You fools! You’ve captured their stunt doubles!

Back in 1997, one of the biggest reasons Contact made such an impact on me was its captivating depiction of the eternal struggle between science and religion.

Yeah, the movie couldn’t do justice to describe the revelations described in the book.

I think the movie is good but the book is so friggin good it’s like the film is a picture of a good plate of food but the book is that actual plate of food.

Ellie spends her career finding patterns in chaos.

Here in LA we have the Endeavour. When they towed it to the California Science Center from LAX, a massive number of Angelinos came out to see the crazy path they created for it. They had to cut down trees, take out lightposts, stoplights- but it was amazing, I got some great closeups of it near Randy’s donuts in…

Eh, okay. Again, I’m not going to mount a protest. But if they insist on depicting this era I think they should stick with the established visuals. Trials and Tribble-ations, etc. managed to do it so I don’t see why they couldn’t have done those Cage-era uniforms and just updated them a bit instead of going with…

If you do a bit of searching, you can find various rumors and on-set reports stating that Discovery is actually set in a THIRD timeline, one that has nothing to do with either the Prime or Kelvin ones.

I agree. What’s the point of setting in that time frame (and universe) if you’re just going to ignore everything that’s already been established?

You know, I think I have made my peace with this movie. I’ll take goofy and fun (if badly made) over dour and rainy and grimdark (and badly made) any day of the week.

The Empire is absolutely meant to represent the Nazis and even my 7 year old son has a STORMTROOPER hat!

They even managed to recreate the endearing Cherry-Tree-Lane-is-definitely-on-a-soundstage-vibe (and I do not mean that negatively). I just wish I was more hopeful that we aren’t in for a retread of the original.

Ridiculous mustache?!

That was a thing with those Golden Age SF writers, though. Asimov had the Robots helping to create the Foundation, and in his last novels Heinlein had all of his characters encountering each other in a massive circlejerk of solipsism... even Le Guin, who’s generally thought of as a literary writer, tied in her early…

Anyhow it’s not all bad: Frank gets better, wakes up in 3001 and sees THE FUTURE!!!

Watch the Planes movie - there was a war analogous to ww2 in their world and the Stacy Keach plane fought in it.

What is old is new again huh?

“Some Earthlings have the silly tendency to think that if they don’t understand something, it must be fake.”

Voyagers! I freaking loved that show.

Nowhere Man. In my memory it was great and I was crushed it didn’t get a second season/resolution.