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Star Trek at 60: Why ‘Far Beyond the Stars’ Still Breaks Me

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Far Beyond the Stars is one of the most powerful explorations of racism, representation, writing and hope in Star Trek’s 60-year history, and one that feels deeply personal to me

Happy Star Trek Day, and happy 60th anniversary to what I still consider the world’s greatest science-fiction franchise. I love pretty much all of Star Trek, across all its different incarnations, and there have been so many brilliant moments over six decades that choosing favourites can become a fool’s errand. Yet every now and then Trek produces something that rises above being merely fun, thrilling or thought-provoking and hits you so hard that it seems to send a shockwave through your body and soul, imprinting itself permanently on your memory and firing a phaser set to stun directly into your heart.

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Star Trek Is Winding Down Just When We Need It Most

Star Trek Is Winding Down Just When We Need It Most
Star Trek turns 60 in 2026 just as TV production winds down. Why its optimistic vision of diversity, technology, AI and humanity’s future matters more than ever

Next month, September 2026, marks an extraordinary milestone: 60 years since Star Trek first hit television screens, and in recent years we’ve been particularly lucky to have an avalanche of Trek on TV, from Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks and Prodigy, to Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy. But as we approach that anniversary, something rather sad is happening because, as I write this in August 2026, there are no new Star Trek television shows or movies currently in production.

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Pre-emptive Strike

In the face of deadly alien threat, do you await attack or strike first and cause genocide?

“They’re planning vacations here for goodness sake. This is intolerable!” the senator furiously stabbed a finger at a printed leaflet on the table in front of him and shouted at the assembled gathering around him. 

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The Flight of The Red Bird

The world’s greatest racing driving is hiding a secret and is on the run.

That was close. 

Tangling with security forces anywhere in the known galaxy was never a good idea. To attempt to walk into somewhere like a British RAF base on this planet and demand to see the personnel files of all the pilots, even if you were disguised as a senior internal investigations operative, with convincing credentials, always carried more than a little element of risk.

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‘Stang Struck (fiction)

The car that gate-crashed the future and turned the gatekeeper.

“Enjoy your weekend, dude!”

Before responding, Rick signed off his terminal and gently brushed his hand over the sleek, transparent monitor, ensuring all confidential files were securely stored within the intricate web of firewalls — a procedure that might seem tedious but was, in fact, nearly instantaneous. “You too, buddy. Got any exciting plans?”

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