NEWS FLASH: Paramount has just released four new images to promote the upcoming movie!

The four images - representing main characters James Kirk, Spock, Uhura and the villain Nero - are available at the official movie site StarTrekMovie.com as downloadable desktop images and buddy icons.

Note that each of the characters is presented in a color scheme representative of their TOS uniform color: gold for Kirk, blue for Spock and red for Uhura. 

According to Entertainment Weekly, these images will be on four separate one-sheet posters and available to fans who visit the Paramount booth at Comic-Con. However, each fan will be limited to just one poster! So you'll have to collaborate with your friends to collect the entire set.

Here I've tried to combine the four desktop images into one image that shows how the four posters might hang on your wall. Good luck!

 

 

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Paramount may not be featuring the Star Trek feature film in any panels at this month's San Diego Comic-Con, but they have something up their sleeve.

Casting notices went out to all the usual entertainment-industry channels seeking talent for a production entitled "Starfleet Academy." The performance dates were listed as July 23-27. The role is defined as "Starfleet Academy Cadets" at the Paramount booth. Only females need apply, all ethnicities, between the ages of 20-26. The notice specified:

Looking for sharp, classy, natural, friendly, outgoing, attractive females who look like they may be in college or recent college graduates. Height: Average to tall. (Some will be cast to work AT the booth, some will be cast to "work the line").

This bit piqued my curiosity: "Costumes will be made and provided at the event." Will these be the TNG-era Academy uniforms with which we are all familiar? Or will they be the as-yet-unrevealed movie's new-look Academy uniforms? Will Comic-Con give us our very first official glimpse of the costumes from the new movie? Stay tuned...

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Star Trek Remastered

For this weekend's new Remastered episode we go back to the start of the series' third season for "Spectre of the Gun". Episode 56 first aired on October 25, 1968.

The script was by former series producer Gene L. Coon, writing under the pseudonym Lee Cronin. Coon was also responsible for several seminal Star Trek elements, including the Klingons (about whom he first wrote in "Errand of Mercy") and the Prime Directive (first mentioned in "The Return of the Archons").

The direction was capably handled by Vincent McEveety, who I mentioned two weeks ago as the director of six original-series episodes. His other TV credits include Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Murder, She Wrote and Diagnosis: Murder.

No enhanced images have been provided as yet, but I hope we'll see a fancy new version of all things Melkotian: the planet Melkot, the space buoy, and the alien himself.

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Remastered Trivia

Gene L. Coon had written eight Star Trek episodes while producing the show during the first and second seasons, using his own name in the credits. The four third-season episodes he wrote, when he was no longer on the production staff, were credited to the pen name Lee Cronin. Can you tell me why he used an alias for those episodes?

Send your answer to me at mwade@roddenberry.com.

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