RockLove Jewelry,who has been creating Star Trek inspired rings, pendants, and other similar products for a few years, revealed earlier this month that they will be launching their first line of Star Trek character earring replicas before the end of April.
Starting with three beloved characters — Uhura from the Original Series, Guinan from The Next Generation, and Kira Nerys from Deep Space Nine — RockLove will be bringing collectors, cosplayers, and everyone else recreations of their stylish accessories.
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First is Uhura’s classic spiral earrings, seen in Nichelle Nichols’ 1960s-era Star Trek promotional photos; the pair will retail for $135.
Honoring Star Trek’s iconic Communications Officer, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, these spiral earrings are handcrafted in sterling silver and plated in luminous yellow gold.
– Gold-plated sterling silver
-Overall Size = 23mm wide x 73mm long (including ear wires)
The symmetrical coils hang from secure lever-back ear wires, just like those worn on-screen by actress Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek: The Original Series.
Bright, colorful, and full of surprises, these earrings are the perfect complement to the one-of-a-kind bartender who served wisdom and drinks in Ten Forward.
Handcrafted brass plated in silver and yellow gold, these dangling earrings feature a domed stud and hammered disk with chime-like strands featuring nuggets of genuine turquoise that shift and sway.
– Yellow gold and silver plated brass
– 24 genuine turquoise nugget stone beads (12 per earring)
– Overall Size = 35mm diameter hammered disk, 78mm overall length
An homage to the earrings worn on-screen for Guinan’s final appearance, played by actress Whoopi Goldberg, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 6, Episode 22 “Suspicions.” This playful and unique design reflects the offbeat, timeless advice embodied by Guinan’s sage and enigmatic character.
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Kira Nerys’ Bajoran earring, of course, is a staple of that character’s faith in the Prophets; the single-ear design is less expense, retailing at a $60 price point.
Known as d’ja pagh, the Bajoran earring is an elaborate earpiece traditionally worn on the right ear by the Bajoran people. Each person’s earring was unique and bore symbols of their family – historically indicating their social cast, marital status, and religious piety.
– Comes as a single earring that can be worn on the left or right ear
– Stud Earrings = 15mm x 18mm
– Chain Length = 70mm
Accurate to the earring worn on-screen by actress Nana Visitor who played Kira Nerys on Star Trek: Deep Space 9, the Bajoran earring is a symbol of one’s faith – to family, to culture, to freedom. Featuring a single hole piercing, the stud connects with a chain to an accompanying cuff that gently attaches higher up the ear lobe.
If you’re interested in these new offerings, however, the three Women of Star Trek earring replicas are set to go on sale on April 27 at 9AM PT, through the RockLove Jewelry website.
In addition, stick around to listen to Caleb’s theory about whether one of Jean-Luc Picard’s old flames might have a role to play in Star Trek: Picard Season 2, and Alex’s theory about the visual look and feel for Strange New Worlds!
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After blasting well past the $1 Million mark in their month-long fundraiser, the team from 455 Films behind the Star Trek: Voyager documentary project — To the Journey: Looking back at Star Trek: Voyager — now have the daunting task of shooting, editing, completing post-production, and more for the film before fans will see what their donations have paid for.
With the largest hurdle behind them, we spoke with To the Journey director David Zappone, who also produced For the Love of Spock, Chaos on the Bridge, William Shatner’s The Captains, and of course, the much-loved Deep Space Nine documentary What We Left Behind, which he also co-directed.
In our discussion, we spoke about the surprise of raising so much money so quickly, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on production, the challenge of remastering Voyager footage for high-definition use, and more.
While the interview below has been edited and condensed for clarity, you can hear the full discussion between our Alex Perry and To the Journey director/producer David Zappone on this special edition of the WeeklyTrek podcast.
TREKCORE: First of all, $1.3 million in fundraising is a colossal achievement. Were you expecting that outpouring of support from fans?
DAVID ZAPPONE: No! I always thought that we would do as well as the Deep Space Nine documentary, but I believe what’s happened here is we built upon the Deep Space Nine audience, and we were savvy enough to make them all aware that this was coming. The difference between this campaign and Deep Space Nine is that we have a guy named Ryan Husk, one of the hosts on The 7th Rule podcast, as campaign manager.
His advice immediately was, “Let’s build up the anticipation!” because in the previous campaigns, For the Love of Spock and What We Left Behind, we waited until the day of the launch to start building up awareness.
He wisely advised us to take the two months to build up that. We did and my God, I think we made $450,000 the first day. Incredible.
TREKCORE: Yes. It beat out the Deep Space Nine campaign within the first two days!
ZAPPONE: I just want to be very clear in that this would not have happened without Deep Space Nine and the fact that I think all of our work has been embraced going back to The Captains.
We’ve really done some very affectionate pieces on Star Trek but I think it’s the overwhelming love of What We Left Behind that is responsible for this success, and the fact that Voyager is a terrific show and people love these characters.
Look at the situation we’re in, where we have Kate Mulgrew (Janeway) back in Prodigy, Jeri Ryan (Seven) and John de Lancie (Q) back now for Picard — so it seems like a great time to be doing something for Voyager.
ZAPPONE: We didn’t stop totally during COVID. I have to say we also couldn’t have done it without Garrett Wang (Harry Kim). Garrett has been such a supporter, and helped us with the launch immensely, as you’ve probably seen on social media and in our pitch video, and Tim Russ (Tuvok) and Robbie McNeill (Tom Paris), and Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Alice Krige (Borg Queen), everyone, and let’s not forget Connor! That’s actually my favorite part of the– [laughs] Just when Connor Trinneer (Enterprise’s Trip Tucker). pops up.
We filmed a very extensive interview during COVID with Garrett — in person, because I do not want to resort to Zoom for this production — and we were able to get a very extensive interview with Robbie McNeil before he left for directing work in Canada. Others too, like Brannon Braga and Andre Bormanis.
I did not want to stop totally during the pandemic, and lose our momentum. We have done some interviews but now it’s akin to Deep Space Nine. We went into the crowdfunding with a good amount of it under our belt but this allows us to now do this right.
We are now looking at studios, we are hopefully going to be able to build a set to film in-person interviews like we did with What We Left Behind. Our priority now is really logistics, figuring out where to shoot.
The difference here is this cast is a bit spread out over the country. We might need multiple stages. I intend to do what we did with What We Left Behind. I’m not going to limit it to just the actors.
We’re about to interview series co-creator and showrunner Jeri Taylor; as many people know she hasn’t contributed to anything like this in a long time, but we’re going to be traveling to her and interviewing her in person. Rick Berman has already said yes.
We intend to go hopefully as deep into the production side and the writing side, as we did in What We Left Behind.
A January 1995 Entertainment Weekly article covering VOYAGER’s debut.
TREKCORE: You’re still early in to the ‘story’ development for the film, but do you have particular parts of Voyager’s history that you’re already eager to dive into — like Mulgrew’s turn as the first lead-role female captain?
ZAPPONE: Absolutely. Yes, you hit it right there. It’s the influence of these incredibly strong women on that show. Of course, it’s primarily Kate, but it’s Roxann Dawson (Torres), Jeri Ryan, and I would argue for Jennifer Lien (Kes) in the early seasons. Yes, the impact of how that changed television, and how that led to this whole revolution in STEM for women. That’s an avenue that we’re going to be exploring.
The other thing that’s interesting to me is the fact that the show was on a network it helped launch — UPN — I want to delve into that and the pressures that the producers were feeling… but I’m hoping to get the Paramount-side point of view as well.
But it’s really is up to the people that were involved — and where those stories take us — that will determine our role. I never go into these documentaries with a roadmap. We have an idea of the questions that we want to ask, but really, it’s going to depend on where the interviews take us.
TREKCORE: Several of us have been speculating wildly about the million-dollar “never-before-seen Voyager surprise” teased on the Indieogogo campaign… any hints?
ZAPPONE: I wish I could get into detail, but I really can’t.
From the Deep Space Nine film, I learned that this kind of project can’t just be talking heads; you can’t just cut from interview to interview to interview to interview to episode clip. We need something more than that, and for What We Left Behind, the “DS9 Season 8 Writers’ Room” segment gave us that.
For Voyager, the truth is, we’re not sure yet exactly what kind of ‘surprise’ we are going to do — because we don’t own Star Trek. I will say, though, that we’re hoping to do something with the actors themselves, which will take a lot of negotiation and approval.
We have very high aspirations!
TREKCORE: What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned about Voyager from the work you’ve done so far for the documentary?
ZAPPONE: Well, certainly, I’d heard what everybody else heard which is, “Oh, Voyager was not that great.” “The cast doesn’t get along.” I heard all these rumors. I was a fan from the jump, from 1995. I was in. I didn’t believe any of that. I knew the show was quality. There’s so much crossover between the creative from Deep Space Nine, Next Generation, Voyager, it’s the same group.
But also, being told by some people, “Well, there’s not a strong enough fan base for Voyager.” That’s the biggest surprise — and wow, did they underestimate the passion of these fans!
Let me just touch on the Star Trek Cruise. I can’t tell you how fortunate we are to have been on that last year — it was the only physical reunion that the Voyager cast had, since everything else was cancelled by the pandemic. More than that, the company that runs the Star Trek cruise let us use their Broadway-quality theater that they have on the ship.
The days on that ship were some of the longest days I’ve ever had in production. We were working 18 hour days, and happily. We just invited fans to come in and just tell us about what Voyager meant to you. That’s where I realized that Voyager fandom really runs deem — and it’s got a lot of younger people in it, too
It’s not just people my age who watched it the first time around, it’s garnered an entire fandom, just like Deep Space Nine, an entirely new fan base from streaming. I think the episodic nature of Voyager lends to that. Yes, the metric that I’ve heard and everybody’s heard is that I think six out of the top 10 streamed Star Trek episodes on Netflix are Voyager. Now I get it.
TREKCORE: Will the film touch on the “continuing voyages” of the Voyager crew — like Jeri Ryan coming back for Picard and Kate Mulgrew returning for Prodigy?
ZAPPONE: Oh, absolutely — I can’t imagine that we would not cover that. I’m not going to limit it and just stop at “Endgame,” because the story doesn’t stop there. I mean did you see that terrific animated Janeway in the First Contact Day panels?
And what is she holding? That iconic coffee cup, which is proven to be one of our most popular Indiegogo perks — the demand for that coffee cup replica was one of the biggest surprises of the fundraiser.
I wish I could take credit for that — but that came from Paul Camuso who runs the William Shatner store. He said to me, “You know, Dave, I know the company that made that coffee mug they used in Voyager, and we can get them recreated. People will want that mug!”
I’m blown away by the success of it.
TREKCORE: I’ve got to ask about your plans to remaster Voyager footage into high definition. Will you be using the same methods as you did for the DS9 documentary, assuming you get the green-light from CBS?
ZAPPONE: We’ve discussed everything with CBS and I can’t imagine that they’re going to have a problem with letting us move forward; they were thrilled with how well our DS9 remastering work turned out. We have so much DS9 footage, you wouldn’t believe how many hours we scanned.
That said, CBS Digital — the company that we used for the DS9 remastering, who also did the work for the Next Generation Blu-ray project — no longer has their enormous scanning machines to scan the film, so now we need to find a new company and a new way to do this.
That part of the process is very difficult.
TREKCORE: We know that CBS doesn’t have easy access to a lot of the original Voyager CGI effects shots, because they didn’t have a preservation method in place.
ZAPPONE: No, and you you’d have a tough time finding computers to even run those. Those are all ancient computers at this point.
TREKCORE: Given that Voyager relied more heavily on CGI than Deep Space Nine did, is that going to make it more challenging to include some of the show’s effects sequences, like that high-def “Sacrifice of Angels” clip?
ZAPPONE: I don’t think so. Because we’re going to use the same brilliant effects people that we use on What We Left Behind. We have access to a lot of those original files through Ben Robinson, who runs the Star Trek Starships Collection for HeroCollector.
Plus, we’ve got people like Dan Curry, Mike and Denise Okuda… everybody is helping us. We’re going back to the original people that worked on the show to help us recreate these sequences.
I don’t think it’ll be any more difficult — at least I hope not.
TREKCORE: So with all that said, what’s the timeline look like for the project, from now to a world premiere?
ZAPPONE: Well, I’ve been kind of careful in my predictions, only because of COVID and what it’s done. I’m speaking to you from from Paramount Studios which for three months was closed down and we couldn’t access its facilities.
I was informed three hours before it was shut down last year, meaning our editor had to rush over here, grab all the computers, hard drives, and everything else, and get out — and if we hadn’t done that, we would have gone for months without anything to work with, even our footage from the cruise.
I’m very optimistic, now that vaccines are rolling out and things are opening up; I mean, things are looking pretty good here in Los Angeles. As long as we continue on this course, I’m hopeful for fall-winter of 2022.
ENTERPRISE director Robbie McNeill dons his VOYAGER uniform during the filming of “Twilight.”
TREKCORE: Finally, with all you’ve worked on in your previous projects, and this Voyager one… have you thought at all about turning your attention to Star Trek: Enterprise?
ZAPPONE: You know, I could be evasive, and give you some kind of cheeky answer — but of course, I would love to tell the story of Enterprise. Absolutely I would.
I’ve become very close with those actors. It didn’t go the seven years the other shows went, but they did amazing work in that series. I would be remiss, I think, in stopping here.
Yes, my intention is 100% to move on to Enterprise.
For more of this discussion with the film’s director/producer David Zappone, be sure to listen to the extended interview on this special edition of WeeklyTrek.
We’ll keep bringing you all the latest news on To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager as we move closer to the film’s release!
Shout! Studios documentary Woman in Motion, which focuses on Star Trek actor Nichelle Nichols and her involvement with the United States’ space program, debuted on demand back in February — but will hit wide streaming availability this summer.
Set to live exclusively on the Paramount+ streaming service beginning Thursday, June 3, the film documents through new interviews and archival footage how Nichols worked with NASA to help recruit the first female and persons of color members of the USA’s space program.
WOMAN IN MOTION: NICHELLE NICHOLS, STAR TREK AND THE REMAKING OF NASA features the remarkable and inspiring true story of how renowned “Star Trek” actress Nichelle Nichols pioneered the NASA recruiting program to hire people of color and the first female astronauts for the space agency in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Directed by Todd Thompson (“The Highwaymen,” “PRE FAB!”), WOMAN IN MOTION chronicles how Nichols transformed her sci-fi television stardom into a real-life science career when, in 1977, she embarked on a campaign to bring diversity to NASA. Nichols formed the company Women In Motion, Inc. and recruited more than 8,000 African American, Asian and Latino women and men for the agency.
Nichols and her program continue to influence the younger generation of astronauts as well, including Mae Jemison, the first female African American astronaut in space. Despite an uphill battle against a bureaucracy that was hesitant to let her get involved, Nichols persevered and is credited by NASA for turning it into one of the most diverse independent agencies in the United States Federal Government.
In addition to Nichols, WOMAN IN MOTION features notable celebrities, activists, scientists and astronauts including Neil deGrasse Tyson, George Takei, Pharrell Williams, Martin Luther King III, Al Sharpton, Vivica A. Fox, Water Koenig, Rod Roddenberry, Michael Dorn, Guy Bluford, Charles Bolden, Ivor Dawson, Frederik Gregory and Benjamin Crump.
We got a bit of a hint into where things stand with Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds this week, as the co-creator and executive producer of both series, longtime Secret Hideout collaborator Akiva Goldsman, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about both shows on Monday.
Akiva Goldsman interviewed for STAR TREK: PICARD’s Season 1 Blu-ray release.
As he first detailed back in May 2020,Goldsman reiterated how Strange New Worlds will stand apart from the season-long serialized storytelling formats of Star Trek: Discovery and Picard, styled more towards the classic Trek ‘story of the week’ structure.
“It’s unlike the other shows in that it’s really episodic… so [co-showrunner] Henry Alonso Myers and myself are trying to serve that. We’ve all become very enamored, myself included, with serialized storytelling. And I’m talking to you from behind the stage where we’re shooting ‘Picard,’ which is deeply serialized.
But ‘Strange New Worlds’ is very much adventure-of-the-week, but with serialized character arcs.
We want to welcome somebody who knows ‘Trek’ and make it even better because of the things we have, but we don’t want to alienate those who don’t. If you know ‘Next Gen,’ ‘Picard’ is more fun, but you don’t have to have watched ‘Next Gen’ to watch ‘Picard ‘— but by the time we get to episode six, you better have watched episodes one through five or your eyes are going to cross.
That’s not true with ‘Strange New Worlds,’ where you can drop in, watch one, drop out, then watch another one later.
Goldsman also shared some insight about how the Enterprise sets, uniforms, and overall design for Captain Pike’s crew — introduced in Discovery Season 2, which filmed in 2018 — have been adjusted for the new series, to help align the show’s look more towards its 1960’s-era source.
“It’s a fine line because obviously, we want to keep continuity with the storytelling and the style [of what was introduced in ‘Discovery’ Season 2], but we also want ‘Strange New Worlds’ to be a different show. It’s not ‘Discovery.’
There are a few more reach-backs (to the Original Series), and the uniforms have been adjusted slightly, the sets are slightly different. Remember the Enterprise existed as a little piece of [the show ‘Discovery’], but now it’s its own object.
When you close your eyes and think of the key sets and situations that you think of the Original Series, that’s what we’re looking to do.”
Goldsman himself was not involved in that situation, but did comment in the THR interview how the show’s pilot — which wrote and is also directing — is not yet complete, due to pandemic mitigation efforts on set.
“[The pilot] was super fun [to direct] and I’ve finished almost all of it. There were certain scenes that we couldn’t shoot in Toronto because of quarantine — in terms of limits on the number of extras [in a scene] — that I’ll back and finish pretty soon, I hope.”
Goldsman and PICARD Season 1 showrunner Michael Chabon.
Shifting to Star Trek: Picard, filming its second season now, the writer offered a little insight into the next round of episodes, which will feature the return of Q (John de Lancie) and follow up on Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in his new artificially-created replacement body… which apparently won’t be such a big deal.
“[Picard’s new body won’t change his character.] We did fundamentally try to address that at the end of [last season]. He’s not Super Picard. We reset this congenital problem he lived with since ‘Next Gen’ and gave him the opportunity for rebirth, but it’s nothing more than a record as he might have been, were he not here.”
He also spoke about lessons learned from the first season of Picard, one which we know had to be greatly adjusted as production proceeded on the show, about how planning out a serialized season of television wasn’t handled as well as it could have been last year.
Late-season story developments resulted in a need for additional scripting and filming, to add new scenes and re-edit some of the year’s earlier episodes (like adding the ‘Mars attack’ to “Maps and Legends,” a large sequence not originally scripted or filmed).
“[We learned that we need to] figure out the end earlier. If you’re going to do a serialized show, you have the whole story before you start shooting. It’s more like a movie in that way — you better know the end of your third act before you start filming your first scene.
I think where our storytelling is complicated, if it is frustratingly so, it’s just our own fault for not doing it well enough. The great thing about plot complication and character excellence is they shouldn’t be mutually exclusive.
Even a really complicated plot should ultimately become invisible, that’s sort of the job of it.”
As for bringing back Q for next season, Goldsman shared a few thoughts about he and new co-showrunner Terry Matalas approached bringing back the classic Next Generation character, and how he’ll play into the new storyline.
“Terry Matalas and I don’t pretend that the interstitial years [since Q was last seen in ‘Next Gen’] didn’t happen. No, obviously, chronological time is less relevant to Q. The time between shows is probably not even the blink of an eye in Q time — if you even have Q time.
As we tried to evolve the other [returning] characters, the same is true of Q. This is a show of a different time with actors of a different age. We’re now talking about the issues that come up in the last [stage] of your life. We wanted a Q that could play in that arena with Picard.
There are a lot of people who think of Q as a trickster god, right? And he is. But he’s also a profoundly significant relationship in Picard’s life. There’s a lot of discussion in Picard season two about the nature of connectedness. Q’s kind of a great lightning rod for that because in some ways he’s one of Picard’s deepest — not deep in the same way that Riker is or Beverly Crusher was — but in its own uniquely, profoundly deep relationship.”
CBS Studios president David Stapf cautioned against outlets becoming “just” homes for familiar entertainment brands — while readers of this website may think of the ViacomCBS-owned Paramount+ as “the Star Trek streaming service,” there is a significantly wider breadth of content on that service (though we admit it’s not all top-tier programming).
Stapf adds a note of caution about leaning too heavily into existing intellectual property. If a streaming service becomes simply a “house of IP,” he says, then it won’t serve subscribers.
“I think [IP] is an important component, but not the only component,” Stapf says, when it comes to considering programming strategy. “With most IP, there’s a built-in fan base that already exists so you’re going to hopefully be bringing in new passionate subscribers. Having that known, big IP is incredibly helpful for new platforms. And, obviously, from a branding standpoint, it’s easier to market and publicize. But that said, I think every platform needs a combination of IP and originals.”
The Variety report also detailed how one of ViacomCBS’s efforts was to find ways to use shows like the kid-focused Star Trek: Prodigy to further gain business wins after the two companies merged in 2019, using its family-oriented themes to build viewership and grow franchise and brand loyalty.
The company set up committees of executives designed to find ways to exploit existing IP across multiple business sectors. A number of them are said to have engaged in a prolonged debate over whether the animated series “Star Trek: Prodigy,” originally ordered by Nickelodeon, would premiere first on the cabler’s linear channels or on the Nickelodeon-branded portion of Paramount Plus.
It is now set to debut on the streamer, then air later on cable. “Prodigy” was viewed by many as critical to the fate of the “Trek” franchise, as it’s the first bid to engage families — a path that can lead to ancillary products such as toys and theme park rides.
Alex Kurtzman at the 2019 Season 2 premiere event for STAR TREK: DISCOVERY.
Finally Star Trek franchise boss Alex Kurtzman spoke to Variety for that article, in which he describes how all leaders in the behind-the-scenes Star Trek world are working now more closely than ever — from both the television and film sides of the franchise — after dust has started to settle from the ViacomCBS merger.
Alex Kurtzman… says the distinct tracks for film and TV projects have disappeared, [and] he knows what he’s talking about.
“I think vertical alignment has made it so that it’s impossible not to accept the reality that the line between movies and television is gone,” says Kurtzman. “It doesn’t mean that you can’t have a feature that is separate from television. But if they aren’t connected in some way, then you’re basically running two universes parallel as opposed to interconnected, and I think that those messages could potentially cancel each other out.”
Kurtzman says those who oversee the various “Star Trek” properties have begun strategizing to an even greater degree within ViacomCBS in the past year, with the launch of a monthly showrunners’ meeting. It allows everyone to see what parts of the “Star Trek” universe are being utilized on other shows.
“We make sure that those showrunners are coordinating so that they’re not stepping on each other’s toes,” he says.
Kurtzman’s comment about the lines between film and movie production being “gone” doesn’t strictly mean that the two halves of the Star Trek franchise are fully reunited, however.
To our knowledge, the Paramount Pictures division of ViacomCBS still retains management and control of Star Trek film development and production, separate from the television side of things managed by CBS Studios — but it’s good to hear that however separate those two tracks may still be inside ViacomCBS, the internal teams are working together in ways fans have been hoping now for years.
Star Trek: Discovery Season 4, Star Trek: Picard Season 2, Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2, Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 are in production now for Paramount+, while a new untitled Star Trek film is in development with Paramount Pictures for a 2023 release.
Keep coming back to TrekCore for all the newest updates on the franchise!
More than thirty years after Galoob’s small-scale Star Trek: The Next Generation action figure line collapsed, licensee Super7 has just debuted their first wave of TNG figures, with more to follow!
The company teamed with Funko for a wave of Original Series figures back in 2016 for the show’s 50th anniversary, but now they’re moving into the 24th century with the first six entries into their Star Trek: The Next Generation 3.75″ line of semi-articulated figures — the same scale as the 1988 TNG figures from Galoob.
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Starting off with Captain Picard, Lt. Commander Data, Lt. Worf, Acting Ensign Crusher, Guinan, and a Borg drone, these first six Next Gen entries make up Wave 1 of Super7’s TNG “ReAction” line, with a promise of more to come later in 2021.
“Star Trek: The Next Generation was a breath of fresh air, not just on television, but to my relationship with Star Trek. Suddenly, I cared a lot,” said Super7 Founder & Owner, Brian Flynn.
“From Picard, to Riker with and without beard, Data and Lore, reverse aging Guinan, Q’s infernal meddling and being way too captivated by any Borg storyline that ran through the series and beyond, I finally came to really understand the world of Star Trek in ways I did not when I was younger, and I can’t wait to celebrate that history with the toys that Super7 will be making.”
A second wave of Star Trek: The Next Generation ReAction is scheduled to follow in Fall 2021.
ReAction figures celebrate the iconic action figure of our childhood. The unique size and sculpting style was simple while allowing the imagination to go all in on daily adventures. With ReAction figures, Super7 continues the classic action figure style while making the figures we wished we had while growing up.
For those of you who remember the original Galoob series, those figures were based on the show’s first season cast — before the days of Guinan and the Borg — and had only prototypes of an Acting Ensign Crusher figure built before the line was shuttered in 1989.
Galoob’s prototype 3.75″ Wesley Crusher figure, never released to consumers.
Galoob also never produced a Beverly Crusher or Deanna Troi figure — each of which hopefully will be part of Super7’s second TNG wave later this year — the action figure series was marketed as a “boy toy” product which didn’t view female characters as high priorities… aside from Security Chief Tasha Yar.
Bob DiGiacomo: Historically, boys weren’t interested in buying female action figures. I mean, there were all the sexy girls from comic books boys would buy – Mattel had a big hit with She-Ra, and Galoob had a line called Golden Girls, but those lines were directed at girls – but because the girls didn’t really sell for us, we would never put them in as part of the first year releases.
Jim Fong: I can’t recall if we ever talked about doing Crusher or Troi – in fact, I can’t really remember why we did Tasha Yar and none of the other female characters. It may have been because Yar was head of security, and presumably that meant she would feature in more action sequences on the show.
Bob DiGiacomo: Tasha Yar was a kick-ass girl, so she was truly an ‘action’ figure – she was prominent in the show, she was tough…
Jim Fong: We had to take a guess which of the characters would be involved in more of the action scenes than others and our guess was that Wesley would be one of those characters. Had the line survived for more than its short run, I’m completely confident that we would have made figures of Dr. Crusher and Counselor Troi to go with the previously-released toys.
If you like your Starfleet captains — and if you’re reading this article we know you do! — then 1:6-scale Star Trek figure licensee EXO-6 has got news you’ll want to see!
The newly-formed company — former QMx developer Schubert Tam, the designer who ran that company’s line of 1:6 Trek releases — first announced its entry into the Star Trek world back in January with its Star Trek: First Contact Data figure, today announced that a line of “decorated captains” from across the franchise are on the way.
This will be the second Picard figure for the company, as a First Contact-era Picard was previously announced for a late-2021 release, set to go up for preorder in May; likely it will be the same likeness sculpt with alternate costuming and accessories to reflect the Next Generation look.
In addition, these captain figures are expected to be followed by “companion crew members from each show,” so look for more members of the Original Series, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise crew to join their commanding officers in the future.
In a statement to TrekCore, EXO-6 told us to expect “a lot of amazing 1/6 Trek figures” in the future, so if this kind of thing is for you — start building up your savings account today, as the first Data figure went up for preorder with a $189 USD price point.
We’re still waiting for more specifics on timing past the “3rd Quarter 2021” image caption, but the moment we’ve got additional details on EXO-6’s plans — and better photos of non-prototype products — we’ll be sure to bring them to you here.
It’s been more than three months since the third season of Star Trek: Discovery came to a close, and we’ve got all the details on the long-awaited Season 3 soundtrack from Lakeshore Records — as composer Jeff Russo’s score will be beaming down to music aficionados this week.
Set to arrive on digital services April 16 — that’s this Friday! — the Season 3 soundtrack will include themes the full 13-episode run of 2020 episodes.
Lakeshore Records is set to release Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 — Original Series Soundtrack featuring music from the third season of the Paramount+ series.
The album, featuring original score by Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Russo (Fargo, The Umbrella Academy), will be available digitally April 16. The third season premiered on October 15 on CBS All Access, and can now be viewed on Paramount+.
Says Russo: “The music for the third season of Discovery posed some pretty big challenges—from the recording of orchestral music during a pandemic, to figuring out our theme for Grudge (the cat) and the rest of the new characters. It’s certainly proved to be the most thrilling and fulfilling season to date.”
Thanks to our friends at Lakeshore Records, we can also bring you an exclusive preview of a track from “There Is A Tide…,” the lovely Andorian Opera (Track 31 on this collection) favored by Emerald Chain scientist Aurellio (Kenneth Mitchell).
Here’s the full track listing:
01. Burnham Crash Lands
02. Book’s Ship / Hello Grudge
03. Federation Is Gone
04. Sanctuary
05. Meeting Zareh
06. Georgiou and Zareh
07. It’s You, Saru
08. Grow Through Change
09. Starfleet Academy
10. Hugh’s Log
11. Entering The Pool
12. Adira Accepted
13. Gray and Adira’s Melody
14. Federation HQ
15. Barzan Family
16. Cryo Tombs / Attis Attacks
17. Leaving Nhan
18. Reunited With Book
19. The Escape
20. Osyraa Wants Ryn
21. Kyheem and Osyraa
22. Work Together
23. Duet for Cello and Piano
24. Terran Stories
25. The Charon
26. Fireflies
27. Killing Traitors
28. The Guardian
29. Georgiou Goodbye
30. Meeting Survivor
31. Andorian Opera
32. Michael’s Win
33. Michael To The Rescue
34. Sending Stamets to HQ
35. Dots Will Help
36. Deliver The Bomb
37. Resetting The Datacore
38. Book Jumps
39. Reuniting The Federation
40. Captain Burnham
As with Lakeshore Records’ previous Star Trek scores, the Discovery Season 3 release will also be coming in a special vinyl edition — details yet to come on that! — though as with the Season 2 set and as with Picard Season 1 collections, we don’t expect a CD edition for this year’s music.
In addition to Amazon Music, watch for its arrival this Friday on iTunes, Apple Music, and Spotify at these links:
We’ll bring you more news on the Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 soundtrack as it breaks!
In addition, stick around to listen to Jenn’s wish related to the big Deep Space Nine hint included in the Star Trek: Picard Season 2 teaser, and Alex’s theory about when Star Trek: Prodigy and the fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery will air this year!
Note: This episode was recorded prior to Friday’s news of a new Paramount Star Trek film. Listen next week for our reaction to that report!
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Do you have a wish or theory you’d like to share on the show? Tweet to Alex at @WeeklyTrek, or email us with your thoughts about wishes, theories, or anything else about the latest in Star Trek news!
It seems like a thousand years since we spent a few days wandering through a sea of strangers at 2020’s Toy Fair exhibition in New York City — just a few short weeks before the global pandemic sent us all home for the year — but one of the newest Star Trek products we first sat at last February’s event is finally getting ready to beam down.
Showcased in a very early, 3D-printed prototype format, a series of miniature ‘green army men’-style plastic figures of the Original Series crew (and their familiar alien foes) — along with even-less-detailed, preliminary Next Generation and Discovery follow-up releases — were on display at the show.
These minifigs, labeled under FanWaresand “emce toys” branding — with similar products for the Fallout game series already in the marketplace — consisted of twelve 2″-tall plastic figures in the classic ‘army men’ style, complete with small 4″ model of the original Enterprise — even in their very early state, they caught our attention!
Now, after over a year since that first sighting, FanWraps(in collaboration with Fourth Castle Brands’ emce toys) has revealed their first official look at the upcoming Star Trek Nanoforce releases scheduled for this summer — with both Original Series and Next Gen twelve-pack sets hitting stores around June or so.
Announced on Monday while we were watching the First Contact Day festivities, the “PG miniature quality” Star Trek: The Original Series Nanoforce and Star Trek: The Next Generation Nanoforce sets will each include twelve character figures (2″ tall), one starship model (4″ long), and an 11″x17″ foldout map for display use — and each set will retail at $24.95.
Happy First Contact Day! We’re proud to announce our collaboration with FanWraps to produce the first official STAR TREK Nanoforce® sets!
Each set fits the standard Nanoforce® footprint, with 12 2-inch figures and a bonus 4-inch figure. Our first two sets are “STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES” and “STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION”, with crew and aliens molded in Starfleet colors, and the majestic U.S.S. Enterprises of their respective timelines in battleship grey.
These are exclusive to our longtime friends at DIAMOND COMIC DISTRIBUTORS, who’ve supplied your favorite online / mom & pop / brick & mortar shops for decades. If your favorite retailer wants to know more about them, have them contact their Diamond rep.
Along with a model of the original Enterprise, The classic Star Trek set includes Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy, Scotty, Lt. Sulu, and Lt. Uhura from the Enterprise crew — with the Gorn, a Talosian, an Andorian, the Salt Vampire, a Romulan, and of course a Klingon making up the alien adversary lineup.
(Fourth Company Brands noted on their Facebook page that Ensign Chekov’s exclusion was not by choice, but they only were afforded six crew slots in their Original Series set — and they hope to be able to produce a Chekov figure at some later date.)
The Next Generation set includes all seven regular crew — Captain Picard, Commander Riker, Lt. Commander Data, Lt. Commander La Forge, Lt. Worf, Dr. Crusher, and Counselor Troi — along with a Klingon, a Cardassian, a Romulan, a Borg drone, and of course Q in the alien roster. (This set comes with an Enterprise-D model, naturally.)
While these previews are the only official images of the products made public so far, there’s a promise of “beauty shots, 3D digital sculpts and videos” of the Star Trek Nanoforce products as the June release date approaches.
We’ll be sure to bring you the latest information on this new Star Trek toy line as it becomes available — so keep your sensors locked here at TrekCore.
