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Our pals over at TrekMovie.com have scored the first images of props from J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek movie, which are on display now at the CES show in Las Vegas.

The props include Kirk's communicator (above) and Uhura's earpiece (after the jump), which update the look of the original series props but capture their general shape and spirit, as well as McCoy's medical tricorder (there's some question about what we see at CES).

First Oprah, then Scarlett, now Peter.

That's Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, the latest celebrity—real or otherwise—to try to bask in the reflected glory of our newly elected president, Barack Obama.

Marvel Comics announced today that it will celebrate the upcoming inauguration of Obama with an all-new story teaming up president-elect Obama with the wallcrawler in "Spidey Meets the President" in The Amazing Spider-Man.

This all-new story—written by Zeb Wells, with art by Todd Nauck and Frank D'Armata—takes place in Washington on Inauguration Day and finds one of Spider-Man's oldest foes attempting to thwart the swearing-in ceremony of the 44th president of the United States.

The story is featured as a bonus in Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man number 583, available in comic-book shops nationwide on Jan. 14. A special variant cover by artist Phil Jimenez, featuring the president-elect and Spider-Man, will be available for this issue.

"When we heard that president-elect Obama is a collector of Spider-Man comics, we knew that these two historic figures had to meet in our comics' Marvel Universe," Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada said in a statement. "Historic moments such as this one can be reflected in our comics because the Marvel Universe is set in the real world. A Spider-Man fan moving into the Oval Office is an event that must be commemorated in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man."

The best Godzilla movie I've ever seen was Cloverfield, putting Godzilla and its pretenders to shame. To me it was a near-perfect huge-monster-wreaks-havoc-on-the-city flick that actually felt like you were there and had something to be really, really scared about. And what it was that was so scary was so cleverly hidden from the audience that no two people would have drawn the marauding creature the same way.

But now the mystery is over.

Brannon Braga, the onetime Star Trek executive producer, says that his ABC sci-fi pilot Flash Forward—in which the Earth's inhabitants have a simultaneous glimpse of their futures, then must live with the consequences—is designed to reset itself each season, starting with a new flash and ending when the premonitions come true.

"Yeah, the structure's not dissimilar from 24 [on which Braga is a co-executive producer], and we want to reset the show at the end of each year, where we'll do another flash forward at the end of the first season, and then potentially another flash forward at the end of the second season, each one kind of resetting the core characters' visions of the future and introducing new characters," Braga said in an exclusive interview on Tuesday, Dec. 6, at the Hollywood premiere party for 24's seventh season, which kicks off this weekend.

Braga—who developed Flash Forward with producer/writer/director David Goyer and Goyer's wife and producing partner, Jessika Borsiczky Goyer—adds: "One of the cool things about the show is you have 5 billion potential storylines. And we plan to tell the stories of people all over the world. Obviously they'll be focused on mainly people here in L.A., but we're going to go all over the place."

SCI FI Wire has an exclusive clip from Sanctuary's season finale, "Revelations, Part 2," which airs Friday, Dec. 9, at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

In the clip, invisible woman Clara (Christine Chatelain) has to take off her clothes to obtain a valuable key. In an effort to keep her focused, Will (Robin Dunne) does the same.