Star Trek 11 from director JJ Abrams had many odes to the original series. Hopefully you saw most of them, if not now that Star Trek is out on DVD it is the perfect time time to go back and watch the movie and look for them. Here are some of my favorites. These are in no particular order. 1) Captain Pike being in a wheelchair. Ode to “The Menagerie”. 2) A tribble when we first meet Scotty. Ode to “The Trouble With Tribbles”. 3) The Red Shirt dies when Kirk & Sulu jump down to the mining rig of the Narada. Ode to many episodes. 4) The Kobayashi Maru. Technically an Ode to Star Trek II, not the Original Series. 5) Kirk “befriending” an Orion woman. Ode to many episodes. 6) Sulu being able to fence. Ode to “The Naked Time”. 7) Chekov’s accent. Ode to many episodes. What are your favorite Ode’s to the Original Series?

Over on StarTrekMovie.com they have a really cool model gallery of the Enterprise. Looks like they will be introducing a total of 25 of them. So far they have 17 of them up. This one is my favorite #10.

SciFi Wire posted a clip from mtv with Kirk & Uhuru from the upcoming movie that releases on May 8th. Check out the clip below then check out SciFi Wire for another clip as well. Every new clip that comes out, makes this movie look better and better, only 29 days left.

Rock Band has announced 3 Star Trek contests. Including free song giveaway, battle of the bands, and design a futuristic avatar. Check out RockBand.com for more information.