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When the cosmic eddies of our facile existence gives us a year like 2018, the only appropriate answer is to make vodka inspired by Guinan’s bar on the Enterprise, apparently. Obviously.

Silver Screen Bottling Company and CBS have just announced another addition to their line of Star Trek themed booze—which a) exists in the form of a Captain Kirk Bourbon and b) somehow does not yet actually feature Klingon Bloodwine—in the form of Ten Forward Vodka, taking inspiration from The Next Generation’s recreational hub of choice.

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"WIy cha'! HaSta! cha yIghuS! 'eH... baH!"
These are the words you hear at the very beginning of the very first "Star Trek" movie -- the one from 1979 with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock that was awkwardly called "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." They are commands ("Tactical! Visual! Stand by on torpedoes! Ready... Fire!") barked out by a member of an aggressive alien species called Klingons.

They were invented on the set with the goal of sounding otherworldly and menacing, just like the warmongering race they belonged to. But since then, from just a few words that were little more than gibberish, the Klingon language has become the most widely spoken fictional language in the world, according to the Guinness World Records.
It was developed by Marc Okrand, a linguist hired to invent more Klingon words for "Star Trek 3," which featured the aliens prominently.
"The producers wanted it to sound like a real language, and I thought that to make it sound like a real language, it had to be one," he said in a phone interview.

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After playing Tom Paris for seven seasons on Star Trek: Voyager, Robert Duncan McNeill has spent his time primarily behind the camera. He has dozens of producing and directing credits to his name from the last two decades, including recently helming an episode of The Orville. In the latest installment of the official Star Trek site’s profiles of Trek actors-turned-directors, McNeill talks about his experiences directing for Voyager and Enterprise, but he also explains why he won’t be directing for the latest Star Trek show, or at least for now.

Hoping for opportunity to direct, applauds Discovery for seeking more diversity

When asked if he would be interested in directing for Star Trek: Discovery, McNeill revealed he had a meeting with a producer from the show to talk about exactly that:

I wanted to direct Discovery. I met with their producing director. I didn’t know the show that well, but I met with him on their last hiatus to talk about season two. I also produce now. So, I hire a lot of directors. The last few years, there’s been a seismic shift in terms of the priorities toward female and diverse directors. That reality now has meant that what used to be normal, which was a lot of white guys, to be quite honest, has changed. Some shows are mostly women directing. I think Jessica Jones, last year, had all female directors. Handmaid’s Tale. A woman may direct the next Star Trek movie. Most importantly, it’s a wonderful thing that’s happening. I’m proud that on other shows I’ve produced — The Gifted, The Arrangement, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce — I’ve brought in female directors. But, to answer your question, Discovery does a limited number of episodes and a priority there is to get female and diverse directors, so there are fewer opportunities for people like me, which is a great thing. But, yeah, if the opportunity arose to direct Discovery and I fit what they needed and it fit my schedule, I’d love to do it.

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• A series set at Starfleet Academy from creators Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz. The duo currently serve as co-showrunners on the Hulu-Marvel series “Runaways” and are best known for creating shows like “Gossip Girl” and the CW’s reboot of Dynasty.


• A limited series whose plot details are being kept under wraps.


• A limited series based around the “Wrath of Khan” story. Khan’s full name is Khan Noonien Singh. He was famously portrayed by Ricardo Montalbán in both the original series episode “Space Seed” and again in the film “Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan.” Benedict Cumberbatch then played the character in the 2013 film “Star Trek Into Darkness.”


• An animated series whose plot details are being kept under wraps.

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S.J. Clarkson has been tapped to direct “Star Trek 4,” making her the first female to helm a film in the “Star Trek” franchise.

Paramount Pictures had no comment. The studio announced at CinemaCon in Las Vegas that it was planning a fourth movie with Chris Hemsworth, who appeared as Chris Pine’s father in 2009’s “Star Trek.” Zachary Quinto is also set to return. Paramount is developing another “Star Trek” film from J.J. Abrams and Quentin Tarantino, but sources say it is still being written and would come after the fourth movie.

While details on “Star Trek 4” are vague, sources say a key plot point sees Pine’s character running into his father (Hemsworth) in a time travel ploy.

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There are a lot of directions the next @StarTrekMovie could boldly go! https://t.co/GNns31ZVDv pic.twitter.com/D7Ti8nsWW2

— TheWrap (@TheWrap) April 3, 2018

Zachary Quinto is looking forward to returning to Federation Space to play Spock again in another “Star Trek” film, but he says that the franchise’s next step is very much up in the air, with three scripts currently in development.

In an interview with ET Canada this past weekend, Quinto was asked about his thoughts on the possibility of Quentin Tarantino possibly joining the Trek universe as a writer or director. Quinto noted that any Tarantino Trek project won’t be happening for a while, as the filmmaker is currently working on his ninth movie, “Once Upon a Time In Hollywood.”

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Star Trek co-star Simon Pegg doesn’t think Quentin Tarantino will get around to directing the next adventure. After the box-office failure of 2003’s Star Trek: Nemesis, it became clear the movie series needed a reinvention. It took a further 6 years for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot to arrive, with the director using a time-travel plot device to take the crew of the original series and set them off on adventures in an alternate timeline. The movie had great casting and managed to get audiences excited about the series again.

While the sequel Star Trek Into Darkness was a financial success, it received backlash for its weak story and for pointlessly trying to hide Benedict Cumberbatch was really playing iconic villain Khan. When Abrams departed to direct Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Justin Lin took over the director’s chair for Star Trek Beyond. Simon Pegg co-wrote the entry’s script with Doug Jung, with the movie being released to coincide with the franchise’s 50th anniversary. While Beyond drew strong reviews, it proved to be a box office disappointment. Some believe this was partly down to viewer disappointment with Into Darkness, while Pegg recently cited the film’s lackluster marketing.

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Once again our friends at the TrekDocs account on Twitter have revealed an interesting document from their Trek archive. This time it comes in the form of a 1990 memo from Star Trek: The Next Generation showrunner Michael Piller to executive producer Rick Berman, who at the time had the final say on what got on the air for Star Trek. The memo covered possible episodes for the second half of the fourth season of TNG. It briefly discusses progress on a couple of ideas that eventually became “Qpid” and “Devil’s Due,” but the main thrust of the memo was an interesting new pitch from Piller.

A return to the ‘Action’

Dated October 17, 1990, Michael Piller’s memo to Rick Berman is titled “HIGH CONCEPT.” Here is Piller’s opening teaser pitch for his new episode idea:

We’re in space… an unidentified ship confronts us, it appears an old starship. The voice on the audio channel identifies himself as Captain James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. Enterprise. End of tease.

Piller goes on to describe the episode as a “return to the planet” (Sigma Iotia II) from the classic original Star Trek episode “A Piece of the Action,” which is the one where Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise find a society that had molded itself on a book about Chicago gangsters, left behind by a Starfleet vessel a century before.

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In new video posted Tuesday, Nerdist has created a fake trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek: Voyage to Vengeance, which expertly culls clips from classic Star Trek episodes and edits them in a way to mimic the style of the famed director. To begin with, the video plays throughout like one of Tarantino’s fake trailers that played along with his and fellow director Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse movies, complete with jumping frames and a scratched print look. Lucky for Nerdist, since the Star Trek episodes are from the late 1960s, no further visual alterations were made to give the trailer a vintage look.