Paramount Is Celebrating Star Trek Day by Making Almost Every Trek Premiere Free Next Week

In grant of this year’s Star Trek Day, Paramount volition marque the premiere episodes of each and each Trek series—barring one—available to watercourse escaped online from September 7-13.

This mean’s TOS‘s “The Cage,” TNG‘s “Encounter astatine Farpoint I & II,” DS9‘s “The Emissary I & II,” Voyager‘s “Caretaker I & II,” Enterprise‘s “Broken Bow I & II,” The Animated Series‘ “Beyond the Farthest Star,” Strange New Worlds’ “Strange New Worlds,” Lower Decks‘ “Second Contact,” Discovery‘s “The Vulcan Hello,” and Picard‘s “Remembrance” volition beryllium disposable to presumption astatine your leisure.

Additionally, aggregate episodes of Short Treks, including “The Girl Who Made the Stars,” “The Trouble with Edward,” “Ask Not,” “Runaway,” and “Ephraim and Dot” volition besides beryllium made available. Notably absent, however, is “Lost and Found I & II,” the two-part premiere occurrence of Prodigy, a snub further solidifying the doomed cartoon arsenic the existent achromatic sheep of the Star Trek franchise. Aside from those, each occurrence volition beryllium disposable connected Amazon, Apple, Roku, Paramount+’s authoritative YouTube page, Pluto TV, and connected the Paramount+ escaped contented hub (in the U.S. only, sorry).

Paramount has additionally partnered with Code.org, DoSomething.Org, and Outright International for “Take the Chair, Make a Difference,” a caller Star Trek-branded run foundation “encouraging fans to clasp the optimistic imaginativeness of a brighter aboriginal and to springiness backmost to the inclusive community.” The run reportedly “invites fans to spot themselves successful the iconic USS Enterprise captain’s seat and inquire themselves, “What would I bash if I were mounting the people to the future?'”

Lastly, fans volition besides beryllium capable to observe Star Trek Day astatine an array of interactive pop-up events, including the Taste of Chicago successful Chicago, Ill., featuring a replica of the USS Enterprise’s iconic captain’s chair. Elsewhere, successful some Berlin, Germany astatine the ALEXA Mall, and Vancouver, British Columbia astatine the Richmond Centre, you’ll beryllium capable to find a “modern architectural mentation of the captain’s seat crafted from sustainable materials.” At each 3 locations, you’ll beryllium invited to “capture a photo, get a personalized ngo and person a constricted variation enamel pin” upon “taking the chair.”

Fun, right? Free episodes, charities, and a constricted variation pin for everyone—except those small twerps aboard the Protostar.

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