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Ask even the most casual fan how many Star Wars films there are, and the majority of them will tell you that there were six. More devoted fans, however, will probably begin naming some of the more obscure entries in the Star Wars universe. There’s the now-infamous Star Wars Holiday Special from 1978 (the one George Lucas would rather forget about), the multiple animated Droids and Ewoks movies which spawned from the animated television programs, and the most recent Clone Wars series. But only those strongest with the force will mention 1984’s Caravan of Courage and 1985’s The Battle For Endor, the two made-for-television Star Wars movies starring those lovable but feisty forest-dwelling teddy bears, the Ewoks. (more…)

featuring the episodes 791, Wake The Dead, Nook and Norb

This third slice of Lexx’s second season presents us with a couple of the show’s most hilariously demented episodes ever in the form of 791 and Wake The Dead. 791 concerns the fulfillment of robot head 790’s wish to acquire a body with which to woo Xev, though things go just a little bit wrong and 790 winds up being taken over the personality of the body’s previous owner - a twisted soul who lusts not for Xev, but for Stanley Tweedle! (more…)

I was ten years old back in 1983, the year my father put his first Bulletin Board System (BBS) online. To this day I can still remember sneaking into the living room in the middle of the night and watching users navigate their way through his menu system. It seemed like magic back then to think that someone sitting in the comfort of his or her own home could connect to our own home computer simply by using a telephone line.

Throughout the 80s and half of the 90s, BBSs were the place for computer users to meet, talk, and exchange ideas, information, and programs. It was the birth of “online” culture. Those who didn’t call BBSs could never understand the idea of talking to and making friends with people you had never met in real life before. The BBS world had its own culture, customs, and even language. And yet after a run of almost fifteen years, BBSs virtually disappeared overnight, submitting to a new technology - the internet. (more…)

Now that we’re speaking in hindsight, one almost can’t help but watch the first season of Star Trek: Enterprise and ask “Did this show ever have a chance?” Of course, the answer is a resounding yes. As hard as I am on what I can only describe as a vast majority of this series’ stories, even an old cynic like mysef has to admit that there was potential in the premise itself. The idea of exploring the formative years of Starfleet and the Federation was very sound, even exciting. And as has almost always been the case, the casting for Enterprise was nearly perfect. The sets were an interesting backward extrapolation, somewhere between the flat-panel touch-screen future of the 24th century spinoffs, the shiny-button future of classic Star Trek, and the keyboard & pushbutton present of NASA. The thought of a whole new Trek series paying homage to the pioneering spirit of exploration, as opposed to racing toward home at top speed or protecting a space station, was mouth-watering. (more…)