I agree that Kirby doesn't get enough credit (though it has gotten better recently), but I've always seen the cameos as a wink to the fans, not an ego thing. Hell, Stan and Jack used to write themselves into their own books back in the day! I doubt Lee takes it that seriously himself.

One of the reasons I missed a fair bit of Voyager (and the latter half of DS9) was that I was too busy keeping up with Babylon 5, for exactly the reasons you outlined. Roddenberry's utopian Federation was laudable, but let's be real, the human race isn't gonna change that much in a few mere centuries. (Though ST:TNG…

Excellent balancing act, Charlie Jane, though I would have to agree that "CotEoF" deserves to be No. 1. (And at least one of the Sturgeon episodes needs to be on there, IMHO.)

Thank you, Sir, this brings back fond memories! (I think this movie is one of the reasons I never went through the typical "girls have cooties" stage so many American boys did—I may not have understood everything I saw, but I liked it just fine.)

I was just surfing around to find out, but the Disney site is just a big ol' slice of cheese, and IMBd is about as helpful as you'd expect. I'd guess he'll at least get an "adapted from the novel by" credit. And BTW, the review in the Guardian doesn't give me much hope.

Advantages of being a second-generation SF nerd: my Mom took me to see Barbarella when I was eight. Because it was science fiction. Needless to say, whenever someone mentions Jane Fonda and the Sixties, I'm like, "Wait, what, Vietnam, no, zero-gravity boobies!!"

Good to know my Magic 8-Ball still works...

I confess I have no earthly idea, so I'm just gonna guess Die Hard...

There was a Final Destination 2, 3 and 4???

*sigh*

I wondered the same thing, but at least it's fun to say: "Beetle Belly Button Biome, Beetle Belly Button Biome..."

And that Uru stuff can spark something fierce!

ComicsAlliance has a cool article on the omnibus:

I had damn near the whole run when it was first published, Simonson's Thor was second only to Moore's Swamp Thing in getting me to the comics shop every month! Any run that includes the definitive Surtur, the origin of Beta Ray Bill, the Midgard Serpent disguised as Fin Fang Foom, and Thor, Frog of Thunder is the very …

Hate to keep harping on this (wait, no I don't), but Pirates 4 should read, "Tim Powers Finally Gets A Big-Ass Check! Yay, I Guess..."

And, if you've ever seen the movie, you can't help getting the feeling that Gene Roddenberry watched it a lot. So Star Trek has a most excellent pedigree!

And don't forget Clarke's First Law, it probably has some bearing on the discussion, too. :)

That's a bit simplistic, isn't it? Your definition of science fiction smacks of Gernsbeckian "scientifiction"—I doubt anyone these days reads SF purely for its predictive powers. And "fantasy=religion" has so many holes in it I won't even bother to comment. Where would you put science fiction about religion in your…

I agree. You could argue that science fiction as a whole is a subset of fantasy, but why bother pigeonholing things when you could just enjoy a good story?

Well, pooh, according to the producers I'm wrong about the baby! Oh, well, just as long as Season 4 doesn't start like this: