A huge week in science fiction production news, with Discovery’s nomination for Outstanding Television Drama at the GLAAD Awards, Voyager’s main cast musing about guest stars that could’ve been and Babylon 5’s six year remastering process completing.
The Discovery cast have been talking up their next season, Patrick Stewart has been talking up Picard’s second outing, ViacomCBS confirm the arrival of Paramount+ and The Trekzone Variety Show is announced.
On this edition of Trekzone’s The News, we dive into the Star Trek hiatus as the 23rd straight week of new episodes falls into our rear view mirror. Meanwhile Lucasfilm Games announces a retro comeback, Aaron Vanderkley reveals the cast for his forthcoming Voyager-era #StarTrek #FanFilm and we dive into a tidbit of science and space headlines…
We’re back for our 2021 season of The News from Trekzone. In today’s show we cover the end of Discovery’s third season, the upcoming second season of Picard, the Voyager documentary and some science and space news while Talkin’ Science rests.
A big final week for our news podcast. General Yeager passed away, The Orville recommenced filming on it’s third season and a new Aussie SciFi epic dropped it’s trailer. Those stories, and a look ahead to our 2021 on this edition of The News.
The BBC releases the trailer for the forthcoming Doctor Who New Years special, Titan Publishing releases a teaser for issue 78 of their Star Trek magazine, Creation Entertainment invites 85 Star Trek alumni and alumnae to their SciFi Summits across the US summer and we tease Trekzone in 2021!
We remember the Father of Star Trek who has passed away. Plus we have details on new comics to be released in February, Jack’s back on Doctor Who and your first look at the new Trekzone podcasts kicking off January 1.
A collection of early 2010-era docos by William Shatner have been compiled into a BluRay set, ready for Christmas stocking stuffing. Meanwhile IDW Publishing release their first Voyager comic mini-series, Anson Mount joins METI – aiming to contact ET and LeVar Burton thanks fans for championing him as the new host of Jeopardy…
ViacomCBS CEO delivered a huge confidence boost to the numerous Star Trek production teams, essentially promoting the series as a tentpole for the forthcoming rebranding of CBS All Access and global launch of Paramount+. Meanwhile, on the Fox lot, The Orville production kicks off again in December and plans to honour Leonard Nimoy gain family support in Boston.
We’re diving into the minutiae of Star Trek: Discovery on this edition of Trekzone’s The News.
As Kathryn Janeway receives a monument in her future birthplace, Hero Collector release details about three books and we learn about the next Picard tie in novel!
Royal Mail in the UK have released Star Trek stamps, Kurtzman talks Discovery season four and McMahan talks Lower Decks season two. It’s Trekzone’s bite size news podcast – The News!
As Network 10 holds it’s annual upfronts, confirming Paramount+ for down under, Kurtzman speaks with SFX magazine for Discovery’s return – detailing his hopes for the film franchise to return to continuity with TV. Plus, details of Virtual Trek Con 2 happening now and STLV becomes The 55-Year Mission back at the Rio but in August next year.
A virtual panel overnight for NYCC has revealed the lead of “Nick Trek” – aka Prodigy. Kate Mulgrew returns to the franchise as Kathryn Janeway, notably a Captain… but is that just the role she made famous? We’re also covering the season finale of Lower Decks, in spectacular fashion, and a Trekkie-themed Joe Biden event coming up…
In the news this week, Jonathan Frakes is interviewed by Trekmovie and provides some details on Strange New Worlds, Discovery’s third season and a musical Short Trek? Plus info on Trek IV and Destination Star Trek London.
This week we bring you the Emmy’s Nod for Rene and D.C. Fontana, Patrick Stewart & Mark Hamill’s Uber Eats commercial, details of Star Trek Tarot cards and give a shout out to Aaron Vanderkley’s latest work.
Even though Saturn’s rings appear clean and young, they may be as old as the planet itself according to international researchers. It was previously thought that impacts with small rocky debris travelling through space – called micrometeoroids – would dirty and darken the rings over time, but in 2004 the Cassini spacecraft revealed the rings to be clean and bright suggesting that they are not very old.
Australia’s first sovereign orbital rocket designed and built has finally cleared all regulatory hurdles, and
International researchers have found a giant planet transiting a very young star, in research that indicates this could be the youngest transiting planet found to date.
New analysis of marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, could offer clues into how Mars has evolved over billions of years, according to new research from The Australian National University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Researchers from the Curtin node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research say they have made a record-breaking astrophysical discovery while simultaneously uncovering a possible explanation for the rare and extreme event known as long-period radio transients.
The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have occurred during a rare intense wind event, according to international researchers who say this means our scientific understanding of the planet may be flawed.
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Even though Saturn’s rings appear clean and young, they may be as old as the planet itself according to international researchers. It was previously thought that impacts with small rocky debris travelling through space – called micrometeoroids – would dirty and darken the rings over time, but in 2004 the Cassini spacecraft revealed the rings to be clean and bright suggesting that they are not very old.
Australia’s first sovereign orbital rocket designed and built has finally cleared all regulatory hurdles, and now sits poised on the launchpad in Bowen as it
International researchers have found a giant planet transiting a very young star, in research that indicates this could be the youngest transiting planet found to date.
New analysis of marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, could offer clues into how Mars has evolved over billions of years, according to new research from The Australian National University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
It’s the end of the third week in February twenty twenty five. Here’s the science and space headlines we followed…
Researchers from the Curtin node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research say they have made a record-breaking astrophysical discovery while simultaneously uncovering a possible explanation for the rare and extreme event known as long-period radio transients.
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