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Jeri Taylor, the Emmy-nominated producer, showrunner, director and writer known for her work on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “Star Trek: Voyager,” which she co-created, has died. She was 86.

Taylor died Thursday, Oct. 24, the official “Star Trek” website announced.

Taylor joined the “Next Generation” team during its fourth season in 1990. By its sixth season, she was promoted to co-executive producer alongside Rick Berman and Michael Pillar. She then served as the series’ executive producer and showrunner for its seventh and final season, for which she earned an Emmy nomination for best outstanding series.

Taylor went on to create “Voyager” with Berman and Piller and served as the showrunner for the first four seasons of the series from 1995 to 1998. She later worked as a creative consultant for the show’s final three seasons.

Taylor penned more than 30 episodes across the “Star Trek” franchise; she was most proud of the “Next Generation” episode “The Drumhead,...

Jeri Taylor, the Emmy-nominated scribe, producer, director and showrunner behind Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager (which she co-created), has died. She was 86.

“My mother succeeded in a male-dominated industry,” her son Andrew Enberg said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, “but she did it without being super aggressive. She did it with compassion and kindness. She was like a den mother to everyone.”

The industry veteran died Oct. 24 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Davis, Calif., Enberg said.

Throughout her decades-long career, Taylor spent more than ten years bringing to life episodes set within the Star Trek universe. In 1990, she began writing for Next Generation Season 4, eventually working her way up to co-executive producer in Season 6. She was the showrunner of the Patrick Stewart vehicle in its seventh and final installment, for which she garnered an Emmy nom for Outstanding Drama Series.

The next time you fire up eBay looking for a lightly used PS5 or a random everyday item that kind of resembles the face of Jesus Christ, take a closer look -- you might just come across a priceless pop-culture relic that has been missing for decades. Anyone who's used these sorts of online marketplaces for long enough undoubtedly has their fair share of horror stories, but this is one case that ultimately resulted in a happy ending for all involved.

It's a tale that has gone down as part of "Star Trek" lore over the long years. A franchise as long-lasting as this one will inevitably rack up its fair share of fan-favorite props and other objects of import, created by talented and pioneering artists to bring genuinely out-of-this-world visuals and legendary concept art to life. Historically, "Trek" has relied on matte paintings, cutting-edge VFX techniques, and all sorts...

In Nicholas Meyer's 1991 film "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country," the usual crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise-a was joined by a new member of the senior staff, Lieutenant Valeris (Kim Cattrall). Valeris, Trekkies will be able to tell you, was initially meant to be the character of Saavik, played by Kirstie Alley in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" and by Robin Curtis in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" and "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home." According to a DVD commentary track provided by longtime "Star Trek" designer Mike Okuda, Saavik was changed into a new character when show creator Gene Roddenberry objected to the character's unexpected turn to villainy. Valeris proves to be in league with some of the villains of "Star Trek VI," you see, and Roddenberry couldn't abide a turncoat. 

Additionally, Cattrall didn't like the idea of being the third actress to play the same role.

Steven Spielberg's alien abduction thriller "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was released in November of 1977, only six months after the world of blockbusters had been rattled by the release of George Lucas' "Star Wars." Lucas and Spielberg were friends and collaborators, and deep-cut "Star Wars" fans might be able to tell you about several times that Spielberg has included "Star Wars" references in a few of his films. Notably, in Speilberg's 1982 film "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial," a kid is seen wearing a Yoda costume on Halloween, and the titular alien seems to have recognized him. This reference was famously handed back to Spielberg when Lucas included E.T. aliens in his 1999 film "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace." Starwoids might also know about the C-3Po and R2-D2 hieroglyphics in Speilberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark." In Close Encounters," if one looks closely at the alien mother ship,...

“It was not going to be this.”

Terry Matalas doesn’t mince words about the difficulty of getting the “Next Generation” band back together for Season 3 of “Star Trek: Picard.” In fact, when he came onboard as showrunner prior to the second season, there was no plan for a reunion of the beloved Enterprise-D crew (nor an appearance from the ship itself).

“Because that was not the show they had set out to make,” he added in a new interview with IndieWire, alongside production designer Dave Blass. “‘Picard’ was the deconstruction of Jean-Luc Picard, and it had a new cast, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Matalas knew, though, that bringing back the full “Next Generation” cast for one final adventure — after their voyages came to a thud of an end with 2002’s “Star Trek: Nemesis” — would be electric if it happened.

He made it so.

Fans greeted...

Exclusive: Following the recent conclusion of Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+, Otoy and Roddenberry Entertainment have unveiled the next evolution of the Roddenberry Archive, a multi-decade collaboration with the Gene Roddenberry Estate to capture Star Trek franchise architect Roddenberry’s lifetime of works for future generations, with holographic immersion and in the most historically accurate sense possible.

The largest-ever collection of iconic Star Trek digital archive works will be made available for free for the first time through a new web portal bridging the legacies of all three major eras of Roddenberry’s Star Trek, with help from stars William Shatner (Star Trek) and John de Lancie (Star Trek: The Next Generation), as well as showrunner, writer and EP Terry Matalas (Star Trek: Picard).

The web portal will allow fans to virtually explore the many dozens of evolutionary iterations of the famous Starship Enterprise bridge, across every epoch of Star Trek‘s history,...

Spoiler Alert: This story discusses major plot developments in Season 3, Episode 9 of “Star Trek: Picard,” currently streaming on Paramount+.

All season long, the producers of “Star Trek: Picard” have boldly pulled out all the stops to make the third and final season one for the books. To that extent, it seemed like only a matter of time until we finally got to see the Enterprise — that is, the Enterprise-d, the Galaxy-class starship that made its first appearance in 1987 with the premiere episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

That moment of truth finally came at the end of “Vox” — the 9th and penultimate episode of Season 3 — when the reunited bridge crew took their stations on the Enterprise-d, which turns out to be the only Federation starship capable of resisting assimilation by the powerful Borg.

Executive producer Terry Matalas went through hoops to make sure history never forgot the name Enterprise.

Back in 2020, prior to the debut of "Star Trek: Picard," lead actor Patrick Stewart explained to several reporters that he would only return to the show if he wasn't required to wear a Starfleet uniform. He didn't want to simply go back to the same schtick seen on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" some 30 years earlier, preferring to revisit Picard as a retired civilian. While this is a reasonable demand, a "Star Trek" series that wasn't about Starfleet, or that didn't take place on a starship that was actively trekking, proved difficult for the writers. The first two seasons of "Picard" centered on outsized, byzantine mysteries that involved interdimensional robots (in season 1) and causality loops (in season 2). There was no formal chain of command and no central technological haven for the characters to reconnoiter. 

These missing elements were restored for the third season of "Picard," and it seems they were...

In just about every way, the third and final season of “Star Trek: Picard” is both about looking back and moving forward. In addition to reuniting the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise from “The Next Generation” for the first time since 2002’s “Star Trek: Nemesis,” it also features a new starship on which most of the action takes place: the U.S.S. Titan, first seen in animated form on “Star Trek: Lower Decks” and now refit as a Neo-Constitution Class Starship.

For showrunner, executive producer and self-professed “Star Trek” fan Terry Matalas, the inspiration for a retro-looking starship came while he was shopping for a car. “I missed a proper saucer section on the top part of a starship, and I couldn’t help but notice how many cars have gone retro these days. And I remember, as I was driving around, I thought, ‘What if Starfleet did that?...

This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks."

A bit of technical explanation is required. On "Star Trek," the engines on Federation starships function more or less like internal combustion engines. Instead of generating energy through the combustion of flammable petroleum products, however, they channel the overwhelming power created by a series of matter/antimatter explosions. Thanks to the miracle crystalline mineral dilithium -- which grows in a unique lattice-like molecular matrix -- the explosions can be transformed and stored. The energy is then used to generate warp fields which, true to their name, warp the very fabric of space, allowing ships to "skip past" traditional physics and travel over 1,000 times the speed of light. 

The explosions are mixed and wrangled in an enormous warp core, often depicted on screen as a decks-tall glowing blue tube where the matter and the antimatter mix. 

A lot...

Exclusive: Today at the Star Trek convention The 56-Year Mission: Las Vegas put on by Creation Entertainment, the Gene Roddenberry Estate and and the cloud graphics company Otoy Inc. offered Trekkies a first look at the results of a year of production work on the Roddenberry Archive — unveiling the first interactive, life-sized recreations of the famed spacecraft known as the Starship Enterprise. 1:1 scale Enterprise models and sets have been recreated according to Star Trek canon, to visualize the history of Star Trek in new holographic mediums, so that future generations can experience franchise creator Roddenberry’s legacy with the highest levels of immersion and historical fidelity.

While at Bally’s for the convention, Otoy showcase an immersive “The Cage” experience, enabling viewers to explore the first deck of the Enterprise created by Roddenberry for the initial pilot of Star Trek. The fully immersive, interactive, 360-degree experience allows audiences to...

Nichelle Nichols — famous for playing Nyota Uhura in Star Trek and six classic-era Trek feature films — has died at the age of 89. Her legacy as an activist and icon will live on not just in Trek, but also in the countless people she inspired. Martin Luther King Jr. was a personal fan of Nichols on Star Trek, as are Barack Obama and Stacey Abrams. She changed the direction of NASA forever by recruiting the first Black and female American astronauts ever and changed the way mainstream science fiction TV actually looked. Basically, without Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek couldn’t have changed the world.

But what happened to Uhura, the character, after the events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country? While the 2008 Tim Russ-directed fan film Of Gods and Men revealed Uhura had become a Starfleet captain, that fact wasn’t exactly canonical. But now, it appears that the...

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Gregory Jein, the acclaimed model maker and artist who worked on eight Star Trek properties and earned Oscar nominations for Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 1941, has died. He was 76.

Jein died May 22 in his Los Angeles home after a long history of health issues that included a battle with diabetes, a family spokeswoman told The Hollywood Reporter. His family elected to keep his death quiet until this week, she added.

According to the website Memory Alpha, Jein began his association with Star Trek in 1977 by designing a Klingon battle cruiser for Star Trek: Phase II, which would have been the first live-action spinoff of NBC’s original Star Trek had it gone forward.

He collaborated with visual effects maestro Douglas Trumbull on Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), then followed with Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country...

“Nightmare Alley,” “Dune” and “No Time to Die” have won the top feature-film prizes at the 26th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, which were held by the Art Directors Guild on Saturday evening in Los Angeles.

“Nightmare Alley” won in the Period Feature Film category, where the other finalists included “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and “West Side Story,” both of which were nominated for the Oscar for Best Production Design.

“Dune” won in the Fantasy Feature Film category, where it was the only Oscar nominee in the running. And “No Time to Die” won in the Contemporary Feature Film category, in which none of the nominees had been recognized by Oscar voters.

“Encanto” took the award in the Animated Feature category.

In the 15 years since the current Adg categories were established, one of the Adg winners has gone on to take the Oscar for Best Production Design 12 times. In that stretch,...

Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda, veteran scenic artists best known for their contributions to the Star Trek franchise, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Scenic, Title & Graphic Artists at the 26th annual Art Directors Guild Awards.

The Okudas’ award will spotlight their artistic contributions not only to numerous Star Trek films and TV series, but also to many other space-related dramas—also recognizing their collaborations as creative producers for new visual effects, among other accomplishments.

With its 26th edition, the Adg Awards is set to return to its traditional in-person format. The ceremony honoring excellence in production design across theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos and animated feature films will take place in the Wilshire Grand Ballroom of the InterContinental Hotel Downtown on March 25, 2022, with three other Lifetime Achievement honors handed out.

“The roots of Graphic Design for Film and TV can be easily traced back to...

When Star Trek: Strange New Worlds eventually debuts on CBS All Access and gives us the further adventures of Captain Pike, Spock, and Number One aboard the USS Enterprise Ncc-1701, another gap in the Star Trek timeline will be fully explored. And yet, this gap isn’t the weirdest missing piece of Trek history. Other than one episode of The Original Series, we have almost zero on-screen canonical record of adventures that may have occurred for some — or all — of the year 2265, the first year of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy’s five year mission on the Enterprise. In essence, Star Trek: Year One, does not exist. But, could it happen now?

Back when The Original Series first aired, the notion of exactly when it was set was kept somewhat vague. In fact, according to The Making of Star Trek (1968), in Roddenberry’s earliest pitches to networks, he specifically noted that...

Today we learned the sad news that Aron Eisenberg has passed away at the age of 50. The actor was a beloved part of the Star Trek family for his role as Nog on Deep Space Nine. A recurring character appearing in 40 episodes, Nog was the first Ferengi to join Starfleet, and he wasn’t just popular with fans, either. Following his death, Star Trek stars from various different series have paid their respect to Eisenberg on social media.

Fans most recently got to see Eisenberg in the Ds9 documentary What We Left Behind, in which his passion for Trek was made clear. It was the documentary’s Twitter page that helped get the news out of the actor’s untimely passing as well, with the following Tweet:

We’re heartbroken to share news of the loss of one of our family. Aron Eisenberg was an enormous positive presence in any situation.

Ryan Britt Aug 7, 2019

Ira Steven Behr’s Star Trek labor of love is finally available to the general public. Here’s what you need to know...

If you’re a hardcore Trekkie, you probably already know about What We Left Behind; the crowd-funded documentary that looks back on the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. And if, you don’t, the best way to describe the doc is that it’s a snapshot of a particular fandom, curated by someone who helped create that fandom in the first place.

Producer and showrunner Ira Steven Behr wasn’t the creator of Deep Space Nine (that would be Rick Berman and the late Michael Piller), but, he certainly is the biggest advocate of the series these days. In What We Left Behind (a riff on the show’s series finale titled “What You Leave Behind"), Behr interviews the expansive cast, crew,...

The new branded line Shout Selects chooses Buckaroo for special-special edition treatment, with a long making-of docu just like the ones from the heyday of DVD. And this oddest of oddball sci-fi pictures has a backstory worth documenting. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Blu-ray Shout Select 1984 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 102 min. / Street Date August 16, 2016 / 34.93 Starring: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Lewis Smith, Rosalind Cash, Robert Ito, Pepe Serna, Ronald Lacey, Matt Clark, Clancy Brown, Carl Lumbly, Vincent Schiavelli, Dan Hedaya, Bill Henderson, Damon Hines, Billy Vera Cinematography Fred J. Koenekamp Production Designer J. Michael Riva Art Direction Richard Carter, Stephen Dane Film Editor George Bowers, Richard Marks Original Music Michael Boddicker Written by Earl Mac Rauch Produced by Sidney Beckerman, Neil Canton, W.D. Richter Directed by W.D. Richter

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Not content with its already well appointed special Blu-ray editions,...

For those who have downloaded the Star Trek Into Darkness App, two new stills were exclusively revealed from the quickly forthcoming sequel. The photos show Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the villain John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch), all looking very serious indeed. The free app from Paramount Pictures and Qualcomm asks its users to go on ”missions” to hunt and scan specific pictures and clips to unlock special content. And by special content I mean the St Patrick’s Day picture which you can see at the footer of this post.

The app also promotes the upcoming Star Trek Video Game which is only six weeks away from release. Game are currently running a great incentive to pre-order the game that takes place between the 2009 movie and Into Darkness. Those who pre-order online get a free cinema ticket to go see Star Trek Into Darkness at their local Cineworld,...

Welcome back to our weekly look at the new podcasts available at our “partners in podcast crime” the GeekCast Radio Network. As usual here’s our weekly look at the podcasts from Gcrn, This Week in Geek and the latest toy review videos from Baltmatrix, with descriptions and links to each and every podcast for your audio/visual pleasure!

Interviews – Vo Buzz Weekly Chuck D. and Stacey J.

TFG1Mike sits down with Chuck Duran and Stacey J. from Vo Buzz Weekly. He turns the tables on them, and asks them all the juicy voice-over questions.

Gcr – Episode 37 – Kevin Smith: Media Mogul

Kevin Smith, the guy who created the View Askewnivervse, the guy who created the Sir network, and so much more. In Episode 37 of Gcr, we explore the many facets of Mr. Smith. We also talk about his films, podcasts, Comic Book Men, and more. 37… in a row?...

With the original "Star Trek" shuttlecraft prop Galileo just weeks away from being put up for auction, one major effort that included some big names in Star Trek to acquire and restore the shuttlecraft has fallen apart. Galileo Restoration, a group led by Propworx chief executive officer Alec Peters, will have to regroup following the departure of some key members of its group. Just a day after the Gene Roddenberry-endorsed Star Trek fan club the International Federation of Trekkers left the project, former "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Battlestar Galactica" visual effects artist Doug Drexler and longtime Star Trek graphics creator Michael Okuda have departed the project. These departures happen exactly when Galileo Restoration was beginning to raise money toward a $100,000 ...

Big Love‘s Chloe Sevigny is in final talks to join the second season of American Horror Story, set to begin production this summer. Sevigny will play a character named Shelly the Nymphomaniac, who is one of the mortal enemies of Jessica Lange’s character. Apparently, the writers and producers of Ahs were such fans of Sevigny that they wrote the part with her in mind. The actress will join Lange, Zachary Quinto, Adam Levine, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, and Lily Rabe in the new season, which Murphy has revealed will be set in an East Coast institution for the criminally insane run by Lange’s character.

Fox has agreed to a fifth and final season for Fringe. While its only 13 episodes, it does give the creative team a chance to end the show they want to, a rarity in this business. But the show, despite poor ratings, has always been supported by the network.

When Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted on Sept. 28, 1987, it was one of the most ambitious first episodes of television ever produced. No matter how popular the feature films had been with the original cast, bringing Gene Roddenberry’s optimistic sci-fi vision of our future back to TV with an all-new cast and U.S.S. Enterprise was far from a slam dunk. And then there was the scale of the two-hour pilot, “Encounter at Farpoint,” with roughly 200 feature-film-level visual effects.

That ambition, however, was worth it. St:tng debuted to nearly 27 million viewers, and the show ran for a robust 178 episodes over seven seasons.

Calling all Trekkies – Star Trek: The Next Generation® – The Next Level, from Paramount Home Entertainment and CBS Home Entertainment, will be beaming up on a single Blu-ray disc on 30th January 2012 to give fans a taste of the iconic series to be released in HD later this year.

We have three copies of Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Next Level on Blu-ray to give away!

One of the most popular series in the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: The Next Generation® celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012. It premiered in first-run syndication during the week of September 28, 1987 and ran through 1994.

The disc will take fans aboard the Starship Enterprise with Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew and includes the feature-length pilot – “Encounter at Farpoint” – as well as two more “fan favourite ” episodes, “The Inner Light” (Season 5) and “Sins of the Father” (Season 3). The single Blu-ray disc will be available...

Just in time for the 25th anniversary, Star Trek: The Next Generation is being transferred to high definition for the first time ever and released on Blu-ray. All 178 episodes from seven seasons will be transferred to true high-definition 1080p for release on Blu-ray and eventual runs on television and digital platforms both domestically and internationally.

While the first full season won’t be available until later in 2012, CBS Home Entertainment is releasing Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Next Level, a single Blu-ray disc to give fans a taste of the series in HD, on January 31, 2012. The disc will include the feature-length pilot – “Encounter at Farpoint” – as well as two more “fan favorite” episodes, “The Inner Light” (Season 5) and “Sins of the Father” (Season 3).

Here’s a preview of the remastered “Encounter at Farpoint”:

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“Fans have been clamoring for a high-definition release...

We knew this was coming and finally, here are the details:

Los Angeles – The beloved series Star Trek: The Next Generation® will be transferred to high definition for the first time ever and released on Blu-ray™, it was announced today by Ken Ross, Executive Vice President and General Manager of CBS Home Entertainment.

All 178 episodes from seven seasons will be transferred to true high-definition 1080p for release on Blu-ray and eventual runs on television and digital platforms both domestically and internationally.

“Fans have been clamoring for a high-definition release of Star Trek: The Next Generation® for years,” said Ross. “Transferring the series to high-definition presented difficult technical challenges, but our team has come up with a process to create true 1080p HD masters with true HD visual effects. We can’t wait to show fans how pristine the series looks and sounds with our upcoming Blu-ray releases.”

Transferring Star Trek: The Next Generation...

Set your phasers to stun, Star Trek: The Next Generation is being released in high-definition Blu-ray. StarTrek.com has confirmed that in a sampler of several popular episodes are being released starting in January, and then a season-one set to be released later on in 2012. There will be subsequent seasons released after that. All 178 episodes from Next Generation's seven seasons will be transferred to true high-definition 1080p to celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2012.

Here is what Kenn Ross, Exec VP of CBS Entertainment had to say in a statement:

“Fans have been clamoring for a high-definition release of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Transferring the series to high-definition presented difficult technical challenges, but our team has come up with a process to create true 1080p HD masters with true HD visual effects. We can’t wait to show fans how pristine the series looks and sounds with our upcoming Blu-ray releases.

[1] Star Trek: The Original Series has been available on Blu-ray for a couple of years now, but if you prefer Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) to Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), your moment will be coming next year. Star Trek: The Next Generation will finally begin hitting Blu-ray in 2012, in honor of the series' 25th anniversary. Read more details and watch a teaser after the jump. The official Star Trek site [2] announces that Tng will first hit Blu-ray January 31, 2012 in the form of a "fan favorites" sampler titled titled Star Trek: The Next Generation -- The Next Level, which will retail for $21.99. That single disc will contain a feature-length version of the pilot "Encounter at Far Point," plus the popular episodes "Sins of the Father" from Season 3 and "The Inner Light" from Season 5. The Season 1 Blu-ray set will then drop at unspecified point later in the year, with...

I have to tell you, as odd as it may sound, I'm not really a guy who needs his TV shows in HD. A Blu-Ray release might be different, because you're bound to get some cool special features, but as far the show itself being in HD, I could take it or leave it. Now, when it comes to Star Trek: The Next Generation, that might be a different story. I'm not absolutely sure it's a different story, but it might be.

Well, now I'll get to find out.

Apparently fans have been clamoring for the show to get an HD release, and they're finally getting their wish. Take a look.

Star Trek: The Next Generation® To Be Available In High-definition For The First Time Ever For Its 25Th Anniversary

Star Trek: The Next Generation® – The Next Level Blu-ray Disc™ Will Be Released On January 31, 2012

Complete First Season Blu-ray Available...

Ok so it’s really time now to start saving those pennies. Rumoured forever it feels like, Paramount and CBS have now officially announced a Blu-ray HD upgrade for Star Trek: The Next Generation.

And as part of celebrating the 24th anniversary of it’s pilot episode today, September 28th, StarTrek.com have debuted the official trailer for the remastered Blu’s online today.

Coming Soon has more;

Celebrating the 24th anniversary of its pilot debut today, September 28th, “The Next Generation” has represented a true challenge to bring to high definition. Unlike the original series, which was shot and edited on film, “The Next Generation” was shot on film and edited on video. While the film itself can be brought up to HD standards, the special effects involved have to be digitally recreated, much like the “remastered” versions of the original series that began syndication in 2006.

To this end,...

Paramount has just announced that Star Trek: The Next Generation will be transferred to high-definition for the first time ever and released on Blu-ray™.

All 178 episodes from seven seasons will be transferred to true high-definition 1080p for release on Blu-ray and eventual runs on television and digital platforms both domestically and internationally.

“Fans have been clamoring for a high-definition release of Star Trek: The Next Generation® for years,” said Ross. “Transferring the series to high-definition presented difficult technical challenges, but our team has come up with a process to create true 1080p HD masters with true HD visual effects. ”

Transferring Star Trek: The Next Generation® to high-definition presented numerous challenges – The series was originally shot on film and then transferred to videotape, which was used to edit episodes together.

In order to create true HD masters, CBS is going back to the original uncut film negative – all 25,000 plus film reels...

So when I was browsing over at ThinkGeek I saw this awesome book for sale! Here's a small look inside as well:

Here's the decription for it:

Inside the Enterprises. You know the voyages of the U.S.S. Enterprise - all of them. But how many of us have wanted (dreamt, desired, yearned for) the chance to actually walk the halls of these ships of legend? Yeah, we know: all of us. Well, we aren't selling hallways, but we are selling a great look into every starship that bore the name Enterprise. This Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise Haynes Manual is just the book your Star Trek heart was always looking for.

The Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise Haynes Manual provides in-depth information about these extraordinary ships - from Archer's Enterprise Nx-01 to Captain Picard's Enterprise Ncc-1701-e. Inside, you'll find histories of each vessel,...

Star Trek fans now have a unique way to geek out, and it comes in the form of a way for them to learn anything they might not already know about the franchise (or at least, don't have memorized). Star Trek Padd (Personal Access Display Device) is an iPad App that recreates the Lcars computer interface from Star Trek, and includes a database of just about everything that has ever happened in the Star Trek television universe.

The interface comes complete with a wide variety of vocal responses that will be familiar to fans, and the look and "feel" of the Padd, as you move around is just as you'd hope from seeing it in the various versions of the franchise shows. Whether it's info on the ships, characters, or so much more, it's all at your fingertips.

The only question about the App might be in terms of the number of images available,...

In the fall of 1972, I was 14 and consuming as much science fiction and heroic fantasy as I could mainline. As a result, I was the prime candidate to fall in love with a television series that had great concepts, an appealing cast and plenty of action. None were more disappointed when the series, Search, faded after a single season. Thanks to the Wayback Machine that is Warner Archive, the pilot film, Probe, is currently available with hints that the series itself may follow.

Billed as “science fiction in today’s world”, NBC offered up a series that may be a little creaky upon watching today but the series offered some forward looking thinking that was all too rare during the 1970s. It all began with a two-hour telefilm that served as a pilot from Outer Limits creator Leslie Stevens. Producing the show was Star Trek veteran Robert Justman which may...

Star Trek fever is starting to grip us here at Obsessed With Film as the sequel to J.J. Abrams’ impossibly brilliant 2009 franchise reboot gears up to film this summer. Add to that, soon our very own Simon Gallagher will beam up an essay on his own desire to see a new Star Trek TV show put into production and what he hopes it might revolve around. As coincidence would have it, this may turn out to be perfect timing as Trek Movie (thanks to /film for passing on the link) have gotten their hands on an actual Star Trek TV proposal for a show that might have been but sadly wasn’t.

If you’ve been following Trek Movie closely lately then you will have no doubt heard Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Jonathan Frakes talk about a show that X-Men and Superman Returns director Bryan Singer had been...

[1] A little while back, Star Trek: The Next Generation actor and director Jonathan Frakes revealed that director Bryan Singer (X-Men) once had a pitch for a Star Trek television show that never came to fruition. Singer is a well-known Trek fan, and thanks to some string-pulling by X-Men and Star Trek star Patrick Stewart, has even appeared in an uncredited role on Star Trek: Nemesis. Recently, more details have come to light about Singer's failed Star Trek proposal. Read on after the jump to fantasize about what could've been. According to an in-depth story over at TrekMovie, back in 2005, Singer was having dinner with screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) and director Robert Meyer Burnett (Free Enterprise) when the three of them got to talking about the idea of pitching a new Star Trek series to fill the gap left by Star Trek: Enterprise, which had just been cancelled. Burnett...

Star Trek: Infinite Space (Stis) is published by German-based online games publisher Gameforge and developed by Keen. This free-to-play interactive browser game is set during Star Trek Deep Space Nine’s Dominion War. This means Klingons, Cardassians and of course the Dominion. Renowned Star Trek experts Denise and Michael Okuda (authors of the the Star Trek Encyclopedia) were on board as contributors/consultants for the publisher’s in-development Star Trek games for browsers and Facebook. Stis stories and its missions are written by Star Trek: The Next Generation screenwriter, Lee Sheldon. The Dominion are a slave race of soldiers genetically engineered by the shape-shifting alien race known as the Changelings. Trailer Star Trek® - Infinite Space from Gameforge on Vimeo. Game Play Features Set phasers to fun: The first browser-based Star Trek Mmo game is easy to pick up and play. Suitable for quick lunch break assignments as well as long exploration nights.

Back in 2006 when Paramount wanted to re-issue the original Star Trek for the new generation of high definition TVs, they faced a tricky dilemma. Should they put out the series that millions of fans had grown to love in all its original glory, or should they risk going all ‘George Lucas’ on it? Hard-core Trekkies may remember that The Motion Picture received a similar treatment (and when I say ‘hard-core’ I mean the only group of people who would be willing to sit through “The Slow-Motion Picture” twice in one lifetime), and of course, we all remember the Star Wars Special Editions and Blade Runner make-overs. Their success has led us to now expect the old cheesy special effects to have been replaced by new computer generated ones every time an old series or movie is re-released.

But there were still many doubters, both within the Star Trek family and outside,...

Cologne, Germany -- In the video game business, Germany has often been slow to adjust to new trends, but the country is leading Europe in the industry's fastest-growing segment: free-to-play online games.

These games, which make money by charging players for virtual goods such as clothing and weapons, are big business. Researcher Dfc Intelligence forecasts the U.S. and European market for such virtual items will grow to more than $3 billion by 2015 from $800 million in 2009.

Understandably, online games will be a big topic at Gamescom, Europe's largest industry trade fair, which runs Aug. 18-22 in Cologne.

Among the biggest free-to-play companies are American -- led by Zynga Inc., Electronic Arts' Playfish and Playdom, which Disney acquired last month for up to $763 million. But Germany is home to two rising giants: Hamburg-based Bigpoint and Gameforge, headquartered in Karlsruhe. The duo demonstrated their international clout this year by securing the online gaming...