Star Trek vs. Star Wars battle royale featuring Patrick Stewart

The classic JLP double-facepalm about two thirds of the way in is well worth the investment of your two and a half minutes. For a slightly more sober take, check out our post relating to same.

Rikers In Space

TOS-era Leonard Nimoy. Singing. About Bilbo Baggins.

I chose the b/w version because it had by FAR the best audio. You can find color versions with varying quality audio in the "related videos."

Great Footage of 1975 Trek Convention

Rich Portnoy has posted on YouTube some terrific footage he shot on 8mm film at a Star Trek convention in Chicago in 1975. There's no sound, but the images are just priceless. Nichelle Nichols with an afro is fantastic, and everyone looks legitimately happy to be there. I love the internet!

So it's not just me...

Technobabble on Treknobabble

Although we're not there yet, Kevin and I will be doing a podcast of the classic episode "Arena," in which Kirk goes toe-to-toe with a Gorn.

Well what do you know, someone else is interested in this, too! Mythbusters, a fun cable show on Discovery Channel, recently tackled whether Kirk could actually have created a gunpowder cannon using the materials native to Cestus III (or, if you prefer, Bronson Caynyon, California).

Here is a page with links to video clips of their experiments. The preview vid is priceless, too, in which Mythbuster and fellow Trekkie Grant Imahara does a funny Spock impression.