Tribbles , the lovable Star Trek fluffballs best known for turning into Gremlins if you get them wet, aren’t just made of a bunch of pubes glued together like I previously thought. No, it turns out they actually have body parts , including, and virtually limited to: sexual organs. And speaking of sexual organs: somebody call the piano repairman, I’ve really done it this time. Anatomy Of A Tribble [buzzfeed]

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Star Trek Science: Anatomy Of A Tribble

I don’t want to ruin the premise of this little video for you but basically the infamous Star Wars word crawl from the beginning of all the movies starts falling to earth and the Enterprise has to come save us. Woops . I’m not good at keeping secrets either. Youtube Thanks to bowzee, who may or may not be Bowser’s feminine brother.

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We’re All Gonna Die!: Star Wars Vs. Star Trek

While the Joker(s) gandered at Tiberius Stark Trek cologne (previous pic), I considered dousing myself in “Khaaann!”, the Genki Wear scent being modeled here by Enterprise “booth babe” Chantel Gonzales. A limited run of only 500 bottles debuted at Comic-Con this year. A sculptor at the Hasbro booth uses a KerrLab Ultra-Waxer to bring highly-detailed characters to life (below). Ken Sadlock from Comic Images models a R2-D2 Backpack Buddy : “When Artoo sits on the back of Luke’s X-Wing, he helps make sure all systems are go. When Artoo sits on your back, he makes sure all your junk is in order.” Obviously. Two limited edition vinyl Voltron figurines from Toynami . 300 of the $40 black bot (right) and 1,000 of the $30 full-color bot (left) sold out by day 2. The mold tech and paint design for both figurines were created by Daisuke Fukuda, pictured below. Carl Brutananadilewski ATHF nesting dolls; $20 from Adult Swim. A steampunk fawn and crocodile by Lisa Black , a New Zealand-based artist who embellishes old taxidermy with mechanical, robotic parts. The pieces both sold for $3000 and $2000, respectively, at the Century Guild Decorative Arts booth. The devil is in the details… Previously: ComiCon: Day 1 [Verdict: Nerdywood!] Best worst Star Trek parodies - Boing Boing Gadgets Star Trek characters who Tweet - Boing Boing Gadgets The Paradox Mouse is one part steampunk, one part taxidermy … Star Shooter: Voltron Camera Robotech, Voltron Movies on the Way - Boing Boing Gadgets Star Trike at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con - Boing Boing Gadgets Plush R2-D2 backpack is the droid you're looking for - Boing Boing … Hasbro's 'Legacy Collection Millennium Falcon' makes point-five …

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Photos: Comic-Con Toys, Art & Tchotchkes

It’s Friday, and, since I love you all, how about some sexy Star Trek and Star Wars themed corsets made by Etsy seller Evening Arwen? The Star Trek corsets go for $200 a pop and the Star Wars models (which include the rest of the costumes, but not the actual women), are $500 (trooper) and $600 (Vader). Hit the jump to see them and get all woop woop and ooh la la in your pants and blah blah is anybody still reading this? No? Okay good. Hit the jump already, geez.

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Gallery: Sexy Star Trek and Star Wars Corsets

My friend, a VFX engineer, shares this frustration with the IMAX version of Star Trek (which she otherwise dug): Just for future reference, ST was not shot in IMAX, and therefore is not a true imax film. imax is 65mm, 15-perf film, with an aspect ratio of 1:1.37 and a MASSIVE amount of image area, approximately 4x the size of VistaVision (VV is also the same format 35mm still cameras shoot, imagine a negative almost four times the surface area of one that was shot in your still camera.) Star Trek was shot in cinemascope, an anamorphic format that squeezes the image on the film, but projects it through lenses that stretch it back out horizontally to its 1:2.35 aspect ratio. C-scope is run through a normal movie camera vertically, (90 degrees to a still camera) and exposes a frame taking up four perfs of film - about half the film area of a 35mm still camera. What Star Trek has done for their imax projection is just stretch their anamorphic cinemascope (1828×1556) image to 3656×1556 and then blow it up by 12% to 4096×1746 where it only takes up 60% of the height of the half-resolution imax - 4096×2988. (that is, unless they have cropped in at the sides to literally do a pan&scan on the 1:2.35 cinemascope image, ugh!) The end result of all this unsqueezing and blowing up is that at the very best, you will get an image that has 1/8th the information of a standard imax image. What you see will be much softer, although it may not be noticed by the general public unless they see a side-by-side comparison with a true imax print. Full-resolution imax is 10240×7470 (10k by 8k), btw, but it isn’t often used in visual effects because of the sheer amount of data required for each frame. Other films will be shot in imax and c-scope, with some sequences being full imax, so in the theater the screen will jump to a taller picture for some sequences. I think Batman did it last summer. Normal theaters will only see a c-scope extraction (trimming top and bottom) during the imax sequences.

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VFX engineer on why Star Trek ain’t IMAX

The ” Star Trek USB Communicator Internet Phone ” is the platonic example of a Brando product: it’s a cute replica of TOS -era communicators, complete with lights and sound effect, but it has a cord . $43 of missing the point. Worse, I still want it, even though I use a regular headset to chat on Skype or iChat. [via CrunchGear ]

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"Hello, computer."

Genki Wear , makers of the Star Trek colognes we mentioned last month, just sent me this ad for their third and final scent: “Pon Farr”, for women.

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"Drive him crazy" with Star Trek Pon Farr perfume