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Who directed the pilot for the original Star Trek series? Where was it filmed? Who really built the Enterprise? You may own The Star Trek Encyclopedia, and you may have seen every episode, b... Read all Who directed the pilot for the original Star Trek series? Where was it filmed? Who really built the Enterprise? You may own The Star Trek Encyclopedia, and you may have seen every episode, but you still don't have all the answers! For the first time, the men and women who worked ... Read all Who directed the pilot for the original Star Trek series? Where was it filmed? Who really built the Enterprise? You may own The Star Trek Encyclopedia, and you may have seen every episode, but you still don't have all the answers! For the first time, the men and women who worked behind the scenes on the most popular science fiction telelvision series ever created invi... Read all

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In April, Heritage Auctions heralded the discovery of the original model of the U.S.S. Enterprise, the iconic starship that whooshed through the stars in the opening credits of the 1960s TV series “Star Trek” but had mysteriously disappeared around 45 years ago.

The auction house, known for its dazzling sales of movie and television props and memorabilia, announced that it was returning the 33-inch model to Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry Jr., son of series creator Gene Roddenberry. The model was kept at Heritage’s Beverly Hills office for “safekeeping,” the house proclaimed in a statement, shortly after an individual discovered it and brought it to Heritage for authentication.

“After a long journey, she’s home,” Roddenberry’s son posted on X , (formerly Twitter).

But the journey has been far from smooth. The starship model and its celebrated return is now the subject of a lawsuit alleging fraud, negligence and deceptive trade practice, highlighting the enduring value of memorabilia from the iconic sci-fi TV series.

The case was brought by Dustin Riach and Jason Rivas, longtime friends and self-described storage unit entrepreneurs who discovered the model among a stash of items they bought “sight unseen” from a lien sale at a storage locker in Van Nuys last October.

“It’s an unfortunate misunderstanding. We have a seller on one side and a buyer on the other side and Heritage is in the middle, and we are aligning the parties on both sides to get the transaction complete,” said Armen Vartian, an attorney representing the Dallas-based auction house, adding that the allegations against his client were “unfounded.”

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The pair claimed that once the model was authenticated and given a value of $800,000, they agreed to consign it to an auction sale with Heritage planned for July 2024, according to the lawsuit. However, following their agreement, they allege the auction house falsely questioned their title to the model and then convinced them, instead of taking it to auction, to sell it for a low-ball $500,000 to Roddenberry Entertainment Inc. According to the suit, Eugene Roddenberry, the company’s CEO, had shown great interest in the model and could potentially provide a pipeline of memorabilia to the auction house in the future.

“They think we have a disagreement with Roddenberry,” said Dale Washington, Riach and Rivas’ attorney. “We don’t. We think they violated property law in the discharge of their fiduciary duties.”

The two men allege they have yet to receive the $500,000 payment.

A surprise discovery in a Van Nuys storage unit

For years, Riach and Rivas have made a living buying repossessed storage lockers and selling the contents online, at auction and at flea markets. In fact, Riach has appeared on the reality TV series “Storage Wars.”

“It’s a roll of dice in the dark,” Riach said of his profession bidding on storage lockers. “Sometimes you are buying a picture of a unit. When a unit goes to lien, what you see is what you get and the rest is a surprise. At a live auction you can shine a flashlight, smell and look inside to get a gauge. But online is a gamble, it’s only as good as the photo.”

Last fall, Riach said he saw a picture of a large locker in an online sale. It was 10 feet by 30 feet, and “I saw boxes hiding in the back, it was dirty, dusty, there were cobwebs and what looked like a bunch of broken furniture,” he said.

Something about it, he said, “looked interesting,” and he called Rivas and told him they should bid on it. Riach declined to say how much they paid.

There were tins of old photographs and negatives of nitrate film reels from the 1800s and 1900s. When Rivas unwrapped a trash bag that was sitting on top of furniture, he pulled out a model of a spaceship. The business card of its maker, Richard C. Datin, was affixed to the bottom of the base.

A Google search turned up that Datin had made “Star Trek” models, although the two men didn’t make the connection to the TV series.

“We buy lots of units and see models all of the time,” Riach said. He thought they would find a buyer and decided to list it on eBay with a starting price of $1,000.

At once, they were deluged with inquiries. Among Trekkies, the long-lost first starship model had attained a mythical status.

The original “Star Trek’’ debuted in 1966 and aired for three seasons. Although its original run was brief, the show has generated numerous films and television spinoffs and is one of the most lucrative entertainment franchises, with an enormous fan base.

In 2022, at a Heritage auction of 75 props and items, a Starfleet Communicator from the 1990s series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” sold for $27,500 while a pair of Spock’s prosthetic Vulcan ear tips from the original series went for $11,875, more than twice the amount they brought when they were sold in 2017 for $5,100.

The starship’s design was crucial to the series’ success. “If you didn’t believe you were in a vehicle traveling through space, a vehicle that made sense, whose layout and design made sense, then you wouldn’t believe in the series,” Gene Roddenberry said in the 1968 book “The Making of Star Trek,” according to the auction house.

For years, the show’s creator had kept the 33-inch model on his desk. It became the prototype for the 11-foot model used in subsequent episodes. That version was later donated to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. But that first model disappeared around 1978 when the makers of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” borrowed it.

A missing starship model

In 1979, Roddenberry wrote to then Paramount executive Jeffrey Katzenberg stating that he had “loaned” the model to the studio more than a year earlier.

“My problem is simply that of getting my model back,” Roddenberry wrote, according to a copy provided by Washington. “It is a fairly expensive piece of model making but its real value to me is what it represents.” He added that no one he had spoken with “had the slightest hint as to who got it or what happened to it.”

Roddenberry died in 1991 .

After the massive interest sparked by the eBay listing, Riach and Rivas pulled the sale and began researching the model more intently. They discovered the connection between Datin and the TV series but also learned that the original model was the same size as the one they had found and it had gone missing. “I said wow, do we have something here?” said Riach, and then reached out to Heritage.

Riach admitted that “Star Trek” wasn’t really on his radar. He was a die-hard “Star Wars” fan, having collected vintage memorabilia from the space films since he was 8 years old.

But given the treasure he unearthed, he now says, “I love ‘Star Trek.’

“There are people buying storage units for 20 years and you will never find anything this great,” he said. “It’s like buying a lottery ticket. It was a very great find.”

Things took an unexpected twist, Riach said. In March, he and Rivas signed an agreement to sell the model for $500,000 after it was pulled from the planned auction and they were told Roddenberry Entertainment had a “strong claim” to the model’s title and “would tie them up with its ‘powerful legal team.’” But then they were given a new transfer agreement to sign with a new set of terms. Riach declined and, instead, he and Rivas called Washington.

Heritage “moved the goalposts,” said their attorney. Under the new agreement, Riach and Rivas would be paid a “finder’s fee,” which Washington called a “reward,” converting it from a transactional payment to a potentially voluntary payment.

They claimed that by April, when Heritage announced the model had resurfaced, the pair came to believe the house failed to disclose the item’s value was much greater than they had been told.

Joe Maddalena, Heritage’s executive vice president, made public statements calling it “priceless.” “It could sell for any amount and I wouldn’t be surprised because of what it is,” he told the AP . “It is truly a cultural icon.”

They also had not been paid.

On April 28, 10 days after Heritage announced it had returned the model to Roddenberry, Riach and Rivas’ lawyer sent a letter to the auction house’s attorney outlining their claims and asking for the payment promised; they also proposed mediation.

Vartian, the lawyer representing Heritage, said that Riach and Rivas became “impatient” about getting the transaction done, and disputes the house had a fiduciary duty to them.

“This is an arm’s-length business relationship,” Vartian said. “They bring something to the auction house and are trying to get the most possible amount as quickly as possible, that is [Heritage’s] position and what they did.”

Still, Vartian is confident that they will soon conclude the transaction, saying, “Various things including scheduling have taken longer than it would.”

For his part, Riach says this experience is much like that of the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise — “a strange new world.”

“I’ve never experienced anything like this. I’ve sold fine art at auction and other places, I got my check and went on. I’ve never had this roller coaster.

“Storage is a hard game. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose,” he added. “We’ve bought a $10,000 unit and everything was complete garbage. But if you play long enough, you can get lucky.”

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X-Men '97 Season 2: Characters, Story & Everything We Know

Now is the perfect time for the mcu to fix the x-men's 15-year gambit snub, magneto's x-men '97 attack was worse than thanos' infinity war snap.

Warning! This article contains spoilers for X-Men '97 season 1.

• Gambit's unexpected death in X-Men '97 hints at a potential revival as Apocalypse's Horseman Death, mirroring his comic storyline.
• The showrunner's cryptic Star Trek reference sparks speculation about time loops and how Gambit could potentially return in future episodes.
• Voice actor Chris Potter's teasing of Cable bringing back Gambit in the series finale raises questions about the possibility of altering past events.

The animated MCU series X-Men '97 shocked audiences with its mid-season finale after killing off Gambit during a Sentinel-led attack in Genosha. The death came as a shocker to fans initially disappointed by Gambit’s storyline in X-Men '97 . The kinetic energy-manipulating X-Man was introduced in the series mostly for comic relief, and his love for fellow mutant Rogue was also overshadowed by Rogue’s controversial romance with Magneto . Gambit’s demise in Genosha reversed this character depiction, emphasizing how the ex-thief is powerful enough to go against an army of Sentinels and brave enough to sacrifice himself in the line of fire.

Gambit’s death can shape his MCU future with a much-needed origin story (like the canceled movie starring Channing Tatum). A single live-action appearance by Taylor Kitsch in X-Men Origins: Wolverine doesn’t do enough justice. But considering that Magneto supposedly died in the same episode, and he’s alive, there might just be a way to resurrect “ The Ragin' Cajun .” With X-Men '97 connecting X-Men: The Animated Series to the MCU timeline, some level of time travel can be used to rewrite Gambit’s tragic end. True to the comics, the 90s animated series has itself resorted to such measures in the past.

X-Men '97 Season 1 is now available on Disney Plus, and here is everything we know about Season 2's characters, story details, and more.

Gambit’s Return Has Already Been Teased

An x-men: the animated series veteran might have foreshadowed gambit’s fate.

Chris Potter voiced Gambit in X-Men: The Animated Series but he joined the X-Men '97 voice cast as Cable, being replaced by A. J. LoCascio. Before the three-part finale “ Tolerance is Extinction ” began airing, the original Gambit voice actor teased that Gambit might return to the show with some help from Cable. To quote Potter from his appearance at Fan Expo Calgary, “ Now, as it turns out, Cable is the only one who can bring Gambit back. ” The actor added that he was informed that Gambit would be killed off in episode 3 (and not episode 5 as it happened).

They told me I'd be playing a new character. I said, 'What do you mean? I’m Gambit.' They said, 'Not anymore, we're killing him off in episode 3. You're going to be Cable now.

It must be noted that neither Marvel nor Disney have confirmed Potter’s claims so they remain unverified at the moment. While Potter’s words from the Fan Expo hint at Cable going back in time and preventing the annihilation of Genosha (like he has already done before), Gambit’s return is more difficult in the face of Marvel’s time travel rules. As explained in X-Men '97 episode 8, the Genosha event is an absolute point event. Much like Doctor Strange’s unsuccessful efforts at bringing back Christie in What If…? , Genosha’s destruction simply cannot be undone as it can destroy the entire timeline.

X-Men '97's Creator May Have Revealed How Gambit Can Return

Beau demayo teases a star trek easter egg.

X-Men '97 showrunner Beau DeMayo has seemingly confirmed that time travel can’t help out the X-Men this time, as is evident from his tweet reading “ no time travel to get us outta this one, folks ”. However, DeMayo has some “ extra credit homework ” for the audience before the finale airs as he cryptically posted an image of Star Trek: The Next Generation ’s Season 5 episode 18 “ Cause and Effect ”. In this particular episode, the crew of the USS Enterprise find themselves stuck in a time loop as their ship is destroyed over and over, with Picardo trying to solve the anomaly.

DeMayo’s tweet suggests that all events of X-Men '97 are taking place in a time loop . Considering that episode 9 featured shocking cliffhangers like Jean Grey’s death at the hands of a Mister Sinister-controlled Cable and Magneto tearing out Wolverine’s adamantium skeleton from his body, the finale must address their fate. But if undoing a time anomaly can prevent the Genosha massacre and Gambit’s death, this theory would then undo Cable’s rule of absolute points. As DeMayo’s hints again remain unconfirmed by Disney and Marvel, the Star Trek: The Next Generation connection cannot be set in stone as of now.

X-Men '97 Could Revive Gambit As Apocalypse's Horseman Death

Gambit’s dark return will be true to the comics.

Apocalypse has had a villainous presence throughout X-Men: The Animated Series . If the ancient mutant returns in X-Men '97 , Gambit can serve as one of the Horseman of Apocalypse. Following the events of the House of M storyline “ Decimation ”, Gambit had been going through a rough patch. He temporarily lost his powers and his relationship with Rogue was on the rocks when her shapeshifting mother Mystique tried to woo him. When Apocalypse returned to a world of depowered mutants, Gambit chose to side with him for mutant-kind and to keep a watchful eye on him unless he betrayed the mutants.

For 15 years, Gambit was a character snubbed in the live-action X-Men franchise, with now being the perfect tine for the MCU to resolve this.

This allegiance turned him into the Horseman Death, giving him a darker persona and amplifying his kinetic charge powers to more destructive levels. Gambit eventually lost all self-control when Apocalypse ordered him to kill the X-Men, a mission that he couldn’t achieve as he still couldn’t bring himself to kill Rogue. He later rejoined the X-Men, but the mental trauma of serving Apocalypse lingered on. Considering Gambit’s relationship with Rogue was getting increasingly turbulent before he died in X-Men '97 , there is comic-accurate scope for the fan-favorite Marvel mutant to be resurrected as one of Apocalypse’s accomplices in future episodes.

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Star Trek's Doug Jones Pulled Off A Disgusting Practical Effect For Hocus Pocus

A fter years of portraying fantastical creatures, I'm glad Doug Jones finally felt comfortable enough to appear as his regular self in "The Shape of Water." While his acting career began in the late 1980s, it wasn't until the '90s that the tall, lanky maestro of disguise found his niche performing in prosthetics. His minor role as "Thin Clown" in "Batman Returns" aside, though, it was Jones' turn as William "Billy" Butcherson in director Kenny Ortega's cult 1993 fantasy comedy "Hocus Pocus" that put the actor -- who recently played  the Kelpien Starfleet officer Saru on "Star Trek: Discovery" -- squarely on the map.

Billy, as we come to learn, is a ponytailed gentleman from the 17th century who was poisoned by the witch Winifred Sanderson (Bette Midler). She also proceeded to stitch his shut mouth to keep him quiet, even in death. Why so harsh? "Hocus Pocus" implies that Billy was Winifred's lover before getting frisky with one of the other Sanderson sisters, Sarah, aka the horny one (Sarah Jessica Parker), prompting Winifred to murder him in revenge. However, in "Hocus Pocus 2," Billy clarifies that while he and Winifred did kiss one time, they were never a real thing and Winifred was merely jealous when Billy fell for Sarah instead.

Witchy love triangles aside, Winifred revives Billy's undead corpse when she and her siblings return from the grave 300 years after being executed for their crimes (including, but not limited to, magically draining the life out of children, so don't go feeling too sorry for Winifred). Rather that do her bidding, though, Billy slices his lips apart and tells her off the first chance he gets. He even spits some moths in her direction for good measure.

That wasn't movie magic, either. Those were actual living insects (specifically butterflies).

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Doug Jones Put Real Butterflies In His Mouth

How's that for mothballs? The moment where Billy cuts his mouth open, letting out a blast of putrified air and fluttering moths, is brief but memorably disgusting. In an interview with Empire Magazine , Jones, Ortega, and legendary Hollywood "bug guy" Steven Kutcher revealed how they pulled the effect off. It involved putting a plastic shelf with air holes in Jones' mouth, which was then filled with Fuller's Earth (a clay-like powder) and three cabbage white butterflies. As Kutcher explained, moths move "like bullets," so they went with butterflies to ensure they could be properly caught on-camera when they went flying.

Unfortunately for poor Jones, he had to do the shot twice. As he explained to E! News in 2020:

"[...] The first take they get it all set in there, cameras were rolling, [mimes holding the butterflies in his mouth], and then a light burns out. I got my mouth open and out comes mud and the [butterflies] are kind of going, 'Ahhh!' [mimes butterflies falling out of his mouth anticlimactically]. That was a ruined take. Take two is where we got it right."

Nowadays, most filmmakers would probably (and understandably) save themselves a whole lot of stress and uncertainty by simply animating the dust and moths digitally. Still, I have to tip my hat to Jones, Kutcher, and the rest of the "Hocus Pocus" crew. The sight of Billy coughing up whatever gunk he's amassed in his throat from 300 years of being dead has been burned on my memory ever since I saw the movie as a kid. It's the sort of tangibly gross visual effect that you just can't match in CGI, like so many of the other strange and twisted creatures that Jones has played over the years .

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Star Trek: The True Story

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Star Trek: The True Story was a documentary co-produced in 2012 by Blink Films/LOOKS Filmproduktionen GmbH, an US/German production company combination. (see: here ) It was first broadcast by the Discovery Channel in the US on 5 January 2013 as the 29th episode of their " The True Story " documentary series. It was also broadcast in the UK by Channel 5 on 9 May 2013 . In Germany the documentary was aired by public broadcaster ZDF (the first-time German broadcaster of Star Trek in the mid-1970s) on 22 January 2014 as True Stories: Star Trek , [1] re-airing it on 12 and 13 December. [2] It became re-aired yet again in both Germany and France by ARTE (an European Union-wide operating public broadcaster) on 9 September 2016 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first-time airing in the USA. [3] Discovery, Channel 5, ARTE and ZDF incidentally, were all among the public broadcasters for whom the documentary was commissioned to become produced in the first place. (see: here )

Running for 45 minutes, the documentary broached the subject of Star Trek from two angles. First, it chronicled in broad strokes the genesis of the franchise, from the inception of Star Trek: The Original Series through cancellation and resurgence in syndication and subsequent fandom , to its rebirth in Star Trek: The Motion Picture . The second approach was the discussion of the current state of both the theoretical and practical development of the various scientific basic principles, that served, as per Gene Roddenberry 's dictum, as a believable basis at the time for The Original Series . For the second approach, several real-world scientists were interviewed, not a few of them unabashedly admitting they went into their chosen field of profession because of Star Trek: The Original Series .

As is currently commonplace with productions of the Discovery Channel, some of the events discussed in regard to the early history of the franchise were re-enacted with the use of actors portraying the main principals, Gene Roddenberry, Herb Solow and the NBC television executives in this case. Roddenberry received a somewhat more critical treatise than usual, as more of his Human fallacies and shortcomings during those years were highlighted, which, however, was met with sympathy by his son, Rod Roddenberry , who stated in the documentary that it helped him to humanize the picture he had of his late father.

Essentially syndicated itself, the documentary got a second lease of live in the USA as it had also been co-commissioned by the Smithsonian Channel who aired it on 30 June 2013 as the slightly adapted Star Trek: The Real Story , as part of their The Real Story documentary series, being the first episode of its fifth season. It was the Smithsonian version that saw a DVD release in 2018.

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• Andre Bormanis
• Leonard Nimoy
• Rod Roddenberry
• John and Bjo Trimble
• Anthony Antala (on artificial implants)
• Bruce Duncan (on androids )
• Jeffrey S. Hangst (on antimatter )
• David Hayes (on transportation )
• Lynn McCane and Jonathan R. Wolpow (on machine-brain interfaces)
• Charlie Richards as Young Herb Solow
• Mark Bazeley – Narrator
• Mandy Calder – Production Accountant
• Phil Stebbing – Director

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For five seasons, Star Trek: Discovery has taken audiences on the ride of a lifetime. With its series finale now in sight, I sat down with executive producer and co-showrunner Michelle Paradise at SeriesFest in Denver, Colorado to discuss the beloved show’s journey and what fans should expect from this ever-expanding television universe on Paramount Plus, before we say a proper farewell to the U.S.S. Discovery.

So for starters, what has Paradise enjoyed most about the evolution of Star Trek: Discovery , since it first premiered in September 2017?

“That’s a really great question,” Paradise said. “I have loved being a part of it. I joined halfway through season two, and it was starting to know what it was and it’s really found its way. I’ve really enjoyed the character arcs and getting to take them all to these different places. It’s also hard for me to separate out the evolution of the show from my evolution on the show and stepping into co-running it with [co-showrunner] Alex [Kurtzman] and starting to take over more of that in later seasons. It’s been the highlight of my career.”

Mary Wiseman as Tilly and Blu del Barrio as Adira in "Star Trek: Discovery" episode 7, season 5 - ... [+] streaming on Paramount+.

Paradise is no stranger to television production. She was previously an executive producer on such television projects as Exes & Ohs and The Originals , but I wondered what it might be about her Star Trek: Discovery cast and crew that perhaps feels special.

“It’s like a big family. First of all, our cast is incredible. They’re all insanely talented actors but they’re lovely human beings. They approach one another and they approach the project from just a place of love and respect for one another and for the material, which is always a wonderful place to start. You can’t say enough of [actor] Sonequa [Martin-Green], our number one and the tone that she sets on the show and on the set. We have a lot of folks on the show and the crew who come back, year-after-year. They all really love the world of Trek and they love one another. We try and go bigger and better and bolder every season, and there’s never a feeling of Oh, we can’t do that . It’s always a feeling of How do we do that? ”

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Sonequa Martin-Green as Burnham in "Star Trek: Discovery" streaming on Paramount+.

Since the original Star Trek series first premiered on television in 1966, the Star Trek story and fictional sci-fi universe has evolved into several iterations, including Star Trek: The Next Generation , Deep Space Nine , Voyager , Enterprise , Strange New Worlds and Picard - not to mention the numerous Star Trek movies over many decades, including the three recent blockbuster films, starring Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana and Zachary Quinto, with another sequel in the works.

Throughout all of these years, Star Trek fans have remained quite loyal and vocal, both when they love a story and even when they don’t. So, how does Paradise and her Star Trek: Discovery creative team try to appease Trek fans, but also not allow the chatter to stop them from taking on some creative risks?

Wilson Cruz as Culber and Anthony Rapp as Stamets in "Star Trek: Discovery" episode 6, season 5 - ... [+] streaming on Paramount+.

Paradise said, “I think the best way to answer that is we always try to honor what Trek is - where it came from, what is the DNA of any Trek series, which of course goes back to the original series, and then also honoring what is this version of Trek and knowing that it’s our job to make the best version of Discovery . Someone who loves Discovery may not love Strange New Worlds or someone who loves Strange New Worlds may not love Discovery. By design, these are all very different shows. To a certain degree, it has to be okay that not everyone is going to love this iteration. We always feel like if we can do justice to the franchise as a whole - what it means, do justice to the characters and do our best version of Discovery , then we will have succeeded.”

Ever since the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes ended late last year, there have been signs of movement and optimism within the entertainment industry, but also a sense of some standstill with television and film productions. So, what is Paradise seeing around the current state of Hollywood?

“I think it depends on who you talk to,” Paradise said. “It feels a bit like a mixed bag to me. There are a lot of people who are still very much struggling - writers, crew members, directors - because things have not picked up in the way that they would normally at this particular time of year. By in large, there’s not really a pilot season, as we used to know it. That’s very difficult for people. Of course, there’s still a lot of wonderful opportunities, but it seems like the compression that happened - it’s the combo platter of the [Covid-19] pandemic and the strikes, just after that. It does feel condensed - there are fewer things but I feel like, to some degree, that had to happen because in the big balloon of streaming, that in retrospect, it doesn’t feel like it was necessarily sustainable. Hopefully it will ease up, sooner than later, and kind of calm down because there’s still a lot of people who are struggling to get back into work right now and I feel for them - it’s hard.”

On more of a positive note, when asked what Paradise is enjoying most about the television landscape today, she says that she feels there is a lot that can be done, applauding the way that every week, Star Trek: Discover y is a “cinematic storytelling into television,” though she admits that the visual design of Discovery is not sustainable for every network and studio.

While our real world faces divisive times with war, political unrest and other conflicts, I wondered if Paradise and her team keep in mind the real-life issues occurring, when crafting its stories for the screen on Star Trek: Discovery .

Mary Wiseman as Tilly, June Laporte as Ravah and Wilson Cruz as Dr. Culber in "Star Trek: Discovery" ... [+] episode 6, season 5 - streaming on Paramount+.

“That comes from just the DNA of the show itself. The original series did not shy away from what was happening societal at that time. It did not shy away from tackling those things in the way that it could. That’s one of the cool things about sci-fi - aliens can stand-in for another culture, different relationships can stand-in for whatever is happening in society at the time. That’s kind of baked into any Trek show, is that reflection of what’s happening in the world at that time via sci-fi and the different ways we could do it.”

Paradise added: “In Discovery , we were very much aware of that and very thoughtful about what are the types of stories we want to tell, how does that reflect certain things that are going on. Trek means so much to so many people and where people are actively looking to Trek to reflect themselves in some way or actively looking to Trek as an answer to what’s happening in society and for hope that, as divisive as things are right now, as challenging around the world and in our country, that there is hope and we can overcome it with our better selves.”

Blu del Barrio as Adira, Tig Notaro as Jett Reno and Mary Wiseman as Tilly in "Star Trek: Discovery" ... [+] episode 7, season 5 - streaming on Paramount+.

When asked about what fans can expect ahead in the remaining episodes of Star Trek: Discovery , which drop every Thursday during this final season, Paradise teases that fans “might see more of our bad guys this season.” She added: “We did not going into the season [knowing] that this would be our last season. We’re so fortunate - CBS Studios and Paramount Plus gave us the opportunity, after the fact, to go shoot some additional material, and I feel like the thing I just want to keep reiterating for fans of the show is it has a proper ending. Our Discovery is not going to end on a cliffhanger of Are they all going to die? and then we never find out. It was worth the investment and I do think when people finish the season/series, they will feel like this season - again, we didn’t know going in - but it does feel like if you didn’t know that, you would think we knew going in because of what we’re doing thematically and where our characters go. So, I think people will feel very satisfied.”

As the conversation with Paradise concluded, she was left with one last question: For Star Trek: Discovery fans, people who have followed these five seasons - as they soon finish these final episodes, what message do you as a co-showrunner want to say these people, after investing their time in the series over the past seven years and falling in love with these characters?

Mary Wiseman, Sonequa Martin-Green and Michelle Paradise.

“I just would want to say thank you. There is no Discovery without the fans and they are always so loving and supportive and passionate, even when they don’t like what we’re doing, they’re passionate. As writers and creators and actors and the directors, we love that! We love that passion and their passion means so much to us.”

Paradise added: “It was a gift. Hopefully, we’ll all get to do it again someday.”

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Beam Me Up, Doctor: Russell T. Davies Breaks Down That 'Star Trek' Easter Egg in the 'Doctor Who' Premiere

"I just know how many geeks are watching, and I include myself on that list," said Davies.

The Big Picture

• Doctor Who references Star Trek in the season premiere “Space Babies."
• Showrunner Russell T. Davies reveals his love for Star Trek , especially newer series like Discovery and Picard , and explains he wanted to delight "geeks" like himself with the reference.
• While a Star Trek x Doctor Who crossover isn't likely to happen anytime soon, Davies enjoys opening the door for fan theories.

When two shows about people traveling through time and space, making the universe a better place, have been on since the 60s, it’s natural to hope they’ll one day cross paths. As a huge sci-fi nerd, I was over the moon when, in the opening scenes of “Space Babies,” Ruby contextualizes traveling in the TARDIS by referencing Star Trek . This is hardly the first time Doctor Who has referenced Star Trek , with many companions making the same comparison as Ruby does, but it is, as Russell T. Davies noted in my recent chat with the showrunner, the first time the Doctor has responded as if the people and adventures of the long-running series exist in reality.

Speaking to Davies ahead of the two-episode premiere, I had to ask what motivated him to include that little quip. He explained that while he’d been a more casual viewer of the older shows like the original series and The Next Generation , it was the newer shows that really turned him into a proper Star Trek fan. “I'm coming to love Star Trek with an absolute passion,” said Davies. “I love the old show. I always watched the old show, but when Star Trek: Discovery came along, I kind of became a proper fan.” It’s always nice to see Discovery get the flowers it deserves. Responsible for kicking off the current era of Star Trek , the series gets an unreasonable amount of flack on the internet for its commitment to diversity and inclusion — two hallmarks of the entire franchise.

Davies went on to praise more of the recent Trek series, even gushing about his crush on Captain Pike — and honestly, who doesn’t have a crush on Captain Pike. “So now I'm devoted, with Picard and Strange New Worlds . Frankly, the fact that I'm not married to Captain Pike is a major problem in my life, and I look to you, Collider, to put this right, frankly. It’s a wrong that needs righting,” Davies laughed. “I love that man. Oh, god, he's beautiful, Anson Mount . What a great name.”

Will We Ever Actually Get a ‘Star Trek’ x ‘Doctor Who’ Crossover?

While there are innumerable hoops both shows would have to jump through on the legal and intellectual property side of things, the creatives behind both shows have already shown their love for each other in recent years. Despite a true crossover being almost impossible right now, Davies enjoyed opening the door for fans to theorize about the Doctor crossing paths with Starfleet. He explained:

“So I just know how many geeks are watching, and I include myself on that list. I know how many science fiction fans are out there, and I think we buzz. The interesting thing about that reference is it’s not the first time Doctor Who 's referenced Star Trek , but it is the first time Doctor Who 's referenced Star Trek as if it’s real. He says, “Let's go visit them.” So I think that should just cause excited ripples around the world. I hope.”

You can watch the Doctor talk about Star Trek in “Space Babies” right now on Disney+ and BBC iPlayer. New episodes of Doctor Who air on Fridays at 7 PM ET. Stay tuned for our full conversation with Davies.

The show follows the adventures of a Time Lord “The Doctor” who is able to regenerate, and the Doctor’s human friends. The Doctor and companion’s journey through time and space in the TARDIS – a time-traveling ship shaped like a police box – saving the universe with a combination of wit, bravery, and kindness.

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