It has been a long time since really watching Stargate: SG-1, going through the better part of my college life (whereas Star Trek was when I was before high school), and I have definitely missed watching the show. This is not to say that Stargate: Atlantis is not any good, just that Stargate: SG-1 truly was a great show.

Oh, and before beginning into Stargate: The Ark of Truth, I also have to say that it was definitely sad to see the Asgard go.

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Nobody likes anything delayed, and it definitely sucks that Star Trek XI will be delayed, but if that’s necessary for a better Star Trek film, so be it.  SyFy Portal has the details:

Although Paramount Pictures is saying “Star Trek XI” will hit theaters May 8, 2009, sources with the studio tell SyFy Portal that no actual premiere date is set in stone.

That’s nearly a half year delay from the Star Trek Under Construction trailer that I linked to previously that showed it would come out on December 25th.

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Io9 has some more good information (an interview this time) on the upcoming Star Trek XI movie and some interesting plans for the movie. Though canned questions, still interesting nonetheless particularly about the avoidance of the greenscreen, which is not a bad idea in many cases as the focuses is then less on acting which can really get people involved into a movie.

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I ran across more info on SyFy Portal about the newest Star Trek movie coming out. Turns out that the viral site does show up the forth picture but only for one second of the interior of the original Enterprise so I likely missed that, but to make life easier, here’s the picture after the jump…:

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Bump and Update on 1/29/2008:

Click here for more of my thoughts on Star Trek Under Construction.

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Io9 and many others have the scoop on the newest Star Trek trailer for 2008 that provides a lovely snapshot of the original Enterprise being built with the original theme music that gave me some nice goosebumps.

From a Star Trek fan (Trekkie) perspective, hopefully this movie will be better than the last (which I thought was sadly poorly done) and 1,000 times better than the quasi-Star Trek “Enterprise” that tried to build on a new and young fan base that collapsed horrifically when it did not follow Star Trek cannon (how stupid could one be really? Sons and daughters of major Star Trek fans would only denigrate the show which would in turn only turn them off from the show). I only hope that the lesson has been learned and will strictly follow cannon this time. That means no ending the movie by giving Enterprise to the whole original crew as it first goes to Captain Pike (Correction: Captain April, then Pike, then Kirk. hat tip: fishstickjesus)!

From the buzz aspect, if you’re curious, click on the small flashing red button–it leads to a landing page with three cameras that you can adjust to see the picture better. I’m not entirely sure if there is more to the site (and if anyone knows, please tell me), but it certainly would be a good buzz campaign if they did so. Regardless, sadly the site is still mostly under construction (some links do not work) and then there’s a link to Bad Robot, a lovely picture that really tells me nothing, [UPDATE: so go to wikipedia here]. Oh, and forcing people to use Quicktime for the HD? Poor choice imo.

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My co-worker introduced me to a brand new sci-fi website (literally started today it seems) called io9. Rest assured it’s a horrible name for online marketing, but a great website to recommend (here’s an excerpt from Wired):

The new blog, which launches Jan. 2, is the latest addition to Gawker Media’s network of 15 blogs. Newitz, a former Wired News writer, edits and steers io9, whose contributors include Geoff Manaugh (founder of architecture blog BldgBlog), Graeme McMillan (of comic blog Newsarama), Kevin Kelly (contributor to Joystiq and Cinematical) and feminist retro-futuristic writer Lynn Peril (author of Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons).

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Wired News: What is the significance of the name io9?

Annalee Newitz: Well, io9s are input-output devices that let you see into the future. They’re brain implants that were outlawed because they drove anyone who used one insane. We totally made that (device) up to name the blog. The blog is about looking into the future and science fiction, so we wanted to come up with a fictional name, something that was science fiction.

The blog is already kicking off into high gear and I’ve already fallen behind, but hopefully will catch up on the weekends as I already like their content already (go, go, RSS feeds).

Mostly I like to just read a lot of the sci-fi, but I figure I had to make one post of disagreement about their view that the US is the least futuristic (read: most technological) society.

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I wanted to follow-up on my previous post about Life After People by the History Channel as I ran across an article online by the Discover Magazine called “Earth Without People.” Essentially it has the same fundamental concepts as what the History Channel will show on January 21st, but it was written back in 2005:

Given the mounting toll of fouled oceans, overheated air, missing topsoil, and mass extinctions, we might sometimes wonder what our planet would be like if humans suddenly disappeared. Would Superfund sites revert to Gardens of Eden? Would the seas again fill with fish? Would our concrete cities crumble to dust from the force of tree roots, water, and weeds? How long would it take for our traces to vanish? And if we could answer such questions, would we be more in awe of the changes we have wrought, or of nature’s resilience?

It was a great read and now the only thing I hope is that I didn’t ruin watching the Life After People special if it takes the same stuff from that. (more…)

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When movies or TV shows create various laws about traveling through time, there is going to be some fundamental mistakes that crop up within the respective show or movie.

Let’s take “Time Machine” by H.G. Wells for instance; the law within this movie/book was that the inventor of the time machine could not prevent the death of his wife in the past no matter how much he tried. Yet, at the end of the show [spoiler] he is able to change future’s history by saving one version of humanity against another.

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