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The big Star Trek event for Comic Con 2008 was the brand new poster (or actually 4 posters) which revealed four cast images for the first time. The poster was well received, but it was also highly stylized, saturating the Trek crew with colors from the traditional TOS uniforms (gold, red and blue). So TrekMovie [...]

Let’s face it. The cast of the original “Star Trek” series was far from cheesecake. With the exception of Nichelle Nichols, pretty much everybody else in the cast was average, or at best, mildly pleasant-looking. Kirk looked like my father with a smaller nose. Spock looked like my husband with a bigger nose. Dr. McCoy looked like a marmoset. If the original series was cast today, would the same cast have been chosen? If you put J.J. Abrams in charge, chances are they would all be a bit prettier. Yet in spite of the cast being made up of relatively average-looking people, “Star Trek” became a huge pop culture phenomenon that continues to influence people from all walks of life. By today’s standards, though, a television series seems to need a Six or Seven-of-Nine to rate a ten. Would …

J.J. Abrams is fond of saying that iPhones do more than an Original Series communicator (except speak directly to a ship in orbit, but lets not get picky). Recently Apple upgraded the iPhone software to '2.0' and launched the official Apple’s App Store. The service offers almost 1,000 free and paid apps in numerous categories. [...]

Star Trek’s new James T. Kirk, Chris Pine has a new movie called Bottle Shock opening next week and he is just starting to do press for that. In a new interview with SciFi Wire the actor talks about where in the life of Kirk the movie is set how the film blends blockbuster action [...]

The following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the episode “Bad to the Drone” from the SciFi Channel series “Eureka.” In an episode dealing with a missile defense system and killer drones, I conclude that the season premiere of “Eureka” was definitely a misfire. And that is a shame. “Eureka” is really beginning to show its age, and we are only at the beginning of the third season. Let’s hope this is a one-time blip on the radar screen and not an indicator of things to come. This episode deals with a smart drone, named Martha, getting too smart and escaping control of Global Dynamics control. It turns out someone else was controlling the drone, so Sheriff Carter puts his investigative powers to work, picking up obscure clues and extrapolating them into motives that make little sense but get explained …

Eureka co-star Ed Quinn told SCI FI Wire that he's completed work on the independent film The Rainbow Tribe, which he described as a family film with SF overtones.

Chris Pine, who takes on the iconic role of James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek reboot movie, revealed to SCI FI Wire a bit of his character's arc--and added that he has a bit of a familial connection to the original Kirk, William Shatner.

David S. Goyer, who wrote and directed the upcoming supernatural horror film The Unborn, told SCI FI Wire that the film has its roots in various religious mythologies and one creepy medical fact.

Mark Osborne, co-director of Kung Fu Panda, told SCI FI Wire that he's confident a sequel will be in the works soon. "I think once a film makes $200 million, I guess it's a pretty good sign that there'll be more of them," Osborne said.

Justin Hartley, who plays Oliver Queen (aka Green Arrow) on The CW's Smallville, told SCI FI Wire he's thrilled to be a regular cast member for the show's upcoming eighth season and offered a few spoilers about his relationship with Clark (Tom Welling).

Scottish rock star-turned-actress Shirley Manson told SCI FI Wire that it was kind of a fluke that she ended up playing a nefarious businesswoman in the upcoming second season of Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.