Here's what "Star Trek" viewers need to know about the pathway drive, a major leap in Federation technology that propels Starfleet into new adventures.

The Spore Drive isn’t sustainable, just like Star Trek’s other alternate drives. In Star Trek III: The Search for Spock , the USS Excelsior had something called a Transwarp Drive.

The next Star Trek series, Starfleet Academy, is set at the furthest point of the timeline in the 32nd Century, around the time of Discovery's finale.

50 years ago, Star Trek brought the dream of a utopian, interstellar future to humanity. Today, the biggest technological leap might be on its way to reality.

Starship tech in Star Trek is weird. For example, what keeps complicated warp drives from blowing up and ruining the space-time continuum? It turns out that one very small piece of tech that’s ...

Resistance is futile. For half a century now the Star Trek franchise has been winning new fans and inspiring real-world innovators. Over the course of 12 feature films (the 13th will be released ...

Warp drive can get ships to light speed and faster in the Star Trek world but space is still HUGE. The Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years across so, even at Warp 9, it would take the Star ...