News Bullets

• Toyota notes that William Shatner (Kirk) will participate in the charity Toyota/Pro Celebrity Race's 30th anniversary opposite sports heroes such as fellow veteran John Elway.

• Ain't It Cool News has a rave review of Shatner's album Has Been.

• Check out Auto Destruct: One Man's Obsession With William Shatner and learn about wigged out fans, singing Klingons, Greco-Roman wrestling and an obese transvestite Trekkie.

• Britain's Independent has a complaint about Patrick Stewart (Picard)'s character on Eleventh Hour, which Lord May calls "the wilder shores of media irresponsibility."

• An interview with a visual effects supervisor on X-Men in Comic Book Resources notes that to de-age Stewart's character Xavier, the designers used Star Trek: The Next Generation for reference.

• The Physics of Star Trek author Lawrence Krauss, a Case Western Reserve University professor, has begun a campaign to oust the current Case president. Read all about it at Newsday.

• Silicon Valley's HeraldToday talks to Moody Blues drummer and Bradenton resident Graeme Edge about his being a Trekkie, admitting he has a signed script from the original Star Trek. "I don't believe I could go to any of the conventions...some have learned to speak Klingon!" he noted.

• Cartoonist David Reddick of "The Trek Life" chats with TrekUnited.

• And the official site has a new "Trek Life" cartoon involving Orion Slave Girls.

• In his LiveJournal, author Keith R.A. DeCandido announced a S.C.E./Next Generation crossover in 2007 in honour of TNG's 20th anniversary.

• In other book news, Christopher L. Bennett's Orion's Hounds is reviewed at TrekWeb.

• Fun! Millionaire Playboy has images from Toy Fair 2006 of Star Trek action figures among others.

• Decipher has new CCG articles on battle cards, portrait cards of celebrated characters and the 2006 competitive gaming season schedule.

• GamersReports has screen shots of the first renders from Star Trek Online for the PO.

• StarTrek.com has published some Desert Asteroid lists of favourite Trek episodes.

• Star Trek Hypertext has finished reviewing Star Trek: The Next Generation season one.

• ABC Newcastle in New South Wales has a report on the Unseen Theatre Company's live production of Star Trek episodes.

• TrekCore.com has screen caps from Enterprise's "The Andorian Incident" and "Breaking the Ice" plus TNG bloopers and special effects.

• New at Soul of Star Trek: a consideration of evil in the TOS episode "Day of the Dove" and a brief note on the latest Trek XI story rumours.

• And a biz note: Yahoo! Finance has the fourth quarter and full year 2005 results for CBS Corp., which split from Viacom Inc. officially at the end of the year.

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