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Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy and the USS Enterprise crew seek out new civilizations in this seminal sci-fi series. The ship's five-year mission may have only lasted three seasons on NBC, but its impact has proved timeless. By the 1970s, its rabid fans---dubbed Trekkers---turned the show into a pop-culture phenomenon and syndication juggernaut that yielded a merchandising boom, a number of hit sequel and prequel spin-off TV series, a successful movie franchise and even a children's cartoon.
  • Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2 (Remastered) — Review | DVD News | 8/6/2008
    The final frontier is getting a little cleaner, crisper and closer, thanks to a remastered version of the Star Trek original series. The second season, now out in an eight-disc set, uses the original camera negatives, offering Trek fans a better look at the series than they've ever seen. Purists may bristle at the now computer-generated Enterprise (as compared to the obviously model-hanging-by-fish-wire version from when the show first aired), but the new visual effects have considerable... read more
  • Star Trek, Doctor Who and Other Announced Releases | DVD News | 7/29/2008
    New releases announced today, July 29:Doctor Who - The Complete 4th Series will be coming out November 18 Fraggle Rock - The Complete Series Collection will be coming out November 4 Prom Queen - The Whole Story will be coming out October 7 Star Trek - Season 3: Remastered DVD Edition will be coming out November 18 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Season 2, Part 2 will be coming out September 2 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items. read more
  • Which Stars Will Trek to George Takei's Wedding? | Today's News: Our Take | 6/3/2008
    Star Trek vet George Takei and partner Brad Altman have set a wedding date, and they're beaming in a few former Trek costars for the occasion. The wedding party may look familiar: Takei tells People that the best man will be Walter Koenig, who played Ensign Chekov, while the matron of honor will be Nichelle Nichols — aka Lt. Uhura. Leonard Nimoy and his wife, meanwhile, have scored a spot on the guest list. (Is Captain Kirk being left out here? No surprise, if you follow the backstage... read more
  • Star Trek Music Composer Dead at 88 | Today's News: Our Take | 5/30/2008
    Alexander "Sandy" Courage, composer of the theme to the Star Trek TV series, has died at age 88.He also composed music used in several episodes of the 1960s-era classic series.Courage once admitted he didn't quite know what he was getting into when he first composed the out-of-this-world theme."I have to confess to the world that I am not a science fiction fan," Courage said in 2000. "Never have been. I think it's just marvelous malarkey. So you write some, you hope, marvelous malarkey music... read more
  • Star Trek's George Takei: Gay Marriage Ruling Is "Simply Exquisite" | Today's News: Our Take | 5/19/2008
    George Takei, aka Star Trek's original Sulu, is getting married. Following in the footsteps of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, Takei announced on his Website that he and Brad Altman, his partner of 21 years, will be taking advantage of the new California state law allowing marriage for all couples, regardless of gender combo. Of his relationship and the opportunity to marry, Takei wrote, "We've shared the good times as well as struggled through the bad. [Brad] helped me care for my ailing... read more
  • The Nerdvana Annihilation | TV Show Recaps | 4/29/2008
    The guys are hanging out and they all go in on a $800 bid on a time machine prop from the original The Time Machine movie. Of course, they'll be outbid. Whew! That was close. What in the world would they do with a time machine? Except they won the auction.Why didn't anyone else bid? Oh, because it's about the size of a Renault. Didn't Leonard say it was miniature?Cut to the best animation/opening sequence in all of television.Step by step, Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Rajesh push and pull the... read more
  • Exclusive: A Conversation with Trek's Two Spocks | Movie News | 4/15/2008
    With the summer 2009 premiere of JJ Abrams Star Trek still more than a year away Leonard Nimoy has officially passed the torch as Spock to cast mate Zachary Quinto The rite of passage happened at Sundays Grand Slam XVI Sci Fi Summit in Burbank Calif and came in the form of a T-shirt that said No1 Vulcan I think Im going to have to grab a marker and change it to No 2 Vulcan a touched Quinto said to the audience TV Guide later welcomed the opportunity to talk with the two Spocks Carita RizzoTV... read more be the first to leave a comment
  • Star Trek, Rescue Me and Other Announced Releases | DVD News | 3/21/2008
    New releases announced today, March 21:Rescue Me - The Complete 4th Season will be coming out June 3 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries - Set 3 will be coming out June 24 Star Trek - Season 2 (Remastered) on DVD will be coming out August 5 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items. read more
  • Captain Kirk’s Enterprise vs. the Invisible Romulan Ship | Today's News: Our Take | 3/14/2008
    Today’s Video Break: Star TrekEpisode Title: “Balance of Terror”Season: 1Year: 1966Why we love this episode: What is really comes down to is the USS Enterprise is a serious piece of machinery—when you put it up against an attacking invisible ship—you have yourself some good TV. Throw in those crazy Romulans and now you have yourself some awesome TV. Watch it now! | More online videosYour take: What’s your favorite Star Trek moment (of original series of course!)? read more
  • CBS to Stream TV Classics Online, Too | Today's News: Our Take | 2/21/2008
    Network see, network do. Coming on the heels of NBC's decision to offer classic TV shows over a group of websites, CBS has announced plans to upload full episodes from their programming vaults on the more than 300 sites that make up the CBS Audience Network.The network is kicking off the venture by offering the three seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series, Seasons 1 and 2 of The Twilight Zone, and the first seasons of MacGyver, Hawaii Five-O and Melrose Place on CBS.com and the sites of... read more
  • Has Blu-ray Finally Beat HD DVD for Good? | DVD News | 1/9/2008
    HBO has joined the parade to Blu-ray after Warner Bros, its distributor, announced on Friday that they were dropping HD-DVD in May 2008. The Warner Bros announcement could be the event that ends the war between high-definition formats. HD-DVD has the exclusive support of Universal and Paramount/DreamWorks, while Blu-ray has Fox/MGM, Warner Bros, Disney, Sony and Lionsgate. Warner Bros, which holds about 20 percent of the market, was a huge win for the Blu-ray group, and leaves Blu-ray with... read more
  • Star Trek Talk from Award-Winning Guest Columnist | Today's News: Our Take | 12/14/2007
    Guest columnist Marc Scott Zicree shares his thoughts on Star Trek and his original Star Trek New Voyages webisode, "World Enough and Time," which recently won an Online Video Award from TV Guide. When on September 8, 1966, the NBC network broadcast "The Man Trap" by George Clayton Johnson, the premiere episode of a new series called Star Trek, one thing was certain — television would never be the same. And neither would I. I was 11 years old that night, and that was, I think, the... read more
  • Star Trek: Comparing the New Crew to the Originals | Today's News: Our Take | 10/23/2007
    How does the cast of J.J. Abrams' in-the-works Star Trek feature-film "prequel" compare to its predecessor? Upon the announcement that the final two vacancies had been filled — Chris Pine will have "the com" as Kirk, while Karl Urban is scrubbing in as Bones — TVGuide.com set up this nifty side-by-side comparison Star Trek photo gallery for your amusement and, yes, fanboy-tastic scrutiny. I'm the first to admit, I scoffed at Pine's casting, but damn if he doesn't measure up nicely... read more
  • Zachary Quinto Dishes Heroes and Star Trek Scoop! | Today's News: Our Take | 10/15/2007
    Zachary Quinto, who plays bad-guy Sylar on NBC's Heroes (tonight at 9 pm/ET), is preparing to enter sci-fi superstardom by taking on one of the genres most iconic roles, Spock, in the new Star Trek movie. The 30-year-old actor talked to TV Guide about his sudden rise to fame, the "new" Sylar and becoming a young Spock. TV Guide: A year ago, you were just another jobless Hollywood actor. Now you're starring on the white-hot hit Heroes and playing young Spock in the next Star Trek movie. Are you... read more
  • Preview: A New Hero Arrives! | TV Show Recaps | 10/12/2007
    The earthbound Heroes continues to pay tribute to its spaced-out predecessor with yet another pioneer from Star Trek: Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) joins the cast as Nana, a Katrina survivor in New Orleans who has family ties to Micah and another emerging hero. Speaking of family, H.R.G. suspects Claire has a new boyfriend, and he isn't too thrilled — but just wait until he sees who it is. And Matt can't wait to see the sinister man who is haunting Molly, so he asks her to find him on the... read more
  • Housewives Exit, Star Trek and Other Short Cuts | Today's News: Our Take | 10/11/2007
    Original cast member Jo De La Rosa, who was last seen moving out of the community to seek a singing career, is in fact MIA from The Real Housewives of Orange County when the Bravo series launches Season 3 on Nov. 6. Joining the show is housewife Tamra Barney.... The original Star Trek's "The Menagerie" episode, Parts 1 and 2, will be shown in select theaters nationwide on Nov. 13. For deets, go to FathomEvents.com.... DVD releases have been set for BET's American Gangster: The Complete First... read more
  • Trek's J.J. Abrams Tells Zoe Saldana "I Want U... hura!" | Today's News: Our Take | 9/18/2007
    This new-old Star Trek flick is really starting to come together. According to the Hollywood Reporter, director J.J. "Just Jenius" Abrams has picked Drumline knockout Zoe Saldana to play Uhura. If he somehow includes "Uhura's Song," I may have to go all fanboy on him. In other movie news, per Variety, Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal are about to be perfectly cast as sibs in Jim Sheridan's Brothers, about a soldier (Spider-Man) whose ne'er-do-well bro (Donnie Darko) looks after his family... read more
  • Russell Crowe's Rumored Star Trek, More Film News | Today's News: Our Take | 9/12/2007
    Will J.J. Abrams' Star Trek feature take its villainy to the Maximus? With the Enterprise's fledgling crew gradually getting cast — Zachary Quinto (as Spock) and Anton Yelchin (Chekov), to name two — there is a story in the New York Post that Russell Crowe is being courted to play the central baddie.... Per Variety, Fight Club members Brad Pitt and Edward Norton will reunite for an adaptation of State of Play.... Director Roman Polanski has pulled out of the $100-million Pompeii, and... read more
  • Heroes' Latest Star Trek: "Uhura" to Play Hero's Nana | Today's News: Our Take | 8/14/2007
    Tim Kring's hailing frequency remains open to Star Trek crossovers. Having recruited George "Sulu" Takei to portray Hiro's father during Season 1, the Heroes creator has called upon Nichelle Nichols, aka USS Enterprise communications officer Lt. Uhura, to fill a short-term role. Nichols, an NBC rep tells TVGuide.com, will be playing Nana, the New Orleans-based grandmother of Monica (the new hero being played by The Nine's Dana Davis). Majel Barrett, you are now on deck.Related: Heroes... read more
  • New Star Trek Film Checks Off Its Chekov | Today's News: Our Take | 8/8/2007
    Russian-born Anton Yelchin, whose recent credits include Alpha Dog and TV's Huff, is in talks to play Pavel Chekov, the eventual navigator of the USS Enterprise, in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek film, says the Hollywood Reporter. Unreliable sources tell me the audition process involved having a Ceti eel implanted in your ear. Yowch.Yelchin will join the recently cast Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy, who will both play Spock. Casting is under way in New York and London for Kirk (Josh Duhamel? Is... read more
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The City on the Edge of Forever
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Premise: Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy and the USS Enterprise crew seek out new civilizations in this seminal sci-fi series. The ship's five-year mission may have only lasted three seasons on NBC, but its impact has proved timeless. By the 1970s, its rabid fans---dubbed Trekkers---turned the show into a pop-culture phenomenon and syndication juggernaut that yielded a merchandising boom, a number of hit sequel and prequel spin-off TV series, a successful movie franchise and even a children's cartoon.

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