It was on my bucket list. Like so many things on my bucket list, I had put it off. I was too busy with other things, I had too much work to do, I couldn’t put aside the time to…
At a loss for words right now, but I would be remiss to not express my profound grief at the loss of the wonderful actor director and writer Leonard Nimoy. The last time I was this affected by the loss…
I should be taking a victory lap. Roberto Orci, the writer/producer, has apparently been kicked off Star Trek 3 – a movie he was originally signed to both co-write and direct. Me and Mr. Orci, well… we have a history.…
This ad for Gene Roddenberry’s company Lincoln Enterprises makes me drool. Look at all that classic Trek goodness! I’d still love to own that Enterprise Evolution poster or the 3-D Enterprise gold pendant. (In case you did not know, Lincoln…
This is a real cool one. In 1978, when they were filming Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the production designer put together an “instruction manual” of the Enterprise bridge for the actors. Yes, the actors had actual guidance as to what buttons…
Blatantly ripped off from Drew McWeeney at HitFix, earlier this year I started doing a Star Trek “party game” with some of my Trek fan friends. The premise is simple: If you were “Trek God” like Q and could take…
I had great fun at the recent Star Trek Las Vegas convention giving people printouts of scans of some classic Star Trek coloring books. The reactions were priceless, because some of these coloring book pages were… well, INSANE. Here’s a sampling! Print…
It’s another time-wasting project from yours truly! Geek Ephemera (aka GeekEphemera.com) will collect the odd, the weird, and the stuff that was never designed to last. Coloring books! TV ads! Posters! Other oddness! You’ll see it here, thanks to my…
After I wrote my rant about Creation and the Star Trek Las Vegas convention last night, I got an anonymous e-mail from a volunteer at the convention: I created this email anonymously to remark on your Creation blog post. It…
I’m kinda done with Creation Entertainment. Creation runs the official Star Trek conventions, the biggest of which I just attended in Las Vegas. This is the fifth Vegas con I have attending, and almost certainly it will be the last.…
The official Star Trek convention in Las Vegas is less than two weeks away, and as someone who has attended the convention four times now (!), I thought I’d share some hints and tips I’ve learned over the years. (A…
There’s a lot of stuff to watch out there. And when I state a “lot”, I mean a LOT. If you look at the Entertainment section that is in your typical Target or Wal-Mart, there are tens of thousands of…
As a Star Trek fan, I have read a lot of articles and books about Gene Roddenberry. Roddenberry, who (as most know)created the show, is often portrayed as a saintly figure… a visionary and brilliant storyteller with great optimism and…
As you may see from some of my other posts, I’m kind of a Star Trek fan, and have been one most of my life. I grew up on reruns of the original series and over the years have watched…
I’ll be attending the Official Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this summer, and while I am there me and my peeps will be doing an “UnKhan”! What’s an UnKhan? It’s an in-person and online unconvention that broadens the conversation and the…
This is a pretty big weekend for fanboys (and girls): Free Comic Book day is tomorrow, and Star Wars Day is Sunday. Well, Star Trek fans decided to participate in Geek Weekend early, by using and promoting the hashtag #StopOrci2014…