We love new technological advancements that seem like first steps toward Star Trek tech. Here’s another one that we found recently that is headed in the direction of the Medical Tricorder.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF has recently announced a new imaging system that can take microscopic images quickly, by hand, and without blurring. These images can be used for medical diagnoses, such as skin cancer.

So, a Klingon & a hologram walk into a bar... Maybe not a bar, but a remote Idaho ranch. Michael Dorn & Robert Picardo play scheming Television producers in the new film "Spirit Hunters", along side co-stars Doug Jones, Zack Ward, Danielle James, and Davina. The movie takes place on a remote Idaho ranch were a reality TV show is being filmed. Apparently the show's host ends up dead.

We had a great time at BayouCon this weekend! It may not have had the largest attendance in history, but that just meant that each fan that did attend had more time to spend personally with each guest. It was a great convention for one on one “face-time” with Star Trek favorites; Vaughn Armstrong, Max Grodenchik, and Larry Nemecek.

Watch for our upcoming episodes of Life After Trek that we recorded with Vaughn and Max on the last day of the con. They’ll be out soon!

We're heading down to bayou country to hang with Klingons & Ferengi. If you can't make it to Lake Charles, Louisiana this weekend, never fear, you can watch the full weekend live coverage below.

We're heading down to bayou country to hang with Klingons & Ferengi. If you can't make it to Lake Charles, Louisiana this weekend, never fear, you can watch the full weekend live coverage below.

We hear that Louisiana is famous for it's seafood, friendly people, humidity...Klingons & Ferengi?!  That's right, this weekend you can spend time with your favorite Grand Nagus & member of Starfleet Admiralty. Not only Max Grodenchik & Vaughn Armstrong, but you can also pick the brain of Star Trek's ultimate authority, Larry Nemecek.  Why wouldn't you stop what you're doing and head to Lake Charles, LA. this weekend?!  Oh... and we'll be there too live blogging, just in case you can't make it.  We're really looking forward to hanging with the Trek fans of southwest Louisiana.  If you're going to make the trip, be sure to stop us and say hi.  We may even have some Subspace Communique stickers for you!  Check out the full details below.

So, just like the title “implies” (let’s face it…”spells out” would be more apt)…have no fear, posters are near! Mondo is releasing 2 new Star Trek themed posters tomorrow, April 28, 2011, to add to your collection.

Introducing the newest entries in our STAR TREK poster series...the 1967 episode MIRROR, MIRROR by Tomer Hanuka and the 1966 two-part episode THE MENAGERIE by Mike Saputo! In addition, we will be releasing the remaining copies from the Alamo Drafthouse Terror Tuesday screening of Cronenberg's RABID by Phantom City Creative.

These posters will be going on sale Thursday, April 28, 2011 at a random time.

Here's your chance to have an intimate dinner with Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and at the same time give money to a worthy cause.  In the 5th annual online auction Playwrights Horizons (an award-winning not-for-profit off Broadway theater) is offering up this unique opportunity to support the theater's annual season of six plays & musicals, year-round play & musical theater development programs, audience development activities, a resident internship program, the Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU, and Ticket Central, a low-cost box office service available to the entire performing arts community.

We here at Subspace Communique are always excited when we hear about new technology that is inspired by, similar to, or even heading in the direction of Star Trek gadgets that made all of our favorite characters’ lives easier onscreen. Personally, we can’t wait for the day when transporters make plane travel no longer necessary, but until then we’ll be excited about this new bit of tech from Google that is teaching computers to see. Google “Goggles” is a piece of software that works with a cell phone’s camera to identify objects in photographs.

With Goggles, the user snaps a picture, which is transmitted across cellular networks to Google's servers. Google's computers then tell the phone what they recognized in the photo. This process can take only a second or two -- and sometimes even less.