Trekkies across the country are rejoicing at hearing that as of today Amazon has added a new ‘wake word’ to their Echo’s vocabulary: computer. (The other three options to wake up your Echo are ‘Alexa’, ‘Echo’, and ‘Amazon’.) Here’s how to change your wake word and make your Echo respond to the word ‘computer’.

William Shatner lovers rejoice: you can now carry the Shat in your pocket at all times, via the new iPhone app Shatoetry. If you want to hear the sultry velvet vocal stylings of Captain Kirk himself, you can now whip out your phone and make him say whatever you want, however you want.

Google has made every geek heart sing with the unveiling of today’s Google Doodle: an homage to the 46th anniversary of the original Star Trek series. Google has outdone themselves by taking users through a little vignette, quickly re-enacting the well known scene from the “Arena” episode.

It’s true – Google is developing the Google Translation Phone. In fact, even though it is, by all accounts, two years off, the world is abuzz (we can no longer say aTwitter without risking a copyright complaint, can we?) with news of the Google Translator Phone. Is this the Star Trek Universal Translator, or the Babel Fish from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, come true?

In keeping with our strewing the occasional light-hearted Geeky Christmas post in among all the heavy Internet nasties, and having brought you Mr. Komarnitsky and his holiday lights, which you can turn on and off at will with your browser, the Internet Patrol will now boldly go where no Internet Patrol has gone before, and show you a Christmas tree with more geekiness than you can shake a tribble at.