star trek week
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CBS And Paramount Royally Screwed Up Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary
Fifty years is an enormous milestone, especially when you’re talking about the relatively short history of television shows. So why on Earth and Vulcan did CBS and Paramount fail to capitalise on Star Trek’s 50th anniversary?
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The Voyage Home May Not Be Star Trek’s Best Film, But It Is The Funniest
Star Trek isn’t really known as a comedy, and on its face, neither is The Voyage Home. It’s about the Earth being threatened by mysterious aliens, and Kirk discovering the only hope of communicating with them is via humpback whales, which are long since extinct. But somehow, combining the two results in a fish (whale?)-out-of-water…
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The Star Trek Song You Will Never Get Out Of Your Head
Happy 50th anniversary, Star Trek. Here’s a novelty song about the show which plays on a loop in the Star Trek version of hell. Do not click this video and then complain we didn’t warn you.
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You Can Now Enjoy Audio Tours Of The Smithsonian National Air And Space Museum In Klingon
Having already restored the original Starship Enterprise and put it back on display, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum needed to find another way to celebrate Star Trek’s birthday today. So it commissioned extraterrestrial linguist Mark Okrand to record special audio tours of the museum in Klingon, to accommodate visitors from Qo’noS.