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Patrick Stewart Recalls ‘Painful’ Star Trek Typecasting + Photos From New Play Rehearsals April 13, 2010

by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: Celebrity, Star Trek (2009 film) , 57 comments

Sir Patrick Stewart’s latest play Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death, opens this week at the Chichester Festival in the UK. And in a new interview promoting the play, Stewart reflected back on his time as Jean Luc Picard and how he has faced typecasting in Hollywood. We also have photos of rehearsals from the new play.

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Clifton Collins Wants To Return For Star Trek Sequel

by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: ST09 Cast, Star Trek sequel (2012) , 76 comments

Clifton Collins, Jr., who played the Romulan Ayel in the 2009 Star Trek movie, is holding out hope that he will be back for the 2012 Star Trek sequel. TrekMovie thinks that isn’t very likely.

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Star Trek Picks Up Five Canadian Constellation Awards Nominations

by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: CBS/Paramount, Star Trek (2009 film) , 11 comments

Nominations for Canada’s fourth annual Constellation Awards, which honor "excellence in science fiction film and television" have been announced and the 2009 Star Trek movie dominates the film categories with five nominations. Details below.

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Tampa Trekkies To Attempt To Break Star Trek Costumed Fans Record

by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Conventions/Events/Attractions, Fandom , 45 comments

In February a promotional event in London for the European roll-out of Star Trek Online set a Guinness World Record for the “largest gathering of people dressed as Star Trek characters”. However, with only 99 costumed Trekkies, the record was begging to be broken. And that is exactly what will be attempted on Saturday May 1st in Tampa, FL. Details below.

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Orci & Kurtzman Producing Airport Thriller + Abrams & Lindelof In Time ‘Most Influential’ Poll

by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: Abrams, Celebrity, Star Trek (2009 film) , 57 comments

The members of the Star Trek ‘Supreme Court’ continue to show their Hollywood power. Today it was revealed that Trek scribes Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are producing a new airport thrill (and they also just cast Harrison Ford in another film they are producing). Plus Time Magazine is preparing their Top 100 issue, and JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof are climbing up the online poll.

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Videos From Star Trek: The Experience Warehouse Sale April 12, 2010

by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: Conventions/Events/Attractions, Memorabilia, Merchandise , 68 comments

Saturday the Star Trek: The Experience warehouse sale took place in Las Vegas Nevada. According to Propworx, it was a big success with huge crowds and everything being sold. There are some nice videos from the event available to view, check them out below.

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Sci-Fi TV Monday: LOST, Fringe, V, Star Wars, Being Human, Doctor Who + more

by Rosario T. Calabria , Filed under: Sci-Fi , 37 comments

In Sci-Fi TV this week we have big updates with previews for Lost , V, and Fringe. Plus there is news of a new animated Star Wars TV show, a comedy (really!). And there are more details on the US version of Being Human and our regular wrap-up of television ratings, casting bites and all the latest new images and video previews (including a look at new Doctor Who TARDIS and some WW2 era Daleks).

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CelebWatch: Shatner Gets “Weird” + Pine Goes To “Moscow” + Nimoy Wraps “Fringe” + Quinto On The “Margin”

by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Celebrity, Nimoy, ST09 Cast, Shatner , 19 comments

Today we have a special Kirk and Spock edition of CelebWatch, or make that Kirks and Spocks. We have William Shatner selling his new "Weird" show Cannes, Leonard Nimoy wrapping on Fringe (and acting forever?), new details on Chris Pine’s Jack Ryan movie, and some more Zachary Quinto sightings in NYC.

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New Seagate Hard Drives Come Preloaded With Star Trek Movie

by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: Paramount, Science/Technology, Star Trek (2009 film) , 47 comments

And now yet another Trek/Tech story. Seagate, the largest maker of hard drives, has teamed up with Paramount Pictures to offer new portable hard drives with the 2009 Star Trek movie preloaded as a bonus.

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New ‘LCARS’ iPad Application Released April 11, 2010

by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Merchandise, Science/Technology, Trek Franchise , 43 comments

If you want your new Apple iPad to really feel like a Star Trek PADD, you are going to need a Star Trek style LCARS interface. Earlier this week we reported that the much talked about "Captain’s Log" iPad application was pulled from Apple’s iTunes. Now this weekend a new Star Trek-ish application has been released called the "LCARS Internet Media Reader". Check it out below.

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Preview Clip & Images From Big Bang Theory “The Wheaton Recurrence” + TBBT Star On Possible Nimoy Cameo April 10, 2010

by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: Celebrity, Humor, TNG , 28 comments

UPDATED: On Monday The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper will again take on his nemesis Star Trek The Next Generation’s Wil Wheaton in the episode "The Wheaton Recurrence". And now there are some images and a sneak peek video of the Wil/Sheldon showdown…a bowling showdown. Plus some new comments from TBBT star Jim Parsons about Wheaton and the possibility of a Leonard Nimoy cameo.

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Star Trek II, III, IV & First Contact Now On Netflix Instant Streaming

by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: Feature Films (TMP-NEM), Science/Technology , 30 comments

Star Trek movies have taken another step into the world of online streaming. In February Star Trek Generations was made available on Hulu . And now four more Star Trek movies have been made available via Netflix streaming.

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Check Out Previews For No Budget Star Trek 2009 Spoof April 9, 2010

by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Humor, Star Trek (2009 film) , 51 comments

A group of film makers in the UK are making a parody of the 2009 Star Trek movie, but they are doing it with no budget. Using friends for cast, found items for props, and redressing their flats for sets, they shot and are now editing their own ’sweded’ Star Trek spoof. Check out the preview trailer and behind the scenes videos below

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Science Friday: Venutian Volcanoes + Trekkie Astronaut + Alien Polling + NASA Future + Blended iPad + more

by Kayla Iacovino , Filed under: Science/Technology , 16 comments

If it is Friday it is time for science! This week we learn something new about Venus, watch the latest spacewalk (with a Trekkie), contemplate if aliens live amongst us, squint for some 3-D space images, ponder the future of NASA, and answer the most important question about the new iPad: will it blend?

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Preview Photos and Video From Saturday Star Trek: The Experience Warehouse Sale

by TrekMovie.com Staff , Filed under: Conventions/Events/Attractions, Merchandise , 81 comments

As reported earlier, there will be a warehouse sale on Saturday in Las Vegas, selling off many of the assets from Star Trek The Experience, which closed at the Las Vegas Hilton in 2008. We now have more photos and video from the warehouse so you can see what is left and what you might want to pick up.

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