| Sysop: | Amessyroom |
|---|---|
| Location: | Fayetteville, NC |
| Users: | 27 |
| Nodes: | 6 (0 / 6) |
| Uptime: | 43:10:41 |
| Calls: | 631 |
| Calls today: | 2 |
| Files: | 1,187 |
| D/L today: |
24 files (29,813K bytes) |
| Messages: | 175,377 |
Just when you thought Star Trek couldn't get any worse ... they make a
poor knock-off of "Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures". :-\
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-atoday; 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.
<https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-day-announcements-include-a-lego-collaboration-and-a-youtube-kids-series-2000655142>