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It's easy to think that Star Trek inspires either adoration or loathing--that you love it so much you say your wedding vows in Klingon, or you pity those who do. But most who have read even this far know there's another class of Trekker--the closeted ones...
We know these closet nerds exist, because--improbable as it sounds to those who wish someone would shove a photon torpedo up the Enterprise exhaust--the enterprise still thrives. Though showing its age after 664 TV shows and a 35th birthday last year, the franchise still generates perhaps $200 million...
How does Trek survive? The oft-cited answer is that freakish Trekkies--fans who saved the original series with passionate letters and today maintain an eBay market of 25,000 Trek items--still sustain the franchise. Wrong. Trek hasn't been a cult enterprise in years. It is, instead, a...
Let's see, where were we? Oh - right here! Like a parent reading his children their favorite story, Peter Jackson begins The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the second in his adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy, just about where the first one left off. No brief synopsis...
(2 of 2) For nearly a decade after creator Gene Roddenberry died in 1991, Trek producers - particularly new honcho Rick Berman, a TV veteran who had overseen Cheers and Family Ties - furiously tried to freshen the brand. Though he denies it, Berman seemed to be courting those exotic creatures rarely...