As we reported back in January, Star Trek: The Next Generation - Next Level was released on Blu-ray. The four episode sampler was the first example of TNG remastered and in high-def. We just learned that a date is being reported for the full remastered first season of Picard & his crew and we could be seeing it as early as July.

As you all know, First Contact Day celebrations we're held by Trek fans all over the world on April 5th. Yes, we were to busy celebrating to write anything, but let's just say we did the Z-man proud. Our good friend Larry Nemecek did one better than just report about First Contact day, he went out and found the possible future warp engineer in Bozeman, Montana.

The ever popular and fantastic smelling George Takei was in Seatle over the weekend for Emeral City ComicCon. During the convention he took part in a question and answer panel hosted by none-other-than Danny Bonaduce.. Random, right? Anyway, George answered a few run of the mill questions, but one that peeked our interest was the origin of his signature catch phrase "Ohh Myyy!". According to George; it's something He's used all his life, but didn't become wide spread until The King of all Media got his hands on it.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen a lot of science fiction movies in my time and it’s beginning to seem like they’re predicting the future. Ya, I know what you’re gonna say…”duhhh”. Well, I don’t mean just in a good way like space travel and tricorders, but in a slightly more maniacal way too. I mean really, I don’t think it’s the best idea to teach primates to speak, give machines self-awareness, or start passing out green colored “mystery food” in the shape of squares. So when I saw the title of this particular article “Robots to organize themselves like a swarm of insects” it got my attention. Now, it’s not necessarily a hive mind they’re talking about…oh wait…yes it is.

If you're reading this site then you probably know by now that we're huge Deep Space Nine fans. What can we say, we love it. We also love following the goings-on of the DS9 cast... Not to mention that most of our Life After Trek interviews have been with former DS9'ers, as well. Let's see, we have Chase, Armin, Max, Aron, Jeffery, Tony, & Natalija. Not a bad line-up, if I do say so myself. One person we would love to talk to is Alexander Siddig; Dr. Bashir, to you and me. So Alexander, if you're out there, hit us up. We'd love to interview you. In lieu of that, we just got word that his new film Inescapable has just wrapped shooting and is headed to post production. Big thanks to Subspace Comms reader Sheri for filling us in.

It’s March 26th, and today is Leonard Nimoy’s 81st birthday!! Happy Birthday Mr. Nimoy!! I don’t know why, but I always feel like I need to be more grown up when I write about Leonard Nimoy. It’s not like I respect him more than the rest of the cast, but his personal grace and demeanor seem to signal my brain to “stand up tall”, “make good eye contact” and “stop using slang”. Of course…that’s all out the window tonight.

As many of you know, we've been covering the ever evolving "Days Missing" IP from our friends at Roddenberry Entertainment for some time now. We just got word that they are partnering with Benderspink to co-develop the award-winning graphic novel series for television and film, marking the first TV show based on a Roddenberry property since Star Trek: Enterprise.

A great idea if you don’t know what to give your fellow Star Trek fan would be to get him/her a collector’s box of playing cards!

This box looks really cool with the text “Beam me up” written all over it. This tin box is also marked up with good old Kirk and the cards are all marked up with images from the original series. This deck is available through neatoshop.com.

Hey out there, in case you haven’t heard, it’s William Shatner’s birthday! Yah, we spelled out his name for that. It’s special. It’s March 22nd, his 81st birthday and he’s showing NO signs of slowing down…or aging, for that matter. I gotta say, he looks fantastic on and off screen!! I hope I look that good when I’m 81.