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The cost to build the Death Star from the original "Star Wars: A New Hope"? $850 quadrillion. Forcing the White House to respond to a petition to get the Death Star? Priceless. Yet, as fun as it is to talk about a real Death Star or even another petition to build the USS Enterprise, we have to re ...

More than eight months after it made its debut on the Science cable channel, "Trek Nation" is once again available -- and you don't have to be at San Diego Comic-Con to get it. The documentary, hosted by Eugene W. Roddenberry Jr. as part of his exploration into Trek fandom as well as the work of ...

Just in case you were looking for the right thing to make you feel old, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" is celebrating 25 years since it debut in first-run syndication. And to celebrate, you'll have a chance to see two episodes of TNG's first season in high-definition and on the big screen. Fath ...

This story could contain spoilers for the upcoming "Star Trek 2." There have been a number of names circulating over who exactly Benedict Cumberbatch is playing in the upcoming "Star Trek 2." And while it seems that Khan Noonien Singh has been dismissed, there is a new name in play: Gary Mitchell ...

You could say that all the awards in the 2012 Airlock Alpha Portal Awards are special, but even within these fan-chosen awards, there are some categories that are even more special. They are called the Gene Roddenberry Award and the Rod Serling Award. The Roddenberry honor rewards lifetime achiev ...

In September and October, it will be 25 years since "Star Trek: The Next Generation" premiered in first-run syndication on televisions all across the nation from original "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry. At first, it seemed audiences -- especially Trekkies of old -- would have a hard time wa ...

It looks like it's been through its own battle with the Klingons, but a dilapidated, 24-foot television prop is going on the market next month -- and one major Star Trek club wants to buy it. The Federation, formally known as the International Federation of Trekkers, wants to Galileo shuttlecraft ...

Gene Roddenberry sure liked to tell stories, especially if they were stories that helped inspire the underdog. So it's probably no surprise that even some of the stories the Great Bird of the Galaxy himself shared about the early days of "Star Trek" might have a taste of fiction to it. Not th ...

Gene Roddenberry (and many writers before and after him) would complain a lot about how networks and studios would interfere with their vision. That's probably the main reason why one group of genre-known men aren't taking that route. They want to bring their science-fiction vision directly to th ...

As part of its public relations campaign to help retire the space shuttle program, NASA pulled out the red carpet and invited all the media for the arrival of its experimental shuttle Enterprise to New York City on Thursday. The shuttle, which had never made it to space, is being moved from its h ...