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10 Reasons to Love... the New Star Trek Movie

There are plenty of reasons to Trek back to the cinema to watch the new movie. Image: Paramount Pictures
K. Stoddard Hayes points out some things you might have missed while watching the new Star Trek movie. There be spoilers here, so be warned!

Star Trek Effects Secrets Revealed

The villainous Nero confronts Kirk and Spock in this FX shot of the U.S.S. Enterprise bridge. Image: Paramount Pictures
VFXWorld has posted a superb peice on the visual effects work of the new Star Trek movie, which includes interview material with director J.J. Abrams and ILM's visual effects supervisor Roger Guyett.

Weird News: Star Trek Meets Monty Python

Star Trek Meets Monty Python on the InterWeb
Forget your box-office busting big screen Star Trek movie with all its shiny new crew and shiny visual effects. This 'remake' of Star Trek, melding the original series with comedy series Monty Python, has been doing the rounds on the Interweb for years, but it still makes us laugh in the weirdandbeard office...

New Star Trek Gets Thumbs Up

The Star Trek film is bold, action-packed and shiny new... but is it any good? Image: Paramount Pictures
The new Star Trek film launches worldwide tomorrow - but after all the hype, the sneak trailers, the huge viral campaign across the Internet, is it actually any good? We've scanned all available channels of the web and bring you a round up of reviews from mainstream, fan and other sites...

Star Trek Teaser: What Gives You the Right

Battle aboard an oribital platform in the new Star Trek movie. Photo © Paramount Pictures
Here's the fourth of our Star Trek teaser trailers - the film opens worlwide on 8th May and advance reviews are all very positive for this 'reboot' of the franchise...

Star Trek Teaser: Kirk Meets Uhura

 

Zoë Saldaña as Lieutenant Uhura in the new Star Trek film. Image © Paramount Pictures
Here's the third of four clips from the upcoming Star Trek movie to whet your appetite for the main course, which opens later this week!

Star Trek Teaser: Space Jump

Christopher Pine as the young Kirk in the new Star Trek movie. Image © Paramount Pictures
Here's the second of four clips from the upcoming Star Trek movie to whet your appetite for the main course! We'll run the others over the next few days...

Star Trek Teaser: Enlist in Starfleet

Chris Pine as the young Kirk in the new Star Trek movie. Image © Paramount Pictures
Here's the first of four clips from the upcoming Star Trek movie to whe your appetite for the main course! We'll run the others over the next few days...

Trek Iconography For Free

New Star Trek icons are now available from the IconFactory to promote the new film.
Computer icon maker The Iconfactory has teamed up with Paramount Pictures to bring fans of the saga 15 free gorgeous high resolution icons drawn from objects that are used in the new film, which will make the perfect addition to any Star Trek fan’s computer desktop.

Weird News: Encounters with Star Trek Fans

Star Trek Summit: Just one of the features on the new Star Trek film DVD set featuring the first six Star Trek films, out 27 April in the UK.
Here at the weirdsandbeard office we come across all sorts of weird and wonderful things on the Net, but this summit of some famous Star Trek actors, talking about some of their odder encounters with their fans, is a gem...