Andy Wood

Based on this report from TVShowsOnDVD.com your favorite Trek Animated Series (TAS) is finally going to be hitting those DVD players and just in time for the holidays too.

The series was produced by Filmation and ran for two seasons, 1973 and 1974, airing a total of twenty-two half-hour episodes. It featured most of the original cast performing the voices for their characters, except for Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), who was omitted because the show’s budget could not afford the complete cast. He was replaced by two animated characters who made semi-regular appearances: Lieutenant Arex, a member of a species called the Edo, which had three arms and three legs; and Lt. M’Ress, a female Caitian. James Doohan, and Majel Barrett, besides performing their characters Montgomery Scott and Christine Chapel, performed the voices of Arex and M’Ress, respectively.

Koenig was not forgotten and later wrote an episode of the series, becoming the first Star Trek actor to write a Trek story in the process.

It is generally assumed that the episodes in the series take place after the events of the Original Series, possibly during the last year of the NCC-1701’s five-year mission. However this is never stated on screen. It is impossible to support this notion using the stardates mentioned in the episodes, since they are often inconsistent with the Original Series. One episode, “Magicks of Megas-Tu” carries a stardate lower than that of the second pilot of the Original Series (“Where No Man Has Gone Before”); however, McCoy, who wasn’t a member of the crew at the time of that early episode, is present. Another episode carries a stardate higher than that given in Star Trek: The Motion Picture which takes place approximately one and a half to two years after the events of the five-year mission.

If you simply cannot wait for TAS , then don’t forget that you can always see what happens when the Flintstones meets Star Trek.

“Captain’s log: Stonedate 25,000 years B.C.! That’s right, ol’ buddy, ol’ pal … humans were traveling in space long before you thought they were! HOW? Back in those days, the expanding universe was a lot smaller than it is nowadays, so the stars were easier to reach!”

Snowflake Entertainment has been engineering a conversion mod which will allow players to experience Starcraft RTS in 3D using the Warcraft 3 Engine.

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What is Project Revolution? Project Revolution is a Starcraft to Warcraft III Total Conversion that will convert Warcraft III into Starcraft: Brood War without violating any intellectual property laws. More streamlined, they have developed 3D models of Starcraft units, buildings, attack effects, tilesets, Interface(GUI) and doodads to mimic Starcraft: Broodwar sprites. The Total Conversion will run a custom Artificial Intelligence (AI) script, making it playable in the Warcraft III Engine.

The developers of this mod are not part of Blizzard Entertainment in any way. They are fans working for fans. The mod will be free to download once released. If you would like to see how things are going, On Wednesday, May 24th 2006, StarCraft Legacy hosted a Fansites-only Q&A chat with Snowflake Entertainment about their upcoming project.

Son of a B$^#*$ , Mother puss buckets!!!

Sorry about that, but it would seem that the last disc of Stargate SG-1 Season 7 is all hinkey. I can’t watch any of the episodes on this disc, they are all pixelated, basiclly FUBAR. Reminds me of trying to watch satellite during a really, really, really bad storm.

So that I don’t loose any continuity in the story lines, I don’t want to try to skip ahead to Stargate SG-1 Season 8. The writers, producers and directors have been doing a great job at keeping in sync with the story, better then Star Trek I should point out. (let the flaming begin)

Since today is a holiday, I will not be able to contact my video distributor and get it replaced, so I am back to watching the X-Men Evolution Season 2.

Warner Home Video has acquired worldwide rights to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and is preparing two DVD editions of the landmark 1982 science fiction classic, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

In September, Warner will release a restored and remastered version of the film’s 1992 director’s cut, which debuted on DVD in 1997 as one of the first movies to appear on the format. This version of Runner will only be available for four months. Next year, to celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary, Warner will release Blade Runner: The Final Cut, which it is billing as Scott’s definitive new version of the film.

After a limited theatrical release, the newly spruced-up Runner will be released in a multidisc special edition DVD that also will include the original theatrical cut, the expanded international theatrical cut and the 1992 director’s cut.

The art is pretty good along with a great use of colors too.

I can’t really complain about the story either, at times though it feels like a broken record here and there.

The issue starts off with action, it keeps up the momentum and ends with action and as always that is a plus for me, but something is bugging Tony and I suspect that is has something to do with his suit, again?

Speaking of suit, I like the cover and the abstract use of tangling suits, it has been a long time since Tony has really spent a lot of time on the suits.

I am thrown as to why Nick Fury is part of S.H.I.E.L.D , unless this is taking place is a time bubble right before Civil War? Or this is a decoy to bring out some other sub-plot?

This was a good read, glad that I included in my list of comics to read this week.