Picard Season 3 And The Current State of Star Trek

Dave Cullen gives his take on the current state of Star Trek and the Picard series specifically. Do you agree or disagree?

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Captain Picard Facepalm Bust

This ThinkGeek exclusive bust of Captain Picard in his facepalm pose is limited to just 1,602 pieces (why not 1701??).

We’ve all had those facepalm moments.

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That’s when this statue is the perfect statement, letting those around you know not to test your patience and to give you some space. …

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NCC-1701D Monitor Mate

Shields up! Red alert! Travel to the 24th century with the Galaxy-class, fifth Federation starship to carry the name Enterprise, commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard!

You can have the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation sitting right there on your computer monitor with the out-of-this-world Star Trek: The Next Generation Enterprise Monitor …

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30 Years of TNG

Hosted by William Shatner on April 23rd, 2017, this is the 30th anniversary panel for Star Trek: The Next Generation with Jonathan Frakes (Commander Riker), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Troi), Brent Spiner (Data), Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher), Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar / Commander Sela) and Robert O’Reilly (Gowron).

Absent from the panel were LeVar Burton and …

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The Star Trek: The Next Generation Theme Sung A Capella

YouTube is the place to find esoteric videos and here’s one I just stumbled across. It’s an a capella cover of the Star Trek: The Next Generation theme.

It’s quite a technical feat as the Trek theme is reproduced by just one guy, laying down multiple tracks. Even more difficult because, of course, there are …

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Pogo's Data & Picard

Temba, his arms wide! In Tamarian this signifies the giving of a gift, first heard in the excellent episode Darmok. Data & Picard is YouTuber Pogo‘s tribute to The Next Generation. It is an original track featuring the voices of Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Commander Data (Brent Spiner), accompanied by a …

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Star Trek Home Theater

This video tour shows off Marc and Jennifer Bell’s Star Trek themed home theater and bar area that’s modelled after the bridge of the Enterprise in The Next Generation. Costing $1.5 million dollars, it took 4 years to build.

In keeping with the bridge motif, the doors open like real turbolift doors. Probably not …

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UPDATE: If you have a Netflix subscription, “The Captains” is available to watch.

There have been 5 incarnations of Star Trek over the last 50 odd years – The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise. In this documentary, filmed in 2011, original series actor William Shatner (Captain Kirk) talks to …

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Enterprise-D Tour

Virtual Reality was the up and coming Big New Thing 15-20 years ago and then it kind of just faded away. You’d hear the odd bit of info about it here and there but tit didn’t transform our use of computers and how we could interact with manufactured environments like games.

The thing is, we’re …

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Star Trek: The negt Generation Remastered

A couple of years ago, something I thought would never happen, happened. A remastered High-Definition (HD) edition of all seven of The Next Generation series was released on Blu-Ray. The show had originally been shot on film and then transferred to video tape for broadcast. Since film is inherently a high-definition medium, CBS & Paramount …

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Star Trek: Enterprise

When Enterprise first aired on Sky back in 2001, I was underwhelmed. That title song nearly killed my watching it there and then, but I did stick with the series for a few episodes. Until I got bored with the bad stories.

Many years later, when Enterprise came out on DVD (or here for

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Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock

I originally posted this article on Home Cinema Addict but since it’s Star Trek related, it seemed fitting to repost it here:

Leonard Nimoy, an icon of Science Fiction died today in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California, aged 83. He had been suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He revealed he was suffering from the disease …

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