Delayed Trek

Word came today that Paramount is delaying the new Star Trek film until May 2009. At the same time they say nothing is wrong with the film (as in it doesn’t need rewrites, or more time in post-production or anything like that), they merely feel it will gross more money in the [...]

Friday Geek Out: Star Trek: The Next Generation

September 28, 1987…Trekkies around the world huddled in front of their TVs to see if Star Trek: The Next Generation would live up to their expectations. Almost uniformly, that initial answer was no. That first episode, “Encounter at Farpoint” was a bit slow, a bit stiff and a bit disappointing. But the series quickly recovered [...]

Saturday Stuff

J.J.’s Trek: A bit of news came out this week about the casting for the reboot of the Star Trek movie franchise. It’s been known for a while now that J.J. Abrams, mastermind behind Alias and the best of the Mission: Impossible movies, is taking over the series with his eye on a December 2008 [...]