New TOS Retro Art Prints Now Available
Juan Ortiz has created 4 new TOS Retro Art Prints, which are available now. Star Trek.com chatted with the artist. Here’s what he had to say: “Journey to Babel.” First up is “Journey to Babel.” That’s a super-tight close-up of the Enterprise, with the juxtaposition of the shuttle making the Enterprise look massive and the shuttle miniscule. What inspired this poster? ORTIZ: The word journey in the title implied a voyage aboard a...
Star Trek: Seekers
August 2014 will see Star Trek: Seekers, which is a sequel to the Star Trek: Vanguard series of books. Written by the Vanguard authors David Mack, Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore. Seekers will feature two ships, the Constitution-class USS Endeavour and Archer-class USS Sagittarius. This will include characters from the Vanguard series and continue their ongoing mission of exploration in the Taurus Reach. David Mack writes on his blog...
Star Trek style gadgets don’t get much cool than this: A Handheld 3D Scanner
A British inventor has unveiled a Star Trek style gadget – The world’s first handheld point-and-shoot, full colour 3D scanner available for under £650/$1,000. Fuel3D is developed by an expert team of hardware and software engineers and scientists, from Oxford University. They have developed the Fuel3D handheld scanner, a point-and-shoot 3D imaging system that captures extremely high resolution mesh and colour information of...
Science Fiction Becomes Reality With A Star Trek Style Tricorder
Science fiction becomes reality with Scanadu Scout’s Star Trek style Tricorder. Scanadu Scout is designed to be a medical grade Tricorder using your smartphone and Bluetooth LE to emulate an Emergency Room in your pocket. The device can measure your: Heart Rate Skin/Core Body Temperature SpO2 (Oxymetry) Respiratory Rate Blood Pressure ECG Emotional Stress The device works by touching your forehead for 10 seconds. It then...
Restored Star Trek Shuttlecraft Galileo unveiled at Space Center Houston
Space Center Houston, the official visitor center for NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas, unveiled the newly-fan-restored Shuttlecraft Galileo on Wednesday (July 31) during a science fiction celebrity-studded event that featured one of the original actors from the full-scale spacecraft’s debut episode. Actor Don Marshall, who portrayed Starfleet Lieutenant Boma “The Galileo Seven,” helped launch the...
The Delta Quadrant – 4×13 – Waking moments
This week on The Delta Quadrant the guys review Waking Moments. It was a little too scary for Melissa, so you won’t be hearing from her this week. Ignore any indication that she might be visiting the brig… The guys are, however, joined by special guest Carl Stark! So, listen in to hear all about Nightmare on Voyager Street…. I mean, Waking Moments!
Space City Con 2013 – Houston Texas
Space City Con – Houston Texas, is the Gulf Coast’s newest fan culture convention, offering a robust mix of authors, artists, sci-fi, fantasy, comics, gaming, fan group networking, literature, writing workshops and more, in a venue meant to be more approachable to families and children. It was founded in 2012. Conceived as a “Geek Festival with free parking”, the event brought in almost 2000 people in the first year. This years...
Star Trek/ Star Trek Into Darkness – Live in Concert @ The Royal Albert Hall May 2014 – Extra Days Added
As covered in a previous article here, Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness – Live in Concert celebrates the extraordinary collaboration between film and music as Michael Giacchino‘s score is brought to life on stage by the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, while J. J. Abrams’ film is shown simultaneously in high definition on the big screen. Two more dates have been added for Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness – Live...
Support The Star Trek: Renegades Campaign
Star Trek: Renegades is a professionally produced pilot intended for presentation to CBS as a possible online series or cable series. Star Trek: Renegades recently completed a successful Kickstarter back in November 2012, which they raised their minimum goal to produce the pilot. Since that time, they have completed the script, and it’s become a more ambitious project than they originally envisioned. The Renegades team realised...
PITAQ 54 – Star Trek Enterprise – Breach
Sorry for the delay on this one but e made our Monday deadline with 10mins to spare. This week we review the Enterprise episode breach with Veteran Forum poster Crewmen Alex. Due to holidays and schedules we have no quiz or feedback this week, however we do have a special show coming up that will make up for it.