The Strange New Blog

Happy Captain Picard Day! Paramount Home Entertainment is celebrating the day by announcing the best way to show appreciation to one of the greatest captains to ever serve in Starfleet.   Star Trek: Picard - The Final Season on Blu-ray&…

Because who doesn't love courtroom dramas and time travel? The day is finally here! The second season of Strange New Worlds has arrived with the season premiere, "The Broken Circle." But we're already looking ahead as Paramount dropped a …

These are the voyages...is it getting hot in here? We're on the eve of the Strange New Worlds season two premiere, and ahead of that, Paramount has released 16 brand new character portraits featuring the Enterprise crew. Did we menti…

The Ship Is Indeed Going...Now! That's right! We're just a few short days away from the Strange New Worlds season two premiere, and Paramount hasn't given us a lot to share, but a tease is a tease, and there's Klingons, so every…

Strange New Worlds Season Two Takes Us to Such Great Heights (and Maybe a Few Lows) In a way, I feel very connected to  Strange New Worlds.  While I’ve enjoyed  Star Trek  for my entire life, it was only in March of 2020 t…

Fandom Toxicity Bites the Hand that Feeds I’ve noticed something within the Star Trek fandom in the last few weeks. That is the incredible number of poor takes on   Strange New Worlds.  When the show was first announced, the fandom …

They Will See Us Waving From Such Great Heights... We are less than one month away from Strange New Worlds season two, and Paramount just upped the hype level with the release of the full-length trailer, which features James Kirk and our …

Final Frontier Nostalgia Meets Next Generation Melodies I never expected Star Trek Picard season three to hit me as hard as it did in all the right places. And yet here I am writing the review of the show's score on the eve of i…

"You had me at unsanctioned mission..." Just days before the finale of season three of Star Trek: Picard, Trek fans have more to look forward to in an already swollen schedule: Paramount announced this morning that they are moving ahead w…

"Let's make sure history never forgets the name...Enterprise" If you're still coming off the high that was the Enterprise-D reveal in the penultimate episode of Star Trek Picard, don't worry; we're still there too. Between seein…

No Retreat, No Surrender? That remains to be seen. Can the crew of the Titan find a way to thwart Vadic and her crew of Changelings, or is it game over for Jean-Luc and the team? We'll find out. For now, here's the official synopsis for&n…

Trek is taking us back to school On the heels of the announcement that Star Trek: Discovery will be ending its run with its fifth season in 2024, Paramount+ announced the immanent production of a new series: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. This seri…

Did the Dominion, in fact, endure? Ever since changelings were revealed to be the baddies of Star Trek Picard season three, this has been the question. Of course, episode titles are almost always misleading in some way, so we'll have to w…

Mandalorian Crossover? Doubtful... But someone should absolutely write that fan fic. No, there will be no armored bounty hunters hunting down the Titan and Jack Crusher, though you'd have to assume Vadic is back up and running and looking…

Someone Really Needs to Do Shaw a SOLID... See what I did there? Yeah, it's not my best work, but this week's episode of Star Trek Picard not only marks the show's halfway point but one of the season's best episodes to date. Judging by th…

That's Three Kobayashi Maru Themed Episode Titles Now? Discovery, Prodigy, and now Picard, Starfleet really does like reminding us of their famed test that, to quote Spock, "often wreaks havoc on students and equipment." So what does that mean…

By Ensign Haven On Thursday, March 2nd, 2023, we learned that Star Trek Discovery was coming to its end. I have been sitting here in snowy Ontario, Canada, watching Star Trek as I often do, and as many people other people surely…

One Last Time, One Final Discovery It is a sad day for the Star Trek fandom as news broke across social media today that Star Trek Discovery’s long-anticipated fifth season will, in fact, be its last. That’s right: S…

More Picard, now with dad jokes... Well, that was certainly quite the reveal last week, and things are set to get even crazier and more mysterious this week. Just a hot take here, but television episodes with numbers and minutes in the ti…

Do Travelers have sibling rivalries? After what was a fantastic Star Trek Picard season premiere, Trekkies were left with question after question. Like what, you ask? Well, for starters, Wesley's got a kid brother? Also, who's Raffi's han…

The Final Frontier has arrived. The wait is nearly over! In just three short days, Star Trek Picard's final season premiere will be upon us, and now, we have nine brand new images from the episode to whet your appetite even more…

Jumpsuits are out, and leather is in. With just six more days until the Star Trek Picard season three premiere, Paramount has released twelve brand new images featuring Patrick Stewart and the rest of the Next Generation crew. J…

I'm sitting here on a rainy Sunday afternoon, just having finished the first six episodes of Picard season three. While I was thinking of a byline for this spoiler-free review, the news came out of Annie Wersching's (24, The Rookie, Star Trek Pica…

Another amazing Picard content drop from Terry Matalas Trekkies hoping for more details about Star Trek Picard's upcoming third season were treated to that and then some when showrunner Terry Matalas posted details about the&nbs…