Tonight at 8 pm on OPB: Pioneers of Television: Science Fiction, an hour-long doc examining a couple of old-school sci-fi TV shows and their creators: Lost in Space, Star Trek, and The Twilight Zone. The promising sales pitch from the official site: The unexplored frontiers at the edges of our existence beckon and repel in […]
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Tomorrow: Stormtroopers vs. Klingons Blood Drive.
Two forces that are no strangers to blood—be it the reeking splatters of Jawa innards or the stupid guts of Captain Kirk’s stupid kid—are teaming up to do some good. Nice work, Imperial stormtroopers and Klingons! The First Annual Galaxy Blood Drive runs tomorrow from 9 am-2:30 pm at the Red Cross’ Portland Donor Center […]
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THE BIRD SYMBOLIZES MORTALITY.
Thanks to former Mercury intern (and Data fanatic) Marissa Sullivan. Via Nerd Bait.
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Righteous Star Trek Nerd Outrage: I Demand a Correction to the Correction!
REALLY? THIS? You asshats at FoxNews for Australians are calling this a “correction“? Because, um, hello: Corrections aren’t supposed to MAKE EVEN MORE MISTAKES AND PERPETUATE FURTHER GROSS DISTORTIONS OF IMPORTANT THINGS… Like Star Trek. So, yeah, maybe you GOT TOLD—after wrecking what could have been a VERY EXCITING ARTICLE—that Captain Kirk didn’t command nearly […]
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Haha Worf You Suck :(
Thanks for the Klingon humiliation, Topless Robot.
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Today in (More) Book Trailers: Night of the Living Trekkies.
(Just in case one zombie book trailer wasn’t enough….) I’m as tired of Quick Books’ shtick as anyone—they’re the publishing house that, under their Quirk Classics banner, regularly cranks out stuff like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, and Android Karenina—but even I have to admit that the trailer for […]
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“So Much for Your Peaceful Vision of the Future, Idiot.”
Mike Stoklasa—AKA “Mr. Plinkett,” AKA the guy behind the hilariously scathing breakdowns of the Star Wars prequels—has set his sights on last 2009’s Star Trek. On the downside, Stoklasa is getting increasingly looonnnnng-winded; on the upside, and even so, this is still about 900 times funnier and smarter than most videos on the web, not […]
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Headline of the Day: “Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus vs. Urkel.”
Why yes, I am pretty awesome at photoshop. Not content to just have in production Mega Python vs. Gatoroid starring ’80s pop princesses Debbie Gibson and Tiffany, the Asylum is also pressing forward with Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus, and this time their stunt casting dips into 1990s pop culture with the announcement it will star […]
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Star Wars: The Fragrance that COMES IN A LITTLE CAPE
I have a really hard time believing these are new products, and not something that fell off the back of a truck in Taiwan during the mid-’80s, but Topless Robot says it’s so: I can only assume that “Slave Leia Perfume by Genki Wear” smells like sweaty leather bikini bottoms and Jabba the Hut’s lecherous […]
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The Sweetest of Songs, the Saddest of Hearts.
It’s certainly no “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury” (sweet god above, what is?!), but I believe this gentleman deserves to be heard. (“They call me ‘Q,’” he says by way of introduction, which is an obvious lie.) Oh, there’s more. And more. And more. And more. Thanks to Kiala for the heads up.
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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Leonard McCoy.
(A) Words cannot express how much I love the phrase “Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor.” (B) Even more words cannot express how delighted I am that the phrase is the title for a comic book miniseries written and drawn by John Byrne. (C) The fourth and final issue of Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor came out last […]