Giant Freakin Robot

There was a time when, if you’d asked just about anyone, they’d have said Brent Spiner was the most likely Next Generation cast member to have a big acting career beyond Star Trek. We were wrong. Obviously it was Patrick Stewart. Though Spiner has gone on to have a nice career as a character actor, it’s hard not to wish he’d been able to pull off the knighthood level roles Stewart has landed.

Maybe he’s not all that bitter about how things turned out, but he’s doing a webseries about how he might be bitter. It’s called Fresh Hell and in it Brent Spiner plays Brent Spiner as an out of work actor who has sunk so low he’s been reduced to appearing at children’s birthday parties. At this particular birthday party, he’s forced to play Spock. Watch…

A photo showing off Alice Even on the set of the next Star Trek movie has started circulating. She appears to be in costume and this is the first visual evidence we’ve had, at all, that she’s in the movie. It’s particularly interesting since we don’t even know what character she’ll be playing. The photo seems to suggest, however, that she’ll be in Starfleet. Take a look…

Alice Eve and Zachary Quinto pose with food truck owner.

Not long ago Leonard Nimoy announced his retirement from acting in particular and public appearances in general. That didn’t last long. He’s already un-retired.

The man who is the one and only true Spock will be back on Fringe tomorrow night for the show’s season finale and a few weeks ago he lent his voice to an episode of The Big Bang Theory. His recent re-interest in acting got people speculating that he might show up in the next Star Trek, and the flames of that fan interest were only fanned when we got confirmation that Leonard was hanging out on the Star Trek: The Next set. Sadly, it looks like he really was just hanging out.

JJ Abrams has made it clear in the past that none of the original Star Trek cast will be in any way involved in his next movie, and it looks like he’s sticking to it. In an interview with StarTrek.com Leonard re-confirms that he won’t appear in the next Trek. Here’s what he had to say about his visits to the new Enterprise bridge…

I visited the set one day and that started some speculation about whether I was doing the film. It’s all speculation. I talk to these people regularly. Zachary Quinto and I have dinner whenever we can. We just had dinner three or four weeks ago. I talk to J.J. about family. His parents and I go back a number of years as friends. I knew them long before I ever met J.J. So we talk regularly. I visited the set one day because I had never seen the bridge. When I was in the last film, none of my work was on the bridge of the Enterprise. So I wanted to see the bridge, and the bridge was extraordinary. It’s beautifully designed and put together. We talk. It’s great. I expect that it’s going to be a gigantic film.

As we all know, Trekkies are some of the most passionate and unapologetic fans in the world. They don’t care what you think of them, it doesn’t bother them to be called nerds, but they will go to battle if you think Star Wars is the superior franchise. Call them nerds, dorks, dweebs, whatever you want, but the adoring Star Trek fans are one thing and one thing alone… true.

And perhaps no Trekkies have ever been more true to their love of Cpt. James T. Kirk et al. than these three gentlemen we’re about to witness. Unashamed by their fandom and gawky awkwardness, these three guys step up to the plate and deliver a hilarious parody of LMFAO’s I’m Sexy And I Know It. Check it out below.