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Celebrate Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary with your chance to WIN a stunning commemorative art book

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Celebrate Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary with your chance to WIN a stunning commemorative art book

It has been 50 years since the first ever episode of Star Trek aired on NBC in the US. In that half-century since 1966, the beloved science fiction franchise has spawned 7 television series, 13 films, hundreds of books and a legion of dedicated fans.

In celebration of a defining moment in sci-fi history, a special 50th anniversary edition of the most comprehensive Star Trek TV and Movie Collection ever has been released on Blu-Ray.

The epic Star Trek 50th Anniversary TV and Movie Collection contains 30 Blu-Ray discs featuring every on-screen Star Trek adventure featuring the original crew, never before seen art from the series plus a brand new two hour documentary chronicling the franchise’s fifty year journey to 2016. All in all, there’s more than twenty hours of brand new content on offer, beautifully packaged to sit pride of place in any proud Trekkie’s collection.

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Star-Trek-ArtTo celebrate the release of Star Trek 50th Anniversary TV and Movie Collection on Blu-ray, we have teamed up with Titan Books to offer 4 lucky readers the chance to win a special commemorative art book!

Star Trek: 50 Artists 50 Years celebrates the 50th anniversary of the beloved series. This gorgeous art book features a specially commissioned collection of art pieces from fans and artists around the world.

To win Star Trek: 50 Artists 50 Years, all you have to do is answer the simple question below and leave your email address:

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This competition closes on September 23, 2016. Only open to UK applicants. The winner will be selected at random from all entries. Please see full Terms and Conditions here.

The Star Trek 50th Anniversary TV and Movie Collection is out now on Blu-ray.

The internet celebrates Star Trek’s 50th birthday

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The internet celebrates Star Trek’s 50th birthday

The internet has been bursting with good vibes for the 50th anniversary of the first ever episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, which premiered on this day, September 8th, back in 1966. With fans sharing their favourite memories of the Gene Roddenberry-created show, the outpourings for #StarTrek50 have been heartfelt, emotional, intelligent, humorous, inspiring and enlightening, much like the beloved sci-fi show itself.

Here are some of our favourite posts from Twitter’s collective celebration of Star Trek and its long and rich history.

The day has also seen a number of remembrances for young star Anton Yelchin, who tragically passed away earlier this year ahead of the release of Star Trek Beyond, in which he plays Admiral Pavel Andreievich Chekov.

New Star Trek TV series to star ‘non-white female’ lead

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New Star Trek TV series to star ‘non-white female’ lead

Following in the positive footsteps of Star Wars and other franchises rebooting themselves with female leads, the new Star Trek series Star Trek Discovery looks to be launching with a woman at its helm.

Speaking at the Television Critics Association (TCA) Press Tour, the show’s co-creator Bryan Fuller told the press that the aim of the new series is to build upon Star Trek‘s existing reputation for embracing diversity, and that the lead character of Star Trek Discovery (unfortunately abbreviated to STD) is “female, human, and not a captain”.

Deadline further reports that the lead character of the CBS All Access show is unlikely to be white, saying “all women seen for the part so far — and there have been a lot of them as the casting process has kicked into high gear — have been African-American or Hispanic”.

So, could Star Trek Discovery boldly go where no other Star Trek instalment has gone before, by casting a woman of colour as its lead?

Here are a few quotes from the Official TCA Twitter:

Star Trek Discovery, which begins production in two months’ time, will be streamed globally on Netflix the day after it is made available on CBS All Access in North America in January.

CBS Action celebrates Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary with documentary specials

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CBS Action celebrates Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary with documentary specials

The world has gone Star Trek mad this July – and we here at TVGuide.co.uk couldn’t be happier about it. Celebrating both the cinematic release of Star Trek Beyond and the 50th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series, the good people at CBS Action have not one, but two documentary specials in store for the Trekkies among us, alongside two of the franchise’s best series airing every weeknight. Here are the details:

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Star Trek: A Captain’s Log

On Friday July 29th at 6:00pm, none other than William Shatner takes us on a trip through the original series in this gloriously retro documentary movie from 1994. Mixing video clips and interviews with Star Trek: The Original Series actors Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, and Nichelle Nichols, this is 1 hour and 20 minutes of old school gold for Star Trek fans.

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Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier

Showing on Sunday July 31st at 6:00pm, this 2007 documentary looks at what happened when Paramount Pictures celebrated Star Trek‘s 40th anniversary by holding an auction of many of the items that were used in the live-action Star Trek TV series. The items, stored in several warehouses, included rack after rack of uniforms, pieces of furniture, models of the various versions of the Enterprise, other starships and makeup prostheses for characters. We see how Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda, with assistance from the production staff of the TV series, chose the items to be auctioned, and dealt with the problems encountered in preparing many of the unusual items for shipment to the auction house, while also including scenes from the auction held in 2006 and interviews with many of the stars and production personnel of the TV series.

CBS Action will also be running Star Trek: The Original Series on weekdays at 6pm, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on weekdays at 8pm.

Star Trek Beyond is showing in cinemas around the UK now.

Netflix to stream new Star Trek TV series in the UK

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Netflix to stream new Star Trek TV series in the UK

Netflix has bought the rights to stream the upcoming Star Trek TV revival exclusively in the UK.

The new series, which will air on CBS and on-demand service CBS All Access in the US, has been commissioned for thirteen episodes and will begin filming in Toronto in September.

It is being helmed by Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller and reports indicate that it will be set in the original Trek universe at some point between The Original Series and The Next Generation.

As well as receiving exclusive rights to the UK release, Netflix has also bought rights to air the show in 87 other countries.

Each episode is expected to be available within 24 hours of the US broadcast.

To get Trekkies ready for the new series, Netflix has made all previous episodes of the hit franchise – from The Original Series to Enterprise – available for streaming now on the service.

Bryan Fuller’s Star Trek will be available on Netflix in January 2017.

WATCH: First look at Uhura and Spock in Star Trek Beyond

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WATCH: First look at Uhura and Spock in Star Trek Beyond

The much-anticipated new Star Trek film, Star Trek Beyond, released a new clip today featuring the franchise’s unlikely lovebirds, Uhura and Spock – played by Zoe Saldana and Zachary Quinto.

Their relationship has not been the most conventional and it looks like there may be trouble ahead in this emotional clip.

Luckily, Doctor McCoy is on hand to offer a supporting sarcastic quip to cheer up poor Spock.

The upcoming film will see the Enterprise crew back together, stranded on an alien planet with an enemy who hates the Federation.

Chris Pine, Simon Pegg and John Cho will be back on deck, with Idris Elba and Sofia Boutella joining the cast. This film marks one of the last appearances of Anton Yelchin (Pavel Chekov) after he tragically died this year.

Star Trek Beyond will be released in the UK on 22nd July.

Netflix UK adds every episode of Star Trek ever made

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Netflix UK adds every episode of Star Trek ever made

We never even realised this much Star Trek existed, but we sure are glad that we’re now able to make up for a lot of lost time, as Netflix has made every single episode of Star Trek ever produced available to stream for its UK subscribers 🖖

Just in time for the new feature film Star Trek Beyond hitting cinemas on July 22nd, Netflix has added the following incarnations of the Star Trek franchise to its UK library:

– All 3 seasons of the original Star Trek (with William Shatner as Capt. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Spock).

– All 178 episodes of The Next Generation (that’s the one with Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard).

– All 7 seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

– The Patrick Stewart-starring films Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection (1994, 1996 & 1998).

– Both seasons of the 1970s Star Trek: The Animated Series.

– And J.J. Abrams’s 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness, starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Anton Yelchin and Benedict Cumberbatch.

An all new Star Trek series is currently in the works for CBS All Access, and is set to premiere some time in 2017. Read all about it here!

Star Trek Beyond is released in cinemas around the UK on July 22nd.

New Star Trek series to launch in 2017

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New Star Trek series to launch in 2017

Star Trek has proven its ability to live long and prosper, as the cult sci-fi franchise will return for a new TV series in 2017.

CBS Television Studios has confirmed that the new instalment of the show – which will be the first new Star Trek series since the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005 – is currently being developed, and will blast off in January 2017 on CBS before the rest of the series airs exclusively online at CBS All Access. This means that it will also be the first TV series designed specifically for CBS’ online platform. CBS All Access already offers every episode of all previous Star Trek television series.

Star Trek movies producer and co-writer Alex Kurtzman is reportedly working on the project, however further details are currently scarce.

The announcement of the new series comes just in time for Star Trek‘s 50th anniversary. The original Star Trek spawned a dozen feature films and five successful television series, so we’re excited to see what comes out from it next.

“There is no better time to give Star Trek fans a new series than on the heels of the original show’s 50th anniversary celebration,” said David Stapf, President, CBS Television Studios. “Everyone here has great respect for this storied franchise, and we’re excited to launch its next television chapter in the creative mind and skilled hands of Alex Kurtzman, someone who knows this world and its audience intimately”.

“This new series will premiere to the national CBS audience, then boldly go where no first-run Star Trek series has gone before – directly to its millions of fans through CBS All Access,” said Marc DeBevoise, Executive Vice President/General Manager at CBS Digital Media. “We’ve experienced terrific growth for CBS All Access, expanding the service across affiliates and devices in a very short time. We now have an incredible opportunity to accelerate this growth with the iconic Star Trek, and its devoted and passionate fan base, as our first original series”.

Trekkies will next be treated by the upcoming feature film Star Trek Beyond, which stars Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana and Idris Elba, and is slated for a summer 2016 release. However, the new TV series is said not to be connected to the current film franchise.

 

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