I think they're doing two seasons a year, which means S7 of TNG will come out in June 2015 or thereabouts. I think the plan is that, assuming the blu-rays continue to sell well, they will roll straight into DS9 at that point. ENTERPRISE will also be released on blu ray at some point in the near (ish) future, as that…

As mentioned above, they can't use any material at all from THE SILMARILLION as they don't have the rights and they know the Tolkien Estate will sue them if they so much as mention something they shouldn't. They can only use material that appears within the pages of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.

It's not so much that THE SILMARILLION is 'his', more that the book came out in 1977, long after Tolkien sold the film rights to THE HOBBIT and LotR (in 1968) and long after Tolkien died (in 1973), and Christopher Tolkien has never sold the rights and has said he never will, and has required his own heir to make the…

No, they are not. They cannot use anything at all from THE SILMARILLION (or UNFINISHED TALES for that matter), on pain of the Tolkien Estate suing them into the ground.

THAC0 as a rule is something that just happens automatically in BG. You never have to worry about it (save that on your character sheet, you want this score to be as low as possible, even into the minus numbers if possible).

More notably, Old Nan is dead in the TV series (the actress sadly passed away between Seasons 1 and 2, and apparently so did the character) and not in the books, as far as we know.

The septons/monks at the Quiet Isle found and rescued him, tended to his wounds and gave him a job and a home. This is pretty much spelled out in A FEAST FOR CROWS when a really big guy who keeps his face hidden from Brienne is seen tending to Sandor's horse (which is famously untouchable by anyone bar Sandor himself)…

The UK price for Heart of the Swarm by itself is £32.99. Which is kind of interesting, as Blizzard promised it would be 'expansion-pack priced'. Yet the price point for brand new PC releases in the UK is £29.99. So we have an expansion pack which is more expensive than a full game. Expansion packs are typically £19.99…

Casey Hudson is overseeing ME4, but it looks like more of a hands-off role than previously. His main team is developing an all-new IP at BioWare:

FRONTIER: ELITE II did this in 1993, so I'm at a loss why other games haven't been able to feature it. I presume ELITE IV (aka ELITE: DANGEROUS), also on Kickstarter, will feature the same capability.

I believe this is an integral part of ELITE 4 (or at least it was in 2 and 3, so I'd be surprised if 4 doesn't continue to feature it).

The excellent DEEP SPACE NINE COMPANION (the best non-fiction TREK book ever written) goes into these lighting choices in some depth. One of the issues was that the producers decided they wanted to see ceilings directly above the actors' heads when necessary, which meant the entire set had to be lit from sources that…

If you're going 'by the get go' than Westeros wins, because at the start of Book 1 it was one massive nation united under a single ruler. Westeros by itself is vastly bigger than the entirety of (mapped) Middle-earth and is hugely more populous. The Reach by itself has a larger population than Gondor and Rohan…

It's worth noting that GRRM was referring to Book Jaime. TV Show Jaime is a fairly pale imitation of the book version. Book Jaime would have killed Ned fairly quickly (who was not a very good swordsman, and won the only fight of note he is famous for because it was him and a friend against one guy). Aragorn's…

Middle-earth is tiny compared to Westeros (the entire map in LotR is about the size of the North of Westeros by itself) and is almost desolate. Gondor's army is about 20,000 strong at the absolute best, Rohan's about half that, everyone else is negligible. The Reach in Westeros can raise 100,000 troops by itself.…

It's mentioned here: http://www.vulture.com/2012/11/star-wars-episode-vii-may-have-found-its-writer.html

I was new to the series with Fallout 3 and enjoyed it greatly at the time of release. I went back and played FO1 and couldn't get into it. Time has not been kind to it. Then I played New Vegas and found it to be possibly the best RPG released in the last ten years (little apart from KotOR comes close, though I haven't…