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Dear Sara –
Aren’t DOCTOR WHO’s Cybermen and STAR TREK’s Borg sort of the same thing?
– Be well,
Judy N.
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Dear Sara –
Aren’t DOCTOR WHO’s Cybermen and STAR TREK’s Borg sort of the same thing?
– Be well,
Judy N.
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Send to KindleDirector: J.J. Abrams
Writers: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Gene Roddenberry (original television series “Star Trek”)
Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Bruce Greenwood, Peter Weller, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Alice Eve, Leonard Nimoy
Science Fiction
I won’t lie–I am a first-generation trekkie. Like most of my early introduction to science fiction, Star Trek was something I learned about from my Dad.
I eagerly watched all the new incarnations of Trek. Eventually, Jean-Luc Picard became my captain, but you never forget your first, and I’ve always had a soft spot for James Tiberius Kirk.
Because of? Despite this? I enjoyed J.J. Abrams’ Trek reboot in 2009.
But Into Darkness? That’s a hard call. Don’t get me wrong–it’s entertaining, it’s fun. High action, great effects, chase scenes, things going boom. But it’s not really my Trek.
Thinking about it later, what I came up with: a group of guys in a room saying: “Which scenes from classic Trek can we twist up in some way that would be really unexpected? Where do we want to end? Okay, now let’s build a movie around those scenes with a build toward that ending.”
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John Cho is sitting poolside at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where NBC is showcasing its new series and throwing a party for the press. Cho is here because he’s part of the cast of NBC’s half-hour comedy GO ON, which launched in fall of 2012. The series, created by Scott Silveri, stars Matthew Perry as radio sportscaster Ryan King, who joins a quirky therapy group after the death of his wife.
Cho plays Ryan’s radio station boss and friend Steven. Does Cho’s status as a series regular on GO ON mean that something bad may happen to Mr. Sulu in the upcoming film STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, freeing the actor up to do television?
“No, no,” Cho says reassuringly. It turns out that the shooting schedules don’t conflict. “We finished the second [STAR TREK movie]. I think it just might be magnificent.”
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Send to KindleOde to the Tribble
by Theresa Bane
Blogs: The final on-line frontier. This is a parody poem in familiar pentameter mocking the Star Trek season two episode entitled “The Trouble with Tribbles.” My mission: to stretch rhyming couplets, to link sci-fi genere ideas into main stream ideas, to boldly blog on tribbles as no one else has done before!
For what you are about read and endure, I deeply thank you all for your patience and understanding.
The trouble with tribbles
is tricky you see,
’cause their cute, warm, and fuzzy
and such fun to squeeze!
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Send to KindleDear Sara,
Do you know what Spock’s full name is?
Phil Einhorn
Yes Phil, it is S’chn-T’ Gaii Spock, son of S’chn-T’ Gaii Sarek (of Skon and Solkar) of Vulcan. This first appeared in the Star Trek book ISHMAEL by Barbara Hambley. Presumbably humans can’t pronounce it. The book was a crossover between Trek and Here Come the Brides. In the book Spock has amnesia and is posing as a nephew of Aaron Stemple. Stemple was played by Mark Leonard on Here Come the Brides and Mark Leonard played Sarek, Spock’s father, on Star Trek!
It’s In The Bag,
Sara Bellum, Editor-at-Large Buzzy Mag
Send to KindleSpock, Leonard Nimoy and the Vulcan Salute
By June Williams
A friend contacted me recently about a posting found on a popular Star Trek Yahoo group. Someone had posted that Leonard Nimoy developed Vulcan culture based on Leonard’s experience of Jewish culture. Now I respect Mr. Nimoy but he has never claimed to have constructed or developed Vulcan culture. He was asked to come up with a physical gesture of great dignity to accompany the Vulcan greeting of Live Long and Prosper. What happened then was he added to Star Trek and geekdom everywhere the bifurcated Vulcan salute. I remember him talking about it at more than one Sci-Fi convention and he also wrote about it in his autobiography I Am Spock:
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