Star Trek

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...

Despite the obvious stereotypes about "Star Trek" fans, they often defy easy categorization, and can even count artist Edward Gorey among their number. The master of the macabre Victorian cartoon, Gorey once gave an interview with "The Boston Globe" in the late 1970s where he admitted to becoming a devotee after watching TV for the first time: "He watched the science-ficti

As fans of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" are likely well aware, the much-beloved (and arguably best) series in the Star Trek franchise's history is still in syndication on the Syfy, and we're still DVRing every episode in hopes that perhaps there's one that we missed -- an episode that could still be new to us, over 15 years later...

Countless Star Trek fans have dreamed about owning their own phaser, and while Wikipedia lists it as a "fictional weapon," one enterprising (rim shot) gentleman decided not to let anyone else tell him what can and cannot be real, and transformed a 1994 Playmates replica of the phaser from the classic "Star Trek" series into a 320mA – 465mW laser device, complete with appropriat

Hey, you! It was just January 6th, and you know what that means? No, not Three Kings Day! It's Sherlock Holmes' birthday! Seriously, this was established in the old books, look it up. Few characters have the staying power of London's Great Detective, who recently exploded back onto the big screen in a blockbuster movie starring Robert Downey Jr...

If you fond of Commander Riker from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," it is likely you will enjoy "Number One," a Tumblr devoted exclusively to images of William T. While it looks like it started out as an archive of screenshots, more recently it's been featuring "guest Rikers" from webcomic artists like Kate Beaton ("Hark...

There are a lot of mixed feelings about the idea of motion comics right now, so allow me to introduce you to a comics/video hybrid that we can all get behind. Dubbed "Videogioco" by creator Donato Sansone, it flips the idea of the "motion comic" upside down with an elaborate map of paper layers that unfold sequentially into cartoons as it moves across the floor...

Stoner Star Trek fans have a new mission: to explore strange new bowls, to seek out new bongs in new configurations, to boldly smoke as no one has smoked before. Check out the Enterprise bong they've ingeniously constructed, which we can only imagine is captained by Bong-Luc Picard...

Ever wondered how the characters in Star Trek could traverse seemingly endless landscapes in the Holodeck, despite it being a fairly small room? According to the Star Trek Wiki, "it does this by continuously adjusting the projections of the force fields and the use of a force field 'treadmill...

Previews of the books coming out today that we can't wait to pull off the shelf. WISHING A GREAT SUMMER TO "Ultimatum Spider-Man Requiem #1." Goodbye is a simple word that can carry more weight than any other in the English language. But not all goodbyes are the same...