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letter from britannia

Posted: 05/19/2004 in daily life, london life, pop culture, sci-fi, television, travel
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So, I am back in my ancestral home – which has been in the family since the turn of the century (alright the last one). My mother’s decoration style is more Tate Modern than Laura Ashley, which means it has a twist of art installation about it. This part of greater London is as rural as I can manage without breaking out in hives…it’s a shocking thirty minute bus ride to the nearest Starbucks and I have yet to find a yoga studio – apparently they are only for people North of the river…..he he he. But this ‘isolation’ is good as I get far more revision done.

Can you tell I am feeling better? The news that Enterprise got renewed has brightened my mood too!

sex, drugs and star trek

Posted: 05/10/2004 in pop culture, sci-fi, television
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The crew of the Enterprise NX-01 have always been rougher around the edges than their successors, but T’Pol’s experimentation with sex & drugs (superbly portrayed by Jolene Blalock – will she get a nod from Emmys or Globes?), Archer stealing technology and their current fragile state as they limp towards the show down with the Xindi. I loved the way they had to physically haul the doors open/closed and now they resemble Red Dwarf.

But, I hate it when Star Trek dabble in the temporal paradox episodes – they are generally disappointing (remember Kes leaping about in time on Voyager, none of those hook ups came to fruition) and I just know I will end up hollering at the telly. As far as I am concerned if they fail to make to the same mistake then their future selves will cease to exist, full stop.

Scott Bakula should know better, he was in Quantum Leap after all.

Very exciting news

Posted: 04/23/2004 in films, sci-fi
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Cinescape is reporting that Peter Weir’s next project may be William Gibson’s latest book Pattern Recognition.

Alex and I started reading him whilst we were at university (and even spent hours queuing when he came into town to do a book signing), not sure how we discovered him ….probably killing time in a bookshop instead of being in lectures. I am always amazed at how over looked by mainstream SciFi fans he is, maybe it’s because he doesn’t make things easy for the reader – he makes you work but they are so well written it is worth the effort.

Just in case, you ever wondered about my moniker check out his book titles :)

It’s alive….again…

Posted: 04/05/2004 in pop culture, sci-fi, television
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Good news if you are a Farscape fan – SciFi channel is going to produce a mini series that will give the series proper closure :) Now we just need WB to sort out Angel and UPN to hang onto Enterprise and I’ll be a very happy Easter bunny.

Enterprise

Posted: 02/22/2004 in pop culture, sci-fi, television
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So, Angel got it’s P45 last week and now there of mumblings about whether Enterprise will get renewed for a 4th Season.  Well I got my fingers crossed that UPN will greenlight another season. Okay – it was rather slow to get going but so were its predecessors and I am enjoying my time in the Expanse looking for the WMD. Here are a few things that I would love them to include:

* Is Dax old enough to make an appearance?
* Does Q have anything to do with the creation of the Expanse?
* Background on how the Federation was formed. 
* Glimpse at how future conflicts arose e.g. Cardassians/Bajorans, how did the Borg evolve – were they once humanoid but took technology one step too far?
* The social and economic changes that occurred on Earth e.g. how did they come to stop using money, is it a planned economy?
* Give Archer  decent villains to go up against the Xindi don’t really scare in the same way Cardassians (esp. Gul Dukat), Borg or The Dominion did.