Star Trek: The Promise of You

by Sylvia Bond: My love for character back story knows no bounds, and especially this character, who I’ve carried clutched to my bosom lo these many years. A movie about a young Kirk? Oh, yes. At LAST. Don’t get me wrong. My adoration for Shatner and Nimoy and company is hard-wired and rock solid for all the joy they’ve brought me over the years. But this is the opportunity for the entire story and for well-loved characters to be born anew, vibrant and fresh like newly-hatched chicks, but the same. Beloved. Known. Cherished.

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Lunes Latina: Top 10 Geeky Hispanics

Special Martes Edition
By Teresa Jusino

Last week, we celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month by spotlighting the Top 10 Geeky Hispanic Characters. This week, we’re keeping it real by spotlighting the Top 10 Geeky Hispanics; those men and women in the entertainment industry that both create geeky work and raise awareness about Hispanic cultures, issues, and concerns while fostering a geeky environment in which Hispanics can play an ever-increasing role.

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Lunes Latina: Top 10 Geeky Hispanic Characters

by Teresa Jusino

September 15-October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month! As a Puerto Rican geek, I thought it only appropriate to spotlight all the gloriously geeky contributions Hispanics have made in print, TV, and film. It’s easy to complain that there aren’t enough Latino roles in things – and it’s true, there could certainly be more – but when I sat down to think about it, Latinos and Latinas contribute so much to the geeky stories we love; sometimes in places we least expect!

So, for the next month, every Monday will be a Lunes Latina, and I will showcase some quality Latin geekery!

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Geeks for Obama #3: The Initiative

By Teresa Jusino

No matter what side of the registration debate you supported during Marvel’s Civil War, you have to admit that the 50 State Initiative idea Tony Stark, Hank Pym, and Reed Richards came up with was a solid one.

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Geeks for Obama #2: You Can’t Stop the Signal

by Teresa Jusino

Malcolm Reynolds needed a warrior, a pilot, a mechanic, a companion, a doctor, a psychic, and a priest in order to expose the evil of the Alliance.

Teams are important. And so, before we can do anything, we need to build a team – a network of people who are willing to work, willing to reach out to the geeks of America and say Hey! Get off your butt and do something! Or at least go out and vote on November 4th! You can get back to that comic book LATER!

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Geeks for Obama #1: Save Our Government, Save the World

By Teresa Jusino

Geeks of America! Pause that DVD of Battlestar Galactica! Hold off on the Star Trek vs. Star Wars argument for JUST ONE SECOND! There’s something important under way, so pay attention!

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Now Presenting the Universal Olympic Games!

By Melissa Voelker

Once every four years the world gathers to watch as our best athletes compete for awards, the adulation of the masses, and fabulous sponsorship deals. It is two long summer weeks when network TV programming goes bye-bye and people stay up until 2am to watch Men’s Freestyle Ping Pong Championships. Yes, I’m talking about the Summer Olympics, which began last Friday night in an admittedly very cool ceremony that took place in Beijing, China. But as big as the Olympics currently are, we all know they could be a whole lot bigger. I’m talking about the Universal Olympics, taking place in a galaxy far, far away, where the sports are more controversial, the competitors are more evolved (in some cases), and the locations hinge on the outright dangerous!

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Meet Pepper Potts, Savior of Superhero Girlfriends!

By Rhea Dee I know very little about superhero comics. Very little. I only read a few comics myself, like Buffy Season Eight, The Boys, Angel: After the Fall, and various indie comics penned by indie minds like Daniel Clowes and Adrian Tomine. When it comes to superhero comics, the best I can offer is [...]

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Fanfic Focus

Enter a world where your favorite characters continue their on-screen stories at the hands – and keyboards – of fans. Where the stories aren’t controlled by a studio or a publisher. Where anything can happen, even Captain Kirk and Spock falling deeply in love. This is fanfiction and it’s lurking, waiting to change the way [...]

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Gifts for the Fandom-Oriented, Gender-Fluid WGA Supporter

By Teresa Jusino There are plenty of geeky fans out there supporting the Writer’s Guild of America strike, and this holiday season they will be boycotting just about everything! So, what do you get these activist geeks this year? I have a couple of ideas that will allow you to be generous while not offending [...]

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Pink Raygun Top 100 Fictional Femmes of Genre Film and Television, 2007 Edition

Forbes recently issued their 2007 list of the world’s 100 most powerful women. This, of course, begged the question: who are the most powerful female characters in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television? We started with a list of women from science fiction, fantasy, horror and comic books and considered several factors. Who [...]

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Written by Rhea Dee A while back (right around Captivity: the hoo-ha heard around the world) I discovered that most of the blogs and message boards Ive frequented all seemed to agree on one thing: Buffy Summers is probably (99% probably) the best representation of a woman in genre fiction. I dont disagree, really. Buffy [...]

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DADDY! Thoughts on Fatherhood by The Tamworthian

Ive just devised and imbued one helluva bumbitch batch of spaghetti bolognese. It was of such size and beefy malevolence that I fear even Buford T Justice would struggle to entertain it in his mammoth gut of righteousness. As I type, it writhes in my own belly, aching for release, much like John Hurts breakfast [...]

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Teachers, According to The Tamworthian

It appears that you odd bunch of ex pilgrims, and assorted loafers, are celebrating something called a National Teacher Appreciation Day. You FOOLS!!! Teachers deserve no appreciation whatsoever, the most they merit a good birching and a subsequent roll around in a salt pit! This is a profession that folk fall into when they have [...]

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Defending Daniel: Part 3

The following article contains spoilers for unaired episodes of Stargate SG-1. Defending Daniel Part 1 Defending Daniel Part 2 More disasters on the relationship front! On a mission Daniel starts to fall for a woman with amnesia called Ke’ra. He then discovers that even though she doesn’t recall it, she happens to be Linea, the [...]

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Defending Daniel: Part 2

Continued from Defending Daniel: Part One. Now that the show has begun, and the movie completed, Daniel rejoins SG-1 when his wife is kidnapped by Apophis, and turned into a Goa’uld. He decides to join up with SG-1 in the interests of reclaiming her. He never does. Related Stuff:

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Defending Daniel: Part 1

[SPOILER ALERT: I am an unabashed, indefensible gate-dork. I have already seen the entirety of the last season of Stargate SG-1, because it aired in Britain on SkyOne. The second half of season 10 will not begin airing in the United States until April. If you don't want to hear commentary on an episode that [...]

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