If you find the recently released Ultimate Star Trek Collection to be a little out of your price range (or your geek completist range) but you still want some series Trek in your collection, consider Season One of the Original. It suffers from a low budget and stylized acting, but it set the groundwork for most tv SF that followed, and it remains the most inspired season of any Star Trek.
Supernatural Discussion – “Bugs”
Kim Manners, the most prolific director of The
X-Files, directs tonight’s episode. Right now,
this is the only new genre show I’m aware of on
Tuesday nights, but Threshold will be moving
to Tuesdays with its next new episode on November 22.
Surface Discussion – “107”
The seventh episode of the series aired last night.
How was it?
“Chicken Little” not so “Little”
The Ultimate Star Trek Colletion
For those wishing to do my Christmas shopping early can get this 212 Disc Monstrosity. Sure it’s $2,499.00 USD, but hey, this is EVERYTHING Star Trek (minus the Animated Series, but we don’t really miss that, do we?).
Thomas Hayden Church as Flint Marko
The Sony
Official Site for Spider-Man 3 has a
picture up of Thomas Hayden Church as “Flint Marko.”
If you don’t recognize that character’s name, click
the link. If you’ve seen the character in the comics,
you’ll know exactly who it is.
Novel review: Virtual Light
William Gibson kicked off his Bridge Trilogy with this 1993 book, set in the future year of… 2005!
Grave of Copernicus
If you missed this last week:
the grave of Copernicus, the 16-century astronomer who advanced the notion that the earth revolves around the sun, has likely been located.
Narnia Sneak Peek
chad
writes, The latest issue of Newsweek contains an
article
on the upcoming movie, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”. I loved the Narnia
books as a kid, reading the entire series about five
times, and I was pleasantly surprised when the trailer
aired before “Revenge of the Sith”. The best indicator
of how Narnia is going to do, however, was in the
reaction of the people around me at the Star Wars
movie. I saw the trailer twice, and each time I heard
someone say “Wow…” after it ended. I think I
only read two of these books when I was a kid, but I
know many people who absolutely love them.
“Serenity” on DVD Dec. 20, 2005
Anonymous Coward writes, at amazon.com. Some
details : Format: Ac- , Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled,
Widescreen
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Commentary by: Writer/Director Joss Whedon
Deleted scenes and outtakes
Future History: The Story of Earth That Was
What’s in a Firefly
Re-Lighting the Firefly
Joss Whedon Introduction
You can find and preorder it here,
as I’ve just done. Shiny!