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Sep 01 | George Takei will have a cameo in the new season of The Big Bang Theory. TV Squad reports that the former Star Trek actor will appear in an episode alongside guest star Katee Sackhoff. The show's executive producer Bill Prady suggested that Takei and Sackhoff will play different sides of Wolowitz's conscience as he considers reuniting with his ex-girlfriend Bernadette (Melissa Rauchberg).He explained: "George Takei plays himself, and he's the other person guiding Wolowitz in his thoughts as he tries to figure out what to do about Bernadette."
Aug 24 | Vulture has learned that Joe Hill's comic Locke & Key will no longer be coming to theaters, but instead will be adapted for television by Steven Spielberg, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Josh Friedman. Distributed by IDW Publishing, Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all. Friedman ("Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles") will write and produce. Kurtzman and Orci recently signed a deal with 20th Century Fox TV, so the studio will end up producing with Spielberg's DreamWorks TV.
Aug 18 | Jack Bender has signed on direct 7 Minutes in Heaven for Paramount, reports Heat Vision.The film, based on an original idea from Bender, tells the story of two teenagers who, upon returning from a round of the titular game, find all of their friends dead. J.J. Abrams will produce through Bad Robot, now at the stage of finding a writer to move the idea towards a full script.
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By GustavoLeao / 11:50, 9 February 2010 / Trek Books
Inception by S.D. Perry and Britta Dennison
Review by Jeff Ayers
"You're an overgrown jack rabbit, an elf with a hyperactive thyroid." Kirk to a spore-induced Spock who loves Leila Kalomi. (This Side of Paradise)
Ever wonder where Mr. Spock met that blonde botanist in the episode with the flowers shooting people? I hadn't either. S.D. Perry and Britta Dennison did, however, and Inception is the result.
Carol Marcus, another pretty scientist, has a dream to help ease the process of terraforming planets. She receives financial backing and recruits a team of scientists to help her, including Leila. Leila is getting over her boyfriend's betrayal when she meets Spock in a museum. Of course, Carol can't stop thinking about her Starfleet officer with aspirations of being a captain someday. As they and the team progress with their experiments, a man who sees their attempts as going against nature tries to rally people to stop them.
Greenpeace collides with a romance novel in this strange book. Told through Leila and Carol's point of view, Kirk and Spock feel off and the women seem too emotional and swoony (is that a word?). Also, the page count and size of the print are not close to what is expected of a Star Trek novel today. Overall, this novel is more bun than burger.
6 out of 10
Reviewer Jeff Ayers is the author of Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion trade paperback, and webmaster of VoyagesOfImagination.com
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