So, Brent Spiner has a Ricky Gervais-style online series where he plays “himself” as a struggling actor trying to salvage his career. I dunno, I have a deep abiding affection for former TNG cast members and all (well, except Beverly) but the concept’s been done. That said, the series has managed to deliver at least one totally brilliant thing — they had Data play Spock.

Hit the jump to check it out (skip right to around 2:30 for the good stuff. The set-up is kind of dull)…

I’ll just never get used to Brent Spiner without yellow glitter paint on his face.

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It’s been a while since we’ve heard or seen much from Sony and Naughty Dog’s The Road The Last of Us, but late yesterday they finally gave us another trailer. No gameplay footage yet, but according to Sony the trailer was executed using the game’s engine, so yeah, this game is going to look pretty damn amazing.

Check out the trailer and some new hi-res screenshots after the jump…

via TheParanoidGamer

So, is Ellen Page going to get some sort of royalties for this game? Because seriously, the main character looks more like Ellen Page than Ellen Page does these days. Also, nice choice with the Hank Williams song.

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What could these two mystery movies be? They’re nothing Spider-Man or X-Men related as the rights to those properties are tied up by other studios. One of them could be the Ant-Man project Edgar Wright’s been hinting at. Iron Fist, Black Panther and Dr. Strange movies have all been reported to be in various early stages of development as well. Personally I’m hoping for a U.S. 1 adaptation.

Getting back to The Avengers, Joss Whedon recently talked about the lack of female heroes in the movie, and said he plans to add more if he gets to direct the next one (which he probably will ’cause, you know, billion dollars and all). The obvious choice would be team founder The Wasp, but I’m pulling for She-Hulk, because green chicks are hot man.

via The Playlist & Entertainment Weekly

So, some engineer who just goes by “Dan” (not Seitz…at least I don’t think so) has gone and started a website called Build the Enterprise, dedicated to posting his plans for a full-size, space-worthy replica of the USS Enterprise. An engineer that likes Star Trek? Well, now I’ve heard everything.

Now, before you get too excited, Dan hasn’t invented the warp drive — instead the idea seems to be that this ship would be a fancy replacement for the International Space Station. According to Dan’s plans his Enterprise would house up to 1000 people, be a lot roomier than the current space station, have gravity and be able to putter around our own little corner of the galaxy, making trips to the Moon, Mars and Venus. The price tag for building this “Gen1″ Enterprise? Oh, around a trillion dollars.

It’s also going to be fairly large.

So yeah, it’s very unlikely anything like this is going to happen within the next 100 years, but the site is still entertaining. At the very least it’s a fun, and seemingly fairly informed, bit of speculation about what the bridge between current human space exploration and the Star Trek chillin’ in space in miniskirts future might look like.

Check out Build the Enterprise

via Gizmag

Thankfully a couple MIT students have come along and roused me from my Kickstarter coma. These guys are looking for funds to put together an invention kit called MaKey MaKey that will let you turn almost anything into a video game controller. With this kit you’ll be able to make controllers out of Play Doh, fruit or coolest of all in my opinion, just draw a controller on a piece of paper and have it work. How do they do it? Don’t ask me, but it’s pretty damn cool.

Check out a video of MaKey MaKey in action after the jump…

You can give your money to MaKey MaKey right here. Come on, how can you not spare a couple bucks for something that can turn your cat into a controller?

via Kotaku

Now of course most intelligent/sane people already know that — the idea that the Mayan calendar “ending” in 2012 will cause the end of the world is silly, especially since it isn’t ending in 2012 at all. Just as today’s calendars have weeks/months/decades and so on, the Mayan calendar has it’s own repeating cycles. 2012 marks the end of a b’ak’tun, a Mayan time unit around 394 years long, but it’s not the end of the Mayan calendar. Once one b’ak’tun ends, another begins — there was never a specific ending point to the Mayan calendar any more than there’s one for our modern Gregorian system.

But just in case mere logic and knowledge of how calendars work isn’t enough for you, here’s some more concrete evidence — archaeologists have found a new ancient Mayan calendar that goes far beyond 2012. The calendar, discovered at the ancient Mayan archaeological site of Xultun, extends all the way to the year 3500. The wall this calendar was found on also contains tons of other complex astrological calculations proving the Mayans weren’t a simple superstitious people who thought the world was going to end at a set point, but keen observers and mathematicians who probably would have laughed at all this 2012 goofiness.

Not that any of this “conclusive evidence” stuff is going to convince most hardcore 2012 believers, but hopefully it’ll deter a few dumbass 14-year-olds who watched “2012″ and think we’re all going to be destroyed by a giant volcano emerging from Yellowstone park.

via USA Today & Discover Magazine

Now, rumor has it  a new Star Trek TV show may happen after the release of the next movie, but what this show’s premise will be is unknown. Well, just in case they’re still taking suggestions, I have a few ideas for new Trek TV shows…

Star Trek: The Next Next Generation

It’s unlikely they’ll convince the cast of the new Trek movies to do a TV show, so how about a J.J. Abrams lens flare filled version of Next Generation? Really sex up the ol’ Enterprise D. Start with Christina Hendricks as Beverly and take it from there.

I have some ideas for changes to the standard Starfleet uniform as well.

Star Trek: SCSI (Space Crime Scene Investigation)

There’s always somebody being murdered in Star Trek — are we to believe Worf solved the hundred or so murders that happened on Next Generation by himself? Come on, that guy couldn’t catch a cold. There must be some sort of galactic CSI unit out there, and I want to see them solving crimes in all their sexy glory.

Star Trek: SCSI: SVU

A lot like Star Trek: SCSI, except more rapey and uncomfortable to watch with your family.

Star Trek: SCSI: SVU: NY

A lot like Star Trek: SCSI: SVU except on the mean streets of Noo Yawk (New York is officially renamed Noo Yawk sometime in the 22nd century).

Star Trek: Just More Deep Space 9

This is the one I’m really pulling for.

Star Trek: Star Wars

Some Star Wars fans may chafe at the suggestion that Star Trek should just take over the Star Wars universe, but come on, admit it, it couldn’t be any worse than what’s being done to it now. Phasers, blasters, Ewoks, tribbles, it’s all the same anyways.

We’ve got J. J. Abrams, you’ve got this guy. We win.

Star Trek: Ferengi Fun!

A series devoted to everyone’s favorite Star Trek alien race, the Ferengi! You may not know all 285 Rules of Acquisition now, but you certainly will after Ferengi Fun runs for 10 seasons!

Star Trek: This Old Warp Core with Geordi LaForge

For the technobabble fans out there — just episode after episode of Geordi puttering around engineering fixing deflector arrays while spouting massive blocks of total nonsense.

Star Trek: Smoke

Smoke makes s–t look good.

Hit the jump to check out the leapin’ and choppin’…

Hmmm, funny how this guy in a weird hooded outfit who killed half the British army with an axe never appears in any history books.

via Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Itching for some new Resident Evil 6 information? Well, the latest issue of Playstation Magazine delivered just that — here are some of the new tidbits revealed in PSM…

- The game will feature the return of multiple campaigns, which you can play in any order similar to the original Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2. This time there will actually be three campaigns, one starring Leon, one starring Chris and one starring Sherry and Jake (the son of series villain, Albert Wesker).

- Zombies can carry pipes, axes and guns which you can steal and turn against them Double Dragon-style.

- Mercenaries mode will come with the game — no unlocking or DLC required.

- You can now move white shooting, use cover, and dive to the ground and shoot from your back.

Despite all this extra maneuverability, RE6 director Yoshiaki Hirabayashi says the game will actually be significantly less action-based than RE5. I guess we shall see. Hit the jump to check out some new screenshots of Resident Evil 6 and some rumors about a possible new 3DS Resident Evil game…

A shot of the action-packed “dinner eating” portion of the game.

Guys with sacks on their heads are just a Resident Evil thing now.

As I already mentioned, there’s also rumors going around that Capcom is already working on a sequel to Resident Evil: Revelations, which is great news because Revelations was awesome. Apparently the game will be called Resident Evil: Downfall, take place between Resident Evil 5 and 6, star Claire Redfield, and come packaged with the Resident Evil CGI movies, Damnation and Degeneration. I could do without the movies, but everything else, especially the return of Claire as a playable character, sounds terrific to me.

I have to say, I’m still a little cautious about Resident Evil 6, but the more I learn about the game, the more confident I am that RE6, and the whole Resident Evil series in general, is headed in a good direction.

via Gamers XTREME, ENIZR, 360 Magazine & TechTroid

The Dead Space series is kind of an oddity — in amongst EA’s usual line-up of soulless annual sports updates and bland shooters there’s this great, genuinely scary horror franchise set in a really detailed, well-realized universe. Unfortunately, while it’s arguably EA’s best series, the Dead Space games don’t exactly sell blockbuster numbers, and EA isn’t a company to bet on anything but the surest of sure things. Basically every time a new Dead Space game comes out, there’s a very good chance it may be the last.

Well, thankfully it seems as though the Dead Space series is being given at least one more chance, as EA has announced Dead Space 3 is on the way. The game will be fully unveiled at this year’s E3 and will be available sometime before the end of EA’s current fiscal year (which ends March 2013).

Not much is known about the game yet, although according to IGN, there will be a bit of a scenery change in store, with the creepy space stations of previous Dead Space games being replaced an ice-planet environment. Also, series main character Isaac’s mental deterioration will continue, with him developing a full-on split personality. Not surprising — only so many times necromorphs can jump out of air ducts at you, before you invent a second personality to watch your back.

via Technabob & IGN