Star Trek Articles

"Fellow Star folks! Cool it down!" admonishes Star Trek veteran and Star Wars: The Clone Wars guest star George Takei, 74, in this hilarious follow-up clip to the (sadly, earthbound) YouTube video wars pitting Star Trek's Captain Kirk aka William Shatner against Star Wars' Princess Leia aka Carrie Fisher. (Where are Harrison Ford and Leonard Nimoy when you most need them?) "Each is wonderful in [...]

Star Wars' Carrie Fisher, 55, takes on Star Trek's William Shatner on this brief video. Shatner had been making humorously "disparaging" comparisons between Star Trek and Star Wars, with the former coming out on top. Whether or not you're a Star Trek and/or Star Wars nut or you couldn't care less about either movie/television franchise, this cleverly edited Carrie Fisher video is a hilarious must. [...]

Actor William Campbell died on April 29 at age 87 of "natural causes" at the Motion Picture & Television Fund's hospital in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills. Though perhaps best-remembered for his roles in two Star Trek episodes, "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "The Squire of Gothos" (doing a Liberace sendup), Campbell appeared in more than 30 features, and nearly 50 television series [...]

“Visualize This: Previs in the Making of Star Trek,” will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Science and Technology Council on Thursday, November 18, at 8 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. The program will explore the previsualization (previs) process in the digital age. Writer-producer Damon Lindelof will use sequences from the J. J. Abrams' Star Trek [...]