Feb 15, 2013 | Forbes
As fans (and fanfiction writers) of Star Trek know, Kirk and Spock make a great team. That’s because Kirk is the rough-and-tumble leader, and Spock is the cooler-headed second-in-command. So when making the upcoming Star Trek the Video Game, the developers knew that...
Feb 11, 2013 | Forbes
“Chaos isn’t a pit,” says Petyr Baelish, “Chaos is a ladder.” He would know. In Game of Thrones (and in the books, A Song of Ice and Fire), Petyr is a minor noble from a poor family who had climbed his way to the title of Westeros’ master of coin. Although we don’t...
Feb 4, 2013 | Forbes
Thunderbirds was a 1965-1966 British science fiction series that had it all: Heroic do-gooders. Malign evil-doers. Spaceships. Gadgets. Puppets. Submarines. Wait, what was that other thing? Did she say “puppets?” Yup(pets). Thunderbirds was made in “supermarionation,”...
Jan 30, 2013 | Forbes
Thirty years ago, actress Joanna Cassidy, who played the replicant Zhora in Blade Runner, was supposed to have had a dancing scene with an artificial snake, but the scene was never shot. Recently, she made up for it by producing her own version of that snake dance,...
Jan 29, 2013 | Forbes
Doctor Huh? Doctor Who wasn’t the first science fiction show in Britain, but it is the longest lasting. And it started with a feasibility study back in March 1962. I know this because I read it in Wikipedia. But we’re going to learn about this—and much more—in the...
