25 years ago, Star Trek decided to go where the franchise had not gone before with Deep Space Nine. Variety has a piece looking back at its creation and evolution… and has some pictures of the cast and crew at this part of this linear existence. Some of you have already clicked on the link above. You know who you are.
At long last, I can reveal myself to the Jedi. By which I mean, we get to go see The Last Jedi. So it seemed like a good time to share the work of some intrepid artists who decided to bring Ralph McQuarrie‘s marvelous concept art for the original Star Wars to life. The Star Wars: Concept Trailer from The DAVE School on Vimeo. I actually have a collection of Ralph McQuarrie’s concept art buried…
I started this site a little over two years ago — in part to just get in the habit of regularly writing and putting said writing into the world. One of the blogs I habitually read, Mark Evanier’s “News from ME,” reached its 25,000th blog post earlier this month. He decided to mark the occasion with an introspective post about why he writes the blog. At my current rate of posting, I won’t get to 25,000 posts for another eight…
Look, I might as well end out a whole week of video posts with one more celebrating the season. So, here ya go: Enjoy, be merry, and maybe ask someone if you’d had too much egg nog before you don some antlers. Just in case.
In case you just weren’t into the Star Trek holiday videos from yesterday, perhaps you’d enjoy the marriage of one of my favorite holiday tunes (and not just because it can be repurposed by Lovecraft fans) and my favorite pop culturally-impacting puppets (and not just because they’re part of one of my favorite TV series). Okay, it’s not as good as their take on the song everyone knows to headbang to, but it’s still fun. Plus,…
No sooner did I decide to do a post about Picard making it so for the holidays, I came across this little video about everyone’s favorite re-purposed Cardassian space station. It truly reminds one of all that is good and bad in DS9.
Every family has their own holiday traditions. Ours includes Revels. Many friends watch their favorite Christmas movie. Now, in the Internet age, many Star Trek fans have this: Enjoy… or engage… or otherwise, y’know, make it so.
Turner Classic Movies (TCM), always releases their end of year remembrance a couple weeks early. Then they update it in case someone passes near the end of the year. I don’t care. I watch both versions. Even if you don’t recognize everyone, there’s always plenty to make you wistful… and remind you that a certain film or three is worth re-watching. Verklempt, right? And of course, they nailed the landing.
100 years ago today, in a small town in England, Arthur Clarke was born. Perhaps he’ll always be best known by the public at large for 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is certainly how I was first introduced to his work. Later, when I had a chance to delve deeper into my Dad’s collection of 50s paperbacks, I came across Childhood’s End and later still, “The Star” — a very short story that nevertheless haunts…
Growing up near Washington, DC during the Cold War left an impression on me. It could be that my dad, a physicist, had explained how the U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals were large enough to reduce the world to dust and have nukes left over to shake up the dust. Okay, that’s a bit of hyperbolae. My dad would probably qualify my sentence by pointing out that the nukes wouldn’t obliterate the entire surface of the earth……