The clip above comes to you via my buddy Rob over at Topless Robot who laments JJ Abrams‘ decision to keep Diora Baird’s clothing on while featuring the lovely Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) in her knickers. Read his rant here.

Star Trek will be available on Blu-ray disc on November 17th (currently $21.49 at Amazon.com – 46% off MSRP)

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I won’t watch this scene. Not yet. I’m waiting for the Star Trek Blu-ray to show up, so I can bury myself in it for two full weeks. I want my experience to be fresh. That being said, I’m so tempted to check out this deleted scene of Romulan ship Captain, Nero being interrogated by the Klingons! This Star Trek Blu-ray is going to be sooooo good! I apologize in advance if my review of the disc is biased in any way. It simply can’t be helped…

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Oh boy. Well, it looks like a lot of nerd dreams are about to come true. To promote their upcoming Star Trek: The Original Series Season Two Blu-ray Box set , Paramount is giving Tribbles away at their San Diego Comic-con booth and they want you to take them home, feed them some “quadrotriticale” grain, bust out your camera and snap some pics of yourself and your new gaggle of furry pals.

Aside from all the previews we’re getting of the Season Two Tribble content via our Star Trek: Season One Blu-ray discs, Paramount is preparing to create an online BD-Live Star Trek gallery of your Tribble photos for all to see! While potentially an innovative “social-media” style use of the BD-Live technology, this feature is also potentially an innovative way to ensure that you never get a date. Upload your Tribble-porn pics at your own risk!

From the Paramount press release:

“CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment are also planning even more fantastic troubles with Tribbles for the highly–anticipated Blu-ray debut of Star Trek: The Original Series Season Two. Coming soon via the Season Two portal of CBS-BDLive.com, fans will be able to check out an exclusive interview from David on his inspiration for the Tribbles and his behind-the-scenes insights, in addition to a wealth of even more incredible BD Live bonus features that will offer fans access to materials unavailable anywhere else.”

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According to a press release just in from Paramount, we’re about to get a whole whack of new Star Trek content this week, including a ton of interviews with the people responsible for the original episodes as well as the high-def remasters! I’m so stoked for this! And for the previews of the next boxed set, which we should see on store shelves sometime this fall.

Check out all the details here, in the press release:

Trekkers Beaming With News Of All-New Season One BD Live Content

Star Trek fans are in for a cosmic treat, with news that brand new exclusive BD Live material will be posted on the Star Trek: The Original Series Season One portal of CBS-BDLive.com beginning this week.

Using their Season One Blu-ray discs, fans will have access to brand new bonus video including roundtable discussions with special effects producers Mike and Denise Okuda, Dave Rossi and Neil Wray, as well as David Gerrold, Tribble inventor and writer of the fan-favorite “Trouble with Tribbles” episode. Trekkies can get the experts’ take on the Season One Blu-ray bonus features and what they are looking forward to in Season Two.

CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment are also planning a Tribble extravaganza for the upcoming Season Two BD release. Be sure to check for new content in the coming weeks.

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Harry Barber over at TNMC got his hands on a version of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek script. From the description he gives, it doesn’t sound like the shooting script (there’s a major difference involving the death of the villain’s henchman that would have required a solid round of rewrites) but it does give us a look at what some of the deleted scenes on the Blu-ray will reveal (read all about the upcoming disc here).

I’ll run them down, one by one but you’ve got to head on over to TNMC.org and check out the rest of Harry’s article. There’s some fantastic stuff there, if you’re a Star Trek fan. What you’re about to read below is just the tip of the iceberg!

STAR TREK (2009) BLU-RAY DELETED SCENES:

◦ Spock’s birth – “The thrust of the scene is Spock’s mother Amanda expressing her displeasure with Sarek when he isn’t present for the birth and then doesn’t understand the emotional implications of this. One gets the feeling that this probably happened an awful lot in this relationship. The script then jumps to the scene where Kirk is born, which is where the movie opened.”

◦ Klingons capture Narada – “The opening sequence, which sees the destruction of the USS Kelvin at the hands of Nero and his mining ship the Narada, has an extra bit we didn’t see. While the Narada is trying to recover from being rammed by the Kelvin, bunches of Klingon warbirds decloak and surround it. This leads to a major subplot entirely removed from the final film. More on that later.”

◦ Young Kirk, Johnny and Uncle Frank – “We get a couple of scenes that precede the part of the movie where young Kirk takes a Corvette for a fateful joyride. One shows his older brother storming out of the home of their Uncle Frank, who is clearly not meant to be a nice guy. Mom is apparently in Africa and not expected back for months. Older brother George leaves home, implying along the way that Jim is too much of a rule follower. The next scene shows Jim washing that Corvette under orders from his Uncle. I’d say this section was wisely cut as it adds nothing truly important to the story that isn’t conveyed in the joyriding sequence.”

◦ Amanda and Sarek argue after Spock’s fight – No description

◦ Interrogation and escape from prison – “Next we go the Rura Penthe Klingon Prison Asteroid where Nero and his crew are being held. The Klingons catch someone trying to smuggle Federation maps to him. The Klingons begin to interrogate Nero, during which we learn that he has been there for ten years and hasn’t said a word that whole time. The Klingons have a notebook of his that is full of drawings and calculations relating to Spock and his Jellyfish ship. They decide to use that slug thing we saw Nero using on Captain Pike in the finished film. Apparently they hate being in the dark and will claw their way out of any dark place they’re put, which makes them kind of bad to have in your gut. Nero tries to deal with this torture by focusing on memories of his late pregnant wife. A few scenes later, we see that Nero is so bad ass that he put up with torture just because he had time to kill until Spock finally arrived in the Jellyfish ship. When the time is right Nero busts out with ease. It’s possible this subplot was cut for plausibility issues.”

◦ Sarek and Amanda – No description

◦ Bedroom and Kobayashi Maru (original version) – “The scene where Uhura catches Kirk fooling around with her room mate has a little bit we didn’t see in the final film. Kirk tells Gaila that he sent her a message that she has to open at a precise moment. This is how he hacks the Kobayashi Maru test. It is a virus of sorts that she opens during the test, unleashing it to rewrite the test to be winnable. I’m not exactly sure why this was pulled. The sequence makes a bit more sense like this and would only be a fraction longer.”

◦ Kirk apologizes to the green girl – “There is one more scene later where Kirk mistakes another green girl for Gaila. “

◦ Sarek sees Spock Prime – No description

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“…Star Trek I-VI will be released on Blu-ray in the U.S. in May in a 6-film “Kirk/Spock” box set, each with remastered picture and sound. This set will include Star Trek V here in the States, though other regions may offer different disc configurations/packaging options. Star Trek I, II and VI will each be the original theatrical versions. (If I’m not mistaken, this would mark the first time that The Undiscovered Country has EVER been available on home video in its theatrical version – even on VHS – and the first time that The Motion Picture has been available in its theatrical version since its VHS and Laserdisc release. Note that we also expect the remaining Next Generation films to be released in a 4-film Blu-ray box set at a later date.) At least some new extras have been created for this release, including “famous fan” commentary tracks for each film, as well as a featurette offering select scenes from a Klingon performance of Hamlet by the Commedia Beauregard (filmed in St. Paul, Minnesota – see the group’s original press release and this previous report at Trek Movie). It’s unknown yet whether these will be BD-exclusive, or if there will be a simultaneous standard DVD release. What’s more, we’ve learned that CBS will finally release Star Trek: The Original Series – Season One on Blu-ray on the same street date in May as the movies. The release is currently planned to include BOTH the original broadcast versions as well as the new Remastered versions of each episode. ”

Here’s a look at the Norwegian package art:

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