Heroes Honors Star Trek September 22, 2008
by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: ST09 Cast, Sci-Fi, Trek Franchise , 36 comments
Heroes kicked off its third season tonight on NBC. Over the past two seasons the show has featured a number of references to another NBC show, Star Trek. Tonight in the "Countdown to Heroes" special, Zachary Quinto (the new Spock) helped introduced a video segment on the Trek/Heroes homages, see video below.
Shatner and Trek Vets Shut Out at 2008 Emmys September 21, 2008
by Charles Trotter , Filed under: Trek Franchise , 69 comments
The 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were held this evening, and no, William Shatner didn’t win. Unlike last weekend at the Creative Arts Emmys, nobody associated with Trek walked away with an Emmy this year. However, The Shat did provide a moment of levity during the otherwise excruciating first 10 minutes. Read more on that and Shat’s fellow Trek losers below.
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Sci-Fi Sunday: Tranformers 2, Green Hornet, Heroes, Lost, Spaceballs, Stargate, Prisoner + more
by Rosario T. Calabria , Filed under: Sci-Fi , 33 comments
A bit of a slow week in genre movie news but we do have updates on Transformers 2, Green Hornet, a host of Marvel movies, and more including some new pics and vids. For TV news there is a ton of stuff from The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Heroes, Stargate, Lost, and more, including lots of new images and video (including the new Prisoner).
Ricky Gervais Turned Down Role In Abrams Star Trek
by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: ST09 Cast, Star Trek (2009 film) , 107 comments
British comedian Ricky Gervais said no to JJ Abrams. The actor, who didn’t become a star until he was 40 with his 2001 BBC comedy hit The Office, stars in Paramount DreamWork’s Ghost Town which opened this weekend, but apparently he has also been turning down a lot of work as well, including a spot in Abrams’ new Star Trek movie.
Listen To Nimoy On NPR’s ‘Wait Wait Dont Tell Me’
by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: Nimoy, TOS , 32 comments
This weekend the original Spock, Leonard Nimoy, is the ‘not my job guest’ on the NPR quiz show Wait Wait Dont Tell Me, where he joked around about Star Trek and played the game “Your are not that Spock either,” taking questions about the expertise of ‘Dr. Spock,’ and child rearing. Listen to it at NPR.org.
Diora Baird Talks About Her Role as An Orion in Star Trek September 20, 2008
by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: ST09 Cast , 131 comments
Looks like we can add another pretty face to the cast of the new Star Trek movie. In an interview (and photo shoot) with Maxim, 25 year-old actress and former Guess girl model Diora Baird talks about her role an a ‘green girl’ (Orion) in JJ Abrams new movie.
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Orci & Kurtzman: Star Trek Very True To Canon – Even Books September 19, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Books, Orci/Kurtzman, Star Trek (2009 film) , 171 comments
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have a lot of things going on right now with their new show Fringe, the new movie Eagle Eye (opening next weekend), the next Transformers movie and a little thing called Trek. The pair talk about all of it in a new interview with Crave, and regarding Trek, they make some interesting comments about canon.
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Science Friday: Little LHC Glitch, Giant Alien Planet, Tiny Life In Space + more
by Kayla Iacovino , Filed under: Science/Technology , 17 comments
Time to engage your brain with Science Friday’s news of happenings in the scientific community. The LHC deals with some first beam glitches, a spacecraft captures some neat movies of solar activity, scientists get the first direct images of an alien world, and water bears in space!. All this plus our gadget of the week: the cute and functional Rovio.
Kevin Smith: Star Trek (Almost) As Good As Dark Knight
by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: Sci-Fi, Star Trek (2009 film) , 135 comments
As we reported a few weeks ago, Kevin Smith got an early preview of a rough cut of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek and gave it a good review (twice). Now in a new interview, the Clerks director compares this year’s mega-hit The Dark Knight to Star Trek and Watchmen (which he has also seen months ahead of the rest of the world).
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Abrams Talks Challenge Of Keeping Star Trek From Turning Into Parody
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Abrams, Star Trek (2009 film) , 153 comments
In a light-hearted interview for BBC Radio 1, JJ Abrams talks about Fringe, Cloverfield, Lost, and yes…Star Trek. Abrams and comedian host Chris Moyles joke around a lot, but the Star Trek director also reveals some new things about the film and goes into more about how he is trying to ensure the film does not become a sequel to Galaxy Quest (not that there is anything wrong with that).
Braga’s ‘Flash Forward’ Headed To ABC
by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: ENT, Sci-Fi, TNG, VOY , 52 comments
Brannon Braga is headed back to sci-fi television. The co-creator of Enterprise, who has more Trek writing credits than anyone, has just sold a sci-fi pilot script to ABC. Co-written with David Goyer (Batman Begins), Flash Forward sparked a Hollywood bidding war and is being considered a companion show to JJ Abrams Lost.
CelebWatch: Stardate 09.18.08 September 18, 2008
by Charles Trotter , Filed under: Celebrity , 19 comments
Hiya, folks! Did you miss me? This week’s Watch covers about two weeks worth of news, including: Patrick Stewart’s new play selling out faster than the RSC can say “Engage;” Avery Brooks pitching Death of a Salesman; Jeri Ryan showing off her baby’s nursery; Anthony Montgomery joining NCIS; Zoe Saldana going fashion crazy; Zachary Quinto doing the Robot Chicken; and, oh, so much more.
Shatner: Nobody Offered Me A Role
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Abrams, Shatner, Star Trek (2009 film) , 344 comments
Recently JJ Abrams kicked off a lot of buzz when he revealed that there was a scene in the new Star Trek movie written for Shatner, but said it didn’t meet with Shatner’s ‘no cameo’ requirements. Today William Shatner launched his new ‘Shatner Project’ video blog and one of the first videos is a direct reply to the latest from Star Trek’s director.
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Orci & Kurtman: Star Trek Is Epic
by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: Orci/Kurtzman, Star Trek (2009 film) , 93 comments
Earlier this week IESB released part of their Eagle Eye interview with Star Trek co-writers Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman (where they talked about Wrath of Khan) and today they have released the full interview where the pair give an update about the current status of Star Trek in post production and also talked about the ‘epic’ scale of the film.
TrekInk: Review Star Trek: The Complete Comic Book Collection DVD ROM September 17, 2008
by Alex Fletcher , Filed under: Comics, DVD/Blu-ray, Review , 50 comments
So, it’s here…the history of Star Trek on comic books, over 500 comics, all on one small five inch plastic and metal disc. Graphic Imaging Technology has just released Star Trek: The Complete Comic Book Collection on DVD ROM. The burning questions… how is it, what does it really entail, how easy is it to use, is it worth it? Oh… and… how cool is this!?
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