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Rate Opinion: Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 11/17

Original at Cinematical external link    Tue, Nov 17

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By Peter Martin Star Trek In rebooting the franchise, J.J. Abrams faced the daunting challenge of pleasing long-time Trekkies and roping in new viewers who think 'Live long and prosper' is a slogan for an insurance company. This is not your father's Star Trek, but he'd probably like it too (begrudgingly). B...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek: The Next Generation-- "Imaginary Friend"

Original at jeffords (Blogspot) external link    Mon, Nov 16

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By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) The plot is a terribly contrived mess of elements of some of the worst TOS and TNG episodes. We have a troubled, lonely kid with an overactive imagination who causes trouble for the crew. I just more or less described “Charlie X,” “And the Children Shall Lead,” “The Bonding” “Hero Worship,” a...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek: The Next Generation-- "The First Duty"

Original at jeffords (Blogspot) external link    Sat, Nov 14

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By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) Some side issues taint the episode for me, too. There is a replica of the original Enterprise on Wesley’s desk that is actually a pewter collectible that was available at the time. A little blatant product placement there. Normally, that would not bother meat all, but TNG has obnoxiously pro...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek: The Next Generation-- "Cause and Effect"

Original at jeffords (Blogspot) external link    Fri, Nov 13

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By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) The plan eventually works the disaster, a collision with another ship, is finally avoided. The ship has been caught in a similar loop for ninety years or between Star Trek: The motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, if you perfer to think in geek terms. The Enterprise was fortunat...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek: The Next Generation-- "Ethics"

Original at jeffords (Blogspot) external link    Wed, Nov 11

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By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) You might think this is the mai ethical conflict implied by the episode title, but it is not. In fact, riker is the only one who has any compunctions about performing the ritual which would involve handing Worf a knife so he can stab himself in the heart. Picard, apparently possessing a newfou...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek: The Next Generation-- "The Masterpiece Society"

Original at jeffords (Blogspot) external link    Sat, Nov 7

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By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) “The Masterpiece Society” is based on another script that had been bouncing around the TNG office. The plot centers around a genetically engineered “perfect” society which does not want the ’inferior’ Enterprise crew among them, even when the crew is trying to save the colony from being...

Past Month

 

Rate Opinion: Star Trek: The Next Generation--"A Matter of Time"

Original at jeffords (Blogspot) external link    Wed, Nov 4

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By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) But I did say ’A Matter of Time” was best viewed without future Trek’s meddling. It is. A major plot pint is no one has ever heard of historians traveling through time to observe past events. In ENT, we learn there is such a thing and the 22nd century Earth Starfleet knows about them. The 22nd centu...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek: The Next Generation--"Unification II"

Original at jeffords (Blogspot) external link    Tue, Nov 3

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By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) It is not that bad, but the opening verbal duel with Spock and Picard is the weakest of both episodes. They are just throwing out all of Spock’s plan in one lump in order to justify his being on Romulus before the action starts. Jeri Taylor even makes an effort to distract us with aquip from Spock...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek: The Next Generation--"The Game"Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at jeffords (Blogspot) external link    Sat, Oct 31

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By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) May I now present ’The Game,” which shall forever be known as the worst episode of Tng and a portent of some of the dreck Brannon Braga would write through the rest of televised trek’s run. This episode was so bad, Gene Roddenberry died what the before it aired just to spare himself the agony.

Rate Opinion: Star Trek: The Next Generation--"Redemption, Part I"

Original at jeffords (Blogspot) external link    Mon, Oct 26

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By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) The episode is the penultimate story in the season long theme of the Romulan-Duras conspiracy to take over the Klingon Empire. It began with the selection of Picard as Arbiter of succession, the murder of the current chancellor, Worf’s discommendation under false pretenses, the murder...

October of 2009

 

Rate 3-D Lenticular Star Trek Review

Original at Trek Today external link    Wed, Oct 21

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By T'Bonz Adam “Mojo” Lebowitz, co-creator of the original Ships of the Line calendar series, thought it would be a great idea to use lenticular printing to make hi-resolution, lenticular 3-D art. Three different ships were chosen: the USS Enterprise 1701 (no bloody A,B,C or D!), the most recent E...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek: The Next Generation--"The Drumhead"Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at jeffords (Blogspot) external link    Wed, Oct 21

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By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) The episode’s story ties in with the season arc of a Romulan-Duras conspiracy to take over the Klingon Empire. A Klingon spy is exposed to be a Romulan collaborator because he believes the Empire has grown weak by its alliance with the Federation. An overzealous Starfleet admiral takes the...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek: The Next Generation--"First Contact"

Original at jeffords (Blogspot) external link    Thu, Oct 15

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By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) The powers that be finally broke the mold with “First Contact.” For the first time, we see what a first contact situation when the prime directive no longer applies would look like. What we get is an homage to ’50’s science fiction films in which the aliens are the Enterprise crew. I would call t...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek: The Next Generation--"Family"Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at jeffords (Blogspot) external link    Fri, Oct 2

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By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) The situations is more poignant because it is obvious Picard is still damaged even farther down the line. The subplot of his return to France here is whether he will take an Earthbound engineering job rather than return to Starfleet. (Never mind he is not an engineer.) For a career oriented ma...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek: The Next Generation--"The Best of Both Worlds, Part II"

Original at jeffords (Blogspot) external link    Thu, Oct 1

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By noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) Third, and I know this is blasphemy, but Picard should never have returned as captain. This is the first time Starfleet has ever had someone assimilated. He should be whisked away by Starfleet intelligence to be studied in every method save for dissection. If he had been taken by Section 31, t...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 1028: Thin Ice

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Wed, Sep 30

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: The Enterprise-D gets a distress call from Captain Halk of the USS Marco Polo. Halk is a childhood friend of Riker's, and as we find out in a series of flashbacks, has always been one for taking risks while Riker took the safer road. When the Enterprise finds the Marco Polo, it is surround...

Year 2009

 

Rate Opinion: Four to beam up -- 'Star Trek' and its designs on the futureVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at latimesblogs.latimes.com external link    Mon, Sep 28

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By Jevon Phillips Photo: John Jeffries (classic “Star Trek”), Joseph R. Jennings (“Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan”), Herman Zimmerman (“Deep Space 9”) and Scott Chambliss (“Star Trek” 2009). Paul Cantillon / Lidec Photo; Second - William Shatner observes a mysterious change in Persis Khambatta as Stephen...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 1000: Debt of Honor

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Thu, Sep 3

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By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) DIVERGENCES: The Klingon-class cruiser used by the Romulans at the time of The Doomsday Device would make dialogue in The Enterprise Incident redundant. There is a schism and possible civil war between smooth and bumpy headed Klingons, which contradicts even the comics continuity in w...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 997: Unforgiven / Echoes of Yesterday

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Mon, Aug 31

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By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: Sam Kirk died on Devena in Operation: Annihilate!, a mission which starts with a ship flying into the sun. We now know this was Kirk's time displaced nephew. The Federation President from ST V passes the torch on to the Federation President from ST VI. Carol Marcus (ST II) and Admi...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 968: Planet of Judgment

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Sun, Aug 2

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By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) DIVERGENCES: For the first time ever, Kirk and his landing party are wearing body armor. McCoy seems a lot more comfortable and knowledgeable about "ancient" medicine (like sutures) here than he is in ST IV. McCoy has a communicator with an antenna (unless they mean the flip cover acts as an...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 955: To Walk the Night

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Mon, Jul 20

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By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: Crew from the original pilot that appear include Christopher Pike, Number One, Philip Boyce, Yeoman Colt and José Tyler. Scotty was chief engineer aboard Pike's Enterprise (TOS novel: Enterprise: The First Adventure). Spock finds it hard to think of a scenario in which he wo...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek DVD/Blu-Ray Details Revealed

Original at /FILM external link    Fri, Jul 17

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By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) The STAR TREK Blu-ray boldly ventures beyond the final frontier with over three hours of sensational bonus footage including branching pods that allow for enhanced exploration, more fascinating features on the starships, planets, props, costumes and sound of STAR TREK, as well as a S...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 926: The Price of the Phoenix

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Sun, Jun 21

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By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: Reference is made to Kirk's "last orders" (The Tholian Web). The female Romulan Commander and Subcommander Tal were first seen in The Enterprise Incident. Next for the SBG Book Club: Strike Zone (TNG), Betrayal (DS9), Invincible Part I (SCE), Invincible Part II (SCE), Plane...

Rate Opinion: Is Star Trek A Religion? [Strange Questions]

Original at io9 external link    Fri, May 29

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By Mark Strauss Star Trek has long been described as a cult phenomenon…but is it an actual cult? Some anthropologists think so. Following the example of anthropologist Margaret Mead, they lived among the natives and studied their rituals-that is, they went to Star Trek conventions and fan clubs. Here's...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 891: Star Trek

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Sun, May 17

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By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) Yes. Why not? It's a story essentially about an aborted destiny, and the characters' struggle to fulfill that destiny despite Nero's attempts to stop them. In a sense, that's why the film can endure such a light weight villain. Nero's not the real enemy. History's pressure on the Enterprise c...

Rate Opinion: GEEK: Star Trek Has Been Reborn, and It Is SPECTACULAR

Original at SuicideGirls News Wire external link    Thu, May 14

It turns out, I think, that a lot of our fears, while well-founded, were unnecessary. JJ Abrams may not be one of us in the convention-going sense, but I think he has something in common with us, and I think it's a big reason why Star Trek made so many of us so very, very happy.

Rate Opinion: Did Star Trek Change Your Life? [True Confessions]

Original at io9 external link    Wed, May 13

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By Annalee Newitz But then there's your private Star Trek, the story that matters to you. For me, Star Trek: TNG is always going to be a personal story about finding community and solving problems even when it hurts. That will never change, no matter what happens. And for its many passionate fans, Star Trek is a z...

Rate Review: Star Trek

Original at Newsarama external link    Mon, May 11

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By Henry Chamberlain Anyone who still wants to pretend not to know how to form a Vulcan hand greeting is the real nerd. We’ve gotten way past that. We even have a United States Space Shuttle named after The Enterprise so we moved on a long time ago. It’s become part of us and Abrams knows this. He knows we’d all love to see...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 870: Star Trek Star Charts

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Fri, May 8

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) DIVERGENCES: Most divergences are due to the last 3 seasons of Enterprise and include... Archer IV is misidentified as Larocus Prime (Strange New Worlds). Klach D'Kel Brakt is misidentified as a Klingon system, when it is actually the Klingon name for the Briar Patch (The Augments). Andoria...

Rate Opinion: This Is Not Your Father’s Star Trek - Reflections On The Series And On JJ Abrams’ New FilmVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at /FILM external link    Thu, May 7

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By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Related Stories Charlie Rose Interviews JJ Abrams Star Trek Cameos RevealedStar Trek London Press Conference: Part ThreeStar Trek London Press Conference: Part TwoStar Trek London Press Conference: Part OneMatt Damon Turned Down Captain Kirk Role in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek? [This art...

Rate The Sexualization of Spock [Star Trek Review]

Original at io9 external link    Thu, May 7

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By Annalee Newitz When celebrated science fiction writer James Tiptree, Jr. (AKA Alice Sheldon) started watching Star Trek in the 1960s, she wrote in letters to her friends about how the one aspect of the show that truly fascinated her was Spock. She wrote a fan letter to Leonard Nimoy, explaining that his se...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek sets critics’ phasers to “fun”

Original at Newsarama external link    Wed, May 6

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By David Pepose If you care about this universe (and I do, damn it), you won’t sit passively through J.J. Abrams’s restart Trek. You’ll marvel at the smarts and wince at the senselessness. You’ll nitpick it to death and thrill to it anyway. David Edelstein, New York Magazine

Rate Review: Invigorated Star Trek Sparkles With Wit, Spectacle

Original at Wired external link    Wed, May 6

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By Hugh Hart Tiny Enterprise Models Channel Quirky Star Trek VisionsNew Star Trek Trailer Sets Course for Fan BuzzHello, Romulus! Star Trek Premiere Goes on TourNew Star Trek Will Be Younger, Faster, LouderAbrams’ Star Trek, Original Series Meet in Mashup

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 877: Captain Kirk's Guide to Women

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Mon, May 4

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) TOPIC: Rodriguez looks at love and dating through the filter of Kirk's experiences. The advice should lead you from pathetic "Redshirt" to "Captain" of your own destiny. Your romantic mission is just like Starfleet's, to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilization...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 863: Interphase: Book Two

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Mon, May 4

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) CONTINUITY: See the last volume for the basics. Scotty mentions the time Kirk was lost in the interphase (The Tholian Web). The da Vinci has helped Pakleds (Samaritan Snare) in the recent past. Gomez uses what she learned in Peak Performance to generate the warp pulse. A 150-year-old McCoy pu...

Rate Opinion: 10 Science Fiction Prequels, Ranked By Crappiness [Triviagasm]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at io9 external link    Thu, Apr 23

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By Charlie Jane Anders According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "prequel" was actually invented for science fiction by Anthony Boucher, writing in the Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1958. But prequels have become ever more common in recent years, with prequels to The Thing and I Am Le...

Rate Movie Review: Star Trek

Original at /FILM external link    Mon, Apr 20

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By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Related Stories Star Trek IMAX Poster Doesn’t Even Try; Plus Seven New PhotosStar Trek Sequel AnnouncedExpect Star Trek Reviews on April 7th and A Rant on the Future of Film CriticismNew Star Trek Movie Trailer - What Do You Think?Star Trek: 60 New High Resolution PhotosNew Star Trek Fea...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 856: Interphase: Book One

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Sun, Apr 12

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By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: The Tholians aren't a major power today because their ships never achieved the same speeds as ours. The Dominion War has eased tensions between them and the Federation. The Tholians stole the original Defiant in The Tholian Web. McCoy's inoculation against space madness from...

Rate Early Buzz: The First Reviews of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek

Original at /FILM external link    Tue, Apr 7

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By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Rodney Perkins at Twitich: “Abrams’ film is a very entertaining and reverential take on the Star Trek mythos. The acting and casting are spot on. The story mixes old and new elements of the Star Trek universe. The effects are breathtaking. Some people will inevitably nitpick this film but J.J. A...

Rate Countdown Offers Much More Than A Prelude To Trek Movie [Review]

Original at io9 external link    Mon, Apr 6

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By Graeme McMillan Countdown - plotted by the movie's Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and scripted by Tim Jones and Mike Johnson from Orci and Kurtzman's production company - doesn't just set up next month's JJ Abrams-led reboot in style (complete with great art by David Messina); it also offers what may be...

Rate Expect Star Trek Reviews on April 7th and A Rant on the Future of Film Criticism

Original at /FILM external link    Sun, Mar 22

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By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Related Stories New Star Trek Movie Trailer - What Do You Think?Star Trek: 60 New High Resolution PhotosNew Star Trek Featurette Shows Nothing NewStar Trek Will Be Finished Next WeekThe Physics of Kirk’s Star Trek Car JumpNew Star Trek Banner JJ Abrams‘ Star Trek will make its world prem...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 828: Spock Must Die!

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Sun, Mar 15

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By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: While the Enterprise is way on the other side of the Klingon Empire, the Federation loses contact with Organia and the Klingons start a new war. Months away from the action, the crew attempts the impossible - creating a tachyon duplicate of Mr. Spock with the transporter and sending it...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 793: The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Sun, Feb 8

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By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CPP/When Lwaxana walks off the transporter, the second shot of her has own going down the same step a second time, and in a different direction. The Best of Both Worlds, Part I - EO/The Borg can't see through the nebula, but the Enterprise can.

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 758: Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Sun, Jan 4

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By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) DIVERGENCES: The dates are based on the FASA role-playing game's timeline and often contradict accepted canon. There are a heck of a lot of references to corporations for a world where money is supposed to be a thing of the past (maybe it isn't yet). The appendix indicates that the Enterpris...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 752: Siege in Superspace

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Mon, Dec 29

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) CONTINUITY: The Enterprise's destination is Draconis, which might refer to a variety of locations using that word in the Trek universe. DIVERGENCES: Kirk has never heard of a black hole (even a scientifically inaccurate black hole like this one). Uhura is just a touch too white.

Rate Opinion: Star Trek Tweaker Talks Perils of Remastering Original SeriesVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Wired News external link    Wed, Dec 10

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By John Scott Lewinski See also: Review: Tweaked Star Trek Shines in New HD DVD SetStar Trek's 10 Cheesiest Classic CreaturesNew Star Trek Will Be Younger, Faster, LouderBootleg Star Trek Trailer Shows Young Kirk, SpockWorries Surface as Abrams Previews Star Trek in EuropeNew Star Trek Teaser Posters Beam...

Rate Opinion: SciFi Power Ranking - December 8, 2008

Original at blogs.amctv.com external link    Sun, Dec 7

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By Todd Brown What happened, J.J.? Your relaunched Star Trek has tumbled all the way off the list from first place last week. Is it disinterest? Disaster? Nope, it's just been an incredibly busy week in the land of science fiction. Between Terminator, Watchmen, and a surprising amount of scifi television...

Rate Opinion: Star Trek 727. The Planet of No Return

Original at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery external link    Thu, Dec 4

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By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) So I'm gonna try my hand at continuing the daily Trek reviews with other Star Trek media, at least for now, at a rate of 6 comics and one novel a week (the latter on Sundays). As previously mentioned, comics are going to run chronologically, while novels will jump around from series to series,...

Rate Catching Up: Star Trek Preview Impressions From a Casual Fan [Off Topic]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Gizmodo external link    Thu, Nov 20

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By Brian Lam Inside, I don't usually get star struck, but how can a geek not get excited seeing both Harold from Harold and Kumar and Sylar in the same theater sitting in the same row watching themselves on the screen. And it was Trek! Not the old Trek, and Not even Next Generation, but a new kind of Trek with...

Year 2006

 

Rate Opinion: New episodes of Star Trek?

Original at TV Squad external link    Mon, Sep 4

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By Brett Love Filed under: Science Fiction, OpEd, Video, WebWell, kind of. Star Trek: New Voyages aims to pick up where the original Star Trek left off by filming new adventures for Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the crew of the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701. This is not your ordinary fan film project though. Now a...

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