Star Trek's starships travel vast distances throughout the galaxy thanks to faster-than-light travel known as warp speed.

Cosmic speed limits can be a major inconvenience but they've rarely stopped science fiction in its tracks.

Science fiction often gets around this through advanced technology - such as Star Trek's warp drive - allowing faster-than-light travel. On the show, a special 'warp drive' powered by a reaction ...

Turkana IV was the colony from which Tasha and Ishara Yar hail, described as a 'failed' Earth colony. In Section 31, Jamie ...

The Voyage Home concluded the "Genesis Trilogy," but what happened to Captain Kirk and the whales he time-traveled from 1986?

In Star Trek Into Darkness, John Harrison aka Khan casually renders all space travel obsolete. This would seem like an ...

Exploring the inconsistencies across decades in one of Star Trek's supposedly core principles: the Prime Directive.

In Star Trek, dilithium crystals — whatever those are — are critical to the operation of a starship’s warp drives. But a Texas professor thinks he can make a baby step towards a warp drive ...

In his fond memoir “Making It So,” Patrick Stewart, now 83, traces the path from the working class to the Shakespearean stage to “Star Trek” superstardom. Ryan Pfluger for The New York ...