An Anonymous Coward sent us this
URL with an article about William Shatner’s
proposal for a new Trek TV series. It seems like it
has more to do with books he’s writing than a TV
series at this point, but he’s put the offer out
there.

If you find the recently released Ultimate Star Trek Collection to be a little out of your price range (or your geek completist range) but you still want some series Trek in your collection, consider Season One of the Original. It suffers from a low budget and stylized acting, but it set the groundwork for most tv SF that followed, and it remains the most inspired season of any Star Trek.

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For those wishing to do my Christmas shopping early can get this 212 Disc Monstrosity. Sure it’s $2,499.00 USD, but hey, this is EVERYTHING Star Trek (minus the Animated Series, but we don’t really miss that, do we?).

Michael Piller, a huge influence on modern Star Trek as well as the co-creator of Dead Zone has died today from cancer.

Piller joined the TNG team in its third season, and is responsible for some standout episodes (“Best of Both Worlds”, “Ensign Ro”, and “Unification”). He co-created both DS9 and Voyager and wrote a number of episodes for both including both pilots and the controversial Voyager episode “Death Wish.”

rickyjames writes, The ashes of actor James Doohan (“Scott” on Star Trek:TOS, as if you didn’t already know) are scheduled to be blasted into Earth orbit later this year as a permanent memorial. Now you can write a personal tribute to Scotty and go along for the ride. Hail and farewell, Scotty!

Today marks Star Trek’s 39th birthday. And with its present non-existent and its future looking frankly abysmal, let’s concentrate on the good times we once had, shall we.

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shayward writes, Some information found in a Great Link report here shows that Berman and Braga haven’t learned.
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joe__gee
writes, According to Trek Today, Walter
Koenig has agreed to reprise Chekhov for a an
internet-only Trek series (no official Paramount
involvement, and NO B & B!!!) Star Trek: New
Voyages. The episode will be written by TOS
contributor D.C.
Fontana.

You know what? It’s been a long road, getting from there to here.

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The end is coming…
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