3+ week, 3+ day ago (307+ words) LEGO has officially announced the first "Star Trek" LEGO set as none other than the'U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, the signature ship from "Star Trek:'The Next Generation." Clocking in at 3,600 pieces, this LEGO set is ready'to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life, new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. Let's take a closer look at the "Star Trek"'LEGO set below! In addition to creating a detailed LEGO replica of the Enterprise-D from "The Next Generation," the set also includes some fantastic features, starting with the detachable command saucer. Plus, there's a secondary hull and'warp nacelles with distinctive red and blue detailing. The ship also has an opening shuttle bay and two mini shuttlepods. Plus, the good news is that it still comes with all the minifigures you'd want:'Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander…...

15+ hour, 49+ min ago (272+ words) These days, it's hard to imagine anyone taking the side of the short-lived 1970s'series'over the acclaimed "Battlestar Galactica" reboot, but that was the sentiment among many vocal critics early on. However, the newer show's success quickly overshadowed the shortsighted sexism on the early Internet. "I logged on, and I saw this thread, and just the hate that I was getting in this thread, I was like, 'Oh, don't Google yourself,'" Sackhoff explained. "I would be lying if I said it didn't upset me, but luckily, there were enough people that were championing the show that I really didn't pay any mind to it." We all know that "fans" of certain genre properties can be, to put it delicately, the worst. But when the same sort of bigoted drivel seeps from the mouth of the actor who previously played the role…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago (196+ words) In person, however, Roddenberry wasn't always diplomatic. Indeed, he frequently wrested control of his "Star Trek" projects from others, bilked people out of their pay, and advocated a little too hard for free love; he loved to see the female "Star Trek" cast members in those 1960s miniskirts. He was also self-aggrandizing, happy to hear people (like me) praise his lofty ideas. It was a massive book, priced at $45.00, and it was to feature extensive interviews with all the "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" cast members, as well as a slew of new illustrations by artist Richard Arnold. "The book was on hold because Leonard Nimoy didn't think the prose 'lofty enough,' as Maizlish put it, and wanted it more in the style of someone like Bill Moyers." Moyers was the co-author of the invaluable 1988 tome "The Power…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago (298+ words) Jeremy Smith is an entertainment writer with over two decades of experience that stretches back to the infancy of online journalism. He found his love for film criticism on Usenet forums in the mid-1990s, and quarreled his way into a staff position at Ain't It Cool News under the nom de plume "Mr. Star Trek: Wrath Of Khan's Director Had A Simple Trick For Dealing With William Shatner's Ego When Nicholas Meyer was brought on to direct "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," he brought to the franchise a necessary degree of irreverence. He'd never seen an episode of the series, but immediately saw potential in playing the conflict between the Captain James T. Kirk-helmed USS Enterprise and the Khan Noonien Singh-commandeered USS Reliant as a grand Naval battle. Imbuing Gene Roddenberry's with the seafaring spirit of a classic swashbuckler yarn like…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago (445+ words) After years of discussion, it's finally time to say goodbye to the Kelvin timeline, "Star Trek" fans. Granted, it's been almost a decade since we've seen Chris Pine's Captain Kirk on the big screen dating back to 2016's "Star Trek Beyond," but Paramount has made it official: It's moving on. So, what went wrong, exactly? Why did the Kelvin timeline ultimately fail? We're going to look at some of the biggest reasons why "Star Trek 4" fell apart and why this iteration of the legendary sci-fi franchise is part of its past, rather than its future. Let's get into it. For Kelvin to continue, it needed to scale down, and that didn't seem plausible with all of the pieces on the board. This kicked the door open for a new era of "Trek" on TV for the streaming era. Patrick Stewart…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago (323+ words) Roddenberry, remaining true to his vision, said that the effects in "Motion Picture" were all based on enriching the world and adding texture to Trek's utopian future. As he put it:" "We try to analyze how a spaceship will be operated in the 23d Century, so the Enterprise is bigger and more sophisticated. But while there will be plenty of special effects, they're related to the characters " they're part of the dramatic integrity, not an end in themselves. They won't take over the picture."" There is a general sense that "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" aimed to serve as an antidote to the high-octane, effects-based blockbusters that were coming into vogue at the time. "Star Wars" is fun and all, but it's childish. The implication is that "Star Trek" was going to be a sci-fi film for grown-ups, and that the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago (590+ words) In addition to his decades of writing and reviewing experience, Witney Seibold has also been podcasting professionally since 2011 as the co-host of "The B-Movies Podcast" and then the Critically Acclaimed Network, both with co-host William Bibbiani. He once served as film editor for the defunct newspaper NoHo>LA, and he has written for CraveOnline, Nerdist, IGN, and Blumhouse. The Woman Who Saved Star Trek From Cancellation Appeared In The Franchise's First Movie Many Trekkies know all about the marvelous fan accomplishments of Bjo Trimble, often called the Woman Who Saved "Star Trek." Trimble is a sci-fi fan going back to childhood, and became involved in nascent sci-fi fan communities back in the 1950s. She used to tool around with noted sci-fi authors like Robert Bloch, August Derleth, and Harlan Ellison. She says that she met her husband, John, while attending a…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago (635+ words) Justin Theroux's mysterious Mr. House will factor into Fallout season 2, but the character himself has a significant Star Trek connection in the original games. Justin Theroux's Fallout Season 2 Character Has An Awesome Star Trek Connection Season 2 of the hit Prime Video series "Fallout" is closer than ever to debuting, and our collective reaction can best be summed up with two simple words: Okey dokey! The streamer just dropped another trailer on us " get it? Dropped? Like a bomb? Never mind " and fans were quick to sift through the radioactive sands of Las Vegas for hints of what lies in store. Ella Purnell's Lucy MacLean is still hot on the trail of her missing father Hank (Kyle MacLachlan), our lovable Ghoul (Walton Goggins) remains fixated on his own agenda to find his family again, and the rest of the wasteland inhabitants…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (301+ words) It seems the Star Trek Kelvin timeline movies are truly dead in the wake of the Paramount-Skydance merger, but what about other Trek films? Here's what we know. It Sounds Like The Star Trek Kelvin Timeline Is Truly And Officially Dead Despite a stacked cast of A-list talent, an entire trilogy that delivered solid box office returns, and no shortage of fervent demand among Trekkies, the inevitable seems to have just become official: The so-called Kelvin timeline "Star Trek" movies appear to be no more. Unfortunately, a report indicates that the newly-merged Paramount/Skydance studio has decided to call it quits on those attempts to bring back the cast led by Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Salda'a, John Cho, and Simon Pegg. The disappointing news comes after years of stalled development (and the occasional lukewarm "Star Trek 4" update)…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago (572+ words) In addition to his decades of writing and reviewing experience, Witney Seibold has also been podcasting professionally since 2011 as the co-host of "The B-Movies Podcast" and then the Critically Acclaimed Network, both with co-host William Bibbiani. He once served as film editor for the defunct newspaper NoHo>LA, and he has written for CraveOnline, Nerdist, IGN, and Blumhouse. Star Trek: The Motion Picture's First Directorial Choice Went On To Helm Another Sci-Fi Classic We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Eventually, Povill began looking for directors as well, and he didn't want to start small. Povill suggested that Francis Ford Coppola might direct, or perhaps one of those hit-making young upstarts, George Lucas or Steven Spielberg. What an odd world we would live in if George Lucas had made "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." He also suggested…...