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10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

We’re coming up on the 20th anniversary of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but it’s still amazing how ground-breaking that show feels. Deep Space Nine didn’t just defy our expectations of what a Star Trek show could be — it also helped to transform our ideas about genre television, in general. To watch DS9 is…

Television Amanda Yesilbas and Charlie Jane Anders

The Best Scenes From Insane Old Star Trek Coloring Books

It’s been long established that children’s coloring books are the apex of any and all science fiction narratives. Star Trek is no different, what with over two dozen coloring books to the franchise’s name. Here are some select scenes for your enjoyment and/or confusion. Who wants to draw Geordi’s visor? https://gizmodo.com/completely-insane-avengers-coloring-book-asks-kids-to-e-5906694 https://gizmodo.com/the-kid-unfriendly-coloring-books-of-dune-5776640 Let’s start with…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

What if Ernest Hemingway or Oscar Wilde wrote The Lord of the Rings?

Perhaps you’ve already read the Ayn Rand version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, but how might the epic change in the hands of Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, Ian Fleming, or Lewis Carroll? Or, for that matter, George Lucas or Gene Roddenbury? Alison Brooks’ Alternative authors’ versions of Lord of the Rings reimagines…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Rent‘s “Seasons of Love” is oddly lovely in Klingon

Rachel Bloom sang her way into our hears with her tribute to our favorite Martian chronicler, “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury.” She seals the deal with this cover of “Seasons of Love” from the musical Rent, translated into the dulcet tones of the Klingon language. https://gizmodo.com/fuck-me-ray-bradbury-is-the-best-scifi-pop-song-of-t-5615023 Bloom performed this song at last year’s WorldCon, after “Fuck…

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Live Long and Look Awesome: The Best Cosplay From Star Trek Las Vegas

All weekend long, Star Trek fans have been just barely This Side of Paradise. Trek afficionados just spent their shore leave at Star Trek Las Vegas, one of the greatest Trek conventions in Federation history. And the amazing Jordan Hoffman has been tweeting unbelievable cosplay photos from the con all weekend. Here are just some…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

10 TV Shows that Survived After Their Original Showrunners Left

We’re watching the final ever episodes of True Blood with Alan Ball at the helm right now — Ball is stepping away for next season. And soon enough, we’ll get to see what Community looks like without Dan Harmon as showrunner. In other words, the televisual sky is falling! https://gizmodo.com/alan-ball-retires-from-writing-true-blood-5888590 https://gizmodo.com/dan-harmon-fired-from-community-not-cool-not-cool-5911678 But actually, plenty of…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Philosophical Roots of Science Fiction

People use science fiction to illustrate philosophy all the time. From ethical quandaries to the very nature of existence, science fiction’s most famous texts are tailor-made for exploring philosophical ideas. In fact, many college campuses now offer courses in the philosophy of science fiction. But science fiction doesn’t just illuminate philosophy — in fact, the…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Vintage Star Trek booze ads will class up your quarters

The best part about vintage booze ads is that they give off an air of old timey drunken sophistication. Crossbreed these ads with a little bit of Star Trek, and you’ve got yourself one classy inside joke. Now all you need is an android bartender you can order a Finagle Folly from. Make it so…

Television Meredith Woerner

We can’t resist this massive Borg Cube wedding cake

When redditor pat_inthehat posted that his aunt makes wedding cakes, he made a serious understatement. She doesn’t just make cakes; she makes delectable vessels of flour and frosting. Her Borg Cube cake is fantastic, swarmed by little plastic starships, but that won’t save it from being assimilated into the guests’ bodies. Said aunt makes cakes…

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10 Greatest Unintentionally Hilarious Lines from Science Fiction and Fantasy

One of the great joys of watching science fiction and fantasy is to appreciate the unintentionally hilarious lines that come out of people’s mouths sometimes. It’s inevitable that when you’re exploring mind-expanding premises and weird worlds, you’re bound to run into some really insane conversations. Sometimes our favorite movies and TV shows feature some hideously…

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Pop art Star Trek posters make the Original Series groovy again

The original Star Trek, back in the 1960s, was kind of a groovy acid trip. The colors were bright, the planets were full of crazy fashions and big lizard heads, and everything was extreme. And these new retro Star Trek posters from Quantum Mechanix capture all of the boldness of the original show, with pop…

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Some People Built the Star Trek Academy or a Jedi School or Something

Check out this government building—made of concrete and glass—by architect Zaha Hadid. I bet we are going to see some science fiction movies located here in the near future. It holds all sorts of libraries and archives and Star Trek academies and Jedi training centers. Or something like that. It’s located in Montpellier, France, and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Iggy Pop’s entire Star Trek acting career, in under 3 minutes

In the 1970s, beanpole rock legend Iggy Pop provided animalistic shrieks for his band The Stooges, whipped his genitalia out, and rolled around in broken glass and bloody peanut butter. And in 1997, Pop would guest-star on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine at the request of DS9 bigwig Ira Steven Behr (below). Pop’s role? Yelgrun,…

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10 Futuristic Technologies That Will Never Exist

Part of the joy of science fiction is seeing all the awesome toys, and imagining how they could exist in the real world. And so many of science fiction’s coolest gadgets have come true, including Star Trek’s PADDs and communicators. But the sad truth is, a lot of the most fantastic technologies in science fiction…

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William Shatner and Wil Wheaton narrate NASA’s two new Mars rover videos!

NASA just gave Curiosity the Star Trek treatment. In anticipation of the rover’s upcoming landing, the Agency has released two versions of a video entitled “Grand Entrance.” The first is narrated by William Shatner, the second by Wil Wheaton. I think I speak for just about everyone in saying “oh hell yes.” “Shatner and Wheaton…

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Is the birth of Bane hidden in Tom Hardy’s Star Trek: Nemesis screen test?

Before Tom Hardy was the exuberant Bane, he was but a clone of Captain Picard in Star Trek: Nemesis. A recently unearthed screen test of Hardy and Patrick Stewart going toe-to-toe shows the early beginnings of the would-be Bat-villain (and the early, elaborate accents). Confession time: we kind of like the screen test Shinzon better…

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The Best Science Fiction Writer You Didn’t Know You’d Read, Part 2

Last month, we took a look at the comic novels of Fredric Brown — the greatest science fiction writer that everybody’s read without realizing it. Now, let’s take a look at his three more serious novels. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-science-fiction-writer-you-didnt-know-youd-rea-5918638 In between his classic comic SF novels What Mad Universe and Martians Go Home!, Fredric Brown came out…

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10 Things We Want From a New Star Trek TV Show

Two things happened in the past week or so: Star Trek: The Next Generation’s first season came out in eye-popping high definition. And Roberto Orci said that talks about a new Star Trek TV show are “almost real.” https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-the-next-generation-is-brand-new-all-over-ag-5928504 https://gizmodo.com/new-star-trek-tv-show-could-be-an-animated-series-5927598 As legions of Trek fans, old and new, pore over the first year of TNG…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye make the case for NASA’s future in Fight For Space

Do you miss the days of space shuttle launches? Do you want to see humans go back to the Moon, and even explore Mars, in your lifetime? Paul Hildebrandt does too. So he’s initiated a Kickstarter campaign to create Fight For Space: Exploring the Future of Manned Spaceflight, a documentary with a higher aim than…

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Star Trek: The Next Generation is brand new all over again

These days, Star Trek: The Next Generation often feels like an old, fuzzy pair of socks: comfortable and well-worn. The first Star Trek spinoff show appears in syndication at all hours, looking a bit washed out and just as dated as the Original Series. It’s hard to believe it was viewed as a radical, even…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The Best Scenes From Insane Old Star Trek Coloring Books

What if Ernest Hemingway or Oscar Wilde wrote The Lord of the Rings?

Rent‘s “Seasons of Love” is oddly lovely in Klingon

Live Long and Look Awesome: The Best Cosplay From Star Trek Las Vegas

10 TV Shows that Survived After Their Original Showrunners Left

The Philosophical Roots of Science Fiction

Vintage Star Trek booze ads will class up your quarters

We can’t resist this massive Borg Cube wedding cake

10 Greatest Unintentionally Hilarious Lines from Science Fiction and Fantasy

Pop art Star Trek posters make the Original Series groovy again

Some People Built the Star Trek Academy or a Jedi School or Something

Iggy Pop’s entire Star Trek acting career, in under 3 minutes

10 Futuristic Technologies That Will Never Exist

William Shatner and Wil Wheaton narrate NASA’s two new Mars rover videos!

Is the birth of Bane hidden in Tom Hardy’s Star Trek: Nemesis screen test?

The Best Science Fiction Writer You Didn’t Know You’d Read, Part 2

10 Things We Want From a New Star Trek TV Show

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye make the case for NASA’s future in Fight For Space

Star Trek: The Next Generation is brand new all over again

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