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Locutus On The Liffey

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We had a great night last night at our second event with a full venue.  Find out all about it here. We played TNG “The Best Of Both Worlds” back to back with “Star Trek First Contact”. We also had a video conference with none other than make up artist/Art Department/SFX Designer Doug Drexler. We finished the night raffling off some neat Star Trek swag.

Thank you to everyone who came and took part. A fun Star Trek night was had by all.

Live Long and Prosper

 

All our Raffle winners with their swag at our Star Trek Event “Locutus On The Liffey”

Posted by Star Trek Eire on Friday, November 27, 2015

Poster for Star Trek 2017?

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Over the last few hours the internet has been rife with fans getting excited, angry and confused by an imgur post of a poster titled “Star Trek: Prime”. This 80’s looking Sci-Fi poster is most definitely a fan made image that has no connection to CBS or their TV news site TV.COM

Although “Star Trek: Prime” would be a great title and hints at the new series coming in early 2017 being set in the much loved original canon prime timeline. A timeline with nearly 50 years of history and characters that was last touched in “Star Trek Voyager”. One could argue that Star Trek Enterprise although being in the past played with some time travel and some slightly strayed away from canon.

What we here at Star Trek Eire would love to see is a series set in the Prime universe,  at any point in the timeline. For CBS to ignore the TV fans would be a shame and honestly a big mistake.

I see three possibilities for the 2017 series.

  1. It’s set in the Prime universe some time after Voyager or before The Next Generation, maybe even between Enterprise and TOS.
  2. It’s set in the JJ Abrams time line, perhaps another ship set in the white washed lens flare Starfleet. This seems the least likely to me as Alex Kurtzman and CBS have hinted that it will have nothing to do with the films.
  3. A whole new reboot universe. Of all the options this is unfortunately the most likely. We’ll get a new vision of Stat Trek with whole new characters, crew and ship. It will be it’s own third timeline made specifically to attract new audiences.

Personally I am in favour of the Prime universe coming back in any capacity. Although any series no matter what version it ends up being must be Star Trek in heart and tone. It has to hold a mirror up to society, comment on humanity and hope and most importantly be about people, not explosions in space.

What do you want to see from the new series in 2017?

Shane

CBS ANNOUNCES STAR TREK: PRIME!

Locutus on the Liffey

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To help us introduce our event this Thursday, we will have a guest joining us live via-internet.

This guest is a guy who became a huge Star Trek fan, watching the Original Series before running a small Star Trek store in New York – “The Federation Trading Post” – during the mid ‘70s. He began to write for Star Trek fan magazines in this period before heading into the world of movies, where he worked as a makeup artist on flicks like ‘Amityville-3D’, ‘Starman’, ‘CHUD’, and ‘Manhunter’.

He then moved to Hollywood to run the makeup FX department for Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy, for which he received an Oscar and a Bafta in 1991. It was then that he took a huge pay cut to get his dream job of working on Star Trek: TNG in 1989, thusly being nominated for a number of Emmys. Transferring to the Art Department, he then worked on Deep Space Nine, as well as the movies Generations, First Contact, Insurrection, and Nemesis.

He worked as a Visual Effects Artist for Foundation Imaging, whereupon he became Senior Illustrator on Star Trek: Enterprise, designing the Enterprise NX-01! He has worked on several books, including the Star Trek Encyclopedia and Ships of the Line, and was a technical consultant for the remastered Original Series and Next Generation. He is currently a CGI Supervisor on Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection and you may even have seen him in the past, as he’s had cameo roles on both Star Trek: TNG and Star Trek: Enterprise. A Klingon called ‘Drex’ was even named after him in ‘Way of the Warrior’.

Locutus on the Liffeyd

Ladies and Gentlemen, our live introduction on Thursday is with Oscar winner and all round Trek legend, Doug Drexler.

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Locutus On The Liffey

Showcasing Star Trek The Next Generation two part special “The Best Of Both Worlds”

back to back with

“Star Trek: First Contact”

The Workmans Club 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2

In the Vintage lounge

Doors at 6.30pm Must start at 7pm

Special Live Introduction

Limited space. Free Entry. Over 18s Only.

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Happy 28th Birthday Star Trek TNG

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On September 28, 1987, Star Trek History was made as “Encounter at Farpoint” hit our screens showcasing the pilot of Star Trek The Next Generation. The beginning of what would start off a huge collection of spin offs and films. It had been many years since Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise had appeared on television and now with a new ship and a new crew Star Trek grew into so much more. From a cancelled 60’s Sci Fi show to an award winning drama, TNG launched Star Trek back into the mainstream and created a whole new generation of fans.

Star Trek TNG

Read all about it here on StarTrek.com 28 Years

Khan Night

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We had our first Star Trek Eire Presents Night last night.

Star Trek Eire fan club

KHAAAAAANNNNNN

We showcased Star Trek Original Series Episode “Space Seed” famous for being the original appearance of Khan Noonien Singh, the genetically advanced warlord frozen in suspended animation since 1996, who tries to take control of the Enterprise.

Khan in Space Seed

You are no match for me Captain

Next we showed “Star Trek II The Wrath Of Khan” set 15 years later in which a group of scientist working with the USS Reliant search for a desolate planet to test their new life starting device the Genesis Device. A landing party discover the remains of a colony, that of Khan Noonien Singh and his fellow supermen. Setting the return of the villainous, mad man on his path of revenge against Captain Kirk and the Enterprise.

Kirk Khan

KHAAAAAANNNNNN

We had a great night with a fantastic collection of Star Trek fans. Raffled off some goodies and all shouted KHAAAAN together at the films famous moment.

There was a beautiful bittersweet feeling of emotion and a glass raised to Leonard Nemoy, who we lost earlier this year, during his final scene in the film.

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Live Long and Prosper

Until next time I leave you with this “In Memoriam” form the 67th Emmy Awards earlier in the week which honoured Nemoy.

Tonight’s The Night

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That’s right folks tonight is the night.tonight

We’ll be showing Star Trek TOS: “Space Seed” together with “Star trek II The Wrath Of Khan”  @TGSDublin.

The Grand Social in Dublin is hosting our first event tonight.

Doors 7pm. Screening starts at 7.30pm.

All welcome. Over 18s only.

We’ll be raffling off some Star Trek prizes and geeking out over everyone’s favourite Sci Fi  TV and Movie Franchise.

Our First Event is Tomorrow Sept 22nd at The Grand Social Dublin

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Khan Back to Back

Our first event is on Tuesday the 22nd of September 2015 in The Grand Social, 35 lower liffey Street, Dublin.

We’ll be showing the Original Series episode “Space Seed” back to back with the feature film “Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan”.

We’ll be having a meet and greet and a raffle

Doors at 7pm.

The Grand Social Venue

This is a free event. All welcome. Over 18s only.

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Poor Ensign Harry Kim

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Ensign Harry Kim and Lieutenant Nog

So one day,  Ensign Harry Kim of Voyager is in Quark’s bar on Deep Space 9. Somewhere aboard that station, a little Ferengi kid called Nog- who has nothing to do with Starfleet -is running around, generally making a nuisance of himself.


Within 5 years of that day, Nog will outrank Harry in Starfleet as a Lieutenant Junior Grade, with Harry still being an Ensign (on a ship where even people who abandoned and fought against Starfleet for a paramilitary organisation are promoted above him).


Sucks to be Harry Kim, huh.

Star Trek Beyond’s New Release Date July 22nd 2016

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Star Trek Beyond New Release Date

We’re all intrigued to see the next instalment of the Star Trek reboot films. Star Trek Beyond will be the first in the series not to be directed by JJ Abrams, but instead is being taken on by Fast and Furious alumni Director and Producer Justin Lin. It’s going to be different and Simon Pegg (Scotty) is heavily involved in the writing too. We’re a little concerned that once again a director with heavy Producer credits and action film experience is involved. Lin also has very little experience with SciFi so it could go horribly wrong. But with self proclaimed geek and fan Pegg behind the project it could end up the best Star Trek film of the reboot. At this point it’s just too early to tell. What we do know is that there will be less lens flares and more of a Star Trek feel to what will still be a big budget SciFi adventure.

News broke this week about the shifting release date of the film’s delayed 2016 release by a few weeks. Instead of being released on July 8th it’s now going to be July 22nd.

The reason is very simple, Summer is the time of big blockbusters, for them all to succeed they need to be spaced out a bit, to share room at the box office.

Since STAR TREK BEYOND is still in production in Vancouver and then going to Dubai in the coming weeks, the move is more likely due to logistical issues rather than any “problems” with the film.

Another reason could simply be the logistics with having freed up IMax theaters as pointed out by Anthony D’Alessandro -Deadline that Tarzan is going to be a huge film and will be most likely sitting at the top spot in early July leaving little room for Star Trek Beyond 7 days later.

Late July proved quite fruitful for the Melrose Ave. studio this year when they launched Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation on July 31, clocking a FSS of $55.5M and a total cume to date of $189.2M.

The reason why M:I5 played late July, versus its original December 2015 date, was to take advantage of those Imax venues that were open, and that’s the same reason why Par is taking the Enterprise out on the late July date.

Apparently, Warner Bros.’ Tarzan has roped up all the Imax hubs on July 1, leaving none for Captain Kirk and Spock. Seven weeks into its play, M:I5 is still hanging around the top 5.

As to how good the film will be. Well We’ll just have to wait an extra 2 weeks and see.