Won Park’s incredible collection of well known objects, such as vessels from Star Trek and Star Wars, pretty much made exclusively from dollar notes.

Spock, as seen in the most recent Star Trek movie, looks to have been more faithful to Gene Roddenberry’s original vision of the Vulcan science officer than we may have expected.
Gene Roddenberry, who was behind the cult TV show, said he deliberately gave the half-Vulcan character a “slight look of the devil.” “I thought that [...]

I’m sure we’ve all heard that Apple boss Steve Jobs is back at work after time off for medical leave. And while the company may have fared well during the stewardship of temporary CEO Tim Cook, it seems Apple can not run without both Jobs and Cook at the helm.
Cook is a great manager, a [...]

Despite being somewhat unrealistic, Star Trek’s premise of an optimistic future plays a large part in the long lived popularity of the franchise.
Of all science-fiction drama in the past half-century, Star Trek was based on a hopeful view of the future – one where the “infinite possibilities of existence”, as the character Q said in [...]

Fascinating (I mean it!) article outlining the history of the Star Trek franchise. The interesting point is made that the latest movie, Star Trek, is just another of several “reboots” that have taken place throughout the course of the TV shows as well as the movies, comics, etc.
If you’re doing a new version of a [...]

A (postdated) history of the design of the USS Enterprise, together with the surprising revelation that the ship was fitted with a Romulan cloaking device… I really only saw the original series and parts of the next generation, so possibly the cloaking device featured in another of the Star Trek series?
Well it was launched in [...]

I somehow doubt that the Beastie Boys “invented” the Vulcan nerve pinch but James Furbush’s case for the affirmative makes for great reading nonetheless (minor Star Trek movie spoiler):
Let’s assume for a moment that Mr. Spock was in the library or grabbing a sandwich in between classes. Someone is bumping the song on their fancy [...]

Obligatory Star Trek link of the day: street and pop artists form across the galactic federation have created their own visions of the Enterprise as part of The Enterprise Project.

A scientific analysis of the new Star Trek movie (warning: many spoilers) by the Bad Astronomy blog.
There are many other nasty effects if you’re exposed to vacuum – sudden decompression of all the air in your lungs and intestines (yeah, you outgas at both ends), the damage to soft tissue after a few minutes as [...]

We made a few special modifications to the Millennium Falcon, called it the USS Enterprise, made the Joker the captain and Bruce Wayne first officer… Hollywood’s latter day obsession with tampering with classics.
Here, in other words, is a long-range backstory – a device that, in the Hollywood of recent times, has grown from an option [...]