******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,…
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‘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…
“Star Trek: Section 31” (2025) is a “Suicide Squad” knockoff that boldly goes nowhere…
******SPACE STATION-SIZED SPOILERS!****** I’m a real fan of Michelle Yeoh. Loved her work in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (2000), “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2022), “Tomorrow Never Dies” (1997), and even her performance in the otherwise so-so romcom, “Crazy Rich Asians” (2018). Despite all of that, I have mixed emotions about her character in Star…
No, Star Trek: Discovery hasn’t been ‘erased,’ nor has any other Star Trek…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** In light of the wildfire emergencies here in SoCal–the worst of which are about forty-odd minutes northwest of me–I’ve been reluctant to punch out another column just now, in case my electricity is suddenly cut to prevent sparking from fallen power lines. However, since I need the diversion, here goes. For this column,…
Personal Log: My favorite Christmas gift of all time…
Inspired by the talented blogger from FireWatersite, who recently put together a great list of groovy Christmas toys he and others of our generation enjoyed as kids, I remembered my greatest Christmas gift of them all. These days, my wife and I are not all that into gift-giving for each other (to quote Elias Sandoval…