Star Trek

NASA Is Developing A 3-D Printer That Makes Food!

With all the hoopla and controversy over the first firing of the 3-D-printed gun, here's something everyone can agree is less controversial and astronomically cooler: NASA is funding research on 3-D printed food! Yup! To feed astronauts that might one day travel to Mars, the space agency has select ... More >>

[UPDATED with Correction Regarding Roland Chi:] OC Weekly 2012 Election Guide: Fullerton!

See the end of this post for a correction regarding a County of Orange Health Care Agency  investigation into a Garden Grove supermarket owned not by Roland Chi, but rather his family.ORIGINAL POST OCT. 11, 2012 3:34 P.M.: It's tempting to qualify the Fullerton political scene as a live- action ... More >>

Tim Thompson Puts Stars in Your Eyes Tonight

Astronomer Tim Thompson is so jazzed by NASA's Kepler Mission, which is searching part of the Milky Way for planets much like ours, that he wants to tell you all about its current progress.And he'll share this tonight. For free! Screw clubbing, Stefon.

BIG BANG - Honda Center - November 3, 2012

BIG BANGHonda CenterNovember 3, 2012So if you haven't heard about the Korean boy-band, BIG BANG, trust me, you will soon.  Riding the K-Pop invasion into the United States, led by Psy and Gangnam Style, BIG BANG is on their first U.S. tour.  For two nights in a row, they sold out the Honda ... More >>

Is That a Lightsaber in Your Pocket or is the Force with Star Wars Porn Parody Maker?

Apologies for crossing the Star Wars lightsaber and Star Trek phaser streams, but a media watcher has gone where no media watcher has gone before when it comes to a fresh angle on the blockbuster Lucasfilm-Walt Disney Co. deal. As the Mouse produces the seventh Star Wars episode scheduled to be rele ... More >>

Star Trek's Galileo Seeks Out New Life and New Civilizations ... in Santa Ana

A Santa Ana movie prop company has gone where no Santa Ana movie prop company has gone before.Propworx Inc. on Dyer Road recently won an auction for the Galileo shuttlecraft from the original Star Trek, according to Starfleet International, the world's largest and oldest fan club forever geeked by ... More >>

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Regency South Coast Village

[UPDATED With Comment From Anaheim Convention Center] WonderCon Moving To Anaheim

​UPDATE: July 29, 2011, 7:50 p.m.: In a phone conversation today, Mindy Abel, the Senior Vice President of Convention Sales at the Anaheim Convention Center, clarified that nothing was confirmed regarding the change of venue for WonderCon. "We have been in discussion with Comic-Con International ... More >>

New Miss USA, California Girl Alyssa Campanella, Believes in Evolution and is OK With Medical Marijuana

AP​Here she is, Miss USA. Taking the coveted tiara in all its sparkly glory was Miss California Alyssa Campanella. She trembled. She cried. She threw up rocker fingers. The 21-year-old blonde-turned-redhead out-walked, talked, posed and prettied 50 other leggy contenders last ... More >>

Star Trek Auction Seeks New Life and New C-Notes

​Set your phasers to geeked.A Santa Ana auction house begins taking bids at 10 a.m. Saturday for 257 lots of props, models and costumes from the original Star Trek television series and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise, as wel ... More >>

An Evening With Leonard Nimoy

Carpenter Center

Pub Quiz

Basement Lounge

Geek Shopping Site Offers Molecular-Gastronomy Starter Kit for the Home Chef

Can't wait for Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine to come out? Want to channel your inner Marcel and annoy your dinner guests with foams? If you've always known you can do better than Wylie Dufresne and Ferran Adrià, Think Geek--those purveyors of things you never knew you needed, such as Tauntaan slee ... More >>

Biennialus Interruptus at OCMA

The 2010 California Biennial is chock-a-block o' great!

Kirk to Domino's...

thinkgeeek.comBeam me up... a meat lover's special​ In college, I did people do lots of things they grow out of later in life. Such as bong sessions and watching Star Trek reruns high. And along with such things comes the inevitable call for pizza delivery.

TONIGHT: Andre Nickatina at the Grove of Anaheim

​The list of slick- tongued superstars to come out of the Bay Area is pretty lengthy. You've got your Tupacs, your Too $horts, E-40s and MC Hammers. But one name that you habitual Power 106 and K-Day listeners better recognize is Andre Nickatina. After two decades,  his vulgar and vivid ... More >>

10 Questions with Kool Keith

​Kool Keith is a man of many mysteries, many personalities and, of course, many surprises. Since the twilight years of hip hop's Golden Era, Keith (aka Black Elvis, aka Dr. Octagon) has held the torch for rappers who dare to be different, and a little eccentric. You'll definitely get a taste of th ... More >>

Top 5 Frozen Yogurt Flavors I'd Like To See

Since new yogurt stores seem to keep popping up like an unstoppable, virulent disease (See my earlier post here on the phenomenon), there's really one thing left to do: request more flavors.  Not that there's a lack of creativity out there.  Some, like Yogurtland, seem to have a hard-working f ... More >>

Nothing to "Klingon" in New "Star Trek" Movie

If your TV is on the fritz, you didn't pay your cable/satellite bill or you're just one of those Communists who does not watch the tube, you may not have heard there is a new Star Trek movie opening today and, according to one Weekly Trekker at least, it's a solid effort.But some die-hards do have s ... More >>

J.J. Abrams's 'Star Trek' Reboot Is Proof That the Franchise Can Live Long and Prosper

Spacing Out

The Planets in HD

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Surfing 50 States,' 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' More

'We're Joined Now, Via Hologram, By will.i.am'

Without a doubt the funniest words ever strung together in the history of televised election coverage. At least it was Anderson Cooper handling the interview, as he's hip enough to have an idea of how ridiculous it was. I disagree with him saying it's like Star Trek, though—it's more like Princ ... More >>

Back to the Future

'The Imaginary 20th Century' takes us forward into the past

Long Beach Trek-tacular

As much as I enjoy Star Trek, and always have, I can't say I was that enthused by the idea of “Star Trek: The Tour.” What could they show me that I haven't seen? Could it possibly top the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas? Do I really want to pay top dollar to see a bunch of multicolored spandex ... More >>

Captain's Chairman

A 66 year old man from Orange just paid $200,000 to be the 33rd passenger on Richard Branson's new civilian space flights that are planned to begin in 2009 sometime, the Register's Sciencedude blog is reporting. Bob Walters, who failed as a younger man to pass the eye test required for pilots, is a ... More >>

Trekkie or Trekker?

Star Trek: The Tour

DVDish

WEB EXCLUSIVE! Jungle Fever

Arty Party Animals

Hanging with OCMA’s Art Since the 1960s

Pricey Morning in America

Mitt Romney may like him some outdoor barbecue and bouncy houses, but it seems that Rudy Giuliani prefers breakfast as his OC fund-raising venue. However, those eggs and bacon will cost you -- got $2,300 or more? Want to blow it all on a photo op with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Frontrunner? Then get your ... More >>

Confessions of a Comic-Con Virgin

A non-geek follows the king of geekdom into the heart of dorkness

2007: a Comic-Con Odyssey

Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love sleep deprivation, huge crowds and wonderful toys

Comic-Con 2007: Of Paramount Disappointment, plus Jessica Alba and Peter Fonda

Damn, the lines here suck. Used to be that Comic-Con got bigger every year, and they expanded the available space to fit. Then the space ran out, and stuff kept getting bigger anyway. I wait in line half an hour for the Paramount panel, and don't even get close to getting in. Regroup. An hour later ... More >>

LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 7-20-07

Tough one, this. There is no way I'm ever going to recommend Hairspray -- even if it turns out to be passable, I hate the very idea of it. As for Adam Sandler pretending to be gay...if GLAAD approved of the movie, I'm thinking Sandler's gonna be pretty defanged in it (ironic, since I know there's a ... More >>

20th Century Fox pulls out of Comic-Con

As reported in this week's Comic-Con preview by yours truly, Fox was set to showcase upcoming movie releases including Aliens Vs. Predator, Babylon A.D. and Jumper. The LA Times is reporting that the studio decided their footage "wasn't ready." JoBlo.com writes that this may be the result of a dis ... More >>

The Big Con

Out of the basement and into the spotlight, Comic-Con 2007 is the place to be

Same Old Story

Sequels, prequels, and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

Question: How Many Geeks Can You Cram into a Hall?

Answer: ALL of them. That is, all of them if the geeks in question are geeked about anime/manga and the hall in question is a cavernous corner of the Anaheim Convention Center. Organizers of Anime Expo 2006 announced today that their largest-ever exhibit hall--which will be filled with its most-eve ... More >>

The Dudes Abide

No go-go boys in Newport, but the Big Lebowski lives on in Lakewood

The Big Beat-Off

Eight Days

Creepshow Superstars

Door-to-door new wave with I Am Spoonbender

Through With Love

Drowning in an ocean of sickly sweet emotion

Letters

Hull Breach

Star Treks core meltdown

Uh-Oh, Its Magic

Harry Potter and the muggle hordes

The Fandom Menace

Star Wars: Attack of the Geeks

MST3Ks Legacy Will Live On

And Hollywood will never be the same

Getting Small

Todd Muffatti thinks inside the box

Uneasy Alliance

Official sites reluctantly let fan pages thrive