J.J. Abrams stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live last night to promote Star Trek Into Darkness, at least until he was asked about the Star Wars sequel. When he admitted he and his team were having some writer's block, a group of fans helpfully offered their opinions on what we should see in Episode VII. I tell you, I think…

William Shatner invaded Seth MacFarlane's opening Oscars sketch to add a science fiction plot line to the Academy Awards. Captain James T. Kirk (suspiciously wearing his admiral's uniform and sounding less like Shatner doing Kirk than Shatner doing grumpy Shatner) traveled back in time to prevent MacFarlane from being …

Escape from Planet Earth's primary quality is that it's 90 minutes long. Its second quality is that it does not at any point play Smash Mouth's "All-Star." Oh, it wants to. Desperately. It practically screams it from every frame of it's remarkably good enough CG. But it knows that to use it would date the movie…

Anyone who's worried that J.J. Abrams won't be able to extricate himself from the Star Wars universe in order to insert the necessary lens flares into Star Trek 3, good news! Simon Pegg says unequivocally that Abrams will return for the third Trek movie at the very end of this red carpet interview.

William Shatner, James Tiberius Kirk himself, is scheduled to phone the International Space Station today at 10:40 ET (7:40, bright and early, for you West-Coasters). Watch it here, live on io9!

There are almost no interviews out there with Jeffrey Hunter, who played Captain Christopher Pike in the original Star Trek pilot, since he was replaced by William Shatner and then died in 1969 before the show really became a cult phenomenon. But TrekWeb has dug up a 1965 interview which Hunter did with a "Hollywood…

Guys, guys! We know that the Mayans weren't actually predicting an apocalypse, just the end of one era and the beginning of a new on on 12/21/2012. Well, new revelations have come to light that may reveal what we're in for, and it doesn't look good, because HOLY @#$% WILLIAM SHATNER CURRENTLY HAS A GOATEE.

Star Trek has broadened our visions of the future in so many ways — but most of all, the original Star Trek took us to the final frontier of fashion. And beyond. Some of the costumes that people sported in William Shatner's day remain classics today — and some of them are just... I don't even know.

Just in case you needed another reason to love Malcolm McDowell, here you go. The Clockwork Orange star, who played the villain Soran in Star Trek: Generations, explains in a new interview with Metro why he thought Kirk's death was a waste:

NASA just gave Curiosity the Star Trek treatment. In anticipation of the rover's upcoming landing, the Agency has released two versions of a video entitled "Grand Entrance." The first is narrated by William Shatner, the second by Wil Wheaton. I think I speak for just about everyone in saying "oh hell yes."