Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

Manxom Vroom’s Growing Up Star Wars column last week got me thinking about my early interest in science fiction.

I’ve been a fan of science fiction and fantasy for as long as I can remember. I’m told that the first book I ever read by myself was Farmer Giles of Ham by J. R. R. Tolkien. This would be at about the age of 7, so round about 1979.

Now those of…

Over at Aint It Cool News, Harry Knowles has posted the results of his exclusive access to some footage from the JJ Abrams Star Trek movie. I try not to pre-judge things, particularly when I haven’t even seen so much as a trailer. However this is a project that has worried me since it’s conception.

First some background. While a huge sci-fi fan, I really don’t qualify as a Trekkie/Trekker. As…

The original series of Star Trek (or Star Trek: TOS has fandom has renamed it) launched on NBC on September 8th 1966, that’s 40 years ago this Friday. The show, which ran for a mere three seasons finished its run on June 3rd 1969 and has been in re-runs almost ever since.

It’s popularity is such that 40 years after it started CBS are currently working on re-mastered versions of some…

It looks as though it won’t just be Star Wars getting a DVD re-release in the near future. Word is starting to leak that CBS are looking to re-release Star Trek: The Original Series on HD-DVD. The key thing here is that Star Trek was actually shot on film, not video and so it is relatively easy to do a full high definition transfer for both HD-DVD and Blu-ray formats.

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Dreamwatch magazine is reporting rumors that Paramount may have dropped the proposed new Star Trek movie. A few months ago reports started to circulate about Star Trek XI, which would be based on a script by Erik Jendresen. Now it seems that proposal has been dumped, at least according to Doug Mirabello, a personal assistant to Trek producer Rick Berman.

Reports on the development of the new Star Trek movie were…