It was the TV show that made many of us want to buy a telescope, so it’s only fitting that the cast of Star Trek celebrate their DVD release of the new movie at the famous Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
Director J.J. Abrams was joined by stars Zachary Quinto (“Spock”), Leonard Nimoy (“Spock Prime”), Zoe Saldana (“Uhura”), Karl Urban (“Bones”), John Cho (“Sulu”), Bruce Greenwood (“Capt. Christopher Pike”), Jennifer Morrison (“Winona Kirk”), Clifton Collins (“Ayel”), Faran Tahir (“Captain Robau”), Jacob Kogan (“Young Spock”) and Jimmy Bennett (“Young Kirk”).

Jaime Campbell Bower is an actor with a few interesting roles on the horizon. Next week you’ll see him as Caius, one of the vampire elite in Twilight: New Moon. Next year you’ll see him as the dark and dangerous Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. But this weekend you’ll get to see him in his most unusual role yet — that of Number 11-12, son of Number Two in the AMC remake of the cult TV series The Prisoner.
London-born Jaime has been jetting his way around the world these past few months, working and doing press …read more

Still looking for the perfect gift for the scifi fan in your life (or to put on your own holiday list)? How about a pair of nifty new Star Trek inspired sneakers?
These exclusive STPL x Airwalk™ Star Trek shoes come from New York-based designer jeffstaple and are available in three colors, red, blue and gold, inspired by Starfleet uniforms worn by the Starship Enterprise crew in the classic television series and the new film.
The style is available in men’s sizes 6.5-13 and features the Star Trek insignia embroidered on the back of the shoe and a plastic version of the …read more

Geek Blips is a blog aggregator for all kinds of geeky news from comics to movies, TV and video games.  Last week, I joined a half dozen other scifi bloggers at the site for a discussion about our favorite scifi gadgets and here’s what we all had to say.
Turning Sci Fi Fantasies into Reality
Science Fiction is about imagination. Sure, today it might not be possible to travel at the speed of light or zap yourself to another planet with the push of a button, but who doesn’t dream about it? We wanted to find out what high-tech gadgetry other geeks …read more

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