Star Trek has always been a franchise built on big ideas. It pushed boundaries from the start and it kept raising the bar with every series and film. But not every bold idea made it to the screen.

In Star Trek: Nemesis, we see android Data (played by Brent Spiner) use the Vulcan nerve pinch to take out a guard.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine shouldn’t have worked ... including the war hero Kira Nerys, the shapeshifting Odo, and the Ferengi Quark, a member of a race that failed to distinguish itself ...

Jeffrey Combs is a man of many talents, but perhaps his greatest of all was giving us his star turn as Deep Space Nine's clone confidant.

Deep Space Nine has more moving parts than any other Star Trek ending, but every storyline is about the same thing.

Mythology, legends, fantasy and science fiction all include shapeshifters — humans or other creatures able to access (“shift” ...

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Replicators became a problem in Star Trek: The Next Generation as writers realized that many issues on a Starfleet ship could ...