Star Trek’s new Klingon makeup is the latest chapter of a wild history

A close-up of Kor (John Colicos) in his Klingon makeup, which includes brownface, Spock-like eyebrows, and a Fu Manchu mustache, in a still from Star Trek the Original Series

Apart from the benevolent pointy-eared Vulcans, there’s no fictional alien species more iconic than the Klingons — not only in Star Trek, but in pop culture at large. The spacefaring warriors have evolved over half […]

For All Mankind season 3 showed how hard Star Trek’s utopia is to achieve

Dev Ayesa leaning over a desk with computers on it; his team around him is smiling and looking on

After two seasons of an extended Cold War, For All Mankind moved into the technology boom of the ’90s. If the real ’90s were driven by a techno-optimism, For All Mankind explores an idea of […]