For now, the standoff continues. The regime tries to discredit the protest by claiming it is externally provoked, an age-worn ...

One of the recurring elements in Star Trek is the illicit blue colored drink, the Romulan ale. The drink was banned by the Federation, yet somehow the Starfleet officers managed to sneak it in.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is hard to imagine a time when Mars was a mysterious and ...

Gavin Wang at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and his colleagues used the WIYN telescope in Arizona to ...

Ro Laren's betrayal of Starfleet ranks as one of Star Trek's most unforgettable moments, but there may have been a bit more ...

Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment show a tiny particle continues to act strangely -- but that’s still ...

The Wrath of Khan was meant to be an extraordinary and revolutionary idea. Its ability to replicate Earth-like conditions on ...

The Russian Federation and the Popular Republic of China have signed a new Energy Cooperation Agreement that provides for the ...

William, 42, who founded United ... Ranger Federation, echoed William, describing rangers as playing an “indispensable role in securing and maintaining the health of our planet.” ...

It was, of course, inevitable that the nation-state would wither away, and that soon, we elites in the know would more or less enact the enlightened United Federation of Planets as seen on Star Trek.

Roddenberry’s subsequent films and series followed the “TOS” doctrine of clean allegorical plots all surrounding the heroic feats of Starfleet, the quasi-military arm of the fictional United ...