On November 17th, Paramount Home Entertainment will release Star Trek on DVD & Blu-ray and all of the big DVD chains are fighting to earn your business. That’s good for you, except for one thing. With all these great retail exclusives, how will you choose just one?

**Best Buy – Collectible Gift Set with four pack of badge pins. (As seen in photo)
**Hollywood Video – Rent/Buy any Star Trek DVD and be entered to win an autographed poster of Uhura (Zoe Saldana).
**Transworld (FYE/Coconuts/Suncoast) – Collectible Steelbook packaging.

CBS and Mad Science, an educational company that runs science camps for kids, are teaming up to produce Star Trek Live.
This interactive stage show due to run at theme parks and performing arts centers across the country, takes the audience through Starfleet Academy training combining the entertainment value of Star Trek with real educational materials aimed at upping scientific literacy.
The show is said to have “cutting-edge special effects, unmatched audience interaction and an exploration of real space-age technology.” And Kirk and Spock are supposed to be there, too.
Mad Science’s Managing Director and producer Leonard Lipes says, “So much of the …read more

In director Roland Emmerich’s newest disaster film, the entire world comes to a cataclysmic end in the year 2012. The earth beneath our feet shifts, causing buildings to collapse and tidal waves to form, killing millions and leaving only a small percentage of the population struggling to escape on a limited number of ships built by the government for this very purpose.
It’s not like we didn’t now this was coming. We were warned and that’s not just a line from the movie. Here’s what the folks at National Geographic have to say about the truth beyond the legend.

Christian Kane, Riley Smith, Willa Ford from Friday the 13th — talk about six degrees of Jensen Ackles! Sadly, he’s the only one of the group NOT to be involved in the new sci-fi thriller Minuteman.
Minuteman revolves around Captain Lance Deakin (Riley Smith) who, after returning to civilian life as a Texas rancher, is attacked by members of his former Special Forces unit. Brainwashed by the military and turned into killing machines, Lance remembers their top secret missions in Iraq only as Minuteman, the hyper-violent video game they used to play while on tour. With Lance desperately trying to piece …read more

Couldn’t come up with the eighty-plus-thousand dollars to buy the full scale Transformer at the recent Profiles in History auction? Well, here’s a consolation prize. We’re giving away two Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen DVD prize packs courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment and one could be yours!
The prize pack includes the two-disc special edition DVD, a poster and a t-shirt so you can show the world that you’re a fan.
To enter, all you need to do is leave a comment on this post and we’d love it even more if you mentioned your favorite Transformers character from this movie or …read more

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen will hit stores on October 20th in both DVD & Blu-ray.
If you’re going Blu-ray, head over to Best Buy for their limited gift set which includes an exclusive Optimus Prime mini head replica and $50 gift card to sideshowcollectibles.com. Now that’s a nice bonus.
If you’re not into the whole experience, Amazon has the single-disc DVD version of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen for under $20.
The official Transformers website has some fun content in honor of the release including personalized phone calls from Optimus Prime/Starscream and the “Robotize Me” app.
Want to go behind the …read more

Though they were born in the sci fi niche, these five quotes have soared into the annals of pop culture history. They’ve been repeated, parodied and I’ll bet at least one of them was used to sell something on TV.
Here are my candidates for the top five scifi quotes to make it into the pop culture vernacular.
5. “The Truth is Out There”
Ever since Mulder and Scully gave us a glimpse into The X-Files, we’ve been determined to find the real truth about aliens, Bigfoot, Elvis and Lady Gaga. That single phrase has inspired millions to look beyond what is presented …read more

The photo you’re looking at — let’s call it the ultimate action figure. That is a photo of the 17 foot full-scale Bumblebee Robot from the Transformers movie and it’s going on the auction block on October 8 through Profiles in History.
The hero robot is expected to sell for $60,000 to $80,000 dollars (and that doesn’t include shipping!)
Here’s the bio on this beast:
Standing exactly 16 feet 10 7/8 inches tall and weighing 3200 pounds, this screen-used hero Bumblebee robot is an incredible feat of engineering craftsmanship.  Built by renowned special effects company FXperts, Inc. (a.k.a. John Frazier Special Effects), Bumblebee …read more

eFX is making a name for themselves in the prop replica game and now they’re taking on the mother of all scifi licenses, Star Trek.
I had the pleasure of meeting with these guys and seeing their work close up at the D23 Expo in Anaheim.  In addition to their Disney statuettes, they had a 1/48 scale Nautilus that made my husband drool. Great attention to detail and everything they do has this sense of hand-made craftsmanship.
Next on the list is the Mark IX Tricorder as seen in Star Trek: First Contact.
“For many of us, Star Trek was our introduction …read more

I am such a scifi geek that just seeing this picture makes me want to bow down and declare, “I am not worthy!” And that’s what might happen tomorrow when I stand before the actual prop — the real 11-foot Nautilus from Disney’s 1954 film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

It’s just one of a huge collection of classic props and costumes that will be on exhibit at the D23 convention in Anaheim this weekend.
D23 runs from September 10 to September 13 at the Anaheim Convention Center and it’s supposed to top Comic Con in its size and scope. Every aspect …read more