Tag Archive | "Star Trek"

To boldly go…

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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It’s a sad day for many geeks as the final space shuttle mission returns to the Earthbound domain, never again to glide silently miles above our world, over poles and continents, clear skies and storms, never again to surge back into our atmosphere at many times the speed of sound, streaking across the sky, carrying [...]

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Happy 80th birthday, William Shatner!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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(detail from cover to Star Trek : Burden of Knowledge, art by  Joe Corroney, published IDW) Can it really be true? Can the mighty Shatner really be celebrating the anniversary of 80 of our Earth years this very day? Yes, folks, the man who is Captain James T Kirk (sorry, Chris Pine, loved you in [...]

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Beam me up, Hottie!

Friday, September 10, 2010

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The skirts on the female crewmembers of the original Star Trek were famously short (even for the 60s) and we know Kirk seemed to have a new alien woman asking to be taught about this human thing called ‘love’ almost as often as he ripped his top in a fight, but this (mildly NSFW) Trek [...]

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Why hello, Kitty!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

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Aren’t these Hello Kitty modifications just brilliant? Cool and also still quite sweet but with added SF/comics appeal! Joseph Senior’s MySpace has numerous clever and very well done examples like this, go and enjoy them (via Robot 6 who got it in turn from The Design Scene Blog)

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Science fiction superfan guide

Thursday, April 1, 2010

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Geek Tyrant has this great cut-out-and-keep reference guide to superfans of some of the major science fiction and fantasy series out there, from Star Wars and Star Trek to Firefly and Avatar and taking in Lost along the way, going from fairly straightforward (uberfan’s nicknames, such as Trekkers or Trekkies) to how to piss off [...]

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Star Trek cosplay record attempt

Friday, February 19, 2010

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Now this looks like fun -- a Star Trek themed cosplay event in London, a record attempt taking place as part of the launch celebrations for the eagerly anticipated new Star Trek Online game (which does have my pointy ears twitching with interest), although the speech seems to be a bit out of synch with [...]

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Mythbusters to test Star Trek’s ‘Gorn cannon’

Monday, December 21, 2009

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Wow, two of my very favourite geek things are coming together: Star Trek and the brilliant Mythbusters (pauses to don his hat and stroke beard in Adam Savage pose). SciFi Wire notes that the geek-tastic Mythbusters is going to test an invention from a classic Star Trek episode, where a desperate Kirk is in the [...]

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Star Trek the Motion Picture anniversary

Thursday, December 10, 2009

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As Star Trek the Motion Picture marks the 30th anniversary of its release here’s a classic behind the scenes featurette from 1979 -- the quality isn’t great and the soundtrack is distinctly wobbly, but its still great fun to watch, with behind the scenes footage of the actors, the special effects (oh, that huge, 8 [...]

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Vintage newspaper archive

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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(panels from Big Sister by Les Forgrave) Mr ilovecomix, aka Steve Cottle, has created an online archive of vintage newspaper strips which already boasts quite a lot of material to go and browse, from Les Forgrave’s Big Sister from 1928 to 70s and 80s newspaper strips based on popular TV shows and films like Dark [...]

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Mighty Time Lord computing

Monday, December 7, 2009

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The Cynical C blog points us towards this set of classic adverts from the early days of personal computing with Tom Baker’s Doctor and Lalla Ward’s Romana selling us the latest in digital technology (hey, anyone remember the ‘paperless office’ promises of the early and mid 80s?). I’d completely forgotten about these, they were probably [...]

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Tour the Griffith with Leonard Nimoy

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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If you’ve got several grand to spare the world-famous Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles is auctioning a guided tour of the iconic facility (seen in many films and shows) – the tour guide for the occasion being none other than Leonard Nimoy. Now that would be quite brilliant. Bidding is already in excess of $5, [...]

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To boldly bid…

Friday, July 17, 2009

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This Hasbro piece of early Star Trek merchandising dates from 1967, a paint-by-numbers kit and, remarkably, is in mint condition, still unopened. As such its extremely rare, eminently collectable and is already upto $1799.99 on Ebay. Somehow I’m guessing whoever buys this is likely to keep it sealed and not open it up for their [...]

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