Star Trek

The definitive history of the United Federation of Planets, the intergalactic democracy that governs the Star Trek universe – is one for the books, and now it is… a book. Written by David A. Goodman and featuring illustrations by Joe Corroney, Mark McHaley, Cat Staggs and Jeff Carlisle, Star Trek Federation: The First 150 Years will be released on November 20, 2012, by becker&m...

Laurence Luckinbill remembers Star Trek V: The Final Frontier – and the experience of playing Sybok in the William Shatner-directed feature – as if it were yesterday. The actor, in part one of an exclusive StarTrek.com interview, recounted his memories of landing, preparing for and actually playing the role. Today, in part two of our interview, Luckinbill shares with StarTrek.com hi...

Laurence Luckinbill played one of Star Trek’s most controversial characters in one of Star Trek’s most debate-worthy films, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. The actor co-starred as Sybok – Spock’s older, rogue, full-Vulcan half-brother, often dubbed “the laughing Vulcan” – who led Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise crew on an ill-fated quest for Sha Ka Ree ...

StarTrek.com, in our latest poll, asked readers “Which Trek series had the best first season?” Thousands of people replied. Check out the results and see if you were as surprised by them as we were. Voyager headed up the pack with 29%, followed closely by The Original Series at 27%, then The Next Generation (18%) and, finally, both Enterprise and Deep Space Nine, which statistically...

As early as when watching Star Trek: The Original Series as a teenager in Germany, I wondered about the purple and orange planets the crew seemed to be orbiting every other week. From my astronomy books, I knew that the planets in our Solar System were certainly interesting and colorful, but they didn’t have quite that sherbet-like coloring from Star Trek. Much later, while in astronomy g...

Bye Bye Robot is back with their latest Star Trek poster, “Enterprise Shuttle Service,” by famed illustrator Steve Thomas. Styled like the pre-war WPA posters of the 1930s, the poster depicts the planet-scape of Cestus III, familiar to fans of the TOS episode “Arena,” with the shuttlecraft Galileo sweeping over the planet’s craggy surface. Beckoning cadets to sign ...

Star Trek fans from across the globe are gearing up FedCon XXI, set to be held May 17-20 at the Hotel Maritim in Dusseldorf, Germany. An official Star Trek convention, FedCon will offer an array of actor and author appearances/panels, events, autograph opportunities and more. Among the confirmed Trek guests are:      William Shatner       ...

Totally Irreverent, a brand-new Australian retailer of retro tee-shirts, is about to enter the Star Trek game, making its presence felt with a quintet of colorful Trek tees that will be available in Australia starting tomorrow. The shirts include: a Khaki Shield Tee, Group Shot Tee, Spock Head Tee, Comic Cover Tee and, our personal favorite, the Vulcan Greeting Tee, with the phrase “Live ...

J.J. Abrams, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, Benedict Cumberbatch and the rest of the cast and crew of the Star Trek sequel have wrapped principal photography on the eagerly anticipated film. Though no official end-of-production release was released, actors Quinto and Pegg tweeted comments and photos to that effect. Pegg wrote, “Wind, reel and print. The countdown to...

Yesterday, in part one of our exclusive two-part interview with Leonard Nimoy, the Star Trek legend talked about his new line of tee-shirts, available in the StarTrek.com Store and on the site for his granddaughter’s company, Shop LLAP. He also discussed his newfound appreciation and semi-mastery of the Internet, his latest appearances on Fringe and the digital release of the Alien Voices...