I attended the 1992 NAB convention and videotaped the induction of the Star Trek main characters into the National Association of Broadcasters' Hall of Fame. This is just that part of the ceremony. Handheld. Don't think any other fans were there, and doubt this ceremony has ever seen the light of day before. Only wish I could have gotten away with ( Read more... )

It's San Diego Comic Con weekend and Quantum Mechanix have published pictures of their upcoming 1:6 scale figure lines. I am posting just the TOS stuff, there is also Next Generation, Supernatural, Firefly and Justified ( Read more... )

“This new Enterprise doesn’t seem very rainbow to me. The show’s planners, I believe, fell into a rut of racial indifference.” What exactly is the complaint in this critique of Star Trek: The Next Generation (Roddenberry etc., 2007)? The critic may simply seem to desire racial and perhaps sexual diversity in representations on ST: TNG. However, the ( Read more... )

So, for any San Francisco bay area denizens, there's going to be a film night in Old Mill Park in Mill Valley this Friday and they're showing Star Trek XI! It starts at 8 p.m. and it's free (although they say "donations are appreciated ( Read more... )

The official release date was to be 29/10 but the disks were shipped to the shops this weekend and some have them on sale now!

Hooray!

There's a new interview with Orci and Kurtzman up on IGN. They seem pretty definite on ST 12 being pushed back, possibly to 2012.

Very minor spoilers regards to approach in the interview.

Full interview here.

eta: mods, this seems to me relevant to the comm but I can't find a news tag, I'll see if I can make one.

Hey! Just saw this on Wired saying ST: The Experience is coming back to Vegas in May! It will be down by Fremont street instead of back at the Hilton.

Crack open the Romulan Ale!

Ricardo Montalban - best known as Khan Noonien Singh to Star Trek fans - has died at the age of 88.

update - NY times obit here.

Saw this on CNN a few days ago.

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSLP27939120080825

Thought it reminded me immensely of a certain Elaysian woman we met on DS9.http://