‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ wants you to know it’s okay to like ‘Voyager’

"We'll Always Have Tom Paris” -- Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris of the Paramount+ series STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS. Photo: PARAMOUNT+ ©2021 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved **Best Possible Screen Grab**

This article contains minor spoilers for season two, episode three of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’. This week’s episode of Lower Decks, “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris” manages to put two references in its title: an episode from the first season of The Next Generation called “We’ll Always Have Paris” and the name of one Main … Read more

Learning to Love Solitude (and Hate Oatmeal) on a 15,534-Mile Canadian Trek

Learning to Love Solitude (and Hate Oatmeal) on a 15,534-Mile Canadian Trek

In 2015, independent Canadian filmmaker Dianne Whelan set out on what is now known as the Trans Canada Trail, a nearly 17,000-mile recreational trail that encompasses green trails, roads and waterways from the Atlantic to the Pacific and north to the Arctic Ocean leads. On August 1, Ms. Whelan, 56, accompanied by her parents, partner … Read more

The creator of streaming ‘Star Trek’ shows will stay with CBS through 2026

Jon Fingas

Paramount + is effectively centered around Alex Kurtzman due to its ongoing reliance on Star Trek, and it is clear that CBS will do whatever it takes to keep the director and producer on board. CBS Studios has signed a contract under which Kurtzman and his Secret Hideout unit will produce shows exclusively for Paramount … Read more

Season two of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ hits Paramount+ on August 12th

Kris Naudus

Today is the first day of contact for the Star Trek franchise, a celebration where people learned about the extraterrestrial volcanic species and set the stage for the United Federation of Planets a few centuries later. Sure, the April 5th meeting won’t be for 42 years, but Paramount + is still celebrating with a day … Read more