Warp Factor Trek

The Star Trek Fan Website

Editor of WarpFactorTrek, Dan is an avid Star Trek fan who lives in Aberdeen, Scotland. Dan has loved Star Trek ever since discovering it in his childhood. He worked as an administrator, for six years, on the encyclopedic Star Trek website Memory Alpha, which involved studying the making of the various series and films. He has also written for the official Star Trek magazine, Star Trek Explorer; has qualified from a Star Trek course taught at Glasgow Clyde College; and coordinated the SubSpace Chatter (formerly The Scotch Trekker) YouTube channel, which regularly featured live interviews with the cast and crew of Star Trek.

Star Trek: Picard’s Academy, Issue 3 in Review

As Jean-Luc Picard’s time at Starfleet Academy continues, how does he fare in the third issue of the IDW comics mini-series about this era? Is issue #3 an unqualified success,

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An Interview with Strange New Worlds Extra David Jones

Model-turned-extra David Jones appeared as a background actor in “Under the Cloak of War”, the eighth episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ second season. What inspired this fledgling actor

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Star Trek: Picard – Countdown in Review

Published by IDW, Star Trek: Picard – Countdown offers a prelude to the associated television series, propelling us into Jean-Luc Picard’s most recent adventure. It was launched in November 2019,

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Christmas and Star Trek

Christmas has been explored multiple times in Star Trek. During the festive season, does Spock decorate the Enterprise’s Christmas tree with logical precision while McCoy grumbles about the illogical nature

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The Animated Series’ “The Slaver Weapon” in Review

Before this episode, the Kzinti were referenced in “The Infinite Vulcan” and a member of the species briefly appeared as part of the Elysian Ruling Council in “The Time Trap”.

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The Animated Series’ “The Ambergris Element” in Review

This episode’s writer, Margaret Armen, also wrote the TOS episodes “The Gamesters of Triskelion”, “The Paradise Syndrome” and “The Cloud Minders” as well as the TAS episode “The Lorelei Signal”.

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The Animated Series’ “The Time Trap” in Review

Take time for this episode. It’s no trap! Log Entry The USS Enterprise explores the Delta Triangle, where many ships have mysteriously disappeared. Sensor disruption occurs and a Klingon warship,

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Derek Tyler Attico on Writing The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko

Fans learned so much about Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine but The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko — the first novel by author Derek Tyler Attico — takes

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The Animated Series’ “The Terratin Incident” in Review

The fact this episode was written by Paul Schneider, who previously wrote such key TOS episodes as “Balance of Terror” and “The Squire of Gothos”, raises expectations for this installment.

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Star Trek: Picard’s Academy, Issue 2 in Review

Here’s a review of the story “Commit No Mistakes, Part 2”, which has the French subtitle “Hurler Avec Les Loupe” (bizarrely translated as “Howling With Magnifying Glasses”; presumably what was

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