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.

Previously in Star Trek Into Darkness

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.

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. 

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.)

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.

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)

Previously in Star Trek

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.

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?

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).

Well, it’s a great day to be the author of a lost Star Trek episode. Not long ago, we told you about Norman Spinrad, a writer on Star Trek: The Original Series who was commissioned by Gene Roddenberry to write a script that would provide a comeback opportunity for Milton Berle. It was never made, and Spinrad thought it was lost forever until a fan approached him with a copy of it. Now, 45 years later, the fan-produced web series, Star Trek: Phase II, has announced that they’ll be shooting Spinrad’s script, and the writer has a new actor in mind to play the role meant for Berle — William Shatner.