While walking the red carpet for the recent Star Trek premiere in Los Angeles, several of the guests couldn’t resist flashing the universal symbol for ‘I’m a geek!’. Live long and prosper fellow Trekkies, I’d make the sign with you but that makes it too hard to type.
Here’s Heroes’ star Hayden Panettiere falshing the V along with Trek star Karl Urban.
 

Last night, you didn’t need a telescope to look at the stars. All you needed was a walk down Hollywood Blvd. It was the Los Angeles premiere of the new Star Trek movie at Grauman’s Chinese and the red carpet was full of sci fi luminaries. Original Trek stars, new Trek stars and plenty of your favorites from other sci fi shows were on hand for the celebration. There were so many great people there that we have to show you them in stages – kinda like the old-fashioned rockets we used to take to the moon.
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CBS has axed Secret Talents of the Stars after one airing. We got to see George Takei sing “On the Road Again” and Clint Black attempt standup comedy.
But sadly we’ll never see Ric Flair salsa dancing or Roy Jones Jr. rapping. Actually, I don’t think I’m sad about either of those things. Secret Talents drew a dismal 4.6 million viewers leading CBS to fill its timeslot with 48 HRS Mystery and new episodes of Shark starting April 29. Secret Talents joins a group including Fox reality show Anchorwoman and internet-born NBC flop Quarterlife, all getting the hook after a single …read more

Well, after the first Secret Talents of the Stars episode it’s clear that as a country singer, George Takei makes a great Starfleet lieutenant.
His rendition of Willie Nelson’s On the Road Again was quite painful and one judge’s comments probably got the network in hot water. Producer Gavin Polone called it the “Brokeback Mountain” version of the song, a not too veiled reference at Takei’s now well known sexual preference.