Captain Kavok heard there was an unexpected party! And lo, there came an excuse to affix both “The Third Age” and “United Federation of Planets” tags upon a single post: Paramount Pictures will release the first nine minutes from J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness on 500 IMAX 3D screens beginning December 14 on runs […]
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More New Music from the Memories
Golly, I sure do like the Memories. The Portland band’s junkpop seems so simple and guileless, but those tunes have a way of creeping into your head, laying some eggs, and generating little larvae that takes over your entire brain. Here’s their sloppy new video, shot on the Springwater Corridor and the Willamette River. Like […]
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Trust Me, I Feel As Bad About Posting This As You Will Feel About Watching It
So J.J. Abrams showed the first footage from Star Trek: The Wrath of Benedict Cumberbatch last night.
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I Am Excited. Breasts, Midnight Snack, Starfleet, Buttocks. I Love You. Yes.
GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN. That’s a whole lot of hard work from a whole lot of nerds. Time well spent? Questionable. Elevator Guinan freaks my shit out.
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Dubstep Shatner: It Exists
Last night, William Shatner alerted his Twitter followers that something magical was about to happen: Via Because I am a masochist with no self respect, today I went looking for this “new dub step song” Shatner tweeted of. Which means I soon found myself on dubster.co.uk, and oh god what has my life become. There. […]
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WEREWORF!
MICHAEL DORN I would pay good money to see a Klingon mud wrestling match. Just saying. Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star Michael Dorn has had an interesting year. To recap: 1. He announced he’d written a “fucking great” Star Trek movie for himself to star in, in which […]
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POLL: What Is the Correct Pronunciation of Star Trek Into Darkness? Plus: A CONTEST!
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS The cast of Star Trek reacts to the phrase “Star Trek Into Darkness.” Okay, so: Paramount Pictures has firmed up the title Star Trek Into Darkness for the J.J. Abrams sequel that brings back Chris Pine and the rest of his Trek cast. The Paramount/Skydance film will be released May 17, […]
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I’m Legally Obligated to Post This
Steve just barged up to my desk and was all “SO FINALLY THERE’S SOMETHING NERDY THAT’S ACTUALLY WORTH POSTING AND YOU HAVEN’T POSTED IT YET? YOU’RE FIRED.” So here’s this, I guess. (What’s that? Wasting your life on the internet has withered your attention span to the point where you can’t even make it through […]
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Trek in the Park: Your Unofficial Tips ‘n’ Tricks Player’s Guide!
photo by Kenna Conklin The full cast of Trek in the Park: Journey to Babel So, you’re thinking of attending the nationally-recognized theater phenomenon that is Trek in the Park, produced by Atomic Arts, but you’re a little daunted at the prospect of driving out to St. Johns, and navigating the crowd of thousands who […]
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BREAKING: I Have a New Favorite Character on Star Trek: The Next Generation
OKAY, THIS POST IS KIND OF A TRICK. This week I interviewed Zachary, the local author of A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a zine that is amazing and hilarious and sad and something that everyone should read. If you read the above headline and didn’t immediately skip to […]
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Let’s See How Riker and Worf Are Doing
1. Riker via 2. Worf via 3. I guess this means Worf Versus the Space Terrorists isn’t happening 🙁
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All the LeVar Burton News That’s Fit to Print: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 Edition
LeVAR BURTON NEWS ITEM #1: via LeVAR BURTON NEWS ITEM #2: via