Tag Archive | "William Shatner"

The Captains…

Thursday, October 13, 2011

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I had no idea the mighty Bill Shatner had made a new documentary about Star Trek, it sneaked in underneath my sensor range like a crafy Romulan.  The Captains, as the title implies, sees The Shat focussing on the man or woman in the centre seat on the starship bridge: the Starfleet captain and the [...]

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Star Trek verus Star Wars according to Shatner

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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Star Wars or Star Trek, which is better and why? It’s an argument that’s surfaced in science fiction fandom many a time over the last few decades (personally I love both and consider them to be quite different types of SF&F so really don’t see much point in arguing over them like this other than [...]

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Happy 80th birthday, William Shatner!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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(detail from cover to Star Trek : Burden of Knowledge, art by  Joe Corroney, published IDW) Can it really be true? Can the mighty Shatner really be celebrating the anniversary of 80 of our Earth years this very day? Yes, folks, the man who is Captain James T Kirk (sorry, Chris Pine, loved you in [...]

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Vote Shatner-Palin??

Monday, December 14, 2009

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The mighty Shat has been happily extracting the Michael from former vice-presidental hopeful and gaffe-prone politician Sarah Palin for NBC’s Tonight Show in the US, doing readings from her book (I use the word ‘book’ quite incorrectly here) Going Rogue, when he had the tables turned by the arrival of Palin herself who read from [...]

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Mighty Time Lord computing

Monday, December 7, 2009

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The Cynical C blog points us towards this set of classic adverts from the early days of personal computing with Tom Baker’s Doctor and Lalla Ward’s Romana selling us the latest in digital technology (hey, anyone remember the ‘paperless office’ promises of the early and mid 80s?). I’d completely forgotten about these, they were probably [...]

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