My guess is that, aside from kids whose minds were utterly blown (and scarred) by seeing it in the 80s, the core of the fanbase is probably people who appreciate the incredible craft and design of it, a totally immersive world unto itself. It’s like an amazing diorama in movie form.

Well, I’d argue that Star Wars had found a relatively healthy life as a slightly more niche franchise during the later George Lucas years with The Clone Wars. The dedicated fanbase was enjoying it and the mainstream name recognition was still there for whenever another big film hit cinemas. The Force Awakens was easy…

Did we launch any “Save the Expanse” satellites in that direction?

I’d imagine that the success of GoT has led to virtually all other similar genre properties’ rights being bought up in the mean time. I wonder if these guys are planning another adaption, or to develop orginal content.

I think that frankly, in the long run Data was just too useful to the writers as an ‘obvious non-human perpetually exploring humanity’ to be allowed to realize his presumable full potential.

Yeah, plenty of technical A/V shortcomings, but the actual show is indeed fantastic.

She died after finally reaching her home planet.

Yeah. Jeri Ryan played that character brilliantly, but compared to TNG, Voyager-era Borg were just another part of the comfort-food mix. Fine in that context, but the edge was lost.

I suppose that I’m in the minority, but I rather liked Kes. She wasn’t a spectacular character, but I think that the show felt more like an ensemble in those early years, kind of a gentler, more whimsical time. As terrific as Jeri Ryan was, something about the equation changed.

I’m not knowledgeable enough about the respective source material to really speak to it in that way, but Eternals sounds like the sort of thing that will, at least superficially, appear similar to Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor Ragnarok, Doctor Strange’s reality-bending moments, etc. All of that wildly colorful cosmic…

I’d preorder a ticket right now if I knew that there’d be a sequel.

Wow, he really looks like a young Tim Russ in that first photo.

Ever since I watched Jodorowsky’s Dune, I’ve had the feeling that it needs someone with an inclination to ground things a bit and make the story more accessible. I’m not sure if Waititi fits that mold, but it would be cool to see some wild spaceships, in any case.

Boba Fett is a demonstrably competent bounty hunter who Darth Vader takes the time to warn off of being too savage in the pursuit. And he did do his part to help the Empire capture Han, Leia and Chewbacca, and then successfully departed with Han.

The one thing I’d say is that, other than the original Marvel comics run, the bulk of the Expanded Universe didn’t arrive until the 90s, so there had at least been a decade or so for the original trilogy to percolate and crystallize into something that people had been able to reflect on. Yeah, you had anthologies of…

Boba Fett is a perfectly fine character, with a perfectly fine subplot in The Empire Strikes Back. In my mind anyway, he earned his reputation right there. Captain Phasma doesn’t appear to have any narrative utility in the new trilogy other than to be some sort of vague nemesis for Finn. She strikes me as way more…

I’m tempted to go just for the first half hour or so, basically until the big Enterprise spacedock reveal. And maybe a tour of the ship’s interior, because it looks...’cut from rich cloth’ in a way that Star Trek rarely has, elsewhere.

TMP is rather slow and boring, but in an almost 2001-ish, majestic way. It may be thin on story, but it doesn’t feel like a glorified TV episode, which is what at least a couple of the TNG films feel like, to me.

I’m very impressed. Just yesterday I was thinking about the Tomorrowland film with its idea of a lost future full of people flying around via jetpacks. This guy is at least doing his part to get us there.

It looks as though the video is about to turn into an NES game screen in a burst of pixels, revealing Zapata to actually be Mega Man or something.