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...
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...
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...
Simon Pegg hopes Star Trek 3 will shoot next year
In an interview with Collider, Simon Pegg spoke of his rather busy upcoming schedule. Filming of the Tintin sequel and Mission Impossible 5, both due to shoot next year. Asked whether or not the next Star Trek movie would begin filming next year, he was rather keen at the thought. “I would hope so,” he replied. “Because it would mean we could get it out for the 50th anniversary, which would be extraordinary…...
Star Trek / Star Trek Into Darkness Double Pack Blu-ray & DVD
Paramount Home Entertainment will be releasing both JJ Abrams’ Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness films in a double pack Blu-ray and DVD package. Star Trek From the creator of Lost and Alias, J.J. Abrams, Star Trek is part prequel, part reboot and all action! One of 2009’s best blockbusters, this sensational movie captures the series’ classic sci-fi spirit but ramps up the spectacle–you’ve never seen...
Out Now: Star Trek After Darkness, Part 3
The After Darkness 3 issue story ends here! The hit ongoing Star Trek series picks up right where this year’s blockbuster sequel Star Trek Into Darkness leaves off! Don’t miss the all-new adventures of the crew as they go boldly into the unknown, in a story overseen by Star Trek writer/producer Roberto Orci! The events of Star Trek After Darkness will occur across Issues #21-23 of IDW’s ongoing Star Trek series Available now...
NASA scientists building a warp engine that could make Star Trek a reality
Researchers at the NASA’s Johnson Space Center are convinced they can turn science fiction to fact and prove warp speed might someday be possible. To do this, they would need to break, or at least bend the rules of time and space famously laid out by Albert Einstein over 50-years ago. Undeterred, Dr. Harold G. White and his team have begun small-scale experiments using infinitesimally small photons that could have galactic sized...