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Director J.J. Abrams is back in the captain’s chair, piloting the U.S.S. Enterprise through more explosions, more lens flare – in fact, more of just about everything that disenchanted Trekkies with STAR TREK (2009) – and this time all of it is enhanced with enough eye-popping 3D to make these angry fans switch their phasers [...]

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Take another tour of horror, fantasy, and science fiction on home video with this week’s edition of the Cinefantastique Laserblast Podcast. Lawrence French, Dan Persons, and Steve Biodrowski explore the over-hyped “purge” of classic titles from Netflix; review the new Blu-ray releases of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, [...]

Every now and then, we pause in awe of the people we’ve had the opportunity to spend time with. Doug Trumbull, John Kricfalusi, and Paul Verhoeven in earlier years, Armin Shimerman and Frank Oz more recently — now it’s Martin Landau’s turn, and we couldn’t be happier.
In an extended and wide-ranging interview, we got a [...]

It’s not often an actor gets to redeem an entire species, but that’s what Armin Shimerman did when he took on the role of Quark, the amenable but eminently self-interested Ferengi barkeep of STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Having been present for the Ferengi’s ignominious debut on STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, when a race [...]

If you’re going to see THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY at an IMAX theater this weekend, you’re a lucky person! You get to spend $6.95 on a medium soda! Also, you’ll likely be seeing the first 9 minutes of STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS, J.J. Abrams curiously titled follow up to his highly praised franchise reboot. [...]

Japanese “Announcement” Trailer with Extra footage, plus Advance poster and synopsis. POSSILE SPOILERS

STAR TREK sequel writer addresses rewrites of the film while in production.

A son goes in search of the father he never quite knew, and the CFQ crew gets introspective enough to take a nostalgic trip back to explore one of the formative influences on their sense of wonder, Gene Roddenberry’s STAR TREK.
Come join our special guest, theofantastique.com’s John W. Morehead, as he joins Cinefantastique Online’s Steve [...]

Now with examples of restored footage and FX.

It can only be experienced, not described.

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION THE NEXT LEVEL will begin a High Defintion remastering of the series.

CBS/Paramount is working on HD remasters of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, JJ Abrams open to a new TREK series.

The first episode of the original series aired 45 years ago today, September 8th, 1966.