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More guests are headlining Creation’s annual salute to Stargate in Vancouver, British Columbia!

Yesterday we showed off a number of European posters that appeared online and just today Paramount officially released the US poster for Star Trek on MySpace. Check out the final US poster below. [UPDATE: and note the similarity to an early TMP poster]

If you are headed to see Monsters vs. Aliens this weekend, keep your eye out for new kid-friendly Star Trek trailer (and some Trek refs). In other Tidbits we have Abrams  comments on Trek (and a new deal), world premiere tickets going on sale, a fake controversy, and more. Check it all out below.

This week Paramount added a couple new facets to their marketing mix, Star Trek Photobooths and Star Trek Dance Parties. You can get your photo taken and it shows up in special new mosaics on the official site for the new Star Trek movie. These booths are starting to show up at special Star Trek [...]

This week in Science Friday, learn about how scientists may have solved the vampire problem in the lab, take a tour of space (or not), recover the “Rosetta stone of asteroids”, witness the huge ash eruption from Alaska’s Mt. Redoubt, and debate the name for the newest ISS module. All this and more plus our [...]

“Hex” starts as a corny, magical encounter as Chloe (Allison Mack) has a serious case of the other half blues but – like pulling a rabbit out of a hat – the episode very quickly transforms into something far more enjoyable.

It may be because of the stark brutality of the last few episodes involving Doomsday, broken relationships and a dark vision for the future of Earth, but this no-strings attached outing is a tale of the weird and unexplained and pulls “Smallville” out of its mid-season slump.

To put it simply, “Hex” is a fun, laugh-out-loud adventure.

Remaining loyal to the original canon of the comics, the account of Zatanna’s lost father and her quest to revive him carries the episode along nicely through a character-based story dusted with a dazzle of magic and some sitcom-style …

It is a sad and solemn occasion that we must bid farewell to “Battlestar Galactica.”

In its heyday, “Battlestar Galactica” was a strong, powerful and intriguing series packed with the kind of hardcore drama that would leave you weeping with regret, gasping in shock and whooping in sheer elation; its special effects were of a standard that would leave you giddy at their majesty and stunned in their detail; its writers, all experts in their craft, offered concepts and ideals that no other sci-fi had ever dared to attempt; and its cast, so versatile in their talents that when they cried, you cried along with them.

That was the series in its prime. And now, not a Gods-damned frakking thing has changed.

“Daybreak,” the last ever episode of “Battlestar Galactica” (excluding the …

If the last scene is all that mattered, then this episode was superb. Unfortunately, it is impossible to ignore the fact that the first 55 minutes of the episode was largely uneventful. Still, that ending was a real game changer.

If I have one complaint about “Lost” over the last few years, it’s that it ignores too many characters for long stretches. A huge, sprawling cast pretty much insures that not everyone will get the screen time they either want or deserve. Sayid is one of those characters I’d like to see get more screen time.

The problem is, it was anticlimactic. It really didn’t matter how he got hooked up with the bounty hunter. We already knew that’s what she was, and seeing it materialize, well after the fact, simply produced no impact. She was a bounty hunter. She seduced …

“Life on Mars” lived up to its name this week. After setting up an apparent tragedy at the end of last week’s episode, the tragedy simply didn’t materialize. Instead, it was pretty much business as usual in the 125, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Still, it was a bit of a dramatic cheat. I have prepared myself for the death of at least one character, but alas, by the end of the episode both Chris and Ray are fine. Ray, in fact, was simply grazed by a bullet, despite going down in an unconscious heap the previous week.

Which makes me suspect that, had the series continued, one of the characters probably would have died character, and the pursuit of crime boss Jimmy might have actually played out a bit longer. Instead, “Life on Mars” got its walking papers, and the writers had to …

I am honestly shocked about all the griping over the series finale of “Battlestar Galactica.” Really, I’m shocked. When “Star Trek: Voyager” ended, fans were mad because it seemed the writers were more interested in giving us action and adventure to end the series, and not much character wrap-up. In fact, the return to Earth lasted all of what, 60 seconds? “The 4400″ seemed to end on a cliffhanger of sorts, as did “Carnivale.” And people still complain about “The Sopranos” ending, but that’s not entirely science-fiction there. But yet, after all that, with Ronald D. Moore and others listening to the cries of fans in the past, those very fans have turned around and told the “Battlestar Galactica” producers, “Just kidding! We liked the old endings better!” Of all the finales for …

Don’t call it SyFy Radio anymore. Now, you can simply call it Alpha Waves. The online radio show, hosted by Airlock Alpha founder Michael Hinman until last January, returns March 27 with all-new episodes exploring the past, present and future of science-fiction. The new hosts of the show are Wayne Hall, the news editor of Airlock Alpha, and Nick Chase, the chief technology officer of Airlock Alpha’s parent corporation, Quantum Global Media Inc. However, because Hall is recovering from surgery, fans of the older show will get a treat as Michael Hinman will return to guest host the return episode. And it’s a good time to come back for him. Less then two weeks following the announcement that SciFi Channel is going to rebrand itself “Syfy,” using a term Hinman created more than a decade ago, …

The final issue of the hottest Star Trek comic book ever arrives in comic shops next week. IDW have sent TrekMovie the first five pages of "Star Trek Countdown" #4 to get you started. So check out these spoilerific pages to the ultimate Star Trek movie prequel, and maybe learn something more about the movie.  [...]