Abrams’ Episode of The Office Airs Tonight February 22, 2007
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Abrams , 20 comments
We still don’t know if JJ Abrams will direct Star Trek XI, but we do know that he directed an episode of The Office. When TrekMovie.com interviewed Abrams last year he mentioned how much he loved the hit NBC comedy, so much so that he squeezed in directing one in between the million other projects he has going. It will be interesting if we see Dwight make a reference to Lost again. The JJ Abrams created show has come up on The Office and Dwight even has a blog posting about what would happen if the Battlestar Galactica crash landed on the Lost island (best line ‘first of all, they would have lasers’). In other Lost news, after seeing a big dip in ratings Lost has started to climb back up but is still off from its highs of the past. Regarding Trek XI, still cannot confirm if Abrams has made any decision yet regarding directing. Abrams good taste and ability to direct comedy is perhaps a clue that we may see some of that TOS trademark humor in Star Trek XI. Abrams’ The Office episode "Cocktails" airs tonight on NBC at 8:30. More info and a preview at TV.com.
Paradise Syndrome Remastered Preview February 21, 2007
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: TOS-R Preview , 140 commentsStarTrek.com have put up a preview for this weekend’s "Paradise Syndrome" Remastered.
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Review: Amok Time Remastered February 20, 2007
by Dennis Russell Bailey , Filed under: Review, TOS Remastered , 133 comments
Angry Red Planet
Warned by McCoy that Spock is acting a little "off," Kirk is forced to agree after the Vulcan assaults Nurse Chapel with a soup bowl. Spock awkwardly explains that he’s in the grip of an irresistible sexual urge and that he’ll die if he doesn’t mate Real Soon. Kirk can easily relate to this, so he defies Starfleet orders to return Spock to his home planet. Vulcan is the most PC planet in the cosmos: a world of unemotional, rational, pacifist vegans. It’s logical, therefore, that we are introduced in short order to:
- A masked executioner
- T’Pring, a betrothed woman who desires another man and enters into a murder conspiracy rather than be seen to defy conventional social mores
- Stonn, a co-conspirator so full of lustful rage that he can’t help blurting out unhelpful clues to his complicity ("No, I was to be the one!")
- T’Pau, a planetary ruler so smug and bigoted that she indulges in playing lethal "gotcha!" with naive strangers ("Des combad ees to de deat")
Abrams, Lost & MI:III Receive Saturn Nominations
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Abrams, TAS , 16 comments
Star Trek XI producer (and possible director) JJ Abrams has received a Saturn Award nomination as best director for Mission: Impossible III. In addition the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror have nominated M:I:III for best action/adventure thriller. In the directors category Abrams will be going head to head with fellow Trekkie Bryan Singer for Superman Returns. Singer’s Superman racked in a total of 10 nominations and M:I:III garnered a total of 5. Lost (produced by both Trek XI producers JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof) led the TV nominations with a total of 6, including best series.
Posters, Directors, Books, Robots, Psuedosience and Paramount Politics in a Presidents Day Roundup February 19, 2007
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Books, Paramount, Star Trek (2009 film), Trek Franchise , 55 comments
Here are some some bite sized Trek nuggets to hold you over until the next item on TOSR or STXI.
To promote TOSR StarTrek.com is running a giveaway for a new poster for Star Trek Remastered. Got to this page to enter to win this 2′ x 3′ poster made for syndicated stations.
SciFi.com ran a poll on who should direct Star Trek XI and Joss Whedon came out on top with almost half the votes. Abrams came in 2nd to last with only 14%, click here for full results.
Q’apla: IDW Talks About Klingon Comic and Future Trek Comics February 18, 2007
by John Tenuto , Filed under: Comics , 34 comments
IDW Publishing are jumping into the nostalgia for the Kirk era with new comic series from the days when men were men and Klingons were ridgeless. This April sees the start of a five issue comic titled ‘Star Trek: Klingons – Blood Will Tell.’ Each issue will relate to a Klingon-centric episode and show the Klingon point of view. The first issue will be related to the episode "Errand of Mercy", with subsequent issues dealing with "Trouble with Tribbles," "A Private Little War," "Day of The Dove" and even "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country." IDW promises that fans will never look at their favorite Klingon episodes the same after the reading the comics. "There is more to the Klingons than meets the eye and that’s what we wanted to get to in these comics," says IDW Editor Dan Taylor.
History Channel Airing Trek Documentaries – Reviews Not So Good
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Trek Franchise , 102 comments
The History Channel is taking a break from its regular schedule of shows on ancient Rome and World War II to take a look at the history of Star Trek. They are running two documentaries, the first of which ‘Star Trek Tech’ will air tonight (Sunday) at 9pm. ‘Tech’ is a regular show that devotes each episode the the technology of a particular time period or event or in this case a fictional universe. The second and bigger documentary is ‘Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier’, a two hour retrospective on Trek hosted by Leonard Nimoy (airing Monday at 9 pm). ‘Beyond the Final Frontier’ focuses much of its attention on the Christies auction and includes interviews with actors from each of the Trek series, but notably not William Shatner. There are already some reviews in on the longer doc and so far they are mixed at best.
“Amok Time” Screenshots and Video February 17, 2007
by Matt Wright , Filed under: TOS Remastered, TOS-R Screenshots/Video , 139 commentsOur best look into the hidden life of the Vulcans gets remastered.
Amok Time via Futurama [UPDATE: plus Cable Guy, Dexters Laboratory and The Simpsons]
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Humor , 31 comments"Amok Time" is probably one of the most parodied episodes of Star Trek…here are 3 examples…first up from Futurama
Remastered “Amok Time” Airs Today – T’Bring It On
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: TOS Remastered , 43 comments
Pon Farr has got Spock feelin’ frisky and to make it worse he has to fight Kirk to work it out of his system.
Another Trek classic with some of the best Kirk, Spock, McCoy character moments. Plus probably most memorable score of the series. This week doesnt offer CBS Digital with much to work with, but what they have they are really going to town on…
- New matte painting replacing live action ‘troika’ walk to arena on Vulcan
- New matte painting replacing live action establishing shot of arena
- plus a few Enterprise shots including some around planet Vulcan
Spinrad Talks TOSR Doomsday – Plus A New VideoBlog On ‘Saving Star Trek’ February 16, 2007
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Interview, TOS Remastered , 30 comments
Norman Spinrad, the writer of "The Doomsday Machine" has now seen the new remastered version and gave some of his reactions to TrekMovie.com.
TrekMovie.com: What did you think of it?
Norman Spinrad: I haven’t watched it at all for a while and it is a strange experience. My first take is that everything looked cleaner – not just the effects but the whole episode looked cleaned up. For the new special effects it seems the biggest change is that they seem to be able to do motion a lot better. Things are moving in a more complicated way. The doomsday machine isn’t that different. The way I conceived it, it was something else. It should look both alive and robotic..and neither the new or the old looked either.
Shatner Talks About The Death Of Kirk
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Feature Films (TMP-NEM), Shatner , 84 commentsIn a recent ShatnerVision, The Shat Talks about how it came to be that Kirk died in Generations.
McAvoy Still Talking Trek – Hopes Trek XI Will Show The Man Behind Scotty
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: ST09 Cast , 24 comments
James McAvoy is again kind of sort of hinting that maybe there is something to the rumor that he may be involved in Star Trek XI. In a new interview with ComingSoon.net the subject of Trek came up:
CS: I was reading on the Internet about someone asking you about playing Scotty in a Star Trek movie, probably just because you’re Scottish.
McAvoy: I know! I’m a huge Star Trek fan. No, I don’t know what’s going to happen with that. It might happen, it might not.
Images From Amok Time Remastered – CBS Look to TAS and STIII For Inspiration
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: TOS-R Preview , 139 commentsCBS have provided a couple of higher res images from Amok Time Remastered
Stephen Colbert Lobbies JJ Abrams For McCoy Role In Star Trek Movie February 15, 2007
by Rick Kelvington , Filed under: Abrams, Humor , 14 comments
Last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert decided to call up producer/director JJ Abrams and talk about some prayer day thing. But eventually the two got around to talking about Star Trek where Colbert mentioned reports the film will be a prequel to the original series and lobbied JJ for a role as Dr. McCoy. Watch the clip below.
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