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Oh My God, the Next Star Trek: Short Treks Is Basically an Episode of Archer With Tribbles

Who’d win in a fight, H. Jon Benjamin, a Starfleet officer, or some Tribbles? We’re about to find out, but frankly, I think I’m on team Tribble. CBS just dropped the next trailer for the second episode in the latest batch of Star Trek: Short Treks minisodes, after stealth-launching the new series at New York…

io9 James Whitbrook

The Nickelodeon Star Trek Show Won’t Talk Down to Its Younger Audience

When it was first announced that a new Star Trek animated series would be heading to Nickelodeon, a certain subsection of Star Trek fans began wringing their hands that this might be the point the franchise “dumbs itself down” to attract those gosh-darned youths. Well, good news: that’s not going to be the case. Speaking…

io9 James Whitbrook

Ex Machina’s Alex Garland Lifted the Curtain on FX’s Devs at NYCC

Director Alex Garland’s (Ex Machina, Annihilation) latest project is headed to television rather than theaters. Up until now, we didn’t have much to go on in terms of what FX’s Devs was actually about—but thanks to a big coming out panel at New York Comic Con this past weekend, we’re extremely hyped for the sci-fi…

io9 Jill Pantozzi

Breaking Down the Old Friends and New Secrets of Star Trek: Picard‘s Latest Trailer

Patrick Stewart beamed into the Javits Center for New York Comic Con this past weekend with a few friends and an absolutely incredible new look at Star Trek: Picard. Building on the complex world we saw established in its first trailer, decades after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, here’s what we spotted in our…

io9 James Whitbrook

This Is How Snowpiercer‘s World Ended

In a new animated trailer, the Earth of the Snowpiercer TV show comes to an end. It starts with war, then heat, then cold. As narrated by Daveed Diggs, this trailer tells the story of the chain of events that led to Snowpiercer being built and put on the track, the one safe haven in…

io9 Julie Muncy

The Superstar Artist of The Wicked + The Divine Soars into Deep Space With The Killing Horizon

Jamie McKelvie is one of those guys. Your favorite comics artist’s favorite comics artist, a status cemented by the just-ended five-year marathon spent as the draftsman on award-winning pop music super-drama The Wicked + The Divine. For his next trick, he’s going full cartoonist, writing and drawing an all-new sci-fi series and he told io9…

Books & Comics Evan Narcisse

An Inspector Gadget Reboot Is in the Works From Disney and a Pair of SNL Writers

Go-go-Gadget remake! Disney is working on a new live-action version of the popular 1980s cartoon Inspector Gadget, with Aladdin producers Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich on board along with Saturday Night Live writers Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell, who’ll tackle the script. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news. Besides the excellent cartoon that children of…

Movies Germain Lussier

Christopher Eccleston on Why He Left Doctor Who—and Didn’t Come Back for the 50th Anniversary

After he left Doctor Who in 2005, Christopher Eccleston spent years remaining silent about just why he’d departed the series almost as quickly as it had returned to lauded acclaim. In recent years he’s started being more open about his time on the show—but today at New York Comic Con he spoke plainly about why…

io9 James Whitbrook

The Girl With All the Gifts Author M.R. Carey Has a New Post-Apocalyptic Series, and We’ve Got the First Look

M.R. Carey, who wrote remarkable zombie tale The Girl With All the Gifts, is one of our favorite authors here at io9. We’ve been lucky enough to share excerpts from his works in the past, and we’ve got another one for you now: a first look at the debut book in his new post-apocalyptic trilogy,…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

A Fan-Made Recreation of a Lost Doctor Who Episode Is Being Officially Premiered by the BBC

In recent years, the BBC has made great strides in attempting to either recover or recreate the missing history of Doctor Who’s lost episodes. Whether that’s the incredible rarity of actual recovery or animated reconstructions, for one of the most intriguing lost tales they’ve now turned to an alternative medium: fan films. This morning the…

io9 James Whitbrook

Dive Into October’s Harvest of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

If our massive fall preview left you wanting even more books for your list, you miiiight be an alien from some kind of speed-reading planet. But as it happens, we do have some new additions on our expanded October round-up, so read on for fantastical, spooky, and spaced-out suggestions galore. https://gizmodo.com/theres-something-for-every-sci-fi-and-fantasy-fan-on-io-1837007435 Angel Mage by Garth…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

DMZ Is Coming to HBO Max Courtesy of Ava DuVernay

Warner Bros. is digging deeper into its DC properties and bringing another popular comic book to life. The company has ordered a pilot for DMZ, based on the 2005 Vertigo title by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli, for its upcoming streaming service HBO Max. And it’s recruited one of its feature film directors to help…

io9 Germain Lussier

The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in October

You can get comprehensive lists of everything coming to streaming services anywhere. But half of those titles you don’t care about, and the other half are terrible. Where’s the good stuff? io9 is here to help. Below you’ll find what we deem to be the best sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV coming to Netflix,…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Stranger Things Season 4 Announcement Teaser Promises a Departure from Hawkins

Following the Duffer Brothers hinting at the promise of more Stranger Things, Netflix has dropped the first teaser trailer for the series’ next season. And things are looking grim. While the teaser doesn’t feature any of Stranger Things’ human heroes, villains, or interdimensional monstrosities, its focus on the Upside Down and its statement about leaving…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Dave Filoni Talks the Challenge of Working on The Mandalorian

It’s only a couple months now until The Mandalorian launches on Disney Plus, and to whet our appetites for morally ambiguous space fantasy action we’ve got even more details to go through. In a lengthy report by IGN, Dave Filoni talks the challenge of directing and executive producing The Mandalorian, his first live-action work, and…

io9 Julie Muncy

Time Travel, Monsters, Aliens, Butts: Our 10 Favorite Films of Fantastic Fest 2019

The 2019 edition of Fantastic Fest, which wrapped up yesterday, once again lived up to its name. Over the course of several days I saw movie after movie and, after 19 total, there was only one I considered “bad.” That’s pretty fantastic. Everything about Fantastic Fest this year lived up to that standard though. You…

Movies Germain Lussier

Director Deborah Chow and Writer Hossein Amini Join Obi-Wan Kenobi Series for Disney+

A month after that much-anticipated announcement that Ewan McGregor would be reprising his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi—not in a film, but in a series for streamer Disney+—the project has a director, and the studio didn’t have to look far to find her: it’s Deborah Chow, whose credits include The Mandalorian. The Hollywood Reporter’s scoop says…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Happy 25th Birthday to Star Trek‘s Defiant, the Lean, Mean Starship of Deep Space Nine

Even at its most subversive, Star Trek still has to have a few certain kernels of established tropes to really feel like Star Trek—one of those being a ship for our captain and crew to boldly go in. Deep Space Nine, of course, naturally subverted both of these things, giving us a space station and…

io9 James Whitbrook

Well, Uh, There It Is: The Heroes of Jurassic Park are Back for Jurassic World 3

From the way things are going in the universe of Collin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World, the humans are all but done for now that the dinosaurs have made it off Isla Nubar and are running around in densely-populated areas. But the latest casting news about the next Jurassic World film suggests that maybe, just maybe, there…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

What Ad Astra Gets Wrong About Space Travel, Astronomy, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

As an astrophysicist and a film critic, I’ve been waiting my whole life for a big-budget adventure film that spans the whole solar system. There are some stunning sequences in Ad Astra, and many of the details about astronaut life and space travel are spot-on. But some of the themes and ideas that drive the…

Tech News Andy Howell

Oh My God, the Next Star Trek: Short Treks Is Basically an Episode of Archer With Tribbles

The Nickelodeon Star Trek Show Won’t Talk Down to Its Younger Audience

Ex Machina’s Alex Garland Lifted the Curtain on FX’s Devs at NYCC

Breaking Down the Old Friends and New Secrets of Star Trek: Picard‘s Latest Trailer

This Is How Snowpiercer‘s World Ended

The Superstar Artist of The Wicked + The Divine Soars into Deep Space With The Killing Horizon

An Inspector Gadget Reboot Is in the Works From Disney and a Pair of SNL Writers

Christopher Eccleston on Why He Left Doctor Who—and Didn’t Come Back for the 50th Anniversary

The Girl With All the Gifts Author M.R. Carey Has a New Post-Apocalyptic Series, and We’ve Got the First Look

A Fan-Made Recreation of a Lost Doctor Who Episode Is Being Officially Premiered by the BBC

Dive Into October’s Harvest of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

DMZ Is Coming to HBO Max Courtesy of Ava DuVernay

The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in October

The Stranger Things Season 4 Announcement Teaser Promises a Departure from Hawkins

Dave Filoni Talks the Challenge of Working on The Mandalorian

Time Travel, Monsters, Aliens, Butts: Our 10 Favorite Films of Fantastic Fest 2019

Director Deborah Chow and Writer Hossein Amini Join Obi-Wan Kenobi Series for Disney+

Happy 25th Birthday to Star Trek‘s Defiant, the Lean, Mean Starship of Deep Space Nine

Well, Uh, There It Is: The Heroes of Jurassic Park are Back for Jurassic World 3

What Ad Astra Gets Wrong About Space Travel, Astronomy, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

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