3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (309+ words) ‘The Sixty-Year Mission’ Star Trek documentary hits Regal Cinemas Oct. 9 with Shatner, Takei, Koenig, and 50-plus interviews. Sixty years of Star Trek have produced a small library of anniversary specials, and most of them run the same play. A clip…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1006+ words) As Gene Roddenberry's baby enters its seventh decade, we give 'Trek' a 60th birthday health check. 'Star Trek Day', however, is based on an actual date; September 8 is the anniversary of the Original Series' very first broadcast in 1966. This year's birthday…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1720+ words) It was the summer of 1985 and David Lefkowitz, then a student at Duke University had come to the Bay Area for an internship in a lab at UCSF. His senior year would start in the fall, but – as a pre-med…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1720+ words) It was the summer of 1985 and David Lefkowitz, then a student at Duke University had come to the Bay Area for an internship in a lab at UCSF. His senior year would start in the fall, but – as a pre-med…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (609+ words) A century ago, downtown Berkeley merchants unveiled new shop display windows and offerings for autumn goods on Aug. 25, 1926, along with a parade of new automobiles from local car dealers. “While the south sweltered in the hottest day of the year,…...