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We visited Star Trek The Tour on its last day here in Long Beach. It was cool. You can see the photostream at Flickr, here.

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You can see it at trekmovie.com. I like it, and all we see is a fleeting glimpse. Yes, you may be tempted to leave after the trailer plays ahead of "Cloverfield" but stick around, I hear the director is pretty good.
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I haven’t done a real blog entry about Trek for a while, so, here is the current cast list, and I am excited;

Captain James Kirk: Chris Pine
Commander Spock: Zachary Quinto
Doctor Leonard McCoy: Karl Urban
Lt Cmdr. Montgomery Scott: Simon Pegg
Lt. Hikaru Sulu: John Cho
Lt. Uhura: Zoe Saldana
Ensign Pavel Chekov: Anton Yelchin
Captain Christopher Pike: Bruce Greenwood
Ambassador Sarek: […]

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This would be a good deal if all you wanted was an HD-DVD player. If you buy any Toshiba HD-DVD player between now and 02/29/08 and the box set of Star Trek Remastered Season One, Toshiba will throw in a phaser remote. If you are going to do this, remember, use the link below to […]

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As I said I would post this. My report card on the LAX Marriott, having had the pleasure to stay there finally after 3 conventions worth is an B+.
The service was excellent, food plentiful, accommodations comfortable, the shower was excellent (that is my barometer for most hotel stays) the only drawback was the dreadful internet […]

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Here I am at the beautiful Marriott LAX hotel on Sunday, 11/25/07. I am cleaning the room (yes, I know, I DON’T HAVE TO DO IT! I was a hotel housekeeper right out of high school and briefly in 1989 so I feel a certain kinship with my oppressed brothers and sisters) and getting ready […]

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Another article from trekmovie.com has excerpts from Star Trek Magazine (the new UK version that is sold in the U.S.) and their interviews with Brent Spiner and Rick Berman. Brent Spiner has some interesting things to say that actually mirror my opinions about Star Trek’s audience numbers:

“And that’s the big fear with this Star […]

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Why this is doomed…

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I am not one to “game” much. What I mean by that is, computer game. I have a Playstation 2 I haven’t seen in over a year because my little girl insists on having it in her room, and I have some games for that that I have been trying to play (Splinter Cell comes […]

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Over the weekend I was asked to participate on a panel at the Loscon 32 SF convention about the future of Star Trek. Where is the franchise headed? We had on the panel with me, Lee Whiteside, who manages the wonderful SFTV pages , Jill Sherwin who wrote Quotable Star Trek, Margaret Wander Bonnano the […]

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