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Personal / Science Fiction

New Star Trek trailer released!

Supposedly, they were supposed to run the trailer for Star Trek XI before the new Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, but having gone to see the movie this weekend, I can add myself to the list of people whose screening did not include this geeky treat. However, the trailer has been released online, downloadable in standard definition as well as 720p and 1080p HD. The site seems to insist upon the most recent version of Quicktime (or Quicktime Alternative, which I highly recommend), which gave me some difficulties in downloading the trailer, but once I updated, everything was cool. The...

Personal

Growing up geek

Thinkgeek had a contest on Twitter today: tweet your geekiest childhood memory, win a $25 gift certificate. I wasn’t one of the winners, but it did get me thinking about how most of my childhood was pretty geeky. When I was really little, I was kind of at the geek mercy of my parents–particularly my dad. I was dressed up in a Starfleet uniform for my first and second Halloweens. For my first, my dad wanted to put Vulcan ears on me, but my mom said ‘no way.’ When I was four, my parents took me to a midnight screening...

Politics / Science Fiction / Technology

Interesting links of the day

Some days I don’t have anything substantial to talk about. Ok, most days. But I still find things that are interesting. I usually share them on Twitter (and my latest tweet is always on the left side of the page), but Twitter moves fast. So today, I bring you two links that are merely coincidentally related. The Return of Clinton Futurism? The last time the Democrats controlled the White House and both houses of Congress, Gillian Anderson wore pants. There were two Star Trek series at once, which promoted women and minorities and looked at the dark side of the...

Science Fiction

Trek gets no respect

Yesterday afternoon, it came to my attention that, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Trek, Paramount had gone the trouble of digitally remastering all 79 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, and it would be airing on several local TV stations around the country. My reading comprehension must not be too good, though, because I missed the part where the News.com article mentioned that the episodes would begin airing this weekend. It was only when I was re-reading to make a post about it that I discovered that most stations aired the first of the episodes (which are...