Category: Science Fiction
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Do you want your very own genuine space suit from “2001: A Space Odyssey?” Sure, we all do. Got at least eighty grand to start bidding on it? Sure, we all don’t. But at least you can look at the pictures and dream. Astronaut Space Suit (6) Piece Ensemble from 2001: A Space Odyssey (MGM,…
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AARRRGH, Art, blather, Crazy, Dumbassery, Gah, history, Hmm…, Science Fiction, Worldwreckers, youtube, ಠ_ಠ
Who destroyed Star Trek? Hmmm… I recently re-watched Star Trek: Enterprise, after perhaps a decade. I’d seen it twice before: when it originally aired, and then once I got all 4 seasons on cheap DVDs. And my memory of the show was: Season 1: Bah. Season 2: Bah. Season 3: Meh. Season 4: Woo!…
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So, there’s this movie coming: It looks like your bog-standard Supernatural Entity Scary Horror Movie, with the twist being that the main characters are Indian immigrant and the Entity is something out of Indian folklore. OK, sure. We’ve all seen this before, with folk monsters from various ethnicities/nationalities/whatever pestering the appropriate people. Here’s my idea,…
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“Our heroes aircraft is falling from the sky! Will they pull out in time to avoid a firey crash and bring the episode, nay, the entire series, to a screeching and unexpected halt, requiring not only clever writing but also difficult actor contract negotiations with the attendant risk of turning off the existing fans?” Bah.…
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It’s in their online catalog, but currently unavailable. I guess they sold out. A pity… there are a few points in the timeline I’d like to go back to to correct. Or at least get a few photos and videos of. Flux Capacitor
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A 1979 promo for TMP. Some interesting stuff here… work on the Enterprise model, Klingon battle cruiser models getting exploded (a scene later re-imagined) and Persis Khambatta losing her hair, and not being entirely thrilled by it.
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The forthcoming “The Creator,” due to hit theaters in September, *looks* awesome. Long have I and many others bitched that Hollywood seems incapable of doing something that’s not a sequel, prequel, reboot, remake or based on an existing IP of some kind. But here’s one that seems to be entirely original, and it *looks* fantastic……
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… but just wait until these damned things get a little smarter, wake up and become self aware. Them and those friggen’ Furbies will be the death of us all.
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As a followup to THIS POST, I had a half-formed idea that I posted in comments OVER HERE. I’ve decided to expand upon my idea a bit. In short, people have recognized that in Star Trek, the federation – and in particular the Humans – are essentially mad scientists. Everybody else out there got…
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To be released on December 5, the full series (21 disks, nearly 79 hours) will cost about $100 to $135. The filmed scenes were scanned at 4K and color corrected and such, then brought down to Blu Ray rez; the CGI scenes were upscaled with AI. I do wonder if there might be thinking that…
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