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You could say that all the awards in the 2012 Airlock Alpha Portal Awards are special, but even within these fan-chosen awards, there are some categories that are even more special. They are called the Gene Roddenberry Award and the Rod Serling Award. The Roddenberry honor rewards lifetime achiev ...

It looks like it's been through its own battle with the Klingons, but a dilapidated, 24-foot television prop is going on the market next month -- and one major Star Trek club wants to buy it. The Federation, formally known as the International Federation of Trekkers, wants to Galileo shuttlecraft ...

Anyone who pays attention to Star Trek lore knows that William Shatner originally offered the role of Spock's brother Sybok to James Bond actor Sean Connery in his 1989 film "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier." But apparently that wasn't even Laurence Luckingbill's biggest competition for the role. ...

This story contains potential spoilers for the upcoming film "Star Trek 2." If you really want to take your seat in the movie theater next year and have absolutely no knowledge about the film we're calling "Star Trek 2" when the opening credits role, you might want to stop reading now. If you' ...

As part of its public relations campaign to help retire the space shuttle program, NASA pulled out the red carpet and invited all the media for the arrival of its experimental shuttle Enterprise to New York City on Thursday. The shuttle, which had never made it to space, is being moved from its h ...

Sorry William Shatner. Sorry Leonard Nimoy. "Star Trek 2" is ready to embark on its own journey, and it's time to leave the past behind. That is, unless Khan is involved. Nimoy's appearance in the 2009 film seems to be enough to bring in Star Trek fans of old, and usher in a new era. Plus, if ...

Director Scott Colthorp and narrator Eugene W. Roddenberry Jr. are set to finally debut their documentary "Trek Nation" on the Science cable channel Nov. 30. But getting from there to here was a path that took years -- and more than once almost seemed dead in its tracks. "Trek Nation" is a celebr ...

"Star Trek" has been watched and adored around the world, but not every episode has made it to television screens in every country. In fact, Germans have been deprived of an episode for more than 40 years. Until now. "Patterns of Force," which first aired in the United States in February 1968 ...

How important was Peter Bishop to the world? So much that when we visit 2026 again -- and trust me, it looks like we will -- it will be quite different than how we saw it last season on "Fringe." "The future that we saw in 2026 will now not have happened, because by altering the past, inevitably ...

Just when I thought I had this column all figured out, something else fun dropped in my lap. This past Thursday, I represented Airlock Alpha on a media conference call with Zak Penn and Warren Christie from Syfy’s new show “Alphas.” These guys were so friendly and such kidders that I feel ...