You might recall that last year we heard news of a new Star Trek documentary series - The Center Seat - which curiously excluded recent entries like Discovery and Picard.
Seemingly it would be a love letter to real Star Trek fans of old. Its director was implicitly quite scathing of the newer titles.
Elon Musk recently announced a deal to acquire Twitter, make it a privately owned company and "enhance" it. Not everyone is happy about this news.
On the other hand William Shatner has tweeted that not only will he remain on the platform but has jokingly pitched the idea of becoming its new face with the hashtag #dumpthebird.
Earlier this year Star WarsunveiledThe Chandrila Collection, or in layman's terms, the merchandise attached to their exorbitantly priced Galactic Starcruiser hotel.
Star Trek being a military organisation with most cast in uniform most of the time, there's less scope to compete on the fashion front but they've come in at the ground level with some fabulously expensive $400 (US) boots.
Earlier in the week we remarked on a recent Star Trek commercial which included stars from current or upcoming series who have or had played captains.
Patrick Stewart, Anson Mount and Sonequa Martin-Green appear out of uniform and Patrick talks about Star Trek, i.e. he's speaking as Patrick rather than Picard.