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Nov 06 | J.J. Abrams is in talks to direct the opening episode of "Undercovers," his Warner Bros. secret agent pilot at NBC. Schedule permitting, Abrams, who also serves as executive producer and co-writer for the pilot, will make "Undercovers" the first TV pilot he has directed since 2004's "Lost" two-part opener, which is considered one of the best-directed pilots of all time and helped launch Abrams' career into helming such theatrical films as "Mission: Impossible 3" and "Star Trek." The NBC pilot has been described as a mix between "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" and "The Bourne Identity." The original report is at the Hollywood Reporter.
Nov 05 | The upcoming MMORPG Star Trek Online has been given a release date. The game will be launched on February 2 in North America, and February 5 in Europe
Nov 02 | Journalist Edward Gross posted in his SciFi TV Zone.com website an animation that takes place on the bridge of the Enterprise, and it's where you can hear his... lord help us... impersonation of William Shatner. The url for the video is this.
Oct 27 | Leonard Nimoy narrates a new documentary about a historic synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The film profiles Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pa., the only synagogue designed by the renowned architect. The building, a National Historic Landmark, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. A screening of the film will be shown at the dedication of the synagogue's newly designed visitors center on Nov. 15. Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker magazine, will be on hand
Oct 27 | Leonard Nimoy is celebrating Halloween by taking pictures of the most crazily outfitted attendee at the Santa Monica Museum of Art's Halla Gala. Nimoy, who has practiced fine art photography since the age of 14, is offering a private portrait session at the Viceroy Santa Monica hotel to whomever wins the gala's Secret Self costume contest.
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By GustavoLeao / 10:44, 18 December 2007 / Trek Books
The latest issue of Star Trek Magazine, just out in the US and UK, has a short run down of what Star Trek comic books are coming next year from IDW:
The first issue of fan-favorite TOS writer D.C Fontana's Year Four miniseries will be called "The Enterprise Experiment" and is a sequel to her third season episode "The Enterprise Incident", and the series is to be illustrated by Gordon Purcell.
Peter David will be writing a Star Trek New Frontier miniseries, with art by Stephen Thompson, based on David's best selling novels, featuring the adventures of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the crew of the Galaxy-Class U.S.S. Excalibur. See the first cover above.
Comic book legend John Byrne (X-Men, Fantastic Four) will return to write and illustrate his own Star Trek miniseries, after his work on the upcoming Star Trek comic book Alien Spotlight Romulans.
And the Tiptons will be doing something in the Mirror Universe, including a mirror Captain Pike, to tie in with Pocket Books' new Mirror Universe anthology.
Thanks to "8of5" for the info. Visit his blog here.
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