Star Trek: Enterprise Season Two Blu-Ray Set Out August 20

StarTrek.com has revealed that the Star Trek: Enterprise Season Two Blu-Ray set will be released on August 20, 2013. The six disc set will have all 26 episodes, deleted scenes, outtakes and several new features. One of the featueres is "In Conversation: The First Crew" for a cast reunion as they discuss filming the series. Another is "Destination Unknown: Uncharted Territory" that looks at the season long Xindi storyline. Below is a trailer for the set.

Everything Wrong with Star Trek Into Darkness FAQ Style

Recently I posted an amusing video title "Everything Wrong with Star Trek in 5 Minutes or Less" that kind of nitpicks at the film (and others in the Everything Wrong series. io9.com has posted their unintentional take, only they did it FAQ style that is just as entertaining to read. However, as the post title states, if chock full of spoilers. It pretty much goes through every single plot point of the film revealing all the details. It also pretty much explains my review of the movie where I believe the film is very entertaining action film but a bad Star Trek story. Now some may call it nitpicking but I don't see anything wrong with wanting an action film to have a great, coherent story. Click here for the spoiler filled FAQ.

The Star Trek Guide at Harvard

Last week Harvard's Houghton Library announced they acquired the "Star Trek Writers Guide", a rare handbook that acted as a kind of bible for Star Trek: The Original Series. The 31 page guide provided an overview of the series along with a few dos and don't for writing the various characters. For example "Never have members of the crew putting things into pockets. There are no pockets." The guide is now part of the library 3000+ collection of trade paperbacks, magazines, and more focused on science fiction. Little facts about the Enterprise from the guide include the crew size (430), warp factor = the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), and more. The idea behind the guide was so that writers, not really familiar with the series, could still write a script for it. More details and examples can be found here.

Star Trek Into Darkness Wins Weekend Box Office

Star Trek Into Darkness won the weekend with a $70.6 million weekend and $84.1 million for first five days in the United States. Its international gross is $80.5M for a total of $164.6M worldwide. The numbers are fantastic for a Star Trek film and average for a summer tent pole movie but oddly enough it is less then what the first movie took in for its first five days of release in the US at $86.7M. Usually summer sequels blow their previous numbers out of the water. As a result the media and Paramount are considering this opening "disappointing". The numbers holding steady really isn't a surprise considering the four year break between movies and May's tentpole heavy schedule. Iron Man 3 probably didn't help as it continues to do very well worldwide, having already passed the $1 billion mark. The smaller then expected opening for STID only means that Paramount will probably do whatever they can to avoid another four year break between movies so pretty much any chance of Abrams directing the next one is likely dead. The overall goal is to outpace the worldwide total of the first film which was $385.7M. I suspect anything close to $500 million will be considered a successful movie and marketing campaign by Paramount so it will be a few months before can pass final judgement.

Star Trek Into Darkness Set Images and Art

Scott Chambliss, production designer for Star Trek Into Darkneses, has posted a 66 picture gallery for the movie. The images are a combination of pre-production designs, set builds and already released publicity images. Worth checking out to see the cool sets built for the movie and get an idea of how many were expanded using CGI. You can find the gallery here.