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Friday Geek Out: 70s Sci-Fi Playsets

in Geek Out, TV

Things have been retro on the Friday Geek Outs the past couple weeks. Saturday cartoons led to Saturday morning educational interstitials and now Sci-Fi Playsets of the 70s, which were super cool. This seems especially appropriate since it is Black Friday and people will be toy shopping today. Back in the 70s, like today, shows [...]

Star Trek

in Movies

Wow! J.J. Abrams brought the Star Trek franchise back from the dead in a huge way. Let’s face it, the past few years have not been kind to Trek. Enterprise was kinda dull and a show I could not embrace. And, while I enjoyed the last big screen outing, 2002′s Star Trek: Nemesis, most people [...]

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Boldly Go… Again

in Life in General, Movies

Back in November I wrote about working on a Star Trek sweepstakes and I’ve just completed another one. The prizes are great: a trip for four to the Star Trek movie premiere in May and a trip for four to take a Zero Gravity flight. Pretty cool, right? If you’d like to enter, go to [...]

Boldly Go…

in Life in General, Movies

Just as I finished up the Monopoly promotion this month, I got a project that plays right into things I like a lot. Intel is already starting up the promotion machine for next May’s Star Trek film (check out the very cool Starfleet Shipyard at boldlygo.intel.com site). I got to project manage the sweepstakes protion [...]

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Delayed Trek

in Movies

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 summer rather than [...]

Friday Geek Out: Star Trek: The Next Generation

in Geek Out, TV

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

in Books, Current Events, LGBT Issues, New York, Theatre

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 [...]