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?

"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.

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.

LCARS or Library Computer Access/Retrieval System is something that most if not all Trek fans are familiar with. Even if you've never heard the acronym before, you've seen it in action. You know, the computer interfaces with multi-colored pill-shaped buttons that litter nearly every computer and control from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" onward. Even "Enterprise" and the new J.J. Abrams's "Star Trek" had they're own custom controls and user interfaces.

A good friend of Subspace Communique just launched a brand new podcast called Geek Fights. You may know Damon as the trivia guy from Trekcast, but he's also one of our contributors, reviewing the Star Trek: D-A-C video game for us last year. Well, Damon has launched a brand new podcast called Geek Fights, where each week two subjects in geek culture are pitted against each other in a steel cage grudge match.

Another group of Trek fans may have beaten the world record for the "most people dressed as characters from the television series and movies".  As you may or may not have heard, this record attempt seems to be the thing to do at conventions this year.  The original record was set back in February in London on the world famous Millennium bridge where 99 Trek Fans gathered.  With attempts in Tampa back in May, the "enterprising" (sorry) fans of Iowa could have actually beaten the record.

Kate Mulgrew is set to attend a Screening of her short film "The Response" in Washington D.C. on June 30th. Apparently every member of the U.S. Congress was emailed an invitation for a screening at 4pm on the 30th, with another screening for the public scheduled for 6:30pm. The 6:30pm public screening is free with a panel discussion/Q&A to follow at 7:15pm., but you must RSVP to attend (info below).

"Trek Nation", the long anticipated documentary from Rod Roddenberry, son of Gene Roddenberry, is currently looking for a distribution deal.  Much like you, we're waiting with bated breath for it's release.  

We absolutely love how much Patrick Stewart has been in the news lately.  With his recent addition to the Vegas Khhaaan! roster it seems the Captain is on a whirlwind tour of the Globe.  In fact, he's in Edinburgh, Scotland this week as the jury chairman for the Edinburgh International Film Festival.  Not only as a part of the jury, but Patrick was also the focus of an on-stage interview helmed by Alan Morrison, arts editor of the Sunday Herald.