It has been indefinitely delayed. While I like the idea of not releasing something until they get it right, nothing that I have heard has given me any faith that they are on the right road. I guess we shall see, and perhaps I shall be pleasingly surprised ( Read more... )

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We've developed several technologies that we first saw on Star Trek in the 1960s: the communicator (cell phones), the hypospray, we're actually using iPhones with attachments to do medical diagnosis and there's a competition to develop a medical tricorder: that's all that I can think off right now ( Read more... )

Leonard Nimoy passed away Friday, and there are so many links that I'm not going to bother with one ( Read more... )

First, Isaac Asimov wrote about the 2014 World's Fair after attending the 1964 World's Fair.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/lifetimes/asi-v-fair.html

My blatherings on it....
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We went and saw it last night, our final night in Phoenix, so we could see it in a really good theatre. And frankly, I was disappointed. It was good for a summer action movie, and it wasn't bad for science fiction, but some aspects of the story I was very unhappy with. My wife and I talked about it all the way home, well, all the way back to my ( Read more... )

May the Fourth be with you ( Read more... )

Clips from the original series done to the Knights of the Round Table song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVjkTEIoJc&mode=related&search=

Heh, I love it! Coincidently, I'm wearing a red shirt even as we speak! LOTS of questions on this one.

Your results:
You are An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
70%
Geordi LaForge
70%
James T. Kirk (Captain)
65%
Beverly Crusher
60%
Will Riker
55%
Worf
55%
Jean-Luc Picard
55%
Mr. Sulu
55%
Mr. Scott
45%
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