Star Trek Explorer

Providing in-depth coverage of all aspects of Star Trek, from the classic years of Kirk and Spock, through Jean Luc Picard, Captains Sisko, Janeway and Archer to the new JJ Abrams movies, Star Trek Magazine is your indispensable guide to the Star Trek universe. Every issue contains star-name interviews, great analytical features and exclusive photography from the CBS archives.

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STARSHIP MINE • Saru has been in the U.S.S. Discovery hot seat before, but Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery sees the Kelpien assuming full command as the ship’s captain. As Saru actor Doug Jones explains, his path to the captaincy has been an extraordinary one – and with Discovery in truly uncharted waters in the distant future, this season could be his most remarkable yet.

OPEN BOOK • Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery introduces a whole host of new faces, as the U.S.S. Discovery and her crew explore the strange new far-future galaxy in which they find themselves. Chief among those is Cleveland Booker, alias Book, who spends quite a bit of time with Michael Burnham, bringing a sense of fun into the straitlaced commander’s life. Here, the actor behind Book, David Ajala, opens the covers on his character.

SELECTED CREDITS

FLEETS OF ENGINEERING • As Geordi La Forge notes in Star Trek: First Contact, Zefram Cochrane’s work with warp technology laid the foundation for the Federation’s ability to build fleets of starships that have explored the galaxy from the 22nd to the 24th Centuries and beyond. Constructed with a variety of mission parameters in mind, each new class has distinguished itself through the actions of the crews that operate the vessels. Here, we detail these impressive craft, and recount some of the momentous events that have involved each design.

OBERTH CLASS (23RD AND 24TH CENTURIES)

NEBULA CLASS (24TH CENTURY)

CALIFORNIA CLASS (24TH CENTURY)

LA SIRENA (24TH CENTURY)

SHIP IN A BOTTLE • Every network TV show has its fair share of “bottle episodes” – shot on existing sets to save money – and Star Trek is no exception. One series, however, did it better than the rest, thanks to having a whole “Galaxy” to explore…

Ship’s Manifest

Honorable Mentions

THE VOICE • Heard but seldom seen: that’s Julianne Grossman. For three seasons the actress has embodied the U.S.S. Discovery as the voice of the ship’s computer – her “black alert” calls as recognizable as any of Star Trek: Discovery’s more visible performances. And yet until last year, few of her Discovery castmates had even set eyes on her…

Suicide Prevention Awareness • Away from voice acting, Julianne Grossman is involved in suicide prevention awareness programs. The actress has a very personal reason for doing so, as she explains…

DRAWING THE ENTERPRISE Creating the Ultimate User’s Guide for the First Starship • For 30 years, modelers and illustrators Gary Kerr and Matthew Cushman have been driven by a desire to document the 11-foot model of the U.S.S. Enterprise, as used in the filming of Star Trek – to delve into its inner workings, dislodge its deepest secrets, and determine how to make it work. This is the story of that epic quest.

LIVING SPACE HABITABILITY IN STARSHIP DESIGN • In last issue’s Treknology, we took a look at the real world viability of Starfleet’s various vessels. This issue, we explore the livability of those ships, and how they match up to today’s reality, in particular NASA’s Orion capsule.

The View on Decks • The first animated Star Trek series in nearly 50 years, centering on a rear-echelon Starfleet crew on a less-than-stellar starship: on first inspection, Star Trek: Lower Decks is a pretty atypical Trek. But in its awareness and use of canon, and in the way its characters...