While Star Trek has had periods where it's competed on both the big and small screens simultaneously, it's never managed to main maintain a presence as consistently as it has now.
The original Star Trek films only came after TOS' had ended, and while the franchise experienced a resurgence in the nineties, replete with a series of spin-offs following on from Star Trek: The Next Generation, its cinematic efforts lagged behind. The lukewarm reaction to Star Trek: Enterprise only seemed to aggravate its diminishing role both in Hollywood and on TV.
Now, with Paramount's films continuing - and with Discovery going strong (as strong as a show can go on CBS Access) - Trek is on the strongest footing it's been on for a while, if not ever.
The delineation between the TV and film versions of Star Trek might be stark, but with a revitalised presence in pop-culture, things can only look up from here.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
