Okay, so I have a confession that I never thought I'd make: I have a deep, abiding (and possibly unholy) love for the new Star Trek movie.  I'm about a generation too young to have watched TOS when it was new, and it seems like whenever I see reruns of it, there's about a 50% chance of Tribbles, but I've never really gotten into the first Trek that ( Read more... )

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Stargate: Atlantis: no relation?  ...Despite a Dominion planet called Athos...?  Where's Teyla from again?

...The more sci-fi I watch, the more the geekiness of Atlantis shines through...

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Okay, I'm not even halfway through Poisoning the Well, but I've just got to say this--the writer's of Stagate: Atlantis are on HUGE amounts of geek!crack.  Hoth.  Hoth.  They're on planet Hoth.  And John and Rodney dropped in a Star Trek reference.  God, this show is so geeky...

Edit:  And oi, I am so stupid.  Dr. McKay.  Dr. McCoy.  The geekiness ( Read more... )

Somehow I'm not surprised my dad scored higher than me...


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