Star Trek

Many Star Trek fans have fantasized about traveling through the galaxy at warp speed in a starship of their very own. Luckily, there are manufacturers who are able to capture some of that excitement - even if it is just in miniature form. Since 2008, Round 2 has been producing Star Trek model kits under the AMT and Polar Lights brands. In most cases, long-lost classic kits have been brought bac...

StarTrek.com is pleased to introduce the newest member of our guest blogger family, Inge Heyer. A frequent convention guest, Heyer is an expert in physics and astronomy, as well as a Star Trek fan and former senior data analyst at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Below is her first "Strange New Worlds" blog feature. Having been part of fandom for over 40 years, the thought of plane...

Star Trek writer-producer Roberto Orci is on the hunt for Twitter followers and he's got a great lure for hooking people: the promise of behind-the-scenes photos from the upcoming Star Trek sequel. He's not posted any new shots yet, but as a taste of things possibly to come, he's posted behind-the-scenes shots from Star Trek (2009) today. There are shots of him, of J.J. Abrams, of the Star Trek...

He's got pale skin, yellow eyes and if you invite him to your wedding he may sing at the reception. He's Lt. Commander Data, android creation of Dr. Noonien Soong, and he's the heart-free heart of Star Trek: The Next Generation. At first blush, he may've seemed like an obvious proxy for The Original Series' Mr. Spock, but as portrayed by Brent Spiner, he very quickly defined Data as his own ch...

Nerf Herder has, to date, released six albums of pop punk music, scoring a minor hit with the song “Van Halen,” performing the theme song for TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and cementing their place in pop culture history with the cult-favorite song “Mr. Spock” and its accompanying video, both of which were released in 2002. The song is simple: it’s about a ma...

Star Trek Online, to celebrate its second anniversary and the launch of the Odyssey and Bortas classes, is throwing a flagship commissioning party that will start tomorrow, Feb. 2 – and everyone’s invited to join in the fun. The very special Reception Party on Earth Spacedock and Qo’noS will feature the participation of STO community manager Brandon Felczer, “Design the ...

Today is the day. We’ve been telling you about it for months and teasing it for almost as long with snippets of news and exclusive clips. Now, finally, Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Next Level is out for fans everywhere to enjoy, via CBS Home Entertainment. As you know, The Next Level is a sampler set heralding The Next Generation’s transition to Blu-ray, and it include...

Zoe Saldana beamed into Park City, Utah, last week to promote her latest movie, The Words, and, the Star Trek sequel inevitably came up in just about every interview she conducted. That makes perfect sense, of course, as Saldana had to briefly leave Los Angeles, where she’s shooting the Star Trek sequel, in which she reprises her role as Uhura, in order to chat up The Words. Speaking to ...

Two missions. Two crews – and a time-twisting crisis that spans centuries. That’s the essence of Star Trek: The Original Series – The Rings of Time, the new novel by Greg Cox. Set for release on Jan. 31 from Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books, The Rings of Time unfolds both in 2020 and on Stardate 7103.4. First, in 2020, Colonel Shaun Christopher and the crew of the U.S.S. Lewi...

It’s been at least 20 years since Sir Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby and Wil Wheaton all beamed down together for a joint appearance at an official Star Trek: The Next Generation event. But that’s about to change. The entire regular cast of TNG will reunite at the Calgary Comic & Entertainm...