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Crowdfunded Star Trek film infringes copyrights on Klingon language, Vulcan ears and Federation uniforms
Trekkies would have a lot to say about this piece of news. Paramount and CBS filed a lawsuit over Axanar, a fan-funded Star Trek film, and now we’re seeing some rather amusing milestones in the case. The original idea was to create a fan-funded Star Trek movie set in the year 2245. This was well…
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Star Trek Original Series Communicator brought to life with a little Bluetooth tech
Star Trek might very well be the very series that inspired most modern day devices especially the mobile phone and tablet. The iconic Original Series Communicator was, for all intents and purposes, a mobile handset. It was utilized on the show to communicate with other crew members and also as a locator; sound familiar? So…
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Leonard Nimoy idolized with his own asteroid 4864 Nimoy
Let’s be honest here, when playing Star Trek, how often did you want to be Kirk as compared to being Spock? I know I preferred playing the demure and cool headed second in command even though I probably identified mostly with the more shoot-and-ask-questions-later Captain of the Starship Enterprise. Spock definitely had quite a fan…
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Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise arrives as a flying disc
What’s that up in the air? Is it a UFO? A Frisbee? A plaything? Maybe it’s all three in one. And so it is. The Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise Flying Disc is just what the doctor ordered for all your geeky-sporty action. It does look and function like how ThinkGeek has intended it to. The…
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CBS’ Star Trek Phaser remote control lights up when fired, comes with illuminated power cell
Brace yourselves, the Trekkies are coming. Why wouldn’t they? CBS has all the temptations laid out for them in form of this inspiring Star Trek: Original Series Phaser Universal Remote Control. When it comes to details, there is no hell spared here. The makers have 3D scanned the original Phaser to make sure they didn’t…
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Put your access cash to use with Funko Pop! Star Trek: The Original Series vinyl figures
Surprisingly so, there are indeed times when common folks like us have nothing left to spend on. At times like these, here’s something you can blow away a few bucks on, something that’ll leave you smiling and content at the fact that you’ve bought home an object of questionable uses, like this fantastic line of…
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Star Trek fan creates $30,000 detailed Starship Enterprise replica in her basement
Fans can sometimes outdo the very makers of movies in the way they interpret, recreate and pay tribute to their favorite franchises. Take Line Rainville from Canada for instance. She went all-out to convert her basement into a fanboys ultimate fantasy of the Star Trek Enterprise. A fan of the series since the age of…
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Khan Noonien Singh Christmas Wreath relives Star Trek fandom
All of us who enjoyed the magic of Star Trek III: The Wrath of Khan will be well aware of the sinister scorn that character Khan Noonien Singh inflicted on those he despised. It all comes to the jolly season of Christmas that ironically reminds us of people with such a scorn like that Grinch.…
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Full size premium Star Trek pinball machine returns after a gap of 20 years
High definition video games and 64-bit gaming consoles might have conquered the world but old school arcade games can never lose their flavor, at least for people like us who were born in the 80’s or before. Have spare $5,300 and a spot in the house to be filled by something really kickass? Get yourself…
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Star Trek heads toward the rising sun with Japanese Spock selling anti-rust spray
As obscure as it goes, we can see some intergalactic inspiration driving anti-rust sales in Japan soon. KURE 5-56 is Japan’s very own WD-40, an anti-rust spray that keeps all things free from rust, including space ships. Promoting this wonder-product with the Star Trek analogy, complete with a Japanese Spock, seems to have been the…
