Star Trek's Unaired Pilot: The Cage. It's 1964, and television Western writer Gene Roddenberry has just been rejected by NBC executives for the pilot to his new interstellar science fiction project: Star Trek. That pilot was entitled The Cage, and it was turned down on the basis that it was "too intelligent.
" Damn right it was too intelligent. Not in a hard sci-fi, technological, hyper space and time travel understanding kind of way, but Star Trek was, and always has been, a show that could hack away at some of the touchiest social issues of the period for the simple reason that it's not so touchy if it takes place on another planet with a race of aliens rather than humans. Who cares if aliens live in a society of hierarchical oppression? Oh wait, that's a reflection of Western culture? Shit. The Cage introduces the USS Enterprise and its crew: starring Mr.
"Why, oh why didn't I take the blue pill. " Oh, and the doctor (who is, I'm informed, not Dr. "Sometimes a man'll tell his bartender things he'll never tell his doctor. " 12 Greatest Time Travel Effects from Movies and Television. How could you leave out Primer and 12 Monkeys in favor of including two of The Time Machine? What was the time travel that you saw in 12 Monkeys.
I saw lots of preparation, no actual travel. I'll explain, but first: five time travel effects scenes that are better than the second Time Machine and the Butterfly Effect (which isn't a bad choice): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 12 Monkeys: time travel via tooth implants, tube machine and nakedness. In 12 Monkeys the scene where the machinery is shown, Bruce Willis is in a blue glowing tube, lifted into the air, placed into another tube as scientists watch and talk. James Cameron, Terminator 2 [Musings and Review] "There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.
" Just a few thoughts on Terminator 2 as I watched it last night. Great story about mankind being wiped out by machines. I noticed the point keeps being driven home that it's man that is a force of destruction. Sarah Connor and her son John are repeatedly placing the blame and responsibility for what's happening on human nature. "The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.
" A sort of plot hole was brought up to me. Pretty good movie. Get Terminator 2 on DVD through my Amazon associate's link here. Zero History by William Gibson. If you thought he could write about the future, you should see him write about the present. William Gibson's 2011 novel, the third of an informal trilogy that includes Pattern Recognition (2005) and Spook Country (2007), is relentlessly contemporary and doesn't shy away from weaving Twitter and a much-loved MacBook Air into the story, a modern tale of love, marketing and stolen denim. Although fans have been critical of Gibson for expecting us to care about the mystery surrounding the identity of a blue jeans designer, the book does have something.
The words breathe some amount of mysticism into the real world of digital systems and networks, and the characters are worth caring about, even if you don't share their obsession with the maker of Gabriel Hounds jeans. Hollis Henry is a former rock star who has agreed to work for one Hubertus Bigend, founder of a company called Blue Ant, and Milgrim is a recovered drug addict Bigend comes to own in return for his expensive rehabilitation. James Cameron, Terminator 2 [Musings and Review] Firefly - You can't take the sky from me [review by starlight] Embarking on an unfinished 14 episode stint in a sci-fi television show may be unattractive to both regular nerdling viewers and the main stream, but whether you regularly sink your teeth into 20 year spaceship journeys or prefer to keep your feet firmly on Earth, Firefly is definitely worth your attention for a mere half-season at the least. You can put aside your Battlestar or your Gossip Girl for a week or two and find out why the premature end of this cult favourite is bewailed by watchers everywhere.What makes this show different from other space operas, and more welcoming to non-sci-fi viewers, is the Western feel to it.
Firefly is the story of a renegade spaceship called Serenity that has turned to crime in the aftermath of a civil war. Captain Malcolm Reynolds was on the losing side of that war, so why should he follow the rules of his conquerors? Mal plays by his own rules, but he's honourable when he can be. 'The Matrix' is back (in your hospital) | Technically Incorrect.