Tag Archive | "Star Trek"

Two seasons of Star Trek at the same time

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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Okay, this is pretty mindblowing – 56 episodes, some two seasons’ worth, of the original Star Trek all running at the same time. What is a little alarming is just how many of them I can recognise from only a few seconds of video in those tiny little windows. This has nothing to do with [...]

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Live long and prosper…

Thursday, April 5, 2012

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I just love this picture of Star Trek’s first lady Nichelle Nicholls posing with a fan, who just happens to be the President of the United States! I wonder if he also asked Nichelle about Martin Luther King, as, famously, when the actress was introduced to the great civil rights campaigner in the 60s she [...]

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The Tricorder project

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

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Now here is something to make your inner Star Trek and your inner gadget geek both smile – yes, it is a real Next Generation style Tricorder, which runs on open source design with Linux, various sensors, the ability to be modded as you want, to add more sensors and apps for different uses. Inventor [...]

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RIP Ralph McQuarrie

Monday, March 5, 2012

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Sad news breaking across the web this weekend: iconic, award-winning Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie has passed away at the age of 82. Of course Ralph worked on many other projects over a long and distinguished career, including animations reporting on NASA’s history-changing Apollo missions, Cocoon, ET, the original Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek and [...]

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Enterprise F

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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The Concept Ships site features a series of extremely cool concept designs for the USS Enterprise (‘F’ model) by Shawn Weixelman, helping to fill that Star Trek-less gap in our science fiction lives at the moment. The rest of the site also boasts some fab spaceship art, well worth a browse for SF geeks. (via [...]

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“Sir, may I quote General Order Twelve…”

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

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“Sir, may I quote General Order Twelve, ‘On the approach of any vessel, when communications have not been established...” Well, we know now Saavik was correct to suggest going to alert status when the starship Reliant approached the Enterprise in silent mode with the nasty Khan Noonian Singh secretly in command and about to wreak [...]

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Win a trip to the official Star Trek Convention!

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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Forbidden Planet International have teamed up with top UK sci-fi mag SFX and fine publisher Aurum Press – we’re celebrating the launch of the impressive Star Trek Vault book and to mark this one lucky reader could win the chance for a fab trip to Philadelphia for the official Star Trek Convention next year! Now [...]

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Python Trek Who Lego mashup

Friday, November 11, 2011

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This made me smile – it’s a Lego take on Star Trek, but look closer on the Enterprise bridge and there’s the Doctor (with Fez, Fezes are cool) and look out! They’re being attacked by the pirates of the Crimson Permanent Assurance! Genius. (link from The Brothers Brick via Geek Chocolate)

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The Captains…

Thursday, October 13, 2011

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I had no idea the mighty Bill Shatner had made a new documentary about Star Trek, it sneaked in underneath my sensor range like a crafy Romulan.  The Captains, as the title implies, sees The Shat focussing on the man or woman in the centre seat on the starship bridge: the Starfleet captain and the [...]

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Star Trek verus Star Wars according to Shatner

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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Star Wars or Star Trek, which is better and why? It’s an argument that’s surfaced in science fiction fandom many a time over the last few decades (personally I love both and consider them to be quite different types of SF&F so really don’t see much point in arguing over them like this other than [...]

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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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