It's not just iconic characters like Kirk, Spock, and Janeway that have made "Star Trek" one of the best science fiction franchises of all time. It's also its memorable alien races like the Klingons, ...

Is anything original anymore? Or, are TV, film, and books destined to be dominated by preexisting franchises? For writer Noah Hawley, that's the wrong question. The real question is: How do you give ...

In the sixth episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, “Come, Let’s Away,” the cadets on board the Athena meet a new alien adversary, one that comes across as truly terrifying. While out on a deep ...

Although Marina Sirtis didn’t wear any prosthetic space alien makeup in Star Trek: The Next Generation, any of the feature films, or Picard, the truth is, like Spock before her, the character of ...

The episode begins with a cold open, in which aliens called Malcorians have discovered that Riker (Jonathan Frakes) was living among them, surgically disguised as a Malcorian. What makes this episode ...