Nichelle Nichols Foundation Launches To Continue Her Legacy Of Increasing Inclusivity In STEAM Education
“Science is not a boy’s game, it’s not a girl’s game. It’s everyone’s game.” – Nichelle Nichols
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Mohamed Noor And Jayne Brook To Explore ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Science With YouTube Miniseries
Interview: Star Trek’s New Science Advisor Dr. Erin Macdonald On Putting The Sci In Sci-Fi
Roddenberry Entertainment Joins Project To Build Real Star Trek-like Holodeck
Spock’s World Found! Astronomers Discover Actual Planet Vulcan
Ron Moore Discusses Writing ‘Star Trek: TNG’ Scene For Stephen Hawking
Duolingo Launches Free Online Klingon Language Course
Ron Moore: Star Trek Writers Hated The Replicator
LeVar Burton Reads New Audiobook Of Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’
Pair of Pennsylvania Star Trek Fans Win Tricorder XPRIZE Competition
Star Trek’s medical tricorder is becoming a reality with the awarding of an XPRIZE
Connor Trinneer, James Grime, and The Math of Khan
Are red shirts more likely to die? Are Spock’s stats on point? We check out the math of Star Trek.
Roddenberry Foundation Selects Inaugural Prize Winners in #BoldlyBetter Competition
Opus 12 was awarded the grand prize of $400,000, while four others each received $150,000.
INTERVIEW – Astronaut Mark Kelly Discusses Role Deciding Inaugural Roddenberry Foundation Prize
Commander Kelly and his fellow judges will be awarding five prizes totaling $1 million dollars to individuals and/or companies that are trying to make the world a better place in February.
Hello, Computer! Amazon Echo Now Takes A Cue From “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”
Alexa’s newest trick: waking up if you just say, “computer,” like Scotty in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
CBS and Alcatel Reveal First “Star Trek: Discovery” Ad Tie-in With 360° Video
Alcatel, a large North American mobile phone manufacturer, has partnered with CBS Interactive to debut what they are calling a “VR experience” at major tech conference CES 2017. The 360° video is hosted on CBS’s YouTube channel and is the first advertisement tie-in for Star Trek: Discovery although it does not contain any material directly related to the network’s newest Star Trek series.
Rod Roddenberry Takes Father’s Vision to Next Level, Offers $1,000,000 Prize For a #BoldlyBetter Future
The Roddenberry Foundation recently announced a $1,000,000 cash prize for the best ideas on how to make our future #BoldlyBetter. TrekMovie interviewed leader of The Roddenberry Foundation and heir to the Star Trek throne Rod Roddenberry about the #BoldlyBetter campaign, his foundation’s funding of innovative ideas, and more.
“Building Star Trek” Smithsonian Documentary Continues Trek’s 50th Anniversary Celebration
New special focuses on the refurbishment of ‘The Original Series’ Enterprise model.
Star Trek’s First Virtual Reality Game ‘Bridge Crew’ Unveiled, Tested by Trek Stars *UPDATED*
Star Trek is getting its first virtual reality game, and they gave it a hell of a debut.
Take A Look At The Futuristic Tech In STAR TREK BEYOND
We wrote about the Hewlett Packard Enterprise/Star Trek Beyond collaboration last week, but now we’ve got some more info on exactly what these devices are supposed to do, plus some visuals go to with it. Caution: BEWARE OF SPOILERS!
NASA’s Star Trek Replicator Challenge Asks You To Design the Future of Space Food
Star Trek’s replicators were the original 3D printers in space, and now NASA and Star Trek are asking students to help make them a reality. The Star Trek Replicator Challenge tasks K-12 students with designing a non-edible food item that could be printed by astronauts living off the Earth in the year 2050.
Gene Roddenberry’s Lost Data Recovered from 200 Floppy Disks
Some 200 5.25-inch floppy disks from late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s estate have been unlocked revealing about 3 MB of decades old words typed by the Great Bird himself.
Pluto’s Moon Charon Gets the Star Trek Treatment With New Feature Names
Scientists are giddy over the wealth of data returned from the recently successful flyby of Pluto and her moons (Charon, Hydra, Nix, Styx, and Kerberos). The super high-resolution imagery means we can see lots and lots of geologic features on the surfaces of these icy worlds, and that means we need names for them. NASA scientists have decided to propose a sci-fi themed naming scheme to Pluto’s largest moon Charon, including names like Vulcan Planum and Spock, Kirk, and Sulu Craters.
Guy Designs, 3D Prints His Own TNG Warp Core Table Lamp
Ever wanted to capture the blue glow and pulsating hum of the Enterprise D warp core in your own living room? Using computer aided design and 3D printing, Star Trek fan ThePlanetMike has made it so by designing his own table lamp based on HD screen captures of Star Trek The Next Generation episodes and lighting it up with simple blue LED lights available on Amazon.
TrekTech: Communicators, chat apps, and the future
One of the most ubiquitous pieces of technology in the Star Trek universe is the communicator, be it the “flipper” from The Original Series, the wrist communicator from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, or the combadge from The Next Generation. These devices allow the characters an immediate and easy way to communicate(when they’re not being jammed by a mysterious force), and allow the show’s writers an easy way to relate relevant plot information. The folks over at tech site The Verge, using Star Trek’s communicators as a starting point, have produced a fun and thought-provoking video about how we use technology to relate to each other and how advances might further change the way we communicate, both good and bad.
Watch Shatner’s Message to the ESA Rosetta Mission and Its Away Team + Live Stream of Tomorrow’s Comet Landing
Watch William Shatner’s video send-off to the ESA Rosetta probe and it’s lander, Philae, who is scheduled to complete the first ever landing on a comet tomorrow (Wednesday, November 12th) morning. And we’ve got the link to the live stream so you can watch history happen!
Virgin Galactic VSS Enterprise Crashes During Test – 1 Pilot Killed
Today a test flight of Virgin Galactic’s VSS Enterprise spaceplane ended in tragedy with a crash in the Mojave desert, with the loss of one of two .
Watch: Nichelle Nichols Narrates NASA Orion Spacecraft Introduction Video
Star Trek is once again intersection with NASA and the real space program. This time Nichelle Nichols has narrated a new video introducing the Orion spacecraft, which is just getting ready to launch its first space test. Watch it below.
Watch: Microsoft Teaches Cortana To Speak Klingon & Other Star Trek Phrases
Microsoft are one of the sponsors of Destination Star Trek happening this weekend in London and to show it wasn’t just putting their name on an event, they taught Cortana (Microsoft’s answer to Siri) to speak Klingon along with responding to some Star Trek phrases. Watch a video demo below.
National Space Society Launches ‘Enterprise In Space’ Project To Bring Student Experiments To Orbit
A group of engineers, IT professionals and educators (who also happen to be Star Trek and sci-fi fans) have come up with a project to send student projects into space on an unmanned orbiter named "Enterprise." Now they have teamed up with the National Space Society with the goal to launch the orbiter by 2019 and you can get your name on board (and even submit a design for the ship). Find out more below.
Rocket Science Sunday: NASA Launches Atmospheric Probe into Earth Orbit
With the launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (or or OCO-2), NASA has taken the first step towards the kind of ‘Treknology’ we are used to seeing in our favorite fictional future. TrekMovie was at the launch as part of a NASA Social event, plus we were lucky enough to catch an inspiring speech from NASA Administrator (and possibly Trekkie?) Charlie Bolden. Details below