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Gates McFadden on Podcasting With Star Trek Friends and the Franchise’s Enduring Legacy
Gates McFadden’s career goes well beyond the ins and outs of the Enterprise sickbay. While she might be best known to sci-fi fans as Star Trek: The Next Generation’s iconic Dr. Beverly Crusher, McFadden’s taught, acted on stage and screen, worked on Jim Henson hits likeLabyrinth, and more. Now, she’s picking up a new skill: … Continued
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The A to Z of Star Trek‘s Q
Star Trek’s galaxy is filled with mysterious alien races, unexplained phenomena, and incomprehensible technology that our Starfleet heroes would love to explore and understand. And then there’s the Q Continuum, a group of beings that a lot of those Starfleet officers wish would leave them alone instead. But you can’t keep a good omnipotent being … Continued
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Star Trek’s John de Lancie on Bringing Back Classic Characters for Revivals
Season one of Star Trek: Picard is filled with nostalgia and characters Star Trek fans know and love. Season two will continue that legacy by having John de Lancie reprise his role as the high-powered entity Q. While it was a nice surprise to learn last week, in a new interview, the actor talks about … Continued
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Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Will See John de Lancie’s Q Return
Jean-Luc’s most belligerent, enduring frenemy is back. Just revealed to kick off CBS’ celebration of “First Contact Day”—the day Zefram Cochrane became the first human to achieve warp flight and encounter the Vulcans in Star Trek: First Contact—Sir Patrick Stewart debuted an early teaser for the currently filming second season of Star Trek: Picard for … Continued
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Oh Hell Yeah, Q’s Coming to Star Trek: Lower Decks
John de Lancie is returning to Star Trek, and in just the right medium for more Continuum shenanigans. During yesterday’s Star Trek day celebrations—which gave us, among other things, a new Discovery trailer and very important images of David Ajala wearing a cat like it’s the fall’s hottest new look—the crew behind Star Trek: Lower … Continued
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10 Omnipotent Beings Who Are also Jerks
What is it about limitless power that turns people into such assholes? It’s not the old saying that absolutely power corrupts absolutely, because while there are certainly evil gods out there, these 10 god-like entities aren’t evil so much as they’re just jerks — jerks who use their power to make we poor mortals miserable … Continued
By Rob Bricken