Recently, the proposed budget for NASA was announced and to the disappointment of many, Project Constellation, a six-year, nine billion dollar project which would have led men back to the moon, was not a part of future plans.

Star Trek designers Mike and Denise Okuda disagree with the new direction in the space program and have sent a letter to fans, encouraging them to write to President Obama and to their elected representatives in hopes of getting Project Constellation restored.

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The Star Trek Online team describes the parameters of the new MMORPG, released last week, for Star Trek Magazine readers.

The key to Star Trek: Online was figuring out what had happened to everyone’s favorite races, then deciding where to go from there.

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Klingon fans will enjoy the latest issue of the Star Trek Magazine, which features the warrior race.

In addition to the Klingons, Star Trek Magazine issue 24 will give readers “exclusive access” to the Star Trek DVD launch party with comments from some of the stars of the movie, and “Tribble Tweets,” a new way at looking at The Trouble with Tribbles.

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Members of the crew experience bizarre symptoms and have flashbacks of alien abductions.

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Star Trek XI Co-writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have added even more to their already full plates with word that they are taking on a product based on a comic series published by IDW Publishing.

The pair will work on an adaptation of Locke & Key, a comic series written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez. Locke & Key is set in the village of Lovecraft and is the story of the Locke family, who move to their estate (Keyhouse), after the murder of the head of the family by a deranged high school student.

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Star Trek: Online Executive Producer Craig Zinkievich spoke about future plans for the recently-released MMORPG.

If Star Trek: Online is embraced by gamers, expect to see such things as further “full-scale” releases/packs to complement the game in future. “Much will depend on the success of Star Trek Online,” said Zinkievich. “We would love for this game to do well, not just because it will earn us money, but because we’re all huge Star Trek fans.”

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Fans who want to go first class when it comes to their Star Trek uniforms get a peek at some prototypes.

Anovos Productions will be rolling out their new high-end Star Trek uniforms in mid-March, offering styles for both the original series and for Star Trek XI and UGO.com has some photos of the uniform tops and pants.

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For eager gamers, Star Trek: Online has officially launched in North America, with overseas launches to occur later this week.

According to a press release from Cryptic Studios and Atari, a million Star Trek fans have already created accounts at the official websites.

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Star Trek XI Co-writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have signed an exclusive three-year deal with 20th Century Fox.

Kurtzman and Orci will bring in show ideas, create their own projects (with or without others) and recruit writers as part of the deal.

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There will be no Star Trek: Nemesis reunion with the news that Patrick Stewart won’t be in the fourth Mad Max movie.

Rumor had it that Stewart would be working on Mad Max: Fury Road, possibly with Tom Hardy (Star Trek: Nemesis), as TrekToday and others reported recently, but Stewart’s publicist set the record straight, saying that the rumors were untrue.

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The list of ten movies nominated for Best Picture for this year’s Oscars does not include Star Trek XI.

To the surprise of many, who if not expecting a Star Trek XI Best Picture win expected the movie to be on the list of potential Best Pictures, Star Trek XI has to be content with its other four nominations for Oscars in other categories.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Patrick Stewart is not particularly interested in animated The Next Generation, but like several other Star Trek captains before him, would like a role in Star Trek XII.

Appearing at OzTrek2 in Australia this weekend, Stewart spoke about the J.J. Abrams sequel, saying that he really liked the work that Leonard Nimoy had done in Star Trek XI.

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Recently, Zachary Quinto mentioned working on other non-science fiction projects and rumor has it that one of those will be a Stephen Spielberg project.

The rumor mill has it that Quinto will play George Gershwin, the composer/pianist who with his brother Ira was responsible for a dozen Broadway musicals as well as popular songs. Gershwin died at the age of 38 of a malignant brain tumor.

According to the rumor, Dreamworks has provided a voice coach for Quinto to help with the Brooklyn accent. Gershwin was born in Brooklyn to Russian parents.

More information will be forthcoming as details emerge.

Composer Michael Giacchino, nominated for four Grammys for his work on Star Trek XI and Up, walks away with two at the end of the evening.

The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards were held this weekend, and Giacchino won two Grammys for his work on Up, the computer-animated adventure story about a seventy-eight-year old man who ties balloons to his house and sails away, accompanied by an eight-year-old boy scout stowaway.

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When the Enterprise crew discovers a Dyson Sphere, they also find the chief engineer from an earlier Enterprise suspended in transporter limbo.

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