Etsy seller Barry Shields has constructed this tasteful Star Trek Enterprise coffee table and put it up for sale, for the low (high) price of $3,100. The table, constructed in the likeness of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-C, is made from ash, poplar, and cherry wood, and took Shields one month to build. The glass that makes the tabletop was cut to make it look as if the ship is in motion, and the base of table is made to look as if the ship is in orbit over a planet. The table has a poly finish coat for protection, and the glass dimensions measure in at 34″ x 54″ x 17″ tall. The table hasn’t sold yet, so get to buying if you’re interested, and head on past the break to check out some more pictures taken at different angles.

While the Enterprise is most iconic of the Star Trek vessels, I’ll always have a soft spot for the USS Reliant which appeared in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. This amazing LEGO model of the Miranda class starship by Christer Nyberg captures the doomed ship in all its bricky glory. Nyberg writes that the model took him nearly two years to design and build, and used some 10-15 thousand LEGO pieces. It even has some sweet lighting effects. See more pictures, after the break.

You love popular board game Settlers of Catan. You’re also an enormous Trekkie. If these two statements are true, it’s very likely that the above image of the forthcoming Star Trek Catan set your heart atwitter. The game is expected to come out in March of this year, but so far seems to only be slated for a German release. However, fans hoping for a complete re-imagining of the game may be left wanting.

If you are anything like the average person, your cellphone might as well be attached to you. However, hard as it is to believe, there was a time when that was not the case because cellphones didn’t exist. Still, its uncanny how accurately their future was portrayed in media like Star Trek and, in a bizarre sort of way, Get Smart. Then, as they became available on the market, they grew up in media alongside reality. It started with a $4,000 brick-phone, and now when we’re basically back to Star Trek communicators, except they’re real.

This handy infographic from Product Development Technologies illustrates all that and fills in the spots in between, when phones weren’t hilariously huge or awesomely futuristic. If you have a phone, you owe it to yourself to know about it’s ancestors and keep their memory alive. Also, knowing what year Barbie got a cellphone might win you a few bucks in a trivia competition or something.

If you’ve ever wished you could show Spock a little more love at the office, there is a flash drive out there for you. AudioCubes is now offering the IMM Vulcan USB 2GB Flash Drive for $35.99. The flash drive is shaped like a hand demonstrating a traditional Vulcan salute with the palm facing forward, the middle and ring fingers spaced apart, and the thumb extended outward. Perfect for those who want their data to live long and prosper (and really, isn’t that the point?)

(Geekalerts via Technabob)

Thanks to the remixing skills of Dan Bull, Data’s poem “Ode to Spot” from Star Trek: The Next Generation has been transformed into a tight hip-hop track. Yes, it has been done before, but this is the best version yet.

(via Topless Robot | MP3 download link)

There are perils associated with apparently using Google Image Search to get material for your official news broadcast. When a German television news channel, N24, was reporting a story on Navy SEAL Team Six, the unit which spearheaded the operation which ultimately killed Osama bin Laden, the channel accidentally used a fan-made logo for the Maquis, an anti-Cardassian rebel group which originally appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in place of the SEAL Team Six emblem.

As TrekMovie points out, there are a few differences between the logos: “[The newscaster] didn’t seem to notice (or care) that the skull in question was from a Klingon and included a bolted-on eyepatch. He and N24 also appear undeterred by the emblem’s inclusion of a phaser, 3 Klingon bat’leth swords and the word ‘Maquis.’” He also made on-air comments that acknowledged the Maquis logo and seemed to treat it as the real thing: “And they also have the ‘Team Six,’ that carried out the mission. They don’t have the skull in their emblem for nothing.”

Honest mistake.

(TrekMovie via io9 via Neatorama)

Starting in July, Netflix will begin carrying every series of the venerable sci-fi series Star Trek. Yes, you read that right: Every episode, from every series. The deal between CBS and Netflix is a landmark for the franchise, with Star Trek (The original series), Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise available for streaming starting on July 1st. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine will begin streaming on October 1st.

The two-year deal, with an option for two more years, will be the first time that many of the series are available digitally, and commercial free. For fans of the series, it can’t come quickly enough as Netflix has been bereft of all the original Star Trek films for some time.

But careful observers will note that this isn’t actually every series; Star Trek: the Animated Series is nowhere to be seen. You’ll have to go elsewhere to see that.

(Trekmovie via TekGoblin)

Star Trek: The Animated Series, the cartoon that was created to tide fans over from watching Original Series Star Trek until Star Trek: The Motion Picture could be brought to theaters, is now being offered up for instant streaming from Star Trek.com, completely and utterly free.

Which is good, because this stricken-from-continuity, barely animated, too-poor-to-hire-Chekov show, is probably best enjoyed when you didn’t have to pay for it.

But oh, are there things to enjoy.  Here are some brief selections from a google image search for “star trek the animated series.”

Skyward Sword getting “finishing touches” before release (Destructoid)

Welcome to ChatotRoulette! (Dueling Analogs)

Gene Roddenberry’s original pitch for Star Trek (PDF) (Lee Thomson)

Rock Band can actually teach you how to play actual drums (Destructoid)

The Japanese Spider-Man is exactly as intense as you’d expect (YouTube)

How to make 6 different Rube Goldberg machines (Geeks Are Sexy)

Muppets made out of balloons! (Black Cat Balloon Company on Flickr)

(Pic via Cake Wrecks)