We know that many of you secretly wish to speak fluent Klingon, come onnnn, admit it! Ok, I’ll go first, I tried for quite some time as a youngster, but, then realized I sounded like a car wreck and decided maybe to move on and eh, there was just nothing like TNG anyways. For those of you still trying, there’s The Sounds of Klingon web archive, a wonderful audio tool created by the Klingon Language Institute (an actual non-profit institute) intended to aid those interested in learning the proper pronunciation of the Klingon language. The archive features audio samples of all pronunciations contained within the Klingon language and is achieving major steps towards uniting our two peoples in peaceful relations.

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First appearing online in 1997, Star Wreck is well-known to any true fan of Star Trek. Originally a fan-made parody from a few Finnish school-kids, Star Wreck has has grown into a major effort by fans all around the world. The new Star Wreck episode, “In the Pirkinning”, is finally complete after years of hard work by many fans. “In the Pirkinning” is a full-length parody film, featuring quite impressive special effects and I have to admit, acting and translations that confuses the hell out of me.

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With recent rumblings about a WarGames sequel underway, we were happy when reports disappeared, perhaps signaling that it was in-fact a bad idea to try and follow up on one of the greatest early 80s sci/fi classics. But now we’ve heard that a sequel is in-fact beginning production in Montreal, Canada this November. Directed by Stuart Gillard (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II) will direct War Games 2: The Dead Game, a guaranteed straight-to-DVD bomb. The story is reported to be about a teenage hacker “whose world gets turned upside-down after playing an online terrorist attack simulator game against a government super-computer designer to profile potential terrorists”. It seems the hacker targeted Washington or something so Homeland Security is deployed to intercept this terrorist before he can do real harm. Those interested in re-making WarGames should just go out and buy DEFCON by Introversion Software and play a few rounds of full-on WarGames-inspired indie gaming brilliance.

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The classic science fiction series Dune is one of the major bodies of work in the genre, having influenced many major movie and television films and countless science fiction novels in the time since it’s publishing in the mid-60s. One of the films to be heavily influenced by Dune was Star Wars, an influence that George Lucas is happy to admit to. Surprisingly, there were many homages to Dune in the early Star Wars scripts, though most of the Dune-like scenes were cut, there are still quite a few references in the final works which can easily be identified as clearly being influenced by Herbert’s magnificent work. Thanks to the mega-nerds at Star Wars Origins, there is an extremely informative piece on the history and influences behind Frank Herbert’s Dune and a detailed list of Dune references within the original Star Wars.

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3 friends one day decided that the theatrical trailer of The Matrix just wasn’t good enough, it was missing something, some ‘oomph’ that would take it to the next level. That ‘oomph’ turned out to be, The Muppets. Thus, the Muppet Matrix was born. Taking 2 months, the creators took the original Matrix trailer, replaced all of the major characters with 10 fully animated 3D muppets, and 150 shots later, The Muppet Matrix was born, a complete remake of the original theatrical trailer for The Matrix, featuring unofficial Muppet look-alikes.

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Rumours are swirling among the Star Trek boards that the original Star Trek series will be remastered for a high definition DVD and eventual HD-DVD release, featuring enhanced CG effects worthy of a high definition premium release. Rumors had been going around since this year’s Comic Con in San Diego that a Star Trek remastered edition was in the works, but confirmations from sources are starting to appear from in and around CBS Video, who now owns the rights to Star Trek on DVD. It seems original series special effects will be re-done, featuring all new CG techniques, including all of the spaceship shots, similar to the recent Mirror Universe episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise. Let’s just hope the end product looks as good as it did in Enterprise.

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Every year, Salon.com, an online magazine I hope everyone out there reads (ahem), presents it’s Buffy Award to the most under-appreciated television show currently on the air. The award, named after the under-appreciated Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is now in it’s third year of existence, having previously gone to HBO’s “The Wire” and to Veronica Mars. This year, the award is again spot-on, being given to Battlestar Galactica, probably one of the most under-rated television shows on the air at the moment and in the past several years. We’re huge huge BSG fans here and we don’t even use that “re-imagined” junk, BSG deserves all the praise it gets and then some, so, congrats BSG for being the most under-appreciated show of year, let’s hope season 3 is the year that brings you close to mainstream television market acceptance and glory.

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The time has come to say goodbye to Stargate SG-1 on television, as SCI FI has confirmed the will no longer renew episodes of the show after season 10. 10 years is quite a good run and to be honest, I haven’t been so into the later seasons of Stargate, preferring to put all my energy into Battlestar Galactica (even though I loved farscape with Ben Browder and Claudia Black). Sci Fi is continuing their support of Stargate spin-off, Stargate Atlantis, renewing it for a 4th season and I’m sure we’ll see Stargate SG-1 continue through syndication for many many years to come. There’s no word on how this will effect the troubled Stargate video game franchise which has seen some ups and downs, with the Stargate FPS being mis-handled horribly by the developer, then dropped by the publisher, before being killed by MGM, and the Stargate MMORPG still in development.

SCI FI’s confirmation and statement after the jump..

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The future is now thanks to IO2 Technologies, a technology firm developing next-generation video displays and interfaces for medical, consumer and (unfortunately) military applications. Most of their products aren’t even available to us little people and one those is called the Heliodisplay. With the Heliodisplay, the user sees a floating image, projected against a nearly invisible plane of air, however these aren’t holographic images. These are pure 2D planar images which appear 3D due to there being no true physical depth reference. The displayed image can also be interactive, meaning a user will eventually be able to use the Helio as a touchscreen display, making this the perfect addition to any evil lair. It’s even built-in to a coffee table, so this fits right at home in any spaceage bachelor’s living room. The quality of the image isn’t quite there yet, with the air causing a slight swaying of the image, but damn if this doesn’t look like the technology I would see in 80′s science fiction films and wish they were real.

Watch a video demonstration of Ritual Entertainment’s SiN Episodes 1 running on the Heliodisplay after the jump..

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Ron Moore, the mighty leader of Battlestar Galactica (re-imagined) has updated his blog at SciFi to give us fans a sneak peak at some of the current progress of BSG season 3 and also to go through another round of his much-appreciated question and answer sessions. Ron regularly takes questions from fans, answering them through his blog and giving fans a unique insight into the BSG world, sometimes dropping a few spoilers along the way. This time around we cover topics such as homosexuality in the BSG-world (or seemingly lack thereof), the health and prophecy of President Roslin, and many others. Moore also briefly discusses the upcoming episode penned by Jane Espenson of Buffy fame as well as discussing his desire to see her join the writing team (depending on how things go with season 4).

Read more: Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galactica blog | Battlestar Galactica season 3 preview