Win ‘Star Trek’ books!

The ultimate visual guide to Star Trek for any fan, DK’s Star Trek: The Visual Dictionary (out Friday 1 March, £14.99) offers a detailed exploration of the strange new worlds (and old ones), the iconic characters, ships, equipment and alien species of all the Star Trek series. > Read our review of the book. > … >

Posted Filed under

‘Destination Star Trek London 2012’ review

For the legions of science fiction fans that descended on London’s ExCel Centre, the weekend of October 19th to 21st meant just one thing: for the first time in Trekker convention history all five captains from the TV incarnations of Star Trek were to gather for a public appearance, to celebrate fifty years of a cultural phenomenon.

Posted Filed under

Leonard Nimoy sings ‘The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins’

Compared with the attention paid to the more well-known attempts by his Star Trek co-star William Shatner to forge some kind of musical career (through the medium of proclaiming songs, rather than by singing them), Leonard Nimoy’s pop sensibilities have been all but overlooked. Hearing this trippy 1960s tribute to the diminutive hero of The … >

Posted Filed under