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I fondly remember my mother kicking me out of the house by 11 AM on Saturday mornings after I had watched about four hours...
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I fondly remember my mother kicking me out of the house by 11 AM on Saturday mornings after I had watched about four hours...
As the opening credits of the first episode ever aired of Star Trek came to a close, they faded to commercials. In these days...
We open on a star field of cold black emptiness and little points of light, countless stars. “Space, the final frontier.” The Enterprise comes...
Fiction thrives on coincidence, and one or two in any plot may strain credibility, but audiences are forgiving and they’ll usually let them slide...
IDW Publishing has released a new comic entitled, simply, Star Trek, based on the new continuity established by the latest Star Trek movie, the...
Last time I examined the first thirty seconds of Star Trek’s premiere, placing this extraordinary example of American television in it’s social, philosophical and...
Travel with me to September 8, 1966. It’s a Thursday night, and there’s not much good on television, mostly reruns. But there’s a new...
Pity poor Dracula. Arguably he is the most famous vampire all all time. His name is virtually synonomous with being an undead bloodsucker, yet...
Throughout his series of books, Curious George is referred to as a monkey. Taken from his home in Africa by the mysterious, unnamed “Man...
Midi-chlorians are microscopic life-forms that reside within the cells of all living things and communicate with the Force… We are symbionts with the midi-chlorians....
When I saw The Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides this weekend, I was shocked. Shocked by the flagrant disregard Disney has shown...
The Warren Commission’s report established that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F Kennedy in November of 1963. Since then, many...
When reading the comic section of our newspaper, most people look for a quick chuckle, a clever idea amusingly related. What they don’t want...
In the classic Doctor Who series of episodes entitled “Meglos” the titular villain traps the Doctor and his companion Romana in a time loop,...
This will seem off topic at first, but bear with me. This column is mostly concerned with reinterpreting media, and turning our assumptions about...
These days cross-overs between characters from different milieu’s and “universes” are relatively common. Most of us are aware of the inside joke being referenced...
Fictional countries are tough to pull off, especially these days, when the entire world is mapped and surveilled from above by government satellites and...
This Valentine’s Day I’d like to do a post about my very first love, Star Trek. The original Star Trek. Not the sequels that...
Euhemerus was an ancient Greek mythographer who upended the idea of myth and religion with his ideas about the Gods. His simple, elegant idea...
My brother Brian is a genius, and most of what follows is his idea, I just did the research. Jor-El One of the more...
Bear with me as I get a little science-y on you. Charles Robert Richet was born in 1850 and was a renowned medical doctor...
There’s this weird idea in some circles that clowns are Clowns, that is, rather than simply being regular (or even odd) people interested in...
Throughout history there have been no greater super-villains than the Nazis. Countless books document the historic battle against their evil, and countless fictional heroes...
Two weeks ago I made the case that real life superheroes actually exist. I claimed that to be a superhero you should at least...