A slightly belated, but completely heartfelt mazel tov. If I'm understanding correctly, they've commissioned a 1hr pilot. That's really fantastic, CJ, and it's good to know, however this turns out, that there are still some producers willing to go after thoughtful and original science-fiction rather than just…

IDW Comics. There have only been a few issues but they're terrific and prove that the original concept was great; it was the execution that sucked. Anyway, check them out. Highly enjoyable.

Obviously, we could do this all day. There are so many missed opportunities. But, the one I still think about is this one. Star Trek: Excelsior.

Have you seen the graphic novels?

Yeah.....but there's this NPR documentary about sofa recovering in the 16th century that also sounds pretty good that's on at the same time so I dunno....well, maybe I'll check it out ;)

That one was pretty amazing. It was almost a gift to the old fans who had witnessed the toll so many deaths, many of them senseless and/or horrific, had taken on previous Doctors. Eccleston really played this scene brilliantly, too, I think. He was, for me, the broken Doctor, the dark Doctor, who seemed continually…

Obviously 'Reboot.' (Name another kid's SF show that had an episode with a digital robot that sounds like William Shatner singing Rocket Man. I win.)

Sadly, I have to agree. Mostly what's out there now is made for teenagers, or adults looking for soft-core porn disguised as fantasy. Since the cancellation of Space:Above and Beyond, I refuse to watch any new show until at least its 2nd season (3rd season for FOX, who seem to get off on green-lighting fantastic,…

I had to fly United to the US a couple of years ago. I asked a flight attendant for a beer and was handed a can of Coors Lite. "If I had wanted water," I said, handing it back to her, "that's what I would have asked for."

Unless something drastically changes (new director, new writers), the old franchise is dead. The last film was a good attempt to bridge the two worlds, but we can see now that it was just a transitional step; STID sent a very clear message that the brand has changed forever. Welcome to New Coke and the Mustang II. So…

And they achieved all that with the last film. Into Darkness was a huge step backward: derivative, muddled plot, wonky characterizations, needless destruction. What is increasingly clear is that the production team knew nothing more than a couple of the films (2 and 6) and had only a vague notion of the interplay of…

The modular concept isn't new. Israeli startup Modu tried for 4 years. Unfortunately, they've shut down the company due to low interest and sales. Users complained the phone lacked processing power and real flexibility. Also, very hard to compete against IPhone and Samsung in the Asian and European market

He's one of the most extraordinary guys you'll ever read about. Unbelievable no one has made a film about him (which could have starred Sean Connery, when he was younger.) In 1948, when a Hadassah hospital medical convoy came under fire in Jerusalem by hundreds of Arabs, he drove into the middle of a battle (a…

A nearly impossible task. How does one choose between X-Files's “Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space” and Doctor Who's "Blink"? Or DS9's "The Visitor" versus The Outer Limits "The Architects of Fear"?

Stop bitching, people. It's not like it's written by Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman.

'The Super-Panhandler of Metropolis' parts 1 &2 (Action Comics Jan. 1971 #386 and Feb. 1971 #387). In an 'imaginary' story set in the 1990s (they were so optimistic about the future back in the 70's) Superman is powerless, confined to a wheelchair. After Chris Reeves accident, this story popped back into my head. I…

As she said it, she actually gave me one of those 'you do know you're in a Chinese restaurant, right?' looks. Yeah, I walked into that one.

I made the mistake of once asking what was in the Dim Sum. "Meat," the waitress said. "What kind of meat?" I replied.

I think technically it's wir-ses-stir with the emphasis on the first syllable. We always called it wirster or even wooster. Depends on the regional accent, but no one outside of the UK (or Canada) would call it wir-chester.