Star Trek turns 42.5 years old just two months before its eleventh film is released. Let's look back at the show's history & impact, then watch the new trailer.
Tag: George Takei
Heroes Redux
The second season of Heroes, NBC's superpowered superhero drama, is a fun if somewhat hackneyed follow-up to the series' blockbuster debut season.
Some Secrets Are Worth Keeping
It's already two-week-old news that Secret Talents of the Stars was cancelled after one show. But it was just today that I found this commercial for the show: Given the hindsight that the show was canned, I thought this commercial was a postmortem spoof; but given that it was uploaded to the official YouTube channel…
Of Gods and Men
A recent article on CNN.com reminded me that the Web holds a bounty of fan films based on the various Star Trek properties. This wasn't necessarily news to me: I'd once tried watching an episode of New Voyages, which aims to continue the five-year mission of the original Enterprise, but couldn't get past the recasting…
Back to the Future
It was ten years ago that I first became aware of The Daily Show with Craig Kilborn. The political commentary and satire that are the show's hallmarks provided welcome relief from the doom and gloom of daily newspapers and evening news. The show lasted only a short time with its first host but has enjoyed…
To Boldly Go…
The answer to my question about the future of Star Trek has come sooner than I'd like… and I'm not sure what to make of it. One of my last posts on the original Showbits board was about George Takei's interview wherein he proposed reviving TOS as an animated series. Enough of the original actors…