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The first ’surprise guest’ at Paramount’s Star Trek panel at Wondercon was none other than director JJ Abrams. Shortly after hitting the stage Abrams revealed the ’sneak peak’ was to be the first public viewing of the new trailer, showing with Watchmen opening next weekend. See below for full details.

The convention draws more than 30,000 people each year, making it the largest genre attraction in the Southeast. But Dragon Con founder Ed Kramer says the group that bought his Atlanta convention is cheating him on revenue proceeds, and that the concept is being run into the ground. Kramer filed the suit in a superior court in Fulton County, Georgia, against Robert Patrick Henry. In the suit, Kramer claims Henry’s Las Vegas misfire cost him revenue, and that Henry deceived Kramer, convincing him to sell his majority stake in the convention, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Henry has yet to return a late-night weekend request from Airlock Alpha for comment. Kramer, on the other hand, is demanding a jury trial, and is seeking unspecified damages. However, if the case does go to …

The name of the site isn’t the only thing that has to change as 2009 gets under way. The SyFy Genre Awards, which have been a staple to the science-fiction community for a decade and attracted hundreds of thousands of votes, also is looking for a new name. And instead of depending on the Airlock Alpha staff to do it, they are instead turning to you, the readers. Until March 13, Airlock Alpha is accepting ideas from readers on what to rename the Genre Awards. All anyone has to do is send their ideas to Michael Hinman at mhinman@airlockalpha.com and include their name and where they’re writing from. Submitters can send one name or as many names as they like in a single e-mail. Three random submitters will be selected March 13 to win their very own DVD copy of the “Dead Like Me” telemovie, …

The Paramount Star Trek movie panel at WonderCon 2009 starts at 2:00 PM, and TrekMovie is on the scene. Below is the TrekMovie Twitter feed, which will be updated with reports from the event. It will include links to any relevent live pictures (however Paramount are not allowing pictures or video of the ’sneak peak’ [...]

Cryptic Studios released another one of their ‘path to 2409′ updates, telling the story between Star Trek Nemesis and the setting for the MMO. They are now up to 2385 and we are now starting to more hints towards the coming conflict with the Klingons, and what appear to be tie-ins to the events of [...]

We have an updated on new info on a couple of Star Trek movie adaptations. The Alan Dean Foster Star Trek novel is now available for pre-order, plus an audio version has been confirmed. And Rittenhouse has just announced their Star Trek movie collectible cards set. We have exclusive details on all of that below. [...]

Wondercon 2009 began yesterday in San Franciso and one of the first events was the “The Once & Future Trek!” panel, which is a sort of regular feature of Comic Con with various ‘Treksperts’. This time the panel turned out to just be just Daren Dochterman and myself, but that ended up to work out [...]

March will be the month of better weather, spring breaks, and also William Shatner’s 78th birthday. Therefore, we at TrekMovie have redefined March Madness to be March Shatness. At 78, Shatner continues to be a role model for how to age with vigor and enthusiasm for life, and TrekMovie has all the details on his [...]

Get your weekly dose of science today by discovering 1.5 million year old prehuman footprints, watching an unfortunate mission failure, vacuuming the reef, and playing with robo-tonka trucks on the moon! All this and more plus our gadget of the week: the astronaut designed weightless cup o’ joe!

We are headed into the final stretch with the 7th episode of BSG Season 4.5, and let’s hope it is better than last week’s entry. Tonight’s "Someone to Watch Over Me" looks to be Kara-centric and should answer some questions. We have previews for that, plus the latest frakkin lins, Caprica DVD art, and more, [...]

Ever been stuck somewhere and suddenly get the urge to watch an episode of Star trek? Well today CBS just made it possible for you to grab one literally out of the air (for free) with their new TV.com application for the iPhone and iTouch. See below for details and some quick thoughts on our [...]

More than a decade ago, I was working for a small community newspaper in a great little town where people were active, and not much was going on. The community was nearly a century old, and many of the traditions and life hadn’t changed much during that time. One morning, however, people were driving into downtown as part of their daily routines when they stopped dead in their tracks. At a small intersection, a circle of sand bags had appeared, and they didn’t know what to do. City Hall was flooded with phone calls … what is up with the sand bags? Was the street flooding? Was it stopping people from driving into a sinkhole? Was the town at war? In the end, the mystery was solved with a single sentence: It’s a roundabout. The intersection it was placed in was just a few feet from another …