The Passing of Leonard Nimoy #LLAP The Star Trek world lost one of it's founding fathers this past Friday when Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock) passed away at the age of 83. I know when I read the news that I immediately felt a sense of emptiness as my heart just sank. I never knew the guy personally or…

5 Things Star Trek: Deep Space Nine got right (Originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) Among a good majority of Star Trek fans, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine holds a special place in our hearts. When you look at the formula for Star Trek, it goes a little something like this: Crew members on…

Best new Star Trek characters of the Paramount+ era (Originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) Paramount’s done a pretty nice job in fleshing out their new Star Trek series on Paramount+ As it stands, Paramount+ has given us a number of new Star Trek series since first launching Star Trek:…

The best Star Trek trial episodes (Originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) One common practice of Star Trek over the years has been to take a pause from the weekly exploration of the cosmos to center on the exploration of ourselves, our own rules or laws. They’ve done this traditionally by…

Female Starfleet Captains and why Michael Burnham’s the worst (Originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) For as interesting as her rise to Captain on Star Trek: Discovery has been, Michael Burnham is the weakest written female Captain in Star Trek history. In Star Trek’s over 50 year history,…

Star Trek Fleet Command is fun, but not “Trek” (Originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) Last month, Scopely’s Star Trek Fleet Command celebrated its 5-year Anniversary. For those of you who haven’t tried out Star Trek Fleet Command (available for Android, Apple iOS, Mac OS & Windows), it’s a…

Setting the record straight on Neelix from Star Trek: Voyager (originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) Neelix started out quite the questionable character on Star Trek: Voyager. When we first meet Neelix, he’s tending to his debris field where he seemingly would be selling off junked starship…

The Orville was more “Trek” than new Trek When The Orville launched, many of the show’s characteristics matched what we loved about Star Trek more than Star Trek: Discovery did. (originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) So I wanted to come on here and take a look back to 2017. You see, for…

Don’t miss out on new Star Trek just because it’s new (originally posted to RedshirtsAlwaysDie.com) Why do Trekkies try so hard to resist accepting new content? So it’s no secret, we as Trekkies (or Trekkers as some prefer to be called) hold Star Trek canon in high regards. So much so, that when…