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Star Trek Federation: The First 150 Years

A new book is due out this year that will chronicle the first one-hundred-and-fifty years of the United Federation of Planets.

Star Trek Federation: The First 150 Years was written by David A. Goodman, and features illustrations by Joe Corroney, Mark McHaley, Cat Staggs and Jeff Carlisle.

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15th May 2012 by T'Bonz

Luckinbill: Nimoy Wanted Another Role In Star Trek V

If things had gone his way, Leonard Nimoy would have had two roles in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

Luckinbill played the older Vulcan half-brother of Spock who was on the hunt for Sha Ka Ree and God.

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15th May 2012 by T'Bonz

New Trek Poster And Sticker Pack Released

Fans of the shuttlecraft Galileo 7 seen in the original series Galileo Seven episode will be pleased with the release of a new poster and a sticker pack featuring the iconic shuttlecraft.

The poster and the sticker pack was designed and illustrated by artist Steve Thomas.

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14th May 2012 by T'Bonz

New Fresh Hell Webisode Debuts

In The Birthday Party, a new episode of Fresh Hell, Brent Spiner is reduced to playing a familiar Star Trek character in hopes of obtaining a better role.

In Fresh Hell, Spiner plays a character who wants nothing more than to return to acting and to earn back respect, but both “The Incident” (an unmentioned faux pas that caused his fall from grace), and his most famous role as Data keep getting in the way of that goal.

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14th May 2012 by T'Bonz

New Baby For Hemsworth

Chris Hemsworth, best-known to Star Trek fans as George Kirk in Star Trek XI, has become a father.

Hemsworth and wife Elsa Pataky welcomed a daughter into their lives last Friday.

The little girl, named India Rose, is the first child for the couple, who were married in 2010.

14th May 2012 by T'Bonz

Retro Review: Rivals

A sexy grifter arrives on Deep Space Nine and opens a bar to rival Quark’s, but his games wreak havoc on the station.

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11th May 2012 by Michelle

Retro Trek T-shirts To Debut In Oz

Australian retailer Totally Irreverent will be offering a brand-new line of Star Trek-themed t-shirts.

The t-shirts, five in all, will be offered beginning tomorrow.

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11th May 2012 by T'Bonz

Stewart To Race For Charity

Sir Patrick Stewart will be taking part in a celebrity racing event in July.

The Grand Prix Silverstone Classic weekend on July 21 will feature Stewart and other celebrities such as Brendan Cole, Chef Heston Blumenthal, Brian Johnson, Tony Hirst, Chemmy Alcott and ex-England footballer Steve Bull.

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11th May 2012 by T'Bonz

Quinto In Invitation

Zachary Quinto will be on a set shooting a new movie this summer.

The movie is Invitation, starring Luke Wilson and directed by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight).

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11th May 2012 by T'Bonz

The six best Star Trek starship swan songs

With the likes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine taking out starships by the dozen, there’s no shortage of great starships biting the dust in Star Trek.

But here’s what I think are the most memorable six…

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11th May 2012 by AntonyF

First Look At Star Trek Kre-O Figures

Next year, Hasbro will be making Star Trek toys, and one of those toy lines will be the Lego-like KRE-O Star Trek figures.

The toy line will launch in support of the May 2013 release of Star Trek 2.

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10th May 2012 by T'Bonz

Saldana: Loving Her Thirties

Zoë Saldana recently attended the Cosmopolitan for Latinas party in New York City, in honor of the
launch of the new magazine, which arrived on newsstands earlier this month.

Saldana spoke about her life since her split with former fiancé Keith Britton last year. “The reality is, I have gotten this far because I don’t pay attention to anything but my heart and what I want to do,” she said. “And if it’s a hit today, or if it’s a miss tomorrow, seriously — no regrets because if I follow my heart I can never be wrong.”

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10th May 2012 by T'Bonz

Nimoy: Trek And Tweets

Not many octogenarians are on Facebook and Twitter, but Leonard Nimoy is, courtesy of his granddaughter Dani.

Like her grandfather, Dani is artistic and Nimoy’s Secret Selves photographs gave her an idea. “She was quite convinced that they’d look good on tee-shirts,” said Nimoy.

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10th May 2012 by T'Bonz

Fox Cancels Abrams Show

J.J. Abrams is batting one-for-two this week with the news that although his new show Revolution was picked up by NBC earlier this week, another show of his was axed by FOX.

Alcatraz was the story about inmates of the infamous prison who vanished in 1963 only to reappear in modern day San Francisco. The show was one of four canceled by FOX this week.

Low ratings did in Alcatraz, which launched with over ten million viewers in the age 18-49 demographics, but finished was less than half of that number.

10th May 2012 by T'Bonz

Mulgrew Filming New Movie

Star Trek: Voyager‘s Kate Mulgrew is currently working on a new film, Drawing Home.

Set in the 1920s, Drawing Home is the story of Catharine Robb, who falls in love with a young painter from the mountains of Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Mulgrew will be playing Edith Morse Robb, Catharine’s artistic mother.

Drawing Home is written by Donna Logan and Markus Rupprecht, directed by Rupprecht and produced by Margarethe Baillou and Allan Neuwirth. The movie will be released next year.

9th May 2012 by T'Bonz