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The next starship crew exploring the Final Frontier of Star Trek has arrived. No, it’s not guest stars for Picard Season 2, or a full break-down of the rest of the Strange New Worlds gang. Instead, after a decent amount of speculation, the full cast and character list for the upcoming animated series Star Trek: Prodigy has been revealed. And, it turns out there are some massive deep cuts to old school Star Trek canon, specifically, The Original Series.

Remember when Spock wore that red visor in the classic Star Trek episode “Is There In Truth No Beauty?” Well, one of the new alien crewmembers on Prodigy is a direct call-back to that alien species. Here’s the details of the new Prodigy crew and how it all connects to the larger Trek universe and timeline.

Mild potential spoilers for Star Trek: Prodigy ahead.

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This Star Trek: Picard article contains some spoilers for Season 1.

As Star Trek: Lower Decks finally debuts internationally on Amazon Prime, Star Trek: Picard Season 1 arrives on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time in the U.K. Although the Blu-ray snuck in a U.S. release back in October, it’s safe to say that Trekkies may have been pretty distracted by world-events (and Discovery Season 3!) at the time, and may not have delved-into all the extra Picard goodies! So, if you’re a U.S. reader and you missed the news about the Picard deleted scenes the first time around, or if you’re in the U.K. and you’re just now getting your hands on the Picard Season 1 Blu-ray, here’s what to know about the various deleted scenes.

First up, before getting into the weeds of the Picard Season 1 deleted scene ranking, it...

French broadcaster TF1 will air entertainment show “Good Singers,” hosted by TV personality Anthony Lambert, from July 17.

The weekly prime time show is based on Istanbul-headquartered distributor Global Agency’s original format “Is That Really Your Voice?,” created by Izzet Pinto, in which a panel must select the talented singers from a group based purely on their appearance.

Pinto said: “The idea for the show came from watching the singer Susan Boyle, who rose to fame on a talent show. That inspired me to create this format. Her voice did not match her look and created big surprising moments for the audience. This feeling led me to create this idea.”

In the show, two teams of three celebrities each compete against one another. In each episode, 12 contestants will take the stage, each with a numbered label, and each pretending to be a good singer. The celebrities’ goal is to distinguish...

Santiago Cabrera‘s role in “Star Trek: Picard” as Cristóbal Rios is a familiar type. The roguish ne’er-do-well pilot enlisted on a life-saving mission fits the Han Solo mold of the reluctant hero. But he’s one of the highlights of the new series because he has the humor and charisma to earn that comparison. And he steals scenes in three, four, five additional ways as Rios’s many holograms.

SEEEmmy spotlight: Patrick Stewart (‘Star Trek: Picard’) is 33 years overdue for recognition for his most famous role

“Picard” follows its title character (Patrick Stewart) after he has left Starfleet. He is drawn back into space on an urgent personal crusade to save an android (Isa Briones) being targeted by Romulan spies. He hires Rios and his ship La Sirena to lead his rag-tag rescue crew, and Cabrera brings a welcome irreverence that balances Stewart’s stalwart sincerity — again, much...

This Star Trek: Picard review contains Major spoilers for the season finale.

Star Trek: Picard Episode 10

Star Trek: Picard Season 1 had its strengths and weaknesses, as all TV series do, but let it never be said that this show doesn’t have anything important to say about the world. Some TV stories lead with plot, others lead with character, a few even lead with setting. Star Trek: Picard—like every other great Star Trek series before it—leads with theme.

Some Star Trek shows are better at this than others. Star Trek: Discovery, for example, doesn’t often seem like it knows what it wants to say—about the future, about now, about being human. It too has its strengths, but thematic focus isn’t one of them and, if there’s anything that has defined Star Trek as a franchise, it’s the urgency and eloquence with which it...

CBS All-Access has much more Star Trek on the way, including Star Trek: Picard, which continues the adventures of one of the most beloved captains in the entire Starfleet: Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Read our full review of the latest episode, “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1,” here.

Up next? The season finale, presumably titled “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2.” Check out the epic promo…

Here’s everything we know about Star Trek: Picard…

Star Trek: Picard Series Episode Guide

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Star Trek: Picard Episode 1: Remembrance

“At the end of the 24th century, and 14 years after his retirement from Starfleet, Jean-Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) is living a quiet life on his vineyard, Chateau Picard. When he is sought out by a mysterious young woman, Dahj (Isa Briones), in need of his help, he soon realizes...

As we gear up for the first half of Star Trek: Picard season 1’s two-part finale later this week, let’s look back at the major revelations that came out in last week’s episode, 1×08 “Broken Pieces.” After many weeks of teasing the bigger picture, that chapter saw the whole truth come out about the Romulan/Starfleet conspiracy that has turned the fate of the galaxy around and seen hatred for synthetics surge.

And one of the biggest repercussions of these revelations is that they retcon a classic episode of The Next Generation. Essentially, we and the characters learn that Commodore Oh, the fierce Starfleet Security boss who’s had no time for Picard all season, is really a half-Romulan/Vulcan mole for the Zhat Vash. It’s also established that it was not Bruce Maddox’s creation of Soji and Dahj that started the terrorist cell’s plans. It...

Star Trek: Picard has brought back a bunch of familiar faces from the franchise’s past. With Riker and Troi only turning up for an episode and poor Hugh meeting his end a couple of weeks back, Seven of Nine has proven to be the most important returning character outside of Jean-Luc himself. Fans have loved seeing Jeri Ryan back as an older, more human Seven, too, who’s suffered tragedy yet come out the other end stronger. But could her Picard comeback lead to her own spinoff?

It’s something many want to see – including showrunner Michael Chabon himself. In response to Seven and Elnor teaming up in the most recent episode of season 1, a fan asked Chabon on social media if he’d consider doing a show based around the duo, maybe even with Robert Picardo’s Doctor or Kate Mulgrew’s Kathryn Janeaway in the mix, as well.

The primary takeaway of “Star Trek: Picard,” the thing we’re all talking about, is just how different this show is from previous incarnations of “Trek.” How dark it is. How violent it is. How the optimism seems gone.

How much has changed.

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Fundamentally, the argument for it being such a different show is that our own world is so very different from when we last saw Jean-Luc Picard. We can’t just imagine a better future in which want is eliminated, along with ignorance and prejudice. We need to see, instead, how very difficult it is to maintain that progress after it’s been won. The future is the Federation… if you can keep it.

But how...

The driving force of Star Trek: Picard‘s first season has been the extremist Romulans’ hatred of synthetic lifeforms. We’ve witnessed the secret terrorist group Zhat Vash infiltrating the Borg Reclamation Project – situated on an ex-Borg Cube – in order to sabotage the good-natured program to de-assimilate former Borg Drones, called xBs, and help them adjust to being individuals again. As with everything in Picard, though, the latest episode of the show revealed that the situation is a lot more grey than it seemed.

Episode 8, “Broken Pieces,” revealed the truth about a character who creates a surprising connection between both the Romulans and the Borg. Back in episode 6, “Absolute Candor,” Soji consulted with Ramdha, a rare Romulan xB, who was once a professor of mythology but was now mentally unstable after her de-assimilation. Even in this state, Ramdha recognized Soji as the fabled “Destroyer.” She grabbed a blaster and attempted to shoot Soji,...

As we all guessed from that worrying preview trailer, this week’s episode of Star Trek: Picard -1×08, titled “Broken Pieces,” which just debuted on CBS All Access today – forced Seven of Nine to face her darkest fear head-on. Born Annika Hansen, the ex-Borg has worked hard to reclaim her humanity across Star Trek: Voyager and in the years since, as revealed in Picard, but now she’s had to give herself back to the Borg Collective in order to save the day.

Seven left Picard an Sos beacon when they parted ways a couple of episodes back, to summon her if she was ever needed, and this is how Elnor got her to come rescue him when things turned bad on board the Artifact, the deactivated Borg Cube that’s been the base of the Borg Reclamation Project. As detailed in episode 7, “Nepenthe,” Narissa and the Zhat Vash have...

This Star Trek: Picard review contains major spoilers.

Hoo boy, Star Trek: Picard dumped a whole lot of information on us in its eighth installment, “Broken Pieces,” but writer/showrunner Michael Chabon does it with character-illuminating panache, setting most of the hour’s action on the La Sirena ship, and letting conspiracy theorist Raffi put the pieces together for us. The answers are less exciting than Picard perhaps wants them to be, but the process of finding them out, which exposes some important backstory for many of our recurring characters, makes this episode soar.

Is there anything more fun than watching a detective do her work? When it comes to Raffi, she already has the picture; it’s more about collecting all of the pieces so she can make the goddamn puzzle. This means diving into the fragmented psyches of Rios’ five hologram clones, all modeled after Rios truly.

They...

I’m not sure when “Broken Pieces” lost me, exactly. I went in with an open mind. “Nepenthe” was excellent, and if that excellence also served to underline all the ways in which Star Trek: Picard is failing its audience, it still gave some cause to hope. At the very least, it proved that the writers were capable of…...

“Tragic” is definitely a word you could accurately use to describe Star Trek: Picard. The Patrick Stewart-starring sequel series has portrayed a much darker galaxy than the one the Enterprise occupied in The Next Generation. All of the recurring characters from Trek past have suffered some kind of tragedy, for example – Seven of Nine, Riker and Troi. You name it.

The plot centers on the Borg Reclamation Project that’s based in the Artifact, a deactivated Borg cube. Hugh, a former Borg drone, was a leader of the project, helping to de-assimilate others like himself and helping them adjust to being individuals again. However, this project has been rife with tragedy, with Romulan spies infecting it, ultimately resulting in Hugh’s murder in episode 7.

Given that Picard is so keen to comment on our own world, one fan questioned showrunner Michael Chabon on Instagram over why the story of...

Star Trek: Picard has really been heating up the drama these past few episodes, and this week’s installment will continue to bring the first season of the Patrick Stewart-headed sequel series closer to an exciting conclusion. Episode 8, titled “Broken Pieces,” will see Jean-Luc and the crew of La Sirena – Raffi (Michelle Hurd), Rios (Santiago Cabrera), Jurati (Alison Pill) and Soji (Isa Briones) – discovering the secret truth about the dark incident that originally forced Picard to quit Starfleet in the first place.

What’s more, after taking a break last week, Jeri Ryan is also back as Seven of Nine. While Picard and crew remain on their ship, Seven and Elnor (Evan Evagora) are on board the Artifact. But the teaser for the episode hints that being back on a Borg Cube could spell disaster for the Xb. The final shot of the trailer even heavily hints that she’s about to be re-assimilated.

Though it’ll likely never see the warm light of day, Star Trek: Picard showrunner Michael Chabon has a killer idea for a series (or indeed a movie) that would bring together James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard.

Over on Instagram (h/t ComicBook.com), Chabon responded to one curious fan about the possibility of a Kirk-Picard crossover, stating that he envisions said pipe dream as Midnight Run… in space. We say pipe dream because, of course, William Shatner recently went on record to say that he’s unlikely to return to the Star Trek universe – not now, and perhaps not ever – believing that Kirk’s journey has really run its course.

Still, to think that Chabon imagines a Star Trek crossover in the style of Midnight Run only leaves us longing for the real deal. And with Shatner ostensibly finished with Trek, we can’t imagine the Powers...

Star Trek: Picard reaches its eighth episode this Thursday, which means we’ve only got three weeks left until the show’s first season wraps up. So far, the Next Generation sequel series has proven to be unafraid to go to some very dark places. Just last episode, for instance, beloved Tng character Hugh met his end. It’s not all that surprising, then, that the newly revealed title for the season finale appears to be hinting at another major death.

Episode 1×10 is called “Et in Arcadia Ego” and like many Trek titles over the years, the name is a classical reference. The Latin phrase is also the title of a famous painting by Italian Baroque artist Givannia Francesco Barbieri. Though it’s often referred to as “The Arcadia Shepherds” in English, the phrase literally translates to “I too was in Arcadia.” The “I” of the title refers to the...

This week’s episode of Star Trek: Picard was a highlight of the run for fans as it brought back two favorites from The Next Generation. Namely, Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis as William Riker and Deanna Troi. This marked four former Tng regulars appearing on the sequel series so far, alongside Patrick Stewart’s eponymous ex-Enterprise captain and Data (Brent Spiner). And while this has certainly been a treat, we’re always open to further familiar faces returning.

As far as we know though, no more old characters are coming back for the remainder of season 1, but these behind-the-scenes images from filming on episode 7, titled “Nepenthe,” reveal an unexpected Tng reunion that will have fans beaming. As you can see in the gallery below, the first photo captures Stewart, Frakes, Sirtis and Isa Briones with two surprise guests – Michael Dorn and LeVar Burton, who played Worf and Geordi La Forge on Tng.

Following Data’s cameo in the pilot and recurring roles for Seven of Nine and Hugh, the seventh episode of Star Trek: Picard, “Nepenthe,” brought a couple more classic characters back into the mix in the forms of Commander William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis). As the Enterprise-d’s first officer and counsellor, and Picard’s closest friends from his Starfleet days, a reunion in their twilight years was always going to be emotional. And sure enough it was, as we learned about the ups and downs of the couple’s life since we last saw them.

Fans will know that Riker and Troi tied the knot in 2002’s Star Trek: Nemesis, with the pair moving over to the U.S.S. Titan so Riker could serve as captain. By the time of Picard, however, the duo have settled on the planet Nepenthe with their daughter Kestra...

Star Trek: Picard just gave us a major Seven of Nine-centric episode a couple of weeks ago, but this preview for the next installment of the show promises that the ex-Borg is already coming back, and she could be about to meet a dark fate.

Titled “Broken Pieces,” the eighth episode of the series’ debut season looks to be ramping up the drama as this teaser paints a very ominous picture. “What you are about to experience… will drive you mad,” intones a voiceover, as we see a bunch of Romulans blasted by some kind of wave, resulting in them screaming and clawing at their own faces. Elsewhere, Picard warns Soji of the threat at hand. “We face a powerful enemy,” he stresses.

Meanwhile, back on the Artifact, Elnor is seen battling a Romulan. In possibly the same scene, Seven arrives and inquires “What is happening on this cube?...

As Turkey’s TV industry reels from the shock of the country’s sharp currency devaluation, Netflix is starting to establish its footprint and get traction in a market that remains among the world’s top five exporters of serial dramas.

“The roughly 40% tumble of the Turkish lira amid tensions between populist presidents Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan has caused interest rates to skyrocket and linear broadcasters’ advertising revenues to shrink,” says Ahmet Ziyalar, COO of prominent sales company Inter Medya. “As a result, due to budgeting problems, the number of successful dramas [on linear TV] decreased dramatically this season.”

Ziyalar calls 2019 an experimental year for the Turkish industry. “Digital platforms have been trying things that were long in-the-waiting,” both thematically and in terms of shorter episode lengths, since Turkish dramas on linear TV run between 120 and 150 minutes, excluding ads, he notes. That’s an “old-fashioned” format that could be on its way out,...