Since his time with Star Trek (and X-Man), Sir Patrick Stewart has returned to his roots as a Shakespearean actor. In an interview promoting the PBS showing of his performance in Hamlet, the actor says that his Shakespearean training brought gravitas to Star Trek.
Today is the birthday for Star Trek’s original Hikaru Sulu. George Takei is now 73 years young and still going strong. We here at TrekMovie wish George a happy birthday, and so we have some fun vids and catch up with the latest from "Oh, my Takei".
Leonard Nimoy came out of retirement to appear in JJ Abrams Star Trek (and Fringe), but now he is ready to exit the acting stage again. In a new interview promoting his appearances this weekend in Canada, the actor talks about his final acting performances. Plus, Star Trek’s new Spock Zachary Quinto comments on Star Trek without Nimoy.
Karl Urban, Star Trek’s new Dr. McCoy, is the latest Trek actor to weigh on on the production start guessing game. During a press event promoting his upcoming appearance in the vampire movie Priest, Urban said he thought the Star Trek sequel will "start to shoot at the beginning of next year." The actor also talked about the evolution of his character, Trek fans and how many Trek films he thinks he has in him.
Last weekend CBS and PropWorx held a warehouse sale of assets of the former Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton. Former Borg cast member Vernon Wilmer has been working on a documentary about ST: The Experience and has just released an extended video from the event, including costumes being delivered to other ex cast members.
How would you like to spend the a day bird watching with four Star Trek stars? Well you can get your chance at a Los Angeles Audubon Society event in May, as part of a team headed up by Armin Shimerman, Robert Picardo, Ethan Phillips and John Billingsley. Find out how you can join the team and support the Audubon Society below.
If you haven’t yet picked up the digitally remastered original Star Trek series on Blu-ray, now you can bid on a three seasons set with extra bonuses, all to benefit a charity auction. The set includes a poster signed by the TOS-R producers and William Shatner, plus a visualization model used by the TOS-R team and more. Details below.
Do you ever feel the need to scan some soil samples? Well you are in luck. This Summer Diamond Select Toys will complete their series of original series Star Trek tricorders with a third version, the Geological Tricorder. It will be another Entertainment Earth exclusive and pictures are now available.
A couple of Star Trek 2009 stars have been on talk shows this week. Zoe Saldana was on Jimmy Kimmel Live (and appearing on yet another cover!), while John Cho appeared on the Bonnie Hunt Show. You can watch the videos below (mostly talked about current projects, so no Trek sequel talk).
Later this month Pocket Books will delve into Captain Pike’s time on the USS Enterprise, with the novel "Star Trek: The Children of Kings", by David Stern. And if you want to get started early, you can read the first chapter below. This will be the last new Trek novel for a few months, we have an updated schedule of Trek fiction for the rest of the year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Next week Star Trek The Next Generation’s Wil Wheaton returns to the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory, appearing again as an evil version of himself. CBS has just released a promo video for the episode "The Wheaton Recurrence", check it out below.
Before co-creating the revamped Battlestar Galactica (and the spin-off, Caprica), Ron Moore began his writing and producing career working on Star Trek (TNG & DS9). And in a new interview, Moore said that if given a chance, he would love to Trek again.
Anton Yelchin, Star Trek’s new Chekov, is having a big week. Yesterday it was announced he was providing voice work for the new 3D Smurfs movie. And today it has been announced the actor is in talks to star in a remake of the 80s vampire movie Fright Night.
Much has been reported about the special mentoring relationship between the the Spocks of the 2009 Star Trek movie, Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy. So far it looks like Leonard Nimoy is serious about handing things off to Quinto for the sequel, and going (back) into retirement. But a new comment from Quinto suggests the young actor may not be ready to let go.
JJ Abrams 2009 Star Trek movie has picked up another award nomination, this time for a Hugo Award from the World Science Fiction Society. In addition Star Trek vet Brannon Braga picked up a nomination for his work on FlashForward. More details below.
A couple of Star Trek veterans are returning to the world of sci-fi. First up Star Trek The Next Generation’s Wil Wheaton has been cast to do an episode of Syfy’s Eureka. And Star Trek Voyager’s Robert Duncan McNeil is directing a new episode of the ABC alien show V. More details below.
Today in Star Trek future history is "First Contact Day". Regardless of your timeline, on April 5th, 2063 Dr. Zefram Cochrane is to became the first man to break the warp barrier (with a little help from the crew of the NCC-1701E), which will catch the notice of some passing Vulcans who initiate the ‘first contact’ between humans and aliens…and the beginnings of the United Federation of Planets and all that came with it.
Apples new iPad (or if you prefer iPADD) is the hot thing in tech right now. And IDW, the publisher of Star Trek comics, has just announced they will be taking advantage of the device Steve Jobs calls ‘magical’. As of today all the IDW iPhone applications (including the Star Trek comics application) are available optimized for the iPad. See below for press release, screenshots and demo videos.
It appears that some people are having some fun with their new US Census forms, including thousands of Trekkies telling the government they not exactly human. However, the government doesn’t think it is very funny and you could end up getting fined (unless you can prove your non-terrestrial ancestry). More details below.
Leonard Nimoy has recently spoke about his retirement from acting, but it appears he did find time to fit in some voice work for a Transformers video game. Nimoy, who also recently provided voice work for Star Trek Online, will be featured in the upcoming Activision game "Transformers: War for Cybertron". UPDATE: Apparently this is a rumor and has been denied by Activision.
Like any massive multiplayer game, the recently released game Star Trek Online has a learning curve. And this week there are some new videos out that can help you climb that curve, teaching you to improve your ground combat capabilities and your ship power management. Watch them below.
Sir Patrick Stewart, Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Jean Luc Picard, is returning to the New York stage to star in the Broadway premiere of the David Mamet play A Life in the Theater. The play goes into rehearsals this Summer. More details below.