Posts tagged with: sci-fi

Star Trek intros redone in each other’s styles

Star Trek The Original Series and Star Trek The Next Generation intros done in each other’s styles. Thank you, Internet!

Everyday Chemistry

The Beatles' Everyday Chemistry album, on a cassette tape.

A common science fiction plot element is the parallel dimension—a world like ours, but slightly or hugely different than the one we currently exist in and which can only be entered through some sort of portal. (Star Trek really went to town with this, starting with the original series, and then extending it through DS9 and Enterprise.) …read more…

A little scifi (and other uncanny) art

I do follow a few accounts on Instagram that post some fine science fiction (and otherwise uncanny) art. Here are a few:             View this post on Instagram                         A post shared by Vintage Sci-fi Art (@vintage_scifiart)     …read more…

A Guide to Binging Star Trek: The Next Generation Season One

For a long time, I’ve wanted to write an episode-by-episode guide to every Star Trek series out there, with the exception of Discovery, because I haven’t seen that one yet. (And at this point, I don’t plan to, although that could change.) Then I read Max Temkin’s article on how to watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine …read more…

you are now free to wander about the cabin…

Not long after the aluminium incarceration came to an end, I wanted to spend a great deal of time reading. Reading has always been one of the great pleasures in my life, but a guilty pleasure. All that time spent reading really should be spent doing something productive, or so my inner Puritan told me. …read more…

a thought about the upcoming US election cycle…

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion than democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov For a really cool picture of Isaac Asimov, check on this art print by Rowena. For more information about Isaac …read more…