On Saturday, William Shatner took to Twitter to mourn the death of longtime Star Trek co-star Leonard Nimoy, ruefully confessing he couldn't "make it back in time" to attend the late actor's funeral on Sunday.

More goodness from this weekend's True Life mini-marathon: "I Want To Be an Obscure Pageant Queen" profiled 27-year-old Adrienne, who competed in the Miss Star Trek Universe beauty pageant. Adrienne dressed as an Andorian, sassily answered a question in which she was compared to a Smurf, and sang a song that she…

David Waddell—plumber, city councilman, dedicated conservative—was fed up with all the government bureaucracy in Indian Trail, North Carolina. So he sent the mayor a latter saying he was quitting. Or, more precisely, "chaq DaHjaj QaQ jaj paj."

Have you ever had one of those incredible customer service experiences that you just had to share with the whole world? No, of course you haven't.

J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot franchise performs several admirable balancing acts. Among them:

Welcome to Annotate This, where we gather reviews, trailers, and annotate the posters for movies coming out this week. It will help you decide what to avoid, what to see, and what to pretend to see. Click on the image above to add your comments to the mix.

When Daniel Craft, a Star Trek obsessed New York-based movie fan who co-founded the New York Asian Film Festival, was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer six weeks ago, his friend posted a message from Craft's wife, Paige, on Reddit, asking for the online community's help in finding either the trailer or an…

Who killed Osama Bin Laden? Why, anti-Cardassian rebels fighting in former Federation colonies, obviously. Didn't you catch the broadcast on German channel N24? The news organization seems to have pulled a fan-made logo for the "Maquis Special Operations," a rebel terrorist group featured in Star Trek: The Next…

It wasn't easy convincing the network bigwigs that Star Trek was a sure thing but Roddenberry was on a mission. Here Shatner talks about how the show moved on from its rough start to become a vehicle for social commentary.

Want to turn your place into the Enterprise? Start by converting your doorways into pneumatic pocket doors like this guy. Now if only he could work in a motion sensor.

They each defined "nerd" to an entire century, and continue to remain marketable to this day, but in the world of syndicated animation which do you think had the stronger series?

Actor-artist-writer James Franco has a solo art show! It opens June 23 at the Clocktower Gallery in New York. What will be in it? A "work explor[ing] a romantic encounter between "Star Trek" characters Spock and James T. Kirk."

If you do one thing this weekend, go see Hot Tub Time Machine, preferably on a mind-altering substance. It's really that good. However, there are some things this master of obvious comedy is going to change forever.

Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner reading what must be a hilarious issue of Mad in 1967, featuring the first Star Trek parody, "Star Blecch". [The Daily What]

What do hardware stores, Heidi Klum's uterus, and Romulans all have in common? They're all on Project Runway and we'll be making fun of them all in our weekly live blog. Beam yourself in, Scotty.