Set phasers to "meh"! My wife arranged a visit to The Franklin Institute a couple of weeks ago. We didn't…
Last night, I went to see the new Star Trek movie with a member of the computer science faculty. A…
THERE is nothing particularly unusual about the living room of the two-story town house that Scott Veazie shares with his…
Ricardo Montalban (1920-2009). My kids know him as the grandfather in Spy Kids 2 and 3.Let's hope they lay him…
Besides not beaming down, another factor that showed to increase the survival rate of the red-shirts was the nature of…
With all the gratuitous use of Shakespeare language and imagery in the series (including its four spin-offs, a successful franchise…
Consider their treatment of Mr. Spock. Almost every episode, Dr. McCoy heckles him over his logic and even uses "green-blooded"…
--Leonard Nimoy (Spock) - Music Video (YouTube) Watching this video caused me so much deep pain that the only way I…
Writers are always beaten over the head with the admontion "Show, don't tell." It's not bad advice by any means.…
The 75-year-old actor said: "I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my…
There was no separating the two Treks, the vacuous and the visionary. It's no coincidence that one of the most…
Project, to be penned by Abrams and "MI3" scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto OrciRoberto Orci, will center on the early…
Also known as yupster (yuppie + hipster), yindie (yuppie + indie), and alterna-yuppie. Our preferred term, grup, is taken from…
As befits its beginnings, the genre is planted firmly in pop culture's nerd division. The films most often given the…
--Star Trek Personality Test Apparently I'm the middle-aged, toupee-sporting movie-era Kirk, though I'm 36 now, which is about the age…
Writing Teachers Writing New Media (Jerz's CCCC 05 Notes) "What did you guys do to earn walls?" -overheard during the (long)…
William Shatner’s low-budget sci-fi flick, “Invasion Iowa,” that was supposedly filming in Riverside, turned out to be an elaborate hoax.…
William Shatner, who played the commander of the starship USS Enterprise in the '60s Star Trek series, arrived in Riverside…