Wah Chang - Artists

Wah Chang with lamp sculpture Captain Kirk holding a phaser, as designed by Wah Chang. Lt. Commander Spock holding a tricorder, as designed by Wah Chang. A Talosian from Star Trek's original pilot The original Gorn, as designed by Wah Chang. The alien puppet Balock, as designed by Wah Chang's studio.

The world of Star Trek is a troubled, but ultimately utopian world of interspecies collaboration and peace, a stark counterpoint to the tumultuous 1960’s in which it was born. Thankfully, Paramount’s newest series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds remembers its utopian roots, and has even revisited the Classic Trek episode “Balance of Terror” in its first season finale. TOR.com’s biography of Wah Chang reminds us that all the iterations of Star Trek …read more

Cosmic Sin: Truth in Advertising

Bruce Willis Perry Reeves Frank Grillo C. J. Perry

Star Trek: Lower Decks, the Cure for Kelvin

One Starfleet ensign roughly hanging her arm around a second. Two Starfleet ensigns reading a PADD. A Starfleet vessel. A group of Starfleet officers in mid-combat.

Abigail Larson

A slender woman in a long red dress and white gloves, dances in a graveyard with a skeleton in a long black cloak. A green woman with snakes for hair peers at a particularly ferocious lock. A young woman with black hair, sunken eyes and an elegant red wedding dress looks over her shoulder. A slender man sits on a large grave with the name 'Lenore' engraved upon it. A man with pointed ears and large red horns in a dark red jacket dances with a woman in a long black dress. A somber woman with long black hair in a long gray dress stands at the edge of the sea under a full yellow moon.

Star Trek: Picard’s Problematic Foundations

Patric Stewart as Jean Luc Picard, sullen action hero. Brent Spiner as dream sequence Data. Isa Briones as the clone that dies, or maybe the clone that lives. Harry Treadaway as a double plus secret Romulan operative.

Winona Nelson

A winged woman with long dark hair soars through the sky. A pale regal woman in dark robes, an elaborate headdress, and bloody hands floats A young man reaches into his reflection in the water, and the reflection reaches back. An enraged vampire -- surrounded by fire -- bares their fangs and raises their blade A slender woman hides her face behind a passive mask, with a wall full of other masks behind her. A slender woman in a flowery dress walks with a large hyena.

Post-Blade Runner Science Fiction Standouts

Angry Kaneda from Akira. An alien? from District 9. Carl Urban as Judge Dredd from Dredd. Rufus Sewell as John Murdoch in Dark City.

Alita’s Terrifying Transhumanism

Rosa Salazar as Alita. Ed Skrein as Zapan. Eiza Gonzalez as Nyssiana. Jackie Earle Haley as Ggrewishka. Rosa Salazar as Alita studies her new hand.

The Teen Titans’ Television Transformation

Brenton Thwaites as Robin / Dick Grayson. Teagan Croft as Raven / Rachel Roth. Anna Diop as Starfire / Kori Anders. Ryan Potter as Beast Boy / Gar Logan.

Anna Christenson

An intense woman in a short blue robe wields a large hooked flail. A woman in formal clothes waves an arm, trailing glowing blue webbing. Wonder Woman stands with sword and shield, large red cape billowing behind her. Buffy Summers lops off a vampires head with a large axe. A woman with long white hair casts a glowing spell. An tattooed archer relaxes with her enormous bow and small shield.

Colossal Tackles Issues Large and Small

Anne Hathaway as a very stressed out Gloria. Jason Sudeikis as a slightly manic Oscar. The Monster.