It's actually an accretion of a TOS Starfleet ship and an Imperial Star Destroyer. Supposedly the main designer who was brought on to help with the "Star Trek: Phase II" project, back when it seemed that it would be more likely to happen than a Star Trek movie, was the principle voice in ...

Dachau was "safe" a few miles out of town. Safe, you know, except for the 30,000+ Jews, Catholics, and political prisoners and 4,000 - 8,000 Soviets who were murdered there, and the further 200,000 who were tortured and broken there. Hence the quotes. I meant it was safe from the aforemen...

I can't even write anything anymore about these attacks. If we haven't gotten to hell yet, we're well on our way. I'm thinking we may need to have some courses for our kids to prepare them (and maybe ourselves) for the realities of the global 24/7 news cycle. I mean it wasn't so long ago Munich was...

https://twitter.com/startrekcbs/status/756974219322273792 So it's called Star Trek: Discovery, is using the frankly hideous Star Destroyer Enterprise, and the teaser has CGI worse than any fan film in the last 5 years. Ugh. It looks like the illegitimate love child of a federation starship and a Kl...

I'm referring to the not insignificant group on moderates. Most polls which granted have to be taken with a grain of salt, show pretty much everyone doing better than her. Even people who like her admit she has some serious and significant damaging baggage. I think part of that comes from how she's...

Incidentally... I screencapped the first shot of that trailer. http://orig03.deviantart.net/fdef/f/2016/201/c/1/rimshot_by_mr_wistan-daarib3.jpg So the rim of that saucer is approximately 54 feet thick. Can we all please stop pretending that this ship is only 300 metres long now? (I know people her...

Well, that's pretty much it. I guess here if you want a link.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-el ... ks-n611936

Maybe our countries will wind up "brexit buddies" or something.

A new Star Trek movie confirmed. They must be pretty confident in Beyond... Or just that their earlier successes have given them enough confidence to keep going regardless of whether Beyond turns out to be a lemon. It isn't like the original sets of movies didn't have their missteps. Though I wonde...

Besides the obvious comic angle, I'm pretty sure Nicholson went before Lee. Though there probably is something to our modern idolizing of the bad guy not being such a good thing. Though I won't pass judgment on Suicide Squad as it seems it might be about actually having some good from those psychopa...

It's possible stuff that's already out will stick around. But companies have stomped all over fan material in the past *cough*Games Workshop*cough* and with CBS's new "guidelines" they might already be in that process. So is there anything out now that someone should see? I'll give a shout...

That does look pretty bad, though those are just guidelines, maybe the previous bit where CBS let Axanar continue after Lin and Abrams push for it will hold.

It makes you wonder just how many people there are like that in Starfleet. Average-at-best officers who just sit in the same job at the same rank for decade after decade, which is apparently perfectly acceptable. "Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do anyth...

So I guess the Abramsverse is being officially named the Kevin Timeline now: http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2016/06/27/bye-bye-abramsverse-alternate-star-trek-timeline-gets-official-name/ Although in some of Pegg's stuff about Sulu and some other Star Trek Online stuff it sounds like they're ...

I was also going to mention the "speed records" which I took to come from a combination of the Constitution class being fast to start with, and with Kirk and Scotty being Kirk and Scotty, the Enterprise was the one out of the class that was pushed the hardest and survived. However the gene...