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The Five Worst Star Trek Episodes of All Time

Every cloud must have its lining but every starship must also have its gaping hull breach. Television series that are genuinely great, also often tend to be uneven with episodes varying from one to the other...

37 comments    entertainment television tv
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Hero or Vigilante A Comic Book Hero's Moral Code

A superhero may fight crazed villains, towering monstrosities and mutated supergeniuses, but along the way the hardest battles are usually with himself and with some of the big questions. Golden Age and Silver...

6 comments    entertainment literature comic
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Profiles in Leadership of Five Captains, Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway and Archer

The age old or rather decades old debate has raged over which is the superior Star Trek Captain, Captain James Tiberius Kirk or Captain Jean Luc Picard. But of course as the decades wore on, the debate wore...

13 comments    entertainment television tv
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The Truman Show The Unreality of Reality Television

In "The Truman Show", its creator Christof (Ed Harris) boasts that while Truman's (Jim Carrey) world is artificial, there is nothing fake about Truman himself. Andy Warhol stated that in the future everyone...

7 comments    entertainment movies arts
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David Gerrold's War Against the Chtorr

David Gerrold has had a long history of reworking materials and themes from Grandmaster and prominent Science Fiction writer Robert Anson Heinlein. David Gerrold's famous Star Trek episode, "The Trouble With...

7 comments    entertainment books literature
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Enemy Races of the Star Trek Universe

Utterly ruthless and implacable, the Borg are a synthesis of flesh and machine fused by nanotechnology into an unstoppable force seeking the absolute goal of perfection. It is unknown how the Borg first came...

3 comments    entertainment movies television
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The Five Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time

Before Science Fiction entered the cinemas or the comic books or the radio plays, Science Fiction began as literature, as stories and books of adventures on other planets, in other times and even other...

9 comments    entertainment books literature
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Ray Bradbury bids Farewell Summer in the sequel to Dandelion Wine

In American literature, no one has quite defined magic realism so much as Ray Bradbury. For American readers, Ray Bradbury's books, his collections of short stories, his collections of short stories adapted...

2 comments    entertainment reviews books
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Lost DVD Easter Eggs Season 1

The secret to Lost's success is in its mysteries, in its ability to keep the secrets of the show close to its chest and reel out just enough hints and answers to keep audiences tuning in week after week for...

8 comments    entertainment television tv
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Federation Races of the Star Trek Universe

The first alien race to make contact with humanity, the Federation is very nearly a partnership between Vulcans and Humans. When humans first made contact with Vulcans meeting in space in the original...

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