The Final Frontier
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sallie Baliunas Talk About Science and Star Trek
by Susana Polo | 9:31 am, May 24th, 2013
Okay, so it’s four years old. There’s no expiration date on science.
(via io9.)
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by Susana Polo | 9:31 am, May 24th, 2013
Okay, so it’s four years old. There’s no expiration date on science.
(via io9.)
by Susana Polo | 12:13 pm, April 16th, 2013
Kirk is sorry, things are exploding, there’s a dark space ship, and war and stuff.
This is what happens when you don’t use punctuation, people.
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by Susana Polo | 3:30 pm, April 8th, 2013
Some of these pictures we’ve seen before,and some we haven’t, but Paramount has released a large batch of images in big resolutions, so there’s something in here for everybody. And remember, cadets: always microchip your captured villains. You never know when one of them’s going to get out of the patented VillainKeep glass box.
READ MOREby Jill Pantozzi | 2:45 pm, April 2nd, 2013
We’re still mostly in the dark about Benedict Cumberbatch’s role in Star Trek Into Darkness , and that’s how some would prefer it but a recent interview, writer Roberto Orci revealed something interesting. Or so we think.
READ MOREby Susana Polo | 9:33 am, March 11th, 2013
Josh Millard wrote a version of Taylor Swift‘s “Trouble” to retell the classic Star Trek episode “The Trouble With Tribbles.” And it counts as a Monday Cute because Tribbles. Which are cute.
(If you’d like to hear the song this is based on, in the interest of seeking out new life and civilizations, it’s right here.)
(via io9.)
by Rebecca Pahle | 11:47 am, September 18th, 2012
Well, we already have communicators and hyposprays; Microsoft is working on the Holodeck; and now it looks like humanity might invent the warp drive in the (probably still not very near) future.
READ MOREby Jill Pantozzi | 9:30 am, June 21st, 2012
Star Trek Alternate Title Intro from The Quintek Group on Vimeo.
You probably know about Star Trek: The Animated Series but this is something quite different. “This animation is an homage to one of the most groundbreaking sci-fi television shows ever to beam down to Earth,” writes The Quintek Group, “Our goal was to try and capture the essence of what we found most enjoyable from the series for building this faux opening to this classic show.” It’s short of course because the original opening was short but the team did a great job producing really cool images.
(via Geeks Are Sexy)
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by Jamie Frevele | 2:31 pm, May 13th, 2012
The astronaut pictured above with the glorious mane is Marsha Ivins, who worked for NASA for 36 years and flew on five shuttle missions before leaving the agency. Normally, her hair falls like regular hair, however in the picture above, she and her hair are in zero gravity. It’s quite a sight to behold, the subject of many a giggle, even at NASA. However, when those pictures were made public, industrial safety engineers who didn’t work for the agency expressed some concern about the hazards of long tresses in zero gravity. NASA issued a memo, then its astronauts wore … bald caps.
READ MOREby Jamie Frevele | 2:55 pm, April 3rd, 2012
Besides the fact alone that it was a great movie with a great cast and a great story, one of the things that gave J.J. Abrams‘ Star Trek that extra dose of credibility was the appearance of the original Mr. Spock, Leonard Nimoy, reprising his role from the original series. Now that Abrams is working on its sequel, fans have been wondering if a similar storyline will be involved and we’ll see another cameo from another cast member from the original series. But the original Sulu, George Takei, doesn’t seem to think this is the case, saying that there has been a “policy decision” not to do that anymore.
But what about from the another Star Trek series?
READ MOREby Jamie Frevele | 2:03 pm, March 21st, 2012
One of the trademarks of Nichelle Nichols‘ Lt. Uhura on Star Trek: The Original Series was not just her skill and authority, but her miniskirt. We know it was an attempt by NBC suits to “sex up” the show a bit (the women in the pilot wore the same uniforms as the men, which was Gene Roddenberry‘s idea). Then again, it was the 1960s, and women wore miniskirts in their everyday lives. Said Nichols herself when questioned about the leg-revealing attire: “I was wearing them on the street. What’s wrong with wearing them in the air? I wore ‘em on airplanes. It was the era of the miniskirt. Everybody wore miniskirts.” But while we got a version of the Starfleet dress in J.J. Abrams‘ 2009 Star Trek reboot, has the director done away with it completely for the sequel? That’s what some are thinking after new pictures from behind the scenes appeared this week. Even though we totally saw a picture from the set of Star Trek 2 with Zoe Saldana in a dress (even though Abrams didn’t want us to).