Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦
She/Her/Elle. Proud 🇨🇦 & Acadian; Geekmom; Naturalist; Retirement project - reading all Star Wars and Star Trek novels and comics; Trekkie🖖
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦Pike's daily inspirational tubolift/corridor quote was really hard to read in #StarfleetAcademy's "Beta Test"⬇️. Thankfully, (most of) it can be read much better in "Vitus Reflux"⬆️. Pike spoke these words in the #StarTrekDiscovery season 2 episode "Project Daedalus" (2nd pic).
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- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦"The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy." Whew. And also: yikes. And also: thank god.
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦🚨NEW FROM IDW IDW will launch a new comic series for #StarfleetAcademy this spring. The 5-issue series is titled "Lost Contact" and is written by Layne Morgan & illustrated by artists Coralí Espuna & Nora Serrano. Issue #1 pre-orders: March 9! #StarTrek🖖
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦This must be my favourite callback in #StarfleetAcademy ("Beta Test") so far: the gramophone in Ake's office features several alien musical instruments: a Vulcan chime (#StarTrekTNG's "Haven"↗️), Vulcan bells ("#StarTrekTOS' "Amok Time"➡️) and an Enaran instrument (#StarTrekVOY's "Remember"↘️). 🧵 1/2
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦We wish a very happy birthday to Dr. Una McCormack, writer of many #StarTrek novels. Just a few: The Autobiography of Mr. Spock, Star Trek: Discovery - Wonderlands, Star Trek: Picard - Second Self, and The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway.
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦A close-up look at the Pike & April photo, from his Captain's Quarters, wearing the original 1960's uniforms from the pilot episode 'The Cage'. Via Adrian Holmes Source: www.instagram.com/p/DS0mXlpk5pJ #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦OUT TODAY: Identity Theft (Star Trek: The Original Series) by Greg Cox (Paperback, eBook and Audiobook/CD) amzn.to/4pEaFj6
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦OTD, the first day of filming on #StarTrek, ever: Cameras start rolling on "The Cage" as they shoot the scene where Dr. Boyce makes martinis for himself and Captain Pike in Pike's quarters. "Sometimes a man'll tell his bartender things he'll never tell his doctor."
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦On his birthday, we remember Jeffrey Hunter, who originated the role of Captain Christopher Pike in the original #StarTrek pilot, "The Cage."
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦As the end of the year approaches, it's time to take a look ahead at the books and calendars bringing #StarTrek into 2026! blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/look...
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦🚨NEW DS9 NOVEL A new DS9 novel is on the way! 'The Peacemakers' by Una McCormack is set 5 years after the end of the Dominion War as Jake Sisko returns to Earth after a long journey around the Gamma Quadrant... Out July 21, 2026 Pre-Order: geni.us/DS9-ThePeace... #StarTrek
- Our indoor cat Precious accidentally got out on Sept 29, and we’ve not yet been able find him & get him back home. We’ve got live traps out & neighbours keeping an eye out, but no luck so far. If you have any positive thoughts or prayers that you could send our way, they’d be greatly appreciated.
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦Writer/reviewer @paulsemel.bsky.social has posted a new Q&A with yours truly on his website. We spoke about my new novel, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Ring of Fire, and had a fun chat; if you’re curious about the inspirations behind the book, check it out! paulsemel.com/exclusive-in...
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦🚨COVER REVEAL! Author Dayton Ward's upcoming new novel #StarTrekPicard - 'To Defy Fate' finally has a cover! Plot details are still under wraps, but the cover is a good tease! It's currently set for release February 17, 2026 (USA). Pre-Order: a.co/d/deTKXRa #StarTrek
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦🚨 STAR TREK AT THE ROSE PARADE Here’s a first look at the #StarTrek float debuting at the 137th Rose Parade, on Jan 1st 2026. Celebrating the 60th anniversary, it’ll have “Space for Everybody” as it voyages through Pasadena. It will also promote #StarfleetAcademy.
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦Before I start talking about food on #StarTrekTOS, I have to mention the very first drink/food ever seen on #StarTrek: The martini Dr. Boyce serves to Captaik Pike (in a beaker, no less) in the original pilot "The Cage". This is the only time a martini is seen without olives on the shows: 🧵 1/2
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦We get a good look at Pike's bedroom in #StarTrekSNW's "New Life and New Civilizations". I love that he has a model of the USS Enterprise on display and there are books not in the shelves but on top of the whole shelf unit (like in my bedroom - just not enough space for #StarTrek books!) 😜
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦In future Pike's home in #StarTrekSNW's "New Life and New Civilizations"⬅️, there's a bottle of brown kanar in its trademark bottle. It's the same rare brown kanar variety that only appeared in #StarTrekDS9's "Way of the Warrior"➡️ (instead of the much more common black variety). 👌
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦For the romantics inmade you a little something…..https://youtu.be/3N05GEPrg-I?si=fAwnipYYy-SG0MNs
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦Here are the only two items in Pike's future house in #StarTrekSNW's "New Worlds and New Civilizations" that show the 23rd century setting: Two of Juliet's drawings feature the USS Enterprise and what looks like a spacestation or starship in orbit of a planet.
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦It's season finale time! #TheUnreadyRoom is LIVE to discuss "New Life and New Civilizations," the #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds season 3 finale! Join me & @brandiwine.bsky.social @ 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific) on Saturday, September 13th! #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NNc...
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦🖖🏻NEW VIDEO! #StrangeNewWorlds 310 — "Who Needs a Nexus??" — #DrTreksSecondOpinion #68 is now up on my YouTube channel Can so many threads from throughout the previous nine episodes add up to a satisfying #seasonfinale? #drtrek #trekland #startrek
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦Here's a comparison of Captain Pike's house in the #StarTrekSNW pilot episode "Strange New Worlds"⬆️ and in the season 3 finale "New Life and New Civilizations"⬇️. The filming location must have been modified in the years between the two episodes.
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦New #PositivelyTrek! Hosts Barry & @kertrats.bsky.social discuss “New Life and New Civilizations,” the #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds season 3 finale! #StarTrek #podcast www.positivelytrek.com/kirk-spock-g...
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦ANNOUNCEMENT! My full collection of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode prints are now available for a two-week only limited edition window ending Sept. 27th. Find posters (and t-shirts!) inspired by all 30 SNW episodes at jjlendl.com/shop. #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW #StrangeNewWorlds
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦It's a busy week at the #StrangeNewWorlds podcast factory - swing on by and inspect the product, whydoncha?
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦After Pike was handed a PADD by a yeoman early in #StarTrekSNW's "Terrarium" and we even got a close-up of the PADD, I thought it must contain some important information. Instead, it has the most mundane and bureaucratic filler text (topic: discretionary resource allocation) which I find hilarious!
- Happy Star Trek Day! 😀🖖
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦Happy Star Trek Day from me to you - picked up a little light reading to celebrate! Find Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming at your local comics shop or order online. Thanks to the IDW team and authors Tilly & Susan Bridges for sending me & my crew on yet another adventure! ✨🚀 @idwpublishing.com
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦While #StarTrekDay (Sept. 8) celebrates the premiere of The Original Series, #StarTrek's world premiere was actually September 6—when "The Man Trap" aired on CTV in Canada.
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦Writer Alan B. McElroy confirmed in our interview that the planet we see in #StrangeNewWorlds S3E9 "Terrarium" is indeed the same planet we see in TOS' "Arena" (notice the Vasquez Rocks in both images)! #spoilers
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦Big thanks to everyone who let me know that the Vulcan tricorder in #StarTrekSNW's "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans"↖️↗️↙️ is a modified Speak&Spell toy by Texas Instruments" ↘️! 😀 🧵 1/2
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦When Erica Ortegas says in #StarTrekSNW's "Terrarium"⬅️ that she cannot take Spock on the shuttle trip because every ounce in her shuttlecraft counts it's a nice foreshadowing of #StarTrekTOS' "The Galileo Seven"➡️ were Spock is faced with a similar, even more dramatic situation. :-)
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦It often pays off to watch the background in a #StarTrek episode. In #StarTrekSNW's "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans" you can see, for example, how Dr. Korby continuously calls back ➡️⬇️ after Vulcan-Chapel has hung up on him ⬆️. It's not ackwnowledged in any way but you can see it in the background.😀
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦Three of my streaming-series novels — THE HIGH COUNTRY, THE ENTERPRISE WAR, and DIE STANDING are part of this month's Simon & Schuster $1.99 e-book deal promotion. As are many others — check them out! www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-...
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦Did you notice the purple tea that Vulcan-Uhura and Vulcan lapdog Beto are drinking in #StarTrekSNW's "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans"? I bet that this is plomeek tea, as first introduced in #StarTrekENT's "Singularity". It's purple, like Chapel's plomeek roots/rubers. I wish someone could confirm!
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦Inside Pelia's quarters in #StarTrekSNW's "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans", a chess set using Lewis chessmen / chess pieces can be seen. You can learn more about these cool medieval chess pieces here, I love the shield-biting berserker rooks: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_c...
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦In #StarTrekTOS' "Amok Time", plomeek soup is purple. It is purple in its characteristic metallic bowl and it is purple on the corridor wall. More than 50 years should pass until we'd finally see original, purple plomeek soup again. Find out more about the visual history of this Vulcan classic!🧵 1/8
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦#StarTrekSNW's "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans"⬆️ we finally saw wonderfully purple Vulcan plomeek soup again, similar to the onw (and served in the same kind of bowl and plate) as the one seen in #StarTrekTOS' "Amok Time"⬇️, Both times, the soup was cooked by Nurse Chapel. :-)
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦*** REMINDER: There is a scene after the credits in this week's #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds episode! ***
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦The serial number and name of the Starfleet officers who wears the insignia can be seen on the back of it in #StarTrekDiscovery's "Into the Forest I Go"⬇️ and #StarTrekSNW's "What is Starfleet?"⬆️. Notice how the name is listed changes between the two episodes.
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦Here are Uhura's Starfleet (?) medals, as seen in her quarters in #StarTrekSNW's "What is Starfleet?".
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦Context, we've been told, is for kings. Thus, we have endeavored to provide additional context for #StrangeNewWorlds S3E8 "Four and a Half Vulcans" by speaking with the folks who wrote it - it's only logical! (Spoilers abound, of course) youtu.be/ZiEpKGL32vE?...
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦A surprise mail delivery and perfect timing for #trektuesday . Last year I had the incredible opportunity to do some art for the 2026 Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendar. It is amazing seeing my work in an official publication and one of my favorite sci-fi series on top of that.
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦If you haven't watched the newest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, do check it out - it's a great one. Here's what the season looks like so far via my retro episode posters. We're over halfway through Season 3 - favorite episode so far? #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦Here’s my poster for today’s new documentary-style episode of #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds “What Is Starfleet?” 🖖 #StarTrekSNW
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦We get a really good look at Spock's 2261 Vulcan lute in #StarTrekSNW's "What is Starfleet?"➡️. The comparison shot shows Spock's 2269 lute in #StarTrekTOS' "The Way to Eden"⬅️. I really want to compile screenshots of all the Vulcan lutes seen in almost 60 years of #StarTrek history!
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦#StarTrekSNW's "What is Starfleet?" features many close-ups of the Enterprise crew's personal items. The photo(s) of Uhura's family can be seen really well in the episode, much better than in season 2's "Lost in Translation" (the episode that the photo was originally taken for).
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦There are two Verilux SmartLight LED Floor lamps in Erica Ortegas' quarters in #StarTrekSNW's "What is Starfleet?". Thanks to the episode being broadcast in 4K, you can even make out the name "Verilux" on the lamp in the episode. ;-)
- Reposted by Rachel Gautreau 🇨🇦#StarTrekSNW's "What is Starfleet?" features a nice really really close close-up of Pike's uniform and insignia. Don't know what else to say, it looks cool! :-)
