Tom Paris’s Magic Jukebox by Rick Austin
Does anybody remember the season 6 episode of Voyager called Alice? There had been several movie “homages” done in some of the episodes prior, from the clumsy Alien-style episode Juggernaut to the surprisingly beautiful My Fair Lady-inspired Someone To Watch Over Me, but let’s face it, Alice really pushed the boundaries as they ripped off Stephen King’s classic horror story Christine. Not that it was bad. It just wasn’t that great,...
Creation Entertainment’s Official Star Trek Convention Las Vegas 2013 –
Creation Entertainment’s 12th Annual Official Star Trek Convention Las Vegas 2013 will be on 8th – 11th August and will be located at The Rio Suites in Las Vegas. Creation Entertainment will also celebrate Star Trek Deep Space Nine’s 20th Anniversary. Over the four days there will be non-stop, round the clock live entertainment featuring over 100 Star Trek celebrities, the Vegas Convention also offers something no...
Vulcan’s Trekcetera Museum Opens
Canada’s Only Star Trek museum, the Trekcetera opened it’s doors on August 2, 2013, as Vulcan’s newest attraction. From the Wild West to the final frontier, the Trekcetera Museum displays an array of memorabilia and artefacts. Beam yourself back to the days of Star Trek while viewing original costumes, screen-used props and pre-production artefacts utilised in both the television series and various Trek movies that...
Star Trek Actor, Michael Ansara (1922-2013)
Star Trek guest star Michael Ansara passed away on July 31 at the age of 91 following a long illness. Michael Ansara played the Klingon commander, Kang, in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Day of the Dove.” He would then return to reprising his role as Kang in the Deep Space Nine episode “Blood Oath.” and Voyager episode “Flashback”. Ansara also portrayed Lwaxana Troi’s Tavnian...
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...
Five Year Mission
In the summer of 2012 the Trek Mate team had the opportunity to chat with the legendary band Five Year Mission. You can find out more about the guys here. You can listen to the interview here: Interview with Five Year Mission Interview conducted by: Wayne, Marc & Paul. Original sources: The Trek Mate Podcast
Vaughn Armstrong
On October 6th 2012 Wayne & Paul from the Trek Mate podcast had the opportunity to sit down with the man behind Neelix, Ethan Phillips at the London Entertainment Media Show. Ethan is a character actor with a huge amount of roles in his portfolio, though he is probably best known for playing Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager. You can find his full catalogue of work here. You can listen to the interview here: Interview with Vaughn...
Ethan Phillips
On October 6th 2012 Wayne & Paul from the Trek Mate podcast had the opportunity to sit down with the man behind Neelix, Ethan Phillips at the London Entertainment Media Show. Ethan is a character actor with a huge amount of roles in his portfolio, though he is probably best known for playing Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager. You can find his full catalogue of work here. You can listen to the interview here: Interview with Ethan...