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Credits for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

List of credits as presented in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan .

Opening credits [ ]

• William Shatner
• Leonard Nimoy
• DeForest Kelley
• James Doohan
• Walter Koenig
• George Takei
• Nichelle Nichols
• Merritt Butrick as David
• Paul Winfield as Terrell
• Kirstie Alley as Saavik
• Ricardo Montalban as Khan
• Gene Roddenberry
• James Horner
• William P. Dornisch
• Joseph R. Jennings
• Gayne Rescher , ASC
• Harve Bennett
• Jack B. Sowards
• Robert Sallin
• Nicholas Meyer

Closing credits [ ]

• Kirk : William Shatner
• Spock : Leonard Nimoy
• McCoy : DeForest Kelley
• Scotty : James Doohan
• Chekov : Walter Koenig
• Sulu : George Takei
• Uhura : Nichelle Nichols
• Carol : Bibi Besch
• David : Merritt Butrick
• Terrell : Paul Winfield
• Saavik : Kirstie Alley
• Khan : Ricardo Montalban
• Preston : Ike Eisenmann
• Jedda : John Vargas
• Kyle : John Winston
• Beach : Paul Kent
• Cadet : Nicholas Guest
• Madison : Russell Takaki
• March : Kevin Sullivan
• Crew Chief : Joel Marstan
• Bridge Voice: Teresa E. Victor
• Radio Voice: Dianne Harper
• Radio Voice : David Ruprecht
• Computer Voice : Marcy Vosburgh
• Steve Blalock ( Enterprise crewmember )
• Janet Brady
• Diane Carter ( Regula I scientist )
• Tony Cecere
• Ann Chatterton ( Augment )
• Gilbert Combs ( Enterprise engineer )
• Jim Conners
• Bill Couch, Sr.
• Bill Couch, Jr.
• Eddy Donno ( Regula I chef )
• John Eskobar
• Chuck Hicks
• Tommy J. Huff
• Hubie Kerns, Jr. ( Enterprise trainee )
• Paula Moody
• Tom Morga ( Enterprise crewman / Dry dock worker )
• Mary Peters
• Ernest Robinson
• John Robotham
• Kim Washington
• Mike Washlake ( Enterprise trainee )
• George Wilbur
• William F. Phillips
• Robert Fletcher
• Austen Jewell
• Douglas E. Wise
• Richard Espinoza
• Thomas W. Lay Jr.
• Charles M. Graffeo
• Craig Denault
• Catherine Coulson
• Tom Connole
• Jim Alexander
• Patrick Clark
• Mark S. Server
• Agnes G. Henry
• Kimon Beazlie
• Joseph Markham
• Robin Michel Bush
• Werner Keppler
• James L. McCoy
• Dione Taylor
• Mary Jane Ferguson
• Edward A. Ayer
• Martin Becker
• Gary F. Bentley
• Fred Brauer
• Peter G. Evangelatos
• William Purcell
• Harry Stewart
• Sam Nicholson
• Romolo Acquistapace
• Charles Langham
• Murphy Wiltz
• Gene Griffith
• Don Whipple
• Gary L. Jensen
• Charles C. Eguia
• Michael Friedman
• Michael C. Gian
• John Graffeo
• Al DeGaetano
• Daniel Gluck
• Daniel E. Maltese
• Mike McDuffee
• Rick Valencia
• Howard Davidson
• Terry Ahern
• Jeff Melichar
• Edward Egan
• Bruce Birmelin
• John A. Haggar
• Christopher L. Koefoed
• Cecelia Hall
• George Watters II
• Teresa Eckton
• Michael Hilkene
• Jim Siracusa
• Curt Schulkey
• Alan Howarth
• Eugene Finley
• Cliff Bell, Jr.
• Robert Badami
• Dan Wallin , Record Plant Scoring
• Ray West , CAS
• David J. Hudson
• Mel Metcalf
• Mary V. Buck
• Dr. Richard Green
• Rodger Johnson
• Marc Okrand
• Deborah Arakelian

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• Jim Veilleux
• Ken Ralston
• Scott Farrar
• Stewart Barbee
• Selwyn Eddy III
• David Hardberger
• Robert Hill
• Michael Santy
• Bruce Nicholson
• David Berry
• Keneth Smith
• Donald Clark
• Thomas Rosseter
• Ralph Gordon
• Tim Geideman
• Duncan Myers
• Bob Chrisoulis
• Patricia Rose Duignan
• Warren Franklin
• Chris Evans
• Frank Ordaz
• Neil Krepela
• Craig Barron
• Steve Gawley
• William George
• Steve Sanders
• Bob Diepenbrock
• Mike Fulmer
• Marty Brenneis
• Samuel Comstock
• Kim Knowlton
• Scott Caple
• Kathryn Lenihan
• Judy Elkins

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• Arthur Repola
• Peter Amundson
• Malcom Blanchard
• Loren Carpenter
• Robert D. Poor
• Thomas Porter
• William Reeves
• Alvy Ray Smith
• Brent Watson
• Steve McAllister
• Neil Harrington
• Dr. Robert Langridge
• Terry Chostner
• Roberto McGrath
• Kerry Nordquist
• T.E. Moehnke
• Dave Childers
• Harold Cole
• Bobby Finley III
• Patrick Fitzsimmons
• Edward Hirsh
• John McCleod
• Peter Stolz
• Thaine Morris
• Wade Childress
• Bruce Hill Productions
• Kyle Turner
• Kathy Shine
• The National Aeronautics & Space Administration
• The Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• The Burbank Studios
• Hal Landaker
• Alan Landaker
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
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• Music by Alexander Courage
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Captain Kirk leads his crew in a desperate battle to the death against ruthless arch-nemesis Khan. Sci-fi adventure with the late Leonard Nimoy.

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The Only Major Actors Still Alive From Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan

More than 40 years ago, in 1982, director Nicholas Meyer's "The Wrath of Khan" revitalized "Star Trek," overcoming its low budget to be the shot in the arm that "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" failed to be.

This was the second time that the "Star Trek: The Original Series" cast reunited on the silver screen. With how long it has been, it's sadly unsurprising that most of the original "Star Trek" main cast is no longer with us. Spock's sacrifice and emotional last exchange with Kirk in "The Wrath of Khan" are even sadder and more poignant now with Leonard Nimoy's real-life passing in 2015.

Even most of the film's own supporting cast have passed on. Ricardo Montalbán, who delivered the performance of a lifetime as Khan Noonien Singh himself, died in 2009 at age 88. However, a select few of the movie's cast are still with us.

William Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk)

The main character arc in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" is Captain Kirk (William Shatner) feeling his age. The movie begins on his 50th birthday and he's hit a midlife crisis. He's stuck in a desk job as a Starfleet admiral and when he has to step back into the front lines, he's plagued with uncertainty about whether he can be the risk-taking adventurer he was in "Star Trek: The Original Series."

There's some (sweet) irony that despite all this worry about growing old, Shatner himself is still alive in 2024, having outlived most of his costars. After "The Wrath of Khan," Shatner returned for the next five "Star Trek" films. Kirk's journey finally ended with him dying in "Star Trek: Generations" after teaming up with Enterprise-D Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart).

Outside of "Star Trek," Shatner found success with the comedy series "Boston Legal" in the early aughts — leaning into his public persona as a ham, he played loud, half-senile lawyer Denny Crane. Off-screen, he became the first "Star Trek" lead actor to actually travel to space in 2021, but the experience wasn't what he expected. "It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered," Shatner later wrote . "The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness."

George Takei (Hikaru Sulu)

Sulu is the navigator aboard the Enterprise. He's an essential part of the crew, but unfortunately, he doesn't get all that much to do in "The Wrath of Khan" — though a deleted scene would've revealed he'd been promoted to captain of the USS Excelsior. That's not to say the films forgot about Sulu or Takei; he returned alongside all his fellow "TOS" alums up to "The Undiscovered Country," where Sulu finally got that captaincy he'd been promised back in "The Wrath of Khan."

Since then, Takei has made one of the more prolific careers for himself outside of "Star Trek." As he's aged, he's become primarily a voice actor; he made guest appearances on children's TV shows such as "Transformers," "Avatar: The Last Airbender," and "Star Wars: The Clone Wars." He was also part of the main cast in Netflix's 2023 animated series, "Blue Eye Samurai."

Takei is also a political activist; he came out as gay in 2005 and is vocal about LGBTQ+ rights. His childhood in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War 2 inspired the Broadway show "Allegiance," and in 2019, Takei co-authored the graphic novel "They Called Us Enemy" about his experience.

Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov)

Chekov isn't part of the Enterprise crew when "The Wrath of Khan" begins — he's the executive officer of the USS Reliant under Captain Terrell (the late Paul Winfield). However, of the returning supporting cast, he probably has the most important role in the film.

It's Chekov and Terrell who free Khan by venturing to what they think is the planet Ceti Alpha VI, but is actually Ceti Alpha V , where Khan and his crew are marooned. Khan implants some indigenous creatures, the Ceti eels, in Chekov and Terrell's ear canals to make them vulnerable to suggestion, effectively brainwashing them. Khan seizes the Reliant, and it's through the ship's power that he stands toe-to-toe with the Enterprise.

Koenig returned again in all the "Original Series" era "Star Trek" films, and also had a cameo in "Generations." In 2023, he even played Federation President Anton Chekov (implicitly a descendant of Pavel) in "Star Trek: Picard." And his science-fiction legacy doesn't end with "Star Trek." In the 1990s, Koenig played the villainous psychic Alfred Bester on "Babylon 5," whose sinister presence is the total opposite of Chekov's pluckiness and comic energy.

Judson Scott (Joachim)

Khan has a remaining crew of about two dozen, but the only one with a name or significant lines is his right hand, Joachim. Judson Scott is uncredited for the part, but it's not because his character lacks presence in the film. No, as Scott remembers , it's because his agent made some bad calls when negotiating. A shame, since Scott definitely deserved the credit; he's Montalbán's main screen partner (Khan and Kirk never physically meet in the movie) and holds his own.

"Wrath of Khan" is filled with allusions to "Moby Dick" (Khan dies quoting Captain Ahab). With that in mind, Joachim is Starbuck, the first officer trying to talk his captain out of a disastrous revenge quest to no avail.

Scott returned to "Star Trek" twice, appearing in "The Next Generation" episode "Symbiosis" and "Voyager" episode "Message in a Bottle" as a Romulan villain. Scott has seemingly retired from acting these days (his last credit is for "Charmed" in 2002), but he's still with us.

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The Cast of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on What to Expect from Their Characters This Season

Everything you need to know to get ready for the Season 2 premiere next week!

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We're officially one week out from the highly anticipated second season premiere of the critically acclaimed original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on June 15!

In Season 2, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise , under the command of Captain Christopher Pike , confronts increasingly dangerous stakes, explores uncharted territories and encounters new life and civilizations. The crew will also embark on personal journeys that will continue to test their resolve and redefine their destinies. Facing friends and enemies both new and familiar, their adventures will unfold in surprising ways never seen before on any Star Trek series.

StarTrek.com had the opportunity to speak with the series stars Anson Mount (Christopher Pike), Rebecca Romijn ( Una Chin-Riley ), Ethan Peck ( Spock ), Jess Bush ( Christine Chapel ), Christina Chong (La’An Noonien-Singh), Celia Rose Gooding ( Nyota Uhura ), Melissa Navia (Erica Ortegas), and Babs Olusanmokun ( Joseph M’Benga ), as well as special guest stars Paul Wesley ( James T. Kirk ) and Carol Kane ( Pelia ) during a press junket. With their help, here's what you need to know about their characters this season!

The Fate of Number One

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - The Charges Against Una Chin-Riley

The first season ended on a startling cliffhanger; Starfleet Command sends Captain Batel to the Enterprise . Captain Pike and Number One meet her in the Transporter Room; unfortunately, this wasn't the usual friendly visit. Apologetic for what she's about to do, Batel arrests First Officer Una and takes her into custody for violating the Federation's ban on genetic modifications; her Illyrian identity exposed.

Rebecca Romijn acknowledges, "The biggest question I got at the end of Season 1 from fans was, 'Is Una finished? Are we ever going to see her again?'" Thankfully, she assures us, "The first thing I would say is, 'I'll be back in Season 2. I shot Season 2. I was there.'"

"Una somehow makes her way back onto the Enterprise ," continues Romijn. "We know that Una does make her way back to the Enterprise , but we get to see, early in the season, how she does it."

Fans were thankfully given an extended first look , with the clip above, of Una's trial; the series' was not going to brush over her arrest.

"It's been a big burden for Una to carry this secret for so many years and to rely on Pike to give her asylum," adds Romijn. "And she carries a great deal of shame over that. Not over being an Illyrian. I think she's proud of her heritage, but she's very guilty about lying and living inauthentically. Going into Season 2 and seeing Una finally decide that she's going to live authentically and not hide anymore is a great release for her. You'll see a freer Una."

Captain Pike

For Captain Pike, the loss of his Number One is immense. Anson Mount explains, "It's not just like losing a crew member for Pike; it's losing a limb. A big part of Pike's ability to function as well as he does is because of Una. And he knows that. And she's not just his Number One, but she's a friend. So a lot is on the line."

The loss of his friend is not the only thing weighing on the Enterprise captain. His visit to a Klingon monastery on Boreth and the vision he saw from a time crystal continues to gnaw at him. While he has confided in Una and Spock, he has yet to divulge his tragic future to his girlfriend. When asked what we need to know about his character leading up to the second season premiere, Mount responds, "What's important is that the lingering question of when he's going to tell Captain Batel about his future is obviously there."

Most illuminating is Ethan Peck's insight to the typically unflappable Vulcan, "The two things I would like fans to know about Spock are that he is wildly uncertain of himself and is really doing his best to discover how he is most effective in Starfleet, and he will be very challenged in Season 2."

Despite James T. Kirk's recurring presence this season, both Peck and Paul Wesley reminds us that the friendship Spock and Kirk are known for has yet to occur yet. Wesley explains, "It's all very new, it's very fresh. It's the beginning. We don't dig in deep yet. It's kind of like we're dancing around. We haven't explored that sort of deep friendship that we all know, which is fun, because it's something to look forward to."

Peck tells us you can "expect a lot of curiosity between the two of them," and from Spock's perspective, "suspicion and caution for this sort of daring human person."

Kirk isn't the only character that piques Spock's interest. The trailer shows that the science officer will get more entangled with Christine Chapel. When pressed upon it, Peck divulges, "I suppose we can tease it. As usual, Spock is in deep inner conflict about who he is and what he's doing and how he's doing it. We will see more of that in his interactions with Nurse Chapel, and he will be challenged to further discover himself through their interactions."

The Medical Staff - Dr. M'Benga and Nurse Chapel

Strange New Worlds gives us the opportunity to learn more about the backstory of two characters who originated in The Original Series — Joseph M'Benga and Christine Chapel.

Babs Olusanmokun hints, "You will discover more of M'Benga, go deeper into his history. You might get a kick out of that. There will be some revealed secrets, or just another side of the good doctor. More interesting, wild, unpredictable, 'Who is this guy?' type of thing."

Jess Bush echoes the fact, sharing, "Chapel has a brutal side, and you will learn a bit about her history with M'Benga. That is very illuminating."

"We're going to get a sense of their history, the genesis of the relationship," elaborates Olusanmokun. "How they met, and we go deeper into their relationship. The things you've seen in Season 1 will make more sense in terms of how these two people came to work together and respect each other so much and have each other's back."

Opposites Attract? La'An and James Kirk

Christina Chong is excited for her character La'An this season, stating, "She's growing. She's not the same La'An as Season 1. She's evolving, opening up her heart, slowly learning to trust, and that she can do things that we didn't know she could do."

As for Paul Wesley, he's hesitant to reveal too much, other than to highlight that the version of Kirk in the first season was an alternate timeline Kirk. On the captain of the Farragut , Wesley notes that we'll meet "actual canon Kirk," before teasing in the third episode, "I get to bring out some of those Kirk mannerisms and some of that charm and fun we all associate with the character of Kirk. I get to have some pretty historical significant moments on the Enterprise ."

What can we expect from a Noonien-Singh and Kirk interaction? According to Wesley, "Kirk and La'An are oil and... They're very different; Kirk is very cavalier and kind of charismatic and fun. La'An is quite serious, and so I think he brings out this little bit of color in her because she's quite tormented. I think she smiles for the first time in a while, which it's quite lovely to see. They bring out some qualities in one another that are complementary, I would say."

The teaser trailer hints of some attraction , at least from La'An's side. Wesley's comment about their dynamic as "oil and water" amuses Chong, with her noting, "That's a nice way to put it. 'Bittersweet,' I would say, is the word. It's given and then it's taken away."

Celia Rose Gooding reflects on how much Nyota Uhura has endured thus far, "We are going to continue to learn about her and continue to learn how she processes this experience of being a Starfleet officer. We're going to talk about the events of Season 1 and her losing Hemmer in such a really heartbreaking way. We're not just going to sweep that under the rug and act like it didn't happen. We're going to talk about it and we're going to talk about it until there is nothing to say anymore."

"We're really honoring the humanity in Uhura and honoring the fact that there's no way you could go through something like that and just be fine," emphasizes Gooding. "There's more that you have to unpack in order to grieve something like that properly, and we sort of witness that. We see what Hemmer's death really brings up in her in reflection to what death and loss and mourning means to Uhura as an avoidant person in this chapter of her life. We're learning that avoidance is not really an option."

Not only that, we'll see Uhura open herself up more. "Uhura has a lot to learn from her superior officers," says Gooding. "They have a lot to offer her, especially when it comes to just what it means to being a seasoned vet in Starfleet and the dynamics of the things you have to process in quick, fast feat. We learn that she really, really appreciates having an opportunity to bounce her emotions off of someone who has been in her shoes before, to talk to someone who has been an ensign, and has probably seen death and witnessed it and have had to find their ways through it in their own way."

"So Uhura's doing the right thing," Gooding concludes, "instead of just relying on herself all the time and forcing her to keep her feelings down. When those feelings aren't able to be contained anymore, she turns to her superiors and asks for help as she should, and she receives it as she should. In the grand scheme of canon, fans are really going to appreciate this is how [Uhura and Kirk's] relationship starts, especially because they know what the future of their relationship looks like. It's going to make a lot of sense to people who know the canon, and it's going to introduce dynamics that are long-standing to new fans."

Fancy Flier Ortegas

Melissa Navia wants viewers to know that they've "heard them loud and clear." And with that, they're going to be getting more Erica Ortegas in Season 2.

"We're going to get that backstory that everyone feels they did not get enough of in Season 1. And everything you loved about her and about the crew in Season 1, we've only ramped it up in Season 2. Season 1 was excellent. Season 2 is even better," Navia hypes.

Sharing her gratitude for the Star Trek community, Navia reveals, "We knew that we had a really special show that came out of the fans' love for Anson and Ethan and Rebecca's portrayal of these legacy characters. And so we knew that fans were going to be very excited for what we were doing. It also put a bunch of pressure on us, but it was good pressure. That's how great things come about."

"I always say that when we were finished filming Season 1, I thought there was plenty of Ortegas because that was my focus because I was playing the character. But hearing from fans that they wanted to learn so much more based on just the little that they got to see of her in Season 1, that to me was everything. It's a testament to the writing and to what we did as a cast and a crew. I can't say enough that I'm very thankful to the fans for shouting it from the rooftops that Ortegas is a welcome addition to the world of Star Trek ."

In a first look that was revealed last year , Ortegas expresses her interest in going on an away mission, which the latest full trailer reveals she finally gets her wish. Commenting on that, Navia says, "I kind of love that after that trailer came out, nobody was talking too much about the fact that, oh my god, Ortegas is finally on a shuttle going on an away mission, and she's part of the landing party. It was almost like, yeah, Ortegas is flying, and being amazing, and doing stuff that is making Pike really nervous."

"To me, it spoke to the fact that we've embedded so much this idea that Ortegas is an excellent pilot who Pike trusts so much," reflects Navia. "And that was just a little version of everything that everyone so far knows about Ortegas. And nobody's really seen what happens afterward. Like, oh no, she's just flying the shuttle like she does and Pike kind of wishes he was anywhere else, but he trusts her. I'm excited for fans to see that episode, which episode that'll be, who can tell?"

Chief Engineer On Board

During Star Trek Day 2022 , fans learned that the incomporable Academy Award-nominee Carol Kane was joining the second season as Chief Engineer Pelia, who's described as "highly educated and intelligent, the Enterprise 's new senior engineering officer suffers no fools. Pelia solves problems calmly and brusquely, thanks to her many years of experience."

Kane reveals this surprising role is her introduction into the sci-fi world, "It was so unexpected that somebody would ask me to be on Star Trek . It was just so delightful."

"Then I read the character and I love the fact that she has been around so long and has so much wisdom and so much technical knowledge," Kane continues, "I'm the teacher of the engineers," before teasing that Season 1's fan-favorite Hemmer was one of her pupils.

Kane notes that while she's been working since she was 14 years old, she's "never seen a set that big," which amazed her with its scale. On being a part of this production with the cast, and taking on the challenges of a sci-fi role, she cheekily states, "It's exciting. I don't think it gets old. I get old, but it doesn't."

The cast definitely could not get enough of Kane's presence. Romijn tells StarTrek.com, "We were all pretty starstruck when she arrived, and she has such a funny way about her that seems so not Star Trek , but somehow it's perfect. It somehow works beautifully within our world. And she's absolutely hilarious. She's a real joy to work with, and she's got a very, very interesting way about her. And she's got a real innocence about her. She doesn't pretend to know anything about Star Trek , and yet she's a perfect Star Trek character."

Bush has nothing but praise for her new colleague, "For someone who has done so much in the way of amazing work, she's got no ego, and she moves through the world with such an innocent sense of wonder, always open, so porous and open and humble. And that is so beautiful that that is something that has been preserved through such a long successful career. And she just has folded perfectly into our mix. We love her."

Peck echoes Bush, adding, "I second that. She's just like this chaotic, bubbling stew of excitement and talent and you never know what she's going to bring in any given take. And I think that she's a really fun partner-in-crime for Spock."

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Fanhome Unveils Star Trek™ Die-Cast Starship Collection and Opens Pre-orders

New York, NY – On Friday, September 6 th , Fanhome , the leading producer of subscription-based collections, opens pre-orders for its highly- anticipated line of die-cast Star Trek starships. Fanhome also announces three new, and never-before-seen, replicas from the hit series Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds .

The following ships are available now for pre-order. Fanhome will debut a new ship each month and more than 20 ships are planned for the collection.

• U.S.S. Titan NCC-80102-A from Star Trek: Picard Season 3
• U.S.S. Stargazer NCC-82893 (Sagan class) from Star Trek: Picard Season 2
• U.S.S. Farragut NCC-1647 from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1
• U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-F from Star Trek: Picard Season 3
• S.S. Eleos XII NAR-59019 from Star Trek: Picard Season 3
• The Shrike from Star Trek: Picard Season 3

Fanhome starts taking pre-orders on September 6 th and the models are expected to ship to customers in early November.

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Sign up today to be sure you are the first to hear about new releases, and to get exclusive special offers, including a subscriber’s discount, an exclusive variant ship, and other specially commissioned gifts.

The newly announced ships expand the existing fleet of Fanhome Star Trek die-cast replicas, which will focus on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Prodigy.

The ships in the collection are constructed with a combination of die-cast metal and high-quality ABS resin. The typical model measures between 7 and 9-inches (180-225 mm) long.

There will also be several oversized replicas of the most significant ships, which will be approximately 11 inches (280 mm) long. Fanhome has worked with Star Trek licensor CBS to ensure a high level of accuracy. The designs are all based on the original visual effects models that were used to produce the shows.

Each ship also comes with a 16-page magazine that profiles the ship in the Star Trek universe and explores the design process with exclusive art and brand-new interviews with the production team.

The Fanhome Star Trek Die-Cast Collection is being supervised by Ben Robinson, who has written a wide range of books and publications about various Star Trek series and ships and is recognized as a leading expert on the franchise by fans and filmmakers alike.

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A Private Little War

• Episode aired Feb 2, 1968

Peaceful, primitive peoples get caught up in the struggle between superpowers, with Kirk unhappily trying to restore the balance of power disrupted by the Klingons. Peaceful, primitive peoples get caught up in the struggle between superpowers, with Kirk unhappily trying to restore the balance of power disrupted by the Klingons. Peaceful, primitive peoples get caught up in the struggle between superpowers, with Kirk unhappily trying to restore the balance of power disrupted by the Klingons.

• Marc Daniels
• Gene Roddenberry
• Don Ingalls
• William Shatner
• Leonard Nimoy
• DeForest Kelley
• 31 User reviews
• 14 Critic reviews

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• Captain James T. Kirk

• Nurse Chapel

• Dr. M'Benga

• Patrol Leader
• Lieutenant Hadley
• (uncredited)
• Native Woman
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• Trivia The Mugato was called The Gumato in the original script. But DeForest Kelley kept mispronouncing it so it was changed. The closing credits still name the creature as The Gumato.
• Goofs After Spock is shot and is falling to the ground, there is no gunshot wound on his back, and no blood is visible. When Kirk reaches Spock, there is suddenly a great deal of green blood on both the front and back of his shirt, but there's still no apparent entry wound, as the shirt isn't ripped or torn in any way. However, most movies and TV shows from this era were reluctant (partly due to censorship) to show the effect of gunshot wounds realistically.

Dr. McCoy : [speaking through communicator] Spock, are you alive?

Mr. Spock : [on the bridge of the Enterprise] An illogical question, Doctor, since obviously you are hearing my voice.

Dr. McCoy : Well, I don't know why I was worried. You can't kill a computer.

• Alternate versions Special Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song
• Connections Featured in The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next (1988)
• Soundtracks Theme Music credited to Alexander Courage Sung by Loulie Jean Norman

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• Jul 10, 2021
• February 2, 1968 (United States)
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2 Modern Star Trek Shows Faced Exactly The Same Criticism (But Had Opposite Solutions)

T wo Star Trek shows of the modern era faced exactly the same criticism when they started, but ultimately succeeded with completely opposite solutions. Star Trek: Discovery faced the challenge of competing for attention with prestige television shows that often eschewed values like hope and optimism. In response, Star Trek: Discovery tried taking a realistic approach to the Star Trek: The Original Series era . Discovery season 1 focused on Michael Burnham's (Sonequa Martin-Green) mutinous part in igniting the Klingon-Federation War, and also took the USS Discovery crew to the fascist nightmare of Star Trek 's Mirror Universe. Discovery season 2 featured Starfleet's morally gray covert ops division, Section 31.

​​ Star Trek: Picard reintroduced Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) long after the end of Star Trek: The Next Generation . Audiences had been assured — or perhaps warned — that Picard was not going to be a continuation of TNG , but a character study of Admiral Picard in his twilight years. We were instead treated to a bleak take on Star Trek , where Earth was no longer Star Trek 's paradise. Star Trek: Picard 's version of Starfleet was selfish, insular, and corrupted from within. Commander Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) dealt with family estrangement and substance abuse. Xenophobia against Romulans and ex-Borg ran rampant. Something was off in these Star Trek shows.

Star Trek: Discovery & Star Trek: Picard Were Both Criticized For Being Too Dark

Star trek needs to be optimistic, so discovery and picard needed to change.

Both Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard were criticized for being too dark, and with good reason. Star Trek: Discovery season 1 ​​​​​​​went all-in on extrapolating just how brutal Star Trek 's Mirror Universe and Klingon War storylines could realistically be. While Star Trek: Discovery grappled with how to be Star Trek amid the popularity of grittier television shows, Picard contended with inevitable comparisons to Star Trek: The Next Generation. To differentiate itself from TNG, Star Trek: Picard steeped itself in despair. Neither show shied away from graphic depictions of murder, torture, sexual assault, animal cruelty, war crimes, or Star Trek 's first f-bombs — just to name a few.

10 Star Trek: Discovery Positives You Only Notice On Rewatch

There's a lot to love about Star Trek: Discovery that you only notice when giving the first four seasons of the series a second look.

Criticisms of the tone in both Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard were valid. Streaming allowed Star Trek to take a gloves-off approach to topics that had previously only been alluded to , in the name of realism. Earlier iterations of the franchise weren't often as explicit as Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard were in their first seasons. This new Star Trek had all the right superficial ingredients: starships, familiar aliens, moral quandaries, and complex questions; but both new Star Trek shows seemed to be missing Gene Roddenberry's optimism that had always been integral to Star Trek. Fortunately, that would change, but in very different ways.

Star Trek: Picard Became Lighter By Bringing Back The Original TNG Cast In Season 3

Embracing nostalgia made star trek: picard season 3 feel like a homecoming.

Star Trek: Picard season 3 became lighter with a Star Trek: The Next Generation original cast reunion. Embracing the theme of family, Admiral Picard took action to secure the fate of his USS Enterprise family as well as his own son with Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden), Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers). Captain Worf (Michael Dorn) fit right in as a wise mentor to Commander Raffi Musiker. Captain Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), and Data (Brent Spiner) were all back. The USS Enterprise-D itself even returned, courtesy of Commodore Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), as the last piece of the Star Trek: The Next Generation puzzle.

The highest IMDB audience rating of Star Trek: Picard season 1 went to episode 7, "Nepenthe", which featured Riker and Troi, suggesting that fans did want a continuation of Star Trek: The Next Generation after all.

The palpable shift in tone for Star Trek: Picard season 3 came from showrunner Terry Matalas leaning into what Star Trek: Picard should have been all along. Instead of trying to differentiate Star Trek: Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation ​​​​​​​, Picard season 3 became the TNG sequel that fans had expected from day one. Star Trek: Picard didn't lose sight of the fact that it was a new show, with new antagonistic characters Captain Liam Shaw (Todd Stashwick) and Changeling Captain Vadic (Amanda Plummer) earning their spotlights. Picard 's look towards the past with the old TNG cast, however, finally made Picard season 3 feel triumphant and optimistic.

Discovery Became Lighter By Doubling Down On Its New Cast

Star trek: discovery found optimism in the voices of its 32nd century future.

Star Trek: Discovery became lighter by setting its sights on the future — in more ways than one. After Commander Michael Burnham deliberately led the USS Discovery into the 32nd century to thwart rogue A.I. Control, Discovery 's new characters took center stage alongside Burnham. Star Trek: Discovery 's love stories multiplied; the pairings of Cleveland Booker (David Ajala) and Burnham, Ni'Var President T'Rina (Tara Roslin) and Captain Saru (Doug Jones), and Adira Tal (Blu del Barrio) and Gray Tal (Ian Alexander) all mattered. Even Disco crew members like Lt. Commander Kayla Detmer (Emily Coutts) and Lt. Commander Joann Owosekun (Oyin Oladejo) became more well-developed, as Burnham got to know them better.

Star Trek: Discovery was always Michael Burnham's personal story.

With that focus on additional voices came a shift in tone for Star Trek: Discovery that represented Discovery 's core values of communication and empathy. Because Star Trek: Discovery was always Michael Burnham's personal story, Burnham's perspective dictated the tone. After 2 seasons plagued with self-doubt, Burnham's promotion to Captain reflected her steadfast belief in Starfleet's ability to connect with people. Not so coincidentally, Captain Burnham's command in Discovery season 4 is also when Star Trek: Discovery really began to shine. Although Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Discovery both struggled with darker tones, both shows ultimately succeeded with their opposite embraces of the past and the future of Star Trek .

Star Trek: Discovery

Cast Rekha Sharma, James Frain, Anthony Rapp, Jason Isaacs, Rainn Wilson, Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Chris Obi, Shazad Latif, Michelle Yeoh, Maulik Pancholy

Release Date September 24, 2017

Streaming Service(s) Paramount+

Franchise(s) Star Trek

Writers Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Fuller

Directors Jonathan Frakes, Olatunde Osunsanmi

Showrunner Alex Kurtzman

Where To Watch Paramount+

Star Trek: Picard

Cast Rebecca Wisocky, Orla Brady, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Evan Evagora, Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd, Harry Treadaway

Release Date January 23, 2020

Writers Terry Matalas

Directors Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, michael dorn

Showrunner Michael Chabon