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Many Trekkies have watched every episode of every "Star Trek" show to have aired since the franchise's inception in 1966. That's 900-some episode in total, so it takes a lot of commitment to stay abreast of the whole property. Deep-cut Trekkies, however, have not only seen all 900-some episodes, but have also studied sourcebooks, comics, and oral histories, trying to know as much about the show as possible. The next time you're with a Trekkie friend, ask to see their copy of Larry Nemecek's "The Star Trek The Next Generation Companion" or Rick Sternbach and Mike Okuda's "Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual." I assure you, they have those books. They are required reading on the "Star Trek" syllabus.

Deep-cut Trekkies may also be familiar with the hundreds and hundreds of sanctioned -- but non-canonical -- "Star Trek" novels that have been published over the years. "Star Trek" tie-in novels,...

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On the original "Star Trek," the computers on the U.S.S. Enterprise were operated by a series of switches, dials, knobs, and buttons, many of them unlabeled. For the most part, the switches' functions remained obscure to viewers. It seemed that a skilled Starfleet officer, while sitting on the bridge, would simply have to know which switches activated what system just to perform even the most basic tasks on board a starship. Perhaps attentive Trekkies may have been able to look closely at the "Star Trek" actors and discern what buttons they were pushing when Captain Kirk (William Shatner) gave an order to go to warp, but said actors may admit that they more or less pushed buttons at random.

On "Star Trek: The Next Generation," the computer panels became far sleeker and more sophisticated. The knobs and dials were replaced by flat,...

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The following contains spoilers from Star Trek: Section 31 now streaming on Paramount+

The latest Star Trekmovie is one intentionally designed to be a massive departure from the kind of storytelling fans are familiar with. Along with this new tone, there are plenty of new characters, though some are familiar alien species. The only legacy characters in Star Trek: Section 31 is Lieutenant Rachel Garrett played by Kacey Rohland, of course, Michelle Yeoh's Philippa Georgiou.

The first rumblings of a spinoff around Georgiou came in 2018, and for the next five years, the project languished in development Rura Penthe. In spring 2023, Section 31 was officially announced as a movie instead of a television series. Also, instead of taking place...

Jeri Taylor, the Emmy-nominated producer, showrunner, director and writer known for her work on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “Star Trek: Voyager,” which she co-created, has died. She was 86.

Taylor died Thursday, Oct. 24, the official “Star Trek” website announced.

Taylor joined the “Next Generation” team during its fourth season in 1990. By its sixth season, she was promoted to co-executive producer alongside Rick Berman and Michael Pillar. She then served as the series’ executive producer and showrunner for its seventh and final season, for which she earned an Emmy nomination for best outstanding series.

Taylor went on to create “Voyager” with Berman and Piller and served as the showrunner for the first four seasons of the series from 1995 to 1998. She later worked as a creative consultant for the show’s final three seasons.

Taylor penned more than 30 episodes across the “Star Trek” franchise; she was most proud of the “Next Generation” episode “The Drumhead,...

Jeri Taylor, the Emmy-nominated scribe, producer, director and showrunner behind Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager (which she co-created), has died. She was 86.

“My mother succeeded in a male-dominated industry,” her son Andrew Enberg said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, “but she did it without being super aggressive. She did it with compassion and kindness. She was like a den mother to everyone.”

The industry veteran died Oct. 24 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Davis, Calif., Enberg said.

Throughout her decades-long career, Taylor spent more than ten years bringing to life episodes set within the Star Trek universe. In 1990, she began writing for Next Generation Season 4, eventually working her way up to co-executive producer in Season 6. She was the showrunner of the Patrick Stewart vehicle in its seventh and final installment, for which she garnered an Emmy nom for Outstanding Drama Series.

The next time you fire up eBay looking for a lightly used PS5 or a random everyday item that kind of resembles the face of Jesus Christ, take a closer look -- you might just come across a priceless pop-culture relic that has been missing for decades. Anyone who's used these sorts of online marketplaces for long enough undoubtedly has their fair share of horror stories, but this is one case that ultimately resulted in a happy ending for all involved.

It's a tale that has gone down as part of "Star Trek" lore over the long years. A franchise as long-lasting as this one will inevitably rack up its fair share of fan-favorite props and other objects of import, created by talented and pioneering artists to bring genuinely out-of-this-world visuals and legendary concept art to life. Historically, "Trek" has relied on matte paintings, cutting-edge VFX techniques, and all sorts...

In Nicholas Meyer's 1991 film "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country," the usual crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise-a was joined by a new member of the senior staff, Lieutenant Valeris (Kim Cattrall). Valeris, Trekkies will be able to tell you, was initially meant to be the character of Saavik, played by Kirstie Alley in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" and by Robin Curtis in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" and "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home." According to a DVD commentary track provided by longtime "Star Trek" designer Mike Okuda, Saavik was changed into a new character when show creator Gene Roddenberry objected to the character's unexpected turn to villainy. Valeris proves to be in league with some of the villains of "Star Trek VI," you see, and Roddenberry couldn't abide a turncoat. 

Additionally, Cattrall didn't like the idea of being the third actress to play the same role.

Terry Matalas, showrunner for Star Trek: Picard season 3, made history by introducing two new starships Enterprise. The USS Enterprise-f (Odyssey Class) and the USS Enterprise-g (renamed from the USS Titan-a) were the two new Enterprises featured. The finale of Picard season 3 wrapped up the story of The Next Generation and set the stage for the next generation's legacy, with a surprising twist.

Star Trek: Picard season 3 showrunner Terry Matalas subtly made USS Enterprise history. Matalas masterminded the acclaimed Picard season 3, which reunited the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation and wrapped up the stories of the USS Enterprise-d legends while also setting up the 'next Next Generation.' Matalas also wrote and directed the critically lauded Star Trek: Picard season 3 finale, "The Last Generation," which was a perfect and resonant capstone to Tng.

On Twitter/X, Star Trek production design legend Michael Okuda wished Terry Matalas a Happy Birthday...

Steven Spielberg's alien abduction thriller "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was released in November of 1977, only six months after the world of blockbusters had been rattled by the release of George Lucas' "Star Wars." Lucas and Spielberg were friends and collaborators, and deep-cut "Star Wars" fans might be able to tell you about several times that Spielberg has included "Star Wars" references in a few of his films. Notably, in Speilberg's 1982 film "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial," a kid is seen wearing a Yoda costume on Halloween, and the titular alien seems to have recognized him. This reference was famously handed back to Spielberg when Lucas included E.T. aliens in his 1999 film "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace." Starwoids might also know about the C-3Po and R2-D2 hieroglyphics in Speilberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark." In Close Encounters," if one looks closely at the alien mother ship,...

Star Trek: Picard season 3 is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and SteelBook, giving fans more opportunities to appreciate the work of production designer Dave Blass and his team. Blass and his team had little time to transform the sets of the USS Stargazer into the USS Titan-a for season 3, but they successfully pulled it off. Blass recruited legendary Star Trek creatives like John Eaves, Doug Drexler, and Michael and Denise Okuda to work on the final season, which included recreating the bridge of the USS Enterprise-d from scratch.

Star Trek: Picard season 3 is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and limited edition SteelBook, which means fans have even more opportunities to enjoy the heroic work of production designer Dave Blass and his team.

Dave Blass joined Star Trek: Picard season 2 as a production designer, and he led the creation of the show's hero ship, the USS Stargazer. With Picard seasons 2 and 3 shooting back-to-back,...

The following contains spoilers from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, Episode 9, "Subspace Rhapsody," now streaming on Paramount+.

For all the musical expressions of emotion from members of the USS Enterprise crew, one of the biggest reveals is spoken. LA'an Noonien-Singh and James T. Kirk finally steal a moment alone, where she confesses the truth about her time with his alternate timeline doppelganger. However, Kirk reveals that he's in a relationship and expecting a child, which fans know to be Carol Marcus and their soon-to-be son, David. But does this revelation fit in the Star Trek timeline?

Given what fans know of James T. Kirk and his passion for falling in love, they may have expected LA'an and Kirk to have a respectable affair. LA'an knows this Kirk isn't the one she fell for, but he's enough like his doppelganger. At the very least, she could've gotten closure by getting...

Despite being the definitive version of Star Trek for a generation, Star Trek: The Next Generation was never supposed to work. Conventional wisdom suggested that no reboot ever compared to the original TV series -- either in quality or ratings. However, Gene Roddenberry had been through it all with Paramount before. In fact, The Next Generation was largely assembled from leftover pieces of a cancelled show called Star Trek: Phase II.

In fairness, Star Trek: Phase II was canceled in favor of the superlative Star Trek: The Motion Picture. However, The Next Generation represented a new, unique business opportunity, as documented by the Los Angeles Times. Yet the chaotic production of the first two seasons meant the writers and producers had to dig into the past in order to shape the future. From characters to concepts, Star Trek: Phase II lived on in the early adventures of the USS Enterprise-d.

Fans of television -- particularly Star Trek -- are mourning the loss of writer and producer Manny Coto. Coto brought the joy and love of Star Trek back to Enterprise after three rocky years. His passing from pancreatic cancer sends shockwaves through the fandom. Whatever fans thought of Enterprise, it was clear that Coto was a lifelong Star Trek fan who poured that into his work on the series.

Most TV fans know Coto's name from the credits of series like 24 or Dexter, but for kids of a certain age, he's the immortal writer and director of the 1992 Larry Drake horror vehicle Dr. Giggles. He created two short-lived series called Odyssey 5 and neXt, and he had more recently written for Ryan Murphy's embattled American Horror Story franchise. Some of his earliest credits in the late 1980s and early 1990s were on series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Outer Limits...

In a shocking move, Paramount canceled Star Trek: Prodigy, the animated series whose first season aired on Nickelodeon and Paramount+ simultaneously. Like any good Star Trek, there is still hope. Season 2 of Prodigy will be completed, and the series could find another home. Yet, Paramount should keep Prodigy, double down on animation and remake Star Trek: The Animated Series.

Star Trek is Paramount's oldest franchise, beating Mission: Impossible to TV in 1966 by two weeks. Star Trek: Prodigy is a series that does a wonderful job incorporating elements from every franchise era. It's also a must-watch for Star Trek: Voyager fans, with Kate Mulgrew back as Kathryn Janeway. The stories are quintessential Star Trek -- anything adults fans love about the other series are present in these cartoons. Sometimes, literally. The only problem with The Animated Series' longevity is the classic stock-shot style of Filmation. Kids who grew up with those...

“It was not going to be this.”

Terry Matalas doesn’t mince words about the difficulty of getting the “Next Generation” band back together for Season 3 of “Star Trek: Picard.” In fact, when he came onboard as showrunner prior to the second season, there was no plan for a reunion of the beloved Enterprise-D crew (nor an appearance from the ship itself).

“Because that was not the show they had set out to make,” he added in a new interview with IndieWire, alongside production designer Dave Blass. “‘Picard’ was the deconstruction of Jean-Luc Picard, and it had a new cast, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Matalas knew, though, that bringing back the full “Next Generation” cast for one final adventure — after their voyages came to a thud of an end with 2002’s “Star Trek: Nemesis” — would be electric if it happened.

He made it so.

Fans greeted...

When creating the unique look of a television series, producers want every frame to be instantly recognizable to fans. Yet, some television brands extend beyond just the fans of the show. Some things become so iconic they become recognizable to everyone. Geordi La Forge's visor was one of those things, making it The Next Generation's most important prop.

Star Trek was already iconic when The Next Generation debuted in 1987, though differently than today. Much like Batman, which also debuted in 1966, it was known for its 1960s retro-futuristic aesthetic and bright colors. The design of Tng was such a departure from it, that one could look at early episodes at the time and not know it was Star Trek. With all due respect to Stand By Me star Wil Wheaton, LeVar Burton was the most recognizable face in the cast. From his groundbreaking turn as Kunta Kinte in Roots to the...

Exclusive: Following the recent conclusion of Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+, Otoy and Roddenberry Entertainment have unveiled the next evolution of the Roddenberry Archive, a multi-decade collaboration with the Gene Roddenberry Estate to capture Star Trek franchise architect Roddenberry’s lifetime of works for future generations, with holographic immersion and in the most historically accurate sense possible.

The largest-ever collection of iconic Star Trek digital archive works will be made available for free for the first time through a new web portal bridging the legacies of all three major eras of Roddenberry’s Star Trek, with help from stars William Shatner (Star Trek) and John de Lancie (Star Trek: The Next Generation), as well as showrunner, writer and EP Terry Matalas (Star Trek: Picard).

The web portal will allow fans to virtually explore the many dozens of evolutionary iterations of the famous Starship Enterprise bridge, across every epoch of Star Trek‘s history,...

Spoiler Alert: This story discusses major plot developments in Season 3, Episode 9 of “Star Trek: Picard,” currently streaming on Paramount+.

All season long, the producers of “Star Trek: Picard” have boldly pulled out all the stops to make the third and final season one for the books. To that extent, it seemed like only a matter of time until we finally got to see the Enterprise — that is, the Enterprise-d, the Galaxy-class starship that made its first appearance in 1987 with the premiere episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

That moment of truth finally came at the end of “Vox” — the 9th and penultimate episode of Season 3 — when the reunited bridge crew took their stations on the Enterprise-d, which turns out to be the only Federation starship capable of resisting assimilation by the powerful Borg.

Executive producer Terry Matalas went through hoops to make sure history never forgot the name Enterprise.

Warning: The Following Article Contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Picard Season 3, Episode 6 - "The Bounty" There are several good reasons why Star Trek: Picard should continue the story of Starfleet in the 25th century in the form of showrunner Terry Matalas' proposed follow-up series Star Trek: Legacy. Picard season 3 has garnered a hugely positive response for the way that it continues the story of the beloved Star Trek: The Next Generation characters while introducing an incredibly charismatic new generation of Starfleet officers. The crew of the USS Titan-a, led by Captain Liam Shaw (Todd Stashwick) have become instant fan favorites and many Star Trek fans are eager to see them in their own spinoff show.

Terry Matalas' Star Trek: Legacy would be that dream spinoff and would tell the stories of "the Last Generation and the Next." While Patrick Stewart had previously stated that this will likely be his final...

Back in 2020, prior to the debut of "Star Trek: Picard," lead actor Patrick Stewart explained to several reporters that he would only return to the show if he wasn't required to wear a Starfleet uniform. He didn't want to simply go back to the same schtick seen on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" some 30 years earlier, preferring to revisit Picard as a retired civilian. While this is a reasonable demand, a "Star Trek" series that wasn't about Starfleet, or that didn't take place on a starship that was actively trekking, proved difficult for the writers. The first two seasons of "Picard" centered on outsized, byzantine mysteries that involved interdimensional robots (in season 1) and causality loops (in season 2). There was no formal chain of command and no central technological haven for the characters to reconnoiter. 

These missing elements were restored for the third season of "Picard," and it seems they were...

In just about every way, the third and final season of “Star Trek: Picard” is both about looking back and moving forward. In addition to reuniting the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise from “The Next Generation” for the first time since 2002’s “Star Trek: Nemesis,” it also features a new starship on which most of the action takes place: the U.S.S. Titan, first seen in animated form on “Star Trek: Lower Decks” and now refit as a Neo-Constitution Class Starship.

For showrunner, executive producer and self-professed “Star Trek” fan Terry Matalas, the inspiration for a retro-looking starship came while he was shopping for a car. “I missed a proper saucer section on the top part of a starship, and I couldn’t help but notice how many cars have gone retro these days. And I remember, as I was driving around, I thought, ‘What if Starfleet did that?...

This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks."

A bit of technical explanation is required. On "Star Trek," the engines on Federation starships function more or less like internal combustion engines. Instead of generating energy through the combustion of flammable petroleum products, however, they channel the overwhelming power created by a series of matter/antimatter explosions. Thanks to the miracle crystalline mineral dilithium -- which grows in a unique lattice-like molecular matrix -- the explosions can be transformed and stored. The energy is then used to generate warp fields which, true to their name, warp the very fabric of space, allowing ships to "skip past" traditional physics and travel over 1,000 times the speed of light. 

The explosions are mixed and wrangled in an enormous warp core, often depicted on screen as a decks-tall glowing blue tube where the matter and the antimatter mix. 

A lot...

Exclusive: Today at the Star Trek convention The 56-Year Mission: Las Vegas put on by Creation Entertainment, the Gene Roddenberry Estate and and the cloud graphics company Otoy Inc. offered Trekkies a first look at the results of a year of production work on the Roddenberry Archive — unveiling the first interactive, life-sized recreations of the famed spacecraft known as the Starship Enterprise. 1:1 scale Enterprise models and sets have been recreated according to Star Trek canon, to visualize the history of Star Trek in new holographic mediums, so that future generations can experience franchise creator Roddenberry’s legacy with the highest levels of immersion and historical fidelity.

While at Bally’s for the convention, Otoy showcase an immersive “The Cage” experience, enabling viewers to explore the first deck of the Enterprise created by Roddenberry for the initial pilot of Star Trek. The fully immersive, interactive, 360-degree experience allows audiences to...

Nichelle Nichols — famous for playing Nyota Uhura in Star Trek and six classic-era Trek feature films — has died at the age of 89. Her legacy as an activist and icon will live on not just in Trek, but also in the countless people she inspired. Martin Luther King Jr. was a personal fan of Nichols on Star Trek, as are Barack Obama and Stacey Abrams. She changed the direction of NASA forever by recruiting the first Black and female American astronauts ever and changed the way mainstream science fiction TV actually looked. Basically, without Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek couldn’t have changed the world.

But what happened to Uhura, the character, after the events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country? While the 2008 Tim Russ-directed fan film Of Gods and Men revealed Uhura had become a Starfleet captain, that fact wasn’t exactly canonical. But now, it appears that the...

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Gregory Jein, the acclaimed model maker and artist who worked on eight Star Trek properties and earned Oscar nominations for Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 1941, has died. He was 76.

Jein died May 22 in his Los Angeles home after a long history of health issues that included a battle with diabetes, a family spokeswoman told The Hollywood Reporter. His family elected to keep his death quiet until this week, she added.

According to the website Memory Alpha, Jein began his association with Star Trek in 1977 by designing a Klingon battle cruiser for Star Trek: Phase II, which would have been the first live-action spinoff of NBC’s original Star Trek had it gone forward.

He collaborated with visual effects maestro Douglas Trumbull on Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), then followed with Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country...

“Nightmare Alley,” “Dune” and “No Time to Die” have won the top feature-film prizes at the 26th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, which were held by the Art Directors Guild on Saturday evening in Los Angeles.

“Nightmare Alley” won in the Period Feature Film category, where the other finalists included “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and “West Side Story,” both of which were nominated for the Oscar for Best Production Design.

“Dune” won in the Fantasy Feature Film category, where it was the only Oscar nominee in the running. And “No Time to Die” won in the Contemporary Feature Film category, in which none of the nominees had been recognized by Oscar voters.

“Encanto” took the award in the Animated Feature category.

In the 15 years since the current Adg categories were established, one of the Adg winners has gone on to take the Oscar for Best Production Design 12 times. In that stretch,...

Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda, veteran scenic artists best known for their contributions to the Star Trek franchise, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Scenic, Title & Graphic Artists at the 26th annual Art Directors Guild Awards.

The Okudas’ award will spotlight their artistic contributions not only to numerous Star Trek films and TV series, but also to many other space-related dramas—also recognizing their collaborations as creative producers for new visual effects, among other accomplishments.

With its 26th edition, the Adg Awards is set to return to its traditional in-person format. The ceremony honoring excellence in production design across theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos and animated feature films will take place in the Wilshire Grand Ballroom of the InterContinental Hotel Downtown on March 25, 2022, with three other Lifetime Achievement honors handed out.

“The roots of Graphic Design for Film and TV can be easily traced back to...

When Star Trek: Strange New Worlds eventually debuts on CBS All Access and gives us the further adventures of Captain Pike, Spock, and Number One aboard the USS Enterprise Ncc-1701, another gap in the Star Trek timeline will be fully explored. And yet, this gap isn’t the weirdest missing piece of Trek history. Other than one episode of The Original Series, we have almost zero on-screen canonical record of adventures that may have occurred for some — or all — of the year 2265, the first year of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy’s five year mission on the Enterprise. In essence, Star Trek: Year One, does not exist. But, could it happen now?

Back when The Original Series first aired, the notion of exactly when it was set was kept somewhat vague. In fact, according to The Making of Star Trek (1968), in Roddenberry’s earliest pitches to networks, he specifically noted that...

Today we learned the sad news that Aron Eisenberg has passed away at the age of 50. The actor was a beloved part of the Star Trek family for his role as Nog on Deep Space Nine. A recurring character appearing in 40 episodes, Nog was the first Ferengi to join Starfleet, and he wasn’t just popular with fans, either. Following his death, Star Trek stars from various different series have paid their respect to Eisenberg on social media.

Fans most recently got to see Eisenberg in the Ds9 documentary What We Left Behind, in which his passion for Trek was made clear. It was the documentary’s Twitter page that helped get the news out of the actor’s untimely passing as well, with the following Tweet:

We’re heartbroken to share news of the loss of one of our family. Aron Eisenberg was an enormous positive presence in any situation.

Ryan Britt Aug 7, 2019

Ira Steven Behr’s Star Trek labor of love is finally available to the general public. Here’s what you need to know...

If you’re a hardcore Trekkie, you probably already know about What We Left Behind; the crowd-funded documentary that looks back on the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. And if, you don’t, the best way to describe the doc is that it’s a snapshot of a particular fandom, curated by someone who helped create that fandom in the first place.

Producer and showrunner Ira Steven Behr wasn’t the creator of Deep Space Nine (that would be Rick Berman and the late Michael Piller), but, he certainly is the biggest advocate of the series these days. In What We Left Behind (a riff on the show’s series finale titled “What You Leave Behind"), Behr interviews the expansive cast, crew,...

The new branded line Shout Selects chooses Buckaroo for special-special edition treatment, with a long making-of docu just like the ones from the heyday of DVD. And this oddest of oddball sci-fi pictures has a backstory worth documenting. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Blu-ray Shout Select 1984 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 102 min. / Street Date August 16, 2016 / 34.93 Starring: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Lewis Smith, Rosalind Cash, Robert Ito, Pepe Serna, Ronald Lacey, Matt Clark, Clancy Brown, Carl Lumbly, Vincent Schiavelli, Dan Hedaya, Bill Henderson, Damon Hines, Billy Vera Cinematography Fred J. Koenekamp Production Designer J. Michael Riva Art Direction Richard Carter, Stephen Dane Film Editor George Bowers, Richard Marks Original Music Michael Boddicker Written by Earl Mac Rauch Produced by Sidney Beckerman, Neil Canton, W.D. Richter Directed by W.D. Richter

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Not content with its already well appointed special Blu-ray editions,...

For those who have downloaded the Star Trek Into Darkness App, two new stills were exclusively revealed from the quickly forthcoming sequel. The photos show Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the villain John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch), all looking very serious indeed. The free app from Paramount Pictures and Qualcomm asks its users to go on ”missions” to hunt and scan specific pictures and clips to unlock special content. And by special content I mean the St Patrick’s Day picture which you can see at the footer of this post.

The app also promotes the upcoming Star Trek Video Game which is only six weeks away from release. Game are currently running a great incentive to pre-order the game that takes place between the 2009 movie and Into Darkness. Those who pre-order online get a free cinema ticket to go see Star Trek Into Darkness at their local Cineworld,...

Welcome back to our weekly look at the new podcasts available at our “partners in podcast crime” the GeekCast Radio Network. As usual here’s our weekly look at the podcasts from Gcrn, This Week in Geek and the latest toy review videos from Baltmatrix, with descriptions and links to each and every podcast for your audio/visual pleasure!

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Gcr – Episode 37 – Kevin Smith: Media Mogul

Kevin Smith, the guy who created the View Askewnivervse, the guy who created the Sir network, and so much more. In Episode 37 of Gcr, we explore the many facets of Mr. Smith. We also talk about his films, podcasts, Comic Book Men, and more. 37… in a row?...

With the original "Star Trek" shuttlecraft prop Galileo just weeks away from being put up for auction, one major effort that included some big names in Star Trek to acquire and restore the shuttlecraft has fallen apart. Galileo Restoration, a group led by Propworx chief executive officer Alec Peters, will have to regroup following the departure of some key members of its group. Just a day after the Gene Roddenberry-endorsed Star Trek fan club the International Federation of Trekkers left the project, former "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Battlestar Galactica" visual effects artist Doug Drexler and longtime Star Trek graphics creator Michael Okuda have departed the project. These departures happen exactly when Galileo Restoration was beginning to raise money toward a $100,000 ...

Big Love‘s Chloe Sevigny is in final talks to join the second season of American Horror Story, set to begin production this summer. Sevigny will play a character named Shelly the Nymphomaniac, who is one of the mortal enemies of Jessica Lange’s character. Apparently, the writers and producers of Ahs were such fans of Sevigny that they wrote the part with her in mind. The actress will join Lange, Zachary Quinto, Adam Levine, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, and Lily Rabe in the new season, which Murphy has revealed will be set in an East Coast institution for the criminally insane run by Lange’s character.

Fox has agreed to a fifth and final season for Fringe. While its only 13 episodes, it does give the creative team a chance to end the show they want to, a rarity in this business. But the show, despite poor ratings, has always been supported by the network.

When Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted on Sept. 28, 1987, it was one of the most ambitious first episodes of television ever produced. No matter how popular the feature films had been with the original cast, bringing Gene Roddenberry’s optimistic sci-fi vision of our future back to TV with an all-new cast and U.S.S. Enterprise was far from a slam dunk. And then there was the scale of the two-hour pilot, “Encounter at Farpoint,” with roughly 200 feature-film-level visual effects.

That ambition, however, was worth it. St:tng debuted to nearly 27 million viewers, and the show ran for a robust 178 episodes over seven seasons.

Calling all Trekkies – Star Trek: The Next Generation® – The Next Level, from Paramount Home Entertainment and CBS Home Entertainment, will be beaming up on a single Blu-ray disc on 30th January 2012 to give fans a taste of the iconic series to be released in HD later this year.

We have three copies of Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Next Level on Blu-ray to give away!

One of the most popular series in the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: The Next Generation® celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012. It premiered in first-run syndication during the week of September 28, 1987 and ran through 1994.

The disc will take fans aboard the Starship Enterprise with Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew and includes the feature-length pilot – “Encounter at Farpoint” – as well as two more “fan favourite ” episodes, “The Inner Light” (Season 5) and “Sins of the Father” (Season 3). The single Blu-ray disc will be available...

Just in time for the 25th anniversary, Star Trek: The Next Generation is being transferred to high definition for the first time ever and released on Blu-ray. All 178 episodes from seven seasons will be transferred to true high-definition 1080p for release on Blu-ray and eventual runs on television and digital platforms both domestically and internationally.

While the first full season won’t be available until later in 2012, CBS Home Entertainment is releasing Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Next Level, a single Blu-ray disc to give fans a taste of the series in HD, on January 31, 2012. The disc will include the feature-length pilot – “Encounter at Farpoint” – as well as two more “fan favorite” episodes, “The Inner Light” (Season 5) and “Sins of the Father” (Season 3).

Here’s a preview of the remastered “Encounter at Farpoint”:

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“Fans have been clamoring for a high-definition release...

The beloved series Star Trek: The Next Generation will be transferred to high definition for the first time ever and released on Blu-ray, it was announced today by Ken Ross, Executive Vice President and General Manager of CBS Home Entertainment.

All 178 episodes from seven seasons will be transferred to true high-definition 1080p for release on Blu-ray and eventual runs on television and digital platforms both domestically and internationally.

"Fans have been clamoring for a high-definition release of Star Trek: The Next Generation for years," said Ross. "Transferring the series to high-definition presented difficult technical challenges, but our team has come up with a process to create true 1080p HD masters with true HD visual effects. We can't wait to show fans how pristine the series looks and sounds with our upcoming Blu-ray releases."

Transferring Star Trek: The Next Generation to high-definition presented numerous challenges - The series was originally shot...

We knew this was coming and finally, here are the details:

Los Angeles – The beloved series Star Trek: The Next Generation® will be transferred to high definition for the first time ever and released on Blu-ray™, it was announced today by Ken Ross, Executive Vice President and General Manager of CBS Home Entertainment.

All 178 episodes from seven seasons will be transferred to true high-definition 1080p for release on Blu-ray and eventual runs on television and digital platforms both domestically and internationally.

“Fans have been clamoring for a high-definition release of Star Trek: The Next Generation® for years,” said Ross. “Transferring the series to high-definition presented difficult technical challenges, but our team has come up with a process to create true 1080p HD masters with true HD visual effects. We can’t wait to show fans how pristine the series looks and sounds with our upcoming Blu-ray releases.”

Transferring Star Trek: The Next Generation...

Set your phasers to stun, Star Trek: The Next Generation is being released in high-definition Blu-ray. StarTrek.com has confirmed that in a sampler of several popular episodes are being released starting in January, and then a season-one set to be released later on in 2012. There will be subsequent seasons released after that. All 178 episodes from Next Generation's seven seasons will be transferred to true high-definition 1080p to celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2012.

Here is what Kenn Ross, Exec VP of CBS Entertainment had to say in a statement:

“Fans have been clamoring for a high-definition release of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Transferring the series to high-definition presented difficult technical challenges, but our team has come up with a process to create true 1080p HD masters with true HD visual effects. We can’t wait to show fans how pristine the series looks and sounds with our upcoming Blu-ray releases.

[1] Star Trek: The Original Series has been available on Blu-ray for a couple of years now, but if you prefer Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) to Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), your moment will be coming next year. Star Trek: The Next Generation will finally begin hitting Blu-ray in 2012, in honor of the series' 25th anniversary. Read more details and watch a teaser after the jump. The official Star Trek site [2] announces that Tng will first hit Blu-ray January 31, 2012 in the form of a "fan favorites" sampler titled titled Star Trek: The Next Generation -- The Next Level, which will retail for $21.99. That single disc will contain a feature-length version of the pilot "Encounter at Far Point," plus the popular episodes "Sins of the Father" from Season 3 and "The Inner Light" from Season 5. The Season 1 Blu-ray set will then drop at unspecified point later in the year, with...

I have to tell you, as odd as it may sound, I'm not really a guy who needs his TV shows in HD. A Blu-Ray release might be different, because you're bound to get some cool special features, but as far the show itself being in HD, I could take it or leave it. Now, when it comes to Star Trek: The Next Generation, that might be a different story. I'm not absolutely sure it's a different story, but it might be.

Well, now I'll get to find out.

Apparently fans have been clamoring for the show to get an HD release, and they're finally getting their wish. Take a look.

Star Trek: The Next Generation® To Be Available In High-definition For The First Time Ever For Its 25Th Anniversary

Star Trek: The Next Generation® – The Next Level Blu-ray Disc™ Will Be Released On January 31, 2012

Complete First Season Blu-ray Available...

Star Trek: The Next Generation is officially, and finally, coming to Blu-ray. StarTrek.com confirms the news, and says the discs will start hitting in January. Rather than kick off with season one, a sampler set of episodes will be the first Blu-ray to be released. The complete first season will hit shelves later next year, with the subsequent seasons to follow. The Next Generation ran for seven seasons from 1987 to 1994, with 178 episodes. For the HD transfer, CBS is returning to the original film negatives to bring the highest quality image. Visual effects won’t be upconverted, but instead the studio will recomposition them, culminating in true 1080p HD masters with 7.1 DTS Master Audio. Denise and Michael Okuda are overseeing the transfer. The sampler will be called Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Next Level. It will include the feature-length version of the pilot, as well as the season three...

Ok so it’s really time now to start saving those pennies. Rumoured forever it feels like, Paramount and CBS have now officially announced a Blu-ray HD upgrade for Star Trek: The Next Generation.

And as part of celebrating the 24th anniversary of it’s pilot episode today, September 28th, StarTrek.com have debuted the official trailer for the remastered Blu’s online today.

Coming Soon has more;

Celebrating the 24th anniversary of its pilot debut today, September 28th, “The Next Generation” has represented a true challenge to bring to high definition. Unlike the original series, which was shot and edited on film, “The Next Generation” was shot on film and edited on video. While the film itself can be brought up to HD standards, the special effects involved have to be digitally recreated, much like the “remastered” versions of the original series that began syndication in 2006.

To this end,...

Paramount has just announced that Star Trek: The Next Generation will be transferred to high-definition for the first time ever and released on Blu-ray™.

All 178 episodes from seven seasons will be transferred to true high-definition 1080p for release on Blu-ray and eventual runs on television and digital platforms both domestically and internationally.

“Fans have been clamoring for a high-definition release of Star Trek: The Next Generation® for years,” said Ross. “Transferring the series to high-definition presented difficult technical challenges, but our team has come up with a process to create true 1080p HD masters with true HD visual effects. ”

Transferring Star Trek: The Next Generation® to high-definition presented numerous challenges – The series was originally shot on film and then transferred to videotape, which was used to edit episodes together.

In order to create true HD masters, CBS is going back to the original uncut film negative – all 25,000 plus film reels...

So when I was browsing over at ThinkGeek I saw this awesome book for sale! Here's a small look inside as well:

Here's the decription for it:

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Star Trek fans now have a unique way to geek out, and it comes in the form of a way for them to learn anything they might not already know about the franchise (or at least, don't have memorized). Star Trek Padd (Personal Access Display Device) is an iPad App that recreates the Lcars computer interface from Star Trek, and includes a database of just about everything that has ever happened in the Star Trek television universe.

The interface comes complete with a wide variety of vocal responses that will be familiar to fans, and the look and "feel" of the Padd, as you move around is just as you'd hope from seeing it in the various versions of the franchise shows. Whether it's info on the ships, characters, or so much more, it's all at your fingertips.

The only question about the App might be in terms of the number of images available,...

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