Multiple sites are running stories with titles to the effect that Star Trek's latest offering, Strange New Worlds, has a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Discovery was widely acclaimed by critics at launch, with few detractors and those often dismissed as bigots. Its current RT score is critics 86% and viewers 36%.
The Quantum Leap reboot has leapt ahead of the competition to be the first of this year's US Network pilots to get a series order, i.e. season 1 production has been approved.
NBC made the announcement 29 years to the day after the final episode of the original show aired in the US.
That Netflix have designs on breaking into gaming is well known and they've already published a small collection of mobile games, but in the description for a newly announced animated kids title is the word we've been watching for.
Paramount's rollout in Europe proceeds but possibly not optimally.
Sci-fi fans would likely be aware that Star Trek is one of Paramount's key properties and that Strange New Worlds premiere's today globally. But Paramount+ won't launch in the UK and Ireland until June 22.
While it's a bit of real sci-fi news blackhole so far this week - it just doesn't make sense to compete for attention with the likes of Star Wars (May the 4th celebration) and Marvel (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness cinema release) - Star Trek have thrown their hat into the ring and aren't giving up easily.
This being May the 4th (as in, may the force with you), the Star Wars folk have dropped another trailer for upcoming series Obi-Wan Kenobi and also two character pack DLCs for recently released LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
The trailer is fine as trailers go but unlike their March teaser fails to evoke the Star Wars spirit.
The UK government have announced plans for their regulatory authority Ofcom to have jurisdicition over streaming services (eg. Netflix) for adherence to their Broadcasting Code.
With sizeable fines of the larger of a quarter of a million pounds or five percent of the company's revenue for breaches.
The Guardian have published a short interview with Australian actress Dichen Lachman, whose sci-fi credentials include Dollhouse, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, The 100 and most recently, Apple's widely acclaimed Severance.
Fair warning - the interview is a little bit spoilerish for Severance.
