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January 29, 2010

Episode Guide pictures, music, and icons.


Small images (just like those included in the Spock and World section articles) have been added to all the Episode Guide pages. They make the text blocks more colourful, one hopes.

There's a new album to download in Music. This page no longer contains just a smattering of random tracks - it now operates like a "album of the month" club. Most often, soundtracks will feature. (Though I'm sure Nimoy's fabulous vocal performances will be along too.)

And lastly, there are eight new LJ Icons to check out, including a couple from the Animated Series and a couple zany Kirk ones. Fun!
karenjeane at 2:37 PM 0 comments

Quinto takes a break; Nimoy returns to Fringe.


Zachary Quinto has announced that he is taking a break from Star Trek for "at least two years", according to Wired. I understand that he wants to pursue other goals before saddling up to play Spock again for Star Trek 2 (which, despite not even having been written yet, already has a release date of June 29, 2012), but I can't help but be saddened that this means no convention appearances, since he really hasn't done that many. I wish him luck in his non-Trek and non-Heroes endeavors and look forward to seeing him do other things.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Spock spectrum, Leonard Nimoy is set to reprise his role as Dr. William Bell in Fringe's two-part season two finale. Entertainment Weekly reports that there will be a confrontation between Bell and former science partner, Dr. Walter Bishop (played by John Noble).

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Amie R. at 1:02 AM 0 comments

January 22, 2010

News Roundup.


As previously reported, the soon-to-be-released Star Trek Online is currently in open beta. Today they released a huge patch for the game which includes Leonard Nimoy's "audio journal overview" upon entering a new sector. The patch also removes the level cap and opens up Cardassian and Romulan Sectors to Federation players, among other changes.

Leonard Nimoy will be stopping by the town of Vulcan on April 23 (Hey! That's my birthday!) before making his appearance at Calgary Comic Expo that weekend.

On Thursday, Zachary Quinto made a guest appearance in episode 7 of the comedy podcast Yoda & Me. Quinto plays "the director" in the outtake footage of Yoda filming The Empire Stikes Back. It's quite hilarious. Click here to launch iTunes and download/subscribe to Yoda & Me or visit the YodaAndMe.com.

Zachary Quinto will also be performing in a one-night only, benefit performance for Naked Angels New Play Fund on January 28 at 7:30pm in New York. For more information and tickets, check out their website. He'll also be appearing at the Ojai Plays event Hearts On Fire on January 30. Tickets for the event are sold out.

And finally, ONTD_StarTrek's UNICEF page are still taking donations for Haiti; at the time of posting, 641 people have donated $16,952.

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Amie R. at 1:17 AM 0 comments

January 17, 2010

Trek for Haiti: Update.


Since I first posted about the fund raising on Thursday, the fans over at ONTD_StarTrek have raised over $15,000 in around 48 hours. I don't even have words for how awesome this is. I'm just amazed at the support and generosity the fandom has shown over the last few days. And the money just keeps growing. As I mentioned in my previous post, I will be donating whatever I get from my auction of my Star Trek I-VI DVDs. Bidding ends this Wednesday, January 20.

In other news, I've acquired a beta key for the new Star Trek Online game (due out February 2) and I've been making a few notes which will be posted probably sometime around the end of the week, since I will have played quite a bit.

I've also recently received a very unique collection of Star Trek items which belonged to Sherna Comerford, publisher of the very first Trek fanzine, "Spockanalia", which I will be sharing with you soon as well.

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Amie R. at 2:03 AM 0 comments

January 14, 2010

Star Trek fandom raising money for Haiti.


I am part of a wonderful community over on LiveJournal, ONTD_StarTrek. Maybe some of you have heard of it, maybe some of you are members. :) So far the community has raised over $4,000 just today for Haiti. If you would like to make a donation, please visit the UNICEF Star Trek Help for Haiti page.

EDIT: I am auctioning my standard Star Trek DVDs, featuring the original crew, for Haiti. Details and photos here.

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Amie R. at 8:48 PM 0 comments

January 01, 2010

EAE Award


Spock Lives is the January winner of the EAE Award at Ex Astris Scientia. This is a great start to the year for us, for sure. Thanks, Bernd!

Happy Stardate 2010 to all.
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December 14, 2009

Donation


We have a snazzy new wallpaper donated by Jamie! Many thanks.
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