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Jul 29
With this page I wanted to plant a couple of seeds for future story growth. Firstly, there’s the question of why Zoe and Faye are themselves “on the run”. Then there’s the fact that Red may have to work out what her relationship with Faye is. The two girls have been forced together to find a path back to Earth, but is that enough for them to become friends? The thought of them being friends had clearly not occurred to Red at this point, so who knows?
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CQ is a 2001 movie directed and written by Roman Coppola and starring Jeremy Davies (Lost), Gérard Depardieu and model/actress Angela Lindvall as Dragonfly. It’s a story within a story where the characters are making a movie not dissimilar to Barbarella.
The image above is my interpretation of Dragonfly, the central character of the movie the characters are making. If you haven’t seen CQ, it’s worth a look. My fellow Brits will have to import a copy from overseas, however, as it never got a UK release.
Jul 14
Star Trek: Operation – Annihilate
By Spencey on July 14th, 2010Posted In: Blog, Star Trek: Original
There’s something destroying civilisations, spreading some kind of mass insanity and the crew of the Enterprise have their best investigating hats on to find out what. Luckily the spread of crazy flu has moved from planet to planet in a straight line making the task of anticipating where the disease is going next easier.
On their way they spot a spaceship heading into the sun. However, despite Uhura’s best efforts they cannot communicate with it and despite Scotty’s best efforts they can’t tractor beam it. What do they pay these guys for?! The matter resolves itself when they hear a voice on the radio saying “I’m finally free!” before the ship plummets into the Sun. I know how he feels. I’ve had mobile phone contracts that have left me feeling like that.
Jul 07
Star Trek: City on the Edge of Forever
By Spencey on July 7th, 2010Posted In: Blog, Star Trek: Original
City on the Edge of Forever begins, excitingly enough, with a Red Alert. Everything shakes as the Enterprise passes through ripples in time. It all seems like fun until an explosion sends Sulu to the floor. Luckily Dr McCoy is at hand with a booster full of his home brew Cortrozine, which rapidly sorts him out. However, the good times are short lived when 100 times the dosage is accidentally pumped into McCoy himself. This is not recommended and causes McCoy to go completely bonkers and run off. Security alert.
McCoy assaults an engineer and beams down to the planet’s surface to the source of the time ripples. Kirk follows with a landing party, for once making the excellent choice of taking Uhura along as well as Spock, Scotty and two random red shirt wearing crewman.
It transpires that the cause of the time disturbances is a large stone circle which acts as a portal to another dimension. It’s a bit like Stargate. Unlike Stargate, however, Star Trek’s portal can talk! It’s the guardian of forever. In your face, Stargate. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jun 30
Star Trek: The Alternative Factor
By Spencey on June 30th, 2010Posted In: Blog, Star Trek: Original
The Enterprise scans a lifeless planet and, finding nothing, prepares to leave. However, a sudden low budget visual effect invades the screen causing the planet and everything else to fade out of existence for an uncomfortable few seconds. 
Rechecking the ship’s instruments, Spock discovers a living creature now on the planet below. Bloke on a planet? Hardly Star Trek’s most exciting moment, Nonetheless, it’s reason enough to investigate.
A landing party of Kirk, Spock and four security men beam down and find a tiny spacecraft and a bearded man. Or is it a tiny man and a bearded spaceship. I forget. Either way: man and spaceship. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
