Prepare to drool.

If you're a fan of the original Star Trek, and if in particular you have a thing for info or pictures from behind the scenes of the show's production, have I got a treat for you. Well, not me, really. Somebody else has a treat for you; I'm just the guy getting ready to give you a link. Check this out:

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And here we go!

Friends and podcasters John S. Drew and Paul K. Bisson have been hosting Cyborgs: A Bionic Podcast, which devotes itself to discussing the cult-classic TV series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. The first three regular episodes of the podcast covered the trio of TV movies which introduced Steve Austin and his ( Read more... )

Since a good chunk of my writing revolves around Star Trek, I often get asked about other properties for which I'd like to write. I've rambled about that before, but another question I recently got in e-Mail was what other tie-ins, if any, I like to read in my leisure time ( Read more... )

On December 29th, 1964 - forty-seven years ago today - the original filming model of the U.S.S. Enterprise was delivered to the Howard Anderson Company. Model maker Richard C. Datin, Jr., who worked for the company and oversaw the efforts of craftsmen Mel Keys, Vernon Sion, and Volmer Jensen, constructed the 11-foot "miniature" from a 1-foot ( Read more... )

Okay, a bit of backstory: During the production of the original Star Trek, there came a point where a storyline required a smaller craft to carry characters away from the Enterprise in order to place them in that week's helping of mortal danger. Thus, the "shuttlecraft" mentioned in Gene Roddenberry's original show notes finally was built. In ( Read more... )

Wait...what???

That's right, Heartbreak Ridge, the 1986 film starring and directed by Clint Eastwood, turns 25 this year; yesterday, as a matter of fact (which also was my father's 69th birthday, so there's an interesting bit of symmetry right there ( Read more... )

So, yesterday being Columbus Day, I wasn't working. Confronted with a rare day off that was free of deadlines or other pressing matters, I opted to take a jaunt across town and do some skulking through various bookstores. One of my stops was at Half Price Books, and I spent a good 45 minutes wandering the aisles and checking out everything. Having ( Read more... )

Wow.

I missed the actual day of jubilee on Wednesday, September 28th, which marked the 60th anniversary of one of my all-time favorite films, The Day the Earth Stood Still from 1951. I've loved it for as long as I can remember. Though I'm of course too young to have seen it in theaters, I watched it numerous times when I was a kid, whenever it ran ( Read more... )

Warning: Nostalgia ahead.When you leave an old job under favorable conditions, like because you're on your way to a different department or maybe even a different company or because you're retiring, it's not uncommon for your co-workers to go in on getting you some kind of parting gift. Something for your desk, shelf, or mantle, or maybe to hang on ( Read more... )