Absolutely. I was making this same point just the other day, when somebody was fretting that the new STAR TREK show might be too violent or scary for youngsters. I couldn’t resist pointing out that some of us grew up watching the Salt Vampire and the Doomsday Machine and people being burned alive by the Horta, not to…

As I recall, the first batch of original novels were mostly written by Kevin Anderson or the late Charles L. Grant.

As I understand it, they don’t meet in the prequels. One is about Young Mulder and the other is about Young Scully. Before they met each other.

One of my fonder memories is spending an idle afternoon reading an X-FILES novel at the San Diego Zoo, after a long grueling writer’s workshop. A beautiful sunny day, monkeys, giraffes, Scully, Mulder, and no more manuscripts to critique. . . bliss!

As opposed to at least three different takes on Sherlock Holmes running simultaneously? Or competing versions of Robin Hood or Dracula or whatever?

Is something missing? “The two companies . . . “

Which two companies?

Not going to lie. I got a little misty-eyed.

Or how the movie “Age of Ultron” bore little resemblance to the comic book storyline of the same name, which involved Wolverine and the Invisible Woman going back in time to kill Hank Pym. Don’t remember that part in the movie. :)

Sometimes a cool title is just a cool title.

Let it be noted that the movie was based on a novel by Graham Masterton, who ended up writing several sequels to THE MANITOU.

I wouldn’t get your heart set on that. I suspect it’s just a catchy title.

Love Hela’s Kirby-esque headdress—and the trippy colored hype!

“On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back.”

“The Nevada sun bit into Jim Negrey like a rattlesnake.”—R. S. Belcher,The Six-Gun Tarot

(Full disclosure: I edited that book, but it was that first sentence that got my attention when the ms. was submitted to me.)

You also can’t have sex with normal humans without possibly infecting them, which is a downer if your significant other is still human and doesn’t want to become a brain-eating zombie.

Or, just speculating here, maybe he was talking about instinct vs. calculation? premeditation? Improvisation versus premeditation?

Are you trusting your gut or deliberately applying certain learned skills and techniques?

Some actors are bound to more instinctual while others may take a more deliberate approach. …

Congrats to the nominees!

It’s perhaps worth remembering that there were behind-the-scenes bumps on pretty much every Trek production to date, as far back as the Original Series. The only difference is that, back in 1966, the internet wasn’t breathlessly tracking every bit of news and gossip emerging from the set. I mean, can you imagine…

Despite not getting a tv series, Seven and Roberta have made plenty of appearances in the books and comics.

I’m up for this, too. It’s not like we’ve been drowning in Gill-Man movies over the last sixty years. And there were only two sequels to begin with, and only one that was any good. I’m ready to return to the Black Lagoon.

I still feel cheated that we never got an “Assignment: Earth” series back in the day. Which is probably why I kept bringing Gary and Roberta (and Isis) back in the novels.