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It's still one hell of an image though. Maybe it's not dozens of hooded figures, but instead one giant organism. Riker looks up at the ceiling and sees it start moving. More than that, it's turning, the whole thing twisting to look at him and then we get the surgeons responding.

It should be noted that Roddenberry did experiment with the idea of Space Marines a little. Tasha Yar was based on the character Vasquez from Aliens, and was originally named "Macha Hernandez". This is the original role Marina Sirtis tried out for, and Denise Crosby tried out for Troi. They flipped...

The whole thing is a bit of a mess really and not just on a historical basis. You can understand why there were persistent rumours after the fact that it was originally a story for the Monk and not the Master. Stuffing up established history for its own betterment is more his style, although I suppo...

"I am showing you the superhero syndrome and your own participation in it." The author's on Dune and what's most interesting is that Paul does become the messiah, that is true, but in doing so becomes slaved to prophecy. He has no control over everything that happens around him and the results are ...

Like Chuck said, if they'd just made the alien room *darker* they probably would have worked really well. Or blacklight the room. I think it's that sense of dimension that kills it. Remove the sense that it's a room (or that what Riker is walking on is a floor) and it becomes a hell of a lot more s...

Alien 3 and Alien vs. Predator exist in a very strange space for me personally. I got my hands on the Aliens comics with a grown-up Newt in a mental institution, Hicks suffering from PTSD and the Earth taken over by an alien infestation, so the third film exists in this weird netherspace of "Things ...

Another good example of how strange just past cultures can seem. And not just past cultures. During a showing of a Japanese film called "A Silent Voice", you had a small handful of people throughout the theatre laughing when two of the characters got down on their hands and knees, bowing their head...

Because it means we can eventually rebuild and that Mankind is a at least still around to keep perpetuating, because I'd assume that would be something I wish all poeple could agree upon is a Good Thing? I've always taken the opinion that what matters about humans are the ideas, knowledge and techn...

And then there's who they both had to deal with. Hugh was left for days talking mostly to Beverly Crusher and Geordi LaForge. Two of the nicest people in the Milky Way galaxy. Seven of Nine had to deal with B'Elanna Torres and Kathryn Janeway. There's a difference there are rather noticeable. In th...

Climate change could definitely end humanity. All it would take is either it accelerating too fast for us to cope with or wars sparked by the reduction of resources it would cause preventing our efforts to adapt to it. As for other ways to end our existence, there are quite a lot. A big enough aste...