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Star Trek

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    CNN Beams Up Preview of Weekend's Comic Con With Mr. Spock, Princess Leia and Stan Lee

    ​I knew where I'd be tomorrow back in January, when we first mentioned that, oh, some guys named Stan Lee and Leonard Nimoy would be attending the Dallas Comic Con, which makes its move to the newly opened Irving Convention Center after years in Richardson and Plano. Figure we'll get there 'round ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    The Worst Kitchen Gifts for Mom on Mother's Day

    ​It's a little bit sexist to assume that your mother is yearning for a kitchen gadget this Mother's Day. It's also a bit forward of us to assume that's what you're planning on getting her. Not that a gadget gift doesn't have hit potential -- kitchen goodies last longer than flowers, are less f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2011

    Yvonne Craig on Long, Strange Journey From Oak Cliff to the Ballet Russe to the Batcave

    ​Should you need me 'round 3 today I'll be moderating a Q&A at the Plano Centre with Nichelle Nichols, former singer with the Duke Ellington Band, star of the James Baldwin play Blues for Mister Charlie and -- oh, right -- Star Trek's original Lt. Uhura. Nichols is here for that Sci-Fi Expo ce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Bobbie Wygant's Archives, the Gift That Keeps on Giving: Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Khaaaaaaan

    ​Erik Clapp, the Fort Worth filmmaker who tends to Bobbie Wygant's archives, was sure he had in the stack o' tapes an old interview with Leslie Nielsen, which we had planned to post earlier this week. Alas, he dug and dug but came up empty-handed. But Erik more than makes up for it with this lates ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Five Futuristic Movie Cooking Tools We Wish Were Real

    I'm thinking of a huge beer...​Cooking Thanksgiving dinner is tough enough without a food replicator. Since the birth of the science fiction genre, movie-technology has inspired creative invention in the real world. So, scientists and think tanks, let's put the Star Wars Strategic Defense-enhancem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Listomania: Five Star Trek Cast Albums To Launch You From Fan to Trekkie

    Starlog 665: Just bought Spaced Out at Half Price Books...​To the Trekkies and Harry Pottererers who skipped all this weekend's claw fever for the Star Trek Fan Days at the Plano Center: We've brewed up some memorabilia for you to get autographed in the future.If you didn't know already, William S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Plano, the Final Frontier, This Is Our Recap of the Star Trek Convention Over the Weekend

    Photos by Danny FulgencioWilliam Shatner's Q&A at the Plano Centre Saturday afternoon was more like a one-man show.​In between his flag football game, during which we almost drowned, and his school's fall carnival, I took the 7-year-old who lives in my house to the Trekkie confab at the Plano ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Captain Kirk and Doc Brown Are Coming to Town. And to the List, Add Draco Malfoy.

    ​A Friend of Unfair Park who knows where to find me October 23 -- the Plano Center -- suggests I think again. Because, see, I had plans to take the 7-year-old who lives in my house to meet and greet one William Shatner, who's been booked for months to appear at the Star Trek Fan Days event. Also o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    Trade Ya: Top 10 Movie Lists for Free DVDs

    ​Forthcoming later today is this year's Unfair Park holiday-season auction benefiting North Texas Food Bank, which features not one by several one-of-a-kind, locally produced items. But while we wrap up this year's goodies, first this giveaway.Yesterday I posted the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 13, 2009

    Nerd is the Word

    ​Forthcoming later today is this year's Unfair Park holiday-season auction benefiting North Texas Food Bank, which features not one by several one-of-a-kind, locally produced items. But while we wrap up this year's goodies, first this giveaway.Yesterday I posted the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    You Know Who's Going to Save Blockbuster? Captain Kirk, the Watchmen and Paul Blart.

    Elm Street-based Blockbuster's stock is tanking this morning -- down more than 27 percent before the sun's even warm, to about 83 cents. It was bound to happen following yesterday's quarterly report, which noted a 20-percent drop in total revenues over the same period in '08. But, fear not, CEO Jim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Being a Star Trek Fan Was Something You Used to Kept Quiet. Apparently, Not Anymore.

    Ward SuttonOne of the panels from Ward Sutton's very clever Star Trek cartoon, "The Shatner Menagerie," currently up on the Village Voice's Web site.So, the powers-that-be at Levinson & Hill took note of the fact we done run out of Star Trek tees and sent over more -- specifically, 73 smalls, 34 ... More >>

  • Film

    May 7, 2009

    J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Offers Proof a Franchise Can Live Long and Prosper

    Ward SuttonOne of the panels from Ward Sutton's very clever Star Trek cartoon, "The Shatner Menagerie," currently up on the Village Voice's Web site.So, the powers-that-be at Levinson & Hill took note of the fact we done run out of Star Trek tees and sent over more -- specifically, 73 smalls, 34 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    Giveaway! Or: Amazingly Enough, I've Never Owned a Star Trek Tee Till, Oh, Today.

    Far as you know, I will not be at DFW TrekFest this evening, which beams up 'round 6 in Grand Prairie. But, come Saturday morning, you may well find me at the recently rebranded Cinemark West Plano (formerly the Tinseltown), where they've gone ... extreme! Which is to say, Star Trek starts screening ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2008

    That Dallas Reunion? Expect Refunds. At the Very Least. S'Gonna Get Ugly.

    Far as you know, I will not be at DFW TrekFest this evening, which beams up 'round 6 in Grand Prairie. But, come Saturday morning, you may well find me at the recently rebranded Cinemark West Plano (formerly the Tinseltown), where they've gone ... extreme! Which is to say, Star Trek starts screening ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2008

    Look, We're Just Vulcan Around

    Far as you know, I will not be at DFW TrekFest this evening, which beams up 'round 6 in Grand Prairie. But, come Saturday morning, you may well find me at the recently rebranded Cinemark West Plano (formerly the Tinseltown), where they've gone ... extreme! Which is to say, Star Trek starts screening ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2008

    Browns Fans Can See Into the Future

    Far as you know, I will not be at DFW TrekFest this evening, which beams up 'round 6 in Grand Prairie. But, come Saturday morning, you may well find me at the recently rebranded Cinemark West Plano (formerly the Tinseltown), where they've gone ... extreme! Which is to say, Star Trek starts screening ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2008

    Your Portal to Portus: Or, Is It "Potterheads" or "Potterphiles"?

    Far as you know, I will not be at DFW TrekFest this evening, which beams up 'round 6 in Grand Prairie. But, come Saturday morning, you may well find me at the recently rebranded Cinemark West Plano (formerly the Tinseltown), where they've gone ... extreme! Which is to say, Star Trek starts screening ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2008

    First Step on the Centraltrak

    Far as you know, I will not be at DFW TrekFest this evening, which beams up 'round 6 in Grand Prairie. But, come Saturday morning, you may well find me at the recently rebranded Cinemark West Plano (formerly the Tinseltown), where they've gone ... extreme! Which is to say, Star Trek starts screening ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 26, 2007

    Ashes to Ashes

    It's Ash Wednesday all summer at the DMA

  • Calendar

    May 31, 2007

    Tune Me Up, Scotty

    The DSO goes Trekkie

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2006
  • Home Entertainment

    November 23, 2006

    Bad News With Al

    The DSO goes Trekkie

  • Home Entertainment

    November 16, 2006

    When the Stars Came Out

    The DSO goes Trekkie

  • Music

    September 14, 2006

    Space Is Deep

    Flaming Lips: New adventures in sci-fi

  • Home Entertainment

    August 3, 2006

    Our top DVD picks for the week of August 1

    Flaming Lips: New adventures in sci-fi

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2006

    Summer Reading. For Dorks.

    Flaming Lips: New adventures in sci-fi

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2006

    Dork Out with Your...Uh...Dork Out?

    Flaming Lips: New adventures in sci-fi

  • Calendar

    March 16, 2006

    Con Artists

    Flaming Lips: New adventures in sci-fi

  • Home Entertainment

    November 3, 2005

    The Force Runs Its Course

    Flaming Lips: New adventures in sci-fi

  • Home Entertainment

    October 6, 2005

    Dallas Observer's top DVD picks for the week of October 4

    Flaming Lips: New adventures in sci-fi

  • Home Entertainment

    September 29, 2005
  • Calendar

    October 21, 2004

    Falling Stars

    The Next Generation of sci-fi

  • Calendar

    October 7, 2004

    Good Lord

    Hobbits and horns at The Lord of the Rings Symphony

  • Calendar

    July 8, 2004

    Hey, Wilma

    Erin Gray is out of this world

  • Calendar

    September 25, 2003

    Batter Up

    It's incredibly corny over there

  • Calendar

    July 10, 2003

    Sci-Fi High

    Get your geek on at Sci-Fi Expo

  • Calendar

    November 8, 2001

    Warp Speed Backward

    Finally, a Star Trek: TMP worth the tribble

  • Calendar

    October 18, 2001

    Batman and Rubbin'

    The guest list at the Bat-Con Comic & Toy Expo will still wet Underoos

  • Calendar

    September 13, 2001

    TV or Not TV

    At least there's less junk this year

  • Calendar

    September 6, 2001

    The Enemy Within

    William Shatner is no longer afraid of his shadow

  • Culture

    February 8, 2001

    Back to the Future

    Robert Wise finishes Star Trek: The Motion Picture--22 years later

  • Calendar

    June 22, 2000

    Science friction

    Where good villains go to make a buck

  • Film

    December 23, 1999

    Keep on Trekkin'

    Galaxy Quest is an exhilarating, affectionate parody of all things Roddenberry

  • Calendar

    June 3, 1999

    Armies of darkness

    Galaxy Quest is an exhilarating, affectionate parody of all things Roddenberry

  • Film

    May 20, 1999

    Get a life

    Trekkies boldly peers into the Star Trek phenomenon

  • News

    April 15, 1999

    The Fandom Menace

    Living on the sidewalk for a month. Sleeping with Wookiees. Thousand-dollar action figures. Think the new Star Wars is just a movie? You poor fool.

  • Calendar

    September 3, 1998

    This cartoon is X-rated

    Living on the sidewalk for a month. Sleeping with Wookiees. Thousand-dollar action figures. Think the new Star Wars is just a movie? You poor fool.

  • Calendar

    January 1, 1998

    Events for the week

    Living on the sidewalk for a month. Sleeping with Wookiees. Thousand-dollar action figures. Think the new Star Wars is just a movie? You poor fool.

  • Film

    November 24, 1994

    Moldily go

    Star Trek: Generations rings in the new by killing off the old

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