Trek TV round-up: Discovery previews and behind the scenes, plus other show updates

Got lots of Trek-TV bits to dive into today, includes some little updates on the Picard series and Short Treks, and lots of Discovery behind the scenes goodies (including some great close looks at costumes/props, and a dive into this season's music), plus, bizarrely, a USS Discovery car!

But first, lets check out some new still's from this week's third episode in the second season, Point of Light. This episode brings us the return of both the Klingons and Emperor come Section 31 agent Georgiou. While the Discovery itself also welcomes a familiar face, Amanda Grayson:

Star Trek The Next Generation IDW 20/20 preview

Out this week is the sorely-in-need-of-a-catchier-title Star Trek: The Next Generation - IDW 20:20, a Stargazer-era Picard (and Crushers) tale released as part of IDW's 20th anniversary celebration. The 20:20 event includes one shots from several IDW titles, taking us either twenty years before or after the normal time setting of each series. So this Stargazer story is of course some twenty years before TNG proper.

The book sees the return of Peter David, writing his first Star Trek comic in a decade! And the story is illustrated by J.K Woodward, who also provides the main cover. A retail incentive cover is also available, by Gabriel Rodriguez (with colour by Nelson Daniel).

Continue below to check out those, and a five-page preview from the book, plus some related teases from the next Waypoint book too!

The Q Conflict #1 preview

Out this week is the first issue in IDW's new mega-multi-series-crazy-crossover The Q Conflict, which brings together the crews from TNG, DS9, Voyager, and TOS, along with a plethora of superbeings from across time and space!

The series reunites a classic IDW creative team of writers Scott and David Tipton and artist David Messina, with the latter making a welcome return to Trek after a half-decade absence!

This first issue is offered in four different covers, with Messina making up for his time away by providing both the A and B covers! Both feature an assortment of characters from all the series included. The two other covers are both retail incentives; one by George Caltsoudas, the other from J.K. Woodward. Continue below to check them all out, plus a five page preview from the book.

Discovery round-up: Point of Light trailer, first Ready Room episode, and more

Lots of Discovery bits to enjoy today, including the first episode of the new companion show The Ready Room, and other behind the scenes bits. But first, check out the trailer for this week's episode, Point of Light:

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Seven signals appeared across the galaxy. New Episode 1 February.

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Amanda back, Georgiou back, Klingons back! This is going to be a busy episode!

Eaglemoss starships USS Shran first look, and other previews and updates:

Eaglemoss's latest round of solicitations got an advance preview this month, but now the full listings are out, along with much higher res images of what is a particularly appealing batch of new ships; so continue below to check out V'Ger, the Dominion Battleship, XL Akira class, and more.

But we'll start with the Discovery collection, as the next ship in this series, issue 11, the Magee class USS Sharan was missing from the earlier photos, so we can now see this model for the first time - I am to my surprise quite taken by this one; as a physical model it looks much nicer than it's digital counterpart!

April Star Trek comics

IDW have released their solicitations for April, which include two new Star Trek titles. Continue below for all the details on those, and other Star Trek comics updates:

Star Trek: Year Five #1
Written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly. Art by Stephen Thompson

The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise left Earth four years ago. They’ve traveled to strange new worlds, defeated impossible foes, and made universe-changing decisions. But now, with the end in sight, they’ll have to face their biggest challenge yet. Step aboard the Enterprise with Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and Chekov as they begin the end of their original Five Year Mission and boldly go into an uncertain future in this new continuing Star Trek series!

When this series was announced a few days ago I got the impression it would be a new ongoing series, although the first details were a little ambiguous about that. But the solicitations seem to confirm it, with IDW describing it as "A new continuing series about the end of the Five-Year Mission!"

Discovery: More New Eden previews, and Brother behind the scenes

Got another batch of Discovery updates today, with both previews of this week's new episode, New Eden, and more behind the scenes goodies from last week's Brother. Continue below to check it all out.

First up, CBS have released several new stills from New Eden, featuring the Discovery landing party in a church(-like?) setting, and a bunch of bridge shots (I miss Pike's TOS-esque uniform already!):

Discovery 2x02: New Eden previews

Got some previews for this week's second episode of Discovery season two, New Eden. But first, thanks to TV Passport's listings for the series, we also have a few more episode titles now. Coming up are:

• 2x03: Point of Light 
• 2x04: An Obol for Charon
• 2x05: Saints of Imperfection
• 2x06: The Sounds of Thunder

While you speculate on those, Netflix have now released a trailer for New Eden; check it out below.

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“An extinction level event." New episode of #StarTrekDiscovery 25 January.

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Model kits updates: First Discovery kits on the way, and latest reissues

Lots of model kits news to go through today, including a whole bunch of reissues from Round 2 Models, plus some new photos of Moebius' latest Kelvin timeline kit. But first, let's take a look at what's coming from Discovery:

Round 2 have been keen to jump into Discovery, considering kits of multiple ships at multiple scales. The first of those will be the USS Discovery itself, which will be offered first at 1:2500 scale, making it about twelve inches long. It's not yet known when this will be be arriving, but it shouldn't be too far away, as initial box art is now in the wild, and some specialists retailers, including HDA Modelworx, are starting to take pre-orders.

Discovery season two behind the scenes photos, and other Disco updates

Lots of Discovery updates today, including the latest promo bits and bobs, and lots of behind the scenes photos.

First up, looking ahead in the season, the title for episode two has now been announced: New Eden, which will be directed by Jonathan Frakes.

And looking further ahead in the season, Michelle Yeoh recently shared this photo of her working on an ADR session in London. Note a new view of one of the new ships in the season on the screen: