Star Trek

Don’t Pull A Wanker Star Trek Move

J.J. Abrams is tacking the teaser trailer for Star Trek onto the front of his monster movie Cloverfield, which opens in three weeks. The whole thing smells wanky. Does Cloverfield really need any more buzz to get people to go see it? Why not just film a better ending to Abrams’ Alias series and tack…

io9 Kevin Kelly

To Boldly Litigate

Last year Christie’s auction house dropped jaws when it tractor-beamed in more than $7 million in bits for a massive Star Trek auction featuring props, costumes, and a little box to keep your dignity in. Now Brent “Data” Spiner himself has apparently confirmed that some of the items were not authentic. Ted Moustakis got ripped…

io9 Kevin Kelly

It’s Fun To Humiliate Superman For Money

A man claiming to be Superman meets a struggling documentary film-maker… and she decides to exploit the hell out of him. That’s the premise of The Man Who Was Superman, a Korean movie coming Jan. 31. Cynical, hard-living Soo-jung Song makes a film mocking the crazy guy who thinks he’s Superman, and it becomes a…

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A Bevvy of 1960s-Era Star Trek Babes

One of the best parts of Trek Classic is its propensity to dress its hot ladies in strange cloth squares, or to give them improbably huge go go boots. Sure, it was weird that female officers brought the male ones coffee on the Bridge, but hey it was the 1960s and everything was groovy. If…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Christina Ricci Will Work For Speed

Wake up and smell the spoilers. We’ve got forbidden knowledge about Speed Racer, Jericho, Lost and Star Trek, below the fold. Christina Ricci’s character kung-fu fights and drives fast cars just like the boys in Speed Racer, but her lipstick always matches her car’s chrome finish. [Sci Fi Wire] When rescuers show up on the…

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The Star Trek Script They Tried To Kill

You can soon see the story that was too hot for Star Trek: The Next Generation. David Gerrold’s AIDS allegory “Blood And Fire” will be an upcoming episode of Star Trek: The New Voyages. Gerrold, writer of “The Trouble With Tribbles” and author of The Man Who Folded Himself, is directing his own script. Still…

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First Look At Amanda Peet In X-Files 2

X-Files 2 takes place partly at a hospital, and involves organ transplants, judging from new set pics. [XFilesNews] The new Knight Rider’s car will have a supercomputer that “can hack into any system.” Ohhhkay. [SliceofSciFi] Click through to spoil yourself on AVP, Sarah Connor and more. You’ll see an eco-friendly Predator — who is willing…

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The Seven Best Torture Porn Scenes in SciFi

Nothing warms the hearts and soothes the soul at holiday time like a hot laser slicing through your pain receptors. That’s why we put together this list of the top seven torture scenes from science fiction, including one that spawned one of the lamest action figures in the world. (We didn’t include the Star Wars…

Movies Kevin Kelly

Bring Home The Head Of Arnold Schwarzenegger

A genuine casting of Arnie’s head from Batman & Robin is just one of the bizarre movie props available on eBay right now. You can also own the robot head of Robin Williams from Bicentennial Man, and the original helmet from the Rocketeer movie. Or if your loved ones are really obsessive, you can get…

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Captain Kirk’s 40-Year Parade Of Fashion Shame

Captain Kirk’s costume in the new Star Trek film looks as exciting as a bellhop outfit, judging from the fuzzy images that have been turning up online. (Like the above photo, from JFX Online.) But let’s face it, James T. Kirk was hardly ever on the cutting edge of style. Forty years of fashion crimes…

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io9 Talks to Malcolm McDowell at The Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival

The Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival “where Science meets Fiction” started this weekend in Los Angeles, and io9 was there. This is only the second year the festival has been in the United States (they’ve been running it for several years in France), but they’ve managed to draw a host of science fiction talent from…

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On Smallville, It’s Okay To Be A Meteor Freak

Lex Luthor is in a tough spot as Smallville ends its fall block this week. If he doesn’t confess his alien experiments, a maniac will blow up the perky Chloe. And thinking she’s about to die, Chloe confesses that she’s a “Meteor Freak.” There should really be a flag for that. More Smallville spoilers, plus…

Television Charliejane

Five Fan Films (Almost) Better Than the Real Thing

The upcoming Michael Gondry comedy starring Jack Back and Mos Def Be Kind Rewind features no-budget recreations of films like Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey, RoboCop, and Ghostbusters. In fact, their RoboCop looks better than the original film did. Jack Black really nails Peter Weller’s robo-monotone. That got us thinking about all…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Fake New Enterprise Photos With Bionic Power

Is it just us, or do those new “leaked” concept photos from the upcoming Star Trek movie look like somebody took an old model of the original USS Enterprise, mapped the glowy leg crap from Bionic Woman onto the right engine, and then threw the whole thing online to make every fan dork in the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

See The Organ Repo Wagon

New production photos of Reposession Mambo tell us absolutely nothing about the more serious of the two organ-repo movies coming next year. You can see allegedly “futuristic” cars and some buildings. Yawn. [ShockTillYouDrop.com] The new Justice League movie is being “cast as cheaply as possible,” says New York Magazine. It’s semi-official that total unknown Armie…

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3 Reasons Why Aliens Are Lame

Sucky aliens are a big reason why most science fiction is so embarrassing. It’s no accident that the two most acclaimed science fiction shows of the past decade, Firefly and Battlestar Galactica, don’t feature aliens. Here are some reasons why most aliens are so stupid. The silly talk. Jar-Jar Binks is the poster-monster for this…

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Celebs Ignore Dangers of Teleportation

Reading Rolling Stone’s selection of interviews with white male-friendly celebrities about “the future” (in Bruce Springsteen’s case, that means the year 1987) it quickly became apparent that one piece of fictional technology has surpassed the jet pack as the icon of our failed scientific process: the transporter. Dave Eggers and Chris Rock are wondering why…

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Aliens From Close Encounters Plot Come-Back

The aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind may make a cameo appearance in the fourth Indiana Jones movie. Steven Spielberg is avoiding CGI in favor of puppets, and he decided to pay tribute to the 30th anniversary of Encounters. There’s retro, and then there’s crazy retro. [MovieHole] The Hollywood writers’ strike could be…

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Steam Trek Geekily Goes Where No Man Has Gone Before

Have you heard of Steam Trek: The Moving Picture? It’s the result of 14 people showing their unnatural love of both steampunk and Star Trek by making an silent movie set in 1899 about boldly going where no man has gone before. There’s an engineer named Sootie, coal instead of dilithium crystals and a redshirt…

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Star Trek Season One HD DVD Reviewed, New CG Spaceships and All

As any hardcore fan of the Trek series will tell you, the smallest adjustments made to the originals are bound to undergo a tremendous amount of scrutiny. That having been said, the first reviews of the new HD DVD release of Star Trek have become available—and by the looks of things there is a lot…

Reviews Sean Fallon

Don’t Pull A Wanker Star Trek Move

To Boldly Litigate

It’s Fun To Humiliate Superman For Money

A Bevvy of 1960s-Era Star Trek Babes

Christina Ricci Will Work For Speed

The Star Trek Script They Tried To Kill

First Look At Amanda Peet In X-Files 2

The Seven Best Torture Porn Scenes in SciFi

Bring Home The Head Of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Captain Kirk’s 40-Year Parade Of Fashion Shame

io9 Talks to Malcolm McDowell at The Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival

On Smallville, It’s Okay To Be A Meteor Freak

Five Fan Films (Almost) Better Than the Real Thing

Fake New Enterprise Photos With Bionic Power

See The Organ Repo Wagon

3 Reasons Why Aliens Are Lame

Celebs Ignore Dangers of Teleportation

Aliens From Close Encounters Plot Come-Back

Steam Trek Geekily Goes Where No Man Has Gone Before

Star Trek Season One HD DVD Reviewed, New CG Spaceships and All

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