Yeah, that criticism made absolutely no sense. Might as well complain that we don't have accurate precognition yet, or little robo-spiders.

"The Golden Compass" wasn't a very good movie, but the bears made it better than it would have been otherwise.

The SFX compare favorably with the 1970s Spider-Man TV series.

Pffft—16 light hours. It's, what,about a tenth of the way to the Oort Cloud?

I definitely do get a sense of a Pixar "formula," but it's a good formula, a new and improved version of old formulas. It will get old, perhaps soon, but the Pixar formula has provided millions with a lot of enjoyment.

When Vendikar launches its simulated nuclear attack, the victims will be ordered to report to disintegration chambers.

Or written by gibbons.

Our ultimate biological ancestor was a clump of amino acids in a pond in France, according to Q.

Hominid migration and Gibbons: Decline and Fall of the Roamin' Empire.

The Bishops are still with us: [www.godissogood.net]

It wasn't until someone told me a few years ago that I realized that the melody of the alphabet song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."

Bad movie, and Sybok was an ill-conceived villain, but Luckinbill was pretty good in the role.

Okay, he doesn't want people to call his writing "hard SF" and he's getting tired of the "space opera" label. Anything else?

Hey, I like the character of Wash just fine. I just didn't see them as a couple.

I never quite bought Zoe/Wash in "Firefly." Then again, I've met many improbable couples in real life.

Ravna in Children of the Sky is a librarian, so there's one for you.

No, no, no. This.

Friday at 9 pm? Wasn't that the time slot that killed Star Trek in its third season on NBC?

"That's actually how I imagined the "reimagined" series looking when I heard about it back in 2003."

For a second there I was afraid there was a TV show called "Voltron Force and Iron Man." Whew.