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From: atropos@mac.com
On Sep 9, 2025 at 10:02:33 PM PDT, "Your Name" wrote:
> Just when you thought Star Trek couldn't get any worse ... they make a
> poor knock-off of "Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures". :-\
Sounds like they’ve got poor Scotty down in the engine room cranking the DEI
engines up to Warp 9.
>
> STAR TREK Day Announcements Include a Lego Collaboration
> and a YouTube Kids' Series
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> The franchise celebrates the lead-up to its 60th anniversary next
> year with a multitude of celebrations.
>
> Happy STAR TREK Day! While September 8 is a fun holiday for Trek
> fans any year, 2026 is going to be a big one, marking 60 years
> since the very first episode of the very first series hit the
> airwaves in 1966, changing sci-fi's place in pop culture forever.
> Paramount is getting the party started early with a bunch of
> announcements today, including Trek's first-ever Lego
> collaboration as well as a YouTube series aimed at kids that
> drops today.
>
> While we're most excited about the Lego news, the collab doesn't
> come with any details as of yet. A Paramount press release
> promises we'll learn more "soon" (the possibilities for sets are
> virtually endless; just look at how much Star Wars Lego is out
> there) with a teaser video to further whip fans into a frenzy:
>
> Other announcements today include STAR TREK: SCOUTS, an animated
> YouTube series that aims to hook in new Trek fans at the
> preschool age. Here's a little more detail from the release:
>
> "Developed and produced by Nickelodeon Digital Studio in
> association with CBS Studios, STAR TREK: SCOUTS follows three
> 8-year-old friends, JR, Sprocket, and Roo, as they train to become
> future Starfleet Explorers by going on epic, out-of-this-world
> missions that push them to 'discover, grow, and boldly go!"
>
> Check out the trailer here, and if you like what you see or you
> have some sci-fi-minded small fry running around, you can watch
> the first two episodes (they run three to four minutes each) on
> Nickelodeon's Blaze and the Monster Machines YouTube channel. The
> remaining 18 episodes arrive next year.
>
> STAR TREK will also be getting a float in the annual Rose Parade -
> held on New Year's Day in Pasadena, CA - bringing the attention of
> college football fans worldwide to STAR TREK's 60th anniversary as
> well as the imminent arrival of the new live-action series
> STARFLEET ACADEMY.
>
> Still no firm launch date for STARFLEET ACADEMY, by the way,
> beyond "early 2026." STRANGE NEW WORLDS will wrap up its current
> third season this week, on September 11, with seasons four and
> five still to come.
>
> As was teased from the Hall H stage at San Diego Comic-Con this
> year, the scripted podcast STAR TREK: KHAN launches today; as
> previously announced, it's a prequel to the events of STAR TREK II:
> THE WRATH OF KHAN, with Naveen Andrews voicing the title character.
> The rest of the cast includes STAR TREK: VOYAGER's Tim Russ as
> Ensign Tuvok, and TOS' George Takei as Captain Sulu. You can listen
> to new episodes Mondays through November 3 on all the big podcasting
> platforms, as well as the STAR TREK YouTube channel.
>
> Elsewhere online, STAR TREK will launch a Webtoon digital comic
> initiative to celebrate the big 6-0, aiming to connect "with new
> audiences "by launching original stories that touch on universal
> genres and themes based in the world of STAR TREK."
>
> To help you keep track of all this celebratory STAR TREK information
> - apparently this is just the first wave of announcements for what's
> planned; we're hoping for some movie news!-there's now a special
> 60th anniversary web hub for fans, which you can check out here.
>
>
>
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