Saturday, 9 May 2009

Something new from Mr. Byrne

On his forums John Byrne has posted a preview page from an mysterious new Star Trek project he has begun to work on.He's not given away much, other than it's set between the TV series and The Motion Picture and wont be out for a while yet...
As reported by Toy News International, the Vermont Teddy Bear Company has taken a Star Trek license and produced two Star Trek teddy bears, based on Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock (complete with pointed ears):

Mission's End #3 preview

TrekMovie have released a five page preview of the third issue of Mission's End, here's one page:See more, here.

D-A-C trailer

Looksie, a trailer for the D-A-C game:

Hallmark 2009

Toy News International has posted details of Hallmark's Star Trek keepsake ornaments for this year. The selection will include:

"Klingon Battle Cruiser", in celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Motion Picture (with lights).
  "The Menagerie", featuring Kirk and Spock beside Pike in his chair (with a light in Pike's chair and sound clips).
 "Starfleet Phaser", a TOS type 1 phaser (sounds and voice clips)
 According to TrekMovie there will also be a limited release Lieutenant Ilia (from The Motion Picture) figurine.

New movie bits

Boy did I choose a bad week to be too busy to update this place! Ok, so the movie is out already, but here are some other little bits related too it from the last week:

First, check out this insanely cool augmented reality thingy of the Enterprise, very cool! Website: experience-the-enterprise.com and video preview:


Also, if you head out to the videos section of the offical website you can see another clip from the film, titled "Ice Planet", with Kirk on Delta Vega.

And finally the Enterprise art project has been completed, so you can now check out twenty-five weird and wonderful Enterprises, here. My favourite remains the chocolate one:

Saturday, 2 May 2009

Spock Reflects

Chris Ryall has posted David Messina's cover for the second issue of the Spock: Reflections miniseries, which looks like this:

Ryall also mentioned that Messina is already working on a second Countdown spin-off series, but gave no other detail on that yet.

Crew #3 preview

Comics Continuum have posted five-page previews of IDW's releases for the forthcoming week, which includes issue three, titled Ghosts, of John Byrne's Crew miniseries.

See the rest of the preview, here.

Star Trek Online 2387 and new Ship of the Line

The Star Trek Online website has been updated with new articles in both their Path to 2409 and Ships of the Line features.

The timeline has continued into 2387, and for the most part is a re-telling, and expansion, of the events of the Countdown miniseries, with a greater emphasis on general astro-political landscape around the comic series, notably making certain to save most of the major Romulan characters featured in the timeline so far. Read the whole update, here.

The Ships of the Line update gives details of the Type VII Commercial Laboratory, a civilian starship described as being used by a variety of species for all sorts of specialised research missions. See the full details, here.

Friday, 1 May 2009

D-A-C videos

Team Xbox have posted a preview of Star Trek D-A-C, including several videos, such as this one:



There are three more to watch in the report, so go have a looksie.
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