Star Trek

By Lauren Davis Star Trek 2 IGN] Legion Lost Michael Emerson described the final season as "very dark and bloody," and said of the episodes: Fringe Chuck Chuck TV] V And we get a promo for the year's last episode, Tuesday's "It's Only the Beginning."

By Charlie Jane Anders Star Trek: Lost: Olivia's niece is back in tonight's episode, but her sister remains MIA. [EW] And here's a behind-the-scenes glimpse of tonight's episode. Also, here's what happens in episode 2x09, "Snakehead": V: Here's a new image from Friday's episode, "Legacy Of Terror," in which:

By Meredith Woerner While Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman work on the script for Star Trek 2, which has not been finished yet, Comingsoon, is reporting that should Khan be in the next film, they've already got an actor in mind. It's none other than Nestor Carbonell, who we'd actually like to see unleash as the mas...

By Charlie Jane Anders If you liked Star Trek... And who didn't like J.J. Abrams' breezy reinvention of the 1960s space adventure show, focusing more on the coming-of-age of Kirk and Spock, and their journey from rivals to friends? Anarcho-syndicalists, that's who.

By Meredith Woerner Trek Movie has an exclusive featurette titled Masks vs. Prosthetics where you can finally see the new looks for both Gorn and the Salt Vampire. The new aliens were supposedly created for the Rura Penthe Klingon prison scenes, but that was cut.

By Graeme McMillan Staying with the media tie-ins, IDW also has the first issues of the weekly Legion: Prophets and the mini-series Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ghosts coming out. Meanwhile, Dark Horse has the much-anticipated all-new Dr. Horrible special issue to satisfy your Whedon Jones for another...

By Graeme McMillan Sure, movies like Iron Man and The Dark Knight have proven that superheroes can work on the big screen, but sometimes only comics can offer longjohned epics so large-scale that they'd break Hollywood in half through special effects budget alone.

By Meredith Woerner The Star Trek DVD is out tomorrow, loaded up with goodies like William Shatner's deleted scenes and lots of in-depth interviews. Here's everything we learned about Star Trek from the DVD, plus the latest clips. Wil Wheaton Has A Star Trek Cameo Victor Garber Is A Klingon

By Charlie Jane Anders Do you think people who are writing science fiction or fantasy should try to avoid getting shelved in those sections, for the same reasons you were keen to avoid getting shelved in LGBT fiction? Should we, as readers of SF and fantasy, be trying to get the novels we love shelved in "fiction,...

By Moff That's not to say he's perfect in this regard. Double Star is a product of its time and features all of one female character. And we don't hear too much from her, but she's more or less the same female character he usually wrote.* Still, he improved on that front as the years went on. (While no Bever...

By Lauren Davis The Lost "Cantina Scene" From Abrams' Star Trek James Kirk stumbles into an exotic alien bazaar on a desert world, in some concept art from a sequence that never made it into J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. Check out more exclusive views from the Trek art book below.

By Graeme McMillan Otherwise, click over to ABC for the second episode of V and see whether it still feels like FlashForward meets... Well, the old V, really (The official PR for the episode says "A seeker among the Visitors tracks Erica and Father Jack. Chad seeks redemption by investigating the aliens ahead of...

By Graeme McMillan Undied: Thanks to time travel shenanigans, turns out never to have died in the alternate timeline of third season episode "Yesterday's Enterprise," and then manages to return to the past of the original timeline at the end of the episode in a way that still doesn't make a lot of sense.

By Charlie Jane Anders The black velvet smoothness of science fiction art continues, like the blackness of space, only creamier. Artist Bruce White saw yesterday's black-velvet gallery and steered us to his gorgeous portraits from Star Trek, Star Wars, BSG, Doctor Who and more.

By Lauren Davis Star Trek: Lost And someone snagged a photo of Ben Linus dressed as a teacher for the seventh episode "Dr. Linus." [Dark UFO] Fringe V Here's the official description for tonight's episode: Heroes Sylar and Matt are getting in trouble in Monday's episode, "Shadowboxing." [The ODI]

By Charlie Jane Anders Five million people downloaded copies of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movie since it opened in theaters, and it's not even on DVD yet. Paramount cites that fact in its filing with the FCC's taskforce to create a National Broadband Plan. Easy access to broadband has made movie piracy easier than ever...

By Charlie Jane Anders Mitchell, who plays hero FBI agent Erica Evans, says the resulting changes merely speed the pace of storytelling to pack a bigger wallop, including big cliffhangers in the Nov. 24 episode. Filming on that episode is set to wrap today, giving actors another unexpected 10-week break as the s...

By Lauren Davis Ever wanted to own your own Starfleet shuttle? A Utah school district happens to have a working simulator of the Star Trek-inspired USS Galileo up for auction. The $1000 reserve hasn't been met, so you can still take Galileo home. Thanks to Erica Brown for the tip.

By Charlie Jane Anders Star Trek 2: 2012: Lost: EW] MTV] V: OMG here's the official synopsis for episode 10, "Abandon All Hope," the episode two major characters won't survive: Here's the official description for episode nine, "Believe": Here's a new image from tomorrow night's all-new episode, in which:

By Annalee Newitz Hunter Prey asks a question that has preoccupied a lot of recent science fiction, from Doctor Who to the new Star Trek movie: When somebody has exterminated your whole planet, what do you do? One of Hunter Prey's characters is the only remaining member of his species, and a large part of the...

By Lauren Davis It's telling that the very first episode of The Twilight Zone , "Where Is Everybody?" deals with loneliness, and the human need for companionship. It's a theme that inspired one of the more unnerving episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In "Remember Me," Dr. Crusher sees the her son an...

By Annalee Newitz Huh? And another fail moment in quippery, from Hannibal Rising: Cannibalism jokes! In a movie about a cannibal serial killer! Fail. You want good horror quippery? Just watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or one of the scarier episodes of Doctor Who.

By Lauren Davis At Long Last, Meet J.J. Abrams' Klingons Feeling cheated that you didn't get to see a Klingon prison break in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movie? As we promised, those lost Klingon scenes will be on the new DVD, but a few snippets have already turned up online.

By Annalee Newitz Star Trek is always there for you, even if your taste runs to haunted spaceships. In Star Trek's "The Tholian Web," a ghostly version of the Enterprise is hovering between phases, causing the crew to see a ghostly version of Kirk (especially in the shower) while trapped in the alien web of th...

By Charlie Jane Anders But it turns out there's less to the Klingons than meet the eye in some scenes. According to this snippet of making-of footage which turned up online recently, some of the Klingons were actually little kids in Klingon costumes, shot from angles to make them look like grown-ups, so the sets w...

By Meredith Woerner Plus there's also a chance that this is fan made, in which case this person is a very impressive artist. The attention to detail is wonderful, especially with all the giant nods to early Communist propaganda. It's got us wishing we'd have Klingon choristers going caroling at our houses come...

By Charlie Jane Anders The clunky backgrounds, blaring Midi sound files, and ugly ads... there's a lot we won't miss about Geocities when it shuts down today. But it was home to tons of fan sites and science-fiction resources: here are some we'll miss. Is there another fansite for science-fiction disco wizard Meco o...

By Graeme McMillan The Hollywood Reporter suggests that Guggenheim's involvement was always intended to be temporary, and that he was assigned to the new series "[b]ecause of Goyer's limited hands-on TV series experience," something that has now apparently changed with the first half of the first seas...

By Annalee Newitz So you can tell I'm pretty critical of male nudity as it stands in science fiction. Are there any examples of good, friendly nudity that isn't about deathtripping and mad science? As somebody who appreciates the male form, I'd like to be given a few more options in my science fiction, please....

By Charlie Jane Anders Star Trek 2: 2012: IGN] Lost: Three sneak peeks from tonight's episode, "Gimme Some Truth": And here's a sneak peek from Friday's new episode, "Light." And a clip from tomorrow night's new episode, "Eulogy." Put those two episode titles together, you've got a Funkadelic song title.

By Lauren Davis Where you've see it: Numerous stories and books including the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, The Dresden Files, The Dark Tower, Balzac's "The Succubus," and Richard Matheson's "The Likeness of Julie." Also, an episode of South Park.

By Graeme McMillan Keeping outside of monsters for the time being, Nexus: Space Opera and Star Trek: Mission's End offer your fill of interstellar drama for the week, with the former bringing back the cult space cop superhero from its 1980s indie comic heyday and the latter offering a take on the final days o...

By Charlie Jane Anders According to TrekWeb, the Star Trek Season 3 Blu-Ray set will include the longer cut of "Where No Man Has Gone Before," which has never aired or appeared on DVD or VHS. (The Youtube video above includes all the sections that are different.) The original cut started with a view of our galaxy, wh...

By Graeme McMillan If you feel as if today's science fiction is full of remakes, retreads and just plain rip-offs of what's come before, there's a reason for that, according to Star Trek and Transformers co-writer Roberto Orci. And it's not laziness. Abrams keeps it all in the fan family [Variety]

By Graeme McMillan Just as the 1980s predicted that all futures were most likely dystopian (Unless they were Star Trek), they also brought the idea that the sheriffs of the future would most likely take those "fascist pig" comments to heart and start modeling themselves as leather-wearing, faceless figu...

By Charlie Jane Anders When you're a brain in a tank, you've got a lot of time to think about stuff. And one of the things you ponder is: how many kinds of disembodied brains does science fiction have? The answer: six! Spock's Brain from Star Trek is probably the most famous example of this trope — what is brain? Brain...

By Lauren Davis The upcoming Star Trek DVD/Blu-Ray throws in tons of deleted scenes, including Spock's parents, Kirk's uncle, Klingon prison-breaks... and Kirk apologizing to a green woman? Special features explain everything - except the writers' theory of time travel.

By Lauren Davis And that, Stross notes, is precisely what is wrong with so much science fiction. In fact, he says, it's anathema to what science fiction is really about. Science fiction is about observing the human condition when circumstances and technologies change. For example, how would world civili...

By Charlie Jane Anders These storyboard images come from artist John Mann, who's worked on movies like Mars Attacks and Star Trek: First Contact in the past. Writes Mann:

By Annalee Newitz Last spring, Newsweek posted a great slideshow of images taken mostly from a 1975 Star Trek convention. Early Trek cons were mostly run by women, and the masquerade was packed with must-see awesome. [via Newsweek]

By Charlie Jane Anders So I admit it — I know very little about Andromeda, the Gene Roddenberry-inspired series that featured Kevin Sorbo in a tight uniform. I've seen a couple of episodes, years ago, and read bits and pieces here and there. But lately, I've gotten more curious — the show's writing staff includes S...

By Caitlin Petrakovitz • Gene Roddenberry's Vision - The vision of Gene Roddenberry as told by J.J. Abrams, Leonard Nimoy, previous Star Trek writers and producers, and scientific consultant Carolyn Porco. • Starfleet Vessel Simulator -Here you can see a 360˚ model of the Enterprise and the Narada including som...

By Graeme McMillan IDW keeps the big name action going: The publisher puts out Star Trek: Countdown (the surprisingly enjoyable prologue to the JJ Abrams movie, starring the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation.) Also, there's Star Trek: Crew (Another surprise, as John Byrne follows the early career of N...

By Caitlin Petrakovitz At the junket for the DVD release, Abrams told us that his friend Victor Garber is featured on the DVD in a deleted scene as a Klingon. In the scene, Garber is all costumed up as a Klingon on the prison planet Rura Penthe. Sadly, Abrams said, the scene had to get cut for theaters.

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By Caitlin Petrakovitz With Leonard Nimoy playing such an important role in J.J Abrams' reboot of the Trek series, what happened to an appearance from Kirk Prime? The noticeable absence of William Shatner is discussed in the DVD special feature "The Shatner Conundrum."

By Charlie Jane Anders The performances in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot were smooth and flawless — on screen, at least. Here are all the goofs, giggles, beat-boxing incidents, and captain's chair crashing pratfalls that didn't make it. [via Pamela Hopkins]

By Charlie Jane Anders They're terrifying! They're relentless! They're Canadian! Triple Take Productions has crafted several black-and-white short films about zombies from space — including Space Zombies: Terror From The Sky!, in which alien zombies come to Earth to transplant cat brains into people. Or...

By Charlie Jane Anders Convention season is just about over, but it's not too late to start planning your 2010 convention-going. (In fact, some stuff is already selling out.) So here's our guide to 2010's mega-conventions. Which offers the most zing for your money? Wondercon photo by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid.

By Caitlin Petrakovitz J.J. Abrams' muse Leonard Nimoy may possibly — hopefully — have a role in the next Mission Impossible. At least, that's what Abrams hinted yesterday. What if Nimoy came back in Abrams next project as his original Mission: Impossible character, Paris? How open is the director to casting Nimoy...

By Caitlin Petrakovitz We sat with writers Orci and Kurtzman at the Paramount Star Trek DVD junket eagerly awaiting details on the next Trek. Right away they cleared up recent rumors that they've already created a storyline for the second outing — they have yet to sit down and lock themselves in a hotel room as they...

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By Annalee Newitz It's the Heroes episode we've been waiting for, called "Hysterical Blindness," and NBC was kind enough to send us a preview copy. Dying to know the future of your television life? We've got a spoiler-lite breakdown for you. RAMPANT LESBIANISM: NYLAR:

By Charlie Jane Anders Will J.J. Abrams really make Star Trek 2: The Rehash Of Khan? Writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman told an interviewer there's "a 50/50 chance" Khan will show up in their sequel. Here's why it's a terrible idea. The new Kirk doesn't have the gravitas.

By Charlie Jane Anders A new Transformers 2 clip shows all-out robo-chaos. Meanwhile, Roberto Orci talks Trek sequel villains (again) and a Spider-Man villain actor says he'll be back. Also, there are spoilers and pics from The Box, FlashForward, Fringe, Heroes and Warehouse 13! Star Trek 2:

By Charlie Jane Anders Star Trek 2: Is this movie Trek 2 or Trek 12? You decide! In any case, co-writer Roberto Orci hints that some more changes to the timeline could happen in the sequel, although nobody's scribbled so much as a napkin so far: We3 iF Magazine] Time Traveler's Wife via Sci Fi Wire]

By Charlie Jane Anders 4) Admit that Han Solo is the hero as much as Luke. That's the other thing J.J. Abrams' Star Trek did right: It treated Spock as the hero, just as much as Kirk. We all knew, all along, that Spock belonged in the top spot alongside Kirk, but the series had never quite admitted it before. (Probably due t...

Star Trek may actually be the sexiest TV show ever, thanks to Spock's repressed passion, shirtless Sulu and Kirk, green women, beehive hairdos, miniskirts and metal bikinis. So I'm sad that yet another Trek porn vid feels... ordinary. Warning: NSFW! ...

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...

By Graeme McMillan Without Uhura, I would have been a subtle bigot, because I wouldn't have thought I was one. "I treat all people as if they were equals", I would have said, not realizing that I was nonetheless thinking of women or non-white people as 'Other.' I thank Star Trek, and Ms Nichols, for giving me a goo...

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...

By Charlie Jane Anders To be fair, though, the movie pokes fun at this idea a bit - Nimoy tells Kirk it's his "destiny" to go back to the Enterprise alone, but later in the movie, Nimoy basically winks and admits he only said that because he knew Kirk would like it. 3) He's just not as nerdy as Shatner's Kirk.

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...

By Annalee Newitz Let's untangle the tangled web at the heart of Fringe, shall we? First of all, show creators Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, and JJ Abrams all worked on Star Trek, which is hitting theaters on Thursday. The writer of last night's episode, Akiva Goldsman, worked on some of the cheesiest flicks...

By Charlie Jane Anders Star Trek: Chekov, at one point, has to run down several decks to get to a transporter room to beam two people aboard. Kirk, not McCoy, comments on Spock's green-blooded ancestry in an obnoxious way. Uhura intercepts a vital transmission — but Kirk uses the information to advance up the chai...

By Graeme McMillan Warren Ellis' 2003 graphic novel may have started out as a joke, but it's one that stays funny throughout its short (72 pages) lifespan; essentially, "what if the Enterprise was crewed by bastards?", Honey apparently got its origins when an episode of Star Trek: Voyager made Ellis imagi...

By Meredith Woerner The relationship between Spock and Uhura, that dynamic provides a lot of levity and humor between Kirk and Spock and between Kirk and Uhura. But between Spock and Uhura, I think it actually represents a depth, whereby Uhura is almost a canvas onto whom Spock can project the emotion that he i...

By Charlie Jane Anders Star Trek: The scene between William Bell and Olivia Dunham will leave you wondering what he needs her for, and why he got in touch with her, says Leonard Nimoy. He'll be in at least two episodes next year, at which point we'll learn more about his backstory with Walter Bishop. [Sci Fi Wire]

By Charlie Jane Anders So when I root for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek to do well, I'm really rooting for Hollywood to realize that there's still a market for movies about people on super-awesome spaceships exploring, fighting, emoting and defying several laws of physics at once. I'm hoping that if Star Trek makes Dark K...

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...

By Charlie Jane Anders Star Trek: And McCoy is fleeing from the wreckage of his painful divorce, which is referenced in the film. (The fact that McCoy also had to euthanasia-ize his own father, as shown in Trek V, is not mentioned, but Karl Urban says he kept it in mind.) McCoy is running away to join Starfleet, despi...

By Charlie Jane Anders Spies on the set of David Tennant's final Doctor Who story have spotted a certain actor on set... with weird hair. Meanwhile, Russell T. Davies and David Tennant talk Star Trek and Star Wars. Spoilers! Pinball image by Stewtopia. Crocheted David Tennant by Bishma. Vote Saxon posters by OpheliaC.

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...

By Charlie Jane Anders Just how many Scotty/McCoy cliches will turn up in Star Trek? It's a spoiler. There are also new Wolverine ads, a Pandorum pic and Riddick/Green Hornet descriptions. Plus major Dollhouse, Lost, Fringe and Supernatural spoilers! Star Trek: IESB]

By Charlie Jane Anders Star Trek: Leonard Nimoy talks to SciFi Now, and explains that the Spock he plays in the new movie is not the same one he last played 17 years ago in Star Trek: TNG. Lost: Chuck: And here's the official description of episode 3x23, "1961":

By Charlie Jane Anders Star Trek: Here's the synopsis for the April 1 episode "Whatever Happened, Happened": Here's the official synopsis for episode 3x22, "Turn To Face The Strange": Here's the official synopsis for episode 2x19, "Chuck Vs. The Dream Job": Here's what happens in episode 8x18, "Eternal":

By Charlie Jane Anders Star Trek: More will be revealed" about Ellen and Tigh, and we'll see more of the love triangle between Ellen, Saul and Admiral Adama unspooling in the final episodes, says actor Kate Vernon. And she says the final episodes will leave you with lots of room to reimagine them yourself: Lost:

By Charlie Jane Anders Star Trek: IGN] The Day The Earth Stood Still: Lost: Heroes: Here's the official description for the Dec. 1 episode, "Our Father," which is the penultimate episode of the "Villains" storyline: Here's a promo for tonight's episodes of Heroes and Chuck. [SpoilerTV]