Part of the 30th full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-03M. Oleg Kononenko, André Kuipers and Donald Pettit take up residence on the ISS for 194 days, becoming part of the Expedition 29/30 crews. All three return to Earth in July 2012 aboard the same vehicle.
The Doctor, The Widow, And The Wardrobe, the 786th episode of Doctor Who (the 88th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. This Christmas special guest stars Claire Skinner, Alexander Armstrong (The Sarah Jane Adventures), Bill Bailey, and Arabella Weir. 
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Big Finish Productions releases the 155th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and Julie Cox. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the first Doctor Who audio drama in its Fourth Doctor Adventures range, starring Tom Baker and Louise Jameson. (more…)
8-Bit Weapon releases the album Bits With Byte via Bandcamp. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 156th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Lisa Greenwood. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audio drama The Foe From The Future, audio versions of scripts that were intended for, but never produced by, Doctor Who on television. Tom Baker and Louise Jameson star in a story originally intended for the 1970s. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audio drama Valley Of Death, audio versions of scripts that were intended for, but never produced by, Doctor Who on television. Tom Baker and Louise Jameson star in a story originally intended for the 1970s. (more…)
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Fueled By Ramen releases the second album by fun., Some Nights. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the second Doctor Who audio drama in its Fourth Doctor Adventures range, starring Tom Baker and Louise Jameson. (more…)
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the first box set of Blake’s 7: The Liberator Chronicles audiobooks, featuring the story The Turing Test, performed by Paul Darrow and Michael Keating. Unlike the B7 Media releases before them, the Big Finish Blake’s 7 audio material is meant to happen within the continuity of the original television series. (more…)
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the first box set of Blake’s 7: The Liberator Chronicles audiobooks, featuring the story Solitary, performed by Michael Keating and Anthony Howell. Unlike the B7 Media releases before them, the Big Finish Blake’s 7 audio material is meant to happen within the continuity of the original television series. (more…)
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the first box set of Blake’s 7: The Liberator Chronicles audiobooks, featuring the story Counterfeit, performed by original series stars Gareth Thomas and Paul Darrwo. Unlike the B7 Media releases before them, the Big Finish Blake’s 7 audio material is meant to happen within the continuity of the original television series. (more…)
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Big Finish Productions releases the 157th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Lisa Greenwood. (more…)
Ralph McQuarrie, the artist who envisioned key scenes and settings of the Star Wars universe, before sets or models were built and before filming began, dies at the age of 82. As the production artist for Star Wars, McQuarrie got his licks in early on how the “universe” should look, from costumes to spacecraft to weaponry. George Lucas credited McQuarrie’s artwork with keeping the movies’ “look” on track, as well as selling 20th Century Fox on the idea of financing the first movie in the absence of any kind of test footage. McQuarrie also provided concepts for a redesigned U.S.S. Enterprise for an early ‘70s Star Trek movie project, Star Trek: Planet Of The Titans, that ultimately went unfilmed. He also contributed early concept art to Battlestar Galactica, E.T., Cocoon, Batteries Not Included, and many others, and had also worked on the animated artists’ conceptions of the Apollo moon missions played during CBS’ coverage of those flights.
Intrada Records releases an expanded limited edition of Cliff Eidelman’s soundtrack from the 1991 film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, including previously unreleased material and the original single-disc soundtrack album in remastered form. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 158th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Lisa Greenwood. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the third Doctor Who audio drama in its Fourth Doctor Adventures range, starring Tom Baker and Louise Jameson. (more…)
A complete expanded edition of Jerry and Joel Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek: First Contact is released on GNP Crescendo Records. (more…)
The enigmatically titled internet short film Project Yellow Sphere debuts, revealed to be a semi-serious, six-minute live-action-plus-CGI proof-of-concept trailer for a potential Pac-Man movie. Shot and produced entirely at commercial production house Steelehouse Productions in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it’s the closest anyone has gotten to mounting a long-talked about Pac-Man film. 
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Japanese cable channel Family Gekijo airs the first episode of Space Battleship Yamato 2199, a modernized remake of the 1970s series Space Battleship Yamato. The series’ director is Yutaka Izubuchi (Macross, Rahxephon, Escaflowne, Record of Lodoss War). The remainder of the episodes are released straight to DVD, but are not broadcast on television until 2013. (more…)
The internet-based fan film Star Trek: Phase II releases its eighth full-length episode, The Child, based on the original version of a Star Trek: Phase II story written in the 1970s (which was eventually hurriedly recycled into TNG’s second season finale after the 1988 Writers’ Guild strike). Jon Povill, the original co-writer of the 1970s script, directs. (more…)
BSX Records re-releases Joel Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the 1990 movie Moon 44 (Silva Screen previously issued the soundtrack in 1990). (more…)
La-La Land Records releases David Newman’s complete score from the 1999 movie Galaxy Quest, a soundtrack long requested by fans more than a decade after a previous pressing (of questionable legal status) had gone out of print. This is a limited edition and it too is considered out of print once this pressing sells out. (more…)
Syfy airs the 65th episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, and Joe Morton. Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Tembi Locke (Sliders), and Felicia Day (Mystery Science Theater 3000) guest star in the fifth season premiere.
Big Finish Productions releases the 159th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, and Mark Strickson. Trevor Cooper (Star Cops) guest stars. (more…)
Having completed its last mission, Space Shuttle Discovery is retired, stripped of working engine parts and other items, and donated to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum by NASA. The workhorse of the shuttle fleet, Discovery flew in space 39 times starting in 1984, visiting both Mir and the International Space Station, and racking up a cumulative total of an entire year in orbit. Discovery takes the place of the test orbiter, Enterprise, which has been on display at the Smithsonian since the 1980s.
Syfy airs the 66th episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, and Joe Morton. Debrah Farentino (Earth 2), Ming-Na Wen (Agents Of SHIELD, The Book Of Boba Fett), Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Tembi Locke (Sliders), and Felicia Day (Mystery Science Theater 3000) guest star.
Big Finish Productions releases the fourth Doctor Who audio drama in its Fourth Doctor Adventures range, starring Tom Baker and Louise Jameson. (more…)
Syfy airs the 67th episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, and Joe Morton. Debrah Farentino (Earth 2), Ming-Na Wen (Agents Of SHIELD, The Book Of Boba Fett), and Tembi Locke (Sliders) guest star.
Syfy airs the 68th episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, and Joe Morton. Tembi Locke (Sliders) and Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star.
Syfy airs the 69th episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, and Joe Morton. Tembi Locke (Sliders) and Wallace Shawn (The Princess Bride, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star.
Part of the 31st full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-04M. Gennady Padalka, Sergei Revin and Joseph Acaba take up residence on the ISS for 124 days, becoming part of the Expedition 31/32 crews. All three return to Earth in September 2012 aboard the same vehicle.