On 8th September, 1966, the first episode of the Original Series, "Man Trap" aired on NBC from 8.30-9.30pm.

That was 50 years ago, and an apparently dead series by season 2, made it to half a century, spawning movies, novels, other TV series, other movies, fanzines, fanfiction, and historically the birth of slashI was an 80's baby, so my Trek was ( Read more... )

With the release of the movie in the last few countries and the release of the DVD, Star Trek Into Darkness is now officially everywhere and hard NOT to find a way to see it ( Read more... )

It's been more than 2 months since Star Trek Into Darkness opened in the UK and it still hasn't premiered in a lot of countries!!!!!

So, fellow GQMF's, I ask: are spoilers moot by now? Has everybody seen the movie (either in a theater or not)? And if you still haven't seen it, do you mind spoilers? Have you been spoiled already? In conclusion

Poll Spoilers policy

...FOR NEXT WEEKEND, WE PARTY!

A partial list of reasons to celebrate:

• CHRISTMAS: CHECK
• חנוכה: CHECK (IT'LL BE OVER BUT W/E, WE CAN STILL CELEBRATE)
• WINTER SOLSTICE: CHECK
• BODHI DAY: CHECK
• PANCHA GANAPATI: CHECK

It's hard to believe that the end of the term is nearly upon us, but graduation is tomorrow!  The ceremony will begin at 8PM GMT.  Any additional course posts or extracurricular posts should be submitted before then.

(aka PARTY POST TOMORROW (Saturday) at 8PM GMT!)

Before we conclude our time here at Starfleet Academy, I would like to direct all ( Read more... )

Sooooo..... I figure, what's the use of being a mod of the best community on the internet if you can't use it for selfish reasons now and then?

It is therefore with great pride that I announce:

DAMMIT, JIM, I'M A DOCTOR, NOT A DOCTORAL CANDIDATE

(aka I passed my dissertation defense today and am now Dr. starlady42 ! :D :D :D)

You know... that sounds like an ( Read more... )

A few items of note:

1) Life has conspired to throw shit at no fewer than three members of your friendly neighborhood mod team this week, so please bear with us if posts take a little longer than usual to get approved.  Everything should be back to normal next week (or as normal as this place ever is :)).  In the meantime, we'd all appreciate ( Read more... )

Hi everyone - looks like things are back in our hands. We are obviously quite sorry for the inconvenience and confusion it caused! We are going to leave the party post troll post up as an outlet for comments & etc while we otherwise keep the comm on lockdown for now.  The mods will deliberate and we'll have a joint post tomorrow addressing the ( Read more... )

Hi all --

There have been a couple of videos which keep coming into the queue this week, and I keep asking folks to post them in the Friday fanart/fic/vid post instead.  Since they keep on rollin' in, I thought I'd hip you all to the criteria I generally use in determining whether a video should be a top-level post or discussed in the Friday post:  ( Read more... )

GQMFs!  What (if anything) should be our response to the earthquake crisis in Haiti?!  You know the Enterprise would be there in a heartbeat, passing out blankets and synthesizing food and providing sexy doctors to help.

If you think we should band together and raise funds, make your voice heard!This is, after all, the community that saved calumfan 's dog ( Read more... )