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DISCOVERY Interviews: Kirsten Beyer, Jeff Russo, Aaron Harberts & Gretchen Berg, Glenn Hetrick & Neville Page

Our final round of Star Trek: Discovery Hollywood premiere interviews are here, and this afternoon we’re spending time with the creative team behind the new series!

First up are series executive producers and showrunning team Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg, who talk about their hopeful thoughts for a Discovery Season 2; series and main title composer Jeff Russo who talks about finding inspiration from classic Trek score; writer and Voyager novelist Kirsten Beyer about working closely with the Discovery actors; and lastly makeup and creature designers Glenn Hetrick and Neville Page who talk about all the work they’ve put into bringing the look of the series to screen.

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Stick around for our review of the two-hour Star Trek: Discovery premiere later tonight!

More DISCOVERY Cast Interviews: Jason Isaacs, Mary Chieffo, Shazad Latif, and Mary Wiseman

We’re less than 12 hours away from the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery — finally! — and we’ve still got more exclusive content to bring you before the new series debuts!

Here are four more interviews we conducted with the Discovery cast at the blue-carpet world premiere in Hollywood this past Tuesday, where Jason Isaacs (Gabriel Lorca) talks about his character’s accent, Mary Chieffo (L’Rell) gives us a sense of the Klingon makeup process, Shazad Latif (Ash Tyler) lets us know when we’ll start to know his character, and Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly) explains why she finds the cadet so relatible.

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Stay tuned for our final round of interviews coming later today, with the creative team behind the series: showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg, composer Jeff Russo, writer Kirsten Beyer, and creature and makeup designers Neville Page and Glenn Hetrick!

THE ANIMATED SERIES Available on CW SEED Streaming

Still holding out on picking up Star Trek: The Animated Series on disc and haven’t got a Netflix, Amazon, or CBS All Access streaming account – but still want to experience all that the second Trek television series has to offer?

Well wait no longer: CBS has released The Animated Series for streaming to all on CW Seed, the free online streaming service (available on the web or iOS and Android apps) from The CW — a joint venture formed after UPN and The WB networks merged in 2006.

THE ANIMATED SERIES on the CW Seed iPad app.

While Trek is available to stream online from a variety of different subscription-based outlets, it’s nice to see at least one small corner of the franchise arrive on a free service for all to partake.

Quick Note: Our DISCOVERY Spoiler Discussion Plans

Hey everybody, just want to give you a quick heads-up about how we’re planning to handle the weekly Star Trek: Discovery episode discussions here at TrekCore!

We know you’ll all want to talk about the new series’ episodes as soon as you can, but to protect all the Trek fans around the world who visit our site from spoilers — since Discovery won’t be available on Netflix for several hours after the CBS All Access (USA) and Space (Canada) airings each week — we’re planning to post both North American and Netflix discussion posts for each region starting September 24.

Please respect your fellow fans and keep spoilers for each episode contained to those two threads each week and refrain from spreading them to other posts.

We know there are fans who are waiting some time to be able to watch Discovery, so we hope you’ll all play along with this simple guideline until we reach the mid-season break in November.

We will be deleting posts with spoilers outside of those weekly threads, and repeat offenders may lose their posting privileges.

Watch our front page each Sunday for links to the threads, which will become active when the episodes debut in each region.

For tonight’s premiere event, however, our review of the first pair of episodes will be online this evening at approximately 9:30PM ET — that will be our spoiler discussion thread for the opening weekend.

Preview — ‘STAR TREK: The Book of Lists’ & ‘Treknology’

First announced earlier this year, HarperCollins Publishing will be bringing new reference book Star Trek: The Book of Listsgrouping all sorts of Trek knowledge, details, and ephemera into a series of categorical lists covering the whole of Star Trek history – including the Kelvin Timeline films – in one hardcover collection.

Spanning the epic science fiction franchise’s fifty-one-year history, a breathtaking collection of the most compelling Star Trek facts and trivia, including events from both on and off-screen, available in 100 concise lists.

Since Gene Roddenberry’s original series first aired in 1966, Star Trek has become a pop culture phenomenon, and one of the largest global properties of all time. Entertaining and fun, Star Trek: The Book of Lists catalogs the most compelling facts about the original series and its spin-offs, as well as its thirteen films, gathered together and broken down into one hundred lists, including “Historical Figure Cameos,” “Crew Crossovers,” “Memorable Deaths,” “Intergalactic Threats,” “Enemies,” and “Villains.”

Compiling a galaxy’s worth of information in one handy digest, Star Trek: The Book of Lists is a fascinating historical record of the Star Trek universe for both hardcore fans and causal viewers.

HarperCollins has released the first set of preview pages for the upcoming hardcover from author Chip Carter, looking at just a few of the dozens of included lists in this book.

Our own Star Trek listmaster Jim Moorhouse will bring your our review of Star Trek: The Book of Lists when it arrives in November. While you wait, you can lock in your preorder for this upcoming release below!

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Also coming this fall from Voyageur Press is Star Trek: Treknology from author Ethan Siegel, a new hardcover book taking a scientific look at the tools and technology that powers the United Federation of Planets.

The name Star Trek conjures images of faster-than-light spacecraft, holographic crew members, and phasers set to stun. Some of these incredible devices may still be far from our reach, but others have made the leap from science fiction to science fact—and now you can learn the science and engineering of what makes them tick.

Treknology looks at over twenty-five iconic inventions from the complete history of the Star Trek television and film universe. Author Ethan Siegel explores and profiles these dazzling technologies and their role Star Trek, the science behind how they work, and how close we are to achieving them in the real world today.

This stunning collection is packed with 150 superb film and television stills, prop photography, and scientific diagrams to pull you into another world. Brace yourself for a detailed look at the inner workings of Star Trek’s computing capabilities, communications equipment, medical devices, and awe-inspiring ships. This book is one that no fan of Star Trek, or future tech, will want to miss.

Voyageur Press has released the first set of preview pages for the upcoming hardcover, due for release in mid-October.

Watch for our review of this reference book later this year – and in the meantime, you can preorder this book through the links below.

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TREK Light-And-Sound Toys Expands to NEXT GEN in 2018

If you’re a fan of Running Press’ miniature Star Trek electronic toys, which to date have focused on Star Trek: The Original Series, then here’s some good news: the publisher is expanding their collection to The Next Generation in 2018!

Running Press’ light-up TOS communicator, complete with audio effects.

With the help of author Chip Carter, electronic miniatures of the USS Enterprise, the shuttlecraft Galileo, and an Original Series communicator and phaser have arrived over the past two years, featuring recorded audio from classic Trek along with built-in lighting effects.

Now, Running Press is introducing two familiar elements of Star Trek: The Next Generation: the iconic Starfleet tricorder and evil Borg cube!

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When each new miniature arrives in April 2018, they’ll be accompanied by a 48-page book detailing the history of each in the Trek universe, full of full-color photos.

It’s been a long time since we had a TNG tricorder toy that was affordable to the masses, and with both of these available for preorder at just $12.95, you can be prepared for any away mission with one in your pocket.

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New STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Photos, Comic Preview

We’re down to just hours until the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery warp to our screens Sunday evening, but that hasn’t stopped the show from moving full-speed ahead with even more preview images of the upcoming episodes!

Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) and Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) walk through a desert canyon. (CBS)
Georgiou and Burnham aim their phaser rifles at an unseen target. (CBS)
Ambassador Sarek (James Frain) in the USS Shenzhou’s transporter room. (CBS)
Klingon leader T’Kuvma (Chris Obi) stands over another warrior. (CBS)
L’Rell (Mary Chieffo) and T’Kuvma stand ready for battle. (CBS)
Captain Georgiou and her first officer arrive on the Klingon ship, armed and alert. (CBS)

Also debuting are more new character photos, USS Discovery illustrations, and assorted Trek imagery, via CBS’s press material:

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In addition to the above images from the Discovery premiere, IDW Publishing has also released the first interior image from the forthcoming Star Trek: Discovery comic series — illustrated by artist J.K. Woodward — over at io9, paired with an interview with comic writer Mike Johnson.

T’Kuvma on his ancient starship, by comic artist J.K. Woodward. (IDW Publishing)

io9: Most of what fans have learned about Klingon culture and history has come from The Next Generation and onwards. Given Discovery’s own twist in its portrayal of the species, was it a challenge to keep things in “canon” with the past shows or were you given more of a free reign with how you used them?

Johnson: Since Discovery takes place before the original series, we are taking cues about the Klingons’ past from what we have learned about them in subsequent shows. In our comic, this is particularly true when it comes to the legendary Klingon leader Kahless, who casts a long shadow over the events we will witness.

io9: Will we be seeing much of what Starfleet is up to in the series, or will the perspective stay specific to the Klingon side of things?

Johnson: This story stays strictly on the Klingon side of things, going into more detail about their perspective on the Federation and the state of play as the show begins. It’s a great opportunity to show that the Klingons are not villains. They are an alien species with their own civilization, filled with individuals with their own dreams, ambitions, and vendettas.

Watch for our reviews of the comic when it arrives in October!

First Hallmark USS DISCOVERY Concept Renderings

We’ve covered a lot of Hallmark news over the past year, from reviews of the 2017 ornaments to the reveal of a 2018 preview at STLV. Now, just days before the launch of a new Star Trek adventure, Hallmark has announced that one of the newest starships in the Federation fleet will be coming home to you next holiday season.

In the newest edition of their PopMinded web series, Hallmark’s Christine Taylor and Kevin Dilmore spend time covering this year’s Next Generation releases, but then jump to their big reveal: the forthcoming USS Discovery ornament, likely coming next year.

We’ve known since this summer that Hallmark’s licensing agreement included Star Trek: Discovery, from their panel at STLV 2017.

Here’s a great set of renders in development for the Discovery, revealed in the video above.

We’ll continue to follow the development of this ornament over time, and will bring you a hands-on review when it finally warps to Hallmark stores.

More STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Cast Interviews with Doug Jones, Wilson Cruz, Anthony Rapp, and Akiva Goldsman

The premiere parties may be over, but we’ve still got more to bring you from Star Trek: Discovery‘s Hollywood roll-out on Tuesday night, continuing our coverage with four more interviews with the Discovery cast and crew!

Up first is Doug Jones who tells TrekCore’s Jim Moorhouse something we didn’t know about Saru’s changing eyes; second is Anthony Rapp who dives into his exploration of Star Trek novel fiction; executive producer Akiva Goldsman talks about going from fan to producer; lastly, on-screen doctor Wilson Cruz shares his thoughts about reuniting with Rapp after years of friendship.

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IF YOU MISSED THEM: Be sure and check out our blue-carpet interviews with Sonequa Martin-Green, Michelle Yeoh, Ted Sullivan, and James Frain!

Keep coming back to TrekCore, as we’ve still got a lot more to come from our visit to the Star Trek: Discovery Hollywood premiere in Los Angeles!

DISCOVERY Beams Into Popular STAR TREK Online Games

We’re just days away now from the debut of Star Trek: Discovery on television – but its influence has already impacted two popular online Trek games before the series arrives!

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Star Trek Timelines has had plans to include Discovery characters for some time (as we reported in August) and this week the game has launched both Lt. Commander Saru and First Officer Michael Burnham as part of its roster of Trek character choices.

Within the game, Lt. Saru has already been offered to players as a complimentary addition to the crew, usable in missions throughout the Timelines program, with inventory items like his Starfleet uniform, communicator, and a copy of the Prime Directive.

iTunes’ promotional imagery for the game has also been updated, featuring First Officer Michael Burnham (and the USS Shenzhou) along with Captain Philippa Georgiou, the other two previously-announced character additions to Timelines.

The iOS application icon has been updated to feature the USS Shenzhou as well:

For more on Star Trek Timelines, jump over to the official Facebook page.

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Star Trek Online also debuted a surprise update to their platform today, with the release of Star Trek: Discovery uniforms to add to your crew’s collection. From now through October 6, PC players at the rank of Federation Captain can claim these uniforms from the new series at no charge — and console players, you’ll be getting them soon too.

Image via Star Trek Online.

In three days, the first new Star Trek television series in twelve years will air on CBS, and very soon after on CBS All Access. We’re incredibly excited for Star Trek: Discovery, and all the new and exciting additions it will bring to the Star Trek universe.

But before you tune back in to see new adventures in the Final Frontier, we’re offering you a chance to experience that era in Star Trek Online. From Thursday, September 21st at 9am PST, to Friday, October 6th at 10am PST, Federation Captains on PC can receive the uniform from the brand new series for free! (And don’t worry, Console Captains, it’s coming your way soon.)

Just head to the Promotions tab of the C-store to pick it up right now, and we can’t wait to experience the new universe of Discovery with you!

You can learn more about this offer and see additional images at the Star Trek Online blog.