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Trek Movie Features At Least Five Kirks

Today’s Morning Spoilers gives away a few minor, but possibly important, details from December’s Star Trek movie. It also has new info on Land of the Lost, Smallville, Sarah Connor and Lost. Plus a few new pics from an upcoming Torchwood. It’s time for maximum spoilage. Because nobody demanded it, we’re going to get to…

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J.J. Abrams Says Trek Will Avoid Greenscreen Fakeness

J.J. Abrams and his Star Trek team answered canned questions in a “live” online chat today. They had to stop taking questions once they’d received over 600 queries, including hard-hitting investigative questions like “Do you like Phasers?” But they also let slip a few cool tidbits about the movie. Abrams was doing the chat live,…

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Learn The Secret Codes For Trek’s Hot Webcams

Ever since the Star Trek movie site has gone live, fans have been noticing a tiny link to yet another J.J. Abrams viral marketing site: NCC-1701.com. It offers viewers already… uh… wowed by last week’s teaser trailer for JJ Abrams’ Star Trek remake the chance to watch simulated webcam views of the construction of the…

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The Most Outrageous Star Trek Parody Ever

The Federation goes around exploiting poor third-world planets and taking all their resources in Starve Trek, the most unsubtle parody of Star Trek ever created. (It features Captain Jerk and Mister Squat.) But the lefty comic series is also pretty giggle-worthy, and seeing the (arguably socialist) Trek crew being portrayed as capitalist oppressors is pretty…

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Which Scifi Franchise Cries Out For A Re-Imagining?

Everybody’s re-imagining old science fiction franchises, from Battlestar and Bionic Woman to Star Trek and Terminator. (Can you remember when you had never heard the verb “re-imagine?” Now, it’s the only verb I ever use.) But some of the greatest classics are still waiting for their extreme makeovers. It’s time to give Hollywood a little…

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Dumbest Space Gods In Science Fiction

Why do space explorers always wind up meeting some crappy pantheon? It never fails. You’re cruising along, fighting monsters and bedding your crewmates (or vice versa) and then all of a sudden some annoying guys in tunics are talking Big Talk and rewriting reality to suit their moronic whims. As Crichton from Farscape says, “Godlike…

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Inside The New Enterprise, Track Lighting And Boringness

No, really, we don’t have anything else to say about this leaked photo from the new Enterprise.

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Trek Goes Where No Small Man Has Gone Before

Of all the casting stories we’ve read relating to the new Star Trek movie, none have had a headline as attention grabbing as “Star Trek Looking For Little People.” Luckily, the attached story doesn’t disappoint. The extras casting agency working on the new Star Trek movie is currently seeking little people for background work on…

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All the Best Futuristic Guns for Your Holster

Science fiction has three iconic images that definite the genre: aliens, rockets, and rayguns. Whether due to our obsession with phallic guns, or the idea that a laser pistol is just too cool to pass up, the scifi gun has endured since H.G. Wells introduced them as a “Heat-Ray” in 1898’s War of the Worlds.…

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Wednesday Offers Death, Destruction, Dragons and Illuminati

Welcome back to our weekly feature, “New Comics We Crave,” which tells you which comics you should check out on Wednesday. If you go down to the comic book store tomorrow, you’re sure of a great surprise. Or, at least, you will be if you don’t go down there with a very forgiving credit card…

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What Slash Fiction Pairings Do You Wish You’d See?

Slash fiction has let us down. Yes, fans are constantly writing their own stories about sexual/romantic liaisons between Luke Skywalker and Jabba the Hutt, among other bizarre pairings. But there are still places that naughty fanfic hasn’t gone yet, and it’s time to give it a little push. What are the couples you wish fans…

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Find Out Who Kirk Hooks Up With In New “Trek”

Welcome to our crazy TMI wake-up call of spoilers. We have some new info about whom Captain Kirk hangs out with in the new Star Trek movie, plus hints about the plot of Doctor Who season four. Plus some new stills from the teleporting-mutants movie Jumper, below the fold. Leonard Nimoy’s Old Spock has a…

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Everything You Need To Know To Build Your Own Enterprise

Star Trek screenwriter Roberto Orci wades into the controversy over whether the Enterprise was built on Earth with a super-complicated explanation. Apparently if you’re building a starship with simulated Earth gravity, it’s best to construct it in the gravity well you’re simulating. And warp travel is sort of similar to the pressure of gravity, so…

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Star Trek Trailer, Now With Crisp Starship Porn

Now that you’ve suffered through the cameraphone version of of the J.J. Abrams Star Trek trailer, a non-migraine-inducing version is online at the movie’s official site. And the shots of the struts and nacelles being welded into place are pretty gorgeous now that all the details are visible. Thanks to David for the heads up!…

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Incredibly Detailed Lost Spoilers Below

SpoilersLost posted an incredibly detailed synopsis of episode four of the new Lost season, then took it down at ABC’s request. Because we’re spoiler whores first thing in the morning, we’re going to risk the wrath of the alphabet by reposting them. (Watch out, they’re really detailed!) We also have spoilers for Incredible Hulk, Star…

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Trek Movie Website Launches, Bores

Judging by the current version of the “launched just in time for Cloverfield” Star Trek movie website, I can safely say that… um… they haven’t changed the insignia? Look, I understand wanting to get an official web presence for when your first teaser trailer goes out. And I can understand that you might want to…

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Star Trek Trailer Will Hurt Your Head

We already showed you the money shot from the new Star Trek teaser trailer yesterday, but now IESB has posted a cameraphone copy of the real thing. If you simply can’t wait until the official version goes online in a few days, you can click through to view the flickeriness that is cameraphoneTrek. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-new-enterprise-346143 [IESB]

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Watch The Cloverfield Monster Do The Funky Chicken

Gearfuse has somebody’s camera-phone recording of the Cloverfield monster in action, which they posted as an animated gif. It sort of looks like a zany monster dance, partly thanks to the choppiness of the animation. This will be someone’s LJ icon with a silly caption half an hour from now. Click through to see it…

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J.J. Abrams’ X-Files Television Show Still Rolling Along

While J.J. Abrams is currently busy remaking Star Trek and shepherding the Manhattan-smashing monster movie Cloverfield, his X-Files 2.0 television show (on Fox, nonetheless) Fringe has quietly cast two of the FBI agents who will be checking out the paranormal and bizarre. Kirk Acevedo from Oz and Mark Valley of Boston Legal will be stepping…

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First Look At New Enterprise

Click to view Just a day before the teaser trailer starts showing, the first image of the new Starship Enterprise from J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek movie finally went online, at Moviefone. (Thanks, Falconfire!) Click through for the full image. https://gizmodo.com/treks-rumormongering-eats-itself-345873 Ohhh, all dark and shiny! Actually, this does look genuinely cool. Maybe JJ can…

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Trek Movie Features At Least Five Kirks

J.J. Abrams Says Trek Will Avoid Greenscreen Fakeness

Learn The Secret Codes For Trek’s Hot Webcams

The Most Outrageous Star Trek Parody Ever

Which Scifi Franchise Cries Out For A Re-Imagining?

Dumbest Space Gods In Science Fiction

Inside The New Enterprise, Track Lighting And Boringness

Trek Goes Where No Small Man Has Gone Before

All the Best Futuristic Guns for Your Holster

Wednesday Offers Death, Destruction, Dragons and Illuminati

What Slash Fiction Pairings Do You Wish You’d See?

Find Out Who Kirk Hooks Up With In New “Trek”

Everything You Need To Know To Build Your Own Enterprise

Star Trek Trailer, Now With Crisp Starship Porn

Incredibly Detailed Lost Spoilers Below

Trek Movie Website Launches, Bores

Star Trek Trailer Will Hurt Your Head

Watch The Cloverfield Monster Do The Funky Chicken

J.J. Abrams’ X-Files Television Show Still Rolling Along

First Look At New Enterprise

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