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After 36 years playing the iconic captain of the Enterprise, Sir Patrick Stewart is returning to Star Trek for the final time - and admits he knew nothing about Star Trek when he was offered the job

The year 2022 saw many of our most treasured luminaries dim and disappear from our firmament. Through the years I have interviewed many of those who passed, leaving lasting memories of our brief time together.

Real-world technology is often foretold by science fiction. In 1927, characters in the film Metropolis made video calls to each other. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hung flat-screen colour monitors on the walls of the Enterprise decades before we did the same in our living rooms.

The debut of 'The Next Generation' almost didn't have its most famous villain. Here's why Gene Roddenberry throwing Q into the mix changed the course of Star Trek history for the better.

They don't call it the main deflector dish for nothing. Here's how Star Trek canon, via 'Lower Decks,' just showed us how things really work on a starship.

A portion of the trailblazing actor's ashes will travel to deep space later this year. Along for the journey are remains of the show's creator and another star from the series.

As communications chief Uhura, Nichelle Nichols became a key part of a show that became a cultural touchstone

Nichols' career was mainly related to "Star Trek." But if she'd quit, a galaxy of talent may never have emerged

Nichelle Nichols died at the weekend aged 89 but will be forever cemented in history thanks to her 1968 episode of Star Trek

Actor who blazed a trail for black women on American TV in the 1960s in the role of Lt Uhura in Star Trek

Nichelle Nichols, whose portrayal of starship communications officer Lieutenant Uhura in the 1960s sci-fi TV series "Star Trek" and subsequent movies broke color barriers and helped redefine roles for Black actors, has died at age 89, her family said. Nichols, whose fans included Martin Luther King Jr. and a young…