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The Canadian city of Ottawa isn’t exactly a mecca for Trekkies (that title probably belongs to Vulcan, Alberta). So it was a surprise to hear that a huge new Star Trek exhibit was opening here, launching its North American tour earlier this month. Astronauts Marc Garneau and Robert Thirsk were on-hand, as was Captain…
Watch the new trailer for Star Trek Beyond, starring Idris Elba, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Anton Yelchin and Karl Urban. Star Trek Beyond is coming to theatres July 22, 2016. “Star Trek Beyond,” the highly anticipated next installment in the globally popular Star Trek franchise, created by Gene Roddenberry…
When director Justin Lin jumped from the Fast & Furious franchise to Star Trek Beyond, it promised an even bigger emphasis on adrenalized action, and the movie’s latest trailer seems to support just that. The clip, which was debuted during a fan event this evening hosted by Adam Savage, shows Chris Pine’s James T. Kirk getting…
Published on May 18, 2016 At the CBS Upfront presentation at Carnegie Hall in New York on May 18, CBS unveiled the logo for the new STAR TREK television series within the first-ever promotional video for the highly-anticipated program. Category Entertainment License Standard YouTube License Source: Star Trek Television Logo and First Look Teaser Revealed…
Image: Logo for the now defunct Federation Rising from the Star Trek: Horizon Facebook page Following on the heels of CBS’ extremely detailed lawsuit against the fan film Axanar, we now hear that another Star Trek fan film has been told that it should probably stop. This time, it’s Star Trek: Federation Rising. Federation Rising…
There’s an untapped market for droid therapists in the Star Wars universe, apparently, as evidenced in R2-D2’s crushing depression—described as “low-power mode” in typical degrading droid terminology—in The Force Awakens. The obvious lack of droid mental health awareness is also seen in C-3PO’s red arm, until now a puzzling but innocuous detail that’s never explained…
VIDEO April 7, 2016 The Alternate Ending to How The Force Awakens Should Have Ended. This scene was originally written to be part of our Main Force Awakens HISHE, but it was cut because the scale of the short was already pretty full. Since the scene was longer than most of the other sketches, and…
Get your first look at ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY in theaters this December. Visit Star Wars at http://www.starwars.comSubscribe to Star Wars on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/starwarsLike Star Wars on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/starwarsFollow Star Wars on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/starwarsFollow Star Wars on Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/starwarsFollow Star Wars on Tumblr at http://starwars.tumblr.com/ Source: ROGUE ONE: A…
Until very recently, the 27-year-old New Yorker who goes by the online alias Ricca was not a Star Wars fan. She’d seen the prequels at some point long ago; she didn’t sit down and watch the original trilogy until last year, when, she said, “it was no longer appropriate not to have seen them as…
Kylo Ren has a lot of… anger issues in The Force Awakens. But even then, his path to the Dark Side in the movie was tinged with the hope that he could resolve the conflict within him. But apparently, it seems like Kylo was much further along that path than anyone realized. Spoilers ahead, if…