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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Star Trek Explorer

Engage! • EXPLORING THE STAR TREK UNIVERSE

Resurgence • Building upon the wave of excitement for Dramatic Labs’ upcoming interactive video game, Star Trek: Resurgence, a five-issue comic book prequel of the same name launched this month from IDW. Exploring the calamitous events of the U.S.S. Resolute preceding the game's main storyline, the miniseries is written by Andrew Grant and Dan Martin, with art by Josh Hood (Avatar: The Next Shadow, We Can Never Go Home).

I AM PECK • Ethan Peck's Star Trek journey is at four years and counting. As impossible, even illogical as it sounds, it's true. The news broke on August 14, 2018, that the actor had been cast as Spock, the foster brother of Michael Burnham, for the second season of Star Trek: Discovery. Peck slipped on his Vulcan ears and never looked back, playing the half-human/half-Vulcan character in Discovery, in the “Q&A” and “Ask Not” installments of Short Treks, and now on Strange New Worlds. Peck has done a virtuoso job of bringing to life a younger, not-yet-fully-formed Spock, yet a Spock who could evolve into Leonard Nimoy's iconic iteration of the character.

A NOBLE SACRIFICE • Hemmer, we hardly knew you. Star Trek fans quickly came to love Hemmer, the Enterprise's cantankerous, blind, and telepathic Aenar chief engineer on Strange New Worlds, but the character met a heroic end in “All Those Who Wander,” the ninth episode of the show's first season. Bringing Hemmer to life - and to death - was Canadian actor Bruce Horak…

Dedicated Double • Avaah Blackwell is Star Trek's current Tracee Lee Cocco. A generation ago, Cocco acted, served as a background player, and performed stunts in The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and three TNG feature films, sometimes looking like herself, but often buried deep beneath exotic alien makeups. Blackwell does likewise on Discovery and Strange New Worlds. On the former, she's portrayed several Osnullus characters, Lieutenant Ina, a Kelpien Council Member, a Linnarean Guard, and more, as well as lent her arm to the Gorn. On the latter, she's Rebecca Romijn's stunt double. Blackwell recently sat down with Star Trek Explorer to discuss the early days of her career, creating unique iterations of the Osnullus characters, attending conventions, and her hopes for the future. Here's what she had to say…

THE CONTINUUM • Star Trek Explorer warped back into the Q Continuum to ask Star Trek actors, behind-the-scenes talent, authors, and more our latest and greatest question. That question: If you could slip into makeup and character as any Star Trek alien - or a different alien from the one(s) you play or have played - what alien would you play and why? So many people answered the question, we've broken this feature into two parts. A-I ran in Star Trek Explorer #4 and we present J-Z here…

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REMEMBERING Nichelle Nichols • Nichelle Nichols first opened hailing frequencies in 1966 and, thanks to her magnificent, classy, and memorable embodiment of Lt. Nyota Uhura, they'll remain open for eternity - despite her death on July 30, 2022, at the age of 89. In the days after Nichols’ passing, countless people shared memories and paid tribute to her on social media and during public events. Star Trek Explorer has gathered together just a few of those memories, and tributes as part of this issue's looks back at Nichols’ life, career, and legacy…

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