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Meet the man warp-driving the 'Star Trek' bridge restoration

Huston Huddleston is playing a seminal role in the "Star Trek" universe right now. It's OK if you don't recognize his name. He didn't appear in any of the television shows. He hasn't been on-screen or working behind the scenes of any of the movies. He is, however, captaining a massive project that, when finished, will be a source of delight to "Star Trek" fans everywhere. He's rebuilding the bridge of the Enterprise.

In late 2011, Huddleston was working above a Paramount office in Hollywood, confessing to a colleague that he would never be able to turn his living room into an Enterprise bridge. "Be careful what you wish for," his colleague said.

"He took me to a warehouse that had a Paramount-built Enterprise D Bridge from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," made in 1997 for display (after the original had been destroyed), that sat outside for five years and was about to be destroyed," Huddleston tells Crave.… Read more

Take to the stars in this MMO

Vendetta Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that lets you pilot a spaceship and seek your fortune in a vast universe. The graphics are somewhat dated by today's standards, but there's a ton of content to explore and much to discover as you slowly advance your ship by mining and completing quests.

You have plenty of options for how you want to experience the Vendetta Online universe. You get to choose from three factions, two of which are at war, while the third is made up of independent traders. There are several different types of ships, … Read more

DARPA seeks help for interstellar starship

DARPA wants to go to the stars.

Yesterday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency issued a call for concepts for a 100-year starship study program. The idea? To motivate research that could potentially "develop a viable and sustainable model for persistent, long-term, private-sector investment into the myriad of disciplines needed to make interstellar space travel practicable and feasible."

This, one can imagine, is the kind of feasibility study that would have been necessary decades ahead of time if the starships at the center of shows like "Star Trek," "Babylon 5," and "Deep Space … Read more

Meat the crew of the Starship Enterprise

Looking at this decidedly non-vegetarian Enterprise model, you might think, "Well, gee whiz, how hard can it be to make a replica of Captain Kirk's starship?"

It's not as easy as it looks. Trust me. This one looks much sturdier than the one my friend and I tried to make for a gingerbread house contest back in high school. Pro tip: Gingerbread does not, in fact, support the weight of the peppermint stick warp nacelles.

Nor does making a gingerbread Enterprise make the ladies flock to you.

(Via Gizmodo)

Blu-ray interactive silliness: 'Starship Troopers 3'

While Crave UK was visiting Sony at IFA, they were shown a trailer for a new Blu-ray movie--it was none other than the third installment of Starship Troopers and a landmark for both silliness and interactive features. So impressed were they, that they asked for a copy of the film to peruse, and Sony Pictures obliged. Here's what ensued.

If you haven't seen the original Starship Troopers, you're missing out on one of the best B-movie action-sci-fi-comedy romps of all time. A movie that never takes itself too seriously and a genuinely enjoyable hour and a … Read more