Le Creuset x Star Trek Collection: Prices, availability, release date

Vulcan oven mitts, spaceship baking dishes, and an out-of-this-world communicator grater--you'll need warp speed to Klingon to this limited edition kitchen kit, ideal for perfecting the broth of Khan. Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the penne outweigh the needs of the stew, or the bun. While this would have been a gloriously fan-faithful reason for Le Creuset, the French-Belgian maker of colorful cookware for more than a century, to materialize its new limited-edition Star Trek collection, the range is being launched in celebration of 60 years of the cult sci-fi show . No matter, because when you have such stellar items as Vulcan oven mitts, shuttlecraft baking dishes, and--perhaps best of all--a cheese grater in the shape of the classic Trek communicator (which has somewhat wonderfully been nicknamed the "Communi-grator" by Le Creuset's design team), there's only cause for celebration in the cosmos. Going on sale today, to coincide with the space series' 60th anniversary, the limited-edition collection has actually been in development for years after Le Creuset approached Paramount to collaborate on the kitchen kit in time for the landmark birthday.