Star Trek Explorer

Providing in-depth coverage of all aspects of Star Trek, from the classic years of Kirk and Spock, through Jean Luc Picard, Captains Sisko, Janeway and Archer to the new JJ Abrams movies, Star Trek Magazine is your indispensable guide to the Star Trek universe. Every issue contains star-name interviews, great analytical features and exclusive photography from the CBS archives.

Captain’s Log

Star Trek Explorer

NICHELLE NICHOLS • 1932 – 2022

Engage! • EXPLORING THE STAR TREK UNIVERSE

PIKE PERFORMER • Who could have predicted, when Anson Mount made his debut as Captain Christopher Pike in Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 back in 2019, that three years later he’d be starring in a rapturously-received Star Trek show of his own? The fans, that’s who. The clamor for a series starring Pike, Spock (Ethan Peck), and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) began almost as soon as the Enterprise crew appeared in Discovery, changing the course of Mount’s life in ways he himself couldn’t have guessed at, as he reveals in this exclusive interview.

STRANGE NEW SHOW-RUNNER • For Henry Alonso Myers, producing and co-showrunning Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the culmination of a lifelong love of Star Trek – which makes him the perfect person to help guide a show that has one eye on Trek’s past and the other on the franchise’s future. With Season 1 of Strange New Worlds in the rear-view mirror, Myers casts an eye over the triumphs, challenges, and surprises of that inaugural season, and hints at what’s in store for Season 2.

A YAR IN THE LIFE • What better way to begin our celebration of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s 35th anniversary than to catch up with an actress who was there at the start: Denise Crosby, who played Tasha Yar in Season 1 (after originally reading for the role of Counselor Deanna Troi prior to the filming of series pilot “Encounter at Farpoint”), and later returned as Yar and the Romulan Sela. Thirty-five years on, Crosby looks back on the early days of TNG.

THE MAKING OF TNG • A 35TH-ANNIVERSARY BEHIND-THE SCENES ORAL HISTORY OF STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION’S EARLY DAYS

TOP 10 TNG “ONE HIT WONDER” ALIENS

THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF Tasha Yar • Lieutenant Natasha “Tasha” Yar valiantly served as the security chief aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise-D before making the ultimate sacrifice during a conflict with the creature known as Armus. Two years later, a temporal paradox involving the Enterprise-D’s predecessor caused Yar’s brief return and led to the birth of an unexpected foe…

Prey

SOME FAMILIAR FACES? • Can you identify the famous guest star and the character they played in Star Trek: The Next Generation?

LOST & FOUND • Each issue, we delve into the data core to retrieve a long-lost image from a classic Star Trek series or movie. This issue, to mark 35 years since Star Trek: The Next Generation made its television debut, we rewind to the show’s pilot episode, 1987’s “Encounter at Farpoint.”

Faster Than Light Travel • WARPING THE LAWS OF PHYSICS

Which Alien Would You Play? • We asked Star Trek actors, behind-the-scenes talent, authors, and more our latest and greatest question: if you could slip into make-up and character as any Trek alien – or a different alien from the one(s) you’ve portrayed – which alien would you play, and why? So many people answered the question – including the late René Auberjonois – that we’re breaking this Q Continuum into two parts, starting with A-I in this issue, with J-Z to follow in a future issue.

A FISTFUL OF DATA • MAKING SENSE OF THE FUTURE

STRANGE NEW CANON • PUTTING CONTINUITY IN THE FIRING LINE

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO… TNG’S PRIME DIRECTIVES • Thirty-five years ago, on September 28, 1987, Star Trek: The Next Generation’s pilot, “Encounter at Farpoint,” was first...