We’re rapidly approaching the return of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on June 15, and today Paramount+ has just unveiled a new clip from the show’s second season!
As Celia Rose Gooding (Uhura), Jess Bush (Chapel), Rebecca Romijn (Una), and Ethan Peck (Spock) appeared on stage via “hologram” at London’s MCM Comic Con today, this new clip from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ second season was released to tease the upcoming adventures.
The clip continues the story of Lt. Commander Una Chin-Riley’s arrest after Starfleet learned of her genetically-modified Illyrian heritage in last year’s finale, “A Quality of Mercy.”
The Enterprise first officer’s trial begins under the eye of a Starfleet JAG tribunal, which interestingly includes representatives from both “Starfleet Command” and “Space Command” — which could mean the Tellarite officer may be part of the United Earth Space Probe Agency,referenced in the early days of the Original Series (with nods in Voyager and Enterprise later).
Captain Batel (Melanie Scrofano), seen twice in Season 1, serves as the prosecutor; look closely, and you’ll see that entire courtroom facility is actually a redress of Star Trek: Discovery’s 32nd century Starfleet Command main control facility.
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The costuming reflects a new reimagination of the classic Original Series dress uniforms (seen first in “The Menagerie”), right down to the triangle-shaped medallions worn by each officer — and Spock makes a reference to meeting Una Chin-Riley during his first day aboard the Enterprise, seen in the 2019 Short Trek “Q & A.”
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And that Una secret Spock is about to reveal? It’s most likely her hidden love of Gilbert and Sullivan — something the pair sang together while stuck in a turbolift during that Short Trek.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 will debut June 15 on Paramount+ in the U.S, the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Creature Features Publishing is now fundraising on Kickstarter for The Jerry Goldsmith Companion, a two-volume biography of one of the greatest film composers of all time, Jerry Goldsmith (1929–2004).
Goldsmith is the composer of five Star Trek feature films — Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis — as well as the theme to Star Trek: The Next Generation (repurposed from The Motion Picture) and Star Trek: Voyager — making him the seminal and definitive musical voice of the Final Frontier.
In just a week, the Kickstarter campaign has already rocketed towards $90,000 — far surpassing the original $19,000 goal — with a donation/preorder expected to stay open through June 16… so it certainly seems like this campaign is going to have a successful outcome!
In partnership with the campaign, TrekCore is able to bring you an exclusive excerpt from the second volume of The Jerry Goldsmith Companion, centered around his acclaimed score to Star Trek: First Contact — which was co-composed, due to a scheduling crunch, by his son, Joel Goldsmith.
Jonathan Frakes, who played Commander Riker, Picard’s first officer, on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and had directed a number of well-received episodes, made his feature film debut behind the camera on First Contact, just as Leonard Nimoy had on Star Trek III.
Frakes and Rick Berman very much wanted Goldsmith on First Contact, and money was no object. “He was part of the plan from the very beginning,” Frakes said in 2005. “They made sure they had a line item in the budget to pay Jerry’s fee. That was part of the original budget of First Contact. I remember that specifically, because that’s how strongly Rick [Berman] felt about that. And I certainly share that feeling. The Star Trek theme was part of his big orchestral repertoire that he was famous for, and he was sort of a lucky charm for the franchise.”
Frakes’ remembrance of meeting up with Goldsmith reinforces the composer’s reputation as “gorgeous.” “I remember we showed up there when we first met and I was a fanboy to him. Of all the people involved in the movie, he was probably the most famous moviemaker. He was a bigger deal than anyone in the cast; he was a bigger deal than me. We didn’t have any major movie stars — the DP, Matthew Leonetti, was great, but I wasn’t an A-list director. So, it was, I thought, a very significant level change to have Jerry Goldsmith, who was A-list and was one of the masters. So when we went to his house, Berman and I had the same feeling, because we were both big music fans.
He was gorgeous, and his wife was gorgeous. He had that long, white ponytail and wore beautiful sort of cashmere jackets, his wife had a wonderful understated elegance, and their home was decorated with real taste — a lot of beautiful paintings and a combination of antiques and beautiful crystal. We went into his kitchen — they gave us tea and coffee, and they were cooking; it was like visiting a neighbor or a friend, and then he casually brought us upstairs; he said, ‘Do you want to hear some things I’ve been working on?’ It was what he does every day, but to us it was kind of a treat, because by this point we’re in post-production — we’re grinding through 500 or 600 visual-effects shots and we’ve forgotten the joy of shooting. It was a lot of time on green screen and dealing with Borg stuff, so it was a real nice diversion to go to Jerry’s.”
“It was one of the few times I ever worked with a star who was also a director — with Jonathan Frakes,” Goldsmith recalled in his 1999 Barnes and Noble interview. “It’s sort of a strange thing. You’re sitting with the person you’re working with but you’re seeing him on the screen at the same time. The last Rambo, Stallone was in charge of post-production, and I spotted the picture with him. He was fine. He’s a good filmmaker, actually.”
Frakes and Berman found themselves in their own strange position when Goldsmith brought his son Joel in to work on the project. Joel had worked with his father in various capacities on Runaway (programming synths), Baby (providing source music), and Hoosiers (as a music producer), and, in addition to his debut score Laserblast, had written a powerful orchestral score with more than a few influences from his father for the Roland Emmerich space thriller Moon 44 in 1990.
He had even worked for Paramount Television, providing an exciting theme and music for the studio’s update of The Untouchables TV series. But Joel wasn’t a known quantity to Berman and Frakes. “He was very proud of his son and gave him full credit,” Frakes recalls. “We were, of course, very skeptical. We didn’t pay for Joel Goldsmith. We paid for Jerry Goldsmith, and the studio went into this whole tizzy about it, but it ended up being fine.”
In fact, Joel Goldsmith wound up working on First Contact before his father got started, when Goldsmith got called back to London to redo cues on The Ghost and the Darkness. When it came time to audition their demos for the score, Goldsmith played the music for the film’s first scene, a nightmare sequence with Picard remembering being operated on by the Borg, accompanied by some grim, industrial-sounding music. When Rick Berman and Jonathan Frakes heard the cue they heartily approved, after which Goldsmith told them, “That was Joel’s.”
Goldsmith seemed eager to score the movie’s more inspirational moments, opening the score with a grand, noble “first contact” theme that would reach its fruition near the end of the movie. The theme sums up the picture’s — and Star Trek’s — optimism, and Goldsmith returns to it as Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard welcomes a 21st-century woman played by Alfre Woodard onboard the Enterprise.
Goldsmith was less enthusiastic about scoring the movie’s dark and ugly skirmishes with the Borg onboard the Enterprise, and left much of that work to his son Joel. He does score the film’s opening — and disappointingly truncated — space battle, largely with a rapid-fire take on his Klingon theme from the first Star Trek movie, employed for scenes of Klingon commander Worf, now captain of Deep Space Nine’s warship Defiant, engaging a Borg cube en route to Earth. Goldsmith’s four-note theme for the Borg, played by heavy brass and percussion but also voiced in ethereal, creepy tones by synthesizer, hearkens back to his motif for the Japanese Navy in Tora! Tora! Tora!
The composer’s skills are probably best employed in some unusually disturbing (for Trek) scenes between Brent Spiner’s android Data and the Borg Queen, portrayed in a sibilant, creepy performance by Alice Krige. Goldsmith’s ability to convey a kind of twisted eroticism comes into play as the Queen attempts to seduce Data over to her side by using Borg technology to integrate human skin onto Data’s face and arm, a compelling temptation for a character who had always aspired to be human.
“Jerry Goldsmith — what a genius he was,” Spiner said later. “I think the score of First Contact should have been an Oscar-nominated score. It’s so beautiful — if you listen to it and don’t know what you’re listening to—I think the fact that it was Star Trek maybe [hurt its chances]. It’s sensational, it really is.”
First Contact was the biggest hit the Trek franchise had had in years; like The Wrath of Khan, it was seen as a successful course correction after an unsatisfying debut film for the TNG cast, and Goldsmith now seemed a vital ingredient. He would score all of the subsequent entries in the TNG movie series.
The Jerry Goldsmith Companion features extensive coverage on Goldsmith’s work for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: Nemesis, and the theme to Star Trek: Voyager.
The Season 2 premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is just about three weeks away, and today Paramount+ has released the full final trailer for the Enterprise crew’s second year of adventures!
Returning to Paramount+ on June 15, the new trailer includes Lieutenant Ortegas (Melissa Navia) narrowly avoiding a shuttle crash, Captain Batal (Melanie Scrofano) witnessing what looks like some sort of alien invasion on a colony world, Lieutenant Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) and Lieutenant James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) watching an explosion on modern-day Earth, Captain Pike (Anson Mount) fighting Klingons, Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush) and Dr. M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) falling out an open airlock, Ensign Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) with new Chief Engineer Pelia (Carol Kane) — and Spock (Ethan Peck) kissing Chapel.
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Of course, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 will ALSO include the highly-anticipated crossover episode with Star Trek: Lower Decks, featuring the arrival of Ensign Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and Ensign Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) in their first live-action appearance.
Ensigns Mariner and Boimler in STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS. (Paramount+)
After a low-resolution Season 2 teaser spot leaked out of Canada last week, the streamer has included in today’s news a first high-quality look at the California-class ensigns’ visit to Captain Pike’s starship Enterprise — with two brief appearances in the trailer, and this photo from the upcoming episode — and yes, Jack Quaid has Boimler’s signature purple hair.
Ensigns Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and Boimler (Jack Quaid) visit the Enterprise. (Paramount+)Boimler awkwardly beams away. (Paramount+)Boimler and Mariner explain themselves to Captain Pike. (Paramount+)
Finally, a few new publicity photos from the upcoming season have been released, including a new one for Carol Kane’s new chief engineer, Pelia.
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Ethan Peck as Spock. (Paramount+)
Celia Rose Gooding as Uhura. (Paramount+)
Jess Bush as Chapel, Babs Olusanmokun as M'Benga. (Paramount+)
Anson Mount as Pike. (Paramount+)
Melissa Navia as Ortegas. (Paramount+)
Anson Mount as Pike. (Paramount+)
Ethan Peck as Spock, Rebecca Romijn as Una. (Paramount+)
Carol Kane as Pelia. (Paramount+)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 will debut June 15 on Paramount+ in the U.S, the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
This Friday, Master Replicas will release the next wave of Eaglemoss-manufactured stock — including models from the Star TrekOfficial Starships Collection and more — and we’ve got the next breakdown of what collectors will find up for grabs.
Launching on Friday, May 26, TrekCore can today share the next set of Eaglemoss releases coming to Master Replicas web shop — and in case you missed it, you can find out about how all of this works in our overview discussion with Master Replicas’ Ben Robinson.
The Caretaker’s Array, from the STAR TREK: VOYAGER premiere episode.
We’ve also got an update from Master Replicas themselves, who have shared some special information on three previously-unreleased Star Trek products: the XL-sized gold-plated Enterprise-E, the Caretaker’s Array station, and a pair of large Next Gen shuttlecraft from the Build The Enterprise-D partworks subscription.
This week’s drop is a big one, with ships that have never been available before!
The first is the gold-plated Enterprise-E. This is the XL version. We know there is a lot of interest in this ship and to make things as fair as possible, we’re limiting everyone to one per order. The other new and unreleased ship is the Caretaker’s Array. This was one of the last things Eaglemoss ever produced but we’ve managed to release the stock from the factory in China.
That’s not the only rare ship that will be dropping this week. As part of their Build the Enterprise-D program, Eaglemoss were releasing 5” long shuttles. These are much bigger than the shuttle sets that you are used to and have only ever been available in very limited quantities. They were produced in twin packs and this week we have the Captain’s Yacht and the Hawking.
The XL-sized, gold-plated USS ENTERPRISE (NCC-1701-E).
Master Replicas also sent out this additional information about the golden Enterprise-E release, a much-desired XL-sized product that’s likely to have increased demand:
We have decided to offer the full quantity of golden Enterprise-E models on one night, so purchasers will have the chance to buy the Enterprise at the same time as anyone else.
The caveat to this though is that they will ship in two batches, the first orders will ship next week, and the second orders will ship mid around 17th July. Thought was given to list the item twice, one with the current ship date of next week, and one listing of the 14th of July, but that would lead to panic from buyers as to which listing to click, so we will list as one SKU and you will, dependent on your time of purchase either have the item ship next week or just after 14th July.
PLEASE NOTE THE OTHER CAVEAT: buyers will only be allowed to purchase 1 Enterprise-E per order. Although the drag down box may offer you the choice of buying more when you go to purchase it will not allow you to complete your order. This will mean you have to go back and correct the quantity.
The time it takes to change the quantity in the order may mean it risks your ability to buy the Enterprise while stocks last. We would strongly recommend collectors to just order 1, so as not to risk missing the item.
We also remind customers that the site is not a shop, but a drop. This, like many other sites, mean that your purchase is only confirmed once you have completed your purchase. If you have it in your basket, it does not mean that the item is allocated to you. This is similar and/or same to many other clothing, sneakers and ticket sites.
(Please also note that the Caretakers Array and the Shuttlecraft sets, both of which are unreleased ships will also launch the same night. These two ships are NOT limited to 1 per customer. As we have consistently said, we want to try and ensure as many people as possible are able to buy items they need, either by pricing items appropriately or trying to ensure fairness in purchase.)
Check out everything set to arrive for sale this Friday!
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Shuttle Pack
Shuttle Pack
Federation Holoship
Klingon D5
OV-165 Orbiter
The Caretaker's Array
USS Chimera
USS Shran
From the Star Trek Universe:
Large Shuttle Pack: Hawking and Captain’s Yacht (The Next Generation)
Federation Holoship (Star Trek: Insurrection)
Klingon D5-class Battlecruiser (Enterprise)
OV-165 Orbiter (Enterprise / Picard)
Star Trek Space Stations
The Caretaker’s Array (Voyager)
Star Trek Online
USS Chimera
USS Shran
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Gold Enterprise-E
USS Enterprise (TOS)
USS Reliant
Deep Space 9
Delta Flyer
USS Enterprise (DSC)
USS Discovery
USS Shenzhou
XL-Sized Star Trek Starships
Sovereign-class USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E — Gold Edition (Star Trek: First Contact)
Constitution-class USS Enterprise (The Original Series)
Miranda-class USS Reliant (The Wrath of Khan)
Deep Space 9 Station (Deep Space Nine)
Delta Flyer (Voyager)
Constitution-class USS Enterprise (Discovery)
Crossfield-class USS Discovery (Discovery)
Walker-class USS Shenzhou (Discovery)
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'Alien Covenant' Xenomorph
'Alien' Vent Xenomorph
Batman 'Best of Enemies'
Astral Queen (BSG)
Cylon Raider (BSG)
Loki (BSG)
Osiris (BSG)
Viper Mark I (BSG)
Viper Mark II (BSG)
From Outside the Star Trek Universe:
Alien: Xenomorph from Alien Covenant
Alien: Vent Attack Xenomorph
Batman: Best of Enemies — Batman, Joker and book set
Battlestar Galactica:Astral Queen
Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Raider (2004)
Battlestar Galactica:Loki Heavy Cruiser
Battlestar Galactica:Osiris
Battlestar Galactica: Viper Mark I
Battlestar Galactica: Viper Mark II
Hot Toys: Iron Man Hall of Armor 7-pack (Iron Man 3)
Hot Toys: N7 Helmet – Andromeda Variant (Mass Effect)
If you want one of the ships or products included in this next wave of sales, you’ll need to move quickly… because once they sell out or leave the Master Replicas site, they may never be available for direct sale again. This round of product is expected to be available starting on May 26 at Friday at 9pm in the UK and 4pm ET.
For more, head over to the Master Replicas website to sign up for their mailing list, and to bring home any of the next wave of surplus Official Starships models when they go on sale May 26.
Keep checking back to TrekCore for all the latest in Star Trek merchandise news!
Earlier this month, I ventured into Philadelphia for the Galactic Diversity & Inclusion Convention,hosted by Gaaays in Spaaace (GIS)! I was so glad to see Philly get a con like this, especially after Creation Entertainment stopped hosting theirs in New Jersey a few years ago.
Overall, D&I Con felt like a warm hug – a throwback to the 1990s era conventions of my youth. During those years where Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager were the new kids on the block, most Trek conventions were smaller affairs (maybe 500-1,000 attendees). While a few smaller cons still exist, I think most people’s experiences with cons these days are of the Fan Expo, Comic Con, Wizard World, ReedPop, Creation Entertainment variety.
Not that there’s anything wrong with a bigger corporate run con — the experience is just different. D&I Con was the very opposite of a big corporate convention. There was no glossy signage. The guests weren’t sequestered behind tables all weekend, pressured to churn out autographs as quickly as possible. D&I Con was clearly a labor of love by a small but dedicated team of fans.
Alexander Siddig, Nana Visitor, and Tim Russ hold small-group discussions with fans.
One of the ways D&I Con really differentiated themselves was in cultivating an intimate experience with the guests. Q&A sessions with the actors started the traditional way, with everyone on a stage led by a moderator. But after introductions, the room was divided into small groups, with each actor coming into the audience for chats and then rotating through the groups. I’ve been attending cons for almost 25 years, and I’ve never seen a con approach a Q&A that way.
To be completely honest, there were some challenges with the format — some actors are more soft spoken and some are more gregarious. It made hearing questions and responses a bit challenging at times. I think in the future, more could be done to spread folks out and maybe utilize room dividers. But I admire the attempt to do something different, and on the whole, I really liked it. For me, being in a group of around 50 people seated around the guest sure as hell beats being at the back of a 5,000+ seat ballroom looking at a view screen of the stage.
Another unique hallmark of D&I Con were the actors’ away missions. These required an additional ticket, but afforded a limited number of attendees some really special experiences. Garrett Wang (Harry Kim) used his away mission to teach people to play Craps. JG Hertzler (Martok) and Robert O’Reilly (Gowron) taught Bat’leth stage combat (and attendees got to take their foam weapon home). Bob Picardo (The Doctor) gave singing lessons. And there were half a dozen others to choose from.
Robert O’Reilly and J.G. Hertzler (third and fourth from left) hold a Klingon bat’leth training session.
We popped in to observe a few of these missions and everyone seemed to be having a great time. So many conventions are focused on just Q&A, photos, and autographs — it was refreshing to see a con work so hard to create memorable opportunities to engage with the guests outside of the typical offerings.
(Although my schedule didn’t allow me to attend the various night time festivities, you could tell each morning that the previous night had been a lot of fun! The GIS folks clearly know how to throw a party!)
A personal highlight for me was finally getting to see Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir). I’ve been trying to meet him since the late 90s. He makes limited convention appearances, so it was awesome to see D&I Con have him on the guest list. On Sunday, Sid City (his official fan club) hosted an in person meeting of the Sid City Social Club, which started as a series of Zoom calls during the height of the pandemic.
It was wonderful to see these folks come together in person, many for the first time ever. If you have not yet experienced the Sid City Social Club, an archive of highlights is available on YouTube.
For a freshman effort, I think GIS delivered a really fun convention. Were there some logistical challenges and growing pains? Yes. But at the end of the day, I made wonderful memories with the guests and my friends. (And I made new friends, which is always a bonus!)
Word on the street is that D&I Con is going to be an annual event here in Philly, and I have faith that the folks over at GIS are going to learn from this inaugural event and improve upon it for next time. Their hearts are clearly in the right place here. And even though the convention is over, you can still enter their sweepstakes to win a trip into space through August! (Keep an eye on GIS’ social media for future events.)
D&I Con attendees and special guests pose for a group photo.
A final footnote: I was reading a post about D&I Con in the Star Trek Wholesomeposting group on Facebook, and someone in the comments mentioned that she’d “tried [a convention] once in the 90’s as a young woman and was sexually harassed [sic] out of the building. Things have very much changed.” As I was reading this comment, I was instantly transported back to being age 15 at a convention, dressed like Dax, and several creepy old men asking me if my spots went “all the way down.” As much as I have fond memories of 90s Trek conventions, not everything about them was great.
Thankfully, D&I Con has created a wholesome and wonderful community and their mission of inclusivity and respect was thoroughly embedded in the convention – something we did not always have at the 90s cons. I’m grateful for this change, and clearly so are others. Thanks, D&I Con!
Check back to TrekCore for more Star Trek convention coverage later this summer!
This Friday, Master Replicas will release the next wave of Eaglemoss-manufactured stock — including models from the Star TrekOfficial Starships Collection and more — and we’ve got the next breakdown of what collectors will find up for grabs.
Launching on Friday, May 19, TrekCore can today share the next set of Eaglemoss releases coming to Master Replicas web shop — and in case you missed it, you can find out about how all of this works in our overview discussion with Master Replicas’ Ben Robinson.
We’ve also got an update from Master Replicas themselves, who note that these new sale drops are going to start increasing in frequency as we move into the summer months.
This week sees the arrival of some much-sought after XLs including Voyager, which is being joined by the Nebula and Oberth classes, the U.S.S. Equinox and restocks of La Sirena and probably one of the most popular ships in Eaglemoss’s history – the Enterprise-E.
Among the regular ships we managed a small quantity of Nomads. This is one of those models we’ve seen going for a small fortune on eBay. Other highlights include one of the Wolf 359 ships (the Springfield class), the Klingon space station that was in orbit around Ty’Gokor and a shuttle Matt Jefferies designed for the abandoned STAR TREK PHASE II TV show.
Outside of Trek we’ve got another Game of Thrones dragon, a Cylon Heavy Raider and an incredible statue of David Tennant’s 10th Doctor. We couldn’t be more excited that Tennant will be back as the Doctor later this year.
Now that more stock has started to arrive, we’re stepping up the release pattern and over the next month or two the drops will be weekly.
Check out everything set to arrive for sale this Friday!
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Nomad
Phase II Shuttle Concept
USS Chekov
Gomtuu
Keldon Class
Vidiian Warship
Suliban Cell Ship
OV-165 Orbiter
ECS Horizon
USS Enterprise-J
USS Titan
From the Star Trek Universe:
Nomad (The Original Series)
Matt Jefferies’ Star Trek: Phase II Shuttle Concept
Springfield-class USS Chekov (The Next Generation)
Gomtuu (The Next Generation)
Cardassian Keldon Class (Deep Space Nine)
Vidiian Warship (Voyager)
Suliban Cell Ship (Enterprise)
OV-165 (Enterprise / Picard)
ECS Horizon (Enterprise)
USS Enterprise-J (Enterprise)
USS Titan (Star Trek: Titan Novels)
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La Sirena
USS Pegasus
USS Bonchune
USS Equinox
USS Enterprise-E
USS Voyager
Romulan Warbird
Federation lander pod
USS Buran ('Discovery')
XL-Sized Star Trek Starships
La Sirena
Nebula-class USS Bonchune
Oberth-class USS Pegasus
Nova-class USS Equinox
Sovereign-class USS Enterprise-E
Intrepid-class USS Voyager
Romulan Warbird
From Star Trek: Discovery
USS Buran
Landing Pod (Discovery Season 2)
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Cylon Heavy Raider
10th Doctor Statue
Rhegal Statue
Star Trek Space Stations
Klingon Ty’Gokor Orbital Station
From Outside the Star Trek Universe:
Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Heavy Raider
Doctor Who: 10th Doctor Mega Statue
Game of Thrones: Rhaegal dragon statue
The company has also hinted at several upcoming releases on social media, including the Enterprise-F from Star Trek Online (and now Picard), more Stargate ships, and several unreleased Trek vessels next week.
Yes i can confirm we have some U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-F ships and they should be live around early august
— Master Replicas Official (@MasterReplicas_) May 15, 2023
Hi yes we will have them the F302 should be end of June
— Master Replicas Official (@MasterReplicas_) May 15, 2023
So here is the long await date for the next Unreleased ships – Friday 26th May
Shuttlecraft Hawking & Capt Yacht
Caretaker Array
Gold Plated Enterprise E XL (split)
— Master Replicas Official (@MasterReplicas_) May 14, 2023
If you want one of the ships or products included in this next wave of sales, you’ll need to move quickly… because once they sell out or leave the Master Replicas site, they may never be available for direct sale again. This round of product is expected to be available starting on May 19 at Friday at 9pm in the UK and 4pm ET.
For more, head over to the Master Replicas website to sign up for their mailing list, and to bring home any of the next wave of surplus Official Starships models when they go on sale May 19.
Keep checking back to TrekCore for all the latest in Star Trek merchandise news!
In addition, stick around to hear Madeline’s wish for more Star Trek fan clubs and conventions, and Alex’s wish for the other current Star Trek shows to take a page from Picard’s third season and play with more of the franchise’s toys in telling the story they want to tell.
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!
First announced by Eaglemoss in February 2022 — and never released until Master Replicas’ stock sale on April 19 — the Parliament-class USS Vancouver from Star Trek: Lower Decks is about to warp home to one lucky TrekCore reader!
This contest has ended and our winner has been notified.
The USS Vancouver (NCC-70492), was the second new Starfleet starship design introduced by the animated series, first appearing in Season 1’s “Cupid’s Errant Arrow.”
The Official Starships Collection — USS Vancouver (NCC-70492)
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USS VANCOUVER — The design of the Parliament-class starship was essentially dictated by its role in handling assignments that focused on extensive, complex engineering projects.
Advanced in terms of 24th-century design, the U.S.S. Vancouver comprised a large primary saucer section. Its low-slung, aft-ranged warp nacelles were secured by large pylons that formed part of the saucer section’s dorsal superstructure. A discrete secondary hull and deflector array was located below and aft of the saucer section.
Around 2380, the Vancouver was instrumental in successfully completing an operation to demolish one of the moons of Mixtus III. During the mission, the crew was supported by the U.S.S. Cerritos.
The third (and likely final) ship in the Lower Decks Starship Collection measures in just over 8 inches in length and (as of this writing) is sold-out at Master Replicas’ website — and unless there’s another batch of ships found in their Eaglemoss inventory, that’s it for the Parliament-class.
Except for one of you loyal TrekCore readers, who can win one of the rare starship models that our friends at Master Replicas are holding in reserve just for you! To have a shot at landing it for yourself, you can enter to win in one of two ways:
You have until 11:59 PM (Eastern time) on Monday, May 15 to get your entry in — we’ll reach out to the winner through either a Twitter or Facebook direct message after the contest closes to arrange for fulfillment.
Good luck to all!
The comments section of this article will not be considered for contest entries.
This Friday, Master Replicas will release the next wave of Eaglemoss-manufactured stock — including models from the Star TrekOfficial Starships Collection and more — and we’ve got the next breakdown of what collectors will find up for grabs.
Launching on Friday, May 12, TrekCore can today reveal the next set of Eaglemoss releases coming to Master Replicas web shop — and in case you missed it, you can find out about how all of this works in our overview discussion with Master Replicas’ Ben Robinson.
We’ve also got an update from Master Replicas themselves:
This week’s drop features limited-edition and unreleased products, something that we’ll be doing regularly over the next couple of months. This week we have the red and yellow variants of the Tron light cycles. These were only ever produced in a limited edition of 250 and we’ve got them all.
We also have some very rare STAR TREK models including a small quantity of the U.S.S. Nog (which was named for the character played by the last Aron Eisenberg), two very sought after ships from STAR TREK ONLINE, the original version of the Enterprise from ‘The Cage’ and the bonus issues version of the U.S.S. Titan.
We have a couple more STAR TREK books – this time illustrated handbooks for the Ent-D and Deep Space 9. These are beautiful books that are absolutely packed with full-color illustrations and are the most comprehensive guides ever published.
Outside of TREK we have a fantastic ALIEN Xenomorph statue, a ship from The Expanse, Batman-themed Hero Collector Museum pieces, Hot Toys Spider-Man figures, and a dragon from Game of Thrones.
And that’s not all — as a special offer, if you buy any STAR TREK item in the month of May, you’ll be able to claim 60% off a MEGO set.
As always, stock is limited but we have very limited stock of the Tron light cycles, the STO ships, the movie version of the Enterprise and the Alien statue.
Check out everything set to arrive for sale this Friday!
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Regula One
'The Cage' Enterprise
USS Melbourne
Keldon Class
Timeship Aeon
NX-Alpha
Klingon Transport
From the Star Trek Universe:
USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (From “The Cage”)
Station: Regula One (The Wrath of Khan)
Nebula-class Prototype USS Melbourne (Deep Space Nine)
Cardassian Keldon Class (Deep Space Nine)
Federation Timeship Aeon (Voyager)
Klingon Transport (Enterprise)
NX-Alpha (Enterprise)
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USS Titan
Kelvin Timeline Enterprise
USS Buran ('Discovery')
Section 31 Deimos Class
Pathfinder Class
USS Buran ('Star Trek Online')
USS Titan (Star Trek: Titan Novels)
Special: USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (Star Trek 2009)
Section 31 Deimos Class (Discovery)
USS Buran (Discovery)
USS Nog (Discovery)
From Star Trek Online:
USS Buran
USS Pathfinder
Special Trek Items and More:
Book: USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D Illustrated Handbook
Book: Deep Space 9 and USS Defiant Illustrated Handbook
Statue: Commander Riker ‘Facepalm’ paperweight
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Aliens Xenomorph Head
Alien3 Runner
Batman Batarang
Batman Cowl
Drogon Statue
UN One ('The Expanse')
Red TRON Light Cycle
Yellow TRON Light Cycle
From Outside the Star Trek Universe:
Alien: Hero Collector Museum Xenomorph Head
Alien 3: XL Runner Xenomorph
Batman: Hero Collector Museum Batarang
Batman: Hero Collector Museum The Dark Knight Returns Cowl
Game of Thrones: Drogon dragon statue
Spider-Man: Hot Toys Mini Scarlet Suit
Spider-Man: Hot Toys Mini Iron Spider Suit
The Expanse: UN One
TRON: Yellow and Red Light Cycles
The company has also hinted at several upcoming releases on social media, including the Caretaker Array from Voyager and more.
Yes last week of May
— Master Replicas Official (@MasterReplicas_) May 8, 2023
— Master Replicas Official (@MasterReplicas_) May 8, 2023
If you want one of the ships or products included in this next wave of sales, you’ll need to move quickly… because once they sell out or leave the Master Replicas site, they may never be available for direct sale again. This round of product is expected to be available starting on May 12 at Friday at 9pm in the UK and 4pm ET.
For more, head over to the Master Replicas website to sign up for their mailing list, and to bring home any of the next wave of surplus Official Starships models when they go on sale May 12.
Keep checking back to TrekCore for all the latest in Star Trek merchandise news!
Rebuilt and rescanned from the original film sources, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis made their way to 4K Blu-ray and 4K-sourced standard Blu-ray disc last month, the first new editions of the Picard-crew movies since their original high-definition release back in 2009.
Like the first-edition Original Series film Blu-rays, the 2009 editions of the four Star Trek: The Next Generation films were plagued with a heavy-handed use of digital noise reduction (DNR) treatments, artificial sharpening efforts (to restore detail erased by the DNR process), and odd color timing that — in some instances — drastically changed the look of the movies when compared to previous VHS, LaserDisc, and DVD home media releases.
Those new Blu-ray discs are remastered as well, using the new 4K scans as source material for the updated releases — but there’s no new extra features; all the commentary tracks and movie-specific bonus material is carried from the 2009 Blu-rays.
Star Trek: Generations (1994) gets perhaps the largest amount of color restoration in its new presentation, as a noticeable yellow-green tint (which permeated the 2009 edition) is scraped away in the 4K edition.
Most noticeable in the scenes shot on location — Worf’s promotion aboard the holographic sailing ship and at Soran’s launch platform filmed in Nevada’s Valley of Fire — are drastically changed from the previous edition, bringing back the sunny blue skies and warm desert tones of the original presentation.
Likewise, greys and silvers aboard the Enterprise-D sets return to their expected color, as do the mustard-color operations uniforms worn by Data, Worf and La Forge. Fine facial details are also no longer so exaggerated, thanks to this edition’s lack of that heavy-handed DNR and artificial sharpening effects.
Curiously, a number of shots are slightly repositioned compared to the previous editions of the film, such as the crew’s arrival to the bridge while wearing their holodeck sailing-ship costumes; this occurs sporadically throughout the film without much obvious rhyme or reason.
It’s not a huge issue, as one probably won’t even notice most of the time — but some shots certainly feel “off-center” now because of these framing adjustments.
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996) takes the crew aboard the first Enterprise-E adventure, filmed on sets that are naturally darker than the Galaxy-class setting of the previous film.
This remastered edition features some nice lighting, contrast, and detail enhancements thanks to the new scan from original film elements.
Like Generations, the 2009 edition of First Contact also had a similar green look that has fortunately been eliminated — the steel and bronze set elements aboard both the Enterprise and in the Phoenix launch facility now shine with proper metallic coloring, and costume elements like Riker’s leather jacket regain their proper tones.
Some color correction appears to veer slightly too far into the blue tone in a few darker sections the new release, however it’s not obvious in the majority of shots and seems to be a limited issue.
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Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) truly benefits from the lack of DNR and artificial sharpening found on its 2009 edition, as the heavy filtering impacted the cast’s facial features dramatically in that old presentation.
The new scan now offers a much more natural look both the actors and the Ba’ku planet, really showcasing just how bad the original Insurrection disc looked.
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The natural features of the Ba’ku planet have slighly tone-down coloring — reducing its somewhat oversaturated appearance in the 2009 release.
Fine details like the piles of straw in which Data and Artim play are no longer a messy blur, Geordi’s sunrise now actually looks like the sun is warming up the Ba’ku valley, and visual effects shots that once had an odd orange-red vibe are shifted more properly to a golden color tone.
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The remastered edition of Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) has less detail improvement than the other TNG films, but better color and lighting fixes — gone is yellow-green tone that permeated the film’s previous release.
While that overall greenish tone has been cleaned up, elements which SHOULD be green — grass, nebula, Thalaron radiation, cymbals — retain their proper coloring.
The ‘mountains’ of Alaska are no longer so pink and purple, and there are several other nice color adjustments (like Guinan’s outfit now properly and and brown, rather than green), and the stained glass aboard Shinzon’s vessel now appears teal and blue rather than green and purple.
The desert landscape of Kolarus III is no longer overexposed to the point of highlight blow-out, and dark scenes have a more balanced lighting and shadow, with some moments having a bit of a colder (but more consistent) look.
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Overall, this is the best that these four films have ever looked on home media — and while we’re always going to prefer the physical releases for best-quality presentation, with any luck, they’ll supplant the 2009 editions across all streaming services sooner rather than later.
We can’t recommend these new 4K presentations enough, even with some of the minor quibbles mentioned above — while it took much longer than it should have to give these films the remastering treatment, the wait has been worth it with these new 4K discs.
Have you upgraded your Next Generation film library to these new remastered releases? Still trying to decide if you want to get the new discs? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
