One of our favorite podcasts just released their latest episode with awesome Trek author duo Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore.  The Scifi Diner Podcast with hosts Scott & Miles have put together another great episode featuring all the latest scifi news plus listener email & trivia.  Always lots of fun, Dayton & Kevin talk about the upcoming Shoreleave 32 & bacon flavored gum.  What's not to love.

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What starship isn't complete without it's tractor beam?  Well, maybe the Enterprise-B, but that's a different story.  Israeli scientists are working on what they call "Optical Tweezers" or Holographic Optical Tweezers (HOTs for short).  We call it a mini-tractor beam, that's right, something Geordi would have whipped up using his visor and some of Data's inner-workings.  Plus, it has the word holographic in the name.  That's like having a cellular peptide cake with mint frosting...and eating it too.  Just watch out for interphasic organisms because they consume cellular pept.... okay, maybe I took that a little too far.

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Last time on Star Trek The Nex.... Ah whoops. Looks like we're a little late to the party, but Damon & the boys have released the exciting, thrilling, riveting, conclusion to the Star Trek Vs. Star Wars episode of the Geek Fights Podcast. We throughly enjoy Geek Fights. There's plenty of Trek goodness and just the right amount of sarcasm that we love so dearly. If you haven't heard the first half of this episode, get the info here.

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Hi Corporeal Beings! Crewman Becky here. Have you ever noticed the seemingly psychic operation of the crew quarters’ doorways? How they seem to know that they should open when someone is heading in their direction to enter or exit the room, but to stay closed when someone is merely passing by. I’m not saying that it’s actually operated by several pairs of unseen hands always on the opposite side of the wall than our viewing angle or anything… but their discernment is (generally) uncanny. How do they know? Really…HOW DO THEY KNOW?!  Well, I’m here to tell you that they don’t always.

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Outdoor free movies seem to be a growing trend across the US.  With shows cropping up all over, even in D.C., J.J. Abrams's "Star Trek" as well as other Trek films seem to be a popular showing.  Fort Worth, Texas is no exception.  Originally scheduled for July 1st, but unfortunately rained out, the new Showing of Star Trek XI is scheduled for July 8th.  If we lived closer, we would definitely attend. It's really exciting to see this new enthusiasm for Star Trek.  

Check out the details below.

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"Free Enterprise 2", the long awaited indie film sequel to it's aptly named prequel is actually getting made.  In the process for 10 years or so now, director Robert Meyer Burnett has been given the go-ahead and it appears William "The Shat" Shatner has confirmed it at Trek Expo 2010.

"Free Enterprise…remember the film? Well we are doing a sequel, Free Enterprise 2. So they have got me involved in some fun stuff. And I will be shooting that in the next month or so." Shatner Said to an extremely excited crowd.

If you haven't seen the original "Free Enterprise", check out the synopsis below.

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Summer Glau, "Firefly" & "The Sarah Connor Chronicles", is in Australia for the Supernova series of conventions and was recently interviewed for Scifi Australia where she admitted to being a huge TNG fan. 

"...the show I really grew up on was Star Trek: The Next Generation. That was a show that I watched with my parents that I talked them into letting me stay up to watch it. I got to meet Marina Sirtis last year, which was a really special moment for me. I grew up idolizing her." Said Glau, when asked what scifi she would show to a friend to introduce them to the genre.

She also revealed that she would love to meet The Shat.  Yeah, who wouldn't?

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"Two and a half years on Star Trek Online, seven years at Cryptic Studios … and it’s time for me to move on." says Star Trek Online Executive Producer Craig Zinkievich.  In an announcement posted this morning Craig explains what a joy it's been working on STO for the past two years and what the future holds for the MMO.

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Corey Allen, actor and prominent television director, passed away in his home on Sunday. He was 75.  Allen was most famous for the playing the teenage gang leader that dies in a knife fight with James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause".  Allen was also an Emmy winning television director, with credits ranging from 70's cop and detective shows "Mannix" & "Police Story" to "Dallas" & "Magnum PI" in the 80's.

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