Star Trek (canon) audio series announced Feb. 2025
about Khan. 
https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-khan-voice-cast-naveen-andrews-wrenn-schmidt

9 hours ago, janea4old said:

Star Trek (canon) audio series announced Feb. 2025
about Khan. 
https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-khan-voice-cast-naveen-andrews-wrenn-schmidt

more here:
https://trekmovie.com/2025/02/27/surprise-production-has-wrapped-on-star-trek-khan-audio-series-with-naveen-andrews-in-title-role/  
and updated here:
https://trekmovie.com/2025/03/04/star-trek-khan-timeline-episode-count-and-more-confirmed-by-audio-series-writer/

Edited March 13, 20251 yr by janea4old

Sonequa Martin-Green (Captain Michael Burnham from Star Trek Discovery)
now starring in new CBS series "Boston Blue" which debuts October 2025.

Details on the series (and a video of Sonequa talking about it)  behind the spoiler tag.
(spoiler tag used simply because this info isn't relevant to Star Trek.)

Spoiler

Info gleaned from EW and Deadline (disclaimer that some of the details have changed several times as the announcements have rolled out.).

"Boston Blue" is a spinoff of "Blue Bloods".
Bluebloods is a cancelled 14-season series about
an Irish-American family of law enforcement professionals
that was set in New York.

Boston Blue is (obviously) set in Boston.

Boston Blue: Sonequa Martin-Green plays Police Detective Lena Silver. 
(The character name was preliminarily announced as "Lena Peters", but now we know it's actually "Lena Silver".)
Lena Silver is from
a family lineage of Black law enforcement professionals in Boston.
In this Boston Blue series, it's *her* family that is featured.

Gloria Reuben is cast as Lena's mother, Mae Silver, Boston's District Attorney and the head of a blended family of law enforcement professionals. Mae is the widow of Judge Ben Silver who was murdered on the courthouse steps.  Mae endeavors to put family ahead of work whenever possible.

Maggie Lawson will play Sarah Silver, the strong-willed and decisive Superintendent of the Boston Police Department. Sarah is the stepdaughter of Mae and the daughter of deceased Judge Ben Silver.
Sarah is the stepsister of Sonequa's character Lena.

Marcus Scribner will play Jonah Silver, a rookie cop, son of Mae, brother of Lena.

Ernie Hudson is cast as a Baptist pastor and the patriarch of the family, father to Gloria Rueben's character Mae, and grandfather to Sonequa Martin-Green's character Lena. (His character name is apparently "Reverend Peters" but this character name is listed differently in various articles.)

Donnie Wahlberg plays his same "Blue Bloods" character Danny Reagan in the new series "Boston Blue", but his character has moved from New York to Boston. 
Walberg's Danny and Sonequa's Lena are police partners to each other.
Walhberg is also the executive producer of the Boston Blue series.

Mika Amonsen will play Danny Reagan's son, police patrolman Sean Reagan. (This is a recast of the same character from the original Blue Bloods series.)

Sonequa Martin-Green and Donnie Walhberg talk about Boston Blue:
(on CBS youtube channel - you might need a VPN if outside the USA to see this youtube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_x8tqce6xU

I'm not interested in the police procedural aspect, but it's cool that Gloria Rueben will play her mother.

Edited August 31, 2025Aug 31 by janea4old

 

Deidre Hall is appearing on one of the Trek shows.

Never been a Trekkie by any means, but that is pretty cool to see nonetheless. Of course, the end of the article has a soap 'fact' that's wildly inaccurate.

1 hour ago, Vee said:

Deidre Hall is appearing on one of the Trek shows.

I love this - can't wait to see which show she's on!

Anyone watching Starfleet Academy? I really liked the first episode, but it's going downhill for me. The 4th episode with the Klingon story was second best, but man I just can't get behind the Burn. I wish the Burn never happened and we weren't so far into the future.

With Lower Decks and Picard finished, I'm pretty sad with the current state of Trek. I like Strange New Worlds, but we're about to have our last season and I haven't heard of anything else in the pipeline. I really really wish we could have had the continuation of Picard with Seven of Nine as captain and the LaForge daughters.

7 hours ago, alwaysAMC said:

Anyone watching Starfleet Academy? I really liked the first episode, but it's going downhill for me. The 4th episode with the Klingon story was second best, but man I just can't get behind the Burn. I wish the Burn never happened and we weren't so far into the future.

With Lower Decks and Picard finished, I'm pretty sad with the current state of Trek. I like Strange New Worlds, but we're about to have our last season and I haven't heard of anything else in the pipeline. I really really wish we could have had the continuation of Picard with Seven of Nine as captain and the LaForge daughters.

I watched the first two episodes on the night they dropped. I was tired because it was the middle of the night, but liked them. Haven't had time to watch since then.
I'm going to go back and watch episodes 1 and 2 again when I'm awake.
Then I need to get caught up to see #3 and 4. I guess I'll have a trek binge day.

Tawny Newsome is on the writing staff for Starfleet Academy. She was the voice actor for the lead ensign Beckett Mariner on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

The first six episodes of Starfleet Academy were previewed to some of the press earlier in January. No actual spoilers but various reviewers seem to agree that episode 5 is really great.
The only spoiler hint for episode 5 is just a hint

(spoiler hint)

a hint or some reference to DS9 and possibly a reference to Sisko in an unusual way? Even the reviewers who saw it won't say more than that so I have no idea!

Tawny Newsome is credited as one of the writers of episode 5. That's coming this week, so I'm curious!

Edited February 2Feb 2 by janea4old

Yeah that whole Burn plothole is killing it for me.

2 hours ago, janea4old said:

I watched the first two episodes on the night they dropped. I was tired because it was the middle of the night, but liked them. Haven't had time to watch since then.
I'm going to go back and watch episodes 1 and 2 again when I'm awake.
Then I need to get caught up to see #3 and 4. I guess I'll have a trek binge day.

Tawny Newsome is on the writing staff for Starfleet Academy. She was the voice actor for the lead ensign Beckett Mariner on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

The first six episodes of Starfleet Academy were previewed to some of the press earlier in January. No actual spoilers but various reviewers seem to agree that episode 5 is really great.
The only spoiler hint for episode 5 is just a hint

(spoiler hint)

a hint or some reference to DS9 and possibly a reference to Sisko in an unusual way? Even the reviewers who saw it won't say more than that so I have no idea!

Tawny Newsome is credited as one of the writers of episode 5. That's coming this week, so I'm curious!

I've read that about Episode 5 too and I'm optimistic :)

That's awesome about Tawny, I actually didn't know that part. I loved Lower Decks haha.

1 hour ago, Marco Dane said:

Yeah that whole Burn plothole is killing it for me.

Same here, big time.

The actress playing cadet "Genesis" reminds me of a young Sarah Joy Brown's Carly on GH. Not the character, just her face and facial expressions.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Genesis_Lythe

Edited February 3Feb 3 by janea4old

Gina Yashere & Tig Notaro on Sherri Shepherd's show, January 2026, re: their Starfleet Academy roles, etc.

Edited February 4Feb 4 by janea4old

Kelly Clarkson interviews Holly Hunter and three of the Starfleet cadet actors, January 2026 about Starfleet Academy.

Kelly Clarkson said her someone in her production staff is a trekkie and begged to make it special, so the set is Trek-themed for this episode and the actors arrive via transporter effect!

Holly Hunter is featured for the first 14 or 15 minutes and then the three cadet actors beam in to join them for the remainder of the show.

Well this week's episode seemingly confirms our first gay Klingon! They've been hinting at some sexual tension between him and Darem for a bit, and I thought it was coming this week when Darem gave him his coat... but nope, it was a subtle kiss from another cadet that seemingly tells us Jay-Den is gay.

My favorite part of this episode was the amazing song they used at the end of the episode and throughout the credits. I was mesmerized by this song and have played it on repeat tonight.