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  • April 16, 2020

Ryan of Ryan’s Cinematics has very cleverly edited classic bloopers from Star Trek: The Next Generation and seamlessly integrated each into the original scene. Some of these edits are very subtle, but quite amusing nonetheless.

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Worf and Riker.

Boy, there sure was a lot more high-fiving on the Enterprise than I remember.

Star Trek: The Next Generation was, for all its goofiness, played relatively straight. It was a serious sort of show , even if absurd things sometimes happened. It did not, as a rule, have a lot of gags. Star Trek INtakes by YouTuber Ryan’s Edits changes that, and in the process renders Star Trek ’s vibe absolutely absurd. The idea, so far as I can tell, is a simple one: edit outtakes together with the actual episode footage.

This simple idea has incredible results, as normal Star Trek moments turn absurd, surreal, and incredibly funny. I laughed harder at these videos than I have at just about anything lately. There are a handful in a playlist on the Ryan’s Edits channel. The most recent one, featuring Worf and Riker, is one of the best.

The video is titled “Something’s Wrong With Worf”, but, really, it’s Riker I’m most concerned about here. Where’s he going? Is somebody going to stop him? All the videos have this quality, creating a sort of silly alternate universe, entirely chaotic version of the show. I don’t really think CBS should do an absurd art-house comedy version of Star Trek , but, based on this, I’ m pretty confident that if they did I would watch it.

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Watch: Hilarious Videos Put Star Trek: The Next Generation Bloopers Back Into The Show

Last month, we reported on a hilarious new video series created by YouTuber Ryan's Edits which found a whole new way to enjoy outtakes. The video editor took the funniest bloopers from Star Trek: The Next Generation and reintegrated them into their original scenes, creating bizarre out-of-character moments. Since then, many more have been posted that Trek fans will definitely want to check out. 

Last month, we reported on a hilarious new video series created by YouTuber Ryan’s Edits which found a whole new way to enjoy outtakes. The video editor took the funniest bloopers from  Star Trek: The Next Generation   and reintegrated them into their original scenes, creating bizarre out-of-character moments for the Enterprise-D crew. Since then, many more have been posted that Trek  fans will definitely want to check out.

I’ve highlighted one of the best in the player above, for instance, which makes use of a blooper from season 3’s “A Matter of Perspective.” The actual scene is super-serious, as Cmmdr. Riker is accused of murder – but this “intake” version gives things a comedic spin as, when introducing Riker, Captain Picard can’t remember his own Number One’s name (thanks to Patrick Stewart having momentary memory loss when filming).

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Along similar lines – proving that even great thespians like Stewart forget their lines now and then – another video uses footage from season 2’s “Unnatural Selection.” In this clip, Picard storms in to see O’Brien with an idea… only for it to leave his head upon entering, causing Data to heavily suggest it for him. And don’t miss the video titled “Riker and Picard are Relieved,” taken from season 5’s “Cost of Living,” in which the two officers get surprisingly cosy with each other.

These “intakes” are going down a hit with fans, with many calling for Ryan’s Edits to try and do these for other Trek  shows, too, or maybe even other TV series in general. It’s definitely a fun, fresh way of approaching outtakes, so I wouldn’t be surprised if other creators took up this concept. But for now, enjoy watching Star Trek: The Next Generation   in a very different light via the link below.

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How star trek "intakes" edits humanize fan-favorite characters.

Star Trek INtakes incorporate bloopers to add humor and humanity to existing scenes from Star Trek: The Next Generation and other series.

Star Trek: The Next Generation   is getting new life through  Star Trek INtakes , a Youtube series that humanizes fan-favorite characters.  TNG   remains a beloved incarnation of Star Trek despite launching over thirty years ago, and recently its characters have been brought back into the spotlight via the new series  Star Trek: Picard   and  Star Trek: Lower Decks . Complementing this,  Star Trek INtakes  is celebrating these same characters — as well as a few others — by combining originals scenes from Star Trek  shows with outtakes.

Star Trek INtakes launched on Ryan's Edits' YouTube channel in March 2020 and includes 44 videos as of January 1, 2021. The term "INtakes" is short for "integrated outtakes," and each video is a clip from a Star Trek episode with a relevant outtake or blooper edited back in. While the vast majority of the videos are from Star Trek: The Next Generation , there are a few from Star Trek: Enterprise , as well, and at least one episode uses a clip from Star Trek: Voyager .

Related: Star Trek Theory: Worf Replaces Data In Picard Season 2's Story

An example of this is Star Trek INtakes #33, "Data Executes His Smalltalk Protocol," which is essentially an extended scene from the Star Trek: The Next Generation season 6 episode "Starship Mine," with Brent Spiner's (Data) outtakes blended back in, incorporating a reference to measuring Sheliak body temperature. While Data's scenes in much of that  TNG episode were meant to be comical , the edited clip heightens the humor and implies a risqué cap to the conversation (though it is only implied) — which causes a genuine reaction from Gates McFadden (Beverly Crusher) and Jonathan Frakes (William T. Riker). It strips away the formality typical of the show, allowing for a moment of not just levity, but also a break in convention. As a result, the moment feels very human.

As Ryan's Edits (they prefer to be known by their channel name) explains on their page, "Sometimes bloopers, when edited back into the finished episodes, can add a bit of humanity to characters. Sometimes they just add a bit of absurdity. Both are good."  The videos are short, designed for quick entertainment. The longest has a runtime of 1:39, but at least half clock in under a minute. Star Trek: The Next Generation  episodes are used for the majority of the "INtakes," likely because  TNG blooper reels are easily accessible on the internet; however, there are also episodes featuring Star Trek: Enterprise  actors like Jeffrey Combs, who played  Thy'lek Shran.

When asked about the inspiration for this series of videos, Ryan's Edits explained via email that they'd seen a Star Trek: The Next Generation blooper on Reddit and were inspired to post their first INtake, which was meant to be a one-off for fans. When the response to that video was favorable and people began reposting the videos, they chose to continue the series. What began as a lark in March 2020 has since grown into a continuing series of Star Trek fan offerings designed to amuse and entertain. Ryan's Edits plans to keep going as long as they have the time, and fans remain interested.

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A set of .gifs ripped from this video have been floating around my Tumblr dash lately, so I’m glad the actual video has now surfaced and I can share it with you. As one friend pointed out to me, flubbed lines and bloopers present a little bit less frustration nowadays with digital filming. In the days of Next Gen , however, each one represented not just some extra time to film the scene, but a tiny bit of wasted, expensive film stock. That might help explain how when you hear the behind the camera crew chime in, they’re not quite as amused.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Tasha Yar Blooper That Made It On Screen

Actor Denise Crosby waved a secret goodbye to fans ahead of Tasha Yar’s demise in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Denise Crosby as Tasha Yar in Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Skin of Evil."

There have been a lot of Star Trek documentaries, countless behind-the-scenes DVD extras, and everyone ever involved in the franchise has written a memoir.

“It’s the number-one most covered topic not connected to World War II, apart from maybe the Civil War,” says Brian Volk-Weiss, director of the documentary, The Center Seat: Celebrating 55 Years of Star Trek , which launches this week in the UK on IMDb TV .

But even after all this time there are still surprising new facts to discover, as Volk-Weiss himself found out during the making of the series.

“I’m a lifelong Trekkie. The name of my company [The Nacelle Company] is 100% a Star Trek reference. So, I say this with confidence, I don’t think my Star Trek love could be questioned,” he says. “I learned stuff that nobody knew, and I learned stuff that I thought it was really strange I didn’t know.”

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One such example is a story told to Volk-Weiss by Denise Crosby, the actor who played the Enterprise’s Chief Security Officer, Tasha Yar, in Star Trek: The Next Generation . Tasha Yar was exactly the sort of tough, action heroine character that was supposed to separate The Next Generation from its 60s forebear, but the first season saw her character woefully underwritten .

Disappointed with the lack of development her character had received, Crosby had decided to leave the show, and Rodenberry saw it as a chance to do something he had never done in the Original Series – kill off a member of the main cast.

This happened in the episode ‘ Skin of Evil ’, and most Next Generation fans will remember seeing Tasha Yar knocked out by an evil tar pit before dying on Doctor Crusher’s operating table. But what you may have missed is what happened in the last episode Crosby actually filmed, which aired the week before.

“I’ve seen that episode six or seven times and I never noticed that,” Volk-Weiss tells us. He recounts the story as Crosby told it to him.

“She shot her penultimate episode, and before that she’d shot her death. So, there’s a shot in her second-to-last episode where Picard and Beverly are walking out of a giant cargo bay, and all the way in the back, 500 to 1,000 feet away, you see Denise jump up and wave.”

Episode 22 of Star Trek: The Next Generation is ‘ Symbiosis ‘, which is as pure a by-the-numbers ‘Picard agonises over whether to break the Prime Directive’ episode as you can get.

After Picard has resolved the moral dilemma in question, delivered an angry speech to the bad aliens and watched them beam away, Picard storms out of the cargo bay, and you can see Tasha Yar, for no reason, jumping up and waving at the camera.

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“She said she was shocked it wasn’t cut out, but that was her final moment,” Volk-Weiss recalls.

You can see the moment for yourself right here:

Even after more than 30 years, there are still new stories to be told about the making of The Next Generation , and the rest of the franchise, as Volk-Weiss points out, “There are a lot of things in Star Trek that have not been covered. Big things. We were the first to do a documentary on Voyager , the first to do a documentary on Enterprise , The Animated Series and even The Motion Picture . It’s been done but I don’t think it’s been done in a long form, systematic way.”

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Later this month, Hero Collector releases their second Star Trek puzzle book, following up last year’s fun exploration of TOS : Star Trek Nerd Search: Quibbles with Tribbles . This year, they take on TNG with Star Trek: The Next Generation Nerd Search: Bloopers of the Borg , and we have an exclusive preview of some of the book’s colorful puzzles.

Bloopers of the Borg

Hero Collector is again teaming up with acclaimed cartoonist and writer for Marvel and BBC Glenn Dakin for a puzzle book all about TNG. The full title for the puzzle book arriving on December 14 is Star Trek: The Next Generation Nerd Search: Bloopers of the Borg: The Mistakes Must Go – Make it So! 

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Like with last year’s Quibbles with Tribbles , the new book challenges fans to do what they do best: nitpick. Specifically, each full-color illustration in the 44-page book depicts a classic TNG episode, each containing specific (deliberate) mistakes. The overall premise is that the Borg have created time-traveling Chaos Cubes that break down our reality as we know it. It’s up to readers to spot the cubes and save Captain Picard’s voyages.

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Making it so, however, won’t be easy. Among the continuity errors caused by the Chaos Cubes are TNG characters in the wrong uniform, or in the incorrect scene… or even from an entirely different series. Complicating the crises, Dakin has hidden 10 random items for every season of TNG… in each scene. Can you find the rogue elements and name the episode, too? Upping the ante even further, next-level TNG fans must boldly look out for five Super Quibbles, which are behind-the-scenes bits of business that only the hardest of hardcore fans will uncover.

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Among the TNG episodes revisited are “Encounter at Farpoint,” “The Best of Both Worlds,” and “The Big Goodbye.” And, yes, you can keep score, assimilating points for every right answer as you chase the magic number, 11001001, of course.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Nerd Search: Bloopers of the Borg arrives on Tuesday, December 14. You can pre-order it in hardcover now from Amazon for $14.95 .

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This artist (John Ross) has been a favorite of mine, and i’ve been lucky to have worked with him before. Great guy, and thrilled to see him take on my favorite franchise after years of Spider-Man and Doctor Who!

If only Unification would have been as dynamic and interesting as this great illustration.

Still one of the best episodes of TNG, and all of Trek. Brilliant stuff!

Most disappointing TNG ep of all time given all the hype. And Nimoy and Leonard not share any screen time was ridiculous. A missed opportunity for involving TOS cast. Only the “Bridge on the Captain” cluster-fuck death of Kirk in Generations was worse. Berman never figured how to handle TOS characters well.

And in all on the “Best Eps of TNG” lists I’ve seen published in Trek media over the years, never have I run across a Top 10 list that had Unification on it.

Plus, 90% of it is just plain boring to watch. 

I don’t disagree it would’ve been nice to have Spock and Sarek together one last time, but it was never a big deal to me either. I actually liked how Picard shared the mind meld with Spock at the end to understand Sarek more. That was a touching (and very Star Trek) way for Spock to remember his father.

But you’re also right, I looked through a bunch of TNG top 10 lists and I didn’t find it on any either. I really love the episode but I would be lying if I said it was in my top 10 as well. ;)

With 172 episodes it’s no surprise it doesn’t make any top tens, but the second part is easily one of the show’s best (though maybe not top ten). But it’s message, the performances, the story, and the writing are top notch.

Frankly, the two parter is better than about half of TOS’ episodes, and most of the TOS cast movies. It’s absolutely in Spock’s top 10 episodes, whether a cranky fan agrees or not!

Yeah it doesn’t seem to land on any top 10 lists, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a very popular and well liked episode on its own either, just not as strong as the others that are on it.

In fact, out of curiosity I went and checked the audience rating for the episodes on IMDB and they are are quite high:

Unification I: 8.3/10 Unification II: 8.4/10

So yeah pretty impressive IMO. Most of the usual episodes that fall into Top 10 lists like Measure of a Man/BOBW, etc usually get around a 9 or above. So for both Unification episodes to be this high actually shows how well liked fans think of them. Now JUST for comparison sake, I looked at Discovery’s ‘sequel’ episode audience rating:

Unification III: 6.3/10

So it’s a good indication of how strong the first two episodes are, especially decades after the fact.. For the record I personally really liked Unification II and thought it did a good job of how it actually reunited the Vulcans and Romulans and said so here. But I remember for others it was a divisive episode so not surprised to see it with a much lower rating. I really liked it, but it’s not about individual taste in this instance.

Interesting stuff. I would note thought that the reviews of the TNG eps on IMDB are fan reviews that were predominately made many years later (IMDB was only started in 1990), versus Discovery reviews which are being made by a broad set of viewers sort of in “real time” in our current timeframe. So that is a bit of an apples-to-oranges and highly subjective comparison. So I question whether it’s reliable to compare these numbers?

Why not? Every episode gets very different ratings regardless. Episodes fans truly hate like Sub Rosa are waaaay down there where episodes people generally agree are great like Inner Light, BOBW, Q Who are naturally higher. And you can still vote on all those episodes for every Star Trek show today. Also remember these shows are being watched by newer fans as well and vote on the old shows like the new ones.

I will agree a little about Discovery though, it is voted in real time. But again, I don’t really think that matters since those episode ratings are all across the board too although most of them are in the middle to low category, ie 6-7 ratings. But a few have gone above 8 at least. But if more people were in love with it, it would simply have higher ratings now. But yes that can change in time too.

So I don’t it really matters.

Sure, I get your point, but like TG47 mentions in the thread, there are different fan “populations” voting, in addition to the timeframe issue I mentioned, so my personal opinion is that I think the comparison is dubious.

It’s not just a fan opinion, as many of the media reviews of this two parter reinforce my comment on how much of a missed opportunity this ep was. For example:

“I can’t help wondering, though, how much better this episode might have been if it had given more time to Spock, instead of losing him in a mess of double-crosses and political intrigue. Like, if maybe this had just been a single episode and if it had focused on Picard trying to bring Spock and Sarek back together.” — Zack Handlen, AV Club

“I must say, these plot mechanics are not at all worthy of this story — especially Sela’s lengthy dialogue that essentially explains to us and the characters the entire plot. (“And I would’ve gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for you meddling kids!”) By explaining the plot she masterminds her own defeat. (To quote Trek VI: “Since you’re all going to die anyway, why not tell you.”) The ensuing trickery allowing Picard, Spock, and Data to escape is even more telling of Sela’s incompetence; why aren’t they locked in a cell? It’s so unfortunate to see a story so ambitious implode so thoroughly and with such limited imagination. It’s also frustrating that a story of such political scope and significance ends up being, essentially, a Reset Button Plot. Picard and Data leave after Spock’s failed political movement, but Spock decides to stay and toil away for when future generations might be capable of swaying more forward-thinking minds. It’s an admirable notion (though, depressingly, by the time Star Trek XI rolls around, Spock will see just how well that has worked out), but I was hoping for something more status-quo-shaking in the here and now. Don’t get me wrong: On balance, this is a good and worthwhile effort. But in the end, I can’t escape a basic truth here, which is that I wanted to like “Unification” a lot more than I ultimately did.” – Jammers Reviews

Again, having Sarek and Spock in the same ep, but not having them share screen-time together, just brings to mind sort of a, “what in the hell were the writers thinking?” obvious response..

That all may be true, but the episodes themselves are still highly popular today! I think most fans just love seeing Spock and Picard together. My favorite scene is with Spock and Date.

The lack of reunion between Sarek Spock wasn’t the problem.

It’s more that it seemed to involve a great deal of build up to an anticlimax. I actually liked part one more than part two.

And to Tiger2, I don’t think that it’s fair to look at IMDb ratings on these things. We know that there is an entire generation of older fans who bring their biases and brigade the scoring. I may be from that generation but I don’t agree with the behaviour.

I hear you!

If you’re talking about Discovery, I sort of hear what you’re saying although I don’t think there are just a bunch of people downvoting everything in ‘nuTrek’ because the more popular episodes are ranked fairly high. And look at Lower Decks? That show share some of the highest rated episodes along with a lot of the old shows, especially their finales. Because most fans seem to just like it a lot more than Discovery (as do I but I also like Discovery too). So I get what you’re saying, but I don’t think it’s that black and white either only because the episodes most of us can agree on as really good actually are rated fairly highly on there for the new shows as well as the old.

And Unification III seemed to be divisive for some reason. I pointed it out how people felt about it here after it came out. I don’t think over the actual Vulcans and Romulans being united, but the usual Burnham issues fans have with her in that episode and I think why it’s lower rated. But I really liked it personally. It’s one of my favorites of last season.

But my main point was Unification I and II is pretty popular. I will definitely say at the time, people probably were more disappointed with it. I include myself in that. Like One Lion I remember feeling VERY bored lol. But I’ve come to really like them a lot now (and I’m just older). And I only use IMDB because it’s the only place I know where individual episodes are even rated.

But sure if he and others just think the episode sucks, then they suck! That’s totally valid to feel that way and the episodes certainly have elements to criticize. You know I never argue how people personally feel about any show/movie or episode;.

Yeah I really love the episode today! And I love that Discovery finally made Spock’s dream canon 800 years later!

Given how disappointing DSC has been, seeing clips from Unification when Burnham looked into her brother’s fate was both touching and nostalgic. One of the rare instances where fan service actually seemed appropriate.

Yeah DEFINITELY agree on that! DIS still is a disappointment in many ways on it’s own. But I do think it has done a decent job of honoring classic Trek here and there like the image of seeing Nimoy’s actual face from Unification as you mentioned or hearing Archer’s theme when they presented the new space dock in his name this season.

I admit I am a huge sucker for stuff like that lol. They really get those moments right and honors the classics and those characters in a nice way that fans can appreciate even if they still hate this show.

Yes, I love these connections they are trying to make to earlier Star Trek shows.

Regarding my comments on Unification, I am not saying it’s a bad episode, but I am saying that it could have been a hell of a lot better and that the writers just didn’t nail the huge “Nimoy on TNG” opportunity like they might have done.

OK fair enough!

The artwork is fantastic. Not sure how the Borg can be made funny, but I’m willing to give it a go. Live long and prosper everyone x

This is a well-drawn book, but it’s frustrating to me that HeroCollector keeps releasing pointless memorabilia like this and that trinket-filled Borg advent calendar, instead of honoring their promise to complete the Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection. HeroCollector has screwed over fans so many times. I know people who have paid them hundreds of dollars without receiving any merchandise. They are not an honorable company when it comes to doing right by collectors. The pointlessness of this book illustrates it. Despite the good art, this is just cheap merchandising meant to fleece completist collectors without offering anything of substance. It’s so typical of HeroCollector.

5 Star Trek Crossovers That Sound Fake But Are Actually Real

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From the holodeck LARPing adventures that took place aboard the Enterprise-D to the portal-driven crossover between the crews of "Lower Decks" and "Strange New Worlds," it seems like just about anything can happen in the world of "Star Trek." But this sci-fi series had a few crossovers that even the most devoted Trekkies may not know about.

The implications for the Trek canon are staggering in a wider shared universe where Daleks and superheroes all share a common reality. In a world where fandoms collide, it's not hard to imagine Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and the Voyager crew facing off with a hoard of Weeping Angels or Q (John de Lancie) teaming up with Thanos (Josh Brolin) — thanks to a handful of clever inter-company collaborations. From the time Worf (Michael Dorn) met sitcom hero Webster (Emmanuel Lewis) to Starfleet run-ins with the X-Men, Transformers, the Planet of the Apes, and even a centuries-old Time Lord, here are five "Star Trek" crossovers that seem fake but somehow happened.

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Initially airing on ABC, "Webster" ran from 1983 to 1989, rounding out its final run in syndication under Paramount. Fortuitously for fans of sitcom shark-jumps, there was another popular series in development on the Paramount lot at the time: "Star Trek: The Next Generation." And what better way to round out the "Webster" series finale than with a Klingon-powered clip show?

The premise behind "Webster" imagined life for the titular young Black orphan after getting adopted by his affluent white retired NFL player godfather (Alex Karras) and his wife (Susan Clark). For the 150th and final episode of the series, the show took a decidedly sci-fi twist. In the aptly titled "WebTrek," Webster is suddenly struck by lightning while playing a PC game and inexplicably finds himself transported above the "Next Generation" flagship Enterprise-D. 

Although the rest of the main bridge crew doesn't seem to be anywhere in sight, Worf is around, and he's got a few questions about life in the 20th century — particularly, about mud wrestling and Groundhog Day. The episode quickly devolves into a review of Webster's greatest hits for the Starfleet security officer's benefit.

By the end of the episode, Webster wakes up in his own bed, suggesting to viewers that it was all a dream. That is until he picks up his joystick to see a note that reads, "Repaired and inspected by the Starship Enterprise," thus canonizing his adventure.

Starfleet Captains meet Time Lords in Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation²

Whovian Trekkies everywhere saw their crossover dreams come true during the Matt Smith era of "Doctor Who" in 2012 when the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" crew joined forces with the Eleventh Doctor and the Ponds. The story was made possible after IDW Comics, which has owned the rights to "Star Trek" comics since 2006, added "Doctor Who" comics to its list of acquisitions in 2008. Falling on stardate 45635.2 — sometime between the "Next Generation" episodes "The Outcast" and "Cause and Effect," the eight-issue limited series imagines a world where the Borg have joined forces with "Doctor Who" villains the Cybermen, and a Federation planet is under attack. The Borg quickly come to realize they've got a tiger by the tail in the Cybermen, forcing them to turn to Captain Jean-Luc Picard for help.

Fortunately, the TARDIS — along with the Eleventh Doctor and the Ponds — has been transported onto the Enterprise-D bridge at just the right time. As they work together to stop the Cyberborg, the series reveals that this isn't the Doctor's first run-in with Starfleet.

Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive brought Kirk to Ape City

Another great IDW Comics collaboration, this time produced as part of a partnership with Boom! Studios, "Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive" involves Kirk, Klingons, and a primate puppet state. Produced from 2014 through 2015, this five-issue limited comic series sees those sneaky Klingons looking to expand their empire via an interdimensional portal that just happens to lead to the alternate Earth from "Planet of the Apes." 

There, "Original Series" Klingon Kor has been backing a coup against the gorilla government of Ape City. To put an end to his plans, Captain Kirk, Spock, Chekov, and the rest of the "Star Trek: The Original Series" crew team up with familiar faces from the "Planet of the Apes" franchise including George Taylor, Cornelius, and Zira. Like the IDW WhoTrek series, ApeTrek is left open to the possibility of a sequel with the apes learning about time travel from a mishandled tricorder.

James T. Kirk met Wolverine in the Star Trek/X-Men comic

As it turns out, "The X-Men" and "Star Trek" have more in common than Patrick Stewart — even if that's not a bad place to start. Beginning around 1979, the licensing for "Star Trek" comics changed hands a few times, landing under the Marvel imprint Paramount Comics from 1996 through 1998. In addition to a handful of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Star Trek: Voyager" titles, Paramount Comics developed a one-shot crossover between "X-Men" and "Star Trek: The Original Series." Released in 1996, "Star Trek/X-Men" finds Kirk's crew crossing paths with X-Men Cyclops, Gambit, Wolverine, Beast, Jean Grey, Storm, and Bishop.

This wouldn't be the X-Men's final encounter with Starfleet, as Wolverine, Angel, Storm, Colossus, Shadowcat, Banshee, and Nightcrawler would later cross paths with Picard's crew in the 1998 comic "Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men: Second Contact" and its follow-up novel, "Planet X."

Star Trek vs. Transformers is a retro sci-fi lover's fever dream

Of all the "Star Trek" crossovers that seem a bridge crew too far, perhaps none is more so than the 2018-2019 comic book series "Star Trek vs. Transformers." Beautifully bringing together the 1970s artistic style of "Star Trek: The Animated Series" and the 1980s look of the 1984 animated "Transformers" series, the crossover drew critical praise for its visual design. 

The series finds the crew of "The Animated Series" answering a distress call on a planet near the Klingon border. There, they find Optimus Prime and his crash-landed crew of Autobots under attack from Decepticons. Optimus Prime gets a Vulcan mind-meld leading to a team-up with the Enterprise crew. Better yet, the Enterprise gets an ultimate Trekkie Transformer upgrade as the Fortress Tiberius, controlled by the mind of James Kirk himself. Additionally, a few members of the Enterprise crew including Sulu and Spock even get their own Cybertronian armor.

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Why Star Trek: The Next Generation Was Put On Hold For Years And Years

"Star Trek" was canceled in 1969 and then, 18 years later, the sequel series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" premiered. Reviving canceled shows is standard practice these days, when streaming services have all but replaced network TV and cable. However, the "Star Trek" renaissance was only possible thanks to a feature of that old model of TV: syndication, where a series would be sold for broadcast to multiple different channels.

In a 2007 oral history of "The Next Generation" by Entertainment Weekly, Robert H. Justman (a producer on what's now called "Star Trek: The Original Series") said that syndication reruns of "TOS" were why the suits were interested in a new "Star Trek" series. "[The reruns] just gathered up a whole slew of people who had never seen the show," Justman recalled.

That new "Trek" show ultimately became "The Next Generation." However, it was first conceived of in the late 1970s as "Star Trek: Phase II." That show would've been a more direct sequel to the original, with most of the original cast returning. It failed to get off the ground — because of "Star Wars." Trekkies and "Star Wars" fanboys have an infamous rivalry over which series is America's premier space-set series. However, this time, Paramount was taking its "Trek" cues from the Galaxy Far, Far Away.

Read more: 12 Reasons Why The Original Series Is The Best Star Trek Show

Star Trek: Phase II, Interrupted

As D.C. Fontana (a writer on both "Star Trek" and "The Next Generation") told EW, scripts for "Star Trek: Phase II" were written; the pilot of "TNG" — "Encounter At Farpoint" — was meant to launch "Phase II." Then, she said, "Star Wars" came out in 1977 and Paramount decided they'd rather make a "Star Trek" movie instead. After all, George Lucas' new epic proved that audiences would line up to see starships and space battles convincingly portrayed onscreen. Paramount thus shelved "Phase II" and the "Original Series" cast instead reunited on the big screen for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."

It was only after "Star Trek" proved to be a viable film franchise that a new TV show was produced, which morphed from "Phase II" to "The Next Generation." The title shift reflects the premise being redone; the new series was literally a new generation of characters, with a new starship Enterprise, who followed in the originals' footsteps. "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry accepted the offer to lead "TNG" because Paramount made it clear the series was happening with or without him. However, it was only under later writers, such as Ronald D. Moore, that the series came out of the shadow of "Phase II" and found its footing — footing firm enough to hold for seven seasons total.

Moore, who has since co-created the alternate history space race series  "For All Mankind," acknowledged this "Star Trek" trivia in that series. In this timeline, "Phase II" went ahead, "The Wrath of Khan" was the first "Star Trek" movie instead of the second, and "The Next Generation" became the third and final "Star Trek" series. A world without "Deep Space Nine"? Not sure I could bear that.

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  • Early curiosity about the unknown mechanics of the universe led her to pursue aerospace engineering
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  • Mohan emphasised the critical yet underutilised role of women in science

In an exclusive conversation with India Today TV, Swathi Mohan, the Guidance and Operations Lead at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shared her journey into the cosmos, her pivotal role in Mars exploration, and her thoughts on the vital presence of women in the realm of science.

From a young age, Mohan was captivated by the vastness of space, a fascination kindled by the vibrant hues of the universe depicted in "Star Trek - Next Generation."

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Her illustrious career at Nasa has seen her contribute to missions exploring Saturn with Cassini, the Moon, and notably, the Mars Perseverance Rover mission, with her most recent endeavour focusing on exploring the asteroid belt.

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Mohan's interest in Mars stems from its Earth-like qualities, such as similar atmospheric composition and gravity, making it an accessible and intriguing candidate for the search for extraterrestrial life.

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