******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** The Promise After a lot of speculation and advocation by fans like myself, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” (SNW) debuted in May of 2022 with one of the strongest pilot episodes of the nearly 60-year old Star Trek franchise. The SNW pilot, plainly-titled “Strange New Worlds,” was a tongue-in-cheek redux of director Robert…
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“It Rhymes with Takei” (2025) is George Takei’s graphic memoir of adversity, love and making a difference…
******SOME SPOILERS****** Unlike most columns on this site, this one is about a book, not a movie or TV/streaming series. The book is “It Rhymes with Takei”; a new graphic memoir from famed Star Trek actor, political activist, author and playwright George Takei, who once again collaborates with coauthors Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott and illustrator…
“The Fantastic Four,” “JAWS” and “Project Hail Mary” highlighted my San Diego Comic Con 2025 experience…
I’ve Looked at Comic Con from Both Sides Now Returning to San Diego Comic Con (been doing these over 20 years now), I find every year’s experiences to be different. This year, for example, I was nursing a bad knee that’s facing eventual replacement. This led to me to get a first-time ever handicapped sticker…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds begins season 3 with “Hegemony Part 2,” and “Wedding Bell Blues”…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** After being renewed for its 4th and 5th seasons, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW) has debuted the first two episodes of its third season, offering two radically different types of stories; a dark alien invasion drama and a wacky comedy. And if the season trailer we saw in April is any indicator,…
‘Jetpack Jules’ rules at Comic Con Revolution 2025 in Ontario, California…
Welcome to the Revolution… The Inland Empire’s Comic Con Revolution (CCR) is a sci-fi/fantasy/comic books convention based in the city of Ontario, California. It first sprang into existence in 2017 as a garage sale in a nice venue; with few attractions and scant attendance. But over the past eight years, this ‘little’ convention has dramatically grown in size…
Spotlight on screen-used sci-fi/fantasy movie & TV props, costumes and miniatures…
“Gain Strength from the Sharing…” With a nod to Spock’s half-brother Sybok, the purpose of this particular column is to share; to share in the good fortune I’ve had in my life as a semi-professional geek to see a virtual treasure trove of actual screen-used props, costumes, miniatures and other such cool stuff over the…
“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” has a teaser trailer (and vague release date) for Season 3…
******POSSIBLE STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** This past week, Paramount+ released a teaser trailer for the third season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” (SNW), with a nonspecific summer release. There’s a lot to unpack in this short trailer, which begins with James Kirk (Paul Wesley), Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) and Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) in campy costumes…
A scaled-down WonderCon 2025 in Anaheim still delivers the goods…
A Different Emphasis for 2025 Unlike the WonderCons of recent years, this year’s annual pop culture fest in Anaheim, California (right across the street from Disneyland) had surprisingly fewer A-list actors and big studio representation. Marvel, Disney, Warner Bros and Paramount had nothing earth-shattering to unveil at this year’s con. With the huge, 7,500-seat Arena…
Three Irwin Allen sci-fi TV shows from the 1960s to be rebooted into a shared universe…
******SOME SPOILERS****** The late writer/producer/director Irwin Allen (1916-1991) was the engine behind a slew of wildly imaginative, pulp-adventure sci-fi shows from the 1960s, as well as the director/producer of several iconic 1970s ‘disaster’ movies (in terms of genre, not box office success), including “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972), “The Towering Inferno” (1974) and “The Swarm” (1978)….
The Wrap of Khan: The long-rumored “Star Trek: Khan” audio drama-podcast finishes production…
In addition to the recent news of William Shatner’s possible return to the role of Kirk (Screenrant.com), which I can’t say I’m terribly excited about, there was other Star Trek news this past week that genuinely piqued my interest and anticipation. CBS has just announced that production has wrapped on the long-rumored audio drama-podcast called…
Trekking down memory lane with the “Star Trek” Fotonovels & Photostories…
In the dark ages, before streaming… This might come as a tremendous shock to younger readers, but once upon a time, when we Gen Xers were kids (sometime after the Yucatan impact killed the other dinosaurs), we weren’t able to simply stream nearly any movie or TV show we wanted on our phones, tablets or…
Star Trek TOS: “The Savage Curtain”; Abraham Lincoln beams up for a slightly goofy, yet memorable episode…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Here in the United States at the time of this writing, I’m not exactly in the ‘President’s Day’ spirit this month. However, this site is about sci-fi/fantasy/horror and nostalgia, not modern politics. Way back in March of 1969, Star Trek aired “The Savage Curtain,” an episode cowritten by no less than creator/ex-showrunner Gene…