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Nov 17 | Originally hired as co-executive producer to help with the second half of the show's first season, Kevin Murphy has now taken the reins of Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica prequel on Syfy, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He now serves as an executive producer along with Ronald D. Moore, David Eick and Jane Espenson and oversees the day-to-day functions of the show.
Nov 12 | Star Trek star Zachary Quinto is loosely attached to star in the romantic dramedy Whirligig, reports Risky Business.Quinto would play the lead role in the independent Canadian film, which is aiming to shoot early next year. The movie centers on a man who, in a misguided attempt to woo an older woman, befriends the woman's adopted son.Chaz Thorne is directing the pic, based on a screenplay by Michael Amo, creator of the Canadian supernatural series "The Listener."
Nov 11 | The CNS Foundation, is hosting an on-line charity auction at www.charitybuzz.com. One of the items they are auctioning is a signed movie poster of the new Star Trek movie which has all the cast members and writers. The president of our organization is Carol Abrams, JJ's mother, and she arranged for the donation from Bad Robot Production Company. J.J. Abrams is also a major donor to their organization. The funds raised will go to help find a cure to neurological disorders in children. The auction link is here.
Nov 10 | Candice Bergen, Charles Lisanby, Don Pardo, Gene Roddenberry, Tom and Dick Smothers and Bob Stewart have been selected as the next inductees into the Television Academy's Hall of Fame. They will be honored at a Jan. 20 ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel. "This year's inductees have challenged and shaped popular culture, changed television for the better and entertained us royally while doing so," TV Academy Chairman-CEO John Shaffner said. More info at the Hollywood Reporter
Nov 08 | Unreality-SF.net has interviewed Star Trerk author James Swallow about some of his upcoming projects. He talks about Titan: Synthesis and Seven Deadly Sins: The Slow Knife, as well as some forthcoming Doctor Who and Stargate stories.
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Season three just keeps getting better and better (discounting the rather average "Evolution"). Impulse is another great mystery/horror episode akin to season 2's "Dead Stop".
The storyline was different from what we've seen before in a trek episode. Usually its the Vulcans who are immune to "whatever"....this time, it was different. Also missing from the typical trek outline is the "hunky-dory" ending for the afflicted aliens. If this was TNG, the episode would have ended with the vulcan crew being restored to full health, with an added comment about how everything turns out great. Not so with Impulse. It takes everything that trek has done before....and does something different with it.
Another thing the episode did well was setting up some character developement for T'Pol, forcing her to come to grips with emotions, even if it was only for a short while. Perhaps this will be followed up on later.
While the episode did tend to borrow from Resident Evil, it still managed to make itself unique. My only real complaint for the episode was the rather frenetic camera pacing during the intro...I really don't like it when they speed up the frame rate, it feels like someones taking a cheese grater to my spine.
But at any rate, the special affects were once again top notch, and the music is coming along nicely, underscoring the action bits with just the right amount of feeling.
Overall: 8.5/10
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Scientists discover the world that exists;
engineers create the world that never was.
-Theodore von Kármán
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