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Star Trek IV could have included more about Spock's baby

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:30:00 PST

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After Spock and Lt. Saavik got to know each other much better in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, you could have been forgiven for thinking that something would come of it later on. And indeed, Robin Curtis says in a new interview that she expected a whole "Saavik is pregnant with Spock's baby" storyline in Star Trek IV and the following films. More »

Gene Roddenberry Wouldn't Tolerate Prejudice Against Klingons

Katharine Trendacosta — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:30:00 PDT

At the Hero Complex Film Festival, director Nicholas Meyer revealed a confrontation he'd had with Gene Roddenberry over Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. More »

Time Traveling Musical About H.G. Wells and Jack The Ripper in 1979 San Francisco

Kevin Kelly — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:30:42 PST

H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) pursues Jack the Ripper (David Warner) across time in the 1979 film Time After Time, set in a Morlock-free San Francisco. In this cult favorite, Wells invents a time machine in 1893, zooms into the "present" and meets a woman in what he considers a dystopian future (imagine thinking the future would be all gleaming steel and floating airships and ending up in Haight-Ashbury in 1979). Then he zaps Jack the Ripper, and heads back to his own time (lady in hand) to live happily ever after. It might not sound like something you'd ever see adapted into a musical, but brace yourselves for its Broadway debut sometime later this year if things go as planned. More »