Norman Spinrad, author of the screenplay for TOS’s The Doomsday Machine talks about the experience in this video:

Via TrekMovie.com

Some Heroes/Trek geeky coolness: click.

TrekMovie.com has some wickedly shots from the upcoming TOS-R episode “Journey To Babel”.

Here’s a nifty gallery of comparison shots from TOS and TOS:Remastered.

I have watched (or at least fast-forwarded via TiVo to check out the new shots) several of the TOS:R episodes and, on balance, they have been quite nice. The only downside to the project, it seems to me, is that they are doing the remastering as they go, so there is something of a learning curve involved. Also it means that sometimes they can’t do as much as one might like.

I will say that the into shots from “Where No Man has Gone Before” as well as the galactic barrier shots were quite impressive.

Also, the “Corbomite Manuever” (which had a number of f/x shots) was noteworthy. Below is the effect reel. Note, for example, the reflection of the probe on the hull of the Enterprise at about :52.

More comparison shots can be found at Trekmovie.

Also worth checking out: the promo for “Journey to Babel.”

Christopher Eccelston, better known at the 9th Doctor, is going to be in several episode of Heroes: Who Joins Heroes?

Former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston will appear in several episodes of NBC’s hit Heroes as an invisible-man character aptly named Claude, after Claude Rains, star of the 1933 classic SF film The Invisible Man, Tim Kring, creator and executive producer, told SCI FI Wire. “So far, he’s been in four [episodes], and then we’re trying to work out his dates with his movie that he’s doing,” Kring said in an interview at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 17. “We’d like to have him come and play with us for a while.”

With George Takei slated to play Hiro’s father, the show is becoming quite the harmonic convergence of the scifi genre.

Eccleston was quite good as the Doctor, and I thought it was a shame that he only stayed in the TARDIS for one season. Still, his addition to Heroes is quite welcome.

An amusing tidbit about Star Trek: The Animated Series:

There is also the recurrent misuse of the color pink on such things as enemy ships, the costumes of ferocious aliens, and tribbles. It turns out that director Hal Sutherland is color blind, and when he did the color assignment he assumed that this particular shade of pink was a light grey.

Hy-larious:

Amusing:

h/t: Wizbang

I came across this largely by accident: Star Trek Celebrities - Photoshop Pictures Contest. Most are quite amusing.

Here are three of my favs (although the Cheney-on-Scotty isn’t that good). There are more at the link above:

TrekMovie.com reports the following news/rumors:

• A first draft of the script is done.
• Pike and Scotty are in the draft.
• The movie is non-linear and jumps across time–which if done right could be a fantastic way to approach the story.