After rejecting initial treatments developed by Gene Roddenberry, Paramount studio`s search for the proper vehicle to launch the first STAR TREK film began The writers approached included science fiction veteran Robert Silverberg; famed author Harlan Elli...
...ER ®, and STARTREK:ENTERPRISE, and a few fit into more than one category. And all are written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans! The stories in this edition let us participate in covert operations and become a part of history. They paralyze us a...
STARTREK:ENTERPRISE the latest chapter in the STAR TREK legacy is about to take its final voyage this May and will be the first time in many years that there will be no STAR TREK airing on television. Paramount and UPN held the series finale wrap party ...
`Tell me why there are no gay characters in STAR TREK,` 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...
In Part Three of our exploration of Digital Stream’s vision to rework the special effects of STAR TREK 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 ...
Ronald D. Moore asks pointedly, `What is STAR TREK 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...
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...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:VariousTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayIn celebration of Star Trek\'s 40th anniversary, here are five new episodes set in the Original Star Trek series: The last survivors of gender war live on as spirits in machinery...
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...
For the past 30 years millions of STAR TREK 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...
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...
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...
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...
In attempting to bring STAR TREK 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...
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...
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 ...
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 STAR TREK — The Original Series’ (TOS) visual effects with new, state...
With the STAR TREK 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 STAR TREK more universal,` explains Livingston m...
`During the early ‘70s,` explains David Gerrold, `NBC was the villain, because they had cancelled STAR TREK, 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...
With lots of half-truths, rumors, and continuous buzz surrounding Abrams’ rendition of the upcoming STAR TREK 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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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’...
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...
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 STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, Paramount Home Video has brought the last of the "classic" STAR TREK adventures to a new collector’s edition DVD format. Released in 1991, THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (or TUC for short) marked the f...
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...
According to SciFi.com, the Sci Fi Channel has acquired the rights to multiple made-for-television movies and series from CBS Paramount Domestic Television, including StarTrek:Enterprise, the prequel series starring Scott Bakula and Jolene Blalock, as w...
Once more, Manny Coto has mined the mysteries of the original STAR TREK 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...
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...
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 STAR TREK`s return. On November 10th, Gene Roddenberry shot a memo off to Bob Col...
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 franchisesSTAR TREKshould share the wealth. After eight rather skimpy disc releases of nu...
`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...
SyFy Portal had a chance to chat with Erik Jendresen who was recently signed to write the next installmentin the "Star Trek" franchise. Jenresen told that, "the story concept, the basic idea of this thing, is pretty damn big. It's a noble enterprise, pun...
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...
[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...
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 Star Trek...
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 (Star Trek): Can computers someday repla...
The third season of STARTREK: THE NEXT GENERATION was important for two significant reasons. One, the crew of the starship Enterprise finally got fashionable collars on their formerly jumpsuit-styled uniforms. Man, what a difference a starched collar can...
Rick Berman and Brannon Braga have been talking candidly about their hopes for the coming ENTERPRISE and revitalizing the STAR TREK franchise.While talking to TV Guide for this week's ENTERPRISE cover story, Berman, spoke of TREK's past and its future, sa...
CBS, Paramount and Fathom Events are commemorating the new High Definition DVD (HD-DVD) edition of the original ‘Star Trek’ Season 1. A theatrical screening of the only two part ‘Star Trek’ episode, ‘The Menagerie’...
Paramount has exhausted all of its Star Trek stories over the last couple of years. All the Star Trek TV series have all been placed on DVD and are now even making the leap to the next format. Even Star Trek the Animated Series has been released on DVD. F...
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...
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...
STAR TREK 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...
So here we have the so-called "best" film of the STAR TREK 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 ...
In its official unveiling of the network's 2004-05 programming schedule, UPN confirmed this week's rumor that STARTREK:ENTERPRISE had been renewed for a fourth season. However, the show will no longer be airing on Wednesday nights; instead, the series i...
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 Star Trek Enterprise guide in this Penguin Group- and Wizards of the Coast-dominated Weekly Book...
Paramount Television has announced that production on the fourth season of STARTREK:ENTERPRISE has commenced this week. All of the show's seven principal cast members are returning for more missions while the series will be changing its orbit from Wedne...
Sad news to report today from the world of entertainment: production/art designer Walter "Matt" Jeffries, the man who designed the look of the original Enterprise in STAR TREK, passed away on July 21 of congestive heart failure. Jeffries was 81.In additio...
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...
There was a time when STAR TREK 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...
Continuity, thy name is ENTERPRISE. Though by no means the best story in TREK history, "In a Mirror, Darkly" certainly has the distinction of being one of the most enjoyable romps for those who appreciate its barrage of in-jokes. A prequel of sorts to t...
In the first of ENTERPRISE's final three episodes, the crew returns to Earth to attend a congress of alien ambassadors working to form a mutually beneficial federation. As any TREK fan worth his or her salt knows, the United Federation of Planets was fou...
Yesterday we told you about Activision filing a breach of contract suit agaist Viacom, the parent company that owns Paramount's STAR TREK franchise. The video game manufacturer claims that Viacom has let the TREK franchise stagnate and fall into ruin, thu...
Paramount Pictures' STARTREK: NEMESIS may have opened in theaters this past Friday, but the world premiere was held December 9th at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Calif. and CINESCAPE was there to catch THE NEXT GENERATION era cast as they beame...
This first issue of IDW’s new StarTrek: The Next Generation: The Space Between presents an intriguing, substantial story about a landing party from the Enterprise representing the Federation at first contact with the formerly isolationist planet...
I still hold a grudge against my mom for what she did with my first STAR TREK toys. Back in the mid-'70s I had acquired a bunch of the Mego dolls, the first real line of action figures based on Gene Roddenberry's then-cancelled show. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, S...
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 ...
Continuing the story begun in last week's "Demons," "Terra Prime" is the first of two episodes airing on the final night of new STAR TREK for the foreseeable future. As such, it features a number of great scenes that show of the characters the audience h...
STAR TREK in High Definition: Good and bad news for STAR TREK 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...
William Shatner is not really a bad man. Yes, he was responsible for making sure George Takei didn’t get his own captaincy until STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. Yes, his acting was on the verge of falling into heavy-handed theatrics on more than a...
Hey, Happy All Saints Day/Day of the Dead! Hope everybody had a fabulous scary (but not TOO scary) Halloween. Speaking of scary stuff, I didn't list them in the column, but last week Triumph Marketing released a series of DVDs that I find truly frightenin...
Creation Convention’s eighth Grand Slam STAR TREK 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...
One of the most memorable episodes of the original STAR TREK series was "Mirror Mirror", where Captain Kirk and three members of his crew were accidentally transported to a parallel universe where the Federation was corrupt and evil. The next time TREK fa...
Years after the U.S.S. Voyager has returned to Earth (a journey that takes 23 years and the lives of 22 crew members), a haunted Kathryn Janeway chooses a course of action that will allow her to travel back to the Delta Quadrant and hasten the ship’s retu...
Update #2: And the Star Trek 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...
Come watch the final episode of StarTrek:Enterprise with the Roddenberrys! Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry invites you to "StarTrek:Enterprise The Last Episode" viewing party, presented by Trek United and Roddenberry Productions. "Forty years ago, my father...
A great finale is hard to come by. It should give each of the regulars a great scene and illustrate the end of their long-term character arcs. It should be true to the thematic underpinnings of the show while being a solid episode in its own right. Mos...
This "Special Collector's Edition" DVD of STAR TREK III picks up where the "Director's Editions" discs of the first two films left off, proving in the process that not all our favorite flicks from the '70s and '80s need facelifts when being rolled out aga...
"StarTrek:Enterprise" fans from around the world gathered at the gates of Paramount Studios today to protest the impending cancellation of the television series. Over a 100 people stood outside the front gates of the studio holding signs. The event wa...
I tend to ignore most script treatments reportedly leaked on the internet because the majority of them are downright lies, false information or old treatments that the director no longer uses for his film. Still, if something comes from a reliable so...
The Psi Phi website has posted the cover artwork for DEATH IN WINTER, the first STAR TREK novel to be set after the events in STARTREK: NEMESIS. The hardback will be written by Michael Jan Friedman and arrive on store shelves on September 20, 2005.What l...
Jason Alexander described the thrill of participating in UPN’s special television event entitled `Ultimate Trek:STAR TREK’s Greatest Moments,` which airs Wednesday, December 1. Alexander laughed, `We had a fabulous time doing this. We hope it looked like...
Remember those first few seasons of STARTREK: VOYAGER when the ship was constantly running into deep space anomalies? It got so bad that this reviewer had trouble telling whether certain episodes were reruns, or the plot was just really stale. Nowadays i...
Video game developer Perpetual Entertainment has won the rights to make a massive-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) set in Paramount's STAR TREK universe. The game, which has the working title of STAR TREK ONLINE, is now in the early stages of...
In what can only be an experiment to see if STAR TREK fans will ever get sick of holodeck stories, a usually relatively reliable author (Dean Wesley Smith) has churned out an emphatically lackluster novel. A HARD RAIN is a pulp fiction detective pastiche ...
Writer David Gerrold wants his James T. Kirk.The man who wrote the classic STAR TREK episode "The Trouble With Tribbles", Gerrold is now a successful science fiction novelist creating his own universes. Still, he remains an avid fan of classic TREK and if...
With the first season of ENTERPRISE coming to an end tonight, creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga are talking about their famous working relationship, and launching the fifth STAR TREK series, and the upcoming STARTREK: NEMESIS. "I think we are in ex...
TV GUIDE is finally honoring the 35th anniversary of the STAR TREK 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...
I used to be a massive TREK fan, and that meant not only following the show(s), but reading a ton of novels as well. But long before VOYAGER succeeded in shattering my connection to the franchise forevermore with its pathetic plots and criminally underdev...
If you're a STAR TREK fan, you've probably heard it more often than not that DEEP SPACE NINE is the overlooked gem in the Roddenberry sci-fi family. Overshadowed by its big brother franchise, THE NEXT GENERATION and born too soon to become the flagship sh...
In his book, The Primal Screen, British sci-fi critic John Brosnan says Star Trek 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...
If you don't want to know anything about the next Star Trek 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...
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 ...
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. ...
Back in the late '60s a company named AMT practically invented the sci fi model kit industry when they launched a kit based on the U.S.S. Enterprise from NBC's STAR TREK. The Enterprise kit went on to become one of the biggest selling model kits in histor...
A few things breaking on the STARTREK: NEMESIS front. The first being, as you can see for yourself, an image of the main Romulan ship set to do battle (or so we hear) with the Enterprise. According to reports, this vessel will be commanded by Dina Meyer ...
Pocket Books has announced a new six-book STAR TREK series which will span the years between the launch of the Enterprise B and the first season of Jean Luc Picard's adventures on the Enterprise-D. The series, to be published under the LOST ERA stamp, wil...
Network cancellation was the best thing that could have ever happened to STAR TREK. 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...
The Star Trek fleet will add two new ships this summer from New Force Comics.Battle-damaged versions of the iconic Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan U.S.S. Enterprise 1701 and the StarTrek: Nemesis U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-E will be available exclusively fro...
Checker Book Publishing has announced plans to reprint several of the now-classic Gold Key STAR TREK comic books. First published when the series was still on the air, Gold Key printed sixty issues of STAR TREK over 12 years, continuing on the adventures ...
The official STAR TREK website revealed where fans will be able to watch the first full trailer for what is being billed as the final NEXT GENERATION film, STARTREK: NEMESIS. According to the Paramount Pictures powers that be, the trailer will be premier...
The paperback two-volume set of STAR TREK—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 STAR TREK books announced the winning authors of the thi...
When the original STAR TREK 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...
In promoting his upcoming genre lark CLOCKSTOPPERS, STAR TREK alum Jonathan Frakes discussed several of his upcoming projects, including acting in NEMESIS and directing the new TWILIGHT ZONE series.He started off by revealing he did not get a shot at dire...
Our Mania DVD Guru, Bob Trate, has sent word of a trailer he saw attached to 30 DAYS OF NIGHT over the weekend. In select theaters across the nation, the 2 part STARTREK: TOS episode “The Menagerie” will be hitting the big screen. The event i...
Two days ago, AICN released a casting sheet from JJ Abram's Bad Robot productions for STAR TREK 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...
While discussing the upcoming tenth film in the STAR TREK franchise this weekend with CINESCAPE, dubbed STARTREK: NEMESIS, executive producer and STAR TREK head honcho Rick Berman let loose that he's certain an eleventh film in the ever-popular series wi...
Recently the biggest names in STAR TREK gathered in Pasadena, California to glory and gather in the splendor that is the biggest franchise in modern science fiction: STAR TREK Grand Slam 2002. While it was impossible to see everything and attend all of th...
UPN is pulling the plug on "StarTrek:Enterprise." The show will leave the air on May 13.It's been on for four-seasons and even started off strongly. But it simply never caught on with audiences the way the Paramount & producers had hoped. "Paramount...
For generations, Gene Roddenberry's STAR TREK has opened up new frontiers for millions of fans worldwide. The adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise have been broadcast to over 150 countries in dozens of languages. To commemorate th...
If you followed the original STAR TREK series, loved STAR WARS, collected comics, or action figures, if you play computer games, and maybe have been to a science fiction convention or two, you will understand FREE ENTERPRISE and enjoy it. The independent ...
Recently the biggest names in STAR TREK gathered in Pasadena, California to glory and gather in the splendor that is the biggest franchise in modern science fiction: STAR TREK Grand Slam 2002. While it was impossible to see everything and attend all of th...
Whether you love ATTACK OF THE CLONES or hate it, there's no denying the film boasts some of the coolest hardware designs since the original trilogy. While THE PHANTOM MENACE seemed influenced by the colorful, art deco look of the pre-war 1930s, ATTACK mo...
Award-Winning Composers Write Epic Sci-Fi Orchestral Music For Upcoming Blockbuster Video Games To Coincide With 40th Anniversary Of Star Trek Bethesda Softworks® and Rednote Audio have announced that veteran video game and film/TV composers Rod Abernethy...
Two different sites are reporting possible news on STAR TREK XI (or just STAR TREK depending on how you look at it.)..TrekMovie.com is reporting that actress Zoe Saldana (Haven, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) has been offered...
In the fall of 2000, Paramount took the wraps off its latest and some said last incarnation of the venerable STAR TREK franchise, ENTERPRISE. Since its debut this fall, the show has received great ratings and has been well received by fans and critics a...
While still months away from the series premiere, nearly two-thirds of all online genre reporting has been focusing on ENTERPRISEthe STAR TREK series that apparently will not have the words "Star Trek" in the title. According to reports at Ain't It Cool N...
During the latest casting call news, I mentioned that the only major character left to fill for STAR TREK was the role of Christopher Pike, the original captain of the Enterprise. That's no longer an issue for JJ Abrams, says the Hollywood Reporter. ...
Brannon Braga has been talking again about the creation of ENTERPRISE and what we can expect to see in the season ahead. While talking to Trek Galaxy, Braga gave a detailed explanation on the genesis of the program's concept, saying, "It was really Rick B...
In an interview carried on lcarscom.net, ENTERPRISE illustrator Doug Drexler have some hints on what he’s expecting from the latest STAR TREK series, as well as did some expected defending of his bosses, ENTERPRISE creators Rick Berman and Brannon B...
STAR TREK 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...
Popularity isn’t everything. The Gorn have fascinated Star Trek 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...
Forget the Klingons and Romulans. Ask almost any fan of the original Star Trek 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 ...
Rick Berman has revealed some of the scribes who will be in the ENTERPRISE writing pool. In a new interview printed in the latewst issue of STARTREK: COMMUNICATOR magazine, the franchise head honcho reveals, "We are in the process of putting a staff toge...
The new showrunner on STARTREK:ENTERPRISE is taking the series back to its roots -- namely, drawing on ideas from THE ORIGINAL SERIES and expanding upon the rich mythology of the long-running science fiction franchise in order to develop stories for ENT...
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...
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...
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...
Production designer Herman Zimmerman, costume designer Robert Blackman and makeup supervisor Michael Westmore are all talking about redesigning STAR TREK in ENTERPRISE.While talking to the Los Angeles Times, Zimmermna spoke of creating a starship and tech...
DC Comics will release a softcover edition of WildStorm's fully painted STAR TREK graphic novel, STARTREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE GORN CRISIS, in September. The 96-page book explains where Captain Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E were duri...
The Star Trek 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...
During the summer of 1999 shock waves rippled through the STAR TREK community as the departure of Ronald D. Moore from the VOYAGER staff and STAR TREK proved to be truth and not rumor. Moore had little to say publicly at the time, leaving this post for o...
Trek Today's sources were the first to report details about the ninth episode to be filmed in ENTERPRISE's third season, titled "North Star". The episode finds Captain Archer and his crew visiting a planet in the Delphic Expanse where humans from the 1880...
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...
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 Star Trek Books is finally releasing their very own “Guide to Women.”
It’...
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...
During the 1966-69 run of STAR TREK, 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
It seems that the Star Trek license owner finally sought help of a soothsayer that managed to lift the curse off the Star Trek computer games, or perhaps they just realized that they had to put some effort into the damn stuff. Whichever way, we now face t...
A few days ago Cinescape was sent an interesting tib bit regarding the possible casting for Star Trek 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...
Other than director J.J. Abrams and William Shatner going back and forth on the Shatner snubbing, it's been virtually quiet on the Star Trek news front. Until now, that is. You subscribers of Entertainment Weekly will have noticed their latest issue with ...
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...
Fans joined famed STAR TREK writer and director Nicholas Meyer at Borders Books in Westwood, California on January 27th, to celebrate the Paramount Home Entertainment DVD release OF STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION. Meye...
The Star Trek "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" ...
You remember when it was announced that some "fans" were making a new Web based Star Trek show titled STARTREK: HIDDEN FRONTIER? Well, 50 episodes later, founder Rob Caves is still going with the project. With Hidden Frontier recently wrapping ...
If professional STAR WARS booster Steve Sansweet were writing this, chances are he'd be saying, "STAR TREK is back...and in a big way." In this case, however, it wouldn't just be hyperbole; it'd be an accurate assessment of "Broken Bow's" potential to re-...
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...
In advance of today's episode of ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, the program's website has posted an interview with ENTERPRISE's Scott Bakula while giving us a first look at the new program's bridge set.While talking to ET, Bakula spoke of where the series fits in...
In an interview with SciFi.com, William Shatner revealed that he will play a role in the Star Trek 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...
If you ever meet Michael Dorn sans his infamous Klingon makeup, you’d be hard pressed to place him as Star Trek`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...
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...
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...
TV Guide posted an interview with J.J. Abrams in which he talks about the upcoming season of LOST and his upcoming film STAR TREK 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...
Just two weeks after revealing the first trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, 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...
The original STAR TREK 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...
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,...
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...
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 ...
First there were the ridged Klingons, then the Ferengi, then the Romulans and then the Tholians made an appearance on UPN's STAR TREK prequel series ENTERPRISE. Who else is left?The Borg."Regeneration" is the episode of ENTERPRISE that will feature the f...
An old STAR TREK 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...
On September 27th 29th, Pasadena, California hosted a massive STAR TREK 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 ...
According to TrekMovie.com, J.J. Abrams has confirmed that James T. Kirk will be in the upcoming film, Star Trek.The site references a quote from Abrams in Star Trek Magazine which says, "James T. Kirk appears in the movie.""The respect we ...
Maniacs can now check out the new trailer for Star Trek 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...
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...