JJ Abrams is confirmed as the director as well as Executive Producer for Star Trek XI, which will re-cast the crew of the classic-era Enterprise with new actors and more or less start over. Current press (and rumour-mill until this point) have been extremely careful to steer away the 're-imagining' tag that adheres to Battlestar Galactica, which ( Read more... )

It's a measure of how crazy my day-job has been the last couple of weeks that I allowed the fortieth anniversary of Star Trek's first airing to pass without comment. Ironically, I donned a Shuttle Accord t-shirt yesterday morning without consciously remembering what day it was.

I've complained in these pages about the issues I have with Star Trek, ( Read more... )

We're safely in West Bend, WI, awaiting katerinfg and soaking up the free WiFi at the Country Inn & Suites.

On our way, we stopped, as we always seem to, at the US-151 Madison/Sun Prairie Exit, to dine at the Culvers' in the East Towne complex, and, at pixel39's insistence, hit up Half-Price Books.

They had a full set of James Blish's Star Trek adaptations-the ( Read more... )

While showing queenfrizzle Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan the other night (she'd never seen it), I came to a disturbing conclusion as the opening credits rolled ( Read more... )