out who he really was. Point of Light brings the Klingons back to the forefront as we catch up with L'Rell's reign as chancellor to find that her fight to complete T'Kuvma's unification of the Empire has been a rougher challenge than she had hoped... The Ascension Much like the first seasons Context is for Kings, we again see the third episode bring the pace down as we return to play catch up with the Klingons. Last we saw of L'Rell, she was encouraged to stop playing everyone from the shadows and step into the light, using her […]

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