Star Trek

Star Trek collectibles multiply in time for Black Friday

source: TV Squad

Also, make sure you check out the Airwalk Terrain Hi Skate Star Trek StarFleet Edition sneakers from Payless. For $50, you get a really well-made urban sneaker that just happens to bear a Starfleet insignia. And they come in the departmental uniform colors of the original Enterprise crew -...

Published Fri, Nov 20

When Life Imitates Art: Spider-Man Robs a Bank, Man Speaks Only Klingon To Son For Three Years, Scientists Develop Star Trek-Like Phaser

source: /FILM

Next, via Gizmodo, we’ve learned of a Minnesota linguist named d’Armond Speers who spoke Klingon to his son for the first three years of his life: Harmless flirtation with science fiction, or the first step towards a post-apocalyptic future? You decide.

Published Fri, Nov 20

Star Trek: The Next Generation-- "The Inner Light"

source: jeffords (Blogspot)

“The Inner Light” does not need much introduction, does it? It is the most personal episode since TOS’ “The City on the Edge of Forever.” not surprisingly, those are two of only four trek episodes to win Hugo awards for Best Dramatic Presentation. It is such a uniquely fascinating, poignant...

Published Thu, Nov 19

Star Trek: The Next Generation-- "The Next Phase"

source: jeffords (Blogspot)

The Enterprise is called to assist a crippled Romulan vessel. One assumes bygones are bygones over the whole brainwashing la Forge to be an assassin, attempting to overthrow the Klingon Empire, and the aborted invasion of Vulcan. The Federation is chock full of forgiving souls, no? la For...

Published Thu, Nov 19

Star Trek News Of The Weird

source: Trek Today

Some parents who love Star Trek plop their toddler in front of the television and pop in Star Trek DVDs hoping to make future fans, but Speers, who claims to not be a huge Star Trek fan, seems to top them all. Singing Klingon lullabies, such as “May the Empire Endure,” was part of his son’s bedti...

Published Wed, Nov 18

Party Favors: Seeing Red

source: Quick Stop Entertainment

The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Volume 2 has 4 episodes from the Riker-Picard era. “Relics” is the most important of the batch since it brings back Scotty (James Doohan) from the original series. He’s stuck on a shipwreck. “The Inner Light” has an amnesiac Picard wake up to a wife on...

Published Wed, Nov 18

Star Trek: The Next Generation-- "I, Borg"

source: jeffords (Blogspot)

It has been a long string of mediocre episodes. Thank goodness we finally get to one. While I enjoy “I, Borg” for the most part, my fondness for it has diminished because of subsequent Trek, notably Star Trek: First: Contact. Many fans do not appear to pay much attention to the fact events in “I,...

Published Tue, Nov 17

J.J. Abrams' Version Of Star Trek's Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed [Star Trek]

source: io9

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.

Published Tue, Nov 17