Warp Factor Trek

The Star Trek Fan Website

Webmaster 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 been mentioned in the official Star Trek Magazine, 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.

Defending Discovery‘s Design Differences: Klingons

“People can be very frightened of change.” – Captain Kirk, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country When an on-set photograph of Star Trek extras purportedly clad as Klingons was leaked

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Defending Discovery‘s Design Differences: Holography

“You think your world is safe? It is an illusion.” – Khan Noonien Singh, Star Trek Into Darkness Earlier this week, it was reported that NASA has achieved holographic communication

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Defending Discovery‘s Design Differences: Starships

“Shall we continue? There is a great responsibility at hand.” – Spock, “If Memory Serves” So much of Star Trek through the decades has been from the perspective of the

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The Entire TNG Main Cast is Back, for Picard Season 3

While fans have been hoping for cameo appearances from his former castmates and Enterprise crew members to show up in the second season of Star Trek: Picard, today (on the much-celebrated First

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Defending Discovery‘s Design Differences

“We are always in a fight for the future.” – Captain Pike, “Light and Shadows” Ever since Star Trek: Discovery started back in 2017, the show has been the subject

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Interview with Stargazer Set Designer Sean Hargreaves

Firstly, congratulations on getting the gig to work on Star Trek: Picard. How did the opportunity to contribute to the show in its second season come about? I was told

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Interview with Tara Rosling – Ni’Var President T’Rina

How did you get the job of playing T’Rina on Star Trek: Discovery? My agent called me in the fall of 2019 and told me I had a “self tape”

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Ode to Star Trek Nemesis

Reflecting on the tenth Star Trek feature film “What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” –

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In the Aftermath of “The Cage”

Analyzing the aftereffects of the first Star Trek pilot The legacy that “The Cage”, Star Trek‘s very first produced episode (and first pilot, specifically) has had, in my opinion, cannot

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Loving Star Trek from Outside America

My very first encounter with Star Trek was finding a VHS tape of the episode “The Defector” which had been left in a video machine my family had bought, for

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