Star Trek: Not all Black Holes are evil
I love Star Trek. I used to be a proper, full blown, badge wearing, pointy eared Trekkie. Now I am one of those people who can, if the situation demands, cite episode number and obscure species name, without being obsessive. My first introduction to Star Trek was 'The Corbomite Maneuver' - the first episode of the 'original series' (well it was the first to be aired, the first episode was called 'The Cage' and Christopher Pike was the captain of USS Enterprise). We found that a wibbly wobbly alien was really a puppet being operated by the really ugly boy in Gentle Ben. That was first aired in 1966 on US television but I first watched in at the age of 12, in 1990, on UK television. I was hooked from that moment. I wanted to be an engineer like Mr Scott or a scientist like Mr Spock.
In my opinion the new film, directed by JJ Abrams (of Lost and Cloverfield fame) was a triumph. It had all the slightly camp touches that the original series had. The production even managed to make the retromodern technology look believable. However this blog is not a critique of the film. There was a cheeky bit of Cavalier physics, and you know how grumpy I can be about that.
Twitterings
- What about Horcrux? RT @astronomyblog: Invited to launch of new UK Space Agency. Think UKSA is bad name. Better suggestions?
- The 365 days podcast of my dad and me wittering on about astronomy and telegraph poles is finally online http://bit.ly/ckAOj5
- Thinking of joining the new physics crime fighting group 'the dark energy task-force'. Codename: Fine structure boy.
Baaaaaa
- Why the BBC is wonderfully British
- I don’t have the money or the energy
- When Celia was learning
- Gregynog Hall and students who don’t like beer
- Goodbye Bute Park, hello Howells Highway
- Moblin: Netbook OS of the future?
- Star Trek: Not all Black Holes are evil
- dot Astronomy – Video conference proceedings
- Teapots from Space – the final abduction
- And I prithy hold thy peace
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- Episode 4 - Dr Andy's guide to exploding stars December 16, 2009
- Episode 3 - How to spot Astronomers July 11, 2009
- Episode 2 - Close Encounters with Herschel and Planck May 21, 2009
- Episode 1 - Attack of the Space Junk March 29, 2009
