To be fair, MARVEL COMICS #1 was indeed published in 1939, albeit by Timely. The company later adopted the name of their flagship title, much as DC lifted their name from DETECTIVE COMICS.

Okay, you’ve got me there . . ..

Yep. As I understand it, Harve Bennett wrote the bookends in the 23rd century while Meyer wrote all the fun stuff back in 20th Century San Francisco.

You know, if we don’t count the Saturday morning cartoon, this will be the sixth STAR TREK tv series—an even number! :)

But the Probe’s alien whale song almost destroyed the Earth!

So would singing whales cancel themselves out?

I love TUC and get sucked into it every time I watch it.

And three Sherlock Holmes novels, the first of which, THE SEVEN-PERCENT SOLUTION, was a big bestseller back in the day. (The sequels have their merits, but the first one is far and away the best, IMHO.)

Amen. It’s the execution that really matters, not which timeline it’s in.

Couldn’t resist digging up the image from I AM LEGEND:

Let it be noted that, along with THE WRATH OF KHAN, Meyer also directed THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, and wrote a good chuck of THE VOYAGE HOME (aka “the one with the whales”). So, that’s three of my favorite TREK movies right there.

Great news indeed.

Trivia: a billboard for some version of “Batman Versus Superman” can be seen in the Will Smith version of I AM LEGEND, produced by Warner Bros.

More evidence that this notion has been percolating for a while, and may well be a sign of an impending apocalypse . . . :)

This is not a new idea. “The Marching Morons” by Cyril Kornbluth (first published in 1951) had the same premise: a world overrun by morons because they reproduced in greater numbers than smarter, more educated people. (THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION tactfully refers to this story as “controversial.”) And…

Interesting. How did they get around the fact that “Two” and “The Invaders” have no dialogue?

Thanks for confirming that I had the right show. For the record, I loved the IKEA bit.

THE CHRONICLE was ahead of its time, where Syfy was concerned. A few years later and it would have fit in perfectly with EUREKA and WAREHOUSE 13 . . . .

Good luck with XENA!

Oh, gods and goddesses, this takes me back. And, yes, I can probably still hum the theme song . ...

I wonder what other eps they’ll be adapting. Maybe some of the Matheson ones?

A sidenote: I always thought THE CHRONICLE was a fun show that deserved to last longer than it did. I still remember one great line from the first episode: “The Antichrist is full of crap!”

And was that the show were the “Swedish Mafia” hung out at IKEA? I think maybe it was ...

Can’t resist pointing out that the Angela Carter book inspired an interesting horror movie back in the eighties: Neil Jordan’s THE COMPANY OF WOLVES.

Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate. Not literally a witch, but pretty damn evil and manipulative.