Are the rumors that William Shatner made $600 million off Priceline stock true? Note exactly. He was paid in stock before, and now he is paid per commercial. Details from Celebrity Net Worth: Did Shatner Make $600 Million off Priceline?…
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How to fix Star Trek’s biggest problems
It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of the direction the latest Star Trek film, Into Darkness took the franchise. I won’t rehash my opinions here so, in summary: “big explosions plus weak characters and story” is not what…
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Is Star Trek 3… even going to happen?
I was chatting with a friend the other day and we started talking about the next Star Trek movie. “Well, they HAVE to release a Star Trek movie in 2016, it’s the 50th anniversary!” my friend said, as if it…
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VIDEO: The Star Trek Smithsonian Exhibit from 1992
In 1992 the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC featured a massive exhibit celebrating Star Trek – it showcased props, costumes and models from the show. I was able to travel to DC to check out the exhibit that year and was totally knocked out by it (though I still don’t like the details/hull lines they painted onto the big Enterprise model).
Through the magic of the Internet, I was able to find video someone took of the exhibit that they uploaded to YouTube. Here’s all 8 parts, set up in a playlist:
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In praise of Ernie Anderson
I’ve always been a fan of voice-over people. And I’m not talking about voice over actors… I’m talking about the people who do voice-over narration for TV show promotions and commercials (though some, like Maurice LaMarche, does both). The most…
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So, I wrote this article for TrekMovie…
It’s been a very interesting couple of weeks. When I wrote the editorial “Star Trek is Broken” for TrekMovie, I was expressing the opinion that many fans I knew had expressed to me – that Star Trek Into Darkness may…
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Star Trek is broken – here are ideas on how to fix it
Crosspost from http://www.trekmovie.com (and please check out the… interesting comments to this post there.) At last month’s official Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, I had the privilege to speak about “Treknology”. The experience was great – I was thrilled at the…
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Star Trek fans face appalling scavenger hunt with ‘Into Darkness’ blu-ray
Film requires multiple purchases for all bonus features Crosspost from http://www.1701news.com Paramount’s upcoming Blu-ray/DVD release of “Star Trek: Into Darkness” has more than two hours worth of extras, an in-depth audio commentary track and special-edition packaging. But to get the complete…
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Star Trek, after Darkness: What is next from the franchise?
A “cross-post” from http://trekmovie.com: Star Trek Into Darkness opened domestically and internationally late Spring and has earned over (as per July 7th) $443 million dollars. This is a success for Paramount, albeit a modest one. “Modest?” You may be thinking, “How…
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The human adventure is just beginning: How the optimistic future of Star Trek is more likely than we may think
“We are locally optimistic, and globally pessimistic.” That statement is a key point made in the book Abundance: the Future is Better than you think by Pete Diamandis and Steven Kotler. The quote is from one of the many people…
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Going where no Joe has gone before…
I’m proud to announce that I’m about to boldly go where I’ve never gone before… be a guest at a Star Trek convention. And not just ANY Star Trek convention, the big one… The Official Star Trek Convention in Las…
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Save the bridge! A behind the scenes look at the project to restore the Enterprise D bridge
Cross-post of an article I wrote for http://trekmovie.com: “Imagine being a Star Wars fan driving past Lucasfilm, and seeing the Millennium Falcon in a dumpster.” Would never happen, right? Well, it did. Only it wasn’t Star Wars, and it wasn’t that…
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More of me to love, now at TrekMovie.com and This Week in Star Trek!
Just a quick note to let the regular readers of ye’ ol’ blog know that I am now a regular contributor to TrekMovie.com. I’ve been a “friend” of that site for a couple of years now and so when one…
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Is there any record of litigation over someone making their own Star Trek items?
Well, there is some history of litigation in Star Trek, but it tends to not be Paramount vs. the Little Guy, it tends to be actors/writers against Paramount. Two examples: Leonard Nimoy sued Paramount for licensing moneys around his image…
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In praise of The Doomsday Machine (and William Windom)
A couple of weeks ago, I attended the official Star Trek convention in Las Vegas, and one of the panels I went to was to determine the top ten episode of the original series. It was a conference room that…
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Which is the better all-time show: The Twilight Zone or the original Star Trek series?
Love both, but I have to say Star Trek. The Twilight Zone had so many wonderful stories, and I’d say the ratio of good to bad for both series is about the same (the original Star Trek had a wildly…