spocks mom-related stories
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 10th 2009 9:03AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Standout Episodes, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series

Today is Mother's Day, and while
J.J. Abrams' new big screen version of
Star Trek re-imagines the mythology of the Enterprise crew and vanquishes Spock's mother Amanda in an alternate time line, I prefer to remember Spock's mother the way she was on television. On the original
Star Trek episode that aired on November 17, 1967, "Journey to Babel," introduced Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan and his lovely human wife Amanda, when they boarded the Enterprise on a diplomatic mission. It was a shock to Captain Kirk to discover that the elegant older couple were not merely envoys, they were in fact, Spock's parents.
Continue reading Star Trek's Journey to Babel: Standout Episode for Mother's Day