The pictures come courtesy of TMZ.

According to TMZ, the pictures were taken at the Pitt River Quarries outside of Vancouver, and feature “alien planet scenes” and the interior of the Enterprise, which “sustains serious damage in a battle.”

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The conference included Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, Idris Elba, Justin Lin, Jeffrey Chernov, and Douglas Jung.

One of the topics included why Dubai was chosen for filming, especially external filming. “We came searching for the future and we found it,” said Chernov. “We’d drive around Dubai and look at things and we’d have to figure out how we can use those visual guides to tell our story. I’d see a building and say ‘we have to figure out how to put that in our movie.'”

Dubai looks like “whatever tomorrow would be,” said Pine. “It’s futureland.”

Pegg spoke about what Star Trek means to us today. “The film series offered a “utopian ideal where we can all just live together and there is no judgment and there is no prejudice...Star Trek, above all else, has something to teach us, which is that, imagine that, imagine if we could all get along.”

Quinto spoke about returning to Star Trek after the death of Leonard Nimoy. “Coming back to the role for the first time without him, I guess I feel the significance of the responsibility in a different way,” he said. “Leonard has such profound and positive impact on millions of people around the world because of his portrayal of this role and I think what he and Gene Roddenberry created with this character is so unique, and there’s a depth to it and there’s something that I think a lot of people connect to and find some sort of emotional resonance within and so I do take that seriously. I’ve always wanted to do good work and I think all of us up here agree on that…for me there is another undercurrent in this film which is to truly honor my dear friend and carry on the legacy that he worked so hard to create.”

October begins with the Ft. Lauderdale Comic Con, to be held October 2-4 at the Greater Ft. Lauderdale Broward County Convention Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. In attendance at Ft. Lauderdale Comic Con will be William Shatner.

Monster-Mania Con will be held October 2-4 at the Hunt Valley Inn in Hunt Valley, Maryland. In attendance at Monster-Mania Con will be Denise Crosby.

The Hamilton Comic Con will be held October 3-4 at the Hamilton Convention Centre in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. In attendance at Hamilton Comic Con will be Nichelle Nichols.

The New York Comic Con will be held October 8-11 at the Javits Center in New York, New York. In attendance at New York Comic Con will be Jennifer Morrison.

Fanboy Expo will be held Oct. 16-18 at the Knoxville Convention Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. In attendance at Fanboy Expo will be Julie Newmar and Chris Sarandon.

The Grand Rapids Comic Con will be held October 16-18 at the DeVos Place in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In attendance at Grand Rapids Comic Con will be Marina Sirtis.

The Sun City Sci-Fi will be held October 17-18 at the Camino Real Hotel in El Paso, Texas. In attendance at Sun City Sci-Fi will be Nichelle Nichols.

Chiller Theatre will be held Oct. 23-25 at the Sheraton Parsippany in Parsippany, New Jersey. In attendance at Chiller Theatre will be Stephen McHattie, Bill Mumy and Julie Newmar.

The Cardiff Winter Film & Comic Con will be held October 24-25 at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales. In attendance at Cardiff Winter Film & Comic Con will be Rene Auberjonois and Nana Visitor.

The Austin Comic Con will be held October 30-31 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. In attendance at Austin Comic Con will be Chris Sarandon, Brent Spiner and Peter Weller.

Hal-Con will be held October 30 – November 1 at the World Trade & Convention Centre & The Scotia Bank Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. In attendance at Hal-Con will be John de Lancie.

2050 will be held October 30 – November 1 at the Ocean Center & Arena in Daytona Beach, Florida. In attendance at 2050 will be Joseph Gatt and Anthony Montgomery.

Next up is the Central Canada Comic Con to be held October 30 – November 1 at the RBC Convention Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. In attendance at Central Canada Comic Con will be Gates McFadden, Robert Picardo, and Garrett Wang.

Wrapping up October will be the Belfast Film & Comic Con will be held Oct. 31 – Nov. 1 at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In attendance at Belfast Film & Comic Con will be Rene Auberjonois (Sunday only).

November begins with the Wizard World Comic Con Louisville will be held Nov. 6-8 at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Kentucky. In attendance at Wizard World Comic Con Louisville will be William Shatner.

Next up is the Rhode Island Comic Con, to be held Nov. 6-8 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island. In attendance at Rhode Island Comic Con will be John de Lancie, Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell, Gates McFadden, Ron Perlman, Marina Sirtis, and Brent Spiner.

The Film & Comic Con Brighton will be held Nov. 7-8 at the Hilton Brighton Metropole in Brighton, England. In attendance at Film & Comic Con Brighton will be Rene Auberjonois.

The L.I. Who 3 will be held Nov. 13-15 at the Hyatt Regency Long Island in Hauppauge, New York. In attendance at L.I. Who 3 will be Noel Clarke.

Wizard World Comic Con Reno will be held Nov. 20-22 at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada, USA. In attendance at Wizard World Comic Con Reno will be Brent Spiner.

Super Megafest Comic Cone will be held Nov. 21-22 at the Sheraton Framingham in Framingham, Massachusetts. In attendance at Super Megafest Comic Con will be Lee Meriwether.

Wrapping up November will be Starbase Indy, to be held Nov. 27-29 at the Wyndham Indianapolis West in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. In attendance at Starbase Indy will be Lee Arenberg (DaiMon Bok), Jeffrey Combs and Natalija Nogulich (Admiral Nechayev).

The pair, great fans of Anton Karidian, discovers that their idol has a dark past.

Fans of The Red Shirt Diaries should note that “this episode is the beginning of an important theme that will carry through the rest of the season. The hard core fans will want to pay attention!”

Kim Henderson and Gordon Florence wore ceremonial white uniforms as seen at the Riker-Troi wedding in Star Trek: Nemesis. Their seven-month-old daughter Jadzia also wore a uniform.

The couple met at a Manchester comic-con two years ago, but both were dressed as different sci-fi characters; Kim as Princess Leia, and Gordon as Doctor Who‘s The Master.

“I’ve always known I wanted a Star Trek-themed wedding since I was a lot younger,” said Kim. “This is great though with lots of our guests dressed as Star Trek characters or in their favorite characters costumes.”

“It’s great to see people making an effort and seeing Jadzia dressed as a mini Kim,” said Gordon.

“I did not expect a standard wedding from these two,” said best man Alex Hayes-Newook. “They aren’t a traditional couple; they are out of this world. They’re made for each other — I could not imagine them without one another — the three of them are a golden family.”

The couple’s home is filled with Star Trek memorabilia, with only the bathroom and the kitchen Star Trek-free. To see a short video featuring their Trek collection, head to the link located here.

Elba will not be a Klingon, but an original character.

“Simon [Pegg] and the team have written a very interesting, complex journey for my character,” said Elba. “You’ve never seen me play a character like this.

“I think Star Trek has prided themselves as being quite classic when it comes to villains, like ‘he’s a guy who wants to end the world,’ there’s no doubt about that. But in this version of the film, there’s a slightly different twist to that. It’s quite an interesting journey, which I think is groundbreaking for the franchise. But, it still keeps with the ‘classic bad guy is a classic bad guy’ tone.”

Working on Star Trek Beyond is no easy job. Elba has been putting in long hours on the movie. “It’s been hard work,” he said. “I’ve been doing eighteen-hour days. It’s tough work, but I’m looking forward to people seeing this film.”

Star Trek Beyond arrives in theaters July 22, 2016.

The voting will take place over the next two months, via Twitter, Facebook, and the Star Trek Online forums.

There are eight designs, as seen here, and the first pair of ships, Alpha and Beta, are up now. Players will select one of them before tomorrow night at midnight.

To learn more, head to the link located here.

The hats and scarves come courtesy of ThinkGeek.

There are two sets of hats and scarves; one for the original series, and one for The Next Generation.

The original series knit hats come in gold, red, or blue. Each acrylic hat has a gold lame embroidered division insignia on it, plus a pompom. To order one of the hats, which sell for 14.99 each, head to the link located here.

The TNG Winter Hats also come in three colors (red, gold or blue) and are made of polyester. Each hat features “the uniform’s signature chevron style in the black cuff and the combadge/Starfleet insignia embroidered in metallic thread.”

To order one of the TNG Winter Hats, which sell for $19.99 each, head to the link located here.

An original series scarf will complement the knit hats described above. Available in the same three colors as the hats, the acrylic scarves feature a gold lame division insignia on one end, and a rank braid on the other. To order one of the scarves, which sell for $19.99 each, go here.

For TNG fans, there is also a scarf to complement the TNG Winter Hat described above. The polyester scarves are available in the same three colors as the hats, and feature “diagonal cut ends with the uniform’s signature chevron style and the combadge/Starfleet insignia embroidered on one end.”

Selling for $19.99 each, the TNG scarves can be ordered here.

Plot Summary: After Janeway snaps irritably at nearly every member of her crew because she feels overworked, a miniaturized Doctor – on whom Kim and Torres have been experimenting in order to allow him to move about the ship – orders the captain to take some time off. In her British holonovel, Janeway finds herself being courted by Lord Burleigh and taunted by his children, but she is interrupted when the ship enters Bothan space, a region about which Neelix has been trying to warn her. After being told by the Bothans that her petition to travel through their space must be evaluated, Janeway begins to see elements from her holonovel appearing around the ship, culminating in an attack by Lord Burleigh’s housekeeper which occurs in Sickbay. The captain fears that stress or disease must have damaged her brain, but Kes can see her visions as well. A Bothan hails to tell Chakotay that Voyager will not be permitted to pass. When the aliens begin firing at Voyager, Janeway goes to the bridge, where her lover Mark appears on the viewscreen. Kim reports that he sees Libby, Paris sees his father, and Tuvok finds himself at home with his wife. Torres has a plan to use a resonance burst to disperse the psionic field that she believes is causing the crew to hallucinate, but she surrenders to fantasies of being seduced by Chakotay before she can activate it. Soon the entire crew is lost in dreamland except for the Doctor and Kes. The former tries to talk the latter through activating the resonance burst even though Kes too is plagued with visions, first of an injured Paris, then of a panicked and enraged Neelix, and finally of painful growths all over her body. Kes uses her telepathic abilities to unmask the Bothan and fire the burst, at which point the crew recovers and Janeway orders the alien to leave her crew alone. Torres tells Janeway that she’d rather not admit she might actually harbor the feelings the alien made her experience, to which Janeway replies that it’s better to bring such feelings out in the open and face them.

Analysis: When I first saw this episode, I conceived a fiery, passionate hatred of it and wrote a long rant about how Star Trek’s obsession with fantasy, particularly via the use of the holodeck, was ruining the show. On a rewatch, I still hate the episode, but the problems with “Persistence of Vision” are actually more Voyager-specific. It’s evident that, after more than a full season on the air, the writing staff has no more ideas for these characters than they did when they sketched out the series bible. They haven’t come up with one new interest, one surprising quirk, not even one deep dark secret that’s unpredictable or clever. If you asked a group of people who saw the first season what they’d expect Tuvok, Kim, and Paris to see in visions, I bet every one of those people could guess that Tuvok would see his wife, Kim would see his girlfriend – even though he just saw her in an alternate timeline and things didn’t go well, but we don’t know a single other thing about Kim for him to fantasize about – and Paris would see himself proving himself to the father for whom he was never good enough. In the Harry Potter books, when Ron Weasley looks in the Mirror of Erised, at least we learn that he wants to be Head Boy as well as a Quidditch-playing jock hero, something we’d never been told before. It’s maybe not the most exciting of fantasies for adult readers, but then, Ron is a tween boy, whereas these adults have no such excuse. I’ll buy that Tuvok wants to see his home and family more than anything, even more than being first officer instead of Chakotay, which would have been so much fun to see. But you mean to tell me that Kim doesn’t deep down have a fantasy about making a brilliant engineering breakthrough that provides the key to getting back to Earth, not just for Libby, but to be a hero to his family and friends? You want me to believe that Paris is still so defined by his distant father’s insults that his top fantasy isn’t becoming captain, breaking piloting speed records, or getting it on with both Delaney sisters at once?

Although it is a nice change that Paris, who’s always thinking about sex, isn’t thinking about sex for a little while, it’s undercut by the fact that pretty much everyone else IS thinking about sex. This is particularly problematic in the case of the three women on the crew whom we know best, because every single one of them is swayed or nearly swayed by the passionate demands of a man. Apparently Janeway’s need to feel like a Real Woman in stereotypical TV terms is stronger than her desire to save her ship or get her crew home, which could have been an amazing and complicated fantasy – how many aliens would Janeway allow to die for that goal, how many Starfleet rules might she break? Instead we get her swooning in the arms of her dogsitter just as she was swooning in the arms of a hologram not long before. Instead of looking for a friend to lean on when the Doctor points out that she’s stressed out, she goes running to the holodeck like Reginald Barclay, who was initially meant to be a cautionary tale, not a role model. It’s aggravating enough that Janeway’s idea of relaxation is to play servant and governess, to let a big burly man push her around while she mommies his kids, which brings up all sorts of ugly cliches about how women secretly want to be swept off their feet by men who consider themselves their superiors and don’t have to worry about consent. I know it’s not fair to judge a woman based on her masturbatory fantasies, but it’s downright weird when she then lets her imaginary boyfriend give her guilt for thinking about sex with a hologram…so weird that I don’t think Lord Burleigh is whom Mark means when he says he knows she’s been thinking about someone else, while Chakotay is standing right there, lost in his own fantasies. Assuming that the captain and first officer do want each other as much as previous episodes have suggested, how in the universe is it healthier for them both to repress that than to act on it or at least talk about it? They’re both grownups, they’ve both had relationships before, they’re capable at least of joking about how desire and proximity can create embarrassing situations. Heck, they could commiserate together with Paris, since he has a similar crush on Kes.

It’s frustrating that the holodeck gets used primarily for personal gratification when it could be used for so many wonderful hobbies as well – people could learn to play instruments or to cook in their spare time from teachers who would never get tired or grouchy, crewmembers could play fantasy sports impractical in the ship’s gym, people could study history via immersion instead of acting out badly scripted fictional versions of it. Maybe it’s realistic that most crewmembers want to spend their off hours with porn, which is everyone’s private business, but it doesn’t make them terribly engrossing as characters. The same goes for what we’re meant to believe are their deepest, darkest fantasies. Yes, most of us think erotic thoughts, but most of us also pick dirt out from under our fingernails and overindulge in our favorite foods; the run-of-the-mill instances don’t reveal anything unique about us. It’s only on a show like Star Trek, which is so repressed about sexuality to begin with, where the sorts of fantasies that turn up in “Persistence of Vision” are treated as so life-altering that they become incapacitating. It makes sense that Torres has a bit of a crush on Chakotay, who’s been both father figure and mentor to her. I can believe that she used to be jealous of Seska and felt that if Chakotay could love someone who was so bitchy even before everyone found out Seska was a Cardassian, then he could accept and appreciate a half-Klingon with a bad temper. What I can’t believe is that Torres doesn’t already know this about herself, and that Torres hasn’t already considered all the reasons “the Chakotay you want me to be, the one who loves you” can only exist in fantasy. The Chakotay in her dreams is ready to abandon the ship to save her, to persuade her to make love instead of saving herself and everyone else. In real life, they often infuriate or just plain don’t understand one another, while Torres has better chemistry with Paris, with Kim, even with Janeway. This out-of-the-blue potential romance is clearly meant to take advantage of Chakotay’s sex appeal without having to explore the complicated and much more interesting relationship he has with the captain.

So Janeway’s swooning over Mark, Torres is swooning over Chak, Kes spends a few moments swooning over Neelix before she comes to her senses and does what any reasonable person would do when upon realizing that her lover is not only not real but also threatening everyone she knows – she pushes him aside. You go, girl! I don’t usually root for people to save the ship with mumbo-jumbo telepathic powers, but as long as this doesn’t become a regular thing, I’m glad to see her discover her strength this once. Still, what a dreary crew she saves, with such limited interests, all obsessed with their personal satisfaction and comfort. Then again, we never get to see what Chakotay sees in his vision. Maybe he’s making love with Janeway, or Torres, or Seska, or some unnamed lost love from his youth, since so many people’s fantasies seem focused on their intimate lives. But given how relentlessly we’ve heard Chakotay describe himself as a peaceful man from a peaceful people, wouldn’t it be so much more interesting if he’s facing his Maquis side? What if, like Tom Paris, he’s telling off a Starfleet admiral, only in his case it isn’t about personal failings but the atrocities that drove him to resign? What if Chakotay’s vision involves having an Anakin Skywalker moment, killing every single Cardassian who destroyed his home? There has to be more to this man than what we’ve seen, just as there has to be more to all the other characters than the recycled bits we get in “Persistence of Vision” – the name for the optical illusion that allows viewers to merge projections of individual stills into moving images, the trick of the brain that lets it lie to the eye while watching a film. It’s a wonderful fantasy device; it’s only dangerous to viewers incapable of telling the fiction from reality, just like the holodeck. I’m not worried that Janeway doesn’t know Lord Burleigh isn’t real, which is precisely what she finds attractive about him. It’s the fact that she thinks he’s real enough to constitute cheating on Mark, who is so important to her that she chooses a fantasy version of Mark over her mission in life, that’s so disturbing. Every single one of these characters needs to move on, yet most of them won’t ever be allowed to do so.

Wheaton treated out the news with a photo of his script. “This week just got a whole lot better,” he said.

Evidently, Wheaton will be appearing in the sixth episode of this season. Wheaton covered the episode name, but it looks to end with “nance.”

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