With lots of half-truths, rumors, and continuous buzz surrounding Abrams’ rendition of the upcoming STARTREK XI film, can William Shatner himself provide us with some possible clues to the plot of his on-screen Starfleet origins?
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In Part Three of our exploration of Digital Stream’s vision to rework the special effects of STARTREK The Original Series` with their own brand of cutting edge artistry, we approached a number of individuals who have made their careers working with STAR ...
Popularity isn’t everything. The Gorn have fascinated StarTrek fans for more than 30 years, ever since they debuted in the original series episode `Arena` in 1967. But what do we really know about these cool alien lizards? Sure, they’re big, green, extre...
Creation Convention’s eighth Grand Slam STARTREK and Sci-Fi convention, held the weekend of March 31st through April 2nd, 2000, offered something for everyone. In the main auditorium, actors from every incarnation of TREK appeared. This included VOYAGE...
A screw-you-Pat amount of books came out this week with a little something for everyone: several anthologies for the SF reader, new fantasy / horror stand-alone novels and series installments, and even a widely neglected, early novel from George R.R. ...
Let’s go back to the beginning for Moore, to get a history lesson as well as an idea about what about VOYAGER upset him so much. He remembers, `When I came aboard in the third season, NEXT GEN was very much the new kid on the block. There was a lot of sta...
Two days ago, AICN released a casting sheet from JJ Abram's Bad Robot productions for STARTREK XI. The casting sheet for which they said was "confirmed" ask for some young actors to fill in the spots of the old TOS crew. Here's what they l...
Rick Berman, executive producer of STARTREK: VOYAGER and head of the TREK franchise, wishes he could say what the next television show will be about, really. On Tuesday March 21st, in answer to the question, `Can you tell me what the next series will be...
The series kicks off with ONE SMALL STEP by Susan Wright, featuring the classic TREK crew. In this, the strongest novel in the GATEWAYS series, Wright postulates a sequel to the episode "That Which Survives". Due to a transporter glitch Kirk and the other...
In Part One of this article, we interviewed Rich Heierling, a film and video producer at Digital Stream in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, who has sent Paramount Pictures a proposal to remake STARTREK — The Original Series’ (TOS) visual effects with new, state...
And the Earth shook. If it didn`t, then it must have been a movement of damn near equal proportion to the fans of a little television series they had had refused to let die. They had taken `control` of the show`s destiny by generating an unprecedente...
Release Date: May 8, 2009 Studio: Paramount Pictures Director: J.J. Abrams Screenwriter: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci Starring: Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Chris Pine, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Bruce Gree...
During the summer of 1999 shock waves rippled through the STARTREK community as the departure of Ronald D. Moore from the VOYAGER staff and STARTREK proved to be truth and not rumor. Moore had little to say publicly at the time, leaving this post for o...
On August 29th, 1977, producer Harold Livingston presented a new writers status report, and noted that they had met some twenty odd writers. `We have also received a large number of submissions from various writers, either in one or two page outlines, and...
With the release of STARTREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, Paramount Home Video has brought the last of the "classic" STARTREK adventures to a new collector’s edition DVD format. Released in 1991, THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (or TUC for short) marked the f...
After a weekend highlighted by crappy weather and lousy Super Bowl adverts, I found something last night that turned my whole sub-par Sunday around: the news that StarTrek Books is finally releasing their very own “Guide to Women.”
It’...
The StarTrek "genre" received a boost in the past couple of years, thanks to a couple of good games (Highly debatable - Ed.). Interplay and their software company 14 Degrees East released some Trekkie titles that influenced the popularity of the "genre" ...
After rejecting initial treatments developed by Gene Roddenberry, Paramount studio`s search for the proper vehicle to launch the first STARTREK film began The writers approached included science fiction veteran Robert Silverberg; famed author Harlan Elli...
You remember when it was announced that some "fans" were making a new Web based StarTrek show titled STARTREK: HIDDEN FRONTIER? Well, 50 episodes later, founder Rob Caves is still going with the project. With Hidden Frontier recently wrapping ...
Although Moore did not watch `Survival Instinct` or `Barge of the Dead,` he laughs and says, `I watched ‘Equinox’ because I was involved with that. When we started the season, they had done ‘Equinox I,’ but they had no idea what ‘Equinox II’ was supposed ...
`They say there`s no devil, Jim, but there is, right out of hell -- I saw it,` Commodore Matt Decker told Captain James T. Kirk in the classic episode `The Doomsday Machine.` The titular devil, a massive weapon that powered itself by destroying planets, w...
When THE NEXT GENERATION entered its fourth season in 1990, it was riding high on the string of quality episodes that had finally come out of the show in year three. Thanks to Michael Piller, who joined the show in season three and soon came to head up th...
What do you get when you cross the frenetic paced, space sequences of STAR WARS with the planet forming magic of STARTREK: WRATH OF KHAN, mix in a hint of Japanese anime then wrap it with the suspenseful soirees of HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER and ENTER THE DRAG...
There was a time when STARTREK was a thing of the past, a mere 79 episodes depicting the adventures of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock that were seen constantly in syndication but were firmly rooted in their cheesy 1960s origins. But eventually, a new age cam...
Jason Alexander described the thrill of participating in UPN’s special television event entitled `Ultimate Trek: STARTREK’s Greatest Moments,` which airs Wednesday, December 1. Alexander laughed, `We had a fabulous time doing this. We hope it looked like...
Robert Picardo, who plays the holographic Doctor on StarTrek: Voyager, recently had several inspiring experiences. His character escaped from the hazards of managed health care, met an entire species that looked up to him as a role model, and got inside ...
An old STARTREK treatment created by Bryce Zabel (The Crow: Stairway to Heaven) and J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5) was posted on Zabel's blog.You can find the blog here.Some snippets from Zabel's Blog entry:Admittedly, it takes a lot of nerve to offe...
Patrick Stewart is sounding incredibly upbeat about how things are going in the currently shooting STARTREK: NEMESIS, particularly regarding scribe John Logan.While talking to syndicated columnists Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith, Stewart gushed over ...
Once more, Manny Coto has mined the mysteries of the original STARTREK to create a top notch entry into the late prequel series. Borrowing elements from original series installments like "The Cage" and "Mudd's Women," Coto has crafted a script that evoke...
Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz and Robert Bonchune, two members of the effects teams for both BABYLON 5 and STARTREK: VOYAGER, have compiled an excellent little volume called STARTREKSTARSHIP SPOTTER. The book has thirty entries; each begins with a two-page spre...
Fans joined famed STARTREK writer and director Nicholas Meyer at Borders Books in Westwood, California on January 27th, to celebrate the Paramount Home Entertainment DVD release OF STARTREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION. Meye...
In attempting to bring STARTREK back to audiences of the 1970s, the show found itself saddled with one particular problem that had to be overcome in order for the series to work effectively. `The original series had seventy nine episodes,` points out Jo...
By the time Harold Livingston had taken to writing `In Thy Image,` the working relationship between him and Gene Roddenberry had begun to disintegrate...badly. `I don`t remember when I began to pierce the Roddenberry myth,` Livingston says, `but he and I ...
Robert Duncan McNeill is, once again, having a busy season this last year of StarTrek: Voyager. He’s already directed his fourth episode, `Body and Soul,` for November sweeps. Like the show McNeill directed during Voyager’s fifth season, `Someone To Watc...
Robert Duncan McNeill is, once again, having a busy season this last year of StarTrek: Voyager. He’s already directed his fourth episode, `Body and Soul,` for November sweeps. Like the show McNeill directed during Voyager’s fifth season, `Someone To Watc...
When the original STARTREK was canceled in 1969, it`s unlikely that the cast could have known that their lives would continue to be drawn together over the next decade, fueling a phenomenon that would culminate in the release of STARTREK: THE MOTION PIC...
`It’s the last season, and hopefully it will be the best season. That’s certainly our goal,` says Voyager executive producer Kenneth Biller. `We’ve got a great line up of stuff, I think, and it’s going to be fun.` Biller has firmly taken the reigns of th...
Continuing the story begun in last week's "Demons," "Terra Prime" is the first of two episodes airing on the final night of new STARTREK for the foreseeable future. As such, it features a number of great scenes that show of the characters the audience h...
The paperback two-volume set of STARTREK—STRANGE NEW WORLDS now on sale at bookstores everywhere is just a preview of things to come. Last November, John Ordover, Pocket Books’ Executive Editor for STARTREK books announced the winning authors of the thi...
When it comes to THE NEXT GENERATION feature films, Ronald D. Moore is candid about his successes and failures. He co-wrote the first two with Brannon Braga; Michael Piller wrote the third. Moore says, `I am more than willing to accept at this late date t...
Bryan Fuller, now co-producer in his fourth season on the writing staff of StarTrek: Voyager, is thinking about life after Trek. In the meantime, he discusses the seventh season of Voyager.Fuller co-wrote the script with Kenneth Biller for `Workforce Pa...
Robert Picardo, who plays STARTREK: VOYAGER’s emergency medical hologram, put on his director’s hat for a special episode entitled `One Small Step,` which will air on the 17th of November during television ratings sweeps. The show actually deals with a ...
Have you ever wondered about the difference between an informal Klingon wedding ceremony and a formal one? Have you stayed awake at night trying to remember the words to the Bajoran Gratitude Festival? Are you sure you know the proper procedure for a chan...
Ronald D. Moore asks pointedly, `What is STARTREK exploring? What are the things it’s trying to make the audience think about? What relevance does it have to you and me? If it doesn’t have a relevance to you and me, in our lives, what’s the point? Why am...
Network cancellation was the best thing that could have ever happened to STARTREK. Had NBC renewed the show for a fourth or even a fifth year, the series would have undoubtedly continued to chug along. But, with considerable budget cuts each season, ther...
With the STARTREK II writer/director’s bible having been written, producer Harold Livingston began contacting writers and agents in an effort to get the first thirteen scripts in motion. `I wanted to make STARTREK more universal,` explains Livingston m...
By the time early November 1977 came along, production of `In Thy Image` was scheduled to begin in just a matter of weeks. It seemed that nothing was going to interfere with STARTREK`s return. On November 10th, Gene Roddenberry shot a memo off to Bob Col...
You can tell Christmas is right around the corner when the publishers start busting out the new collector’s editions and staple genre series guides. This Tuesday, November 14th brings a Voyage of Jerle Shannara and Gotrek & Felix compendiums...
`Tell me why there are no gay characters in STARTREK,` says Ron Moore. `This is one of those uncomfortable questions I hate getting when I was working on the show, because there is no good answer for it. There is no answer for it other than people in cha...
TV Guide posted an interview with J.J. Abrams in which he talks about the upcoming season of LOST and his upcoming film STARTREK XI.TV Guide writes:TV Guide: What can you tell us about the new season?Abrams: A lot of the season's already figured out, and...
Award-Winning Composers Write Epic Sci-Fi Orchestral Music For Upcoming Blockbuster Video Games To Coincide With 40th Anniversary Of StarTrek Bethesda Softworks® and Rednote Audio have announced that veteran video game and film/TV composers Rod Abernethy...
William Shatner appeared on Live Video to talk STARTREK XI which is being directed by JJ Abrams. He revealed a conversation he had with an inside source for the project stating that Leonard Nimoy (Spock) will indeed be appearing in the next installm...
I attended a StarTrek convention in Denver recently, which attracted thousands of fans. Zachary Quinto, the new Mr. Spock from JJ Abrams’ upcoming StarTrek film, was the main guest. There aren’t as many of these events as in year&rsq...
STARTREK creator Gene Roddenberry often attributed the success of the series to the fact that it showed man transcending his intolerance for his fellow man; it said that we, as a species, would move beyond our petty differences, which have for so long se...
What They SayTheir quest to find the Sorcery Globe takes Claude, Rena and Celine to Port Harley. However, before they can arrive, they are sidetracked by an encounter with Ashton, a swordsman who single-handedly faced a hideous two-headed dragon, but wou...
What They SayAfter a shipwreck on the way to El Continent, Claude and Leon drift ashore and find themselves separated from the rest of the group. Bewildered by their predicament, they determine to keep their faith and set off on foot, hoping that they wi...
While STARTREK: NEMESIS has been receiving a good deal of positive buzz in recent months from those who've seen early versions and read the script, the film has now received its first bit of negative word. Writing in the NEW YORK TIMES, Stuart Klawans ha...
Hot damn! Last week's lame outputting of new fantasy and sci fi literature is officially eclipsed by the cornucopia of new hardback releases coming out today. From armor-plated unicorns to world-destroying aliens, we've got a flavor to fit everyone's ta...
What They SayAfter dodging endless bombardment fired from the castle, Claude and his friends fight through relentless waves of drones. When they find themselves in imminent danger, the Lacour Hope unleashes a devastating blast. However, once the smoke cle...
Forget the Klingons and Romulans. Ask almost any fan of the original StarTrek who their favorite `evil` aliens were, and the answer is simple: the Gorn. The green, warlike reptiles’ first appearance was in the fan-favorite episode `Arena,` in which Kirk ...
For the past 30 years millions of STARTREK fans all over the world have faithfully watched 79 episodes of the original 1960s TV series in reruns and videotapes in a seemingly perpetual loop. There are hardcore fans today who can tell you, from a single l...
STARTREK: THE MOTION PICTURE has to be one of the most frustrating near-misses in the history of SF cinema. At one time only dreamt of by the original TV show’s fan base, then reviled, ST:TMP actually isn’t the grand mess it was once thought to be. Indee...
What They SayClaude and his father are on their mission to investigate the unexplored planet, Mirokinia. When they arrive at the planet, Claude mysteriously gets transported to another planet called Expel. Wandering around in the woods trying to find a ...
What They SayClaude and his crew cross the ocean and arrive at Port Linga of Lacour Kingdom. They encounter Precis Newman, a cute and prolific inventor girl there. They decide to help her find mysterious moonlit flowers called Metox that have a special po...
STARTREK: STAR CHARTS by Geoffrey Mandel is a glorious chance to grab a drink, get settled in a comfortable chair...and geek out. Mandel, who is both the author and the illustrator of the book, has actually taken on the unenviable task of buckling up and...
What They SayClaude makes up his mind to participate in the dog-eat-dog Armors Tournament in order to be received in audience with Dr. Leon, who might know how to save the planet from the atrocious creatures. To his astonishment, Claude\'s opponent in th...
According to Variety, J.J. Abrams has finally agreed to take the directors chair for the upcoming installment of the StarTrek franchise. Abrams had previously only been signed on as a producer.The movie is rumored to concentrate on the early days o...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:VariousTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayIn celebration of StarTrek\'s 40th anniversary, here are five new episodes set in the Original StarTrek series: The last survivors of gender war live on as spirits in machinery...
`During the early ‘70s,` explains David Gerrold, `NBC was the villain, because they had cancelled STARTREK, and Gene made sure that everybody knew that NBC was the villain. Gene was this man who wanted to change the world for the better, and NBC wouldn`t...
Warning! Spoilers ahead!This week my Source Who Is Often Though Not Always Right said he`d heard intimations of some of the rumors I reported a few weeks ago from the Voyager`s Delights web page, which I had dismissed as outrageous. I still find them hard...
The full schedule for this year's Comic Con has been released here but as always, we're going to sift through the press releases and give you the panels covering Movies, DVD and TV events. You can check out the first two days below.Wednesday, July 23, PRE...
The StarTrek serial, which celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary a long time ago, is defiantly an often-discussed subject. Only its immense popularity can be blamed for nine movies and countless episodes. Yet there is always someone who dislikes the id...
Outer space holds many wonders and mysteries. The final frontier to numerous poets, scientists and explorers, it boasts fascinating interstellar phenomenon to eulogize and research, and many strange new worlds and civilizations to explore. But if you don’...
Comic Con 2007 in San Diego has listed their full lineup. I'll be posting the movie and television sections of the COMIC CON event.. This will include lots of information for you to judge on what to see if you happen to go to it.
Another thing, if ...
[EDITOR`S NOTE: A strange rift in time and space--a gateway to a parallel dimension--has opened up somewhere near Gastonia, North Carolina, allowing our faithful Fandom correspondent to report on events until now unknown in our dimension, events that take...
Welcome to the new site everyone for the Weekly Book Buzz’s first new edition on mania.com. I won’t waste your time with comments on the new design or site features because frankly, we’ve got too much to do with so many releases comin...
For the all important February television sweeps, a lot of cooks got together to mix up a brew for STARTREK: VOYAGER. While co-executive producer Kenneth Biller and writer Robert Doherty worked on an episode that turned into `Tsunkatse,` they thought abo...
Although he retired from writing fiction back in 1997, the literary world felt the blow of Kurt Vonnegut’s passing last Wednesday. Heralded as the Mark Twain of our generation, Vonnegut was an invaluable genre writer and continued his sharp polit...
Does a critic have a statute of limitations on making a judgment regarding a feature film? Is twenty years too long a period of time? Back in December 1979, I was the feature editor of The Compass, the campus newspaper at Suffolk Community College, and I ...
During the 1966-69 run of STARTREK, writer-producer Gene Roddenberry had explored important issues under the guise of science fiction; Roddenberry was forced to couch his statements in allegorical tales taking place in deep space and involving alien bein...
Yesterday, our resident "Trekspert" Mark Altman gave us the first half of his well-informed opinion regarding the best 35 Treks of all time. Today, he completes the list with numbers 18-35.18. THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER (StarTrek): Can computers someday repla...
Moore says that he recognized VOYAGER’s biggest problem by the end of the first episode. `By the end of the pilot, you have the Maquis in those Starfleet uniforms, and— boom—we’ve begun the grand homogenization. Now they are any other ship. I don’t know w...
No matter what holiday you celebrate there’s always one constant during the winter season: terrible gifts. Because of a schedule / travel conflict with the fam I happened to celebrate Christmas early this year. Did I get Subterranean Press’ li...
It’s a good Tuesday on this the first week in November as we’ve got a handful of series sequels, a couple promising, original new novels, and a StarTrek Enterprise guide in this Penguin Group- and Wizards of the Coast-dominated Weekly Book...
It seems that the StarTrek license owner finally sought help of a soothsayer that managed to lift the curse off the StarTrek computer games, or perhaps they just realized that they had to put some effort into the damn stuff. Whichever way, we now face t...
According to a press release from IDW, StarTrek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell #1 will be released in April with a variant in the Klingon language.The press release:While Starfleet personnel of the 24th century view Klingons as their allies, in the StarTrek...
In our last week’s column, I alluded to how passion for the arts molds that star to be elevated to a whole other echelon of achievement inside Hollywood’s history books. Certain actors find such passion with every word they utter in the gla...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Art by: EJ Su, Bettina Kurkoski, Nam Kim, Don Hudson, Steven Cummings / Story by Wil Wheaton, Christine Boylan, Mike Wellman, Diane Duane, Paul Benjamin Short story by Geoff TrowbridgeTranslated by:Adapted by:What They SayMan...
STARTREK: ENTERPRISE the latest chapter in the STARTREK legacy is about to take its final voyage this May and will be the first time in many years that there will be no STARTREK airing on television. Paramount and UPN held the series finale wrap party ...
Yesterday we told you about Activision filing a breach of contract suit agaist Viacom, the parent company that owns Paramount's STARTREK franchise. The video game manufacturer claims that Viacom has let the TREK franchise stagnate and fall into ruin, thu...
LeVar Burton, always-and-forever Geordi La Forge to viewers of STARTREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, laughs while directing the VOYAGER episode, `Live Fast and Prosper,` set to air Wednesday, April 19th. The episode is about three con artists who pretend to be...
Update #2: And the StarTrek items keep on coming in. Maniac Flint has passed word that Entertainment Weekly has unveiled a new external glimpse of the Enterprise that you will see in J.J. Abrams' upcoming film. As you'll likely remember from the first te...
In an interview with SciFi.com, William Shatner revealed that he will play a role in the StarTrek XI and that the film will deal with the early years of Capt. James T. Kirk and Spock."I met with J.J., and they told me they would like me to be part o...
In his book, The Primal Screen, British sci-fi critic John Brosnan says StarTrek has become more than just a subgenre of science fiction; it has become its own genre. Never have those words been more true. With a total of five series having been broadcas...
While he`s still not giving any details away, StarTrek chief Rick Berman offered more general teases about the much-discussed new StarTrek series that`s in development in an exclusive interview with StarTrek Communicator that was previewed by TrekWeb. ...
TrekToday reported that last year William Shatner pitched "an idea to Paramount Pictures about a new StarTrek television series called 'The Academy,' featuring adolescent versions of the Original Series triumvirate of Kirk, Spock and McCoy."While at Crea...
Welcome to the Delta Quadrant! You are Ensign Munro, second in command of the Hazard Team, an elite group that specializes in dangerous away missions and situations that are too risky for other members of the crew. As a member of the Hazard Team you wil...
Executive producer Brannon Braga, who wrote the STARTREK: VOYAGER sixth season finale `Unimatrix Zero` in collaboration with co-executive producer Joe Menosky, describes the episode as a cliffhanger that is part of VOYAGER`s ongoing Borg saga. Braga exp...
While readers across the country quickly devoured Scott Lynch’s fantasy debut The Lies of Locke Lamora last year, they’ve got a lot more to chew on from the 29-year-old Wisconsin writer in the months ahead.
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CBS, Paramount and Fathom Events are commemorating the new High Definition DVD (HD-DVD) edition of the original ‘StarTrek’ Season 1. A theatrical screening of the only two part ‘StarTrek’ episode, ‘The Menagerie’...
Maniacs can now check out the new trailer for StarTrek which is now online in High Definition today at the official website. Most of you have seen the new trailer attached to most Quantum of Solace showings this weekend.
The next Trek adventure star...
If you ever meet Michael Dorn sans his infamous Klingon makeup, you’d be hard pressed to place him as StarTrek`s Lt. Commander Worf outside of his height. These days he sports a close-cropped patch of white hair, a side-effect from wearing the `turtle sh...
Paramount has exhausted all of its StarTrek stories over the last couple of years. All the StarTrek TV series have all been placed on DVD and are now even making the leap to the next format. Even StarTrek the Animated Series has been released on DVD. F...
SyFy Portal had a chance to chat with Erik Jendresen who was recently signed to write the next installmentin the "StarTrek" franchise. Jenresen told that, "the story concept, the basic idea of this thing, is pretty damn big. It's a noble enterprise, pun...
According to TrekMovie.com, J.J. Abrams has confirmed that James T. Kirk will be in the upcoming film, StarTrek.The site references a quote from Abrams in StarTrek Magazine which says, "James T. Kirk appears in the movie.""The respect we ...
Just two weeks after revealing the first trailer for J.J. Abrams' StarTrek, Paramount and company have done some tinkering around and added a small tweak to the first video clip. Well, it's small and at the end of the trailer but it's still a major tweak...
Jonathan Frakes, a.k.a. Commander William Riker of STARTREK: THE NEXT GENERATION fame, is talking again about the new film, STARTREK: NEMESIS, and he says he'd be fine if it was the final TNG film. "I can't think of anything I still want to do as Riker,...
STARTREK: THE STARFLEET SURVIVAL GUIDE is the latest in a long line of parodies based on the WORST CASE SCENARIO HANDBOOK. The original, for those two or three readers who haven't seen it in stores and/or caught the television version, is an amusing coll...
Before they can get home to face trial, Kirk (William Shatner), a reborn Spock (Leonard Nimoy), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Chekov (Walter Koenig), Scotty (James Doohan) and Sulu (George Takei) must go back to 1986 to save the Feder...
A few days ago Cinescape was sent an interesting tib bit regarding the possible casting for StarTrek XI. Today it seems a little more information has come out, this time a bit more concrete and much less sketchy.The folks over at IESB recently caught up...
Writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens have made a meal of Mr. Worf's comment that "we don't speak of it [the physical differences between original-series Klingons and those seen in the other Treks]." In "Divergence," the second part of the storyline...
STARTREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME stands as the ultimate example of a TREK “crossover” film. In 1986, before anyone had even heard of THE NEXT GENERATION, the only TREK in town was the periodic movie releases that had been popping up every couple of years sin...
IN THE NAME OF HONOR, despite its rather obvious title, is an exciting action-adventure. It has a cinematic sensibility that you could easily imagine played out on the big screen. In fact, the plot of this book is better than some of the plots that did ma...
On September 27th 29th, Pasadena, California hosted a massive STARTREK Convention to honor the 15th anniversary of the inception of STARTREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. Featured guests included John Logan, screenwriter of the upcoming film STARTREK: NEMSIS ...
Corgi is a toy company devoted to making die-cast scale models, often licensed from popular series such as Batman and James Bond. They've been in the business for decades and if you're into cars, they make some of the coolest figures around. That's why it...
Other than director J.J. Abrams and William Shatner going back and forth on the Shatner snubbing, it's been virtually quiet on the StarTrek news front. Until now, that is. You subscribers of Entertainment Weekly will have noticed their latest issue with ...
This season, Roxann Dawson, STARTREK: VOYAGER’s B’Elanna Torres, became the first female cast member to direct an episode of the show and one of the few women to direct any TREK ever. The episode, `Riddles,` penned by Rob Doherty from a story by science ...
So here we have the so-called "best" film of the STARTREK series in a brand new DVD incarnation, dubbed the "Director's Edition" and with all the trimmings and special features that a two-disc package calls for. Trekkies and non Trekkies alike have been ...
John J. Ordover may possibly be the busiest editor in the known universe. Not only is he responsible for at very least one title a month, he's also just put the last year of his life into overseeing a seven-book series. Not just any seven-book series, min...
The original STARTREK series has been released on home video in several formats over the years, but even those fans that have the entire run on VHS tape (in both official pre-records and taped off of TV) and laserdisc have been salivating for the origina...
The marketing campaign for STARTREK: NEMESIS trumpets the fact that "a generation's final journey" has begun, and rumblings from Paramount's franchise handlers suggest the 10th big-screen TREK could indeed be the last for Captain Picard and company... ma...
At the end of VOYAGER’s sixth season, three members of the crew, Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), Tuvok (Tim Russ), and B’Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) were assimilated by the Borg. Or were they? In the episode, Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) rediscovers Unim...
In a clipped posting yesterday on Wil Wheaton's website, the once and future (?)STARTREK: THE NEXT GENERATION star indicated he might not be in the new TREK film NEMESIS after all. After going over several recent disappointments, he printed the line, "Oh...
Diamond Select Toys StarTrek II: The Wrath of Khan action figure line will is adding more than 15 different action figures. So far only 9 figures have been announced:- Admiral Kirk- Admiral Kirk (Blood on uniform)- Khan- Khan (Battle Damaged)- Captain Te...
In a short bit about the upcoming NEXT GENERATION era feature film -- STARTREK: NEMESIS -- carried in the CHICAGO SUN TIMES, Columnist Cindy Pearlman has revealed the film's release date.While several dates have been thrown around the Internet in the las...
An 11th STARTREK feature film is in the early stages of development.Rick Berman has teamed up with Jordan Kerner and Kerry McCluggage to develop the project and screenwriter Erik Jendresen has been signed on to write the script.
Whenever a STARTREK actor's name appears on a book it's normal to question whether that actor actually wrote it or not. This is a tradition that dates back to the early days of Shatner's fiction (remember the rumors surrounding the first TEKWAR novel?). ...
TV GUIDE is finally honoring the 35th anniversary of the STARTREK franchise with, count them, 35 five separate alternate covers for next week's TV GUIDE. That's right, 35. The issues, sporting images from the casts of all five TREK live action shows (STA...
Now that Paramount is kicking ass with some great DVD collections like their must-have GODFATHER box set, it is only fitting that one of the studio's most profitable franchisesSTARTREKshould share the wealth. After eight rather skimpy disc releases of nu...
STAR WARS: POWER OF THE JEDI -- Collections 1&2 (Hasbro) Let's start this look at Star Wars toys with Hasbro's latest Star Wars 3-3/4-inch figures in sets and in sealed cases. Set 1 features six figures, primarily from Episode I. These figures are grouped...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS One of the best science fiction scores of the 1950s comes to CD for believe it or not the very first time with FSM's premiere release of the full Dimitri Tiomkin score for 1951's THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (Vol 8. No 1). Pr...
TNN: The National Network has announced a new documentary called AMERICA LOVES...STARTREK which will pave the way for a week long STARTREK: NEXT GENERATION marathon on the cabler.AMERICA LOVES...STARTREK will look at the characters, dramatic storylines...
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!Next week’s StarTrek: Voyager installment `Inside Man` serves yet another warning about the dangers of trusting Reginald Barclay’s holograms. I’m sure most people remember that we met Reginald Barclay on StarTrek: The Next Genera...
Transformers is just weeks away and one of the guys behind the new movie, Roberto Orci, chats about the new film and also about a little sci-fi franchise called StarTrek.
STARTREK in High Definition: Good and bad news for STARTREK fans. Paramount has confirmed that it gearing up to release the TREK franchise again, this time in high definition. The studio is remastering the original series in HD (and rumors claim that...
In an interview with MTV, writers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci revealed some key points regarding the upcoming StarTrek film.The first interesting revelation: The movie is titled just StarTrek."That's the intended title," Orci said. "I d...
According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the 1977 Best Picture nominee Star Wars will be screened as the first feature of the fourth installment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' "Great To Be Nominated" ser...
If you don't want to know anything about the next StarTrek film, stop reading this now. Now that the warning is out of the way...AICN is saying they have a "confirmed" casting call sheet from JJ Abrams' production company, Bad Robot, for S...
After THE MOTION PICTURE failed to capture the spirit of the original series, director Nicholas Meyer and producer Harve Bennett brought Ricardo Montalban back to play Khan, a genetically superior human who Captain Kirk (William Shatner) marooned in the e...
YAHOO NEWS relays movie writer David Germain's ranking of the seven STARTREK movie villains, and as may be expected, Ricardo Montalban's second incarnation of his supervillain, Khan Noonien Singh, tops the list. The list omits Shinzon, from the upcoming ...
The third season of STARTREK: VOYAGER was one where the creators of the TV series regrouped and overcame some of the obstacles that came with the show’s launch, yet still let opportunities slip by. Spread out over 26 episodes, the new Season Three set wi...
You’ve heard Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine) sing on STARTREK: VOYAGER, and you have also heard Robert Picardo (the Doctor) warble. But the VOYAGER cast member about to release his own CD is Tim Russ, who as a the Vulcan Tuvok Vulcan doesn’t seem to get the c...
With the holiday season approaching, thoughts often turn to Charles Dickens’ classic story, `A Christmas Carol.` STARTREK: THE NEXT GENERATION’s Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard) has been performing a one man version of the tale for over a decade, in Lond...
Syfyportal recently sat down with the man originally hired to adapt the upcoming StarTrek film, writer Erik Jendresen. In the interview, they talk about many things dealing with the upcoming film and his work on the project. Below are some brief s...
If one Robert Picardo gets viewers to turn on STARTREK: VOYAGER, how about two? That`s just what they will see in the upcoming `Life Line,` scheduled to air May 10th. The episode also brings back Marina Sirtis as Counselor Troi, and Dwight Schultz as R...
William Shatner is not really a bad man. Yes, he was responsible for making sure George Takei didn’t get his own captaincy until STARTREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. Yes, his acting was on the verge of falling into heavy-handed theatrics on more than a...
Going to conventions always reminds me a bit of going to film festivals. Every time I mention to family members that aren’t into film that my latest film is going to a festival, they always reply with “Oh so you are going to Sundance?&rdq...
And lo, in the year 1966 the Great Bird of the Galaxy begat STARTREK. And when STARTREK left the National Broadcasting Network it sought out new followers, converting them from the inhospitable netheregions known as late night reruns. And in this barren...
The writers for the upcoming prequel StarTrek XI discussed the project in a recent interview with Creative Screenwriting.Question: I know you can't say much, but is there anything you could even tell us to interrelate you pick a starting point so vast an...
Diamond Select Toys and Collectibles has signed an extensive license agreement for rights to produce action figures, ships, statues, Minimates and other collectibles based on the STARTREK franchise. Future plans for license include all-new starship and p...
It`s been something of a slow week for StarTrek news, since StarTrek: Voyager is racing toward it`s holiday break and the show`s in reruns through December. But that doesn`t mean the actors aren`t busy coming out with new movies, making plans