Here are some new images just released by Paramount of the new BARBIE dolls!
The Barbies should arrive in Wal-Mart stores on April 20th.
The Barbies should arrive in Wal-Mart stores on April 20th.
Thanks To our Friends At TrekMovie For The Images.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
THE Opinionator
Hey guys! Sorry I haven't been posting very much, but I did not have very much time, and at this point we are just waiting for the marketing to begin......... which leads to my question- WHEN IS THE MARKETING GOING TO START??????? Comment below on when...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Ricardo Montalban Has Passed
Ricardo Montalban, Who portrayed Khan on TOS " Space Seed" And Star Trek II, has died of natural causes. He will be remembered, and, once again, this is a sad day for Trekkies.
Orci On Trek, The Fallen Getting Revenge, And Comedy
A new interview with Roberto Orci talks about the big E and about the New Transformers movie:
With regard to Star Trek, what would you say to fans who might take issue with portraying Kirk as a reckless youth, getting into bar fights with Starfleet cadets?
Orci: Well, they cite the quote that he was a stack of books with legs in the Academy. The truth is that in our movie there's nothing that precludes Kirk from being a stack of books at the Academy. What you see is what he is before the Academy. Some would argue that him being a rebellious bar fighter in our movie is absolutely consistent with canon.
With those lavish, epic-looking space battles, is it safe to say they are no longer inspired by submarine battles?
Orci: It's safe to say that that has not been totally thrown away, but imagine super-advanced submarines. It still maintains some of the maritime origin battle-wise, either a sub battle or ship to ship, cannon to cannon, Master and Commander battle. Just, I think, on a different pace.
Some fans also take issue with the idea that they're building the Enterprise on Earth, instead of assembling it in space. Care to respond?
Orci: The response is that the Enterprise is not, nor has it ever been, a pleasure yacht. It's a ship that's able to warp space around it to several times the weight of gravity. So the idea that it somehow couldn't handle one Earth atmosphere of gravity was not something I think anyone who would board that ship would ever want to contemplate. The rationale for building it into space is when you have flimsy things that never have to be in gravity, but that's not what the starship Enterprise is.
Was it a major priority to work in a sword fight for Sulu?
Orci: You know, when you think of Star Trek, if you're a fan of the original, any one of us can kind of make a top 20 list of things you might see. I bet you a lot of our lists would be similar. There'd be a lot of overlap like that. Any fan could think of the top 20 things, and we tried to put as many of those things in the movie as possible.
And you got to show us the very first redshirt death.
Orci: Again, that's one of those things where if you're not a fan, you will learn that it's not good luck to be a redshirt. And if you are a fan, the minute you start to come into that sequence, you have an anticipation for what's going to come that nobody else has. That's one of the joys of having been able to tell this movie.
What can you tell us about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the sequel to Transformers?
Orci: The second movie is like an extreme version of the first movie.
You must have finished before they started planning the IMAX shoot, but did you write anything that lends itself to IMAX?
Orci: I mean, almost anything that Michael Bay directs lends itself to IMAX. The treatment that we turned in before the strike was primarily about preparing the action sequences. So he and the amazing Ian Bryce had the ability to really plan some gigantic sequences that I can't imagine what they're going to look like in IMAX.
What else are you working on?
Orci: Transformers will come out a month after [Star Trek]. The Proposal is something Alex and I executive-produced. It's a romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds that comes in between Star Trek and Transformers. Right now we're writing Cowboys and Aliens with Damon Lindelof, our co-conspirator in Star Trek [and executive producer of ABC's Lost].
What is Cowboys and Aliens?
Orci: It's a graphic novel that's been around for a while in which you mix the genres of the Old West with the science fiction of an alien invasion.
How many novels are there, and where do you narrow down your source?
Orci: There are a lot of graphic novels. You've just got to go through them and just see what inspires you, what grabs you and what seems to have good imagery that might translate into a movie. Some graphic novels maybe wouldn't make such great movies.
What inspired you about that one?
Orci: That audiences are getting very sophisticated, and the idea of taking two known genres, a western and an alien-invasion movie, and literally crashing them together is something you haven't seen a whole lot of, and it's something you can't predict what that's going to turn up. What is crashing this chocolate and this peanut butter going to turn up?
How far along is that?
Orci: We have an amazing first draft from [Mark] Fergus and [Hawk] Ostby, the gentlemen who co-wrote Iron Man. We're in the middle of doing a second draft with Damon Lindelof, and hopefully we'll have something in a couple months.
Will you be writing on it?
Orci: Yeah, Alex and I and Damon Lindelof.
With regard to Star Trek, what would you say to fans who might take issue with portraying Kirk as a reckless youth, getting into bar fights with Starfleet cadets?
Orci: Well, they cite the quote that he was a stack of books with legs in the Academy. The truth is that in our movie there's nothing that precludes Kirk from being a stack of books at the Academy. What you see is what he is before the Academy. Some would argue that him being a rebellious bar fighter in our movie is absolutely consistent with canon.
With those lavish, epic-looking space battles, is it safe to say they are no longer inspired by submarine battles?
Orci: It's safe to say that that has not been totally thrown away, but imagine super-advanced submarines. It still maintains some of the maritime origin battle-wise, either a sub battle or ship to ship, cannon to cannon, Master and Commander battle. Just, I think, on a different pace.
Some fans also take issue with the idea that they're building the Enterprise on Earth, instead of assembling it in space. Care to respond?
Orci: The response is that the Enterprise is not, nor has it ever been, a pleasure yacht. It's a ship that's able to warp space around it to several times the weight of gravity. So the idea that it somehow couldn't handle one Earth atmosphere of gravity was not something I think anyone who would board that ship would ever want to contemplate. The rationale for building it into space is when you have flimsy things that never have to be in gravity, but that's not what the starship Enterprise is.
Was it a major priority to work in a sword fight for Sulu?
Orci: You know, when you think of Star Trek, if you're a fan of the original, any one of us can kind of make a top 20 list of things you might see. I bet you a lot of our lists would be similar. There'd be a lot of overlap like that. Any fan could think of the top 20 things, and we tried to put as many of those things in the movie as possible.
And you got to show us the very first redshirt death.
Orci: Again, that's one of those things where if you're not a fan, you will learn that it's not good luck to be a redshirt. And if you are a fan, the minute you start to come into that sequence, you have an anticipation for what's going to come that nobody else has. That's one of the joys of having been able to tell this movie.
What can you tell us about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the sequel to Transformers?
Orci: The second movie is like an extreme version of the first movie.
You must have finished before they started planning the IMAX shoot, but did you write anything that lends itself to IMAX?
Orci: I mean, almost anything that Michael Bay directs lends itself to IMAX. The treatment that we turned in before the strike was primarily about preparing the action sequences. So he and the amazing Ian Bryce had the ability to really plan some gigantic sequences that I can't imagine what they're going to look like in IMAX.
What else are you working on?
Orci: Transformers will come out a month after [Star Trek]. The Proposal is something Alex and I executive-produced. It's a romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds that comes in between Star Trek and Transformers. Right now we're writing Cowboys and Aliens with Damon Lindelof, our co-conspirator in Star Trek [and executive producer of ABC's Lost].
What is Cowboys and Aliens?
Orci: It's a graphic novel that's been around for a while in which you mix the genres of the Old West with the science fiction of an alien invasion.
How many novels are there, and where do you narrow down your source?
Orci: There are a lot of graphic novels. You've just got to go through them and just see what inspires you, what grabs you and what seems to have good imagery that might translate into a movie. Some graphic novels maybe wouldn't make such great movies.
What inspired you about that one?
Orci: That audiences are getting very sophisticated, and the idea of taking two known genres, a western and an alien-invasion movie, and literally crashing them together is something you haven't seen a whole lot of, and it's something you can't predict what that's going to turn up. What is crashing this chocolate and this peanut butter going to turn up?
How far along is that?
Orci: We have an amazing first draft from [Mark] Fergus and [Hawk] Ostby, the gentlemen who co-wrote Iron Man. We're in the middle of doing a second draft with Damon Lindelof, and hopefully we'll have something in a couple months.
Will you be writing on it?
Orci: Yeah, Alex and I and Damon Lindelof.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
STO Corner: 2 New Screenshots!!
Here are two new screenshots, released January 7th. Sorry we didn't report it earlier.
Here they are:
Here they are:
Musical Sunday Results & New Poll
Okay, thwe winner for this one is
Ilias theme, from Star Trek: TMP.
So here it is!
This weeks Poll is on the sidebar!
Ilias theme, from Star Trek: TMP.
So here it is!
This weeks Poll is on the sidebar!
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Star Trek: Victory Has A New Poster
Star Trek: Victory has launched a new poster!! It has a ship ( not aloud to tell exactly) flying out!! Well, here it is! 
STAR TREK: COUNTDOWN 5 PAGE PREVIEW!!!
A preview for the lead up comic is now avaliable!!
UPDATE: WE HAVE IT! TAKE A LOOK!!
UPDATE: WE HAVE IT! TAKE A LOOK!!
Friday, January 9, 2009
Chris Pine And Zachary Quinto To Present Trek At Golden Globe!
EXCERPT FROM TREKWEB:
Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, the actors starring as James T. Kirk and Spock during their early Starfleet careers in the upcoming "Star Trek" movie, have been set as presenters and will make their first live television appearance at "The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards" to be telecast live on NBC Sunday, January 11 (8 - 11 p.m. EST) at The Beverly Hilton.
Make sure to watch!!!
Fan Films Friday
There isn't much news on the fan film front, but we do have this years fan film awards!!
1. I really liked Star Trek: Blood And Fire, So that is my first pick, with some new frontiers in that episode.
www.startreknewvoyages.com
2. Star Trek: Intrepid. They are just great, expect them to be Phase 2 caliber in about a year!
www.starshipintrepid.net
3. This was hard, but i believe it should go to the Helena chronicles. A great, interesting production.
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Most anticipated fan films of 2009-
1. Star Trek: Dark Armada
This is their first "real" episode. I expect Phase II caliber, right after release!
www.darkarmada.nl
2. Star Trek: Victory
So much secrecy. ( i know im creator) Some inside news:
Expect the first poster by Monday or so!
www.april2009.webs.com
1. I really liked Star Trek: Blood And Fire, So that is my first pick, with some new frontiers in that episode.
www.startreknewvoyages.com
2. Star Trek: Intrepid. They are just great, expect them to be Phase 2 caliber in about a year!
www.starshipintrepid.net
3. This was hard, but i believe it should go to the Helena chronicles. A great, interesting production.
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Most anticipated fan films of 2009-
1. Star Trek: Dark Armada
This is their first "real" episode. I expect Phase II caliber, right after release!
www.darkarmada.nl
2. Star Trek: Victory
So much secrecy. ( i know im creator) Some inside news:
Expect the first poster by Monday or so!
www.april2009.webs.com
Star Trek Will Play In The Super Bowl!
Well, it won't be on the field, but if you bought a plasma TV for the NFL playoffs, you will get to see the Star trek Trailer on it in another first! According to variety, one of the most watched television premiers, the Super Bowl will finally have Star Trek included.So, even if you don't like football, watch football Febuary 1st! This will also be the first ever Star Trek advertisment to appear in the Super Bowl. So, Febuary 1st.. REMEMBER!
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Star Trek Movie Props ON DISPLAY @ CES Convention
From The Webmaster Program!!
Lenovo, one of the marketing partners on STAR TREK, will be displaying three original props from the upcoming feature film at this years CES Convention in Las Vegas. Included in this display are Kirk’s Communicator, Uhura’s Communications Unit and Bones’ Medical Tricorder.
Visitors can view these props in front of the AquaKnox restaurant at the Venetian Hotel starting tonight at 6pm (Wednesday, January 7th) through midnight (12am) on Friday, January 9th.
I will try to get pictures ASAP! This is the begining of 09 marketing, folks!
Lenovo, one of the marketing partners on STAR TREK, will be displaying three original props from the upcoming feature film at this years CES Convention in Las Vegas. Included in this display are Kirk’s Communicator, Uhura’s Communications Unit and Bones’ Medical Tricorder.
Visitors can view these props in front of the AquaKnox restaurant at the Venetian Hotel starting tonight at 6pm (Wednesday, January 7th) through midnight (12am) on Friday, January 9th.
I will try to get pictures ASAP! This is the begining of 09 marketing, folks!
Off Topic Wednesday!
Even though our slogan is All Trek, All The time, we have to go on the off topics at time.
Here is some cool news:
* We are now on twitter.. sorry Trekmovie. It was already on my mind.
* NEW LOGO! Thank you Elizadolots!
* Computer Generated Actors:
Silicon Valley is on the verge of producing sophisticated software that will allow motion picture companies to create actors on a computer who are visually indistinguishable from real people, San Jose's Mercury News reported today (Thursday). In the words of the newspaper, which closely follows the sofware industry, when software engineers finally achieve what it calls "the holy grail of animation," stars would be able to "keep playing iconic roles even as they aged past the point of believability like Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft or Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter." Rick Bergman, general manager of AMD's graphics products group, told the Mercury News that his company "is getting real close" to producing computer-generated actors that will look identical to real human beings.
* NFL PLAYOFFS:
GO PANTHERS!!!!
It'd going to be a tough one as the Panthers take on Arizona at 8:15 on FOX.
*Not too much in the news. Please pray for the Roddenberry family as they take on tough times with the passing of Majel.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Twitter And Facebook!
Visit our Twitter page at
www.twitter.com/trekcheck for up to the minute updates.
Our Facebook And Youtube Pages should be up and running by the end of the week!
So stay tuned!
www.twitter.com/trekcheck for up to the minute updates.
Our Facebook And Youtube Pages should be up and running by the end of the week!
So stay tuned!
Star Trek Is DONE!!!
it has been reported that Star Trek, is done!!! That means that the marketing will most likely start soon. We will have every piece of marketing reported. That means, I will not be throwing away my Burger King kids meal toy, as well. It also means we may all find ourselves in the toy section, looking for Star Trek Models, amd even in the girls section for the Barbies.
Another big thing is that it has been announced that award winning Ben Burtt is providing sound effects. You know, the guy who did Star Wars, ET, and Wall-E.He created the iconic lightsaber and R-2 D2 sounds. He is, of course a Trek fan. He says he was very excited about this one, and i'm sure he did have fun creating phaser sounds and re-introducing our favorite little alarm.
Trek Check has also hit a milestone. Thanks To Elizadolots, we now have our official logo!!! She did a great job, so, again a big THANK YOU to Eliza.
Another big thing is that it has been announced that award winning Ben Burtt is providing sound effects. You know, the guy who did Star Wars, ET, and Wall-E.He created the iconic lightsaber and R-2 D2 sounds. He is, of course a Trek fan. He says he was very excited about this one, and i'm sure he did have fun creating phaser sounds and re-introducing our favorite little alarm.
Trek Check has also hit a milestone. Thanks To Elizadolots, we now have our official logo!!! She did a great job, so, again a big THANK YOU to Eliza.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Quinto And Pine Talk Trek In WSJ Interview
The Wall Street Journal Interviewed Quinto (Spock) and Pine (Kirk).
Spock says he felt like a "nerd" dressing up like Mr. Spock. Click Here to see the full interview!
Spock says he felt like a "nerd" dressing up like Mr. Spock. Click Here to see the full interview!
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Star Trek XI- On The Cover Of March Star Trek Magazine!
This will be avaliable March 18th in the US!
It will feature the two movie posters. Titan Magazines released the following statement:
J.J. Abrams' new Star Trek film is warping into theaters in May, and Star Trek Magazine features exclusive articles and photography about the film you'll find nowhere else. We would say more about it, but Section 31 and Starfleet Intelligence will send us to the dilithium mines on Rura Penthe if we did! Available in Newsstand and PREVIEWS Exclusive editions.
Heres The Magazine cover, so far:
We will continue to cover this special edition magazine as more details are revealed!
It will feature the two movie posters. Titan Magazines released the following statement:
J.J. Abrams' new Star Trek film is warping into theaters in May, and Star Trek Magazine features exclusive articles and photography about the film you'll find nowhere else. We would say more about it, but Section 31 and Starfleet Intelligence will send us to the dilithium mines on Rura Penthe if we did! Available in Newsstand and PREVIEWS Exclusive editions.
Heres The Magazine cover, so far:
We will continue to cover this special edition magazine as more details are revealed!
Musical Sunday
Our first ever musical sunday takes the best star trek Scores, and I rate Them!
Heres one of my all time favorites!
Heres the first pick! At the bottom, you can vote for your favorite score of the three!
Thanks To Poll Daddy!
" The Enterprise"- Jerry Goldsmith, Star Trek: TMP - 1979
HERE ARE THE CHOICES FOR THIS WEEKS-
Heres one of my all time favorites!
Heres the first pick! At the bottom, you can vote for your favorite score of the three!
Thanks To Poll Daddy!
" The Enterprise"- Jerry Goldsmith, Star Trek: TMP - 1979
HERE ARE THE CHOICES FOR THIS WEEKS-
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