Shatnertastic!
There can be no Kirk but Shatner! (via Bonnie.)
Speaking of, doesn’t the narrator for the original Star Wars trailer sound just like a very restrained Shatner? And were all movie trailers that bad in the 70’s?
Fresh fodder for the Sci-Fi Channel
The Sci-Fi Channel has picked up the rights to run Star Trek: Enterprise and several other canceled genre shows, including Kindred: The Embraced, Threshold, Wolf Lake, Haunted, and Jake 2.0. (Weren’t they already running Jake 2.0?) Also in on the deal are a pair of Stephen King miniseries, The Stand and The Langoliers.
For the win!
What does Picard do in his spare time, anyway? (Might be slightly NSFW, depending.)
JJ Abrams to resuscitate Trek?
Empire magazine reports that Paramount is giving Alias and Lost creator JJ Abrams “the keys of the Enterprise” for a feature film. He’s planning to do a prequel of sorts – Kirk and Spock at Starfleet Academy — and bringing on several regular collaborators. (via SF Signal)
In the beginning, there was Star Trek
The History Channel will be showing a documentary called How William Shatner Changed the World. Shatner will chat with researchers and innovators inspired by Star Trek.
Bridge to Engine Room: More popcorn!
A home theatre built to look like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise from the original series. Our favorite sci-fi home theatre even gets a namecheck (linkcheck?) under inspiration and concepts. (via Boing Boing)
Trek to the Troops
This is a neat idea – Trek to the Troops is an organization that wants to bring Star Trek personalities to U.S. troops overseas. They’re currently having a banner fundraiser. (via Slice of SciFi)
Tom Hanks to help revive Trek?
That’s the rumor, anyway: Paramount is considering a script by Erik Jendresen, who worked on the mini-series Band of Brothers. If there’s even a glimmer of truth to this, Hanks would be the biggest name to join the franchise since Patrick Stewart.
Sci-fi fans have issues letting go
The BBC finds that Star Trek, Buffy, The X-Files, and Stargate (isn’t that still on?) are among the ‘most-missed’ series.