As should come as no surprise, I went to see Star Trek: Into Darkness this weekend. It’s good. Good Trek or good movie you ask? I’d say both. How can that be you ask? Well…Wait, before I get into that I should do this: ***SPOILERS*** Okay, now Read more…
I went to see the remastered release of “Best of Both Worlds” last night at the theater. While I don’t own a Blu-ray player, I am considering getting one specifically for the purpose of getting the remastered TNG. It was a fun experience to go see one of the best Read more…
Continuing the Trek theme for the week, I recently read a piece of an interview with Brannon Braga in which he talks about the original concept of “Enterprise”. BRANNON BRAGA: That was not how we wanted to do it. We wanted to do a show that was set on Earth, and Read more…
By now I’m sure you’ve heard the news that JJ Abrams has been picked to direct Star Wars Episode VII. Now, the two biggest space adventure franchises are in the hands of one man. That’s a lot of geek power to wield. I’m mixed on how I feel about this. Read more…
I was exploring the possibility of having a transporter like device in a potential new story I’m working on. I like the idea of them, beaming over to an enemy ship for some quick action or having enemies beam aboard the characters ship for a challenge to face. There’s lots Read more…
The first teaser trailer for the next Star Trek movie, Into Darkness, came out today. There’s a lot of interesting things in that 1min video. For awhile, it’s been rumored that Benedict Cumberbatch, whose playing the villain, would be Gary Mitchell. In TOS, he was an old friend of Kirk’s who Read more…
I recently saw a trailer for a new Star Trek game coming out next year. And I have to say, I’m not at all impressed. That could easily be any other generic FPS game in existence. Now, what will make this game a good Star Trek game is the story. That’s Read more…
I recently heard about this game, Artemis, and am intrigued. From the descriptions and videos, you play with a group of friends as the crew of a starship. By linking, via LAN or over the net, several computers, each player takes a different role on the ship; from engineer, to Read more…
Today STO goes F2P. They decided to add a bit of geekiness to the launch by choosing January 17th, and constantly writing it in the European format, with the day coming before the month. Hence, 17-01. If you don’t get it, there’s a hint below (and, if you don’t get Read more…
Apparently the next Star Trek movie comes out in 2013. I was under the impression that it was coming out next year. This makes me sad, but a little happy. It will be much easier to get away to see a movie when we have a 15month old rather than Read more…