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Latest news
- 23 October 2009
- It has been announced that CBS Consumer Products and Mad Science are developing a new interactive stage show based on Star Trek called Star Trek Live. The show will be touring theme parks and performing arts centers across the United States beginning in 2010. For the full press release and further details, see TrekMovie.com.
- 19 October 2009
- Star Trek has won six out of the seventeen Spike Scream Awards for which it was nominated, including the top honor, the Ultimate Scream (their version of the Academy Award's Best Picture). The film also won the award for Best Science Fiction Film, Best Director (J.J. Abrams), Best Science Fiction Actor (Chris Pine), Best Cameo (Winona Ryder), and Best Fight Scene (Kirk vs. Spock). The awards ceremony was taped out on Saturday, 17 October, and will air on Spike on Tuesday, 27 October. [1] [2]
- 4 October 2009
- After 147 days of release, J.J. Abrams' hit film Star Trek has ended its run in North American theaters. Star Trek closed on Thursday, 1 October 2009, with a final gross of US$257,730,019, making it the highest-grossing Star Trek film to date. [3] The film's international run ended three days later with US$127,223,652, [4] for a total worldwide gross of US$384,953,618.
Article of the Week
The Battle of Sector 001 was a confrontation between the United Federation of Planets and the Borg Collective in 2373, when a Borg cube attempted to assimilate Earth. Although the battle resulted in significant loss of life for the Starfleet forces, it was still considered a victory for the Federation. Unlike the infamous Battle of Wolf 359 some six years before, Starfleet proved to be more prepared to fight the Borg. The fleet, though out gunned, ultimately managed to successfully destroy the Cube.
The second major Borg incursion into Federation space began shortly before stardate 50893, when the colony on Ivor Prime was destroyed. Nearby Deep Space 5 detected the attack, and long-range sensors detected a single Borg vessel. A Federation fleet mobilized in the Typhon sector to intercept the Borg cube before it reached Earth.
The fleet opened fire, but to minimal effect. The defense perimeter was quickly shattered, with numerous ships being lost, as the cube continued on unrelentingly towards Earth. The surviving ships, including the USS Defiant and the USS Bozeman, assaulted the cube all the way to the Sol system. Realizing that the battle was not progressing well, Captain Jean-Luc Picard ordered the USS Enterprise-E back to Earth in violation of his orders.
Picard, taking advantage of his residual link to the Collective, took command of the fleet and ordered all weapons to be targeted on a seemingly non-critical point on the cube. The resulting barrage destroyed the cube; however, shortly before its destruction, the cube launched a small spherical vessel from its interior. The sphere began generating chronometric particles, forming a temporal vortex, and disappeared inside the vortex near the boundary of Earth's atmosphere, traveling back to 2063 and disrupting First Contact.Picture of the Day
| Happy Birthday to the late Carl Sagan. |
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| The NASA rover Sojourner and the Carl Sagan Memorial Station at the Mars Heritage Site on the planet Mars in 2155. (ENT: "Terra Prime") |
Did You Know...
...that all of the Star Trek movies premiered on a Friday, except for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home which premiered on a Wednesday?
...that the novel series Star Trek: Destiny will continue the storyline started in Resistance (novel)?
...that the only Star Trek film without a stardate is Star Trek: Insurrection?
...ten days after filming wrapped for "All Good Things..." that Paramount started filming Star Trek Generations?
...the series with the least number of recorded stardates is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with 117 out of 176 episodes being undated?
Today in Trek history
- 1947
- Herbert J. Wright is born.
- 1952
- John Megna is born.
- 1962
- Eric A. Stillwell is born.
- 1964
- Robert Duncan McNeill is born.
- 1967
- Laurence N. Wolfe completes teleplay for TOS: "The Ultimate Computer".
- 1987
- Production on TNG: "Angel One" shuts down, as the cast and crew wait for script revisions to be completed.
- Revised final draft of TNG: "Angel One" is submitted.
- TNG: "Justice" airs.
- 1998
- DS9: "Behind the Lines" airs on Sky One in the United Kingdom.
- 2004
- Star Trek: Voyager season 5 DVD released in Region 1.
- 2005
- C. Marie Davis dies.
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Recent and Upcoming releases
Films
DVDs/Blu-ray
- TOS Season 2 Blu-ray (Region A - out now, Region B - 16 November 2009)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection (BD and DVD; Region 1/A - out now, 2/B - 16 November 2009)
- Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy (BD and DVD; Region 1/A - out now, 2/B - 16 November 2009)
- Star Trek (Basic DVD, Special Edition DVD, Blu-ray) (Region 2/B - 16 November 2009; Region 1/A - 17 November 2009)
- TOS Season 3 Blu-ray (Region A - 15 December 2009; Region B - to be confirmed)
Novels and reference works
- Synthesis (Star Trek: Titan, paperback, out now)
- Star Trek - The Art of the Film (reference book, hardcover, out now)
- Precipice (Star Trek: Vanguard, paperback, 24 November 2009)
- The Sorrows of Empire (Star Trek: Mirror Universe, paperback, 29 December 2009)
Comics
- IDW Publishing
- Star Trek: Nero
- #3 - "Nero, Number Three" - released 21 October 2009
- Romulans: Schism
- #3 - "Schism, Issue 3" - released 4 November 2009
- Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ghosts
- #1 - "Ghosts, Issue 1" - solicited for 18 November 2009
- Collected volumes
- Mission's End trade paperback collection - released 21 October 2009
- Star Trek: Nero
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