J.J. Abrams

Oh no. Star Trek, what hath you wrought?

A new Buffy the Vampire Slayer film, which, like J.J. Abrams' new Star Trek movie, will be a "reboot" of the series, is in the works, but the creator and star of the hit TV show, Joss Whedon and Sarah Michelle Gellar, are not involved. Whedon was also behind the 1992 film which inspired the series.

The Japanese know how to do it!

They are ever so slightly out of their minds…but in a really good way.

At the Japanese premiere of Star Trek in Tokyo last night, a replica of the Starship Enterprise was landed on the red carpet.

Hot!

And basking in the Enterprise’s blue glow were producer Bryan Burk (the short rich guy on the end), director J.J. Abrams (our idol), and the hottest man candy this side of the Milky Way.

John Chu, Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, Eric Bana and Karl Urban, all pressed up against each other in a smokeshow smorgasbord.

This kind of sounds like the stuff of urban legends, but we’re so hyped on Star Trek right now (we saw it again last night and it’s still AWESOME) that we’re ravenous for any on-set juice.

According to the New York Post, Zachary Quinto had such a hard time training his hands to make the Vulcan salute for the new Star Trek movie, director J.J. Abrams had to glue his fingers together.

He may play the unemotional, hyper-logical Dr. Spock, but Leonard Nimoy found himself constantly fighting back tears on the set of J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek film.

Nimoy reprises his role of the iconic Vulcan and admits he was a blubbering mess as he watched characters from the original 1960s TV series meeting for the first time in the new prequel.

The scene he struggled with the most was when Captain Kirk, played by Chris Pine, met Karl Urban’s Dr. McCoy for the first time.

We’ve already seen Star Trek once, but loved it so much we’re going back for seconds at one of the late night screenings tonight.

These are not spoilers but we wanted to give Abrams addicts a heads up for a few Easter eggs.

Making a voice cameo is Greg Grunberg, Abrams long time buddy, who has appeared on Felicity, Alias and Lost (as James’ uncle), and Felicity fans should look out for the blink-and-you-miss-it cameo by Amanda Foreman (Megan, Felicity's Wiccan roommate).

We’re going to have a full-on "See It or Skip It" for you on Friday, but we just got back from a screening of Star Trek and we simply couldn’t contain ourselves. We had to tell you…

The movie is phenomenal on every level!!!

We’ll be back with more details soon, but trust us when we say you should buy tickets immediately to see the film when it opens this weekend.

J.J. Abrams, we bow before you.

We’re not worthy. We’re not worthy.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

Giggity Goo!

Last night’s Hollywood premiere of Star Trek brought all the most scrumptious boys to the yard.

J.J. Abrams has the best taste in men!

There was J.J.’s early muse, star of Felicity, a man we’d follow across the country: Scott Speedman.

Followed by Matthew Foxy Fox, a man who makes us wish we were Lost, not showering and being chased by polar bears on a desert island too.

And, finally, Chris Pine, Abrams newest darling, the star of Star Trek and a man bound from massive, global stardom.

It is thanks to PR spin and a journalistic game of “Telephone” that Zachary Quinto landed the role of Spock in the new Star Trek movie.

When he’d just been cast on Heroes, he heard that J.J. Abrams was planning to boldly go…you know the rest. Quinto was giving an interview to his small local paper in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and he mentioned how much he’d like to be involved. Little did he know, one off-hand comment ballooned into a full-on campaign for the role.

How awesome is this picture?

Past and present Doctor Spock, Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto, posed together at the Hollywood Charity Horse Show, an event William Shatner, aka: Captain James T. Kirk, hosted at the LA Equestrian Center on Saturday.

The new Star Trek film, starring Quinto, opens on May 8th and is already on track to break box office records.

That’s because J.J. Abrams, with the exception of Cloverfield, is a mofo-ing P-I-M-P whose brain is huge.

—Sasha Perl-Raver