So, Entertainment Weekly has your first look at the U.S.S Enterprise as envisioned by J.J. Abrams and company for their upcoming Trek reboot, Trek 11, which finds the familiar Enterprise crew in their younger, more carefree days. The Enterprise in the picture looks, well, like the Enterprise. I think. Is there really all that much difference between this one and the one we’re familiar with? I don’t know, I’m not that big of a Trekkie. I guess this one kinda looks better. I think. Anyways, see for yourself and decide.

Wait, what? Wasn’t this new Knight Rider show already a reboot of the ’80s original? Yes, but they’re going to reboot the reboot anyway. You read that correctly: NBC and new show runner Gary Scott Thompson has decided to reboot the reboot TV show. He’ll accomplish this task by getting rid of the show’s current “terrorist of the week” formula and taking the main character (played by Justin Bruening) and a few colleagues, not to mention the talking car KITT, back on the road to help more “regular” people ala the ’80s show with David Hasselhoff. As a result, three castmembers have been jettisoned for the show’s second half, including Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Yancey Arias and Bruce Davison.

Oh Thank God. Someone came to their senses and decided not to go through with the proposed The Graysons TV series, the show that was going to go all Smallville on Batman’s sidekick, Dick Grayson, aka Robin. The proposed show was supposed to replace Smallville once that aging show went off the CW air, and would follow a teen Dick Grayson, or as he’s known in the show, “DJ” (yeah, WTF is right), as he learns about life, love, and other retarded stuff that people who watch the CW for anything other than Supernatural and Smallville care about. But have no fear, it’s been yanked!

I await the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced live-action version of “Akira” with equal bated breath and horror. A part of me is dying to see the anime (I’ve never read the manga) be translated into live-action, with living, breathing people and millions of Hollywood dollars thrown at the screen. Then again, another part of me is terrified of what a “Hollywood version” of “Akira” will look like. Well someone’s finally read a script for the live-action “Akira”, and his judgment seems to be a little mixed: it gives me comfort that the reviewer says the script is very faithful to the original source material, but he also goes to great lengths to mention that there’s nothing new here, no addition to the material. Is that good or bad? You decide.

J. Michael Straczynski doing anything involving science fiction is always worth taking note of in my book. His latest stab, as we reported previously, is writing a screenplay for a remake of the sci-fi classic “Forbidden Planet”. Now as it turns out, JMS might not be really writing a remake, but instead more of a “continuation” of the original story. At least, that’s what Harry et al over at Aint-it-Cool-News seems to have gathered. Read more for their take on what the remake/maybe-not-remake has in store.

I mentioned this before when I posted the latest trailer for Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, but it deserves another post of its own: the FOX network has decided to schedule Dollhouse on Friday nights along with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles for their Spring 2009 line-up. Now, at first this may not seem like such a big deal, but it’s a pretty big deal for a new show like Dollhouse. Not only has FOX moved the lowly-rated Terminator (which has been in trouble pretty much throughout its second season, ratings-wise, with impending cancellation somewhere on the horizon) from its original Monday night time slot, all but guaranteeing its death, but it’s giving Whedon a very poor lead-in show to boot.

Haven’t heard much about Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse lately? Well besides the rumor (since confirmed) that Whedon has tossed out the original pilot for the show, and is now shooting a new pilot, I mean. Anyways, while we wait to see Eliza Dushku kick ass and look hot on the small screen once again, here’s a new promo for the show that’s popped up online. There are some new footages here that haven’t been seen before, but whether they’re from the newly shot pilot or the old one, remains to be seen. The promo does give off a more ethereal vibe, though, and less fanboy-ish than the previous ones that have been released so far.

I’ll be damn if the new Dreamsworks CGI flick “Monsters vs. Aliens” doesn’t look like it has all the makings of another major international hit for the company. I’ve always thought that “The Incredibles” by Pixar was one of the best CGI movies I’ve seen, and although I’m not sure if “Aliens vs. Monsters” will approach that other movie’s many levels of pure entertainment, it could come close. Or at least, it’ll be really funny. Although I think the title should probably be, “Monsters vs. Alien”, as from this trailer for the movie, all I really see is a bunch of monsters fighting one alien dude in an indestructible ship. But hey, I guess “aliens” sounds better. In any case, “Monsters vs. Aliens” hits theaters March 2009 according to the voiceover guy at the end of the trailer.

Now I don’t know if this is true or not, but the people over at TFW2005 says it’s true, and says that they’ve confirmed it, and being that they’re the premiere authority on all things Transformers at the movies, I’m going to go with the assumption that it’s true, but with a caveat: if it turns out not to be true, then, er, you know who to blame! Having said that, there is a major SPOILER concerning one of the female characters in Michael Bay’s sequel to his hugely successful “Transformers” movie. The sequel will be called “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”, and returns most of the original cast (humans and robots), as well as introduce new ones (yes, more humans and robots).

As a sci-fi fan, there are some great moments in science fiction that makes me sit up and take notice, and remember for years to come. One of those times is when Carrie Fisher suddenly showed up as the prisoner of Jabba the Hut in “Return of the Jedi”. Of course, it wasn’t just Carrie Fisher; it was Carrie Fisher in a gold metal bikini. The sight of Fisher in the revealing bikini, with a chain leash around her neck, to be exact. (Seriously, what kind of phase was George Lucas going through when he came up with that scene?) As a result of that one scene, every sci-fi convention has had its share of women dressing up as Slave Princess Leia, and the world is better for it.