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Nov. 15, 2021

22 Years in the Making: Two New Episodes of Trek Air This Thursday!

By the ASNP Crew For the first time in 22 years, two episodes of Star Trek will air on the same day. This Thursday, the new series geared towards a younger audience, Star Trek Prodigy, will close out the first quarter of it…

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Nov. 8, 2021

Jump Into Discovery Season 4 With Images From the First Two Episodes

By the ASNP Crew Star Trek Discovery's fourth season is only a week and a half away, and now, Paramount+ has released a batch of new images from the first two episodes of the season, titled "Kobayashi Maru" and "Anomaly," respectively. Paramo…

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Nov. 8, 2021

Star Trek Prodigy Renewed For a Second Season

More adventures await for the Protostar and her ragtag crew ViacomCBS announced today that Star Trek Prodigy, the first series in the franchise to be geared towards children and a younger audience, has been renewed for a second …

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Oct. 12, 2021

Lower Decks Season Two Wraps Up This Thursday With "First First Contact"

By the ASNP Crew Get to your post, Ensign! The season finale of Star Trek Lower Decks season two is just 48 hours away! The Strange New Pod team is ready and waiting on yellow alert to review it, but for now, you'll have to make do with t…

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Oct. 12, 2021

Prodigy For My Progeny

Some if not most of my earliest memories as a child are not of playgrounds or family excursions. No, those memories in my hippocampus are occupied by viewings of The Next Generation and countless VHS viewings of The Undiscovered Count…

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Oct. 10, 2021

Fans Treated to "Prodigy" Premiere, New and Returning Cast Announced at NYCC

"Why Wouldn't I Want to Return to This Magnificent Franchise?" -Kate Mulgrew This afternoon, Star Trek Prodigy beamed down to New York Comic-Con, and fans did not leave the Javitz Center disappointed. Trekkies in attendance were treated t…

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Oct. 6, 2021

Could Gwyn Be the Catra of Prodigy?

By Alexandra Denton Since the crew of Star Trek: Prodigy was first revealed, much excitement has abounded around them for various reasons. An entirely non-Human cast, Hologram Janeway, the excellent looking animation style, etc. But even …

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Oct. 4, 2021

Lower Decks "wej Duj" Airs This Thursday!

by the ASNP Crew A Klingon title? What does it mean? We'll fill you in. "wej Duj" translates to "three ships." To find out why you'll have to wait until the episode hits subspace, we mean Paramount+, this Thursday. Don't go grabbing your bat'leth, …

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Sept. 27, 2021

Lower Decks "I Excretus" Airs This Thursday

By the ASNP Crew Just three episodes left to go before Lower Decks warps out of season two to begin production on season three! In this week's episode, the crew looks like they're going to revisit some classic Trek episodes incl…

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Sept. 24, 2021

Who is La'an Noonien Singh?

By the ASNP Crew We Ask Our Collective the Burning Question... It's been a little over two weeks since the world got its first look at the crew of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, and one of the biggest mysteries to come out of the video pa…

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