'Pushing Daisies' was honored with an award from the Casting Society of America, winning an Artios Awards, the Hollywood Reporter says || James Cromwell, who played Zefram Cochrane in 1996's 'Star Trek: First Contact,' broke his collarbone in a fall off his bicycle last weekend, Yahoo! News reports. He's expected to fully recover. || ABC's 'Lost' will return to Wednesday nights starting Jan. 21. A clip show will run at 8 followed by a two-hour premiere. || All of the Star Trek movies could be coming to Blu-Ray as early as next year, Digital Bits says. Paramount had supported HD-DVD, but has conceded defeat to Blu-Ray, and is now moving to the format || SciFi Channel's 'Warehouse 13' has completed its creative staff with the likes of Jack Kenny, David Simkins, Drew Greenberg, Stephen Scaia, and others || 'Pushing Daisies' was honored with an award from the Casting Society of America, winning an Artios Awards, the Hollywood Reporter says || James Cromwell, who played Zefram Cochrane in 1996's 'Star Trek: First Contact,' broke his collarbone in a fall off his bicycle last weekend, Yahoo! News reports. He's expected to fully recover. || ABC's 'Lost' will return to Wednesday nights starting Jan. 21. A clip show will run at 8 followed by a two-hour premiere. || All of the Star Trek movies could be coming to Blu-Ray as early as next year, Digital Bits says. Paramount had supported HD-DVD, but has conceded defeat to Blu-Ray, and is now moving to the format || SciFi Channel's 'Warehouse 13' has completed its creative staff with the likes of Jack Kenny, David Simkins, Drew Greenberg, Stephen Scaia, and others ||

Star Trek Enters Funeral Business

By MICHAEL HINMAN
Sep-15-2007

Licensing lunch boxes and Happy Meal toys are one thing ... but there has to be a limit somewhere, right?

Apparently not for Viacom and CBS Corp., as the company apparently feels that a funeral isn't a funeral unless Spock is there giving the Vulcan salute. The studios have licensed the use of Star Trek to Eternal Image Inc. to be used in urns, caskets, memorials and vaults, according to Crain's Detroit Business.

"This agreement provides us with a tremendous opportunity to enter the entertainment industry category with an extremely popular and well-loved brand," said Clint Mytych, chief executive of Eternal Image, in a statement.

The company plans on having its Star Trek-themed funeral items available not just in the United States, but also in Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Korea and Japan.

The Star Trek items are expected to come to a funeral home near year in a matter of weeks, joining existing products offered by Eternal Image including logos from the Vatican, Major League Baseball, and even the American Kennel Club.

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