Venables: Your directing credits include Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager in addition to several successful primetime series running now and even a video game.

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This one-minute trailer is light on the fantasy, but we get a hint of it in the form of Alexander Siddig (known to many of us for his role as Dr. Bashir in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), whose character offers to teach Leonardo about what seems like the mystery of life and death.

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The Canadian Space Agency is on the verge of making the Star Trek Medical Tricorder a reality with the Microflow, a medical scanner that's currently in development.

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Rivals Trek, Specialized, Giant and Cannondale compete for space by rewarding dealers with slick displays and swanky trips.

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It's a spin-off of NASA's space technology, the space-age name the Geordi after Geordi LaForge of Star Trek.

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Radiation on a Mars trek would be higher than what crew members cocooned inside the International Space Station typically face about 200 millisieverts per year.

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The school pounds into them a fervor for space exploration that sounds like that of Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise in Star Trek.

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Having just played both Dead Space 3 and Tomb Raider, I may be feeling especially critical, but the science fiction space sets of Dead Space 3 are simply far more lush and immersive than anything I previewed in Star Trek.

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