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Star Trek: Resurgence is coming out next month

Dramatic Labs’ latest will boldly go where no one has gone before.

After several exciting teases over the past couple of years, we finally have a release date for Star Trek: Resurgence – and it’s coming very soon.

On Tuesday, Dramatic Labs announced that Star Trek: Resurgence launches on May 23, 2023, for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via the Epic Games Store.

For those unfamiliar with this one – Star Trek: Resurgence is a narrative-driven adventure set shortly after Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s timeline. Two alien civilizations are on the brink of conflict, and in typical franchise fashion, Starfleet intervenes – sending in the U.S.S. Resolute and Ambassador Spock to hopefully settle things diplomatically. Hopefully, no ‘cowboy diplomacy’ will be necessary.

There haven’t been many trailers for this one other than the initial 2021 Game Awards reveal, which you can check out below.

What’s particularly exciting about Star Trek: Resurgence is it’ll be the debut effort from Dramatic Labs, a studio made up of former Telltale Games employees that worked on classics like The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series, Game of Thrones: The Telltale Series, and The Wolf Among Us. So the team obviously has a lot of experience making titles like this one – here’s to hoping it’ll be another fantastic space game.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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Celtics Lab 172: From the Celtics State of the Union to the Final Frontier with Sopan Deb

This episode, we linked up with the NYT’s Sopan Deb to talk all things Celtics, stretch run, and Star Trek.

The Boston Celtics kick off the stretch run Thursday as they return to action after the NBA’s annual All-Star Week festivities with the best record in the league, a new big man on the roster, a newly-anointed full head coach, and expectations of contention.

Yet, the league did not stand still, and other squads have gotten better as well. How are we feeling about this team ahead of the stretch run in terms of the players, the coach, and the team overall? In many ways, the monumental task the Celtics have between them and winning it all is not unlike an intrepid mission to explore the final frontier.

From leadership to the away team making sure the mission doesn’t fail, the parallels between the Celtics’ quest to win the 2023 NBA Championship and the Federation’s mandate are strong as the crew of the Enterprise and Boston’s roster all hope to boldly go where no one has gone before.

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And while we might be overselling Boston’s hopes to win a record 18th banner, there is no one better to make those connections with than the New York Times’ Sopan Deb, who recently interviewed the cast of “Picard,” a new series in the Star Trek universe, in between his insightful coverage of the Celtics and wider NBA.

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To that end, the hosts of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast linked up with Deb to talk all things Celtics, Star Trek, and stretch run in a framework Gene Roddenberry would have been proud of.

Listen to the “Celtics Lab” podcast on:

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi

YouTube: https://bit.ly/3F9DvjQ

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‘Star Trek’ cast members and fans honored Nichelle Nichols, who died at 89

Nichols was a pioneer in every sense. Rest in peace and live long and prosper.

It’s a somber day for Star Trek fans as the iconic Nichelle Nichols —  best known for her role as Lt. Nyota Uhura in Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek: The Original Series — passed away at age 89 on Sunday. Nichols’ son Kyle Johnson revealed the sad news on her Facebook page.

“Her light, however, like the ancient galaxies now being seen for the first time, will remain for us and future generations to enjoy, learn from, and draw inspiration,” Johnson wrote. “Hers was a life well lived and as such a model for us all.”

During part of the Civil Rights era in 1966, Nichols’ role as a Black woman featured prominently in a popular television series like Star Trek was groundbreaking. Though, famously, she told Roddenberry that she wanted to quit her role at Lt. Uhura after the first season and go back to pursuing a career on Broadway. If she followed through, Nichols even had a job offer on the table.

But that was before she met a famous “Trekkie” at an NAACP fundraiser in 1967 — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In a twist of fate, Dr. King urged Nichols to continue playing Uhura because he saw her representation as a Black woman as incredibly vital and influential.

More from a Wall Street Journal interview in 2011:

“He (Dr. King) told me that Star Trek was one of the only shows that his wife Coretta and he would allow their little children to stay up and watch,” Nichols recalled. “I thanked him, and I told him I was leaving the show. All the smile came off his face, and he said, ‘You can’t do that. Don’t you understand, for the first time, we’re seen as we should be seen? You don’t have a Black role. You have an equal role.’

“I went back to work on Monday morning and went to Gene’s office and told him what had happened over the weekend. And he said, ‘Welcome home. We have a lot of work to do.'”

Nichols played Uhura on the show, in countless films, and in various other appearances for much of her life. She recently made a voice cameo as the character on Nickelodeon’s 2022 animated series Star Trek: Prodigy.

From 1977-2015, given her significant role as Lt. Uhura, NASA worked with Nichols to help recruit more diverse astronauts, especially women and minorities. NASA’s first female launch director, Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, had this to say about Nichols’ influence on her in a December 2021 interview with Space:

“What I love about Nichelle Nichols is how she embraced the role,” Blackwell-Thompson said in the video, “and how she portrayed us and gave us that roadmap for the future generation of women to follow. We definitely need more  characters like Uhura today.”

Star Trek fans were thrilled about more of the Next Generation crew reuniting in ‘Picard’

Can we get the Enterprise up and running full-time, too?

Star Trek: The Next Generation might be the most widely celebrated iteration of Gene Roddenberry’s classic sci-fi series. With a dynamic and eclectic cast led by Sir Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard — there was never any shortage of ambitious stories, intriguing moral dilemmas, and quality character development.

As Star Trek: Picard — a soft sequel of the famed 80s series — will begin Season 3 sometime in 2023, fans have wondered when a few familiar favorites will return. We’ve already seen Jonathan Frakes’ William Riker, Wil Wheaton’s Wesley Crusher, and Brent Spiner’s Data make appearances.

But what about Worf? Dr. Beverly Crusher? Geordi La Forge? What’s everyone been up to in the (unsteady) utopian future? How are their lives going?

Our fears have been quelled in a teaser trailer for the new season at the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con. The gang, including Worf, the older Crusher, and La Forge (among others) — are all getting back together in the 25th century with their illustrious captain:

Ahh! Older La Forge? I simply can’t take that seasoned look of Worf! He looks incredible! This is too much to process right now.

The creators of Star Trek: Picard definitely know what they’re doing. They’re feeding off good old nostalgia with a reunion of perhaps the most famous crew in one of the greatest sci-fi series of all time. And, I, for one, am OK with that!

Star Trek: Resurgence is an adventure game by former Telltale Games veterans

To boldly go.

It’s been quite a while since Star Trek  had a decent video game but the folks over at Dramatic Labs are looking to change that.

Star Trek: Resurgence  is a choice-driven adventure title where the wrong move could set you in the sights of a Klingon Bird-of-Prey. Dramatic Labs, a freshly formed studio comprised of TellTale Games veterans, announced Star Trek: Resurgence  at The Game Awards on Thursday.

“As fans of Star Trek, it’s truly an honor to be crafting a story which puts players right in the heart of the action, where significant choices and decisions will affect the entire narrative,” Kevin Bruner, founder of Dramatic Labs, said in a press release. “Built from the ground up using Epic’s Unreal engine and our proprietary narrative engine, this game showcases our team’s evolution in creating thought-provoking story-rich adventures.”

Check out the announcement trailer for Star Trek: Resurgence  for yourself below.

The story sounds right up the ally of any pink-blooded Trekkie. First Officer Jara Rydek and Engineering Crewperson Carter Diaz are aboard the U.S.S. Resolute, desperate to untangle a nefarious plot to send two alien nations into war. Best of all? The game is set not long after Star Trek: The Next Generation’s  conclusion.

Dramatic Labs have loads of experience working on narrative adventure games. Members of the development team worked on The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones: The Telltale Series and Batman: The Telltale Series.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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