Berman Backstabs Coto

shayward writes, A TGL report here has excerpts of an interview with Rick Berman. He says that some of the more verbal fans believe “that when we took Manny Coto and we promoted him from co – executive producer to executive producer that he just suddenly took over and it became The Manny Coto Show.” He goes on to say, “That’s just nonsense.” He also indicates that he and Braga were just as involved with scripts and stories as they were previous to Season 4.

Backstab may be a bit strong a word, but this article makes it painfully clear this man hasn’t the foggiest clue what’s going within his own series and why fans are turning away from Trek and villifying him. To quote: “It’s going away because it has endured for so long. It’s paradoxical.” Yeah Rick, kind of like your writing.

Lego Star Wars – Revenge of the Brick

chad writes, The Lego Star Wars movie that was shown on the Cartoon Network last Sunday is now available online. View it here (or download directly from here [about 12MB]). It\’s got some funny parts, and I especially like how Obi-Wan and Anakin use the force to reconfigure their starfighters from scattered parts.

Weekly Comics Discussion – Wednesday, May 11, 2005

There are a couple of gems coming out this week,
including Star Wars: Empire Vol. 4 from Dark
Horse, Green Arrow #50 from DC, and
Astonishing X-Men #10, Ultimate
Spider-Man #77, X-Men: The End Book Two:
Heroes and Martyrs #3, and a reprint of
Essential Fantastic Four Vol. 1 from Marvel.
I’ll be taking home the final issue of Green
Lantern: Rebirth (which I’ve been very impressed
by so far), and Fantastic Four #526, the last
fill in before J. Michael Straczynski takes over.

Great Lakes Avengers #1

The comic title of the nanosecond, Great Lakes Avengers spotlights the adventures of Mystery Men-style second banana heroes in the Marvel Universe. The first issue receives its own review here, though the rest of the four-issue mini-series will be reviewed collectively, once all have been released.

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