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This month marks 60 years since the first episode of Star Trek aired on TV, and Dave Malkoff shows how all these years later, the future is now.
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This month marks 60 years since the first episode of Star Trek aired on TV, and Dave Malkoff shows how all these years later, the future is now.
"Star Trek" debuted 60 years ago, and while it only lasted three seasons, it birthed decades of spinoff shows and movies and a dedicated fanbase like no other.
CBS News' Dave Malkoff joins from Star Trek: The Cruise with Rob Picardo, who plays "The Doctor" in the series, to discuss how people are celebrating 60 years of the franchise.
Actress Holly Hunter is joining the Star Trek universe for the new Paramount series "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy." CBS News' Vlad Duthiers spoke to Hunter about her new role and her legacy.
"Star Trek" actress Sonequa Martin-Green pays tribute to trailblazing actress Nichelle Nichols and how she helped women and people of color in STEM. Runner Markelle Taylor shares how running changed his life – and how he qualified for a marathon in prison. Plus, our top viral videos.
Actor Celia Rose Gooding stars as Uhura in the Paramount+ series "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds." She joins "CBS Mornings Plus" to talk about the role.
Paul Wesley says he made a conscious choice to develop his own version of James T. Kirk rather than copy William Shatner's iconic performance.
First on "CBS Mornings," Paul Wesley talks about stepping into the legendary role of James T. Kirk, the legacy of William Shatner, and this week's alternate-reality episode on "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds."
Sir Patrick Stewart is returning as Captain Jean Luc Picard in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" after nearly two decades. Stewart first played Picard in 1987, and continued for seven seasons and four movies. Stewart joins "CBS This Morning" to talk about his return in "Star-Trek: Picard," streaming on CBS All Access.
Actor Zoe Saldaña is known for her roles in big sci-fi franchises like “Avatar” and “Star Trek.” Now, she’s taking on a new role as an undocumented immigrant in “The Absence of Eden,” a film directed and co-written by her husband, Marco Perego.
NASA is preparing for a commercially-built craft to land on the moon's surface for the first time as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, joined CBS News to discuss the launch.
The third and final season of "Star Trek: Picard" debuted on Paramount+, with new episodes to be released every Thursday. Variety senior TV reporter Joe Otterson joined Vladimir Duthiers and Anne-Marie Green to discuss the first episode and streaming's recent success. (Paramount+ is owned by CBS News' parent company, Paramount Global.)
Actor Patrick Stewart joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the third and final season of "Star Trek: Picard," streaming on Paramount+.
Actor Anthony Rapp talks about his time in "Rent," "Star Trek" and "Dazed and Confused" with Vladmir Duthiers. Just months after losing his civil court case against fellow actor Kevin Spacey, Rapp is poised to star in his very personal one-man show "Without You."
The comic book has gone where no other has before.
"Star Trek" actress Sonequa Martin-Green says Nichelle Nichols, an original "Star Trek" icon who died recently, was "1,000% actually a hero." They starred in the same franchise decades apart, but Martin-Green says Nichols inspired her on and off the screen.
Nichelle Nichols leaves behind a legacy of empowerment. Best known for her role in the original "Star Trek" as Lt. Uhura, Nichols was a woman of influence both on and off the screen.
Warner died from an illness related to his cancer diagnosis.
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Sir Patrick Stewart joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the second season of his Paramount+ show "Star Trek: Picard." Stewart first played Jean-Luc Picard in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" from 1987 to 1994. In the upcoming season, Picard and his crew travel back through time to the year 2024 in hopes of saving the galaxy's future.
William Shatner, who played "Star Trek" character Captain Kirk, became the oldest person to have flown in space Wednesday. Shatner joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss how the experience changed his perspective and what it was like to float in space.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is launching its second human flight on the New Shepard rocket this week. Crew members actor William Shatner, Blue Origin VP of mission and flight operations Audrey Powers, former NASA engineer Chris Boshuizen, and health care entrepreneur Glen de Vries join "CBS Mornings" to discuss their upcoming trip to the edge of space.
Sonequa Martin-Green returns to her role as Michael Burnham in season 4 of "Star Trek: Discovery" on Paramount+. She joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss becoming the first Black woman to become a captain in the "Star Trek" franchise and what else fans can expect from the new season. (Disclosure: CBS News and Paramount+ are divisions of ViacomCBS)
Star Trek looks to reach a new generation of Trekkies in the Paramount+ original animated series "Star Trek: Prodigy." Dee Bradley Baker, the voice actor behind "Murf," one of the show's characters, joins CBS News to discuss the animated series.
Blue Origin's second crewed launch into space is set to blast off this morning, carrying "Star Trek" star William Shatner. Mark Strassman reports.