According to CBS the $2000 life-sized chair is a “fully operational replica” of the captain’s chair from ‘Star Trek’ The Original Series using “expert measurements and the highest quality durable materials.” This replica is actually a real piece of furniture, complete with lights, sound effects and built in phrases from the original Captain Kirk himself.

Clifton Collins Jr., who plays General Ayel, the right hand to Eric Bana’s Nero in the new Star Trek has finally come clean and said on the record what we have all been talking about for months.

The officially licensed CBS product features a working swivel design, light-up controls and sound effects from the original 1960s television series (intercom hail, photon torpedoes, etc.).

Players will begin the “Trek”-themed massively multiplayer online game as the captain of a small Starfleet or Klingon Empire ship. As they progress through the game, players can increase in rank and gain larger vessels and more crew.

Four months after wrapping principal photography JJ Abrams and his editors Mary Jo Markey and Maryann Brandon have finished their first cut for Star Trek. The next major step for the film is likely to be the release of the first theatrical trailer.

If you don’t already have Season Two on DVD then this set is a must buy, especially at the reasonable street price of $60. However, the calculation gets harder if you already have the standard set from 2004 and/or if you have a Blu-ray player.

In several new interviews, actor Simon Pegg - of ‘Hot Fuzz’ and ‘Shaun of the Dead’ fame - discussed how he got the role of Scotty, his Scottish accent, his fellow Trek actors, being on the set with Leonard Nimoy (”Spock”), and breaking the curse of odd numbered Trek movies.

Creatively, Stargate is in a state of decline and disrepair with “Stargate: Atlantis” — which is essentially carrying the torch — relying more and more heavily on recycled “SG-1” stories or dumbed-down adventures with Wraith hybrids and clones.