Trek is back

Some of the people who read this blog have known me long enough to know I'm a fan of Star Trek. I'm now willing to come out of the geek closet for the rest of you.

I mention this today, of course, because the new Star Trek movie directed by J.J. Abrams opens today.

As a way to mitigate this nerdiness, I offer this short list of famous people who made cameos in my favorite of the Star Trek iterations, The Next Generation.

• Whoopi Goldberg (I realize this doesn't necessarily help my case)
• Famke Janssen (as Kamala in the episode "The Perfect Mate")
• Kelsey Grammar (in 1992's "Cause and Effect)
• Christian Slater (I swear he was in "Redemption" but IMDB lists him as only appearing in the sixth movie)
• And finally, the lovable Ashley Judd (twice -- once as Wes Crusher's love interest in "The Game" and also in one of my all-time favorites "Darmok")

See -- if all those famous people like Star Trek enough to appear in the franchise, it can't be solely for nerds, right?

I say Cubs by four

Take a look at this picture of the Chicago Cubs online schedule, and tell me who you think they're playing on May 22.

Are they facing Indiana Jones on the road between trips to Houston and Pittsburgh?

I can only assume it's a marketing ploy for the new Indy movie, which debuts next week, because Harrison Ford has been popping up on many teams' baseball schedules lately.

I can't imagine him as a baseball player. Since he's an archaeologist, he seems like the kind of guy who'd be good at cricket.

Indiana Jones

Did you know there's a new Indiana Jones movie coming out? I'm pretty excited about it, because I'm a big fan of the first three films in this series, as well as the short-lived TV series spinoff "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles."

The new one is called Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a title that doesn't make a whole of sense to me. Maybe they should've called it Indiana Jones and the Quest for Geritol. (Harrison Ford is turning 68 this year.)

Here's the trailer. Take a gander then read below to see if we noticed the same thing.



Did you notice "Roswell" was stamped on one of the cases in a chase scene? Do you think that means he's battling aliens? Does that mean he's going to team up with his old gang?