I think it's never made clear how far that information is spread. Earth is completely locked down and under Federation control, so mentioning Blake's name there would have been pointless, and the outer colonies wouldn't have believed it regardless. The trumped-up charges thing was, IIRC, designed for the benefit of…

The show definitely had some moments of humour. Most of the 'Tigh Me Up' episode, a lot of Baltar's antics (his somewhat bizarre conversation with Gaeta in the toilets when he's trying to avoid being framed by the Cylons is hilarious), some of Starbuck's lines, Tigh's 'paper shortage' quip in Season 3 and a few other…

PLANESCAPE doesn't exist any more, however. The setting was pretty much retired before TORMENT even came out, and ceased to exist as a setting altogether in the 3rd and 4th Editions of D&D. The D&D 'cosmology' featured in those editions was rather different and shared little with the PLANESCAPE setting, aside from…

The info so far seems to be that it will be set in a super-sized Los Santos which is about the same size as GTA4 Liberty City, and then another area of open countryside, including Mt. Chiliad (or a new version of it).

Nope. He's an excellent actor with a good range (and hopefully he'll play the role differently to his last big HBO role as Caesar). He's a bit older than Mance in the books, but I don't think Mance's age was critical to his role.

Er, Mance is described in detail as being King-beyond-the-Wall in Season 1, and Season 2 revealed he was a former member of the Watch.

Not that I recall. ST:TNG's pilot used ILM, but after that all of the effects work was done in-house until Foundation Imaging and Digital Muse were brought in to kick-start DS9 and VOYAGER's switch to CGI around 1997-98. Foundation Imaging was the company that worked on B5's first three seasons.

DS9 and VOYAGER started doing mass-deployment of CGI at the same time: DS9 in Season 6 (when the Dominion War arc was too big to do with models) and VOYAGER towards the end of Season 3. Both shows had learned from BABYLON 5's example, that CGI was much more cost-effective than model work, and they employed the B5 CGI…

I think the 'binary aliens' episode is '11001001' (or whatever it was). 'The Big Goodbye' was the episode on the holodeck with Dixon Hill. Both are among the strongest episodes of the season, IMO.

'Q Who' is, I believe, the only time that the Enterprise crew ever 'lost' the struggle of a particular episode. They only barely managed to survive it, and it had terrible repurcussions later on.

Indeed. They would need to re-render every CG shot in the series, and considering that some episodes had 60 CGI shots, that's a hell of a lot of work (more than even the work that will be required for DS9 and VOYAGER, which in turn dwarf that for TNG). This is made even more improbable as the warehouse where the film…

They've said it's likely, but depends on the sales of TNG. DS9 and VOYAGER will both require the same amount of work as TNG, but have an added problem due to the fact that both shows use substantial amounts of CGI. Every single CGI shot in both series would need to be totally re-rendered from scratch to stand up on…

"then the wheels fell off about half way through season 6, just about the time the scripts in production when Rodenberry died ran out."

I think Charlies gone slightly bonkers on this one :-) S2 has some awful, awful episodes (like that near-racist Irish one, and the clip episode where Riker is being killed by his beard or something), but nothing as bad as 'Justice', 'Haven', 'Angel One' or 'Code of Honour' in S1. S1 also doesn't have a single episode…

2015. S1 now, S2-3 next year, S4-5 in 2014 and 6-7 apparently in 2015. They may even be able to speed this up a bit as they get faster and better at the remastering process.

DS9 is the best TREK series, by far, but I think part of its effectiveness comes from overturning the cliches of the other series, particularly TNG. There's some brilliant episodes where part of the effect comes from knowing that TOS or TNG would have wimped out or backed away from the solution DS9 offers. Familiarity…

DS9 had the least amount of trouble in this regard. Seasons 1 and 2 still stand up quite well, with only a few clunkers and even a few classics (like 'Duet' and the S2 finale). VOYAGER was pretty bad throughout the whole series. ENTERPRISE definitely got better after S2, but more due to the original producers handing…