by AOL Travel Staff, source AOL.com Star Trek is getting a theme park. Just don’t look for it in the United States. Jordan’s King Abdullah II is getting into the theme park business in the nerdiest way possible – by investing in a $1.5 billion Star Trek theme park on
Sci-fi is filled with dynamic duos and famous teams. The leader usually gets all the glory, while the sidekick’s just along for the ride. But not this time. They’ve played second fiddle long enough! Blastr has found 12 right-hand men (and women) whose journeys, quirks and overall awesomeness make them
We haven’t seen Star Trek on TV since Enterprise ended in 2005, and we had to wait four years until Trek came back into our lives in the form of J.J. Abrams’ successful movie reboot of the venerable sci-fi franchise. But did you know there were a few attempts to
Many people think that Star Trek: Enterprise was the one major failure in the Star Trek franchise. But WHY did it fail? Longtime Star Trek producer Rick Berman has the answer. Running from 2001 to 2005 (only four seasons, as opposed to seven for the previous Star Trek reboots), Star
Filmmakers have been relying on computers an awful lot lately to warp actors into aliens. But there’ill always be a place for the magic of traditional makeup, as demonstrated in Syfy’s new Face-Off reality show, the next episode of which tackles the theme of extraterrestrial transformations. See the costumes here
Who was the first captain of Star Trek’s U.S.S. Enterprise? And—was the Enterprise even the ship’s name? You can find out all this and more by reading creator Gene Roddenberry’s original pitch for his now-classic series. See what Blastr has found for us all to see
Attention Star Trek fans and collectors—to your wallets! PPW Toys is about to release Mr. Potato Head versions of beloved Star Trek TOS characters, starting with the great Shat himself, Captain James T. Kirk, and his good ol’ pal (OK, make that enemy), the Klingon Kor. According to Toyexplosion, the
If you’ve been thinking the ‘snowpocalypse’ and ‘snowmageddon’ storms that have hit the eastern United States have been bad, here are 17 worlds from around the galaxy that should leave you feeling better about a little snow. We realize these are only the—ahem—tip of the iceberg as far as frozen
Brannon Braga has worked on Star Trek in some capacity for 15 years, from an intern on The Next Generation in 1990 to the executive producer of Enterprise when it ended in 2005—and he regrets that in all of those years, the series never had a gay character. Read the
