Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto arrived in Australia on Monday to attend the April 7th World Premiere of Star Trek XI.

As reported by Just Jared.com, the two Star Trek XI leads were spotted recently in a Sydney park having a bit of exercise as shown in photos located here. (more…)

For those fans who can’t attend the Star Trek XI premiere in Sydney, Australia, they can follow live coverage of the premiere using social media. Fans may also submit questions to film-makers via Twitter.

As reported by Picture Production Company, the premiere of Star Trek XI takes place Tuesday, April 7th at the Sydney Opera house. PPC Interactive will have a team of bloggers to bring live coverage to fans all over the world, using social media such as Twitter, Ustream, Flickr and Phreadz.
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A short Star Trek XI TV commercial has begun to air this week and offers some new scenes as well as augmenting previously-seen items.

As reported by TrekMovie.com, the thirty-second long commercial shows a bit more of some scenes to fans. The bar fight scene begins with shot of the bar from a distance and shows a Starfleet Academy cadet confronting Kirk before the fight begins. (more…)

It’s sometimes said that “Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” The Caterer, starring LeVar Burton, will explore that certainty of death, by finding the right death for each person and not just leaving it to chance.

As reported by The Caterer, Burton, best-known to Star Trek: The Next Generation fans for his role of Geordi La Forge, will be starring in The Caterer as a man who sells people their “appropriate deaths.” (more…)

Some people know from their earliest days that they want to act, but for Connor Trinneer, it was more a matter of facing reality and then deciding what he wanted to do with his life.

As reported by Jonja.net, Trinneer made his choice after realizing that the NFL wasn’t in his future. “I wasn’t going to go pro,” he said, realizing that his years of football would end soon. “I needed to find something that frankly I wanted to do with myself. I didn’t have a major or anything. I was kind of treading water at that time.” (more…)

The odds are slim for a Quantum Leap movie, says Scott Bakula, who played Sam Beckett for five seasons on the time-jumping show.

As reported by Sci Fi Wire, speaking to Quantum Leap fans at “Leap Back,” a convention held in North Hollywood, California last week, Bakula explained why a Quantum Leap movie is probably not in the cards. “I think each day it becomes slimmer and slimmer, certainly for Dean [Stockwell] and I to be a part of [a Quantum Leap movie,] said Bakula. “But I think [Series Creator Don Bellisario] simplified the situation. There are all kinds of rights issues that are looming and problematic. It’s not as simple as Don wants to get some money together and make the movie. …[But] you never know.” (more…)

Looking like a certain Vulcan made it tough to blend in with the humans on planet Earth for Zachary Quinto.

As reported by The Sydney Morning Herald, the things that Quinto had done to himself to turn into the pointy-eared Vulcan couldn’t all be undone at the end of each shooting day. “Having to shave [the eyebrows] every day, having my hair in this horrible bowl cut, I felt sort of alienated from myself and alienated from other people,” said Quinto. “I never went out of the house without big chunky glasses on, and a hat. I tended to isolate a lot more during the process of the film.” (more…)

IDW announced that Spock: Reflections, a new Star Trek XI comic book featuring Spock as played by Zachary Quinto, will hit store shelves this July.

As reported at Andrew Steven Harris’ blog, Spock: Reflections, written by Scott and David Tipton, with artwork by David Messina, will be set in the post-Star Trek XI timeline.

IDW’s Editor-in-Chief, Chris Ryall, has posted a small sample of the artwork that will be in Spock: Reflections, as seen in his blog located here.

To read more, head to the article located here.

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Star Trek: Online has updated their history section, adding a history section for the year 2386.

As reported by Star Trek: Online, a new openness on Romulus makes information gathering easier for the Federation, but with that new information comes the realization that there are problems in the Romulan Empire. (more…)

Zachary Quinto has opened an official website, where fans of Star Trek XI and Heroes can stay up-to-date on the activities the actor who plays Spock and Sylar.

As reported by ZacharyQuinto.com, fans interested in the happenings of Quinto can head to his official website, which debuted today. (more…)

More Star Trek toy releases have been announced, with toys including action figures, starships, and Star Trek command chairs.

As reported by TrekMovie.com, more choices than ever are being offered to Star Trek fans who enjoy collecting merchandise associated with Star Trek and its spin-off shows and movies. (more…)

Star Trek fans now have a chance to own a six-foot-tall wax figure of Captain Kirk and/or Mr. Spock.

As reported by MarketWatch, the Hollywood Wax Museum will be offering hand-sculpted wax figures, including several Star Trek characters, in an auction by Profiles in History on May 1. (more…)

Actors from several Star Trek series and movies have been cast in new roles or are appearing in shows, movies or at conventions.

As reported by JoBlo, Zoe Saldana (Star Trek XI‘s Uhura) has joined the cast of The Losers, where she will play the sole female “loser,” the cold-blooded killer Aisha. The Losers is about a Special Forces team, who have been set up and betrayed by their handler Max, and are out for revenge and to get their names off of a CIA death list. The Losers is based on the DC/Vertigo comic series which ran from 2003-2006.

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Three different competitions and sweepstakes are being offered by Rock Band and Paramount; including a sweepstakes, an online “band battle,” and an avatar design contest, with Star Trek XI and Rock Band-related prizes for the winners.

As reported by Rock Band, starting today, fans can enter a sweepstakes to win Rock Band Music Store downloads for the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360 and PlayStation Store for PlayStation3. Five hundred free downloads will be offered daily from April 7 through April 15.
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It took a comment by Chris Pine‘s sister to get him to see that playing James T. Kirk would be better than accepting a role in White Jazz.

As reported by Variety, Pine was offered the roles for White Jazz and Star Trek XI at the same time, but he was leaning towards the former. “It was not a no-brainer,” said Pine. “This wild, sociopathic, obsessive-compulsive, latently homosexual, angry young man sounded like a blast. It was just a fun-fun-fun character role. Then I had Jim Kirk, more of the Harrison Ford versus the Gary Oldman role. My natural inclination is to do the character piece.”
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