I’m much too old to get as big of a kick out of this as I do.
The Cast of Community as the Cast of Batman
Starship Troopers: Invasion Starships
For the new movie, we wanted to focus on a pair of ships that have broken off from the main fleet: a big starship called John A. Warden, and a small fast-attack ship called Alesia. Alesia’s name is derived from the Battle of Alesia in Eastern France where Vercingetorix surrendered to Julius Caesar. The Starship Alesia is home to the Roughnecks Alpha Team…
The Dark Knight Rises Trailer #2
Wow! This trailer is pretty amazing! (Though, am I the only one getting a Fight Club vibe from Bane?)
Star Trek Planetary Genocide
The other night I was reading the first issue of the Star Trek Gold Key comic book that was originally published in 1967. In that issue, the crew of the Enterprise finds a distant world where the plants are the dominate lifeform there who consume the animals and not vice-versa. These plants are intelligent, have communities and corral animals in pens like cattle.
However, when the crew of the Enterprise finds out that the plants can release spores into space that could turn any animal they comes into contact with into one of these intelligent plants, Mr. Spock decides to wipe out all life on this world, committing an unimaginable genocide on a global scale, in order to keep the spores from spreading.
It’s interesting that one of the main missions of the Enterprise is to “…seek out new life…” and apparently, according to this comic anyway, obliterate it!*
* Granted, this comic was written by different writers than the series and really plays no part in the official Star Trek history, but still…