What, no love for the original opening to "Sliders"? Written by DEVO's Mark Mothersbaugh? ARE WE NOT MEN?

MAY 2027, SKYWALKER RANCH — Just in time for the 50th Anniversary of Star Wars, George Lucas is proud to announce an all new, digital version of his "film" classic. "This latest update removes the last frame of original footage containing actors, models, sound and music," said a hologram of George Lucas. Lucas, who…

Yes, but then we would never have had this.

So ... the Milky Way really is made of nougat?

Yeah, they apparently went off-script early — a real director's nightmare — and started coming up with their own version which they refined throughout the shooting.

Uh, no.

Don't forget the original dystopian deathsport — ROLLERBALL. After the film became a hit in 1975, several of the stuntmen who worked on the movie (and created many of the rules for the sport during filming) actually tried to create a league, toning down the violence, but keeping the motorcycles and skaters:[japenet.net…

Herb Solow and Robert Justman's "Inside Star Trek" is an amazing bookend to the original "Making of Star Trek," and provides a jaw-dropping — and often sad — behind-the-scenes look at both the insanity of making television and Roddenberry's hustling (in both definitions of the word.) It is well worth tracking down.

Sorry — this list is imMEDIATELY disqualified because they chose Heinlein's worst novel, "Number of the Beast," over the infinitely superior "Friday."

No, this is how they built Stonehenge

Much less Icarus II — yeah, I'm looking at YOU, "Sunshine" ... Cripes, doesn't anyone read anymore?

That would be called "a sheet of paper"

Wait ... I thought oranges were already sentient.

Another 'alien' aspect of Roman life was their calendar. In spite of the artifacts remaining today — July (Julius), August (Augustus), January (Janus), Saturday (Saturn) to name just a few — everything else about the Roman's strictly lunar-based calendar would utterly confuse anyone who's grown up with weekdays,…

Uh, didn't you mean to say "Harry Potter and Ursula K. Le Guin's Wizard of Earthsea"?

What? No, this film was made in 1980 — it was called "The Apple"

So ... in other words, scientists are just Plancking

Ahh, yes, utopia ... I remember an interview w/ Peter Coyote — who described living on a free-love commune in the '60s, and was more than willing to admit that it was great setup ... until it came time to sleep with the ugly girls. And then suddenly they would find an excuse to run into town for supplies. He also…

George Lucas. The Avengers must assemble to prevent the 3-D release of Phantom Menace into the population.

fwiw, I've started posting a close look at all the race car designs from Speed Racer over at [speedrally.net]