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Engadget
21 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Engadget
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will end with a truncated fifth season
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will only visit around 26 strange new worlds before shuttling into that cancellation sunset. The show will end with a truncated fifth season of six episodes, according to reporting by Deadline . This news is relatively surprising, given that Strange New Worlds seems like the most popular and successful show of the modern era. However, not a single newer Trek series has made it past five seasons, so maybe that's just the way things go now. It's worth remembering that Captain Kirk's narration in the original 1960s Star Trek spoke of a five-year mission. 'We're deeply grateful to Paramount+ for the chance to complete our five-season mission, just as we envisioned it, alongside our extraordinary cast and crew. And to the passionate fans who've boldly joined us on this journey," executive producers Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers, and Alex Kurtzman said in a joint statement provided via press release. To view this content, you'll need to update your privacy settings. Please click here and view the "Content and social-media partners" setting to do so. This is a bummer, as Strange New Worlds is a fantastic watch, but it's not the end of the world. The show is about to premiere its third season on July 17 . A full fourth season is already in production, and the shortened fifth season will ramp up sometime in the next year. So there are still 26 episodes left to watch. That's a good amount of Trek. It's also not the end of live-action Star Trek on television screens. The upcoming Starfleet Academy has already been renewed for a second season , though that's the only new show on our radar. There have been rumblings of movies, but we aren't sure what's actually being made. A film chronicling the formation of Starfleet was announced around 18 months ago , but there hasn't been any news since then. Patrick Stewart has been openly campaigning for a Captain Picard movie, but, well, he's 84 as of this writing.
Geek Tyrant
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY Cast Says the Series Isn't Just YA - It's "Young Adults Going Through Some Real Sh*t" — GeekTyrant
We've been hearing some interesting things about the upcoming series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy , including the fact that Star Trek alum Jonathan Frakes said the series is for the hardcore fans, and the fact that the show has already been renewed for a second season ahead of its first season release. The series is set in the 32nd century and follows a class of cadets as they train to uphold Starfleet's legacy. Unlike most Star Trek shows, this one is primarily set on Earth, offering a fresh perspective on the franchise. While the story has been billed as 'Young Adult,' the cast has offered up a little correction on that thought. Stars Kerrice Brooks and Bella Shepard recently spoke to about Starfleet Academy , and specifically touched on whether it was a series geared toward young adults. Shepard said it's more of an "everything" show and added it's "young adults going through some real shit," while Brooks went on to add: 'Yeah. To be honest, it doesn't feel super YA. I don't think things are like simplified or just like life brings you to a level, that's what the show feels like it's doing to the cadets. It feels like it is bringing us to a level instead of coming down to a YA, not that it's a negative thing. But instead of coming to us, we're like joining a Federation, so we've got to come up.' The series looks like it will be an exciting new take on the franchise, weaving established characters with fresh faces, including Voyager 's Robert Picardo reprising his role as The Doctor, Discovery alum Oded Fehr returning as Admiral Charles Vance, and Tig Notaro back as Jett Reno. Holly Hunter is stepping into the franchise as the Academy's chancellor, while Paul Giamatti joins as a recurring villain. Although filming wrapped in February 2025, Paramount+ has yet to announce a release date. Stay tuned for updates on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy .
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
A festival of foolishness and toxicity
The circus, also known as the Florida Legislature, is back in town. (Photo via FSU Flying High Circus.) OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE — The circus is coming to town. Y'all might know it as the regular session of the Florida Legislature. Don't even begin to think this year can't possibly be worse than last year, when lawmakers passed a dumpster full of bills to make Florida worse. They include: Allowing underage kids to work 30-hour weeks when school is in session, teaching them the value of low-paid labor. Making sure businesses don't have to give roofers, construction workers, etc., water breaks or shelter from the blazing sun and 100-degree temperatures. This is Florida: Suck it up, Buttercup! A law letting people shoot bears whenever they feel like it. Scrubbing references to climate change, but ensuring students learn communism is the worst thing in the universe, worse than having to eat your vegetables, worse than 'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey,' worse than syphilis. Cracking down on degenerate nekkidness by decreeing that all strippers must be over 21. Declared a part of Tyndall Airforce Base 'Spaceport Territory,' perhaps to become the future home of Starfleet Academy. Accomplishments to be proud of, indeed. But 2025 promises even more landmark legislation. Always focused on the critical issues, your elected representatives will make it a law that you call the Gulf of Mexico the 'Gulf of America.' Of course, it's not the 'Gulf of America,' any more than Greenland is actually green or Bombay Duck is a waterfowl. The Associated Press and the rest of the planet will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico (as will rational Floridians), but since when does reality deter Trump-drunk legislators? Case in point: SB56, sponsored by Sen. Ileana Garcia, R-Coral Gables, would forbid messing with the weather. Seems she agrees with U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who hinted the sinister Biden administration was responsible for Hurricane Helene. Well, we're not putting up with people fooling around with storms and heatwaves and space lasers here in Florida, and while we're outlawing cloud seeding to make it rain — which hasn't been done for half a century — we need this bill to deal with those terrifying 'chemtrails,' too. You know: The white lines you see when an aircraft flies overhead? They're actually nothing but condensation, but Garcia reposted (and did not refute) loony conspiracy theories suggesting they're chemicals that could facilitate mind control. The nation's new HHS Secretary, RFK Jr. agrees, often muttering dark conspiracy theories about some unknown cabal spraying 'microscopic particulates from airplanes.' You can't be too careful with your precious bodily fluids. To that end, Sen. Kevin Truenow and Rep. Kaylee Tuck have filed a bill to outlaw fluoride in public water systems, parroting the state surgeon general's claim that studies show fluoride causes brain damage in children. Indeed, there are a few studies that do suggest an extremely high level can affect kids' IQs — in Ethiopia, China, Turkey, and Pakistan, where the water is loaded with fluoride at many times what's allowed here. Dentists and the CDC say community fluoridation reduces cavities and other painful mouth maladies by 25%, but what do a bunch of scientists know? Clearly not as much as RFK Jr. (him again!), who supports banning fluoride, calling it cancer-causing 'industrial waste.' When your kids howl about all those coming encounters with the dentist and his great big drill, tell them to turn to the Almighty. If Kimberly Daniels, D-Jacksonville, has her way, they won't have much choice. Rep. Daniels has filed a bill that would require Florida schools to plaster large signs declaring 'In God We Trust' on everything that stands still long enough: offices, gyms, libraries, cafeterias, classrooms — who knows, maybe on the back of the school mascot. And to remind the young 'uns this is a free country, the measure mandates a 'moment of silence' (AKA prayer) and demands students sing the national anthem and say the Pledge of Allegiance every blessed day. Remember that bill passed last year allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to work 30 hours a week during the school year? Apparently, it's too soft for Sen. Jay Collins of Hillsborough County. Collins, a former Green Beret with a chest full of medals and a head full of sawdust, wants those whiny brats to toughen up. Ditch the mandatory breaks for teen wage slaves; lose the waivers parents must sign; and allow the little punks to work earlier than 6 a.m. and after 11.30 p.m. On school nights. The ones who survive the toxic mix of mindless labor and chronic fatigue, managing to stay awake long enough to pass the SAT, and make it to college, might soon be able to pack heat on campus, just as God intended. Sen. Randy Fine, R-Islamophobia Lakes, has authored a campus-carry bill because students need to protect themselves from 'Muslim terror.' Instances of 'Muslim terror' apparently include college students occupying patches of university-maintained grass, sometimes with illicit tents, demonstrating against genocide in Gaza, and occasionally shouting stupid antisemitic slogans. If those are acts of 'terror' so are the rising instances of anti-Muslim 'terror' on campus. Fine seems to imagine Jewish students will get themselves guns. So will Muslim students. So will depressed students, alienated students, and anyone who might, at some time, get drunk, stoned, or angry. What could possibly go wrong? The combustible Fine is almost certainly on his way out of the Florida Senate, headed to Congress after a special election on April Fool's Day. Nevertheless, he's determined to pass as many hate-fueled bills as possible before he moves up to apply his singular talent for destruction to the entire country. He was an enthusiastic sponsor of the new law taking in-state tuition away from DACA recipients and other undocumented students. Now he wants to deny them admission to most Florida colleges. Why? Why not? Don't pass up any opportunity to be gratuitously cruel. In case you have been worried about our not-remotely-beleagured $12 billion+ phosphate industry, the Legislature is on the case, determined to ensure their ability to poison our environment. The state has 450,000 acres of land where phosphate was, or is still being, mined. You may have seen these places in west central Florida: huge tracts stripped of plants, animals, water, and soil, and those picturesque gypsum stacks, hundred of feet high and hundreds of acres wide. Over the past 30 years, the gyp stacks have leaked arsenic, heavy metals, and other carcinogens into Tampa Bay, the Alafia River, and the aquifer. A couple of citizens who lived on former phosphate land and say they were exposed to dangerous amounts of radiation are suing fertilizer behemoth Mosaic. Phosphate is radioactive. But the state may make these tiresome little people go away with bills to shield mining companies, most of which can be counted on to write fat checks come campaign time. Power and profits trump drinking water. And while our elected representatives are about the business of wrecking Florida, the governor has decided he wants to abolish property taxes. Voilà! A bill to 'study' what that would mean has magically appeared in the Senate. To save everybody time, here's what that would mean: less money for police and firefighters, less money for critical local services (city parks? fixing potholes? running community clinics?), far less money for schools. To begin to make up for that deep revenue hole, Florida would need to generate $43 billion. Where are we going to get that money? Sky high sales taxes. Sales taxes are regressive, hitting those least able to pay. Maybe that's the idea: Demolish public education, wreck social programs, and create a permanent underclass dependent on low-wage, high-risk jobs. Ron 'Who are you calling irrelevant?' DeSantis is all-in. He's now concocted a scheme he calls the 'DOGE-ing' of Florida, set up to fire hundreds of state workers, root out what he imagines are secret practitioners of DEI, and 'audit' (using AI) state universities lest some professor assigns a book on Jim Crow. You think things at the DMV, the Department of Children and Families, DEP, DOT, etc., are bad now, just wait. You think institutions of higher ed are sinking in the ratings and getting ridiculed across the country now, just wait. You think these bills are outrageous and stupid, stay tuned. These clowns are just getting started. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
The Onion
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Onion
When We Invited You To Join Our Trivia Team, It Was With The Understanding That You Knew ‘Star Trek'
Well, I hope you're proud of yourself, Rich. Our team trusted you with the privilege of proving yourself on Trivia Hell Night. But after last night's demeaning spectacle, I doubt we can ever go back to Sharlene's Bar without recalling the deep humiliation you brought upon us all. After tanking a Star Trek round with a full four questions whiffed, I feel more shame than Spock in 'The Naked Time.' I want to speak plainly and clearly—not rage like a wild mugato—and I cannot say my piece any more plainly than this, Rich: When we extended our invitation, not a week ago, for you to fill the empty slot on the Knowblemen while Andrew was out of town for Comic Con, it was because we trusted your fervent assurances that you were well-versed in Star Trek lore, inside and out, with a special emphasis on 21st-century Trek . What did we witness instead, Rich? A deeply disappointing display of Trek knowledge in the all-too-critical Week 8 of our 13-week trivia season. At this point, our longstanding nemeses the Man-DeLoreans will have to meet the business end of an ahn-woon for us to have a chance at winning it all. I thought I was very clear with you that Trivia Hell was guaranteed to have a generous dose of Trek questions, and that the Quizmonster has a boner for NuTrek, often dipping into it for his hardest, most herd-culling questions. I was quite emphatic that Andrew is the only team member who is not too busy elsewhere to give Prodigy , Strange New Worlds , and Picard the deep scrutiny they deserve. And you? You swore up and down that you were—to use your exact words—'into all that.' Well, next time we'll just have to prepare a written quiz before capriciously welcoming newcomers. You certainly knew your stuff when it came to 'The Lights Of Zetar,' the Rozhenko family, the Dominion War, and Delta Quadrant geography, making you both a vintage Trek fan in good standing and utterly redundant on our team. Let us review just some of the subjects that gave you trouble, Rich: the name of Captain Archer's dog, the actor who plays Keenser (No, Rich, it was not Verne Troyer. It was not Verne Troyer at all), and who made up the bridge crew of the USS Discovery . They were asking for the crew's names , mind you—not, say, their blood types or their extracurricular activities at Starfleet Academy. Needless to say, once the match got serious in the second half, you fell apart completely on questions about Rok-Tahk's backstory and the properties of horonium, turning what should have been a night of triumph and glory into a humiliating Kobayashi Maru scenario, as tortuous as a weekend with Gul Madred. It is only because Geoff happened to remember details of 'Forget Me Not'—and that was only because Andrew never shuts up about that episode—that we even squeaked into third place, meaning that not only the Man-DeLoreans surpassed us, but we even came in behind the Non-Fungible Tolkiens, a team of dilettantes who don't even have a particularly strong Babylon 5 expert. This humiliating evening left us holding a mere $10 Dunkin' gift card for a full night's work. Not exactly a crate of gold-pressed latinum! We are a reasonable trivia team, Rich. We do not demand you bring us a positronic brain with 800 quadrillion bits of storage. No one expected you to have memorized the registry numbers of the USS Kimura . Nor do we punish the occasional mental hiccup. I myself, back when I was Scrivener and Star Wars expert on the Memory Asswipes, kept my team out of the finals by momentarily forgetting the 1970s animated Trek series, for I am human. But we cannot be bamboozled into believing you have broad and deep knowledge of contemporary Star Trek just because you've watched the occasional Lower Decks episode—what manner of Pakleds do you take us for? Perhaps I share the blame, here: I should have sensed trouble after you blinked uncomprehendingly when I invited you to my Bell Riots party in September. Or when, in a discussion of the film series at that party, you referred to Into Darkness as 'the Benedict Cumberbatch one.' Hardly the words of someone who's internalized the Star Trek universe as if it were their own life. Incidentally, I saw you flirting with the waitress nearly as much as you were considering the questions. Is that what this was about—worming your way onto our team to hit on a girl like a lowly Ferengi? Knowblemen are to pon farr on their own time, Rich. We are an elite bar-trivia team focused on no less than total, devastating victory and the supreme prize of a $25 discount on our bar tab. Had this gone well, we were considering asking you to join us next month for Trivia Combat starring General Knowledge, where teams of up to six are allowed. You are, after all, very strong on Harry Potter trivia. If only we could Tuvix you and Andrew into one body, we'd be unbeatable. But now? The critical bonds of trust have been shattered like the Crystalline Entity. One day we may get past this—maybe we'll even laugh like Kirk and Kang in 'Day Of The Dove'—but the crude, Berlinghoff Rasmussen–level con you foisted on us last night is, for now, a grave offense. But perhaps the worst wound of all is that you treated trivia as if it were unimportant. Larry Groznic is a noted fan-community luminary and sought-after expert on the topics of British television, spy-fi memorabilia, cosplay, RPG adventuring, and limited-edition collectible maquettes. He lives in Cedar Rapids, IA, and is single.
