In a move sure to delight Star Trek fans who are also NASA fans, NASA’s crew poster for Shuttle Mission STS-134 is based on a Star Trek XI poster.
STS-134, the last shuttle mission, is due to launch July 29, 2010, at 7:51 A.M. EDT. On board will be Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Gregory H. Johnson, [...]

Michael Giacchino (Star Trek XI) will compose the music for John Carter of Mars, the new Andrew Stanton (Wall-E, Finding Nemo) film based on the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Fresh off his Oscar win for Pixar’s Up, Giacchino will score John Carter of Mars, which takes place on the “Red Planet” where Civil War veteran [...]

Fans looking forward to the third installment of the Harold and Kumar series, with John Cho as Harold Lee, will be pleased to hear that the film may release this holiday season.
Plan calls for filming on A Very Harold & Kumar to begin in June. A director is still needed, and it is not known [...]

Leonard Nimoy, best-known to Star Trek fans as the original Spock, will attend ten different conventions this year, but then will retire from the convention circuit.
“I think this is the last year I will do this,” he said. “It’s exciting, but I think I’ve done enough of it. I’m looking forward to concentrating on my [...]

The three-person makeup crew for Star Trek XI were nominated for an Oscar for their work, but are quick to point out that it took more than just the three of them to create the species, old and new, which appeared in Star Trek XI.
During a Saturday afternoon symposium featuring the Oscar-nominated hair and makeup [...]

Tomorrow, the 82nd Annual Academy Awards will be held and Star Trek fans wait to see if one of the four nominations for the J.J. Abrams film will strike Oscar gold.
While most Oscar fans will be waiting to see whether Avatar or The Hurt Locker will walk away with Best Picture honors, Trek fans are [...]

Mission: Impossible IV will be a jet-setting movie, says J.J. Abrams.
Abrams and Tom Cruise plan to set the newest Mission: Impossible movie all over the world, Abrams revealed while speaking at the Oscar Wilde: Honoring the Irish In Film pre-Academy Awards party in Los Angeles last night.

Rachel Nichols, Star Trek XI’s Orion Gaila, will be joining Marcus Nispel’s Conan.
Nichols, who played Scarlett in last year’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, joins fellow G.I. Joe actor Leo Howard, who played Young Snake Eyes. Howard has been cast as Young Conan.

Michael Giacchino had a productive 2009 and is reaping the rewards of having composed music for Star Trek XI, UP and Lost, while looking ahead to future projects.
Giacchino has already won two Grammys, as well as a Golden Globe for his work in Up. He has been nominated for an Oscar as well for Music [...]

Composer Michael Giacchino, nominated for seven International Film Music Critics Association Awards, walks away with multiple awards for his work on Star Trek XI and Up.
The IFMCA announced a list of winners of its 2009 awards, and Giacchino won four of the seven awards for which he was nominated.

IDW Publishing’s Star Trek XI movie adaptation comic mini-series will arrive in stores on Wednesday.
The adaptation of last year’s Star Trek movie will include deleted scenes, a preview of which can be seen at io9, as well as brand-new material.

While no match for the Avatar juggernaut, J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek still received six nominations for the Saturn Awards today.
According to the full list of nominations posted on the SF Site, Star Trek was nominated as Best Science Fiction Film, while both director J.J. Abrams and writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci were nominated in [...]

Making a movie like Star Trek XI believable meant overcoming different challenges and being creative.
Visual Effects Supervisors Roger Guyett and Russell Earl explained some of what had to be done to create the magic for Star Trek XI.

Barney Burman, nominated for an 2010 Academy Award for his make-up work on Star Trek XI explained how he got the needed make-up work done for Star Trek XI in a short time frame.
Burman had worked with J.J. Abrams before on Mission: Impossible 3 and when filming began on Star Trek XI, he let Abrams [...]

A tip from someone “within the Paramount hierarchy” claims that Chris Pine is on the short list to play Captain America.
Captain America first appeared in Timely Comics in March of 1941. The alter ego of Steve Rogers, Captain America’s powers were the result of an enhancement due to an experimental serum. Originally, Captain America assisted [...]