Category: Star Trek


DC Comics And Beyond: Two Great ‘Star Trek’ Issues!

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July 18, 2012

 We’ve still got months to wait for the next Star Trek feature film to warp into theaters, but until then, IDW is making some great Trek comics, and two of them arrived in stores this week!

1. Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who Assimilation2 (Squared) #3. Scott & David Tipton with Tony Lee (w) • J.K. Woodward (a) The two greatest science-fiction properties of all time cross over for the first time in history, in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION/DOCTOR WHO: ASSIMILATION2! The true horror of the Borg-Cybermen alliance has been revealed, but what course of action will Captain Picard and the Doctor agree upon? And will the Doctor’s recently resurfaced memories shed new night on the dilemma? FC • 32 pages • $3.99

It’s still great to see all the members of the Enterprise D team interact with the folks from the Tardis. However, the most fun part of this issue for me was a flashback when the Doctor (Tom Baker) works together with Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and the rest of that Enterprise crew. Even the art style changes, from painting to a more standard comic-book look. It’s a very well done sequence. I laughed when the Doctor asks Kirk to distract a Cyberman, and Kirk uses one of his trademark techniques! The last page has an interesting development that makes perfect sense given that the universes seem to be changed somehow! Excellent book, as usual!

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‘Trek’ Fans Set Facts Right On Australian Website

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November 3, 2010

Star Trek fans pride themselves on knowing the franchise pretty well. So, when an Australian website didn’t get it right, they heard from Trekkers and Trekkies around the world.

Here’s the story as told by digitalspy.com:

>>News site apologises for ‘Star Trek’ gaffe

An Australian news website has apologised for an error in an article about Star Trek.

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Check Out The ‘Star Trek’ Film Outtakes Reel

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October 22, 2010

One of the things that made the original Star Trek conventions so much fun was the showing of outtakes from all three seasons. People used to drive for hours just to see them!

Well, now a gag/outtakes reel for the reboot film has surfaced, and here it is:

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‘To Beam, Or Not To Beam?’

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August 30, 2010

Being a Star Trek fan means I look at the world through different eyes. And I like that.

For instance, I don’t look at Shakespeare the same way others do because of references in the show to the writer being a Klingon. That is a perspective that actually makes sense, given the Bard’s penchant for murder.

Well, it had to happen: Shakespeare is being performed in Klingon right here in the Nation’s Capital. Here’s the Washington Post’s article about that:

>>How the Washington Shakespeare Company came to offer Shakespeare in Klingon

By Peter Marks, Washington Post Staff Writer

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Don’t you love that remarkable moment when roSenQatlh and ghIlDenSten exit the stage and Khamlet is left alone to deliver the immortal words: “baQa’, Qovpatlh, toy’wl”a’ qal je jIH”?

No? Well, it always kills on Kronos. That’s the home planet of the Klingons, the hostile race that antagonizes the Federation heroes of “Star Trek.” We learned back in ’91 in “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” that the Klingons love them some Shakespeare. Or as he’s known to his ridged-foreheaded devotees in the space-alien community: Wil’yam Shex’pir.

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StarTrek.Com Ready To ‘Engage’ Fans Again

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July 16, 2010

I had a big memory flash when I read this. Back in the day, startrek.com was THE place to go for news about my favorite TV franchise. That it is back and ready to challenge trekmovie.com is good news!  Here’s the report from ontheredcarpet.com:

>>The official Star Trek website has been relaunched “with newcomers and longtime fans alike in mind” following the 2009 movie reboot and Leonard Nimoy, who played the half-Vulcan Spock in the original 1960s series as well as the film, welcomes fans to boldly go where millions are set to go.

“I couldn’t have imagined–no one could have, really–that the TV shows we did so long ago would find a new audience today, that the films would continue, and that there would be so many spin-offs,” Nimoy, 79, says in a posted message.

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Your iPhone Can Now Be A ‘Star Trek’ Communicator

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July 14, 2010

Don’t have enough Star Trek apps (applications) for your iPhone? Well, iTunes has just the answer—the new Star Trek Original Series Communicator is officially available for you to buy and download, according to iPhone Savior.

It was about a year ago that the unofficial Star Radio Communicator app was pulled from the App Store by a cease and desist letter that cited copyright infringement by CBS. This time, however, the app is back for good.

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What I Don’t Like!

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June 27, 2010

I’ve been found out!

Both Ian Cullen and BenJGrimm are always after me on the SciFiPulse podcast to talk about things I don’t like instead of things I do. I prefer to be a positive person, so I usually don’t focus on the negative. And I also don’t buy things I don’t like, so it is hard for me to rate them. However, this week I will endeavor to talk about what I know I don’t like.

1. Star Trek: The Next Generation. As a huge fan of Deep Space Nine, I never really warmed up to TNG. In fact, I hated the “galactic reset button” that was hit at the end of each episode. I guess one can tell when I don’t care for something—I laugh at jokes about it. For instance, there was a guy on AOL way back when the show started who used to post about Doctor Beverly Crusher’s hips swinging so far in the hallway that she would knock unsuspecting ensigns to the ground. I still smile or laugh about that one. Then there was the joke about Captain Picard coming down with a terminal disease, which caused Counselor Troi to ask him how he wanted to be buried. “I want to be buried with my buttocks in the air,” he said. Puzzled, Troi asked him why. “All my family ride bicycles, and they need a place to park them when they visit my grave,” he responded. Stuffy “Old Baldie” saying that killed me when I first read it. Yes, I still smile or laugh about that one, too.

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Star Trek HeroClix Are Beaming In For Your Gaming Pleasure

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June 10, 2010

And you thought your Star Trek collection was complete! Well, think again!

Trek fans can buy their favorite characters in HeroClix format to enjoy and play with before long. Here’ s the official announcement:

>>WIZKIDS/NECA ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT WITH CBS CONSUMER PRODUCTS TO DEVELOP STAR TREK® GAMES

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Microsoft Office Inspired By ‘Trek’ Statue

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May 24, 2010

Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, drew a lot of inspiration from the scientists of his day when he made the show. Now, it seems, the show is inspiring the scientists of today and tomorrow, according to slipperybrick.com.

If you happen to go to the lobby of Microsoft’s Studio D located in Redmond, Washington, you might “boldly go where no man has gone before.” In that room, you’d find a sculpture of the cast of the original Star Trek that continually gives the appearance that Kirk, Spock and the rest are beaming in or out.

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Computers Are Taking Over The World!

Filed Under: Computers/The Web, iPod, iPhone, iPad, i, Science Fiction, Star Trek, Television/Movies by Wayne Hall — 1 Comment
May 13, 2010

It wasn’t long ago that, on a late Saturday night, I downloaded a file from the Internet only to find that it contained quite a nasty virus that tried to disable my computer while asking me to give whoever put it there my credit card information so they could “take care of it.” Yeah, right. They’d take care of my credit rating instead!

The solution as I understood it was to use Windows 7 to return the machine to a previously set Restore Point. I indicated that, but I must have bungled it somehow because all I got when I tried to boot the machine up was a black screen with my cursor happily going wherever I wanted it to, mocking me with great glee since my computer wouldn’t work.

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