There’s plenty of Star Trek happening on screens these days, as we’re into Prodigy and just two weeks away from the return of Star Trek: Discovery on November 18 — but this morning we’re checking in on the wider Trek universe with some new merchandise announcements and the return of familiar creative names to the franchise.

To date, the modern era of Star Trek production has included only a few contributors from the Berman-era of the franchise, like writer Joe Menosky working for a short time in Discovery’s first season, and ship designer John Eaves who has contributed designs to the Kelvin Timeline films and many of the ongoing Secret Hideout productions – including the USS Protostar for Star Trek: Prodigy.

Back in September, longtime illustrator and graphic designer Doug Drexler shared on social media that he has joined the production team of Star Trek: Picard (after his stint on FOX’s The Orville — and while Star Trek: Lower Decks showrunner Mike McMahan has already talked about how he sought out input from legendary Trek graphic artist Mike Okuda for the second season of that animated series, now former Voyager and Enterprise staffer Terry Matalas (who came aboard Picard as co-showrunner for that series’ second and third seasons) made waves confirming that Mike and Denise Okuda have both beamed aboard Picard as well.

After Picard production designer Dave Blass posted the above photo featuring himself, Denise Okuda, artist Daren Dochterman (also involved in the Motion Picture 4K remastering project), Picard art director Liz Kloczkowski, and Mike Okuda, Terry Matalas weighed in praising the group for their work on the forthcoming third season of Star Trek: Picard.

Picard returns for its second season in February, with Season 3 likely to be still many months after, so it’s going to be a while until we see more specifics on Drexler and the Okudas’ contributions to the series — though we suspect that many of those “classic” Starfleet interface design photos Matalas shared on social media in September come from their work.

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Moving on to the world of Star Trek merchandise, 1:6-scale figure company EXO-6 has announced the next entry in its Star Trek: Voyager character lineup: Robert Picardo’s Emergency Medical Hologram!

The holographic Doctor launched for presale ordering early last week, becoming the second Voyager figure the company has officially announced after Kathryn Janeway hit the market back in August; the third planned Voyager release will be Jeri Ryan’s fan-favorite character Seven of Nine.

EXO-6 — 'Star Trek: Voyager' Holographic Doctor

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The character replica comes with his blue-shouldered Starfleet uniform, of course, along with a quartet of sickbay-appropriate accessories: a Mark X medical tricorder (with tiny removal hand scanner), a padd, a hypospray with three interchangeable vials, and of course the hologram’s arm-mounted mobile holo-emitter.

EXO-6’s 1:6-scale EMH figure is up for preorder now for $175 USD (plus shipping), with a $20 non-refundable deposit due at the time of ordering, with delivery expected in the next few months.

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After three years of extending the Star Trek Fluxx card game across all of the legacy Trek series, game developer Looney Labs has finally added some Star Trek: Enterprise flair to its lineup with a pair of expansion packs featuring content from the prequel series.

Announced late last month, two 16-card Enterprise-themed expansion packs — similar to the “Bridge” expansion pack released in 2018 — add in elements from the fourth Berman-era series, from the Temporal Cold War and Xindi arc to the aliens encounters and experiences of Jonathan Archer’s NX-01 crew.

Star Trek Fluxx — 'Enterprise' Expansion Packs

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The Star Trek Fluxx: Archer Expansion and the Star Trek Flux: Porthos Expansion packs are available from the Looney Labs webshop now for $5 USD each.

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