Star Trek

Sometimes being a total geek pays off.

In his new memoir, A View from the Bridge, Nicholas Meyer, the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, reveals that he cast Cheers actress Kirstie Alley in the film that kick-started her career as Romulan-Vulcan officer Lieutenant Saavik because she was obsessed with Spock. 

She was apparently so infatuated that she used to sleep with her Vulcan ears on.

That's what we call dedication. Who knew Kirstie Alley was so method?

Shaun of the Dead and Star Trek star Simon Pegg has become a father. The British actor and his wife Maureen McCann have welcomed their first child, a baby girl.

The couple has not yet revealed the baby's name.

Pegg, 39, is also godfather to Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin's daughter, Apple, 5.

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.

Is Star Trek star Chris Pine pulling the old “I’m famous so I’m going to tell everyone I’m single and win more female fans” stand by? Or is he really a free agent?

While he’s been linked to model Beau Garrett since 2008, in recent interviews he’s claiming he’s single.

“I haven’t set my phasers on anyone,” he claimed on The Billy Bush Show. “I’m a single man. I’m a dating man. I always love the company of a fine intelligent woman, so we’ll see what happens.”

Taking in over $70 Million, Star Trek easily claimed the top spot at the box office this weekend.

That’s because it’s the BAP!

All hail Chris Pine.

We've decided he's Leo DiCaprio meets Matt Damon. And we like it.

Herro!

We are loving us some Captain Kirk these days!

Chris Pine was snapped leaving his (and our) favorite coffee place in LA this morning.

We’re loathe to give away the location of Chris’ caffeine sanctuary…but we will say this and maybe an intrepid Google-r will find the answer:

They have the best breakfast polenta dish we’ve ever tasted and there’s nothing like their mojitos.

Any guesses?

Star Trek opened this weekend and is not to be missed!

—Sasha Perl-Raver

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.

Do you want to know what’s totally frickin’ awesome?

The new Star Trek movie is totally frickin’ awesome.

From the moment the film, the eleventh in the franchise’s history, begins, it is relentlessly, absurdly, unyieldingly awesome.

Walking in, our fandom skewed more toward J.J. Abrams and his Felicity-Lost legacy than the Trekkie world, but from the moment those familiar starships, at the film’s beginning the USS Kelvin, not the USS Enterprise, dip into sight, a sudden, unexpected glee rushed over us.

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.