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April 28th, 2008 — Battlestar Galactica
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SyfyPortal.com addresses that very question in its latest post.
During the golden years of television, the standard-bearer for quality programming came from the networks like NBC, CBS and ABC.
Those were networks that were under close watch not only by advertisers and conservative viewers, but also a very strict Federal Communications Commission.
Then cable, and later premium cable, came along and changed the entire landscape, bringing in a whole new wave of expletives, nudity and even sexual situations into serial television, and now the wholesome networks like NBC, CBS, ABC and now Fox are trying to keep up.
Read the entire post here.
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April 27th, 2008 — Battlestar Galactica
There isn’t much more one could say about this except that it’s a classic. Old Cylon giving new Cylon no quarter. You may be taller, but . . . .
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April 23rd, 2008 — Star Trek Conventions
April 23, 2008: Leonard Nimoy, one of America’s most beloved entertainers and known galaxy-wide for his iconic portrayal of Star Trek’s Mr. Spock, has been announced today as a headliner for the upcoming Creation Entertainment’s Annual Official STAR TREK Convention taking place on August 6 to 10, 2008 at the fabulous Las Vegas Hilton Hotel, home of Star Trek: The Experience, the $50 million themed attraction.
During his on-stage appearance, Mr. Nimoy will no doubt be discussing his starring role in the new upcoming Star Trek feature film scheduled for release in May of 2009. Nimoy joins other announced Star Trek stars at the convention including Avery Brooks (Sisko), Kate Mulgrew (Janeway), Brent Spiner (Data), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Jolene Blalock (T’Pol), and Malcolm McDowell (Soran).
Also recently booked is a special Saturday Night performance by 44 musicians of the Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Associate Conductor Richard McGee in The Creation Entertainment Salute to The Music of STAR TREK. The evening will also feature guest composer Ron Jones conducting Star Trek: The Next Generation Suite.
This dynamic and inspiring performance is included on a complimentary basis for GOLD WEEKEND (now sold out) and CAPTAIN’S CHAIR PACKAGE PATRONS (still available in short supply). For all others a nominal admission fee is required and available at http://www.creationent.com/cal/stlv.htm
Leonard Nimoy’s autograph tickets and photo opportunities are available starting today at http://www.creationent.com/cal/stlv.htm
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April 20th, 2008 — BSG Fan Fiction
We all know which scene that was from the episode, Six of One in Battlestar Galactica. One of our staff came up with this, so we thought we’d post it just for fun. She’s in graduate school for creative writing, and this fic is tight, taut and captures the character of Kara Thrace just write. So, we thought we’d share.
– Editor
Masks (unless someone has a better title)
by Vash137
Part: 1/1
Date: 4/20/2008
Rating: PG 13
Parings: Lee/Kara
Word Count: 1315
Category: Short Story
Genre: Romance. Angst. Drama
Warnings: None.
Spoilers: Six and One (4×04 or 4×02 if we’re not including Razor)
Archiving: sfbuzzlive.com; fanfiction.net, my lj, the Fallout Shelter (if you like it). All other places, please ask me.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BSG. It belongs to Ron Moore and the wonderful people at Sci Fi Channel. I don’t make any money from this. I don’t make money from much. I’m just playing with these characters for a little bit, so please don’t sue me. I own nothing except for my books, dvds, computer and geriatric cats.
Summary: Yet another fic (I’m guessing–I haven’t looked yet) about that scene with Lee/Kara in the brig in 4×04. As soon as I saw this scene, I was dying to fic it, me and half of the free world I’m sure. Hope you like 
Toes balanced on the hard mattress, face play kissing at the floor, Kara Thrace did pushups. This was her third set of forty. Her arms shook. On each ascent, salt water slid down her face. Frustration. Anger. Sweat. Not tears. Salt water fell in puddles. On each descent, the muscles in her neck tightened, amplifying the pain in the back of her head where Adama, the Admiral, the man who once said he loved her like a daughter, had grabbed her by the throat and slammed her into the deck.
Up.
What were you thinking?
Down.
What happened to you?
Up.
The bruise was nothing; she’d given and taken worse in spaceports bars of Caprica City or on the floor of the boxing ring. Metal, sweat, and the undertone of vomit that permeated the floor almost comforted her. She’d spent enough time in brigs, shoulders, back, and ass burning, waiting for whoever she’d ticked off this time to get over it and put her back in the cockpit. Brigs were a fact of life when you followed your instincts better than you followed orders.
All she had to do was wait it out.
She had found Earth, and they would believe her. They’d stop this mad jumping and let her lead them home.
She told herself this because she had to, like when her mother had broken her hand, and she curled up on the carpet, hugging it to her chest and pretending to laugh. Better that than believe the truth, to know the pain wasn’t a punchline, that it wasn’t something she could control. To know she had no family. No friends. To know the Old Man was right and none of them would help her now.
“Forty.” She swung her feet to the deck and kneeling, caught her breath. Sweat poured down her shoulders, soaking the inside of her flight suit and stinging her eyes. She licked salt from her lips. This was real. Her body. Nothing artificial . But Leoben had tasted real when she kissed him too, on New Caprica, before she stabbed the knife into his stomach.
The dull clank of the outer door opening forced her to the far end of the cell. Another visitor. Or execution. The more room between them and her, the better her chance to make a break for it. Or catch a bullet, if it came to that, which it wouldn’t. All she had to do was wait this out. She sat, back to the wall, eyes on the door, and wiped her sleeve over her cheeks to rub the sweat away. Distorted voices echoed from the hall. “Thrace . . . visitor . . .” Laughter. “. . . job.”
Skinjob? Was that fracking guard calling her a skinjob? She was not a fracking skinjob. If she had been a Cylon, wouldn’t Leoben have known?
Or maybe he had, and the games, the months of isolation and torture in the name of playing house, had all been his programming.
The guard seated in front of her cell door readied her weapon as Lee entered, decked out in a civvie pinstripe suit. He slid her cell door open as the outer door clanked firmly shut. She grinned because she was so terrified glad to see him; like years ago when she crashed on that moon, crawling across burnt orange soil toward the downed raider, gun ready, knowing in that moment it held the potential to save her or riddle her with bullets. Terrified glad either way because dead or alive, at least she wasn’t alone.
“Umm . . .” Lee stared awkwardly down at his hands. “Zarek nominated me for the vacant Quorum spot, so uhh . . .”
The knots in her shoulders loosened. They were lying, of course, both of them a little bit, ducking behind the masks they always wore–favored son and rebel pilot; husband and wife; friend and lover– and that was okay. Terrible. Wonderful. She laughed. “You’re Zarek’s wingman.”
“All right, all right, you know. Stow it. Okay. I’ve heard it all before, I know.” He kept his gaze on the corner, hands in pockets, punctuating his words with nervous drops of laughter. “His head is as big as the house I grew up in, but I’m pretty new to all of this and I could use the help.” He turned his head to her, met her gaze beneath half lidded eyes. “Besides, I never really could say no to anything.”
“Except me.” She wished she could break his gaze, push even further away. Honesty wasn’t what she wanted. What they wanted. But maybe it was what they needed. Without the Old Man’s support, how long would it be before Roslin showed her the wrong side of an airlock? Lee was here to say goodbye. Not to chat about his career. Or Zarek. Or even her act of treason. He was putting her to the deck, not as hard as the Admiral had, but the result was the same.
“Especially you.” He dropped his eyes first. “You know, I think I finally understand what you meant about having a destiny. I’ve got to do this, and the fact that I don’t have an explanation why, doesn’t,” he shrugged, “doesn’t really seem to matter anymore.”
In that moment, in the turn of his body, the tilt of his head, she was able to let herself believe that maybe he had not abandoned her. That more than loving her–love was a tangled and slippery thing that held more sharp edges than smooth ones–he believed in her. Believed in what she had done, or tried to do. Believed that following her destiny had been the right thing, even if it brought her back from the dead.
Her eyes threatened tears. Blinking rapidly, she smiled. “So say we all.”
“So say we all.”
But it was still goodbye. She stood, walked to him, and held out her damp palm. “Good luck on your journey, Lee Adama.”
He took her hand. “You too, Kara Thrace.”
“Okay.” She pulled her hand away. Better to have the illusion of ending it first. She couldn’t be less than herself.
And Lee, thank the Gods, held firm, placing his left hand over where they joined. “Yeah.”
He released her too soon.
Popping open the hatch of her Viper, smacking her boots against the floor of the hanger deck, the hum of Galactica’s engines rising from her soles, Lee’s arms around her, a hint too long, and a hair too tight– it had seemed so easy then. Kara Thrace had found Earth. Her destiny. For once in her life she wasn’t a miserable frack-up. But with each jump the certainty faded. Strand by strand it frayed, until the scream calling her home faded to whine, to a hum, and soon even that would be gone.
Just like Lee.
Why had she come back just to lose everything she loved?
“Lee?”
He froze, back tense, hands hovering over the cell door.
She couldn’t be less than herself, but who was she? What was she? Was she even real?
Then Lee turned, left hand cupping the back of her neck, lifting her towards him, and she couldn’t touch him enough: the ridge of his cheek, the fine grain of his hair, the hint of ambrosia on his lips. The cruelty that usually wove through their affection had vanished. No anger. Frustration. Betrayal. No masks. Only themselves. He kissed her forehead, her eyelids, pulled her tight to his chest, pressed his lips to her ear, and whispered, “I believe you.”
He left, of course. It had always been a goodbye. And Kara let herself fall back against the deck, the pinhead extrusions of the floor wakening the bruise the elder Adama had given her earlier.
They were still going the wrong way.
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April 19th, 2008 — SF Interviews, Star Wars
Galaxiki has a cool interview with David Prowse concerning Star Wars and his role in it.
I’ve grown up with Star Wars and Darth Vader was always my favourite character, therefore it’s really an honour to talk to the man behind that mask today – so here it is, the interview with David Prowse, the actor who portrayed Darth Vader!
David Prowse (72) is the actor who played the Darth Vader character in the original Star Wars trilogy.
Jos Kirps: You were Darth Vader, one of the most popular science fiction characters ever. But did you also like like science fiction as a child?
David Prowse: No, not at all. I used to read this sort of science fiction comics, but I was not a huge fan of sci-fi.
Jos: Did you have a favourite movie as a child?
Dave: As a child? Oh, gosh… I think I was more into sports than anything, one of the films I remember to have seen as an early child and that had a lasting memory for me was a film called “Champion”, which was a Kirk Douglas boxing film. I came out of the cinema thinking I was a world heavyweight champion then, I remember shadow boxin’ all the way home from the cinema…
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April 17th, 2008 — Science Fiction
STAR TREK VEGAS: MAJOR UPDATE: AUTOGRAPHS, PHOTO OPS, & PARTIES ON SALE TODAY!
Let the joyous news be spread: The Official STAR TREK Convention August 6 to 10, 2008 at the fabulous Las Vegas Hilton Hotel (home of Star Trek: The Experience) is ready to accept ticket orders for autographs and photo ops of the booked guests so far (30 Star Trek celebrities have been announced to date with many more to come). We’ve also put on sale some of the numerous extra parties and events that take place during our time in Vegas.
Some of the events and tickets have limited quantities available, so please place your orders as soon as you can. For photo op fans we’re happy to say that Creation’s official photographer Chris (and his crew) will be returning once again to deliver the absolute best photo opportunities in all of convention-land.
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April 17th, 2008 — Science Fiction
Listen to the podcast of Katee Sackhoff’s thoughts and feeling about Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica on Amazon Wire. Listen to it here.
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April 16th, 2008 — Starship Troopers
Casper Van Dien is back as Johnny Rico in this action-packed continuation of the Starship Troopers franchise! In the latest installment of the Starship Trooper franchise Colonel Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien), hero of Planet P, finds himself battling bugs, new and old, on the federation frontier planet known as Roku San.
When Roku San falls to the arachnid scourge in a high pitched, action packed battle Colonel Rico finds himself sentenced to death for acts of insubordination. But with the future of the federation and the life of his good friend (Jolene Blalock) laying in the balance Col. Rico is freed from jail and charged with taking the fight to the bugs using the highly advanced weapons system known as Marauder. Using the new technology Rico and his crack squad defeat the arachnids on the distant planet know only as OM-1 and, in turn, help save his fellow soldiers from death at the hands a treasonous element operating within Federation itself.
Starship Troopers is due out this summer!
Directed by:
Edward Neumeier
Written by:
Edward Neumeier
Cast:
- Casper Van Dien
- Jolene Blalock
- Catherine Oxenberg
- Marnette Patterson
- Boris Kodjoe
DON’T MISS:
STARSHIP TROOPERS 3 MARAUDER stars CASPER VAN DIEN
and JOLENE BLALOCK as well as writer/director EDWARD NEUMEIER
at the NEW YORK COMIC COM EXPO!!!!
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April 15th, 2008 — Music, SF Music
“FARSCAPE CLASSICS Vol 3: LIMITED EDITION”
Music by Guy Gross
Limited Edition of 1200 Units
NOW SHIPPING
FARSCAPE SPECIAL!!! To celebrate our release of FARSCAPE CLASSICS: Vol 3, we are offering FARSCAPE CLASSICS: Vol 1 & Vol 2: LIMITED EDITIONS at a sale price of $15.98 each! There are less than 75 Vol 1 and 250 Vol 2 left… so get them before they’re gone for good!
FARSCAPE CLASSICS Vol 3: LIMITED EDITION LLL CD 1067
Music by Guy Gross
Limited Edition of 1200 Units
NOW SHIPPING
RETAIL PRICE: $19.98
ORDER “FARSCAPE CLASSICS Vol 3: LIMITED EDITION” NOW from www.lalalandrecords.com and get your CD autographed by composer Guy Gross at no additional charge. For a limited time. Autographs are first come first serve while quantities last and are not guaranteed.
Presenting our third volume in a very special Limited Edition series of “FARSCAPE CLASSICS” releases. FARSCAPE CLASSICS: VOL 3 features acclaimed FARSCAPE composer Guy Gross’s complete scores to the memorable episodes THE CHOICE (season 3) and THE LOCKET (season 2). These emotionally charged scores showcase the diverse musical talents of Mr. Gross, which have helped elevate this creative sci-fi television series, produced by the Jim Henson Company, to its cult phenomenon status. These richly textured scores are among the best musical moments the FARSCAPE experience has to offer. 12-Page Collectable CD-Booklet is packed with exclusive liner notes and awesome FARSCAPE photos.
TRACK LISTING:
THE CHOICE
1. Recap / On Valldon 2:19
2. Aeryn’s Theme / Farscape Theme† 1:55
3. Aeryn Meets Talyn Lyczak 3:30
4. Rygel Freaks Out / Talyn Reveals Truth 2:39
5. Stark Sees Xhalax Sun 1:18
6. Crais Explains 1:15
7. Further Exploration 1:32
8. Aeryn’s Flashbacks 0:51
9. Aeryn’s Anger / Xhalax Plots 3:21
10. This Is My World Now 1:12
11. Rygel Pleads / The Seer /Aeryn’s Dream / Xhalax Enters 8:27
12. Xhalax’s Pain / Lobby Battles / Xhalax’s End 7:15
13. Stark’s Goodbye / I Am, What I Was Bred To Be 3:06
THE LOCKET
14. Stark’s Return 0:37
15. Aeryn’s Back From The Mist 1:53
16. Why Am I So Old? 2:45
17. She May Be Dying / Goodbye Pilot 2:05
18. Crichton Arrives On Planet /Meeting Grandaughter 1:44
19. Crichton Tries To Return 1:40
20. Stark And Zhaan Join Spirits 1:51
21. You Ain’t Gonna Get What’s In Ma Head 0:58
22. Hope Keeps Me Going / A-Roving ** 2:46
23. I Belong Up There / They Waited 2:06
24. Aeryn’s Gone 1:03
25. Is That What You Want? / There’s This Lake In Maine 3:29
26. Reverse Starburst / Stark & Zhaan Keep Time Alive/ Crichton Runs 2:25
27. Don’t Go Into The Mist / Jothee Is A Slave 2:37
28. D’Argo’s Rage 1:09
29. The Locket 0:43
30. Farscape End Credits* 1:04
Total Time: 70:54
RETAIL PRICE: $19.98
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April 15th, 2008 — Battlestar Galactica
This Just In . . .
Our thanks to Kindred of BSG Reviews Yahoo Group
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
While season 4 of Battlestar Galactica is just getting started for viewers, it’s nearly completely wrapped up behind-the-scenes. There will probably be a lot of news in the coming months about the cast and crew taking on new projects. One person who won’t be leaving the sci-fi genre anytime soon is BSG mastermind and executive producer Ronald D. Moore. Not only is he putting together the Caprica prequel movie for the Sci Fi Channel, but he’s also signed on to write the pilot for the new FOX series Virtuality. The pilot, about the 12 crew members on Earth’s first starship, will be co-written by another Battlestar Galactica vet, Michael Taylor.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Virtuality is set aboard a ship called the Phaeton, which is on a ten year journey to explore a distant solar system. To help the crew members endure the long trip and keep their minds occupied, NASA equipped the ship with advanced virtual reality modules, allowing them to assume adventurous identities and go to any place they want. The plan works until a mysterious “bug” is found in the system that puts everyone in peril.
The idea for the series was dreamed up by producers Lloyd Braun and Gail Berman, who then shopped the project around to several writers. Moore and Taylor signed on to write and executive produce the pilot, while film director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) is in talks to direct.
I love that FOX is pursuing exciting genre fare like Virtuality, Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, and J.J. Abrams’ Fringe, but I’m also a bit worried. Moore, Whedon, and Abrams are three of my favorite creative minds in the business, and FOX is known for giving the ax to sci-fi shows that don’t bust out of the gate with huge numbers. I don’t know which of these shows stands the best chance at finding an audience, but I do know that at least one of them should be paired up with season 2 of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. FOX has yet to decide whether they’ll renew that series, but considering how interested they seem to be in sci-fi, I’d imagine they will.
There’s no word on when we’ll see Virtuality, but you can catch the final season of Battlestar Galactica Friday nights at 10pm on the Sci Fi Channel.
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