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Fans who haven’t yet picked up their copy of Star Trek: Online, now’s the time to head to Amazon.com, where the MMORPG is the “deal of the day.”
Amazon is offering the standard game for $27.99, which is 46% less than the normal price. The Collector’s Edition is also on sale, for $47.99 instead of the usual $79.99.
The links for the sale can be found here and here.
9th March 2010 by T'Bonz | Comments Off
Family and friends gathered together Saturday to celebrate the life of Andrew Koenig, son of Walter (Chekov) and Judy Koenig.
Approximately one hundred loved ones joined the Koenig family at the Inn of the Seventh Ray in Topanga Canyon, California, for the private ceremony.
9th March 2010 by T'Bonz | Comments Off
William Shatner is the spokesperson for a new Sci-Fi social network called MyOuterSpace.
MyOuterSpace seeks creative people with a passion for the arts, who are Sci-Fi, Horror or Fantasy fans, or who are looking for a career in those fields.
9th March 2010 by T'Bonz | Comments Off
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 artists for 2010, one of the three Star Trek XI makeup artists, Mindy Hall, makeup department head, spoke for the group. “We’re thrilled there were forty-plus makeup artists, twelve of which are out here today, who stood beside us. They weren’t behind us. They were beside us, taking the designs and bringing them to life.”
6th March 2010 by T'Bonz | Comments Off
Star Trek: Online, the new MMORPG released last month, has added a new Federation ship to its game.
The Trident, the latest science vessel, is well-equipped to chart distant star systems and to explore far from starbases.
6th March 2010 by T'Bonz | Comments Off
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 hoping that at the end of the night Star Trek will have laid claim to its first Oscar.
6th March 2010 by T'Bonz | Comments Off
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.
5th March 2010 by T'Bonz | Comments Off
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.
5th March 2010 by T'Bonz | Comments Off
Jeri Ryan, best known to Star Trek fans as Star Trek: Voyager’s Seven of Nine, has been cast in ABC’s Body of Evidence.
Body of Evidence features a “brilliant, tenacious” medical examiner, whose background as a neurosurgeon gives her a “unique and refreshing” crime-solving perspective, but puts her at odds with most of her colleagues. The main role has not been cast yet, but talks with Dana Delany (China Beach, Desperate Housewives) are ongoing.
Ryan, who has a recurring role on TNT’s Leverage, will play the city’s chief medical examiner, who is the boss of the main character of the show.
5th March 2010 by T'Bonz | Comments OffA ten minute behind-the-scenes “making of” documentary featurette reel for Star Trek: The Motion Picture has been posted to YouTube.
“Space, the final frontier. Gene Roddenberry invites you to go where few have gone before, behind the scenes of Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” says the narrator of featurette, before taking fans on a trip to the movie-making world of 1979.
5th March 2010 by T'Bonz | Comments Off
A scientist develops potentially sentient machines with which Data feels kinship.
5th March 2010 by Michelle | Comments Off
Sir Patrick Stewart has been made president of the Huddlesfield Town Terriers youth academy.
Stewart, a die-hard Terriers fan, will help the club raise the profile of its youth system.
4th March 2010 by T'Bonz | Comments Off
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 Original Score for his work in the animated Pixar film, going up against another composer known for his work on Star Trek, James Horner.
3rd March 2010 by T'Bonz | Comments Off
Two new Star Trek XI tie-in books aimed at young adults are scheduled for release on November 16, 2010.
The trade paperback-sized books, to cost $7.99, are the initial offerings in what promises to be a series of books, set in Starfleet Academy.
3rd March 2010 by T'Bonz | Comments Off
