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Captain’s Log

When Jean-Luc Picard made his long-awaited return to the screen two years ago in Star Trek: Picard, it was only fitting that the Borg should be back as well. Ever since Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “The Best of Both Worlds” – in fact ever since the first hints of their existence in “The Neutral Zone” – the Borg have been inextricably linked with Picard, so it made sense that their return should coincide with his. What was more surprising was the manner of that return – namely Collective escapees the xB’s, plus Seven of Nine as a vengeful Fenris Ranger – a state of affairs that seems set to continue in Season 2, which boasts the Borg Queen’s comeback, and Seven becoming further integrated into Picard’s new crew (symbolized…

Julie Nimoy Reflects on Shatner’s Reach for the Stars! Late last year, the world watched in awe as Captain James T. Kirk himself, William Shatner, became the oldest person to visit space. Shatner was a passenger aboard the NS-18, a mission launched by billionaire Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin, and documented in Shatner in Space for Amazon Prime Video. The suborbital flight was brief, but the experience profoundly impacted the 90year old actor, who encouraged the entire world to make the trip for themselves. Speaking to Star Trek Explorer about Shatner’s accomplishment, Julie Nimoy – daughter of the late Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock alongside Shatner – beamed, “I thought it was great! Not only because it created a ton of interest for space tourism and exploration, but it’s proof that despite being…

Destination Star Trek London

“I’m supposed to be Ethan Phillips, but he was otherwise engaged, so they had to roll out the Enterprise people.” So began John Billingsley – alias Star Trek: Enterprise’s Dr. Phlox – the first guest to take to the stage at Destination Star Trek 2021, thus neatly encapsulating the challenges facing the first official UK Trek con in two years. With the pandemic still very much a going concern, DSTs attempts to engineer a Star Trek: Voyager cast reunion – already delayed after the 25th anniversary reunion planned for the cancelled DST 2020 couldn’t go ahead – were somewhat scuppered, with only Kate Mulgrew (Captain Janeway), Garrett Wang (Ensign Kim), and a handful of guest stars actually making it to London’s ExCel in the end. No matter, though. The show’s organizers, Showmasters,…

Destination Star Trek London

THE SECOND VOYAGE OF SEVEN

No one saw it coming, and that’s why it worked so perfectly. Star Trek fans lost their – pardon the pun – collective mind(s) when Jeri Ryan popped up as Seven of Nine in the trailer for Season 1 of Star Trek: Picard back in July 2019. And Ryan’s role turned out to be far more than a cameo. Seven factored into every facet of the show, helping to evolve Picard (Patrick Stewart) and close out the heartbreaking arcs of Icheb (Casey King) and Hugh (Jonathan Del Arco), and grew in her own right as a butt-kicking vigilante and member of the Fenris Rangers, before aligning herself with Picard and his crew aboard La Sirena. Seven even stole a few personal moments to embark on the very beginnings of a romance…

THE SECOND VOYAGE OF SEVEN

JEAN-LUC PICARD

THE BASICS OF STAR TREK Casting the Captain Imagining anyone other than Patrick Stewart portraying Captain Jean-Luc Picard seems unfathomable, but quite a few prominent actors were also considered for the part before Stewart landed the center seat. From Yaphet Kotto – whose credits included the sci-fi classic Alien, an encounter with James Bond in Live and Let Die, and a starring role in Homicide: Life on the Street – to Billy Dee Williams, best known for playing Lando Calrissian in three Star Wars films, the other candidates were immensely talented. Searching the Stars Born on Earth in La Barre, France, Jean-Luc Picard grew up on his family’s vineyard, a business which his traditional father hoped that Jean-Luc would one day inherit. While his brother Robert became enamored with the winemaking trade, Jean-Luc set…

JEAN-LUC PICARD

Who Is Star Trek’s Greatest Guest Star?

ROBERT BELTRAN CHAKOTAY, STAR TREK: VOYAGER “If we go just with Voyager, I would say Ray Walston. It was an honor to have him on our show as Boothby and I thoroughly enjoyed working with him. But if you’re talking about Star Trek as a franchise, I don’t think you can leave out Ricardo Montalban [Khan] as one of the best guest stars. He was remarkable in the original series and especially in The Wrath of Khan. I’d gotten to know him and, as a matter of fact, he was going to direct his first film with me as the lead in this romantic comedy we were going to do together. He said, ‘We’re going to do it as soon as I get my back surgery done.’ Unfortunately, that was the back…

Who Is Star Trek’s Greatest Guest Star?

Akiva Goldsman is still living the dream. The Oscar-winning writer-producer- director, whose many credits include The Client, A Beautiful Mind, I, Robot, Fringe, and several Paranormal Activity films, grew up a Star Trek fan. He made cameo appearances in Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek: Into Darkness, and got his shot at making a serious mark on the franchise with Star Trek: Discovery – on which he served during Seasons 1 and 2 as a producer, writer, and director – and Star Trek: Picard, which he co-created, produces, writes, and directs. In addition, Goldsman worked on the Star Trek: Short Trek installments. Now he’s busy with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which he cocreated and is writing, producing, and directing (he helmed the pilot). During a rare black hole in his…

55 AND COUNTING!

In the wake of Star Trek’s 55th anniversary, Star Trek Explorer and Forbidden Planet have teamed up to offer the chance to win an exclusive bundle from the 55 Collection! We’ve got a fantastic grab bag including: A “Red, Not Dead!” mug for your Earl Grey, and a “Coffee, Black” coaster for those from the Delta Quadrant! Two amazing T-shirts, one featuring the legend “These Are the Voyages, ” the other Data’s heartbreaking “Ode to Spot”! Two exclusive postcard sets of Juan Ortiz’s Star Trek: The Next Generation art, a “Make It Snow” greeting card, and an “Elementary, My Dear Data” art print! A gorgeous collection of enamel starship pins, featuring the U.S.S. Enterprise, Defiant, and Voyager! All you have to do to get your hands on these amazing collectibles is…

55 AND COUNTING!

TOP 10 BORG MOMENTS

10 LORE AND ORDER (STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION “DESCENT ”) The cliffhanger for the finale of season six features a group of self-aware Borg who have broken free from the Collective. Their individuality comes from Hugh, the Borg who had been rescued by the Enterprise and who, given a sense of independence shared his new found self-awareness with other Borg. The band of Borg join forces with Data’s brother, Lore, in a plot to bring about the end of the Federation. 09 A VIRTUAL NIGHTMARE (STAR TREK: VOYAGER “UNIMATRIX ZERO ”) The terror of the Borg is not that they are an evil or aggressive species but that they are largely indifferent to other lifeforms. Once assimilated into the Borg Collective an individual’s sense of freedom and self is permanently deleted. However, a few…

TOP 10 BORG MOMENTS

A VAST CONSCIOUSNESS, A UNIFIED WILL: INSIDE THE BORG

“We are the Borg. Existence as you know it is over. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.” – Borg greeting, (VGR “Scorpion, Part 1”) The Borg are the most fearsome Star Trek villains of the 24th Century. They are more implacable than the Founders; more deadly in battle than the Jem’Hadar; and their resources of knowledge, technology, and population are far greater than any other Federation adversary. And none of these qualities is the source of the terror the Borg inspire. Assimilation is what terrifies: the loss not only of home and freedom, but one’s entire identity as a unique individual. The Borg can turn almost any sentient, humanoid creature into a drone, a molecule of consciousness in a vast, collective mind. Even…

A VAST CONSCIOUSNESS, A UNIFIED WILL: INSIDE THE BORG

THE BORG VS THE FEDERATION - A TIMELINE

2063 The 24th century Borg Queen arrives over Earth in an attempt to stop Cochrane’s warp flight and assimilate Earth in her own past. (First Contact) 2153 Earth scientists find wreckage of a Borg ship and several frozen drones in the Arctic. The revived drones send a signal towards Borg space before they are destroyed. (ENT “Regeneration”) 2354 Annika Hansen and her scientist parents are assimilated when the Hansens try to study the Borg at close range. (VGR “The Raven” “Dark Frontier”) 2365 Q throws the Enterprise D briefly and disastrously into the path of a Borg cube. The Borg accelerate their advance towards the Alpha Quadrant. The Federation starts planning its defenses. (TNG “Q Who?” “The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1”) 2366 Battle of Wolf 359. A single Borg cube destroys a fleet of Starships and assimilates…

THE BORG VS THE FEDERATION - A TIMELINE

“Resistance is futile.” “That remains to be seen.” Seven of Nine, of late a crew member aboard the U.S.S. Voyager, faced her none-too distant past amidst a rugged alien landscape. Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One, a fUlly-assimilated Borg drone, coolly regarded her from several meters away. Mottled gray flesh, darkly veined, attested to the drone’s membership in the Collective, as did her matte-black body armor, protruding optical implant, loops of exterior tubing, and harsh contemptuous tone. “No uncertainty exists. You have become small, weak, diminished. A mere individual.” Perhaps, Seven conceded. Staring at the drone was like looking backwards in time at a distorted reflection of herself – or was she the distortion? She was torn between admiration and, curiously, revulsion. “And you are?” she asked, already knowing…

THE COLLECTIVE QUIZ

1) In which story are the Borg first alluded to? a. The Best of Both Worlds (part one) b. Q Who c. Encounter at Farpoint d. The Neutral Zone 2) Where were several Borg drones discovered during Jonathan Archer’s time? a. Bermuda b. Croydon c. The Arctic circle d. Florida 3) Name the one species that was resistant to the Borg’s assimilation? a. Klingons b. Ferengi c. Species 8472 d. Binars 4) What was the name of the battle during which Captain Picard was forced to serve the Borg as Locutus? a. Battle of Fox 359 b. Battle of Ferret 359 c. Battle of Hyena 359 d. Battle of Wolf 359 5) Locutus derives from Latin. What is its direct translation? a. “He who has spoken” b. “The Speaker” c. “Commander” d. “Warrior” 6) What does Admiral Norah Satie cite the Federation casualties at Wolf 359 as being? a. 50 ships, 20,000 personnel b. 10 ships, 2,000…

THE COLLECTIVE QUIZ

ARCHIVE IMAGES RETRIEVED FOh, sure, everyone’s excited about a fresh look at the Borg Queen and everything Collective in Star Trek: Picard... but of course this won’t be the first time Jean-Luc Picard has encountered a tube-bedecked cyborg. Thoughts naturally turn to the debut of the Borg back in the week of May 5, 1989, when “Q Who” first premiered as the 16th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generations second season. Pulling off an all-new adversary look (and, for visual effects, their iconic cube ship) had been a huge mountain to climb mid-season. Crunched for time, both the budget and the stage crew were suffering from fatigue. But everyone around the TNG offices and stages knew the Borg could be something special, and would provide just the right injection of drama…

Pasts Imperfect

TOMORROW’S TECHNOLOGY TODAY Time travel has been a part of Star Trek’s DNA since “The Naked Time, ” early in the first season of the original series; but how do Trek’s various methods of traveling through time stack up against real-world theories? If you are relatively new to the Trek universe, you might be forgiven for thinking that Star Trek would be better named “ Time Trek.” After all, not only is the beleaguered crew of the U.S.S. Discovery stuck somewhere in the 32nd Century, but in the new season of Star Trek: Picard, the indefatigable admiral (retired) is once again heading into the past, this time to 21st-Century Earth to sort out a catastrophic timeline disruption caused by his old sparring partner Q. Those of you more familiar with our favorite franchise…

Pasts Imperfect

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS WITH STAR TREK The Borg Queen is back... and so is Annie Wersching. The actress kicked off her career in 2002 by playing the Kantare character Liana in “Oasis, ” a Season 1 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. Wersching spent the next two decades as a familiar television presence, guesting, recurring, or co-starring on such shows as Charmed, Supernatural, General Hospital, 24, Bosch, The Vampire Diaries, Timeless, and Runaways. Now she’s returned to the Star Trek universe, breathing new life into the Borg Queen during Star Trek: Picard’s sophomore season. And while in one sense the Trek universe is boundless, in another it can be pretty small: Wersching and Susanna Thompson, who played the Borg Queen in the Star Trek: Voyager episodes “Dark Frontier” and “Unimatrix Zero” (and who…

A FISTFUL OF DATA

MAKING SENSE OF THE FUTURE NO SALUTING IN STARFLEET Is there a reason why Starfleet personnel don’t salute? Either an in-universe explanation, or a creative one – or ideally, both! DINOSAUR JESUS VIA TWITTER Sure, Dino, there’s a reason – and the answer is about as old as Star Trek’s DNA itself: creator Gene Roddenberry wanted it that way! It’s not in his 1964 pitch memo for “The Cage, ” but it’s present in the Season 1 writer’s bible of 1966, when writing and producing for Star Trek’s first few episodes was underway: “Semi-military, but without being heavily authoritarian. For example, we will not be aware of ‘officers’ and ‘enlisted men’ categories. And we will avoid saluting, and other annoying medieval leftovers…” Dammit, Gene, tell us what you really think! On the other hand, to be fair,…

A FISTFUL OF DATA

STAND-IN GOOD STEAD!

PUTTING CONTINUITY IN THE FIRING LINE I know this corner of Fistful is usually all about connecting dots in an even deeper way within the fictional Star Trek universe and its continuity, but I received such an intriguing query about the process of making Trek, that it needed sharing. And thus this simple yet intriguing backstage question from Kasey Shafsky, via Twitter: “How much time each day was set aside per series for lighting with stand-ins?” A simple question needing a complex answer, Kasey! You’re referring to the main role of a “stand-in” – a stage performer literally standing (or perhaps sitting, depending on the scene) so that lighting areas and even camera blocking tweaks can be done with bodies similar to the main and guest cast, without asking the actors to endure those…

STAND-IN GOOD STEAD!

Quality Of Life

A distant flash of lightning illuminated the façade of the old house. It was no castle, but imposed itself imperiously against the landscape nevertheless, perched as it was on the edge of a vertiginous clifftop. Its turrets, arches, and buttresses spoke of wealth and authority in a way that enthralled so many unimaginative beings of linear sentience. Q appreciated the ostentatiousness but was otherwise unimpressed. The front door, however, did interest him. It was ancient, an antique far older than the house itself, with intricate motifs carved into its wooden panels relating a primeval tale of heroes and monsters. He smiled. Such histories, however mythologically represented, were always a matter of perspective, and it amused him that in this instance he knew the roles should have been reversed. After all, he…

Quality Of Life

STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT

Here’s Star Trek: First Contact’s guide to Trek technobabble: Expert Level – Data: “Sensors show chronometric particles emanating from the sphere…” Standard Level – Picard: “They’re creating a temporal vortex…” Entry Level – Riker: “Time travel.” Joking aside, with First Contact, Paramount and the creative team were taking no chances, lifting key elements from the most critically acclaimed Star Trek movie (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) and the most commercially successful (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home) and grafting them together. As in The Wrath of Khan, a fan-favorite baddie was brought back for a sequel of sorts, while like The Voyage Home, time travel formed a big part of the plot. Perhaps unexpectedly, the latter came from Trek’s then-head honcho Rick Berman: “All of the films and episodes I’ve been most…

STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT

Revelation Space: The Final Frontier

THE FANS INSPIRED BY STAR TREK Alastair Reynolds Many of us would be able to identify with Alastair Reynolds’ early memory of assembling an AMT model Starship Enterprise (in his case with help from his father) only to accidentally break it later. Then again, it could have been worse: the casualty could have been the Galileo shuttlecraft, which remains one of his favorite spaceship designs of all time. In any case, this calamity didn’t stop Reynolds from becoming an expert in building models in his later years: “In my office I have a 1/96th-scale Saturn V, a 1/350th refit Enterprise, and a 1/35th Galileo shuttlecraft. More will follow, ” he states. A former space scientist whose research specialty was astronomy and astrophysics, Reynolds once worked at the European Space Agency. After publishing his first…

Revelation Space: The Final Frontier

FIRST AMONG EQUALS?

With Star Trek: First Contact being the focus of this issue’s Definitive Guide, we asked our deliberating duo this question: Is Star Trek: First Contact the greatest Star Trek film ever made? First of all: MICHAEL CLARK First rate: BUNNY SUMMERS MICHAEL CLARK: First Contact will always be the best of the films for me – so far! – since it encompasses so many different and exciting aspects of Star Trek. Where does the film sit for you, Bunny? BUNNY SUMMERS: It’s absolutely one of my favorite Star Trek films, but is it really the best? There’s a lot for it to live up to, and I really don’t think it quite makes it. MC: It’s the most accessible of all the Star Trek films for non-Trek fans. You can jump right on board without worrying…

FIRST AMONG EQUALS?

TREK THROUGH LIFE

COSPLAY COLLECTIVE Assimilating knowledge and stories from Trek fandom’s finest costumers... Elated by Elnor Star Trek fan Amy was immediately fascinated by Star Trek: Picard’s Elnor from the moment images of the character were released. “I guess I’ve always had a thing for pointy ears, ” jokes the cosplayer. “I’m crazy about Spock too – and Narek – but Elnor’s background and the way he has been raised, really caught my attention.” Amy credits Elnor’s fighting style and the way that actor Evan Evagora brings the young Romulan to life as two of the many reasons that he has become one of her favorite characters. “I often choose to cosplay characters that intrigue me in some way, ” reflects Amy. “They’ve all impressed me or fascinated me, and the actors are of course so…

TREK THROUGH LIFE

BORG WORDSEARCH

01. REGENERATION 02. SEVENOFNINE 03. ASSIMILATE 04. RESISTANCE 05. COLLECTIVE 06. NANOPROBE 07. TRANSWARP 08. LOCUTUS 09. SPHERE 10. FUTILE 11. QUEEN 12. UNIMATRIX 13. DRONE 14. BORG 15. DRONE 0 – 5: You are not worthy of assimilation. 5 – 10: Resistance is futile! 10 – 20: A fine addition to the collective. 20 – 26: You bring order to chaos! SPOCK THE DIFFERENCE Take a look at these two images – when Seven was first disconnected from the Collective the Doctor made many changes, but can you spot the five we’ve made here? TO BOLDLY QUOTE Can you fill in the blanks of this iconic Borg phrase? “WE ARE THE BORG. LOWER YOUR SHIELDS AND ___________YOUR SHIPS. WE WILL ADD YOUR ___________ AND TECHNOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN. YOUR ___________WILL ADAPT TO ___________ US. RESISTANCE IS___________”. WHO AM I? 1. I was found in the Argolis Cluster. 2. I was the executive director of…

BORG WORDSEARCH

Janeway’s hometown had changed since the last time she was here. In the past twenty-two years, Bloomington, Indiana had become a hub of subspace research. The house she’d grown up in was now gone, and a sophisticated laboratory stood in its place. The celebratory parade for Janeway and her crew had passed right by the site on its way to the massive observatory where a reception was being held. It involved the usual speech making, this time by Bloomington’s long-winded mayor, as well as a blizzard of hand shaking and congratulations from the local citizens. “You’re the reason I want to get into Starfleet Academy, ” a young woman told Janeway as they posed for a holo-picture together. “Your story really inspires me.” “That’s kind of you to say.” Janeway really…

“For the last time Doctor Zimmerman, will you please stop interrupting other members of the clinical taskforce while they are speaking?” Beverly Crusher looked to Doctor Chang in bewilderment. As Chair of this specially assembled meeting in Starfleet Medical’s imposing conference room, the diminutive figure had tried to keep things civil, but Beverly could see her usual good humour had been ground down by Zimmerman’s relentless interjections over the last four hours. And it hadn’t just been Beverly who’d suffered his disrespect – every one of her half-dozen fellow physicians and Vice-Admiral Blackwell, who Beverly knew as an acquaintance of Jean-Luc’s, had been treated with equal disdain. Several attempts to start her presentation had been objected to or dismissed with a wave of a hand by the insufferable man sitting opposite,…

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