Star Trek

The Space Age Designs That Inspired Star Trek — and Corporate America

Architect Eero Saarinen futurist designs highlight industrial innovation and evoke a sense of sleek confidence. It’s the reason his buildings housed captains of American industry, and why his designs found their way aboard the original Enterprise. We mentioned a while back that Scott Chambliss, who designed the set for the most recent Star Trek movie,…

io9 Lauren Davis

Airwalk Beams Up New Star Trek Sneaks

Finally a pair of geek sneaks we can afford, and would be proud to wear. These new Airwalk sneakers display the Federation colors, and who doesn’t want Star Trek shoes? These suede beauties are on sale at Payless for only 49.99. Not too shabby considering most movie themed kicks are horribly over priced. These are…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Man Who Put 70s Rock In Space Also Did Star Trek Posters [NSFW]

Shusei Nagaoka is responsible for some of the most iconic rock album covers in history, crafting monumental spaceships for ELO and Deep Purple. But the Japanese artist also created incredible posters for Star Trek and other movies (one is NSFW.) Pink Tentacle has an incredible gallery of album covers, movie posters and car art by…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Lost “Cantina Scene” From Abrams’ Star Trek

James Kirk stumbles into an exotic alien bazaar on a desert world, in some concept art from a sequence that never made it into J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek. Check out more exclusive views from the Trek art book below. Here’s the book’s caption for the above image and our other images of that concept art:…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Android On Android Love

Is this android lovefest the best Star Wars/Star Trek mash up t-shirt ever created? Using the scientific method, we’ve determined the answer is yes. This is the hot droid-on-droid love fest we’ve been looking for. More amazing T-shirts below. Artist Joanna Mulder was showing off her amazing wares at NYC’s King Con this weekend, and…

Movies Meredith Woerner

10 Favorite Faux Deaths In Science Fiction

Death really isn’t the end in science fiction… It just depends on whether or not it can be written around later. Here are some of our favorite NotDeaths that prove that the Grim Reaper should really up his game. Spock Died: Sacrificing himself by bringing the warp engines back online at the end of Star…

Television Graeme McMillan

DIY Star Trek Bluetooth Communicator Almost Makes Regular Bluetooth Headsets Look Stylish

This DIY Star Trek Bluetooth Communicator instantly reminded me of a comment a dear reader left when I shared a Star Trek fantasy. He was right: Bluetooth is the ruin of Star Trek. But this is a fun quick-n-dirty project. https://gizmodo.com/fabric-antenna-based-personal-communicator-makes-most-o-5372521 Basically you’re cramming a Bluetooth module and a microcontroller into a toy Communicator and…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Science Fiction Legends On Black Velvet Part 2: Blacker And More Velvety

The black velvet smoothness of science fiction art continues, like the blackness of space, only creamier. Artist Bruce White saw yesterday’s black-velvet gallery and steered us to his gorgeous portraits from Star Trek, Star Wars, BSG, Doctor Who and more. White’s Deviant Art gallery includes tons of these amazing paintings, some of which are still…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Greatest Velvet Paintings Of Science-Fiction Icons!

Our love for science fiction is so vivid and soars so far into space, regular art just won’t convey it. To display our favorite science-fiction characters and creatures properly, you need something special. You need… the black velvet painting. Behold! Captain Kirk velvet painting from The Velvet Store Admiral Ackbar velvet painting from eBay auction.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Wil Wheaton’s Star Trek Cameo And How You Made Quinto Spock Happen

It’s pretty amazing that Zachary Quinto’s interest in playing Spock was sparked by mere message-board chatter — a newly released DVD featurette shows how it all began. Plus Wil Wheaton’s Trek movie cameo is revealed. Apparently Wheaton did a lot of voice work for the Romulan crew, and it’s all thanks to fellow voiceover-artist Greg…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Will Star Trek Pirates Put An End To The Spread Of Untrammeled Broadband?

Five million people downloaded copies of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie since it opened in theaters, and it’s not even on DVD yet. Paramount cites that fact in its filing with the FCC’s taskforce to create a National Broadband Plan. Easy access to broadband has made movie piracy easier than ever before, and sites like…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Own Your Own Starfleet Shuttle Simulator

A Utah school is selling off its Star Trek-inspired USS Galileo, which means this is your chance to own your very own spaceship simulator. It’s perfectly practical! [Auction via io9] https://gizmodo.com/you-can-have-your-very-own-starfleet-shuttle-simulator-5395746

Tech News Adam Frucci

Star Trek’s Green Girl Deleted Scene: They All Look The Same To Kirk

It’s not easy being green, but maybe it helps to be Diora Baird? Check out the latest Star Trek deleted scene to be released, showcasing Baird as one of those legendary Orion women. Anyone else shocked this was how they chose to use Baird? We can see why it got cut — it doesn’t exactly…

io9 Meredith Woerner

You Can Have Your Very Own Starfleet Shuttle Simulator

Ever wanted to own your own Starfleet shuttle? A Utah school district happens to have a working simulator of the Star Trek-inspired USS Galileo up for auction. The $1000 reserve hasn’t been met, so you can still take Galileo home. Thanks to Erica Brown for the tip.

io9 Lauren Davis

Lost’s Secret Theme Song, 2012 Awfulness, First Animated Doctor Who Clips, And New Caprica Glimpses

Greet the day with spoilers. There’s footage from Caprica and Doctor Who’s animated special. Lost’s Cylon connection revealed! Abrams talks Star Trek, and Emmerich makes 2012 sound worse. Plus: V, Supernatural, Fringe, FlashForward, Twilight, Star Wars, True Blood and Smallville. Star Trek 2: It’s been a few days since we’ve featured an almost koan-like vague…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Xbox 360 Bundle With Star Trek and Transformers 2 Movies

The Xbox 360 may or may not be getting that Blu-ray drive, but a new marketing strategy bundles the console with Star Trek or Transformers 2. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-says-no-xbox-blu-ray-drives-period-says-ball-5388075 Confirmed exclusively for the UK at the moment, the packages include an Xbox Elite, an extra controller and the related movie on USB (not DVD). You may also…

Movies Mark Wilson

Why Great Horror is Heartbreaking

We’ve spent this week talking about horror in all its myriad forms: scary sex scenes, terrible monsters, and mental horrors. But some of the most haunting and terrifying horror stories aren’t merely terrifying; they’re also terribly sad. I have to confess, it’s very hard for me to watch horror movies. It’s not that I don’t…

io9 Lauren Davis

At Long Last, Meet J.J. Abrams’ Klingons

Feeling cheated that you didn’t get to see a Klingon prison break in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie? As we promised, those lost Klingon scenes will be on the new DVD, but a few snippets have already turned up online. https://gizmodo.com/victor-garber-will-make-all-your-klingon-dreams-come-tr-5377622 Spike TV has an official clip from the new trailer (which is available in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Why Does Science Fiction Love Dream Sequences?

Why do we step inside the dreams of science-fiction heroes so often? We’re already in the future, or on an alien world, so why take an extra leap into the world of the unreal? Here are some theories. After compiling 43 clips of science-fiction dream sequences, we started to wonder exactly why we invade people’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Would Warners Say Yes To An Abrams Superman Reboot?

Warner Bros. may not have been planning on making another Superman movie anytime soon, but now that Star Trek‘s JJ Abrams is announcing his interest in the project again, could that change…? https://gizmodo.com/dc-ent-prez-no-plans-for-superman-movie-5359981 MTV’s Splash Page blog quotes Abrams, who wrote a screenplay for an unmade Superman movie years ago, as saying that he wouldn’t…

Movies Graeme McMillan

The Space Age Designs That Inspired Star Trek — and Corporate America

Airwalk Beams Up New Star Trek Sneaks

The Man Who Put 70s Rock In Space Also Did Star Trek Posters [NSFW]

The Lost “Cantina Scene” From Abrams’ Star Trek

Android On Android Love

10 Favorite Faux Deaths In Science Fiction

DIY Star Trek Bluetooth Communicator Almost Makes Regular Bluetooth Headsets Look Stylish

Science Fiction Legends On Black Velvet Part 2: Blacker And More Velvety

The Greatest Velvet Paintings Of Science-Fiction Icons!

Wil Wheaton’s Star Trek Cameo And How You Made Quinto Spock Happen

Will Star Trek Pirates Put An End To The Spread Of Untrammeled Broadband?

Own Your Own Starfleet Shuttle Simulator

Star Trek’s Green Girl Deleted Scene: They All Look The Same To Kirk

You Can Have Your Very Own Starfleet Shuttle Simulator

Lost’s Secret Theme Song, 2012 Awfulness, First Animated Doctor Who Clips, And New Caprica Glimpses

Xbox 360 Bundle With Star Trek and Transformers 2 Movies

Why Great Horror is Heartbreaking

At Long Last, Meet J.J. Abrams’ Klingons

Why Does Science Fiction Love Dream Sequences?

Would Warners Say Yes To An Abrams Superman Reboot?

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