Star Trek


It’s Malcolm Turnbull Jim, but not as we know him

Bernard Keane went to bed in a universe in which Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership was damaged, but not terminal, and awoke in one in which he was about to be deposed by “senior Liberals”, “within days”. It’s like a bad episode of Star Trek.

Is Obama the new Spock (stay with us here…)

Big thinkers — from New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd to MIT media moguls — have been drawing parallels between the dependably logical half-Vulcan and another mixed-race icon…

Is there copyright in space?

Apparently all you have to do to legally download new movies — with the government’s assistance in copying, reformatting and uploading requested titles — is leave the planet, says Cinetology.

Star Trek reviewed by Star Wars fan

The obvious advantage possessed by the Star Trek prequel over those other ones is that the script was written by actual writers, writes Daniel Zugna.

Leonard Nimoy: the origin of Spock’s greeting

Star Trek — there’s more Judaism in it than you’d think.

No Klingon in new Star Trek film

Set phasers to ‘outraged’: All spoken Klingon has been cut from the new Star Trek film.

Beginners’ guide to Star Trek

The new Star Trek film has premiered to rave reviews. Here’s everything you really need to know about this seminal series (including how to dress like Captain Kirk).