Julia Sherred's Geeky Pleasures

If you do not follow William Shatner on Twitter (@WilliamShatner), you may have missed the announcement he made yesterday of a new social networking site created by the Admiral himself, called MYOUTERSPACE. In his own words transcribed from his welcome video: Welcome to MYOUTERSPACE. A brand new community of sci-fi, horror... 

If you missed the exciting announcement about SETIcon, let me fill you in. SETIcon is a dream come true! It will be held at the Hyatt Recency in Santa Clara from August 13 – 15, 2010 and will be a geekasmic celebration of Astronomy, SETI, Star Trek and science fiction in general. Tickets are dirt cheap as well,$20 a day... 

With millions of views, I do not know how I had not become aware of How It Should Have Ended until @Accalon tweeted the following two videos yesterday. To date, they have 25 episodes including Star Trek: How It Should Have Ended, Terminator – How It Should Have Ended, How Superman Should Have Ended and more. You can find... 

It is no secret that I find the MMO Star Trek Online to be a failure. However, some enjoy the game and that is fair. So if you are wanting to know what is being planned in the future for this game, I invite you to head on over to Skewed and Reviewed, where Gareth Von Kallenbach recently interviewed Craig Zinkievich, Executive... 

Yes I know this is two days early, however as of today I am away until next week getting my game on with GottaCon. This means no site updates for about a week. The timing of becoming aware of this week’s Geek of the Week could not have been better. A friend of mine sent me an email with the title Hey Jules… the following... 

Sweet babies Jeebus and Buddha, the following is all kinds of awesome! What could be better than a toy Star Trek phaser? I have the answer to that question. A toy Star Trek phaser that has been modified to shoot freaking laser beams. LASERS! And not only does it shoot freaking laser beams, it will pop balloons. BALLOONS! Star... 

This year, we will see the retirement of NASA’s shuttles. There are 3 last shuttle missions planned for the year: Feb 11 — Atlantis is scheduled for launch, April 8 — Discovery is scheduled for launch and May 31 — Endeavor is scheduled for the final launch, and then she along with her sisters will be... 

Happy New Year! The very first Geek of the Week for 2010 is something Star Trek related. I wish I knew how to scuba dive because this is the type of wetsuit I would purchase. You can purchase the original series 7MM wetsuits in red, blue and yellow from Roddenberry.com for $469.95 USD. You can also purchase a 3MM version for... 

I don’t think I have to say how extremely giddy this made me. Those who regularly read my site know that anything Star Trek related makes me squee with excited. Thanks to @tehnakki for bringing this awesome radio-controlled underwater Starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A to my attention.  Read More →

I just have 3 words: Tweet in Klingon! Thanks to @achura for tweeting about this site yesterday that will translate your tweets in Klingon, Tweetinklingon.com. I actually feel a little conflicted about passing on this info as it is to promote the upcoming Star Trek MMO which is nothing but fail in my opinion. However, seriously,...