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Rock, Paper, Scissors, Spock!

Cynthia — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:24:03 +0000

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.

Here’s George Takei giving it a shot along with Supermodel Heidi Klum. Below, Damon Wayans does his own version and Leonard Nimoy shows them how to do it right.

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Star Trek LA Premiere: The Old Guard

Cynthia — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:11:55 +0000

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.

Let’s begin the voyage with a look at the old guard, stars of Star Trek’s past beginning with Spock himself, Mr. Leonard Nimoy.

Next we have Mr. George Takei from the original series and the lovely Marina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Not Even Sulu’s Singing Could Save It

brian — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:35:20 +0000

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 low-rated airing. Maybe they should have gotten Uhura to reprise her dance routine from Star Trek V. No, they’d have canceled that in mid-broadcast.

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Beam Him Out of There, Scotty

brian — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:09:03 +0000

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.

Takei played it off well, reminding viewers he was “coming out” as a singer on this show. Takei wasn’t one of the two stars picked to advance, those honors going to Clint Black and Sasha Cohen. Black tried his hand at standup comedy and wasn’t too bad. Cohen showed her skills as a contortionist. Hey cheer up George, maybe William Shatner can get you into a Priceline commercial.

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