Star Wars, Star Trek and other Sci-Fi

[Richard N]

I liked the last line: "What's the matter Baby?"

"Alien Nation" is another great one and quite a successful variation on the buddy cop movie.

 

[Grey Havoc]

From ST: DS9's Trials and Tribble-ations:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHiJXfQ1z9Y

A fair few easter eggs and in-jokes in this scene alone!

 

[edwest4]

I guess some of you will know the story of the woman who cleaned a museum in Sweden by throwing a "work of art" by confusing it with garbage, art for the people?

Garbage that looks like garbage? Yes, the cleaning lady will likely throw it out.

 

[sferrin]

Have always liked this piece of pre-CGI art. No idea what it's from but it looks like a good story:

 

[Richard N]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtFRIbJbQQ0

 

[publiusr]

When I think of Vader under the mask—I think Colm Feore from Chronicles of Riddick. Javier Bardem should have been Thanos.

 

[Graham1973]

A John Schoenherr Analog cover...

 

[Graham1973]

John Schoenherr's cover and one illustration from the story 'And Seven Times Never Kill Man' by George R. R. Martin, published in the July 1975 issue of Analog magazine

 

[sferrin]

John Schoenherr's cover and one illustration from the story 'And Seven Times Never Kill Man' by George R. R. Martin, published in the July 1975 issue of Analog magazine

Funny that this and the author of Sand Kings is the same guy who wrote Game of Thrones.

 

[martinbayer]

I guess some of you will know the story of the woman who cleaned a museum in Sweden by throwing a "work of art" by confusing it with garbage, art for the people?

Similar thing happened in Germany as well. At least thrice.

Too clean – DW – 11/04/2011

A museum cleaning lady has managed to remove what she saw as a pesky beige stain lining a plastic tub in an art installation. But the museum says that now the piece, worth 800,000 euros, is ruined.

www.dw.com

https://art-damaged.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F21645147811

View: https://art-damaged.tumblr.com/post/21645147811/joseph-beuys-untitled-bathtub-accidentally

 

[edwest4]

I am an artist. If I point to something and say it is art, it is art. You see? "Untitled" Pffft. Old hat. The peasants cannot conceive what I can conceive. I have powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Etc.

The cleaning lady: The plumbers must have left it here. It must be cleaned.

 

[Arjen]

Priceless. On a par with Banksy's self-shredding picture.

 

[edwest4]

Banksy? The secretive person from ... somewhere? I recall stumbling across someone trying to sell a piece of art to a dealer on TV. It appeared to be a perfect copy of a British bank note with a portrait of Princess Diana. The dealer turned down the seller.

 

[Justo Miranda]

Bansky?... even the most anti-system artists try to make their signature well visible

 

[edwest4]

The bank note in question.

ANS Acquires Authentic Banksy £10 Diana Note | Pocket Change

 

[Justo Miranda]

Vicente Segrelles, one of the greats

 

[Justo Miranda]

post-2

 

[Justo Miranda]

Post-2

 

[publiusr]

The ship moored next to the floating island is my favorite

 

[Graham1973]

Edward Valigursky from the April 1958 issue of 'Amazing Stories'...

 

[Graham1973]

Bob Eggleton from the September 1987 issue of 'Amazing Stories'... (FWIW the Space Shuttle is named Polaris.)

 

[Justo Miranda]

Spanish Pulp novels

 

[Justo Miranda]

Post-2

 

[Justo Miranda]

Post-3

 

[Orionblamblam]

Glad I was never a fan of the original "Masters of the Universe." Sounds like I'd be as annoyed as I have been by modern Trek And Star Wars...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9lXAt8gyJk

 

[Rhinocrates]

Melvyn Grant.

 

[Graham1973]

Ed Emishwiller...

 

[Orionblamblam]

The Drinker is an idiot with displays of bad hygiene, bad taste, bad language and general bad behavior.

And now you, yes, YOU, can own a Critical Drinker of your very own:

The Critical Drinker Plush​

Now, when it comes to movie critics, who should I listen to? Do *you* have a plushy of your own? Well, do ya?

 

[Rhinocrates]

Watching the first episode of the third season of the Lost in Space reboot, a few thoughts occurred to me. LiS is confidently YA (young adult) genre. There's lots of melodrama and coming of age stuff and there is frequently the threat of hugs. However, much of the plotting is also about people working together to find practical solutions to problems. This episode, duct tape and whiteboards even play a part. The solutions (not to mention the problems) may seem absurd if one were to do the math, but the process is usually sound, from observation to diagnosis to solution... and it takes time.

Contrast that with Star Trek Discovery, which is not so clearly YA in its marketing but certainly so in its realisation. Fourth Millennium technology is unfortunately indistinguishable from magic and much of the script is given over to to the affirmations that the YA market is perceived to need. Everything that has the potential dilemma has an immediate 'technological' - that is, magical - solution, bound in a red ribbon of approval. People complain that Michael Burnham is a Mary Sue, but that's not true - every major character is.

I'm middle-aged (if I turn out to be a centenarian, that is) and the target market for neither, but I know for sure which has the more honest writing.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Now, when it comes to movie critics, who should I listen to? Do *you* have a plushy of your own? Well, do ya?

Red Letter Media comes to mind (no plushies tho').

 

[Graham1973]

Here is the rest of the Tony Roberts picture that graced the cover of the 'Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'.

 

[Graham1973]

A video on Disney's 1980s attempt to create 'Star Wars adjacent' entertainment...

View: https://youtu.be/f0rDLvg-Lfs

 

[Graham1973]

Ever since John M Ford's scenario 'Road Show' was published in the 23rd issue of Journal of the Travellers Aid Society (GDWs name for their original house magazine.) Science fiction rock bands have cropped up in Traveller. Here are images of two of them, Veedback, the band featured in 'Road Show', and the other, Three Dog Night, never appeared in a scenario as far as I can tell...

As to what Veedback sounds like, there is a clue in the form of a 5000 year or so old recording mentioned in one 1990s Traveller scenario...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMrImMedYRo

 

[Flyaway]

They Live is a great movie and a lot of fun! People who don't like it probably have a defective overthruster.

It’s another film that though the SFX were done on a budget they still look better than quite a bit of modern SFX probably on an equivalent budget. I think the prosthetics hold up pretty well.

 

[Flyaway]

After so many years defending civil liberties and rights... Hollywood leans toward the dictatorship of single thought.

But not the single thought you’re thinking of. Hollywood first and foremost thinks about the almighty dollar as it always has, and always will. Hollywood can just as easily make a film with the politics of the right as it can the left as long as it turns the profit. Anyone who thinks that giant entertainment companies have a political bias are mistaken. As for actors being sacked for political statements that’s usually because the person has become a liability that will undermine the bottom line, not always because of what they say.

 

[Graham1973]

Covers of pre-Warhammer 'White Dwarf' magazine making use of science fiction artwork by Eddie Jones, Angus McKie & John Harris. The McKie picture was used as the cover for the fifth novel in Brian Stableford's 'Hooded Swan' series, 'The Fenris Device'.

Later: Thanks to Starviking for providing the correct authors name.

 

[Graham1973]

A review of the Foundation series by author Caitlin R. Kiernan...

Oh, and Foundation. I was very impressed with the second episode. If nothing else, it was beautiful. And then the second episode was very boring, and then the third episode made the second look exciting. Lee Pace is great, but he can't carry the mess this quickly turns into. Also, I think the creators are dumping certain political commentary into the story that Asimov did not precisely have in mind. So, big disappointment.

https://greygirlbeast.livejournal.com/1619897.html

 

[Graham1973]

Another pre-Warhammer issue of White Dwarf, with a major name artist on the cover. Jim Burns is mostly associated with science fiction artwork, this is one of his fantasy images.

 

[starviking]

Covers of pre-Warhammer 'White Dwarf' magazine making use of science fiction artwork by Eddie Jones, Angus McKie & John Harris. The McKie picture was used as the cover for the fifth novel in Bob Shaw's 'Hooded Swan' series, 'The Fenris Device'.

Lots of excellent articles and scenario in those WDs. I especially like the Traveller ones - well thought out, with excellent graphics.

However, I must inform you that your BS is the wrong BS - Brian Stableford wrote the Hooded Swan series, not Bob Shaw.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Melvyn Grant.

I'd read the hell out of that last one.