One of the recurring elements in Star Trek is the illicit blue colored drink, the Romulan ale. The drink was banned by the Federation, yet somehow the Starfleet officers managed to sneak it in.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Gavin Wang at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and his colleagues used the WIYN telescope in Arizona to ...

Ro Laren's betrayal of Starfleet ranks as one of Star Trek's most unforgettable moments, but there may have been a bit more ...

The Wrath of Khan was meant to be an extraordinary and revolutionary idea. Its ability to replicate Earth-like conditions on ...

The Russian Federation and the Popular Republic of China have signed a new Energy Cooperation Agreement that provides for the ...

William, 42, who founded United ... Ranger Federation, echoed William, describing rangers as playing an “indispensable role in securing and maintaining the health of our planet.” ...

It was, of course, inevitable that the nation-state would wither away, and that soon, we elites in the know would more or less enact the enlightened United Federation of Planets as seen on Star Trek.

Roddenberry’s subsequent films and series followed the “TOS” doctrine of clean allegorical plots all surrounding the heroic feats of Starfleet, the quasi-military arm of the fictional United ...

One afternoon, while I browsed cabin door and hallway decorations – one adorned with a United Federation of Planets flag while another featured a transporter made of curtains that whooshed when ...

If you agreed to a mind-meld with Spock, you wouldn’t expect the Vulcan to share all of your deepest thoughts with the entirety of the United Federation of Planets, would you? That’s exactly ...

Jill Warren heads the European Cyclists’ Federation, a Brussels-based nongovernmental organization that advocates cycling to help lower carbon emissions. By Tanya Mohn This article is part of a ...