Houseboats seem cool to me, but the constant motion from being on the water would be an issue.

Fun fact: the character of Stan Grossman is mentioned by name in the movie Fargo and then later appeared (played by Bryan Cranston) in the movie Little Miss Sunshine.

Yeah, that was my reasoning, partially at least. They were using essentially real time for the displacement which was just over thirty years. Twenty years passed between Ep 3 and 4 in comparison.

Further fun fact: The McQuarrie Enterprise design can be partially glimpsed in SEARCH FOR SPOCK, at the back of the Spacedock hangar.

But rather than wanting to capitalize on Star Wars’ success, Paramount executives were convinced fans wouldn’t want to see two sci-fi films in the same year.

McQuarrie was also an illustrator at NASA, providing drawings of things like the Apollo mission for distribution to science publications. I think his real world know how for actual spacefaring vehicles made him uniquely equipped for designing science fiction ships... and why no one since has ever really approached…

This was one of the reasons why Lucas wanted the merch rights- he was afraid Fox wouldn’t promote the movie enough, so he made sure that there was a novelization, a comic adaptation, and posters and T-shirts etc.

Yeah, but Doug Chiang’s designs in Phantom Menace are the worst. Design-wise, the prequels got slightly better each time out of the gate, but even at their best were merely okay.

Yeah. Iconic as the X-Wings and Millennium Falcon are, it would be nice to see something new once in a while... that rather sums up the dearth of creative ambition with the new movies.

I picked it up as I wanted a pulp break from the usual new wave SF I was reading at the time. It was a fun read and it said it was going to be a film. I ran around telling all my friends that they had to see this thing.

yep was going to point out that the Discovery is actually a reworking of his design for the new 1701 for the first proposed Star Trek movie before it moved to a tv series Phase II and before Matt Jefferies stepped in to give us the design that morphed into the refit 1701

“Chewie looked less and less like Lucas’ dog, Indiana, with each change in his design.”

Criminal charges should be brought against the execs who kept Clive Barker out of the editing room for Nightbreed, chopped up the footage, and hid it in the WB lot for 20 years without telling Barker. Thankfully, fans were able to petition WB for the footage and put it into the hands of Barker where it belonged so he…

I totally agree with this - it’s what I was thinking whilst reading the article.

Keep doing you. They’ll never get the hypocrisy.

This isn’t concern trolling, and I think you probably know it isn’t. These articles are pointless exercises in self-reassurance and they make the left look catty. Ivanka used the phrase “three shades lighter” colloquially rather than literally, and talked about a musical genre with less than complete erudition. No…

It sold me. Its a fucked up article. Really, any half-baked article that tries to tear down someone’s youth is awfully shitty. We all did dip-shit things in our youth. It’d be a boring book to catalog it.

Yeah, not the point. You want to shit on her for what she is doing right now working for her asshole dad, have at it. But It’s laughable that Katie is giving someone shit for their age 14 teenage years. And from reading her mom’s book, of all things.

Katie, if someone had written this about the Obama daughter’s teenage years, what would you have thought?

Newt Gingrich: “I am Moononite from the inner core of the moon. My race is hundreds of years beyond yours. Some would say that the Earth is our moon. But that would belittle the name of our moon, which is: The Moon.”