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This is reasonably rare footage taken from the first shoot of the Star Trek: Voyager pilot, “Caretaker”, where Captain Janeway was played not by Kate Mulgrew, but rather by Geneviève Bujold.

Thank goodness for Mulgrew, eh?

This is quite inspiring, so please take the time to take a look. Sci-Fi Heaven’s very own Craig found it for us, so send appreciation to him.

Things are pretty slow.
Our pre-release copies of the TIME TRAVEL Star Trek set arrived this morning, so we’ll have a review in a few days.
I did some tweaking to the Sci-Fi Heaven Store whilst listening to some of the new Guns N’ Roses stuff, which I must say is pretty darned awesome.
We may […]

The rumour mill has swung into, well, full swing, with names, ideas, and theories floating around the Interweb.
One of the most promiment this week places ER’s Goran Visnjic (Luka Kovac) in the firing line, claiming he is being considered for a role in the new movie.
Most likely nonsense, but interesting given that he was seriously […]

Explosion on the Moon
NASA scientists have observed an explosion on the moon. The blast, equal in energy to about 70 kg of TNT, occurred near the edge of Mare Imbrium (the Sea of Rains) on Nov. 7, 2005, when a 12-centimeter-wide meteoroid slammed into the ground traveling 27 km/s.
“What a surprise,” says Marshall Space Flight […]

Let’s face it, we all have size trouble. Especially Craig.
Each week, Star Trek, Stargate and other shows create many diverse alien races by slapping a few extra noses or tendrils onto the creature’s head. Voila - the entire Slimevian race has been created with a bit of rubber. Something I’ve never seen […]

Much talk abounds about the meaning behind the hit American sci-fi TV programme, Lost. Questions such as, ‘What do the numbers mean?’, ‘What the hell is going on?’, and, ‘Did I miss an episode?’ are typical of what the general audience is asking.

Went to see Serenity today. There were 9 people in a 200-person cinema.
That can’t be good.

An interesting little find - when the infamous Lost number sequence “4 8 15 16 23 42″ is inputted in a certain way into GoogleEarth, the following is found.
Pretty interesting hey? An island, located between Sydney and Los Angeles. :)

Former STAR TREK producer Brannon Braga talks to Sci Fi Wire about the future of his new sci-fi show, THRESHOLD.

“It’s worth noting that the weekly stakes of the show will be out in the real world, involving everyday people like all of us,” Braga said.
“And [wherever] the team is going, … whether it’s Miami or Ohio or Indiana or Baltimore, they’re going to be going out to investigate strange occurrences, all related to what the aliens are doing, and trying to put out fires, save the people who are in danger and try to figure out what the hell they’re doing and how they’re doing it.”

Asked about future episodes, Braga said “There’s also an interesting aspect to the show, though it’s more of a sub-aspect, which we call the West Wing aspect. In one episode there’s a senator who doesn’t know about Threshold, who discovers $50 million has been diverted to something called Threshold, and he wants to know what the hell is going on. And the lid is almost blown off the whole operation. So the team is not only trying to figure out what’s going on, they’re trying to keep
people from finding out.”

More from Braga can be found at Sci Fi Wire.

The notorious “Borg Collective” of Star Trek fame have attempted to make a ‘first contact’ style infiltration of Earth, today in the 21st century. In this day and age of politics and political correctness, the borg were immediately confronted by lawyers with fierce objections to the methods of the space faring collective.

The objections voiced have been largely issues to do with the Borg’s famous introductory statements. Traditionally, upon contact with a seperate party, the Borg would transmit a message saying something along the lines of: “We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile”. While there have been several variations in the past, the general idea has been the same.

After a complicated argument about the minds of the Borg legal representatives being shared with those of all others, a condition of access to Earth was finally reached, detailing among other things - a reform to the classical Borg introductory statements in order to bring them into the current era.

The altered version reads thus:
“We are the Borg - a collective minded entity consisting of a variety of intelligent species including but not limited to: Human; Klingon; Romulan and Betazoid - with equal inclusion of genders male, female, androgenous and undecided.

The probability of your assimilation is calculated to be extremely high, but may depend on a number of factors including firepower; shielding and speed capabilities of the targeted party.

Resistance is futile*

* Futility of resistance not guaranteed due to factors identified in the preceding statement.”

Since the Borg are now required to say that every time they want to attack someone, it gives the victim plenty of time to run away. Just goes to show, red tape isn’t ALL bad.

Night Watch
From Russia, with horror, comes the stylish horror fantasy film that has revolutionized post-Soviet cinema: NIGHT WATCH (NOCHNOI DOZOR). The film brings to the fore the cutting-edge vision of director/writer Timur Bekmambetov (whom Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov called “our Tarantino”) and is the first instalment of a trilogy based on the best-selling Russian sci-fi novels of Sergei Lukyanenko (which also include Day Watch and Dusk Watch). Featuring a dazzling mix of state-of-the-art visual effects, adrenaline-fuelled action sequences and nail-biting terror, NIGHT WATCH (NOCHNOI DOZOR) was an instant smash hit in its native Russia when it was released in July 2004 shattering all previous box office records. Made for a mere $4 million, the film surpassed both LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING and SPIDER-MAN 2 at the Russian box office. In a country that had not seen a native film make more than $2 million, NIGHT WATCH (NOCHNOI DOZOR) went on to gross eight times that number. Internationally acclaimed, it was also Russia’s contender for the 2004 foreign language Oscar®.

Set in contemporary Moscow, NIGHT WATCH (NOCHNOI DOZOR) uncovers the other-world battle that upholds a 1000-year-old truce between the forces of Light and the forces of Darkness. For centuries, the undercover members of the Night Watch have policed the world’s Dark Ones –the vampires, witches, shape-shifters and sorcerers that wage treachery in the night — while the Dark Ones have a Day Watch that in turn polices the forces of Light. The fate of humanity rests in this delicate balance between good and evil but that fate is in jeopardy …

Ancient prophecy foretells that one day a “Great One” will arrive who can end the apocalyptic battle between Light and Dark conclusively. That time has arrived in Moscow – but which side will the Great One choose?

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