Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas meet for the first time.
Best detail in the Mirror Universe Star Trek comics? The ship named the “ISS Nixon.”
The Gold Key Star Trek comics just didn’t care.
They drew Captain Kirk with an afro sometimes.
but who does number two work for
Dadich: I want to center our conversation on artificial intelligence, which has gone from science fiction to a reality that’s changing our lives. When was the moment you knew that the age of real AI was upon us?
Obama: My general observation is that it has been seeping into our lives in all sorts of ways, and we just don’t notice; and part of the reason is because the way we think about AI is colored by popular culture.
[…]
Dadich: I understand you’re a Star Trek fan. That was a show inspired by a utopian view of technology—what about it shaped your vision of the future?
[…]
Obama: Star Trek, like any good story, says that we’re all complicated, and we’ve all got a little bit of Spock and a little bit of Kirk [laughs] and a little bit of Scotty, maybe some Klingon in us, right?
three bridges in three months; never coming back from space
karl urban has had the least difficulty channeling his predecessor’s performance over the course of the kelvin-verse films it seems
@vintagegeekculture just reminded me of rad posts about the 1964 New York World’s Fair that Star Trek production artist Doug Drexler made a few years back on his, sadly now-defunct, blog:
From design influences to homages (even Iron Man 2′s was nice), the legacy of the 1964 World’s Fair in particular is a point of historical pride for me as a Queens transplant.
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