The Star Dispatch

Multiple realities

(covers information from several alternate timelines)

The Star Dispatch

Carl holding a future copy of The Star Dispatch newspaper

Carl's copy showing the changed headline "Emperor Georgiou's Fate Uncertain"

The Star Dispatch was a New York City newspaper that was in circulation in the 1930s. It was published daily.

While reviewing an altered timeline on his tricorder in 1930, Spock happened across the front page from a February 23^rd 1936 issue of The Star Dispatch. On that page, he found a photograph of Edith Keeler, along with an article that featured her meeting with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The same issue also featured reports of the mayor and the city council debating the budget and the city planning board and zoning commission decreasing the lot size in Rincon terrace. (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever")

In 3189, Carl showed Philippa Georgiou a copy of The Star Dispatch from Vol. MMMCLXXXVIII (3188) while on Dannus V. Its headline stated "Emperor Georgiou Dies Horribly Painful Death", while other front page articles bore titles that read "Supernova Threatens Tkon Empire" and "Starship USS Jenolan Reported To Be Missing". The back page also contained a crossword puzzle with a grid that utilised hexagons instead of squares. The newspaper bore the slogan "Delivering Yesterday's News Today" and a purchase price of 15 quatloos. (DIS: "Terra Firma, Part 1", "Terra Firma, Part 2")

The Star Dispatch is a "generic" fictional newspaper that was seen carrying headlines in numerous movies from the 1940s and 1950s, including such classics as Astro-Zombies, All the King's Men (1949), Batman and Robin (1949), and Bewitched.

External links

• The Star Dispatch at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Newspaper Pages in Star Trek at Ex Astris Scientia