Star Wars : Knight Errant Deluge #5 – The Dehydrated Hutt January 22, 2012
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We’ve finally gotten around to reading the final issue of the latest Dark Horse Knight Errant title, Deluge #5 and it’s a real treat.
Kerra returns to save Daiman’s homeworld from being flooded by Zodoh the Hutt…yeaah it’s strange Kerra saving Daiman–but it’s really all about the ppl right?
In any event, a decent story, though the ending of how one ship was able to crash into Zodoh’s capital ship and destroy it…is a little unbelievable.
The final ending of Zodoh though is a bit dark..with Daiman using Zodoh’s own tech against him to end the hutt’s life…somehow fitting.
Well that’s it for Knight Errant until June when the next series – titled Escape – takes off and we can hardly wait.
What’s Next for Star Wars The Old Republic? STUFF that should have been there from day 1 January 22, 2012
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Star Wars The Old Republic has been out for a month now and the fine folks at Bioware are REALLY scared that they are going to lose tens of thousand of players. The one month mark is when players need to decide to continue to subscribe or not and it’s a critical make or break point for this game.
So what is Bioware doing? They’ve got a new flashpoint – which by the way is unplayable – and they’re promising changes to the game.
For one, we will FINALLY get the ability to resize and move menus around easily. SRSLY? That’s not a feature that’s a bug that should not have made it this long.
As well, they’re promising Guild Banks – again, that should have been there day one.
So what is there to look forward too?
NOT MUCH.
That said there is so many classes and missions in the game to begin with..and i doubt that anyone has been able to hit level 50 for all classes yet….
The Mystery of the Missing NASA Moon Rocks January 22, 2012
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The only moon rocks that ever were returned to Earth came from NASA. And it has been NASA’s mission over the last 40 years to protect those rocks..
Much like NASA’s failure to protect manned space flight launch capability, NASA has failed in its responsibility to keep track of all of its’ moon rocks as well.
“Although such losses at any time are regrettable, and NASA agrees with the I.G. report that continuing to improve certain procedures could reduce the rate at which they occur, the benefits to science of making these samples available for study have vastly outweighed the tiny risk of loss,” a NASA spokesman in Houston, William P. Jeffs, said in a statement.
The whole story is up over on the New York Timesand it’s a fascinating read
Star Trek Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within – 1 word Review – meh.. January 17, 2012
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Star Trek: Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within
We’ve read all of the Typhon Pact books so far – and the last one Star Trek: Typhon Pact #4: Paths of Disharmony
The Struggle Within is not as broad as the other books, it’s a relatively short book and is confined to two plots that don’t really overlap at all. We get some interesting insight in the Kinshaya and Lt. Choudary (Worf’s woman) …the book serves as a reminder that even inside of the Typhon Pact there are still just regular people that want to be free.
It’s a relatively slow moving book, with a plot that is interesting but not riveting. While we’re waiting for the next big novel, it’s an ok stop gap, but it’s a relatively bland book.
Star Trek 3D coming May 17, 2013 January 15, 2012
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It’s Official! The first Star Trek movie in 3D! No word yet in plot but lets hope we see some Klingons!!
JJ Abrams Begins Production On Next “Star Trek” Movie
Paramount Pictures announced that principal photography has commenced in Los Angeles, CA on the sequel to STAR TREK from director J.J. Abrams. The film will be released on May 17, 2013 in 3D. The 2009 re-launch of the “Star Trek” franchise by Abrams was met with critical acclaim and a worldwide gross of over $385 million at the box office.
Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions present a Bad Robot Production of a J.J. Abrams Film. Returning to their posts on the Enterprise are John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, and Anton Yelchin. They are joined by new cast members Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve and Peter Weller.
Based upon “Star Trek” created by Gene Roddenberry, the film is produced by J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The script was written by Alex Kurtzman & Robert Orci & Damon Lindelof.
Jeffrey Chernov, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Paul Schwake are the executive producers. The director of photography is Dan Mindel, ASC, BSC. The production designer is Scott Chambliss. The film is edited by Maryann Brandon, A.C.E. and Mary Jo Markey, A.C.E. The costume designer is Michael Kaplan. The music is by Michael Giacchino.
Terra Nova: What Lies in the Badlands? It’s the BERMUDA TRIANGLE PEOPLE!! December 27, 2011
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Terra Nova’s first (and likely last) season is now done. The two hours season/series finale was a fun tour-de-force with all the great element that make this show work.
dinosaurs, heroism, a little sexual tension..the dad that won’t leave his kids..
But let’s cut to the chase…
What is in the Badlands? They found the remains of an 18th century ship?…and the Phoenix people all run to it when they thought they were cut off from the future?
It has to be the BERMUDA TRIANGLE or some other kind of second gate/portal to the future.
Yeaah it’s that obvious.
Star Wars Agent of the Empire: Dark Horse? Srsly? You’re doing this instead of Legacy?? December 18, 2011
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Ever since John Ostrander revealed he would be working on a new series – after the greatest Dark Horse Star Wars comic of all time — Legacy — we’ve been excited about his new project.
After reading it – we’re interested, but a bit underwhelmed.
Agent of the Empire is essentially a James Bond kind of character working for the Empire.
Ok that’s alright, but he’s a stick figure of a character (so far) without much personality.
That artwork is passable and not up to Legacy standards yet either.
And from a canon perspective – when did we find out that Han Solo went to the Imperial Academy? somehow i missed that before…a neat twist though and seeing a younger Han Solo makes this book almost worthwhile.
So long story short, empire’s agent is hunting down bad apples in the Empire…..
Sure we’ll keep reading this – it’s only a five issue series after all – but the premise isn’t nearly as strong as the previous generation of Star Wars titles and so far, neither is the plot, artwork or characters.
Star Trek Enterprise: The Romulan War: To Brave the Storm December 18, 2011
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That story continued in The Romulan War – which similarly was a great read..so yeah we had high expectation for To Brave The Storm
This is a real conclusion to the Romulan War saga…and a more fitting end to Star Trek Enterprise than the crap that showed up on TV.
We get some real insight into the Romulan Star Empire of the day and Vulcans too…
But perhaps most importantly, we get the final resolution of the whole Trip / T’Pol situation. That resolution doesn’t come until the last page of this book, in a brilliantly crafted literary maneuver of looking back 25 years after the founding of the Federation (and the Romulan War itself).
No, I don’t know how or if any other writer could possibly now extend Enterprise – this is likely it and it’s a fitting end.
Star Wars Battle on the Cello? You Gotta See This! December 13, 2011
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We’re always looking for neat Star Wars vids here on ShowMeSciFi – we recently came across really cool music one. Where the musicians play Star Wars music on their cellos, while fighting lightsabers and an accordian playing Darth Vader (Mos Eisly Cantina theme no less).
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan – REVIEW – what a sad, sad story December 2, 2011
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But what happens after that?
That’s where the new Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan
The first half of this book is pure AWESOME. We see the real Revan, the human, the husband and the man.
Then by way of his friendship with the Mandalorian Candorous, we begin to see the Revan we all know from the game. Match that up with the parallel plot of Darth Scourge on the other side ..and wow this was a book that we just could not put down. Scourge was headed the other way from the dark to the light …
until…
well (spoiler alert)…………….
Meetra (the Exile) returns to save Revan and then WTF happens? what a sad, depressing ending. This is much worse than Han Solo trapped in Carbonite. Revan was close to ending the Emperor and then instead he suffers in stasis, never knowing his son.
Then again, I suppose since this is all lead-up for the new Old Republic game what this book does is it set up the return of Revan. Since he’s not dead…it would make sense that for the Jedi one mission would be to retrieve Revan from stasis to help defeat the Sith…
Anyways…another awesome old republic book..and hey the game is out soon too…and we can hardly wait.
Terra Nova – It’s all about stealing from the past to feed the future November 28, 2011
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Ok so now we know what Terra Nova is all about.
Col. Taylor had to kill his own commanding officer in order to preserve the ‘Hope’ of Terra Nova, as a new birthplace for mankind, when the reality is that it was just supposed to be a resource for the future to pillage.
We also finally understand that the Taylor’s son is the one behind the drawings on the cliff and the only one that really knows how to create a two way bridge to the future.
Sure this show progresses at a sometimes painfully slow pace, but it’s still entertaining and slowly but surely the plot is thickening. What’s not clear though is whether or not FOX has the cojones to keep this show on the air..remember this is the network that cancelled Firefly after all.
Terra Nova – So far, so good. November 4, 2011
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Long story short, we like Terra Nova.
The characters are real, the acting is great and the show holds our attention for the hour that it’s on every week.
We\ve got some decent insight into the workings of the colony in the 4 episodes we’ve seen so far..and lots of good stories about the ppl that live there.
We know about the sixers, but we don’t know what their deal is. We know that they can communicate with the future but we still have no idea what their beef is with Taylor.
As for the future..except for the first episode we’ve seen nothing. Let’s hope we see some future flashes soooner rather than later.
and PLEASE FOX DON’T SCREW THIS UP!!
Fringe – Peter is Back! but so are the shapeshifters November 4, 2011
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sorry, but we have to admit that we had *almost* given up on Fringe. This season so far has mostly sucked with no real direction…
that is until the last couple of episodes when Peter ’emerged’ from the dead somehow…No the story doesn’t quite make sense, yet…Walter has his own set of memories about peter drowning the lake..it’s almost as if this was yet another new Earth…but it’s not.
How will all the world’s memories be restored? Was the time blip/look with the reports that Olivia encountered a sign of things to come?
NO this season doesn’t have the same entertainment value of ANY of the preceding seasons, but let’s hope FOX doesn’t kill the show entirely before they tell us WTF is going on.
The End of Voltron – Red Lion dies October 24, 2011
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No we still don’t have the live action Voltron. But that isn’t stopping fans from making their own shorts. Most really suck, but not this one.
This is as good as anything we’d likely see in the theatre – or maybe even better, since in Hollywood we always get a happy ending.
Fringe – season 4 week 2 – still no peter but love the dual universe olivia tag team September 30, 2011
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another week and another messed up episode of Fringe that leaves more questions than answers.
Peter is still missing and walter is still hearing voices – ok that’s…interesting..but come on…how long will this get stretched out for?
Aside from Peter…the whole cross-universe team up of the two olivias and two Broyles was cool..(but wait wasn’t the alternate Broyles killed by Walternate?).
Oh wait, that’s right..this season makes no frakking sense and has limited to no proper continuity with the three seasons that came before it.
We’re giving this season another week or two and then we’re giving up on this show.
Happy 45th Birthday Star Trek! September 8, 2011
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It was 45 years ago today that the greatest franchise is Science Fiction TV was born – with the airing of the first episode.
YES it sucks that there is no Trek on TV today. And Yes we think the new movies suck too…but with 45 years of TV and movies …we’ve got lots of re-runs to enjoy.
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigation : Watching the Clock review August 24, 2011
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Time travel is a constant theme in the Star Trek canon – this book is the first we’ve seen that specifically deal with the Federation’s temporal agency.
Overall the book is a decent read, though the plot with all of its time jumping, time lines and such is extremely confusing to follow along.
The entire subplot in the axis of time is a disaster and we mostly skipped those section as they were ridiculously convoluted and hard to follow.
The story does interweave nicely with timeline stuff from TNG, Voyager, DS9 and Enterprise episodes. Especially and front and center are the character of Dulmur and Lucsly (spoofs on Muldur and Scully from the Xfiles..remember that show?). Both those characters are pretty well drawn out.
We do get some real insight into the Temporal Cold War that dominated many of Star Trek Enterprise’s stories…and we finally learn the identity of the Sponsor (remember the Suliban).
A decent read, not great, but worth a bit of your….time.
Doctor Who is coming back but will the Doctor avoid getting shot by the Astronaut? July 24, 2011
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Doctor Who: Season Six, Part 1
The good ppl at the BBC are already teasing us with the second half of the Season 6 and as has been the case in the last few seasons, the end will (hopefully) tie right back to the first episode…you know..
THE ONE WHERE THE DOCTOR GET SHOT BY AN ASTRONAUT AND DIES.
yeaah that one..
Before he gets around that…looks like he’s got a few more monsters to deal with first.
Star Trek PADD now a real iPad app July 22, 2011
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Finally the Star Trek PADD (Personal Access Data Device) is a real thing..aka the iPad.
And finally there is a Star Trek app that looks like a PADD.
Yeaaah we know it’s basically the same stuff you can get for free on Star Trek.com or Memory Alpha today FOR FREE. The iPad PADD app is $4.99 – BUT it’s got TNG’s LCARS interface and it’s just sooooooooooooo slick.
Yes it’s missing some stuff..like a notation on Data’s cat spot..and some other minutia..but for the most part for us as fans..we’ve love every minute of using this app.
IT’S A PADD!!
Rise of The Planet of the Apes – so it wasn’t a nuclear war that killed off humans? July 19, 2011
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We always kinda/sorta thought that humans had caused the destruction that led to humanity’s decline in the original Planet of the Apes. After all, most of the planet is buried and even the Statue of Liberty was partially destroyed.
Now along comes the new prequel – Rise of the Planet of the Apes and sure we have Caesar the first ape..but..
he’s the one that helps to destroy humanity? does Caesar’s apes nuke us? or…?
I guess we’ll mostly have to wait until August 5th when this movie is out…and YES this is one prequel that we’re excited about.
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