StarTrekMovie-related stories
Posted Aug 31st 2009 1:07PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Reality-Free
As the fall release date for the J.J. Abrams
Star Trek DVD closes in,
Star Trek merchandising is making a comeback.
Everything
Trek made a huge bull rush earlier this summer when
the first major run of merchandising took hold. Everything from bottle openers to iPod got the final frontier treatment. Now the DVD is shaking the space trees again.
The long-rumored
Star Trek colognes beamed their way into stores last week -- immediately becoming a product that folks might want to try as curiosity without ever admitting they bought it.
Continue reading Star Trek merchandise goes all sexy and smelly
Posted Aug 5th 2009 9:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
The merchandise opportunities for classic shows like
Star Trek has been outlandish, to say the very least.
You can show your financial love for
Star Trek by buying
Star Trek toys,
Star Trek apparel,
Star Trek cell phones,
Star Trek Pez dispensers,
Star Trek burial coffins,
Star Trek living room furniture
and even
Star Trek erotic theme art. Don't click that last link if you're at work, school or don't really want to know what James Doohan would look like spread eagle on a Tribble skin rug.
Now the folks at
Genki Wear, a geek themed jewelry manufacturer, have helped the Enterprise explore a strange new world of merchandising and seek out new lifeline accounts and financial liquidations with a line of
Star Trek-inspired cologne and perfumes.
Continue reading Set phasers to 'intoxicating' with new Star Trek cologne
Posted May 9th 2009 5:02PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on the Bigscreen, Reality-Free
J.J. Abrams' new
Star Trek has sparked a huge controversy in the Trekkie universe, a controversy that in the real world amounts to a drunken debate in a dive border town bar over which Darren on
Bewitched was more "boneable."
My sneak preview review sparked a wave of supportive and angry comments that I have never seen in my history with TV Squad, which amounts to six months depending on which of my accountants you talk to. My former accountant can be reached at the Tennessee Colony State Prison, Tennessee Colony, Texas.
It seems the angrier of the Treksters are getting their head gear in a bunch because Abrams chose to work Leonard Nimoy into the picture via a time travel plot that completely alters the original history and lore of the original series. As one commentor put it, "instead of obliterating a few minutes of exposition about 20 years we didn't watch, this has obliterated [forty three plus] years of storytelling that we did watch."
Continue reading The new Star Trek flick has started a Trekkie civil war
Posted May 8th 2009 10:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on the Bigscreen, Reality-Free
I'm not the kind of person who normally resorts to pumping something full of hype, but if you are reading this and haven't seen the new big-screen adaptation of
Star Trek, you need to be tied to something heavy so that "certain" people can know your whereabouts at all times.
J.J. Abrams' new vision of TV's original
Star Trek has everything you expect from a summer movie flick that costs $150 million to make and $8.25 a ticket: laughs, big explosions, smokin' hot alien babes who spend the majority of their screen time in skimpy underwear.
Continue reading New Star Trek kicks the ass of every other Star Trek
Posted Feb 10th 2009 11:01AM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Video, Interviews, Celebrities, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free
There is life after
Star Trek. Jonathan Frakes,
Star Trek: The Next Generation's former "Number One," has moved on from sci-fi stardom to a successful career as a TV and film director. He's helmed four feature films, countless hours of
Star Trek and
Roswell, plus the two latest entries in TNT's
Librarian telemovie franchise. Now, he's joining one of TV's most
critically acclaimed new shows.
Frakes directed tonight's episode of
Leverage, TNT's hit heist drama starring Timothy Hutton. The episode is a
Star Trek reunion of sorts with Frakes behind the camera and his former
Star Trek co-stars Brent Spiner (Data from
TNG) and Armin Shimerman (Quark from
Deep Space Nine) guest starring.
I spoke to Frakes by phone for a few minutes this week and, somehow, I was able to hold back from asking him a million geeky
Star Trek questions. (Now I'll never know if "Tom" Riker ever escaped from the Cardassians!) We discussed his love for
Leverage, his friendships with his former cast mates, and the possible return of
"Number One" Will Riker.
Continue reading Jonathan Frakes: The TV Squad Interview - VIDEO
Posted Oct 12th 2007 1:01PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Celebrities, Casting
It seems like all the geekiest blogs buzz with excitement whenever there's news about the new
Star Trek movie. Yes,
that includes us. The film sounds cool and all, but I think the biggest reaction I have had is when I silently nodded with approval upon hearing that
Heroes' Zachary Quinto would be playing Spock. That is, until now.
Variety is reporting that
Shaun of the Dead and
Hot Fuzz star Simon Pegg is going to play Scotty in the upcoming feature. Simon Pegg! Insert obligatory "beam him up" joke here.
Continue reading Simon Pegg and Star Trek to make sweet geeky love
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