Star Trek

10 Science Fictional Bars We’d Like to Visit

In science fiction, everybody’s always running and flying and questing, and time is always running out. So that makes those occasions when our space heroes and future warriors take the time to kick back and relax in a bar that much more alluring. There’s nothing like a tall cold one when you’re fighting the Dark…

Books & Comics Esther Inglis-Arkell

Why doesn’t anybody use social media on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?

Like many people, I’ve been slowly rewatching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ever since it popped up on Netflix. And one thing becomes clear: in many ways, 2012 has already overtaken DS9 as The Future goes — barring, of course, space travel and replicators. Culturally, at least, we’ve zoomed right past Star Trek’s version of…

Television Catherynne M. Valente

10 Sexiest Evil Twins of All Time

Fringe keeps proving over and over that everybody’s sexier when they come from a dark, dystopian alternate universe. But it’s basically a law of science fiction that the evil twin is always the sexier one. Throughout science fiction, you’ll find darker duplicates of your “hero” characters — hence the “evil twin” trope, even though they’re…

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Bear McCreary reveals the physics behind your favorite science fiction theme tunes

When you think about science fiction theme tunes, chances are there are a few that are especially stirring and heroic. Star Wars. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Star Trek: The Next Generation. Superman: The Movie. And all of these theme tunes have something in common: they rely on the same basic intervals. We talked to music…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The most adorable Star Wars Vs. Star Trek battle pits Patrick Stewart against Liam Neeson

Graham Norton decided to end that whole pesky battle between Star Wars and Star Trek in the most brilliant fashion ever: forcing Patrick Stewart and Liam Neeson to watch while their action figures fought it out. The outcome was hilarious. [via Tor.com]

Movies Meredith Woerner

10 Movies and TV Shows Where Everybody Probably Died 5 Minutes After the End

Hollywood loves to give us happy endings — but often as not, when the good guys scrape a last-minute victory in the face of incredible odds, you’re left wondering how long it’ll last. Maybe part of the reason why that victory seems so miraculous is because it’ll never work. Here are science fiction/fantasy 10 movies…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders and Jennifer Griffith

Could a new Star Trek TV show really happen?

There’s been a lot of buzz the past few days about the possibility that the creators of the Munsters reboot, now known as Mockingbird Lane, could get a Star Trek TV show off the ground. Both creators, Bryan Fuller and Bryan Singer, have expressed a desire to bring back Star Trek in the past —…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

What Star Trek really looks like through Geordi’s visor

This adorable Star Trek webcomic by Caldwell Tanner and Patrick Cassels — titled “Unforeseen Consequences” — reveals exactly what the Enterprise looks like through Geordi La Forge’s visor. What is seen can’t be unseen! [Via College Humor]

Television Meredith Woerner

Amazing $150K Star Trek apartment ruined by divorce

This was awesome.Tony Alleyne’s infamous Star Trek apartment inspired us all to up our geeky interiors to the next level. Sadly, the Trek fanatic’s majestic apartment is no more — another victim of divorce. In 1994, Alleyne began his shuttle craft inspired motif, and within 10 years he would have converted his 500-square foot apartment…

Television Meredith Woerner

USS Enterprise Coffee Table Is Furniture’s Final Frontier

When I was a in middle school, I built the bridge of the Enterprise in my parents’ basement out of old computer parts. It wasn’t this cool, but I was pretty proud of my level of Trek fandom. Now, Inhabitat found something that tops that level of Trekkie swag: a coffee table modeled after the…

Tech News Michael J Kennelly

Why Video Games Are the New Pulps

A couple of days ago, the esteemed Charlie Jane Anders looked at the dearth of new, sustaining pop culture heroes and villains. That, with the exception of Harry Potter, we haven’t seen a new character with the perceived permanence of a James Bond or a Captain Kirk or Spider-Man — and she blamed it on…

Books & Comics Marc Bernardin

Gorgeous Star Trek: TNG gifs show off the series sexy new Blu-Ray upgrades

You’ve seen the glorious, crystal clear footage from the first Star Trek: The Next Generations Blu-Ray collection. And now a handful of Star Trek: TNG gifs have been uploaded, beautifully demonstrating the amazing transformation Captain Picard and his crew have made from blurry to Blu-Ray. Remember, the folks behind these DVDs had to go back…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Artist transforms constipated Victorian photos into flamboyant scifi heroes

We’ve seen kaiju inserted into yard sale paintings and vampiric 1800s facsimiles of Nicolas Cage. In the spirit of such portraiture comes Alex Gross’ series of science fiction cabinet cards, in which he takes poor dead bastards who kicked it 100+ years ago and repaints them as pop icons. Gross will be presenting a new…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

How to Create a Brand New Iconic Hero or Villain

Over a decade into the 21st Century, our imaginations are captivated by creations of the 19th and 20th. Sherlock Holmes rules television and movies. We’re eagerly awaiting new movies about James Bond, Captain Kirk, Superman, Batman and Spider-Man. Where are the 21st Century mass-media heroes and villains? Why isn’t anybody even trying to create them?…

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10 Most Undignified Deaths in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Death comes for everyone — but it doesn’t always come in style. Sometimes instead of a heroic death or a cool death, a fictional character will get kind of a crappy death. (Often literally.) Sometimes a beloved character will die in a totally motifying fashion. Here are 10 of the most undigified deaths in science…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Khaaaaaaaaan!

There’s a seemingly endless supply of Lego Star Wars sets, so Christer Nyberg took it upon himself to give Star Trek some brick love. But instead of building the Enterprise (cliché!), he chose the USS Reliant, best known as the hijacked spaceride of Khan Noonien Singh. Starting in 2010, he carefully crafted this incredibly detailed…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

In 1994, the lost Torchwood/Star Trek crossover went down

In 1994, John Barrowman was a children’s television show host with a devil-may-care hairdo. William Shatner was a man with a Fonz jacket and a movie to promote. Together, they unwittingly participated in the Doctor Who/Star Trek team-up Russell T. Davies was always keen to do. [Via Reddit]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Star Trek‘s USS Reliant in 10,000+ LEGO bricks (Ceti eels not included)

LEGO builder Christer Nyberg constructed this reproduction of Khan Noonien Singh’s favored ride from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The entire project took him over a year and required somewhere between 10,000-15,000 LEGO bricks. The lights are a nice touch, but this vessel’s life support systems won’t keep you alive while in the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Star Trek/Settlers of Catan sets phasers to “SHEEP!”

If your Settlers of Catan games are anything like mine, pulling the Monopoly card inevitably leads to the dredging up of old slights and someone inevitably leaves the room swearing by the time Longest Road is awarded. (Also, this perplexing YouTube clip has attained nigh legendary status in my social circle while remaining vastly unappreciated…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Will our popular culture survive into the future?

Many works of science fiction agree that we’ll all be reading Shakespeare until the heat death of the universe. But what about the works of Isaac Asimov, George Lucas, JK Rowling, and Steven Moffat? What, if any, cultural legacy will we leave to people the who come after us, and will we like the way…

io9 Lauren Davis

10 Science Fictional Bars We’d Like to Visit

Why doesn’t anybody use social media on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?

10 Sexiest Evil Twins of All Time

Bear McCreary reveals the physics behind your favorite science fiction theme tunes

The most adorable Star Wars Vs. Star Trek battle pits Patrick Stewart against Liam Neeson

10 Movies and TV Shows Where Everybody Probably Died 5 Minutes After the End

Could a new Star Trek TV show really happen?

What Star Trek really looks like through Geordi’s visor

Amazing $150K Star Trek apartment ruined by divorce

USS Enterprise Coffee Table Is Furniture’s Final Frontier

Why Video Games Are the New Pulps

Gorgeous Star Trek: TNG gifs show off the series sexy new Blu-Ray upgrades

Artist transforms constipated Victorian photos into flamboyant scifi heroes

How to Create a Brand New Iconic Hero or Villain

10 Most Undignified Deaths in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Khaaaaaaaaan!

In 1994, the lost Torchwood/Star Trek crossover went down

Star Trek‘s USS Reliant in 10,000+ LEGO bricks (Ceti eels not included)

Star Trek/Settlers of Catan sets phasers to “SHEEP!”

Will our popular culture survive into the future?

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