George Takei Chats Up 'First Person'

George Takei recently did an interview with Star Trek.com's First Person interview series which is gearing up to host a new line of interviews with the various stars of the shows.

George talks about his life, his public announcement of his sexual status, and about Trek, in a 29 minute interview that was taped at the CBS Television City in Hollywood.

To see the interview, click the link above, and look for George on the front page.

Russain Company Maps Out Moon Missions

Russia's leading space cpmpany, the state controlled RKK Enterprises took time Tuesday to lay out it's plans that would send out a manned mission to the moon by 2015, along with the construction of a permanant moon base, and dispatch of a crew to Mars between 2020-2030.

The ambitious vision presented by Nikolai Sevastyanov, is relying heavily on outside investment, but has been called into question because of little to no government funds to help invest in the feasibillity of the plan.

"We believe that we can fly a manned mission landing before 2015 funded by sources outside the state budget" Stevastyanov commented in a news conference, but wouldn't release te names of private funders for the project.

Russian officials have spoken of support for lunar, and Mars missions, but have made no definate commitments as of yet towards funding.

Sevastyanov also stated that Energiya, the company responsable for production of the Soyuz, and Progress spacecraft which ferry crews and supplies to the International Space Station would rely on those vechiles exclusively during the first phase of the program. This phase, would offer commercial space flights around the moon using a Soyuz capsule which could be built as early as 2009.

The next phase, plans on employing a reusable craft now under development called the "Clipper" The Clipper would have 6 seats, compared to three on the Soyuz capsule, would ferry cew to the I.S.S. and possibly become the basis for future lunar missions.

The Clipper design could be commissioned as early as somewhere between 2012-2015 Sevastyanov said.

Vulkon Sets Guests for Orlando Con...

Suzie Plakson (K'ehelyr-TNG) has been named along with Kate Mulgrew (Janeway-VOY), Rene Auberjonois (Odo-DS9), Armin Shimerman (Quark-DS9), Denise Crosby (Yar/Selar-TNG), Walter Koenig(Checkov-TNG/Bester-B5), and Andrew Probert(Illustrator-TMP) for the upcomming Orlando Vulkon Event to Be held on October 27-29 of this year.

Vulkon now also has online ordering of tickets, and upgrades. However at this time, nothing has yet been released for the Orlando event to the site. Just as soon as the information is released, We'll be sure to update you all!

To check out the offerings for Vulkon's other stops this year, along with Seatrek 2007, you can reach Vulkon's site by clicking here Rremeber, guests are subject to change due to scheduling!

We'd still love to See Chase here in all her glory! hint, hint...

Battlestar Returning in October '06

Battlestar Galactica, the Sci-Fi Channel's hit series is looking to return in October instead of it's usual July return to give Ronald.D. Moore, and his prudcution team a little more time in pre-production, and to build a little more anticipation for the season premire.

Recently, Mr. Moore made a suprise appearance at the Grand Slam Convention and took questions on the show. The 2nd part of the season finale had recently aired, and the biggest question was, "Have You Lost Your Mind?!?!?!"

Ron stated that recent designs of the reative directions of the show were designed as "an interesting way to change up the relationships, to sort of subvert your ideas on what the show is about, to take a lot of risks with the characters, and, y'know, piss off the audience, which is always a fun thing to do."

to watch the final minutes of the season finale, and the season 3 teaser, head over to the Battlestar Galactica website by clicking here and look for the icon on the top right of the page.

P.S. We still can't believe they did that either!!!!!

In2TV debut on AOL...

In an impressive paring, AOL, and Waner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution have created In2TV a FREE service to watch on demand video of some 14,000 episodes from 400 different TV Series' all viewable with a brodband connection, Internet Exploroer, and Windows Media Player 10.

For Sci-Fi and horror fans, the Heros and Horros Channel brings up an impressive list of shows with the fist 5 episodes of Babylon 5, along with DVD content form the disc set, also included are shows from The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Freddy's Nightmares, and V(The Visitors).

In an interview, Kevin Conroy, Executive Vice President, AOL Media Networks stated that "At this point in time there's no access to Mac users due to the distrbution, and copyright issues. However, we are working on a model to make the contenet available to as many people as possible, including Mac users."

Other shows included in the In2TV line up are Growing Pains, Welcome Back Kotter, Chico and The Man, and Perfect Strangers just to name a few

"With In2TV, we are enabling Web users to experience and interact with television programming in an entirely new way, and creating a new distribution platform for TV content," said Mr Conroy."This is an exciting new way to experience these shows, allowing Web users to enjoy what they want, when they want it. We view this collaboration as truly transformational and yet another demonstration of our commitment to making our next-generation AOL.com portal the best destination for video on the Web.”

to check out the offerings, click here to go to In2TV's Site!

Hidden Fontier Begins Final Season

Rob Caves, And the team of Hidden Frontier have just released episode 7.01 “ Heavy Losses” To the newsletter subscribers, with full release coming soon to the general public on their website.

Heavy Losses, continues the story from the season finale of Her Battle Lantern’s Lit, the season finale of the 6th season, and pushes into the seventh with most of the cast and crew returning to see the fate of the grey race, Deep Space 12, Starfleet, its allies, and the Tholians.

To learn more about Hidden Frontier, or to watch prior episodes, you can visit the Hidden frontier website at http://www.hiddenfrontier.org

Stay tuned to Sci-Fi News For more updates!

(image courtesy of Rob Caves/Hidden Frontier Website)

Ron B. Moore Joins New Voyages Staff...

Ron B. Moore, Visual effects supervisor on several Trek projects, recently contacted James Cawley of New Voyages after speaking with Max Rem, thier visual effects guru to offer his services to the series.

"Who am I to say 'No' to Ronald B. Moore!" exclaimed James.

The cast of characters form the big boys of Trek is growing ever larger with this production team. One wonders what might happen next...?

Harve Bennett Talks To Trek Nation...

Harve Bennett, Writer/Producer of 4 Star Trek films within the franchise talks with Michelle Erica Green of Trek Nation about his career, Starfleet Academy and more in a recent interview.

click here to read the interview.

Star Wars Collectables To Help MediCinema

Star Wars.com is helping to offer fans the chance to have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a unique set of collectables, signed by an enormus list of Star Wars stars, all to help in rasing funds for a new cinema to be built in a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.

Medicinema is a unique group that brings the magic of the film industry to patients within the confines of a hospital by building state of the art cinemas. It's 100% free to the patients, and their families, as well as hospital staff because of the outpouring of support this project receives from film distributors, sponsors, and corporate supporters.

All of the screeing rooms that are built by this great group of folks are built around an easy access format where even patients in beds, or wheelchairs can enjoy the darkening of the theatre, and the dolby surround system comming to life to bring the expirience of a great movie, even with the occasional bleep of a monitor.

The Collectables are mats originally designed for a 2002 fundrasing dinner, and screening of Attack of The Clones. Jerome Blake, a patron of the MediCinema group, came up with the idea to autograph the mats. With his appearance in Episode III as Mas Amedda, he was able to get the signatures of all the principal cast, as well as George Lucas on 6 of the mats to be auctioned for MediCinema, with the proceeds going to the construction of the new theatre.

For more information click on the links above, and help this great work if you are interested!

Astronauts to celebrate Trek's 40th...

Alan Bean, and Buzz Aldrin will be joining Alums from the Star Trek family to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the franchise on Sept. 8-10 at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, WA.

Among the special guests that are attending the the event are George Takei(Sulu), Nichelle Nichols(Uhura), Walter Koenig(Checkov), Grace Lee Whitney(Rand), Jonathan Frakes(Riker), Marina Siritis(Troi), Tim Russ(Tuvok), Alan Ruck(Harriman), Eugene "Rod" RoddenberryJr., and the Mother of all things Trek, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry.

This very special convention will have a final trbute to Montgomery Scott, and farewell to the actor who potrayed the character for over 40 years, James Doohan.

Seating is limited to 400. To have a chance at being one of those lucky people, click to the Planet Expo website to register for the chance to be a part of this once in a lifetime event!

This gala event is made possible by the joint efforts of Plantxpo, The Science Fiction Museum, MBL Entertainment, Trek United and artist Michael David Ward.

Doohan Memorial Flight Rescheduled

Space Services, Inc. has announced that the memorial flight with the remains of James "Scotty" Doohan, and of astronaut Gordon Cooper has been delayed until at least until May, 2006.

In a recent post SSI stated "The Explorers Flight will be the largest ever memorial spaceflight – there are 187 participants from 12 countries aboard. The launch could occur in the second quarter of 2006, and there may be only a few weeks advance notice provided, so please be certain to check this space often if you plan to attend."

Click here to read a statement by SpaceX concerning the maiden flight of the Falcon 1 launch vehicle from the Marshall Islands. "On February 9, SpaceX executed a successful flight countdown all the way to lighting the engine. Although there wasn't a launch this time, SpaceX made a great deal of progress refining the rocket and launch pad. SpaceX is looking to reschedule the maiden flight of the Falcon 1, possibly to late February or early March. Once that launch occurs, our flight — The Explorers Flight (to fly on another Falcon 1) — can be scheduled for liftoff. Currently, the Explorers Flight is projected to occur no earlier than May 2006."

We'll keep you up to date with any information as it occurs

Threshold Moves To DVD

TV Shows on DVD is reporting that the short lived sci-fi drama starring Carla Gugino, Brent Spiner, Charles S. Dutton, Peter Dinklage, Brian Van Holt, and Rob Benedict will be making it's way to DVD with the possibillity of a summer release.

All 13 episodes are expected to be in the 'complete series' DVD which will include the 4 unaired episodes that weren't seen here in the U.S., but were aired for UK and Canadian audiences after the announcement of the show's cancellation back in November of last year.

We'll keep you updated as the news becomes available.

Andreas Katsulas Remembered...

Andreas Katsulas, potrayer of G'KAR on Babylon 5, and several charaters within the Star Trek Franchise, has passed due to complications of Lung Cancer, on Feb. 13, as confirmed by his agent, Donna Massetti to Sci Fi Wire

Born in St. Louis, Katsulas held a master's degree in theater from Indiana University, his official Web site said. After performing in plays in St. Louis, New York and Boston, he went on to film roles in such movies as Michael Cimino's The Sicilian, which brought him to Los Angeles, then in Ridley Scott's Someone to Watch Over Me and Blake Edward's Sunset.

Katsulas moved to Los Angeles permanently in 1986 and found scores of television and film parts in everything from TV's Alien Nation and Max Headroom to the big screen's The Fugitive, in which he played the infamous one-armed man, and Executive Decision opposite Kurt Russell and Steven Seagal.

Z-Team productions, has produced a wonderful tribute to Andreas, which can be viewed by clicking here to view the quictime movie (qt version 7 recommended)

Funeral Arrangements are pending.

Dorn, Stewart Talk New Trek Movie...

Michael Dorn and Patrick Stewart have both said that in their opinions, there will be annother film in the Trek franchise starring the Next Generation Cast.

"My opinion, which is solely my opinion, is yes there will," Dorn told G4 in a recent interview on Attack of The Show to promote the airing of the Next Generation and the Original Series shows on the cable network.

"Hopefully it'll be a Worf story" Dorn added "Where Worf saves the galaxy, and gets the cute chick!" This dispite the fact that Dorn's character almost never was a part of the 7 year run for the Next Gen crew. The cast had already been in place for 2 weeks when Dorn was called to take the role.

Dorn recalls "They were a tight knit group. But at the last minute, Gene Roddenberry, who created Star Trek, was tired of getting grief from the fans: 'What about the Klingons?'" Roddenberry decided, "'Things change; let's have a Klingon on the bridge. And that's when they called me.' It was last minute."

He also confessed that he'd almost left the show during the second season because of all the dammage to his skin from the makeup, and prosthetics that transformed Dorn into his Klingon counterpart. At one time, Dorn was doing a convention literally every weekend, but now has chosen to do only the "cool places" and 3-4 conventions a year. just for fun, he's flying ex-millitary jets.

For the full interview, head over to G4 to download the video.

Special Report #2

Hey gang, Special Report #2 is here, and Alvin is in the show!

you can listen to the report on Odeo by clicking on the play button above~!

We're talking about the condition of the show, and how we're working to bring the show back to you as soon as humanly possible!

Stay tuned for the first full episode with your co-hosts together comming soon!

Takei Accepts Offer...

George Takei (Sulu-TOS) has accepted the offer from the production staff at Star Trek: New Voyages to reprise his role as the famed Helmsman, Hikaru Sulu

In a post on the New Voyages Website, James Cawley (Kirk-STNV) announced that the actor will reprise his role in the episode "World Enough and Time" written by Marc Scott Zicree and Michael Reaves

Zicree, who penned the DS9 episode "Far Beyond The Stars" in which Sisko lives the life of an oppressed 20th centruy writer, while Reaves pitched a never-produced Star Trek-Phase II that Paramount axed in lieu of making feature films. Zicree will also be taking the director's chair for the episode, saying that "Michael and I are about to begin writing what I feel confident will be one of the landmark episodes of Trek"

In related news, the New Voyages website also announced the inclusion of actor Christian Malmin to potray the role of Sarek in "What Lies Beneath" written by Jack Trevino and Eathan Calk. Malmin has appeared in recurring roles on Days of Our Lives and other shows. I am extremely thrilled to be asked to appear as Spock's father on New Voyages," Malmin said, promising to "do my homework" and recreate the role of Sarek.

For more information on the upcomming shows, or to meet the cast of New Voyages visit the website by clicking here.

Carl's In 7th Heaven...

Carl's living up his New Year's resolution in this week's The Trek Life on Star Trek.com!

Click the link above for the latest installment...

Takei To Appear In New Voyages?

In a "scoop" given by James Cawley on G4's Attack of The Show during a recent interview, he let loose that the New Voyages production staff, is in "deep negotiations" with George Takei (Sulu-TOS) to reprose his role in an upcomming episode of the upcomming Fan Film series.

In related news Grace Lee Whitney (Rand) has also agreed to reprise her role in an upcomming episode of the series. We'll keep our sensors set for long range to bring you the information as it comes out.

To view the video from James Cawley and Jeffery Quinn's Interview on G4 click here.

Lawless To Do More BSG...

On January 13, news came out of the Creationent Xena Con in Burbank, CA that Lucy Lawless, more famously known for her title role in Xena: Warrior Princess will be returning for at least 10 more episodes in the future to reprise her guest role as D'anna Biers, a news reporter/Cylon spy.

We can't wait to see where this unfolds!

David Gerrold Joins New Voyages...

Recently in a post on the Star Trek:New Voyages website, it was announced that author David Gerrold would be joining the production team for the show's creative staff.

Mr. Gerrold has two stories online, "The first is a re-worked Blood and Fire, which was originally pitched for TNG, but ultimately rejected for it's controversial storyline, dealing with an AIDS-like virus and homosexuality."

James Cawley, (Kirk) Executive Producer enthused "This is a real coup for all of us here at New Voyages. David's involvement will give us the opportunity to deal with socially relevant topics, just as the original series did."

to find out more about Mr. Gerrold's plans, and storylines, click the link above to visit the New Voyages website.

B5 Podcast Is Open For Business

The Babylon Podcast a show, based on the Babylon 5 series is now open for business!

Hosted by Summer Brooks (Slice of Sci-Fi, Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas) Tim Callender, and Jeffery Willerth (Ambassador Kosh) have placed together show #0 for your listening pleasure as a preview to upcoming episodes th be presented in the future.

"Devling deep into the heart and soul of a show that touched us all" Summer and the guys are setting the tone for the podcast with great humor, and lots of talk by Jeffery about being in that 'encounter suit' that we all have come to know so well.

to download sho #0 form the Babylon Podcast, click here to access the site, and listen to the show!

Empire at War Demo Comming Soon

Star Wars: Empire at War is begining it's quest soon...

Lucasarts announced recently that Empire at War a PC only game title from the Star Wars power house franchise, will be available for demo download Jan.18th, with full release to stores Feb. 16 of this year.

Choose your side, and wage the Galatic Civil War across 40 different locations, build structures in space, on land, and sea, control the armies of the imperial forces, and the republic, and do battle as Darth Vader, or Obi-Wan Kenobi

Force choice, troop management, and much more will be available in the full version, but with less micro management. Empire at War looks to be a uber exciting title for the franchise, and players alike.

Comcast Offers Trek Movies On Demand...

Customers of the Comcast cable system will have an oppertunity to watch all 10 Star Trek Films this moth on the 'On Demand' channels through the serivce.

January is 'Sci-Fi on Demand' for the cable system, with more than 120 hours of programming geared twoards Sci-Fi and fantasy fans available 24 hours a day throughout the month.

Besides the films from the Trek franchise, Comcast will also be showing Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of The Sith, Batman Begins, War of The Worlds, Fantastic 4 and many other titles as well as offering subscibers shows on A&E. Also, the cable service will be running all of the episodes from the television series Firefly with the release of Serenity comming to On Demand service next month.

To find out more about 'Sci-Fi Month' on Comcast, visit the link to the website by clicking here.

Star Wars Fanworks...

As I was working the net for the next big Sci-Fi story, I came across one of the largest gold mines on the net for Star Wars fans 'round the world.

Star Wars Fanworks is a collection of audio presentations including audio drama's based entirely upon George Lucas' Franchise, and including parodies, with one in perticular called 'TrekWars' which draws from both franchises to create an audio drama expirience.

As Far as I can see, all of the shows are available in .mp3 format, and are totally free to download, and listen to so any listener can "catch up" on a show they choose.

Created in Summer 2003, 'Fanworks' started out as a gathering of fan based audio that was rejected by the fan film producers, and in essence told to "Find your own way to the Force" Which at that time "TBone" was looking to branch out into new ventures.

Check out Fanworks. You'll be glad you did! there's more tales to the universe out there...

Interview With Rob Caves...

Trek United has an interview with Rob Caves, the executive producer of Star Trek:Hidden Frontier on their website with Kirok of L'Stok on Mr. Caves thoughts about the series, and what future projects might possibly hold.

to check it out, click on the link.

DeLance To Open New Black Hole Production...

John De Lancie who is widely known in the science fiction community for his role as the omnipotent being ‘Q’ in the Star Trek franchise, has narrated a new production about Black Holes at the Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City, UT.

The grand openning of the production is on Tuesday 17^th of January and hopefully Mr. De Lancie may be able to attend the grand opening himself.

After the production is shown Dr. Stacy Palen, an expert on Black Holes from Weber State University will be presenting the latest research on Black Holes in an informative lecture.

Tickets for the event cost just $15 for Planetarium members and $20 for non-members and they are on a first-come first-served basis.
Tickets can be booked using a credit card by calling 801-456-4966.

More information is available at the Clark Planetarium Website

Corgi To Produce Trek Collectables...

Plans Include Replicas from Original Series and Star Trek: Next Generation

Corgi International Limited, the leading name in die-cast scale models, has added another license to their already impressive portfolio, by signing a new deal with Copyright Promotions to produce a range of commemorative products to celebrate Star Trek's 40th anniversary in 2006.

The first two die-cast replica models from the Star Trek range will be launched in February 2006; the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 and the Klingon Bird of Prey. Both spacecraft have become synonymous with the Star Trek global phenomenon, with the Enterprise having been featured in the very first episode screened in 1966.

In May 2006, the third launch to come out of Corgi's commemorative range will be the Next Generation Enterprise NCC-1701-D. Set nearly a century after Star Trek, the show featured a new starship (also named Enterprise) and a new crew. Star Trek: The Next Generation was the highest rated of all the Star Trek series, and was the number one syndicated show during the last few years of its original run in the 1990s.

A limited edition run of all three ships will be available in Autumn/Winter 2006, each coming with a specially designed light up mount.

David Wootliff, Corgi's marketing director said: "Star Trek, like Corgi, has entertained generations of children and grown-ups over the years, and we are delighted to be able to commemorate such a significant achievement with top quality replica models".

For more information, please visit http://www.corgi.co.uk

Google Video To Make Trek Available Via Web...

source:Trek Today
written by:Michelle

Google Inc. has announced plans to open an enhanced online video marketplace including content from CBS, which will include Paramount Television shows Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

"Google Video will let you watch lots of high quality video on the web for the first time," explained company co-founder Larry Page at Google. In addition, Google will allow amateur and professional filmmakers to broadcast over the web: "For video producers and anyone with a video camera, Google Video will give you a platform to publish to the entire Google audience in a fast, free and seamless way."

In addition to the two Star Trek series, shows from CBS's current lineup including CSI, NCIS and Survivor, plus Sony music videos, classic cartoons and NBA games, will be available commercial-free. "This is yet another exciting platform in which CBS can leverage its market-leading content to a whole new audience," said CBS president Leslie Moonves.

"With the recent corporate split between Viacom and CBS, the latter company has taken control of all of Paramount's television properties, including the Star Trek franchise," explained StarTrek.com. Other historical Paramount series like I Love Lucy will be available for purchase at Google as well.

Since Viacom and CBS split, it had been unclear which division would ultimately control the Star Trek franchise. Paramount Pictures is now a part of Viacom, but Paramount Television and the series it produced for UPN are now a part of CBS.

Battlestar Returns To SciFi Friday...

Battlestar Galactica, Along with Stargate SG-1, and Stargate: Atlantis all return this Friday @8pm EST to the Sci-Fi Channel for Sci-Fi Fridays Starting @ 8pm EST (check local listings for times in your area)

Resurrection Ship is this Fridays Episode, Continuing the 2nd Season of the acclaimed hit produced by Ron Moore and tells the tale of a rag-tag fleet looking for a new home in earth after the loss of their world to the cylon invaders who are now furiously trying to eradicate the Galatica and her rag-tag fleet of ships.

We here at Sc-Fi News have been waiting on pins and needles for the return, and can't wait to give you our review of the new episode, comming soon!

Roddenberry Jr. Talks 'Trek Nation', TV Shows, Majel

source:Trek Today
written by: Michelle

In a chat with fans, Eugene Roddenberry, Jr. talked about his Trek Nation documentary, his mother's health and his frustration with how his father's series have been handled by producers in recent years.

At Roddenberry.com, the son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry said that Trek Nation (no relation to the Trek Nation web site) is halfway through the editing process and needs at least another two months before it can be entered into film festivals. "We actually had a finished rough cut but it was not what we wanted," he admitted. "So we've had to go back and recut the whole thing...I'm going for 'I am very happy with this film.'"

The film was not finished in time for Sundance this year, he noted. After the film is shown, he added, "distributors (Paramount, 20th Century, Lions Gate...etc) contact us with an offer...ideally." He hoped to see the film released by the end of 2006 in time for Star Trek's 40th anniversary. Anthony Montgomery (Mayweather) and Roddenberry have "been working on a hiphop" for the movie which Roddenberry called "really quite amazing," saying that Montgomery, who released a CD last year, is "talented beyond anything I imagined."

Roddenberry said that he was out of the loop about Paramount's plans for Star Trek, explaining that he did not know whether there would be another movie or a Starfleet Academy show. "I wish I could be the 'Authority' on this stuff but I get the impression that Paramount do[es] not want the Roddenberry [name] to take part in promoting ST," he said. "HOWEVER! Star Trek is not dead or gone. Paramount owns an amazing and profitable property. I'm fairly certain they are just regrouping. IT WILL be back. No one is that stupid."

When a fan inquired about his mother, Roddenberry said, "Majel is good. In her own words 'getting older' but good. She cannot move around as well as she used to. I think she's pretty much retired when it come to conventions...she's done them for almost 40 years, she deserves a rest."

Asked whether there were any plans to continue Andromeda, Roddenberry said that he was out of the loop there as well: "I wiped my hands of Andromeda back at the beginning of production....I've had nothing to do with it." He guessed that there would not be another season of the television series, but added, "However, this is only a rumor...someone somewhere (not me) may be trying to shop it around as a feature. Just like Firefly. Keep in mind that I get these rumors from other fans not from legitimate sources. I know nothing."

As for Earth: Final Conflict, another Gene Roddenberry series, Roddenberry noted, "EFC was wonderful because of the cast and crew and terrible because of the typical Hollywood BS." For him the biggest problems were personal: "'Someone else' was producing a TV series based on my father's concepts. They had little respect for the fans and weight of the Roddenberry name. First season was an excellent first season. The rest was mediocre Sci Fi. In my opinion...however, lets see how good I do when I produce my first TV series. Proof is in the puddin' baby!"

For more, including Roddenberry's taste in music and favourite underwear, the transcript is at Roddenberry.com.

Star Trek.com Features Sarek

Star Trek.com Documetaries has published a feature on Sarek, of Vulcan (potrayed by the late Mark Leonard) son of Skon, and father to Spock.

Over an illustious career, Sarek became widely known as a Federation Ambassador, and a diplomat for not only the Vuclan government, and the Federation as a whole, including the 93 year effort to bring about the Federation-Legaran Treaty. However, his personal life was stormy. Sarek raerely saw his first son, Sybok who was born in 2224 to a Vulcan princess Sarek's first wife who died shortly after the delivery.

You can see the documentary by clicking on the link above.

Tom Hanks To Appear In Trek?

SciFi heaven has managed to drop a HUGE bombshell on Trek fans around the world. According to an unnamed source on their website, Tom Hanks (pictured) has been rumored to have been penned as a possible star for Erik Jendresen’s script Star Trek: The Begining should it be chosen by Paramout for production.

While the rumor can't be confirmed, and the authenticity is definately in qestion, IF the information does prove to be true, this might be just the situation to re-energize the much loved 40 year old franchise.

Mr. Hanks, who produced, and directed the sreries From Earth To The Moon has shown a love for space exploration, and long cemented himself as a household name with 4 Oscars and a list of movie credits thast includes some of the biggest stars in Hollywood. His next movie, The DaVinci Code is a highly anticipated release that is attracting attention around the world.

If the information holds out to be true, then this could just send a message to 'The Powers That Be' in Hollywood that Trek is an impratant franchise the world over, and it's time to take notice. Mr. Hanks can littterally punch his own ticket for any film venue he wishes to perform in. Hopefully, we can see his craft at work within the realm of a franchise that could use a boost after the events of 2005.