Here's that preview of "Twice Upon a Time" from the Children in Need charity thing

"What do you mean 'one'?"

To quote another time traveler, "oh boy."

Here's a video of new Doctor Jodie Whittaker reacting to 13th Doctor cosplayers

Because we haven't even seen what the new Doc is going to be wearing and she was just announced less than a month ago, but of course there are already people cosplaying her. Gotta love the fandom.

(via Tor.com)

The William Thomas Riker School of Chair Sitting

This is why he was a commander for almost twenty years - Starfleet doesn't promote weirdos who sit in chairs like that.

They're still making them Star Wars movies?

I would have figured that they'd have given up after the first one flopped.

Hoping we get to see more of Finn in the next several trailers. Poe too.

Get in nerds, we're going to run blades in 2049

Oh right, they made a sequel to Blade Runner. Forgot about that. Here's the trailer.



I bet everybody's initial reaction to this trailer is going to be "Rick Deckard wasn't a Replicant?!" Might have to go and watch this next October.

Rebellions are built on hope (Rogue One trailer)

Rogue One

Looks interesting. It's nice to see that the trend towards kickass female protagonists in movies is still a thing. Hopefully none of the main characters will disappear in the first ten minutes of the movie, only to reappear 40 minutes later with little to no explanation of where they were and what they were doing all that time.

Like Tears in Rain: Happy Birthday, Roy Batty

According to Blade Runner, Roy Batty was "born" on January 8, 2016, so of course I'm going to post his famous "Tears in Rain" speech, because it is so good.



A person's memories, their entire life experience ceasing to exist when they die is actually a horrifying realization and is an inevitability for us all and that's what makes the monologue so haunting and timeless.

Video: The original intro to Star Trek's 2nd pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

Enterprise Log: James Kirk, Commanding

We are leaving that vast cloud of stars and planets which we call our galaxy. Behind us, Earth, Mars, Venus, even our Sun, are specks of dust. The question: What is out there in the black void beyond.

I confess that I have never seen the beginning of "Where No Man Has Gone Before". I've seen almost the entire episode (look, I'm more of a TOS movie and TNG fan, okay?), so I noticed several interesting bits:

1. The Enterprise being a law enforcement/patrol ship that's sent out of the galaxy to see what's out there. I like the idea of it being repurposed for the task, rather than being built specifically for extra-galactic exploration because it gives the impression that the Federation or Earth or whoever doesn't is wary of building a brand new ship for a mission that might not pan out.

2. Spock having human ancestry rather than being half-human. I actually like that more than him being half and half because it's a better explanation for why he was never as coldly logical as other Vulcans and moments of emotion, as well as explain why he lacks human features. B'lanna from Voyager, for example, is half-human and half-Klingon and it shows as her forehead ridges aren't as prominent. With Spock, you'd think that his ears wouldn't be as pointed as a full-blooded Vulcan and his eyebrows would look more like a human's if he was only half-Vulcan.

3. The transporter being called a materializer. I thought it was dumb the first time I heard Scotty say it, but the name's growing on me. Transporter is still a better name, but materializer has the charm of sounding old school scifi.

4. The corridor set looks cool, especially with that ladder. They should have kept the ladders. That part of the set has a nice nautical feel, which fits with ship-based scifi.

(h/t File 770)

The trailer for Star Trek: Beyond is...well, it's a...uh...it's something

I was going to write something snarky here, but I can't. I just can't. If that trailer is any indication, Star Trek: Beyond is going to be a hot pile of shit like Into Darkness. Can't say that I'm surprised. After all, Justin Lin is the same guy who directed four of the Fast & Furious movies and that trailer shows that he went at Beyond just like one of those movies. I make no secret about my dislike of the reboot and this only increases those feelings. This isn't Star Trek, plain and simple. This is Paramount trying to squeeze as much money out of the franchise as they can by reducing Trek to nothing more than an action movie franchise.

I don’t think Beyond will be Battlefield: Earth bad, but it’ll definitely trek beyond Final Frontier.

An interesting mashup of Star Trek: Enterprise's intro with Quantum Leap's audio

I just love how it syncs up perfectly.

The Expanse looks nice.

I can't wait until this thing gets an air date.

That exact moment when you know you're f*cked

Jedi: "Pfft, it's just one Sith Lord against twenty of us? Easy!"

Jedi: "Okay, we might be slightly fucked here."

Found the gif on reddit. It's from one of the teaser videos that came out for the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. The attack on the Jedi Temple was part of the larger Sacking of Coruscant. The video is pretty epic and worth watching.

Remember when Darth Vader killed all of those Younglings?

Unfortunately, couldn't find the entire scene, but this is close enough.



I saw the midnight release of Revenge of the Sith back in 2005 and when the movie got to this scene, it floored the entire audience. I remember a woman behind me whisper to her friend "He's not going to kill them, is he?". When Vader turned his lightsaber on and the door closed behind him, ending the scene, you could hear audible gasps from almost the entire audience. It was a small, but important scene because it showed the continuing fall of Anakin Skywalker and the rise of Darth Vader. Killing Mace Windu and the other Jedi was one thing, but killing children? That was a whole new depth of evil.

Well, Palpatine did order him to kill all of the Jedi at the Temple...

Shadowrun commercial - "A Night's Work"

Or "wow, you mean this isn't the set up for a porn?"



I like how the dude's only task is to yank panels off for the hacker and the blonde's job is to stare people to death.

You know you're a Whovian when...

You hear Florence + The Machine's "The Drumming Song" and it makes you think of The Master.

Hopefully the space battles in Elite: Dangerous will be almost as good as the one in this trailer

Never heard of Elite: Dangerous until today, but daaaaaaaaaaaaamn, the trailer I came across on YouTube looks sweet as all hell.



On a related note, it looks like space sims are starting to make a comeback! You have this game, X Rebirth, and the much-hyped Star Citizen, which honestly, looks almost as good as Christina Hendricks.

(via Softpedia)

Almost.

The Night of the Doctor is just awesome

Well, it destroyed my theory that John Hurt was playing an aged Eighth Doctor. I'm guessing that they're not going to count the "War Doctor" as one of his "main" incarnations. It also explains why Eleven claimed that the War Doctor's actions weren't done in the name of the Doctor. Can't wait until the 23rd!

Finally! BBC releases a Day of the Doctor trailer!

About damn time. I was getting tired of all of these fake trailers on YouTube.

A bit of a music interlude

I've got some posts currently percolating, but until then, have some music: Fire Woman by The Cult.



Now if you'll excuse, I have some epic air guitaring to do!