Star Trek

Interview with Barack Obama Newsweek, May 25, 2009 And the last movie you saw? Now, movies I’ve been doing OK [with] because it turns out we got this nice theater on the ground floor of my house … So Star Trek, we saw this weekend, which I thought was good. Everybody was saying I was Spock, so I figured I should check it out and—[the president makes the Vulcan salute with his hand]. Very good. Yes, absolutely. Did you watch…

How come no one told me (sorry, Garett, I’m behind on my RSS feeds) that there was a new Star Trek movie trailer out? Man, this is gonna be SWEET. Also, scope out this YouTube vid of this sweet, new Blue Scholars’ joint: “Coffee and Snow.”

To add to my love of Lost, I just recently discovered that Daniel Dae Kim was in one episode of Star Trek : Voyager that I just watched (and three in Star Trek : Enterprise). On top of that, Terry O’Quinn played a really badass admiral in one episode of Star Trek : The Next Generation!

Variety reported last night that J.J. Abrams (the mastermind behind “Alias”, “Lost”, and the soon-to-be-released “Mission:Impossible III”) and his team from “Lost” is going to make the next “Star Trek” feature film, to be released in 2008. Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk, Abrams’ producing team from “Lost,” also will produce the yet-to-be-titled feature. Project, to be penned by Abrams and “MI3” scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, will center on the early days of seminal “Trek” characters James T. Kirk…

I know this is really geeky, but it needs to be said. In NPR’s tribute to James Doohan, the intro music is to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which James Doohan never had anything to do with and never appeared on. C’mon guys, not all Star Treks are created equal. Learn your theme music.

AP: LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original ”Star Trek” TV series and movies who responded to the command ”Beam me up, Scotty,” died Wednesday. He was 85. Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer’s disease, he said. He had…