By Wolfen Moondaughter – I’ve had plenty of reservations since I first started hearing about this production, about the casting and about the screenplay writers, but I’m here to assure you that all of them have been laid to rest, now that I have actually seen the film. Sure, there was a lot of hype leading up to the release, but as far as I’m concerned, it lived up to it. Hell, exceeded it! This “Trek 2.0″, as much as I love the original, is so much better than the source material.
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by Sylvia Bond – Back in 1991, TV Guide ran a poll where they asked the question: If the world needed saving from “forces threatening to wipe out Earth,” which captain would you rather have come to the rescue, Kirk or Picard? Guess who won? Kirk did, hands down.
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By Brian Thompson – J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek hopes to bring in a new crowd. There are muscles and budgets and acting and lead performers who aren’t AARP members. Exciting! So it’s for these people, the slackjawed masses, that I present to you the current scientific thinking on faster-than-light travel. Sorry about the slackjawed masses comment, by the way. Like any true Trekkie, I disdain you only because I covet your love.
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By Lisa Fary – In high school, I got a book titled All I Really Need to Know, I Learned from Watching Star Trek. It should have been called All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek: TOS. However, there was one lesson that rang true: Life, unlike the Kobayashi Maru, is not a simulation.
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By Lisa Fary – Little did I know that my childhood whale obsession would lead me down a path of geekdom which would not be socially acceptable until adulthood.
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By Lisa Fary – My dad brought home our first brand new BetaMax player in 1983. My six year old heart wanted so badly for The Wizard of Oz to be the first movie played on it, but Mom and Dad had another idea. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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The Roddenberry family has planned a fitting memorial service for the late Gene and Majel.
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By Teresa Jusino
I love comics. You might have even noticed this. My taste is varied, and while I have certain books I read regularly, I often walk into the comic shop and pick up something I know nothing about just because it looks cool. I’m adventurous that way.
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By Adam Hunault
Hi, Trekkies! Whenever something interesting related to Star Trek happens, the wonderful editors of Pink Raygun let me put in my two cents because I’m the geekiest Trekkie they know (which is really saying something!).
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By Lisa Fary
I always get my hopes up about so many things coming up in the next year and 2009 is no different. From conventions to movies to a new president, this is what I’m most looking forward to in 2009:
By Lisa Fary
Why? In a world that suffers from the pox of the Star Wars prequels, why do the entertainment powers that be insist on producing not one, but two Battlestar Galactica prequels?
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by Adam Hunault
Recently I had the pleasure of attending the Star Trek books panel at New York Comic Con. I was fascinated as the editor and a few authors described what was to come in Star Trek fiction. In middle school I read close to a hundred of these paperback novels. Maybe I should check these books out again, I thought during the panel, and snapped up a free preview of the upcoming novels. I opened it to the first page of Star Trek: Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru, by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels (or possibly Christopher L. Bennett, the preview booklet credits both in different places). I immediately remembered why I don’t read Star Trek novels.
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By Josh Roessler and Juliana Weiss A friend of ours believes that any screenplay idea can be improved by adding zombies to the mix, so in honor of Zombie week, we thought we’d test the theory on some popular TV shows. Related Stuff:
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… TV production is starting again. Pink Raygun is updating the Fate of TV Shows After the Strike with post-strike premiere dates, season lengths, and cancellations. … On March 28th at 10 pm, the SciFi Channel will air two Battlestar Galactica specials: Battlestar Galactica: Revisited, which will fill in viewers on the last three seasons, [...]
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by Teresa Jusino For those of you who need more Star Trek in your diet… THE NEW STAR TREK MOVIE TEASER TRAILER IS OUT! This happy little Trekkie watched it with a friend on his laptop with the lights turned out and hooked up to his stereo speakers. We practically pissed ourselves with glee. Related [...]
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Enter a world where your favorite characters continue their on-screen stories at the hands – and keyboards – of fans. Where the stories aren’t controlled by a studio or a publisher. Where anything can happen, even Captain Kirk and Spock falling deeply in love. This is fanfiction and it’s lurking, waiting to change the way [...]
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We’re watching the search engine results that bring people to Pink Raygun – and we’ve seen a lot of people looking for Star Trek related pumpkin carving stencils. To kick things off, we’ve got carving templates for Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Bones, Uhura, Sulu and Chekov from Star Trek, The Original Series (TOS). Related Stuff:
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vs. Star Trek: Nemesis is a crapfest spectacular! What are the odds that our two worst movies would get matched up? If either of these movies went up against anything else in this tournament, both would be toast. As it is, no matter how this ends, a crappy movie is [...]
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