If you're a Trek fan in the Arlington, Virginia area, be prepared to enjoy Star Trek films in the beauty of the outdoors.  The Crystal City Business Improvement District launched an eleven week outdoor film festival featuring none other than the entire Star Trek film franchise. For those unfamiliar, Crystal City is a neighborhood in the southeastern corner of Arlington County, Virginia, south of downtown Washington, D.C.

We were literally kicking ourselves earlier for missing this, but apparently Mondo Tees has acquired carte blanche rights from CBS to create whatever merch they want within the Trek universe.  Their first release (which we didn't find out about until earlier today) is an amazing poster designed by renowned illustrator Martin Ansin.  On sale today, the limited edition poster (300 prints + 35 special edition wood variants) celebrates one of the most popular TOS episodes and villians, "Space Seed" & Khan Noonien Singh.  

During the unveiling of the new Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs revealed his inner Trek Fan.  At the WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) 2010 in San Francisco, the Apple CEO debuted the brand new iPhone 4 to the world listing a cadre of new features for the handheld device.  

The new iPhone boasts a much higher resolution screen, faster processor, new form factor, two cameras, and video conferencing in it's list of features.  When showing off the new "Face Time" video conferencing app, Jobs revealed, “I grew up with The Jetsons and Star Trek, just dreaming about video calling. Now it’s real”

A brand new course is being offered at the University of Texas, El Paso featuring our favorite SciFi series.  Called "Thinking Boldly with Star Trek", the course is meant to help first-year students strengthen their academic talents through critical thinking.  It also appears that there will be episode viewing as part of the course curriculum.  Can we sign up just this course?

Known for a true gambit of film types and genres, Rachel Weisz has been everything from Mummy hunter to rumored Bond Girl in the next Danial Craig, James Bond film.  She's also slated to play the former First Lady in a Jackie O. biopic.  According to an interview with Collider.com, Rachel has a healthy interest in possibly starring in the next J.J. Abrams's installment of "Star Trek".  To us, that sounds like an interesting prospect.  Just one word of advice when mentioning our favorite Vulcan though; drop the "Dr." from "Dr. Spock".  

Our favorite holographic doctor and omnipotent mischievous being are set to host a concert series in the Great White North (yes, everything we know about Canada we learned from Bob & Doug McKenzie).  The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony series called "Star Trek: The Music" is marked to play June 2nd & 3rd with after parties following both performances.  Tickets start at $25 Canadian.  

Selections will include the theme from the original series, the theme from Voyager, the Klingon battle theme, selections of James Horner’s scores from The Wrath of Khan and more – highlights from the abundance of music accompanying five series and eleven feature films.

Just the mere shape of these speakers makes us want a pair.  Hand crafted by Danish Audio Company NAME REDACTED, the NAME REDACTED series of loudspeaker is part audiophile grade transducer and modern Danish furniture.  To us, it looks like a giant flippin' delta shield that WE MUST HAVE for our living room.  Of course, there's a catch (isn't there always).  Available in both black and walnut finishes, a set of Rithms will set you back about five grand.  According to the reviews we've seen, the speakers are worth their price tag for sound reproduction & aesthetics.  

Riverside Iowa has staked the claim several years ago, as the future birth place of our beloved Captain James T. Kirk.  Now they're calling all Trek fans in the general area for volunteer help with The Voyage Home - Riverside History Center.  The center hosts displays featuring historical items relating to Riverside, as well as an entire room dedicated to Star Trek.

"The museum is looking for volunteers and interns who can help staff the museum and use their creativity to build displays", board vice president Phil Richman said.

Not only is H.M.S. Pinafore one of Cmdr. Data's favorite comic operas, now it's being mashed up with Star Trek in a brand new show called USS Pinafore. The show, being Presented by Crown City Theatre Company in North Hollywood, CA., takes Gilbert and Sullivan further than they've ever gone before... to outer space!