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

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

It’s time for the Scream Awards and several of our favorite sci-fi and paranormal shows have made the grade. Not our FAVORITE show, but we’ll forgive them since they did nominate Jensen Ackles’ My Bloody Valentine 3-D and Jared Padalecki’s Friday the 13th for Best Horror Movie. Jamie King was nominated for MBV 3-D but neither of the boys made the best actor cut. (I’m digging on that great Spanish poster with an actual cast photo on it! )
J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie got the most nominations, 17 in all including The Ultimate Scream, Best Science Fiction Movie, Best Director, …read more

First it was Rocketman, now William Shatner is taking on Sarah Palin’s final speech Beatnik style.

Yeah, it’s cliché but I couldn’t resist – it’s also true. The new Star Trek movie DVD, which will be released on November 17,  is going to have an interactive feature that has never been used on a DVD before. It’s so new, I’m not sure I even understand it.
According to Variety, the DVD packaging will be the key to unlocking an online hologram image of the starship Enterprise. You’ll log in to a special site, then hold your box art up to a webcam for access. Now, if they stopped there, I’d figure that the box is …read more

NASA astronaut Michael Barratt didn’t have to stand in line to see the new Star Trek movie when it premiered but he also didn’t get to snack on delicious movie popcorn either since he and his two cremates watched the movie while on board the International Space Station floating high above the earth.
Paramount Pictures transferred Star Trek to NASA’s Mission Control in Houston, which then uplinked the film to the space station on Thursday, May 14. Barratt planed to watch the film on a laptop computer inside the Unity module.
“I remember watching the original ‘Star Trek’ series and, like many …read more

The Late Show Top 10 Lines Never Before Said in a ‘Star Trek’ Film
[As presented by actor Leonard Nimoy on the Thursday, May 7 broadcast of the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, seen weeknights on CBS.]
10. Warp factor 8! Arby’s closes in 10 minutes.
9. We’re entering a breach in the space-time continuum or a wormhole or some crazy crap like that.
8. Set phasers to fabulous!
7. Welcome aboard the Starship …read more

Today’s the release day for that new set of Star Trek DVDs in both standard and Blu-Ray and both Best Buy and Hollywood Video are offering exclusives.
The items should be good on the purchase of any of the following; Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection, Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy, The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series or The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Hollywood Video / Movie Gallery is giving away a free poster featuring the original crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise!
Best Buy is offering an exclusive Klingon Bird-of-Prey Token for Star Trek Scene It? DVD …read more

Had enough Trek yet? Me neither.
Today, it’s a Chris Pine interview over at Parade.com. Here he is talking bromance and bad boy.
Kirk and Spock — the bromance
“It’s a relationship between two men that spend a lot of time together in space. It’s sort of like Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany in Master and Commander. It is very much a story about two men learning really to love one another, and in the end, they become fast friends. But, along the way they butt heads because they’re alpha males. They strongly believe in themselves.”
On making Kirk a bad boy…
“I definitely err …read more