Star Trek

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 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

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

Everything We Learned From The Star Trek DVD

source: io9

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

Published Mon, Nov 16

James B. Sikking on Getting Paid for STAR TREK III

source: Mike Lynch Cartoons

I've heard a lot of STAR TREK behind the scenes stories. One thing about the TREK movies is that they were shot on tight budgets. For instance, STAR TREK II reuses a Klingon control panel set from STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE as a transporter control. (From the McCoy/Kirk scene: "Where are we go...

Published Mon, Nov 16

Star Trek Art Book Maps Evolution of J.J. Abrams’ Reboot

source: Wired

Star Trek: The Art of the Film comes out Nov. 17. See more Star Trek concept art, and enter to win a copy of Star Trek: The Art of the Film, below. Klingon and Federation vessels face off in a Starfleet training test known as Kobayashi Maru. Images courtesy Titan Books

Published Mon, Nov 9

Star Trek Online boldly going to retail in February

source: MMORPG blog

Better practice your Klingon, Star Trek fans. It turns out that "first quarter of 2010" release window that Cryptic Games gave Star Trek Online was ri...

Published Fri, Nov 6