Star Trek

TV: Fans will have to wait until at least 2013 to find out for sure, but HBO's plans for adapting Neil Gaiman's American Gods sound pretty legit -- like a $3-4 million budget per episode under Tom Hanks, legit. Sci-Fi: Not every spinoff is sound, but there's at least 10 Star Trek shows that might have been awesome...

As unlikely as it may seem, a recently released pornographic parody of Star Trek: The Next Generation is an astonishingly good, big budget fan-film based on the classic television series. Featuring impressively faithful recreations of the sets, costumes an even technology seen in the original Gene Roddenberry show, writer and director Sam Hein puts forth a wholly acceptable plot in which Lt... R

Graphics: If Ikea sold sci-fi's most elegant time travel/cloning/maiming technology, it might look a little something like this. News: Did an anti-Starfleet rebel group have something to do with the death of Osama bin Laden? German news indicates the unlikely possibility...

Amidst the many cartooning wonders to be discovered at this weekend's MoCCA Festival in New York City is Trexels, a handsome print by John Martz depicting 235 Star Trek characters in charmingly pixelated form. Martz, who's contributed to Flight and Syncopated and serviced clients including Nickelodeon Magazine and Hallmark Cards, teamed with Koyama Press to create Trexels, which has been produced

Sure, seeing beloved characters visually reduced to pixelated Nintendo Entertainment System homages is cool, but some artists out there take their quests even further in their portraiture oeuvres and push their limits to to near Atari 2600 levels to see how low-res they can really go...

BitTorrent oracle TorrentFreak is reporting that Kick-Ass, the film based on the Marvel/Icon comic book by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr., was the second-most illegally downloaded film of 2010, "losing" out to Avatar. Perhaps surprisingly, the decently successful Kick-Ass "boasts" an impressive 11...

It's not often that one would classify Hello Kitty as cool. Adorable? Sure. Cool? Not so much. But artist Joseph Senior is defying the odds by bringing us some legitimately cool Hello Kitty reinterpretations - no, seriously. Check 'em out below...

Ulises Farinas, creator of the webcomic MOTRO for the ACT-I-VATE collective, had a series of prints available at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival in New York that ventured into familiar fictional universes by way of Lego mini-figures...

Levar Burton holds a special place of nostalgia in my heart, not only for his role as Lt. Commander Geordi LaForge on the superlative 1990s Star Trek series "Star Trek: The Next Generation," but also for hosting the kids' show "Reading Rainbow," where he helped a generation of kids develop a healthy sense of skepticism in opinions of others by constantly telling them not to tak

Following the success of this summer's "Star Trek: Countdown" IDW's releasing a full six-issue adaptation of the J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman's 2009 film. "Star Trek: The Official Movie Adaptation" #1 comes your way from artist David Messina who also lent his pen to "Countdown," the title that served as a prequel to the film...