Get the replicators programmed to serve fish fingers and custard because the Doctor is going to visit the Enterprise-D. Bleeding Cool reports that comic book publisher IDW will release a Doctor Who/Star Trek: The Next Generation crossover series in May. Pictured above is the cover of the first issue.

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Not only is this Spock pot holder really cool looking, but it’s also a great way to reach the the far back of your oven… to boldly cook food where no man has cooked before.

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Ricardo Montalbán on the set of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan meets an inflatable replica of his co-star in the series Fantasy Island. Pop culture occasionally gives us these strange juxtapositions. Link -via @JohnCFarrier

If you’ve ever been truly dedicated to a particular collection, then you know just how heart breaking it would be to lose it after putting in so much time and money. Now just imagine your collection transformed your entire apartment into a Star Trek ship only to risk losing it in a divorce. That’s what very well may happen to Tony Alleyne, whose wife wants to convert it back into a “normal” dwelling and sell the property to a presumably “normal” buyer. Read all about the sad news over at The Sun.

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I haven’t yet checked out Settlers of Catan, but it seems like a blast and those that play it certainly enjoy it. That being said, I can’t help but feel like maybe I’ll continue to wait to play the game until March, when the Star Trek version of the game is going to be released. After all, two great things can only be better when combined right? On the downside, it’s only going to be released in Germany.

Catan players, are you interested in trying out the new version?

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This majestic coffee table is one that only a true Trekkie could appreciate because it’s modeled on the obscure Enterprise-C. Barry Shields (up!) built it to appear in forward motion and suspended in space.

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The redoubtable Miranda-class cruisers were in Starfleet service for a century and saw action from the Battle of the Mutara Nebula to the Battle of Cardassia. For us Trekkies, the most famous was the Reliant, which was hijacked by Khan Noonien Singh in the second Star Trek movie. Christer Nyberg made this LEGO model of it using about ten to fifteen thousand pieces. It’s equipped with numerous lights, which you can see at the link.

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Star Trek Tin Tote | $14.95

If you always wanted a Star Trek lunch box, but never got one because your parents made you eat cafeteria food, your chance is here! Get your Star Trek Tin Tote from the NeatoShop! There are Star Trek graphics on both sides, plus more on the ends. Check it out, as well as the large selection of other neat Star Trek items, in the NeatoShop.

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“Hey Jim-boy, y’all ever have a real cold, Georgia-style mint julep, huh?” You won’t be able to mix one in this teapot, or even Georgia-style sun tea. But you can brew up some hot tea (no, not Earl Grey). Artist Mark Nathan Stafford made this sculpture for the Ossuaries Project. Pour water into the top and tea out of the left ear.

Link -via io9 | Ossuary Project Website

Tamara de Lempicka is my favorite Art Deco painter, so this image inspired by her work makes me happy. It was composed by deviantART user lymanalpha.

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Not sufficiently retro for you? Then you could try the Andy Griffith version of “Single Ladies.” As for me, I think that we should start an Internet movement to summon Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, and LeVar Burton together to present a real-life version of this video.

-via The Mary Sue | Previously: Wrinkled Ladies

This custom made Enterprise mailbox was built with solar powered lights, so that high school kids can see what they’re smashing no matter how dark it is outside. Really, the guy who built it must live in a nice neighborhood, because where I live people would steal this thing in a heartbeat.

Link –via Geekologie

This Constitution-class starship comes equipped extra running lights. According to several redditors, it’s on display in East Peoria, Illinois. That city is apparently famous for its grand Christmas light displays.

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There was also a female character known as Number One, a cold, efficient and logical woman to play against the hot headed, libidinous Kirk. She was intended to by played by Majel Roddenberry, then Majel Barrett. Gene Roddenberry was dating her at the time, but hadn’t yet divorced his estranged wife. The studio producing Star Trek was uncomfortable A) with a woman as such a central character and B) with the scandalous nepotism of the whole thing. They also didn’t particularly like Spock as a character, and so as a compromise Roddenberry eliminated Number One, made a Spock the emotionless one, and promoted him to First Officer.

And thus, Nichols was instead cast as the legendary Lieutenant and the rest, as they say, is history.

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Which would prevail in a battle between a Constitution-class heavy cruiser and a Star Destroyer? There is a time and a place for such conflicts, and Star Trek and Star Wars fans have shed much blood in them. But George Takei reminds us that there is a threat against both franchises — nay, civilization itself. That is Twilight, and now it is time for fans to unite against it.

As a Trekkie, I take up Captain Sulu’s call and extend a hand of friendship to my geeky brethren across the divide. Our differences are not so great.

-via Blastr

Dodd’s Furniture is going where no furniture store has gone before. Where that is, I don’t know. Set your savings for stunning! -via The Daily What Geeks

redditor nem8 made the USS Xmas, affectionately known as the Gingerprise. There is an argument in the comment thread about whether the registry number is correct. This is why we Trekkies are awesome.

N.B. The joke “Bake it so!” is better used for a different ship, namely the Xmas-D.

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Yoda Santa Hat – $11.95

Spock Santa Hat – $15.95

Are you overcome by the spirit of the holidays, but want celebrate in a way that remains true to your geeky self? You need a Santa Hat from the NeatoShop. Trekkies will love the Spock Santa Hat with embroidered Starfleet insignia. Star Wars fanatics, however, will be forced to choose Yoda.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more Star Trek and Star Wars items.

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Star Trek Transporter Sound Effect Mug – $27.95

Are you a Trekkie who thinks life should come complete with cool sound effects? You need the Star Trek Transporter Sound Effect Mug from the NeatoShop. This 12 oz. ceramic mug, with Starfleet insignia, makes transporter sounds every time you set your mug on the platform. Now if only it could actually beam you up a refill of coffee.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Star Trek items.

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The bridge officers on the Enterprise-D encounter strange sensor readings. What is that huge sphere? How should they respond? Who shot first, Han or Greedo?

-via Fanboy

Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, Dr. McCoy, and Ensign Snuggles are beaming down to the planet. They will no doubt all return safely.

Check out the rest of Etsy seller Jennifer Hugon’s store, which includes critters like this in the form of Batman, Robin, Spock, Frankenstein’s monster, Cylons, and zombies.

Link -via Fanboy

Sadly it's not a clever Dominion plot to weaken the spirits of the inhabitants of Cardassia Prime. A fan of Star Trek actor George Takei actually sent him this clever parody, inspired by a meld of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with a certain Terran celebrity famous for her long and lasting marriage.

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The 1968 episode of Star Trek entitled “Patterns of Force” is set in a society modeled after Nazi Germany. Because so many uniforms from the Third Reich are featured in it, the episode was not aired in a Germany still sensitive to anything remotely resembling Nazism. But recently the broadcasting company ZDF concluded that it is time to make that episode available for German Trekkies who have never had the opportunity to watch it. Due to controversial subject matter, broadcasting officials will give it a restricted rating and only air it after 10 PM.

There is still no news about when “Spectre of the Gun” will be permitted in Arizona.

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Ktarian Chocolate Puffs were described in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation as having 17 different kinds of chocolate in them. The blogger bananamondaes took that as a challenge (or possibly an excuse to buy many kinds of chocolate), and created a recipe that actually uses that many in a cream puff. It doesn’t look easy, but we are assured that the results are worth it! Link -via @johncfarrier

Did you miss Picard, Riker, Wesley and the rest of the ST:TNG gang? Feast on this: plots from the unaired eight season of the Star Trek: The Next Generation, courtesy of @TNG_S8:

A pod of quantum dolphins are stuck by the starboard nacelle, Picard defends himself in the dolphin murder trial. Guinan learns hockey.

Q's back: he's wearing a kimono and unleashes dinosaurs on The Enterprise. Worf refuses to enjoy the pleasure-planet Risa.

The prime directive is completely ignored when Picard really wants to ride a Centaur. Geordie sleeps through the whole episode by accident.

I swear I saw that last one already! Link - via Metafilter

Mr. Potato Head Captain Kirk and Klingon Kor - $34.95

Did you know that Mr. Potato Head is a Trekkie? Well he is! Check out the Mr. Potato Head Captain Kirk and Klingon Kor set from the NeatoShop. This amazing set includes two 5″ Tall figures. Captain Kirk has a cool spud smirk while Kor is the perfect potato warrior.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Star Trek items!

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Animated for the Italian channel FOX Retro, the animated video features popular 80s TV show characters in classic video game environments. The game was beat with Wonder Woman being saved by Fonzie from Happy Days. Then I inserted another coin to replay. -via Laughing Squid

He explained how he has always had difficulty with reading and also has what he describes as “name blindness” but while doing this work he realised that he could use a different part of his brain.

“Dyslexia is not something you get over, you live with it. It’s not necessarily a hindrance, you just learn different ways to pick things up.

“Working on the translation has helped me understand where I’ve been having problems all my life with languages, I realised I’d been trying to remember the words in the name part of my brain and because I can’t remember names, I can’t remember the words.

“With the Klingon language games used on the CD, I tended to put words into a different place and it went into my long term memory.

You can’t go wrong by choosing to study Klingon. At one point, just a couple decades ago, it was the fastest growing language in the world!

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If you love paper dolls, but want a few more contemporary, geeky options, Flavorwire has you covered with a great selection of weird and wonderful paper dolls including Betty White and David Bowie. Print them out, cut them up and then stage your own delightfully odd plays.

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Aren’t these cookies adorable? Too pretty to eat! Darla at Bakingdom made these in honor of the 45th anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek: The Original Series on September 8, 1966. Along with her tribute to the show, she also posted the process of designing each cookie to look like a crew member, pictures of the baking process, and close-up views of each character’s cookie. Link -via Boing Boing

Believe it or not -tomorrow will mark 45 years since we first saw the USS Enterprise. The original Star Trek series premiered on NBC September 8th, 1966. I case you’ve ever wondered who ended up with the starship we saw in the opening credits, it’s in good hands at the Smithsonian Institution.

The model’s principal designer, Walter “Matt” Jefferies, worked with concepts provided by “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry. In the early stages of production, Paramount Studios constructed a rough 4-inch balsa and cardboard prototype. A 3-foot “pilot” model of solid wood was then built by model-maker Richard C. Datin under subcontract to the Howard Anderson Co. The 3-foot model resulted in the final 11-foot model shown here. This model is constructed of poplar wood, vacu-formed plastic, rolled sheet-metal tubes and plastic.

The model is on display at the National Air and Space Museum. Link

Star Trek Insignia Button Set – $4.95

Are business suits and smart casual dressing depressing you? Now you can dress up any outfit with your favorite Starfleet or Klingon insignia with the Star Trek Insignia Button Set from the NeatoShop.  It won’t make your suit as comfortable as your favorite Pon Farr shirt, but at least it will make you smile.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Star Trek items!

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Rubicon is said to be developing the “entertainment aspects” of the park, and it appears that it will be partnering with Paramount Recreation and CBS Consumer Products — which owns Star Trek — for creative development on attractions such as a planned “space flight adventure,” which is promises to deliver “a variety of multi-sensory futuristic experiences … that takes real-time immersive entertainment experiences to bold new heights.” The park and resort will also include restaurants, hotels, theaters, and shops. However, the entire resort will not be 100% Star Trek-themed; in an effort to promote tourism to Jordan, there will also be informative elements about Jordan’s history.

Supposedly the park will be open in 2014. Would any of you take a trip to Jordan to see it?

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I can’t find any information about this marvelous creation which shows a Galaxy-class starship and Terek Nor. But as you can see from the other photos in the gallery, it’s not the only such cat tree. Somebody get this man an Etsy account.

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Knitted Princess Leia buns are so yesteryear. What you need is this nice, ear-warming Knit Vulcan Hat, or “Spock Touque.” Live long and keep warm! These caps are hand-made by Etsy seller Becca Stundel, who runs FiveCornersDesign. Link -via Geeks Are Sexy

The best way to live long in prosper is with a nice warm Star Trek quilt. I think you will agree when you check out this gallery of quilts all featuring characters from the original Star Trek, made by The Alligator Bride.

Link -via Geeks are Sexy

The small town of Riverside, Iowa (pop. 1,008) is tremendously proud of its most famous son, James Tiberius Kirk. So the citizens erected a monument to mark the site of his birth.

The local history museum, as you can see in the video, places a great emphasis on Kirk’s life and work. Who’s up for a road trip?

Link -via Kuriositas | Video of the Monument and Museum

Photo by Flickr user Madolan Greene used under Creative Commons license

Yes, this is another public marriage proposal video, taken at Comic-Con. Yes, the audio is difficult to hear, and for some reason the person recording it held the phone upright. But it’s short and the last few seconds make it all worthwhile. -via reddit

It’s about time sci-fi movie scores got their props, right? So thinks the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, which is giving a concert featuring the music of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Close Encounters among others. Here is a clever set of posters for the show by Showpony Advertising.

Link via Super Punch

What better way of teaching future Starfleet officers the strange new worlds of opposites than by using illustrations from the greatest sci-fi show ever?

David Borgenicht went where no man has gone before with his book: The Star Trek Book of Opposites, published by Quirk Books.

NeatoBambino has a peek inside: Link - Thanks Mari Kraske!

A Little Background On Lucy

Lucy’s first foray into the acting world occurred when she was only twelve and her Shriner step father encouraged her to participate in the chorus line of the group’s next show. Shortly after, her mother enrolled her into the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in New York City, where she studied alongside Bette Davis. While Davis excelled in the program, Ball didn’t and she was sent home only a few weeks later when one of her drama coaches told her she “had no future at all as a performer.”

Determined to prove her instructors wrong, Ball returned to New York when she turned 18 and started working as a fashion model. Eventually, she decided to move to Los Angeles and start working in the movie industry. She appeared in a number of small movies throughout the 30s and 40s, eventually garnering the title “Queen B,” referencing her exceeding number of appearances in B movies.

Launching A Media Empire

In 1940, Lucy met Desi Arnaz while filming Too Many Girls. At their first introduction, Desi was not impressed, but when they met again later the same day, he quickly became smitten. The two eloped later that year.

Unfortunately, while the two were passionately in love, there was always turbulence in their relationship. Only four years after the couple married, Lucy filed for divorce. Before things were finalized though, the couple reconciled.

Aside from working on B films, Lucy kept herself busy by performing on radio shows. In 1948, she was cast as Liz Cugat in the program My Favorite Husband for CBS Radio. The program was a hit and it wasn’t long before CBS approached her about reworking the show for television.  While Lucy agreed, she insisted that the station cast Arnaz as her husband. Desi and Lucy quickly started their own production company, Desilu Productions, and produced a pilot episode for CBS.

CBS wasn’t sure the public was ready for a white woman and Cuban man to portray a married couple on television and after filming the pilot episode, they declined to pick up the show. Undeterred, Lucy and Desi took the act on the road, performing a vaudeville act starring Lucy as a zany housewife who wanted to work in her husband’s entertainment show. The tour was a hit and CBS quickly agreed to put I Love Lucy on their television lineup.

During their negotiations with the station, Lucy and Desi agreed to take pay cuts as long as their production company retained the rights to the show once it was aired. At the time, reruns were practically unheard of, so CBS gladly agreed, thinking the concession was no big deal. To protect their investment, Desilu filmed all of the episodes on actual film instead of kinescopes, which allowed for long-term storage of the episodes. As a result, the show is one of the only ones of the era to not have any missing episodes.

It wasn’t long before I Love Lucy became one of the most popular shows on television, dominating the ratings throughout its run. Once the show started airing, it practically never went out of syndication again and Desilu netted a fortune rather quickly.

Where No (Wo)Man Has Gone Before

Lucy and Desi divorced in 1960, just two months after taping the final episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. While the couple remained friends all the way up until Desi’s death, Lucy had already started working on her next show, The Lucy Show, and since Arnaz wasn’t involved with the project, everyone agreed that he should sell his shares to his ex-wife. This left Lucy as the first woman to be the head of a television production company. And the company’s show lineup was often just as revolutionary.

When you consider the fact that I Love Lucy always used more expensive film studio techniques that were completely unorthodox for TV shows to use, it’s not entirely surprising that the studio was also willing to take on a few shows that would require much higher budgets than other studios would be willing to deal with. That’s why the company’s list of productions included such high-value classics as The Untouchables, Star Trek and Mission: Impossible. Their studios were so nice that many other notable shows, produced by other companies, were filmed there, including My Three Sons, The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Andy Griffith Show.

While the shows produced by the studio cost more to make, Lucy had an excellent eye for finding ideas that would have high syndication and re-run values, ensuring the company would always recover a profit on their high production costs.

Fighting For Intergalactic Peace

To some extent, it’s kind of amazing that we even have Star Trek at all. When ex-cop-turned-writer Gene Roddenberry came up with an idea for a show about an interstellar spaceship in the 23^rd century, he called it Star Trek to himself. But when he went to studios to sell the idea, he pitched it as “Wagon Train to the Stars,” because he knew his experience writing for Old West shows was one of the only things that would help get the series approved. If the studios actually pushed for this idea, the show might have ended up a lot more in the style of Firefly than the classic sci-fi standby we all know.

Fortunately, one of the studios Roddenberry pitched his idea to happened to be Desilu. Herb Solow of Desilu approved the idea and sold the idea to NBC, who paid for the first pilot, “The Cage.”

NBC rejected the pilot, complaining that it was “too cerebral,” but they took the highly unusual decision to pay for an additional pilot to be shot. While there is some speculation as to why the station would make this call, most people agree it had a lot to do with Lucy pushing them into it. She was, after all, one of the most powerful women in television at this time.

The second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” scrapped all of the characters from the first, with the exception of Mr. Spock. The new characters introduced in this episode included Captain Kirk, Lt. Commander Scott and Lt. Sulu. NBC approved of this second pilot and added the show to their 1966 fall line up. By the time they show the first official episode, Lt. Uhura was added to the crew, marking the first time an African-American woman was given such an important role in an American TV show.

The first episode of Star Trek was premiered as part of a “sneak peek” block of television. The show had great ratings during that premiere, playing against mostly reruns. Reviews were mixed, but some of them were exceptionally negative, like the Variety review that said the show “won’t work” because it was “an incredible and dreary mess of confusion and complexities.”

When the show started playing against other new programs, its ratings quickly started to drop and by only a month or so, it was ranked 51^st in the ratings out of 94 programs. If the show premiered a few years earlier, this would have been an immediate death sentence. Fortunately, the network had just started to work on recording viewers’ demographic profiles and Star Trek scored remarkably high when it came to reaching young, educated males –one of the most highly sought after demographics of the time. Viewers of this group were particularly excited about the show’s serious discussions of controversial and contemporary social issues –one of the things Roddenberry and Lucy were most interested in exploring throughout the course of the show.

Around this time, Lucy decided to sell her network. According to her daughter, before negotiations began, one of her studio chiefs advised that she get rid of Mission: Impossible and Star Trek. Ball insisted they stayed, saying, “No, I like them.” Soon enough though, Lucy would no longer go to bat for the sci-fi series. She decided to sell the rights to her studio to Paramount Pictures. As a result, Paramount Television now owned the show and to them, it was nothing worth sticking their necks out for.

While the network decided to keep the show due to its great demographic ratings, they decided to move the second season to 8:30-9:30 PM on a Friday. This made it particularly difficult for those young, educated men to tune in. Unsurprisingly, this made their ratings drop even more.

By the end of the second season, the show was doing so badly in the ratings that William Shatner was already preparing for work on other projects. Luckily, the news of the show’s ratings caused speculation that it would be canceled  and inspired fans to organize together in an unprecedented effort to keep the show alive.

The show’s viewers were already so passionate that in the first season, it received more fan letters than any other show besides The Monkees. When news came that the show might be canceled, this number skyrocketed. While the first season ended up driving 29,000 fan letters, the fan’s letter writing campaign resulted in the station receiving 116,000 letters between December 1967 and March 1968. Many of the letters came from such respected supporters as the Governor of New York, Nelson Rockefeller.

As if letter writing weren’t enough, over 200 Caltech students marched to NBC’s headquarters in January of 1968, urging the network to keep the show on the air. Berkley and MIT students led similar protests in their respective locales. The Smithsonian even contacted the network during this time, requesting a print of the show for their archives, and the only show honored with such a request at that time.

Unsurprisingly, NBC decided to keep the show around, but their announcement of the show’s continuation was particularly unusual. After one of the show’s episodes, they announced on television that they were renewing the show and requested viewers stop writing. Funny enough, this resulted in thousands and thousands of thank you letters in return.

Images via esthereggy and Coneee [Flickr], and The LA Times

The End of The Beginning

Despite the fact that the anti-cancellation campaign was an unheard of success, NBC seemed determined that Star Trek shouldn’t survive its third season. They moved the show to the Friday night “death slot” of 10 PM, when practically none of the younger audience would be around to watch it. In addition, 29 of the network’s affiliates stopped carrying the show altogether. As if all that weren’t enough, the station also reduced the show’s budget by 10%. As a result, the show had fewer outdoor shots, fewer guest stars and fewer writers. Despite the fan’s attempt to launch another letter writing campaign on behalf of the show, NBC cancelled Star Trek on January 9, 1969.

Fortunately, Desilu’s foresight for shows with a high syndication value once again paid off. With three seasons under its belt, Star Trek had just enough episodes for syndication and the rights for the first season had already been purchased by Kaiser Broadcasting.

Syndication saved the memory of the ill-fated show, offering it better time slots and a much larger audience then it ever had on NBC. By 1970, Paramount Television was advertising that the show managed to significantly increase the ratings of stations that picked it up and the Los Angeles Times said the show had the most enviable ratings of any syndicated show.

Image via Atomic Q [Flickr]

In 1972, fans got together for the first Star Trek convention in New York. The show’s syndication ratings continued to increase rerun after rerun, unlike any other show because fans liked to rewatch episodes dozens of times. By 1987, when The Next Generation started airing, Paramount Television was making over $1 million from each episode in syndication. The Chicago Tribune quipped, “Since that dark day in 1969 when NBC brought the programming hammer down on Star Trek, there probably hasn’t been a 24-hour period when the original program, one of the original episodes, wasn’t being aired somewhere. ”

And to think, none of it would have been possible if it weren’t for a pushy redhead who happened to like the idea of a sci-fi series that explored cultural issues of today. Consider that next time you see another rerun of the sixty year-old sitcom staring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

Sources: Wikipedia #1, #2, #3, Associate Content and Memory Alpha

Star Trek Enterprise Stainless Steel Water Bottle – $11.95

Attention Star Trek fans! Behold the Star Trek Enterprise Stainless Steel Water Bottle from the NeatoShop.  Now it is time to boldly go to the gym.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Star Trek items!

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This episode opens up with Worf having trouble getting on his Starfleet formalwear:

You know, I think Worf probably could take a Mr. Universe pageant. And by take, I mean UTTERLY DESTROY IN THE FIELD OF BATTLE. In fact, why isn’t that part of the Mr. Universe pageant?

Link -via @JohnCFarrier

A Tweet from @TheRealLadyLuck was illustrated by Jeff Naslund and became a Twaggie. And I thought I was the only one who did this! Link

In a famous scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Admiral Kirk screamed “Khan!” in rage and despair against his enemy, Khan Noonien Singh. This has become one of the great battlecries of Trekkies everywhere. So, appropriately, William Shatner led 3,000 fans in this call at Comic-Con. Behold its majesty, and tremble.

-via Kotaku

Students at Caltech didn’t do much public protesting against the Vietnam War or the draft or the voting age, but on January 6, 1968 they found time to rally for something dear to their hearts.

In what some observers suggest may be the emergence of the college’s social conscience, the enraged students voiced opposition to rumored canceling of NBC’s science fiction series Star Trek.

“It Is Totally Illogical to Cancel Star Trek,” read the sign of one bespectacled protester…

A nationwide campaign kept the series on TV for one more year. Link -via Buzzfeed

(Image credit: Harry Chase/Los Angeles Times Archive/UCLA)

The other night I turned on TV and caught half an episode of the original Star Trek where Captain Kirk meets Abraham Lincoln. Seriously. Sometimes even our favorite science fiction and fantasy franchises can be quite silly. Check out this list of unintentionally hilarious lines from science fiction and fantasy. What are some favorites of yours?

Sometimes our favorite movies and TV shows feature some hideously ridiculous dialogue. Sometimes nonsensical and melodramatic speech is part of why bad movies are such a guilty pleasure. Here are the 10 awesomest lines of unintentionally funny dialogue from science fiction and fantasy movies and television.

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Live Long And Prosper Star Trek 4×6 Photo Frame – $26.95

Are you looking for a logical housewarming gift for your favorite Trekkie?  Get them the Live Long And Prosper Star Trek 4×6 Photo Frame from the NeatoShop.  This great frame features Spock and the U.S.S. Enterprise with a Starfleet insignia photo window.  Remember, decorating should not be left to random chance!

Beam Me Up Star Trek 4×6 Photo Frame also available.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more out of this world Star Trek items!

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Fanboy has the clips: Link (and that old lady beside him? Ohh, Myyy! You’ll be surprised when you find out who she is!)

June 16th is Captain Picard Day! Captain John-Luc Picard is the commander of the USS Enterprise in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Read about the origins and the reasoning behind the holiday at Geeks Are Sexy. Link

Also enjoy some fan art at a blog set up just for the occasion called, appropriately enough, Captain Picard Day. Link