Tag Archives: Star Trek

Texas Lottery Star Trek Launch Event with William Shatner

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The Texas Lottery will try to set a world record with the most people in Star Trek costumes at one event on March 30…

Fredric Brown is this year’s Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award honoree

The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award jury has determined that Fredric Brown is the classic author most deserving of renewed attention this year…

Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster To Continue Publishing Star Trek Novels

New titles covering Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s 25th Anniversary, construction of the Enterprise and notable quotables to hit retail this year…

Dying As No Redshirt Has Died Before—With Laughter

Michael Burstein enthusiastically recommends John Scalzi’s Redshirts, but he won’t tell you what it’s about…

Actor George Murdock Dies

Actor George Murdock (1930-2012) both needed and commanded starships in the Star Trek universe, lived on one in Battlestar Galactica, and investigated cops on Barney Miller

Harlan Ellison to appear at special Hollywood event tonight

TV Tuesdays presents The Other Glass Teat: More of Harlan Ellison on Television, with Harlan Ellison in a rare live appearance tonight…

Star Trek theme park coming to Jordan

Jordan’s royal Trekkie, King Abdullah II is one of the principle investors in a planned Star Trek theme park in Aqaba, set to open in 2014…

Theodore Sturgeon’s papers to be united at the University of Kansas

Theodore Sturgeon’s papers, previously held in two parts, are to be united at the University of Kansas’s Center for the Study of Science Fiction…

Triple Threat—J.D. Robb’s …In Death series

Our television reviewer takes on J.D. Robb’s near-future, dystopian, police-procedural, romance series, and finds it wanting, but with qualities to recommend it…

Actor William Campbell Dies

William Campbell (1926-2011) found lasting fame for a few guest-starring roles in Star Trek

Yoda trains the Terminator, and then this 17-year-old badass goes to town in Hanna

A haunting portrayal of a girl finding her way in an alien world turns into a kick-ass action flick…

2011 Scribe Award Nominees Announced

The Scribe Awards honor media tie-in writing. In their fifth year, the awards will be presented during the San Diego Comic-Con, and will include Grand Master honoree Peter David. Other nominees include…

The new characters are young and in Starfleet Academy, but The Delta Anomaly doesn’t get resolved

Very evocative of the new film franchise, but (as with that movie), not a very satisfying story…

Star Wreck in New York City

Finnish feature parody film Star Wreck will be screening at the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art in Manhattan on 13 July…

Script supervisor Robert Gary dies

Film and television script supervisor Robert Gary (1920-2010) worked on four Star Trek series…