Star Fleet’s Handheld Communicators
A special edition Star Trek themed phone from Sona Mobile and Viacom is set to be available to the pubic on September 30th. No news on if it will look like the original communicator but that would be very very nifty. The folks at endgadget.com think it’ll probably be just a regular mobile phone with Star Trek logos on it although it’s reported that users will have access to online games, special ring tones, etc. Someone who claims to work at Sona says that it will be a modified Motorola MPx220.
Many of the new mobile phones now available are so close to looking like communicators from the original series anyways, why doesn’t someone get a license from Paramount to manufacture them to really look like a communicator? Now that Trekkers are without a series or movie to look forward to, you’d think Paramount would milk its cash cow with a little more forethought.
I guess the recent Creation’s Star Trek convention in Seattle went well (in Bellevue really, for those of you who are Seattle-savvy). As a fan of “Star Trek: Deep Space 9″ I would have loved to have seen Avery Brooks who was in attendance. When I lived in Seattle, I went to a convention once and had the privilege to see Leonard Nimoy.
For now, I will just count the days until Randy and I are in Las Vegas next month and get to go to “Star Trek: The Experience” at the Las Vegas Hilton. I’m tempted to have us renew our vows on the bridge of the USS Enterprise 1701-D (packages start at $500!), but that might put us into the category of “Trekkies” as opposed to “Trekkers.” I suppose the fact that I know that there’s a difference between the two terms may have already sealed my fate. Yeah, yeah, live long and prosper and all that.