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EXO-6 Expanding 1:6-Scale Figure Line to STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT Picard, Borg Queen Releases

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EXO-6 Expanding 1:6-Scale Figure Line to STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT Picard, Borg Queen Releases

As we reported a few weeks ago, new Star Trek licensee EXO-6 has taken up the mantle of producing 1:6-scale character figures from around the Trek franchise — and they’re already expanding their planned offerings to additional releases.

Earlier this month, the company announced plans for their 1:6-scale Lt. Commander Data figure, designed around the android’s multiple appearances in Star Trek: First Contact, and today EXO-6 is ready reveal plans for two more releases tied to the 1996 film.

Joining Data will be a similarly-detailed, 1:6-scale Captain Jean-Luc Picard articulated figure , as well as a static statue of Alice Krieg’s Borg Queen, expanding the First Contact line to a trio of releases.

While photographs of the Picard and Borg Queen replicas aren’t yet available, EXO-6 has created a playful recreation of the Star Trek: First Contact theatrical poster using digital sculpts of the characters, giving us an early glimpse of the detailed likenesses being used.

As for that Lt. Commander Data figure announced two weeks ago, EXO-6 will be officially opening up a purchase window for the android figure next week; preorders for the $189 figure will be available to submit from February 1-28, with a $20 non-refundable deposit required for all preorders.

More specifics on the figure itself can be found in our earlier report, and at EXO-6’s website.

Preorders for the Data figure can be placed at EXO-6.com beginning Monday.

Keep an eye here at TrekCore for all the news about additional releases from the company — and if you’re planning to add this edition of the Enterprise android to your collection, let us know in the comments below!

WeeklyTrek Podcast #126 — Farewell CBS All Access, Hello Paramount+

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WeeklyTrek Podcast #126 — Farewell CBS All Access, Hello Paramount+

On this week’s episode of WeeklyTrek, brought to you in partnership between The Tricorder Transmissions Podcast Network and TrekCore, host Alex Perry is joined by guest Melanie (aka Shuttlepod Two) to discuss all the latest Star Trek news.

This week, Alex and his guest discuss the following stories from around the web:

In addition, stick around to listen to Melanie’s wish for a Star Trek: Enterprise continuation, and a listener theory about potential Short Trek announcements at the launch of Paramount+.

WeeklyTrek is available to subscribe and download each week on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, YouTube, and Spotify — and we’ll be sharing the details of each new episode right here on TrekCore each week if you’re simply just looking to listen in from the web.

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!

STAR TREK Helps Lead Paramount+ Promos, PLUS: Updates on PRODIGY and LOWER DECKS

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STAR TREK Helps Lead Paramount+ Promos, PLUS: Updates on PRODIGY and LOWER DECKS

We’re still more than a month away from the official CBS All Access changeover into Paramount+, the revitalized streaming service emerging from the ViacomCBS merger of 2019 — but promotion has kicked into full gear, with Star Trek helping to lead the way.

Last week, online imagery began to update across the platform’s social media accounts, putting both Star Trek: Discovery’s Michael Burnham and Star Trek: Picard’s Jean-Luc Picard at the front of their group of featured characters and content.

In addition to those graphic updates, Paramount+ television commercials began airing on Sunday night in the United States.

Quickly making their way online after initial broadcasts, the commercials — narrated by the just-vaccinated Patrick Stewart — Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Captain Pike (Anson Mount) and Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck) joining some of the ViacomCBS family of performers in a climb up the “Paramount mountain.”

(For those of you facing region-locking issues, you can watch the videos here on Instagram.)

Both videos appear to be brand-new footage of Mount and Peck, filmed specifically for the promotion, including Captain Pike giving The Jersey Shore’s Snooki some side-eye in response to former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher (part of CBS’s The NFL Today team), and Spock hiking through the snow with gloves on, as MTV’s Beavis & Butthead follow.

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In a video chat with fan @jemabean1 on Twitter this weekend, Star Trek: Voyager star Kate Mulgrew — returning to the franchise as the voice of Kathryn Janeway in the upcoming animated series Star Trek: Prodigy — indicated that her work on the first season of the show has been completed.

Prodigy was ordered with a two-season commitment, and the recently-vaccinated Mulgrew says that here that she “certainly enjoyed” revisiting Janeway for the project, and that she think’s “we’re going in to next season very soon.”

The animated series is expected to debut sometime in 2021 on Nickelodeon.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks finally began its international distribution late last week, and as fans around the world started to enjoy their chance to watch last year’s new animated series, the team behind the show weighed in on the reactions from abroad.

Series creator and showrunner Mike McMahan, and series producer Brad Winters:

Series lead Tawny Newsome (Mariner) also had kind words to say about fan reaction, and hinted that there’s some exciting guest star performances coming in Season 2.

The second season of Star Trek: Lower Decks is expected in the second half of 2021.

In the United States, Paramount+ will be the ongoing homes for Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. A fifth Paramount+ series, Star Trek: Section 31 with Michelle Yeoh, is in development now.

Keep Warm This Winter in Ukonic’s New STAR TREK Starfleet Uniform Robes and Shuttlecraft Slippers

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Keep Warm This Winter in Ukonic’s New STAR TREK Starfleet Uniform Robes and Shuttlecraft Slippers

Another winter is here, and during this year of social distancing and extended periods of relative isolation at home, Ukonic’s got some brand new ways for Star Trek fans to stay warm and cozy during the cold months!

If you’re looking to bundle up on the sofa, the company’s released four different editions of Starfleet uniform bathrobes, with Original Series, Next Generation, and Star Trek: Discovery versions to choose from.

Listed as “one size fits most” for adults, the Star Trek robes come in division-appropriate colors with period-specific Starfleet insignias: classic Trek command gold and sciences blue, a command burgundy edition from The Next Generation, and the gold-and-blue command-division design from Discovery’s 23rd century adventures.

Pricing on each 100%-polyester robe ranges from $55.99-$59.99 depending on style; each design is exclusively available through the links above at the Toynk web store.

If you need some more insulation for your frosty toes, just head to your nearest shuttlebay: Ukonic has finally released their Star Trek shuttlecraft slipper sets, with both classic Trek and Next Generation fans in mind.

Designed with embroidered hull markings and details, anti-slip bottom panels, and — most importantly — warp nacelles! For Original Series fans, the 23rd century Galileo shuttle serves as the theme for the classic Trek design, and the 24th century Type 6 shuttlecraft design is base model for the Next Generation edition.

Each pair of slippers are available in men’s sizes 8, 10, and 13, and retail for $29.99 through the links above at the Tonyk web store.

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STAR TREK: PICARD Starships Lead April’s Hero Collector Slate of New STAR TREK Models

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STAR TREK: PICARD Starships Lead April’s Hero Collector Slate of New STAR TREK Models

A new year brings new Star Trek starship announcements, and we’re just a few months away from the next expansion of the long-running Official Starships Collection!

This April, the Star Trek Universe Official Starships Collection launches, collecting all the upcoming Discovery, Picard, and yet-to-be revealed Strange New World model releases under one banner — and as part of its inaugural month of releases, a pair of Picard ships are headed your way.

The first member of this new fleet will be Captain Rios’ La Sirena, the hero starship at the center of Star Trek: Picard, clad in its red-and-white hull coloring — followed by the ship Captain Will Riker lead to stop the invading Romulan fleet, the Inquiry-class USS Zheng He.

LA SIRENA — The signature ship of Star Trek: Picard, this red-and-white Kaplan F17 Speed Freighter was hired by Jean-Luc Picard, who required a discreet warp-capable vessel. Helmed by Captain Cristóbal Rios, an ex-Starfleet officer himself, the ship was home to Picard’s ragtag crew in their search for Doctor Bruce Maddox and Soji Asha.

USS ZHENG HE — A formidable Inquiry-class Federation starship named for a 15th-century Chinese admiral, the U.S.S. Zheng He was touted as the toughest, fastest, most powerful ship Starfleet had ever put into service. In Star Trek: Picard, William Riker returned from retirement to captain the U.S.S. Zheng He into battle above the planet Coppelius.

La Sirena measures in at 8″ (205mm) in length, while the Zheng He is slightly larger at 8.8″ (225mm); each ship model will retail at $54.95 / €49.99 / £39.99.

(Photos of the actual models set to arrive in April are not available yet, but we’ll update this post once we’ve got them.)

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Expanding the line of Star Trek Online starships is the Aelahl-class Romulan Light Warbird, a late-24th century successor to the traditional Next Generation-era D’Deridex-class ship.

AELAHL-CLASS LIGHT WARBIRD — An agile vessel available to Romulan players in Star Trek Online, the Aelahl-Class Light Warbird was conceived as a successor to the older D’deridex-class. The Aelahl’s smaller size made it slightly less durable than the larger warbird, but it more than compensated with vastly increased maneuverability.

The Aelahl-class ship will retail for $29.95 / €24.99 / £19.99, and measures 4.5″ (110mm) in length.

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Finally, in addition to the three new starship models scheduled for April, four more hardcover reprints of classic Star Trek comic tales are coming from The Official Graphic Novels Collection.

Included are Star Trek: Voyager stories Encounters with the Unknown, the Next Generation tale The Gift, DS9-era Starfleet Academy saga T’Priell Revealed, and a return to classic Trek in the Motion Picture-era three-part adventure The Return of the Worthy.

#131 – Star Trek Voyager: Encounters with the Unknown
The Voyager crew encounters pirates, the Borg, Arthurian knights, and a planet-killing doomsday machine! WildStorm Comics takes up the reins on Star Trek: Voyager to chart the adventures of Captain Kathryn Janeway across the Delta Quadrant. Collects the Planet Killer miniseries, plus three one-shots from writers including Dan Abnett and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

#132 – Star Trek TNG: The Gift
DC Comics explores the backstories of Jean-Luc Picard, Will Riker,and Geordi La Forge—plus, the return of Q! Few actors have won over Star Trek fans’ hearts quite like John de Lancie, who made the trickster-god Q one of Picard’s greatest foils on Star Trek: The Next Generation. The actor cowrote the first of DC’s annuals starring Picard’s crew, naturally heralding Q’s return!

#133 – Starfleet Academy – T’Priell Revealed
Omega Squad faces execution for visiting Talos IV, and Ambassador Spock must intervene on their behalf! As Marvel’s Starfleet Academy nears its close, Spock represents Cadet Nog and his comrades in court, but the outlook is uncertain… Plus two unpublished tales, including one from actor Mark Lenard.

#134 – Star Trek TOS: The Return Of The Worthy
Danger! Danger! The space family Worthy are back as DC Comics’ Star Trek pays homage to Lost in Space, in a three-part tale co-written by Lost in Space’s Bill Mumy! Plus, J. Michael Straczynski offers an intriguing tale similar in tone to his most famous creation, Babylon 5.

(This volume also collects IDW’s Star Trek: Infestation, featuring crossovers with Ghostbusters, Transformers, G.I. Joe, and more.)

Each of the republished graphic novel hardcovers run from 170-240pages each, and will retail individually for $19.95 / €16.99 / £12.99.

Stick around for looks at more from Hero Collector and the Official Starships Collection, as well as reviews of the XL-sized, three-nacelled USS Enterprise-D from “All Good Things…,” the XL-sized edition of Starbase Deep Space 9, and the Regula One station from The Wrath of Khan in the coming weeks!

WeeklyTrek Podcast #125 — Looking Ahead to STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Season 4

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WeeklyTrek Podcast #125 — Looking Ahead to STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Season 4

On this week’s episode of WeeklyTrek, brought to you in partnership between The Tricorder Transmissions Podcast Network and TrekCore, host Alex Perry is joined by TrekLive co-host Bill Mann to discuss all the latest Star Trek news.

This week, Alex and his guest discuss the following stories from around the web:

In addition, stick around to hear about Bill’s wish for the soundtrack to Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, and Alex’s hope for more Cardassians in the upcoming Season 4.

WeeklyTrek is available to subscribe and download each week on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, YouTube, and Spotify — and we’ll be sharing the details of each new episode right here on TrekCore each week if you’re simply just looking to listen in from the web.

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!

CBS ALL ACCESS Becomes PARAMOUNT+ on March 4, First International Rollout Dates Announced

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CBS ALL ACCESS Becomes PARAMOUNT+ on March 4, First International Rollout Dates Announced

First announced back in September, the CBS All Access streaming service is set for rebranding into a new name — Paramount+ — to reflect the Viacom/CBS merger and move the streaming platform into the future.

Today, ViacomCBS has revealed that the official branding change will occur in the US and Canada on March 4, 2021, with the first round of international launch dates to follow later in that month.

ViacomCBS Announces March 4 Launch Date for Paramount+
Launch Dates Set for International Rollout of Paramount+ in Latin America and the Nordics

January 19, 2021 NEW YORK — ViacomCBS Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAC, VIACA) announced today that its highly anticipated streaming service, Paramount+, will launch in the U.S. on Thursday, March 4, 2021.

ViacomCBS will also bring Paramount+ to international markets with initial debuts in Latin America on March 4, 2021; the Nordics on March 25, 2021; and Australia in mid-2021. The CBS All Access service in Canada will be rebranded to Paramount+ on March 4, 2021, and an expanded offering will be available later in the year.

In anticipation of the upcoming branding changes, much of the existing CBS All Access streaming content slate have already been updated to reflect the new service’s name:

Like many of the world’s film studios, Paramount Pictures has a number of movies set to be released in theaters — at least, for now — in 2021; while there’s nothing announced yet, it’s quite possible some of them may find a first-run home on Paramount+ due to pandemic concerns, much like how Warner Brothers has altered their slate for HBO Max.

Existing CBS All Access subscribers are expected to see the service simply change names and brand identities on March 4; as of this writing, no alterations to subscription costs or other notable changes have been announced.

In the United States, Paramount+ will be the ongoing homes for Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. A fifth Paramount+ series, Star Trek: Section 31 with Michelle Yeoh, is in development now.

Review: STAR TREK VOYAGER — A CELEBRATION

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Review: STAR TREK VOYAGER — A CELEBRATION

The silver anniversary of Star Trek: Voyager draws to a close with the publication of the massive Star Trek: Voyager – A Celebration hardcover, the latest publishing release from HeroCollector.

Written by Ben Robinson and Mark Wright, this hefty tome is gorgeously laid out and packed full of great behind the scenes details and art from the series as it takes you through the series from its inception to its finale.

Star Trek: Voyager has been one of the more under-covered series in published reference works. 2003’s Star Trek: Voyager Companion was a very disappointing book in comparison to its Next Generation and Deep Space Nine counterparts, and before that, Stephen Poe’s Star Trek: Voyager — A Vision of the Future was the closest we had to a Voyager reference book (though published in 1998, and primarily focusing on the show’s origins and creation).

Celebration succeeds in comprehensively breaking down all the various elements of the show. Each character gets their own spotlight, looking at the casting decisions behind the role, the character’s development throughout the series, and the creator’s intentions. Each section is a nice mix of actor, writer, and production staff perspectives to really give you a well-rounded look at each element of production.

In addition to each of the characters, there are chapters focusing on directing, music, visual effects, the art department, notable races from the races, along with a number of important episodes from the series run that changed direction for the series or introduced something notable.

The result is that Celebration is  — as the title would suggest — a very positive book that looks on the series as an equally worth entry to the franchise as any of the others. That mostly succeeds, and if you liked Voyager going into this book, you’ll like it even more coming out, after learning new details to enhance your appreciation for the show and what it accomplished.

And while Celebration does retread a lot of familiar ground for Voyager fans — particularly in the character-detail chapters — there is a lot of new information as well, particularly from the production side of things. We hear more from figures we haven’t heard much from before, such as Voyager directors like David Livingston, series composer Jay Chattaway, and several members of the show’s groundbreaking visual effects team.

The book also has a lot of art, in the form of episode stills, concept art and behind-the-scenes shots from the set which are sure to have Voyager fans poring over them on repeat visits to the book. There are concept drawings for the USS Voyager itself, as well as a number of other ships that appeared throughout the series run, and even some costume drawings and alien makeup designs.

There are also a number of cute vignettes and stories from the series run, including a chance encounter between Ethan Phillips and Robin Williams, and the time Robert Duncan McNeill’s pants accidentally caught on fire. These little stories add depth and humor to the story of the show’s run, and humanize figures who we may otherwise only know as their characters.

Every series regular (save for Jennifer Lien) participated in new interviews for this publication, and lest you think that whole situation be completely skipped, the book also provides a more detailed account of the producers’ decision to terminate Lien’s contract ahead of the fourth season. Celebration reveals that the actress’s troubles, which have been well documented in recent years, were already manifesting themselves during the production of Voyager, which ultimately led to her departure.

That said, aside from the Lien bit — something truly unavoidable for this type of ‘deep dive’ book — there isn’t much more about some of other messier elements of the show’s production history, like Robert Beltran’s outspoken complaints about script quality in the later years, or the on-set difficulties between Kate Mulgrew and Jeri Ryan (which both actresses have spoken about in recent years) — though thankfully the two actors seem to have found peace in the intervening years.

On the one hand, that does mean the book avoids venturing into the realm of gossip or airing tawdry dirty laundry for the sake of it. On the other hand, it does limit the book’s ability to provide a full, unvarnished account of the show’s history. The Mulgrew-Ryan relationship is not gossip at this point — it’s well-documented — though certainly it’s not something that would seem to fit into the positive nature of a celebratory book.

But overall, Star Trek: Voyager — A Celebration is a marvelous book, providing a thorough account of the show with a gorgeous presentation — and paired with last July’s Voyager Illustrated Handbook makes a great return to the Delta Quadrant.

Hopefully this is just the first in a series for Hero Collector; with the 20th anniversary of Star Trek: Enterprise right around the corner, is it too much to hope that might also receive the same treatment given how neglected it has been in reference works?

Star Trek: Voyager
A Vision of the Future


Star Trek: Voyager
Complete Series on DVD


Star Trek: Voyager
A Celebration

STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT Data Figure Launches New Line of 1:6-Scale STAR TREK Releases from EXO-6

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STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT Data Figure Launches New Line of 1:6-Scale STAR TREK Releases from EXO-6

It’s been two years since the last sign of any news from Star Trek scale character figure licensee QMx — who previously showed off prototypes of several different Trek designs, and released several Original Series figures for collectors — and as they’ve seemed to have departed the marketplace, there’s a now a new name in scale figures: EXO-6.

Led by former QMx developer Schubert Tam — the designer who ran that company’s line of 1:6 Trek releases — new company EXO-6 kicked off it’s foray in to Star Trek figures with the announcement of a 1:6-scale Lieutenant Commander Data figure, as seen in Star Trek: First Contact.

Brent Spiner’s post-Borg-Queen-encounter look in “Star Trek: First Contact.”

This 12-inch tall figure is clad in the familiar grey-and-black Next Generation movie-era uniform, and comes with a wide range of hands to hold various accessories, interchangeable heads to reflect the Data’s pre- and post-Borg Queen encounters, and Starfleet gear including a Type II phaser, Type III phaser rifle, and a Mark X tricorder, which attach to the figure using hidden magnets (when not being held).

· Fully Articulated Body: More than 30 points of articulation allow the figure to be displayed in multiple dynamic poses, approximately 30 cm tall.

· Two Realistic Portraits: Data comes with two heads, his regular portrait and also his look after the Borg Queen gifts him with grafted skin. Lovingly rendered by a top artist, these are excellent likenesses of Brent Spiner in his role as Data. Each head sculpt is specially hand-painted.

· Starfleet Duty Uniform Jumpsuit: Meticulously researched, this duty uniform matches the pattern, and color of the original costume recreated in 1:6 scale. Magnets are sewn into the uniform so the holsters for the tricorder and phaser can be attached. An authentically scaled communicator badge is permanently affixed to the tunic.

· Boots: Soft plastic boots sculpted to match the cut and style of the original movie footwear.

· Display Base: A hexagonal display base featuring the transporter pad will provide additional support for the figure. Two different inserts for the floor of the base can represent the transporter pad or the center of the transporter array.

According to EXO-6’s release, the company will produce “a wide-range of characters from across the Star Trek universe, with each series of figures planned out in advance,” and there are future announcements for additional characters planned down the road.

Tam spoke with Screen Tested at San Diego Comic Con 2017, about his work on 1:6-scale figures during his tenure with QMx:

We’ll have more details on when you can put in your preorder for this Data figure — tentative list pricing at $189.95, likely due to the probable relatively-small manufacturing run on this item — and more news on future EXO-6 release plans, as soon as that information is announced.

In the meantime, you can find out more information about this upcoming release at the EXO-6 website now.

WeeklyTrek Podcast #124 — STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Season 3 Wrap-Up

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WeeklyTrek Podcast #124 — STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Season 3 Wrap-Up

On this week’s episode of WeeklyTrek, brought to you in partnership between The Tricorder Transmissions Podcast Network and TrekCore, host Alex Perry is joined by Abby Sommer to discuss all the latest Star Trek news.

This week, Alex and his guest discuss the following stories from around the web:

In addition, stick around to listen to Abby’s theories about who the mysterious Federation president might be in Star Trek: Discovery, and Alex’s theory about Saru’s role in Star Trek: Discovery Season 4.

WeeklyTrek is available to subscribe and download each week on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, YouTube, and Spotify — and we’ll be sharing the details of each new episode right here on TrekCore each week if you’re simply just looking to listen in from the web.

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!

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