With Christmas just around the corner, Golfsmith has a new product that might interest fans of Star Trek. A Star Trek Enterprise putter.

The putter’s unique design has an MOI of 7200 g/cm2, a high center of gravity, and a very soft touch.

Available for purchase are a limited edition (only 1701 will be made), a standard edition, or just the putter head. You can also purchase the head cover, or the special grip.

It’s official. John Scalzi is currently working on Zoe’s Tale, the fourth book that will be set in the “Old Man’s War” universe. Zoe is the adopted daughter of John Perry and Jane Sagan, the protagonists in the previous three books “Old Man’s War”, “The Ghost Brigades”, and “The Last Colony”.

I’m pleasantly surprised that he has gotten back to this universe so soon. In the acknowledgments at the end of “The Last Colony” (which was published this year) he states:

With this book we’ve reached the end of our journeys with John Perry and Jane Sagan. I like to think they go on. But they go on without us. It’s possible I’ll return one day to this universe, to explore other corners of it, and to see how it has changed through the events of this book. For the moment, however, I’m stepping back, to explore other places and people. It hope you don’t mind.

Because of that quote I expected it to be several more years before anymore came out.

Marvel has released the first trailer for “Iron Man”. The movie stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man and is slated for a May 2008 release.Gwyneth Paltrow fans: she’s in the trailer for almost 2 seconds!

Monday (Sept 10):

• Ghost In The Shell - 1996 film based on the manga, directed by Mamoru Oshii.

Tuesday (Sept 11):

• Eureka - “God is in the details.” Eureka’s residents believe that they are victims of a biblical plague.

Friday (Sept 14):

• Doctor Who - “Blink” Lost in time and trapped in a house’s walls, The Doctor tries to stop a murder.
• Flash Gordon - “Ascension” Dactyls kidnap a teenager and Flash must travel to Mongol to save him.

Saturday (Sept 15):

• Torchwood - “Day One” The team must track down an alien that is addicted to sex.
• Highlander: The Source - A Sci-Fi original movie starring Adrian Paul and based on the Highlander films and T.V. series.

I really don’t know how I feel about this. Apparently Warner Bros. has purchased the rights to Robotech. Tobey Maguire’s production company has signed on. Craig Zahler is writing the script.

So, on one hand, we have the exciting news that somebody might be producing a live action Robotech film.

Then, on the other hand, it’s being produced by Spider-Man and this would be the screenwriter’s second film.

Actually, the most dispiriting thing about this whole situation is this quote by Maguire:

“We are very excited to bring ‘Robotech’ to the big screen,” Maguire said. “There is a rich mythology that will be a great foundation for a sophisticated, smart and entertaining film.”

Maybe it’s just the pessimist in me. But I can’t imagine that the codewords “mythology” and “foundation” imply anything other than plans to completely screw up everything.

Big news this week is the series premiere of Torchwood on BBC America. Next week the episodes will start airing on HD Net as well.

Tuesday (Sept 4):

• Eureka - “Sight Unseen” An abandoned research project turns Carter invisible.

Thursday (Sept 6):

• Who Wants To Be A Superhero - Two hour season finale.

Friday (Sept 7):

• Doctor Who - “The Family of Blood - PT 2″ Martha must help the Dr. restore his memory before The Family captures him and rewrites history.
• Flash Gordon - “Assassin” Ming sends an assassin to Earth with orders to drain Zarkov’s brain.

Saturday (Sept 8):

• Torchwood - “Everything Changes” Series Premier! During the course of an investigation police constable Gwen Cooper comes across a mysterious organization, introduced in Doctor Who, called Torchwood. Torchwood fights aliens and steals their technology. The show tends to be very sexual, so it’s kind of like an adult version of MIB/X-Files/Doctor Who.