Because "Star Trek" is set in a presumably idyllic future -- when war is at an end, money has been removed from the equation, and diplomatic togetherness rules the day -- one will see few open displays of tribalism or jingoism. No one in "Star Trek" can yell about how much they love their country because, functionally, there are no countries. At least not on Earth. Occasionally, Chekov (Walter Koenig) will express pride, or even smugness, about his Russian heritage, but his attitude couldn't be read as "patriotism." Instead, he has become a smaller part of a large human tapestry, now united and working together to explore the galaxy, expand knowledge, and share ideas.
Perhaps ironically, the widespread multiculturalism of the United Federation of Planets is dressed in military uniforms and sails about the heavens in starships armed with phasers and photon torpedoes. "Star Trek" has all the visual trappings...
Perhaps ironically, the widespread multiculturalism of the United Federation of Planets is dressed in military uniforms and sails about the heavens in starships armed with phasers and photon torpedoes. "Star Trek" has all the visual trappings...
- 6/3/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
In the "Star Trek" episode "And the Children Shall Lead", the Enterprise discovers a remote science station where the entire staff seems to have died by their own hands. Chillingly, the children of the staff -- all of them under 12 -- seem oblivious to the dead bodies scattered around, happily playing and giggling as usual. Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) posits that the kids might have blocked out the horrors as a form of protective amnesia, but soon the real plot is revealed. In private, the children are visited by a ghostly being named Gorgan who imbues them with eerie mental powers and gives them dark instructions.
Gorgan tells the children to take over the Enterprise, which they are able to do by pumping their fists and hypnotizing the crew. Sulu (George Takei) looks at the viewscreen and sees knives and swords. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) looks in a mirror and sees...
Gorgan tells the children to take over the Enterprise, which they are able to do by pumping their fists and hypnotizing the crew. Sulu (George Takei) looks at the viewscreen and sees knives and swords. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) looks in a mirror and sees...
- 5/14/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
When reading actor Brian Cox's memoir "Putting the Rabbit in the Hat," I was disappointed that he didn't mention his work on David Fincher's superlative "Zodiac." Throughout the book, Cox shows no reluctance to burn bridges, and given his ribbing of "Succession" co-star Jeremy Strong's method acting, I was eager to see if he'd have similar words about Fincher's infamous perfectionism. Alas, no such stories exist.
True to its title, the 2007 "Zodiac" film is about the Zodiac killer, the still unidentified murderer who left Northern California quaking with fear as the 1960s closed. The film spans the 1960s to 1980s (with an epilogue in 1991), focusing on the killings and then Robert Graysmith's (Jake Gyllenhaal) investigation years later.
One of the movie's earlier sequences recreates an episode from October 22, 1969. Someone claiming to be the Zodiac said he would dial into Jim Dunbar's Kgo-tv (local to...
True to its title, the 2007 "Zodiac" film is about the Zodiac killer, the still unidentified murderer who left Northern California quaking with fear as the 1960s closed. The film spans the 1960s to 1980s (with an epilogue in 1991), focusing on the killings and then Robert Graysmith's (Jake Gyllenhaal) investigation years later.
One of the movie's earlier sequences recreates an episode from October 22, 1969. Someone claiming to be the Zodiac said he would dial into Jim Dunbar's Kgo-tv (local to...
- 12/31/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Alastair Stewart Dec 6, 2016
With a new Star Trek TV series incoming, we revisit the show's long history of censorship at the BBC...
Star Trek is not a franchise you’d normally associate with controversy. Nevertheless, between 1969 and 1994, four episodes of the original series - Empath, Whom Gods Destroy, Plato’s Stepchildren and Miri - were not aired on the BBC, and other episodes were heavily redacted.
See related Doctor Who series 10: Utopia and Class director comes aboard Doctor Who Christmas special: brief snippets appear in BBC Christmas advert Doctor Who: looking back at Chris Chibnall's episodes
It’s difficult nowadays to appreciate just how sacrosanct terrestrial television was until the 1990s. Even though Star Trek was first broadcast in the UK on BBC One on July 12 1969, with the episode Where No Man Has Gone Before, repeats were rare and VHS tapes were expensive, and difficult to get...
With a new Star Trek TV series incoming, we revisit the show's long history of censorship at the BBC...
Star Trek is not a franchise you’d normally associate with controversy. Nevertheless, between 1969 and 1994, four episodes of the original series - Empath, Whom Gods Destroy, Plato’s Stepchildren and Miri - were not aired on the BBC, and other episodes were heavily redacted.
See related Doctor Who series 10: Utopia and Class director comes aboard Doctor Who Christmas special: brief snippets appear in BBC Christmas advert Doctor Who: looking back at Chris Chibnall's episodes
It’s difficult nowadays to appreciate just how sacrosanct terrestrial television was until the 1990s. Even though Star Trek was first broadcast in the UK on BBC One on July 12 1969, with the episode Where No Man Has Gone Before, repeats were rare and VHS tapes were expensive, and difficult to get...
- 12/4/2016
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Jul 15, 2016
Now that Stranger Things has launched, we celebrate 25 of geek TV’s most memorable children with supernatural abilities…
Telekinesis, precognition, mind-control… the skills of these fictional TV kids go way beyond wheelies and scooter tricks. Understanding and controlling those abilities, however, is another matter.
Take Eleven, the mysterious child at the centre of Netflix's ace new series Stranger Things, she's the latest in the long and varied line of child characters who’ve struggled with their unpredictable and extraordinary powers.
Keeping our choices to live-action television characters like Eleven, whose power doesn’t come from witchcraft, a magical tool or sci-fi gadget, we revisit 25 of geek TV’s most memorable super-powered kids…
Bo Adams – Believe
Age: 10
Powers: Telekinesis, animal control, precognition, the empathetic ability to read people’s pain, and much, much more...
Who is she? A foster child who has had unexplained supernatural abilities since birth.
Now that Stranger Things has launched, we celebrate 25 of geek TV’s most memorable children with supernatural abilities…
Telekinesis, precognition, mind-control… the skills of these fictional TV kids go way beyond wheelies and scooter tricks. Understanding and controlling those abilities, however, is another matter.
Take Eleven, the mysterious child at the centre of Netflix's ace new series Stranger Things, she's the latest in the long and varied line of child characters who’ve struggled with their unpredictable and extraordinary powers.
Keeping our choices to live-action television characters like Eleven, whose power doesn’t come from witchcraft, a magical tool or sci-fi gadget, we revisit 25 of geek TV’s most memorable super-powered kids…
Bo Adams – Believe
Age: 10
Powers: Telekinesis, animal control, precognition, the empathetic ability to read people’s pain, and much, much more...
Who is she? A foster child who has had unexplained supernatural abilities since birth.
- 3/21/2014
- Den of Geek
With a Shark Tank rerun opening the night with about 60 percent of what The Bachelorette was doing, ABC’s Mistresses returned from a two-week break to 3.5 million total viewers and a 1.0 rating — down 12 percent and two tenths from its last fresh outing, yet still topping Siberia for the No. 2 spot at 10 o’clock.
Related | Mistresses Recap: Come as You Are… As a Friend, as an Old Enemy
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Dominating the 10 pm slot (and all of Monday), as usual, was CBS’ Under the Dome, which was steady at 10.3 mil/2.4.
Related...
Related | Mistresses Recap: Come as You Are… As a Friend, as an Old Enemy
Related | ABC Extends Mistresses Cast’s Options — Is a Season 2 Renewal Next?
Dominating the 10 pm slot (and all of Monday), as usual, was CBS’ Under the Dome, which was steady at 10.3 mil/2.4.
Related...
- 8/20/2013
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Last month we brought you a cool collection of retro style Star Trek poster art from artist Juan Ortiz. He's added a few more designs to that collection, featuring Star Trek episodes "Charlie X", "Balance Of Terror", "And The Children Shall Lead", and "Wink Of An Eye."
This is just the beginning of an epic art project in which Ortiz will create 80 design, one for each episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, released at the rate of four per month over the next 20 months. They are not being created in chronological order.
The Posters will be available for pre-order here and are offered as a set of plated-printed lithographs on 100-pound, satin-finish paper. Each print is 18x24 inches and a set of four costs $34.95.
Check out the latest additions to his project and let us know what you think! I'm looking forward to seeing what he comes up with next!
This is just the beginning of an epic art project in which Ortiz will create 80 design, one for each episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, released at the rate of four per month over the next 20 months. They are not being created in chronological order.
The Posters will be available for pre-order here and are offered as a set of plated-printed lithographs on 100-pound, satin-finish paper. Each print is 18x24 inches and a set of four costs $34.95.
Check out the latest additions to his project and let us know what you think! I'm looking forward to seeing what he comes up with next!
- 9/8/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie related goody we find, so this is our way of still promoting some of the stuff we love.
If you have any interesting items that you think we should plug, please email us at admin@soundonsight.org
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QMx designed four original Star Trek art prints last month and have now continued to produce some more incredible work. This time the art pulls inspiration from the following episodes: “Charlie X,” “Balance of Terror,” “And the Children Shall Lead,” and “Wink of an Eye.” The 18 x 24 prints can be pre-ordered now. Head over to Nerd Approved to see the rest.
via Nerd Approved...
If you have any interesting items that you think we should plug, please email us at admin@soundonsight.org
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QMx designed four original Star Trek art prints last month and have now continued to produce some more incredible work. This time the art pulls inspiration from the following episodes: “Charlie X,” “Balance of Terror,” “And the Children Shall Lead,” and “Wink of an Eye.” The 18 x 24 prints can be pre-ordered now. Head over to Nerd Approved to see the rest.
via Nerd Approved...
- 9/6/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Initially, coming to The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People, I moved the sofa forwards just a bit, so I could dive for cover – just in case. Now this wasn't in anticipation of goofy-looking plastic-headed humanoids, but because the story marked the return of Matthew Graham...
Who, if you remember (and you've probably blanked it from your living consciousness: very wise), had penned the truly wretched Fear Her , quite possibly one of the most useless Doctor Who stories ever told, and definitely the one that has the biggest Cheese Factor. What with all that “Feel the love” nonsense and a torch-bearing Idiot Doctor gurning and whooping, Fear Her has so much cheese that Wallace would want to eat it all for breakfast, dinner and tea. Cracking Rubbish, Gromit.
Despite all the fan hoopla, I still amazingly quite like it – it has its issues, there's no doubting that, but as a Brain-In-Fishtank bit of escapism,...
Who, if you remember (and you've probably blanked it from your living consciousness: very wise), had penned the truly wretched Fear Her , quite possibly one of the most useless Doctor Who stories ever told, and definitely the one that has the biggest Cheese Factor. What with all that “Feel the love” nonsense and a torch-bearing Idiot Doctor gurning and whooping, Fear Her has so much cheese that Wallace would want to eat it all for breakfast, dinner and tea. Cracking Rubbish, Gromit.
Despite all the fan hoopla, I still amazingly quite like it – it has its issues, there's no doubting that, but as a Brain-In-Fishtank bit of escapism,...
- 12/2/2011
- Shadowlocked
And the children shall lead them. In an effort to goose sagging ratings and shrugged buzz, American Idol announced today that it would lower its minimum age requirement from 16 to 15. "A lot of young, talented people are now seeking careers and representation before they turn 16," said executive producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz. Translation: Expect to see the Simon Cowell-less Idol do whatever it can next season to find the next viral youngster, even if it means forging a birth certificate for 12-year-old Greyson Chance. [USA Today]...
- 6/21/2010
- Movieline
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