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This adorable Star Trek webcomic by Caldwell Tanner and Patrick Cassels — titled "Unforeseen Consequences" — reveals exactly what the Enterprise looks like through Geordi La Forge's visor. What is seen can't be unseen!

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You've seen the glorious, crystal clear footage from the first Star Trek: The Next Generations Blu-Ray collection. And now a handful of Star Trek: TNG gifs have been uploaded, beautifully demonstrating the amazing transformation Captain Picard and his crew have made from blurry to Blu-Ray. More »
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It's about damn time! The first ever clip for the high definition, Blu-ray release of Star Trek: The Next Generation is finally out, showcasing a brilliant new universe of crystal-clear aliens and an unfiltered Picard. It looks absolutely lovely, as you can see from this clip of the two-part series premiere, "Encounter at Farpoint." More »
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Want to transform your bedroom into deep space? YouTuber CrysKnife007 has looped the most soothing noise in the universe for an entire day: More »
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There's nothing better than a wild UFO conspiracy theory — unless it's a UFO theory that wraps in a debunked comet, the Catholic Church, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. More »
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This might be the best promotional film for a university we've ever seen. The University of Huddersfield has suddenly become an educational destination, thanks to this witty, chaotic short movie about aliens showing up and demanding our submission. Featuring the voice of Sir Patrick Stewart! It's lovely and charming. [Thanks Legends!] More »
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Ronald D. Moore had a huge cult following long before he relaunched Battlestar Galactica. His work on Star Trek was notably awesome, and his very public departure from Voyager, complete with spot-on critiques of the show's failings, was legendary. Whenever Moore joined the staff of a show like Carnivàle or Roswell, you knew you were in for something special. More »
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The great thing about science fiction and fantasy is that they're full of surprises — you just never know what the universe will have in store. Like, sometimes, a totally random, surprising, shocking death. More »
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With Star Trek: The Next Generation coming to Blu-ray next year, we're going to be rediscovering the Enterprise-D all over again. And with all that new picture quality, we'll be able to notice all sorts of details we missed the first time. More »
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There are many actors who help make science fiction and fantasy awesome, but there are some faces you see again and again. And some actors just automatically brighten the screen whenever they appear. No matter what movie or TV show they're in, they make it better. More »
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You read that right. John "Q" de Lancie is playing an omnipotent Q-like character in the season premiere of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic — and he's forcing the ponies to play his games. Or else. But which pony is Jean-Luc Picard? (And which pony will have the gumption to sock Q in the nose, like Sisko?) More »
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No hero, or team of heroes, is complete without the techie. Every starship has an engineer. Every secret agent has his (or her) gadget-maker. Every superhero team has the person who can fix stuff. Usually, this person is pushed to the background — but they end up being our favorite character anyway. More »
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At this year's Emerald City Comic-Con, Brent Spiner regaled audiences with his eerily on-the-mark Patrick Stewart voice. All those years of acting as an android have apparently blessed him with Soong-style perfect pitch. More »
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Science fiction is all about advancing into a shinier future - so why are people always playing such terrible video games in science fiction shows and movies? More »
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Nerd icon Wil Wheaton has returned to sci-fi television as Eureka's slimy Dr. Isaac Parrish. We spoke with him at Comic-Con about just what makes good (and bad) technobabble, the secret to playing a scientist, and what's ahead on Eureka! More »
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Science fiction and fantasy are all about discovering the new and the strange — but if you travel far enough and boldly enough, eventually you'll get a certain sense of... deja vu. But that can be a good thing. More »
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Star Trek: The Next Generation-A XXX Parody is the third of writer/director Sam Hain's "dark parodies" (the first two were the excellent Sex Files movies) that operate as a porn version of fan fiction, imaging a logical opening in the storyline of the original show and replacing it with a vaginal one. More »
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Syfy announced with great fanfare in late February that it was buying the complete run of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles to run starting April 7. Fans were excited to rediscover this series... but it didn't exactly last. More »
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Can a porn "parody" of a science fiction classic have reasonably good acting, nice special effects, and a plot that you could give a crap about? That's the real final frontier. More »
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Anybody can vaporize you with a disintegrator gun or blow up your planet with an ultimate weapon — but it takes a real badass to thrash you with a fictional martial art. Especially a discipline designed for many-armed aliens. More »
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Steven Spielberg's new TV show Terra Nova may look like Avatar, but actor Stephen Lang explained to us why his character is nothing like the hard-ass he played in James Cameron's hit movie. More »
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They're goopy and nasty, and many of them can ooze under doorways and through tiny holes. Slime monsters are your worst nightmare. And they're everywhere! We've catalogued 104 of the scariest, most horrendous slime monsters of all time. More »
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Your body responds to stress in many ways. It gives you bursts of energy, and a reduced response to pain. It lets you run faster and farther. It also entirely messes you up. Stress releases a battery of hormones that give you superhuman abilities, and they all have down sides. Many of them result in bone density loss or reduced immune response, but one, the corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) is a really nasty customer. It's been linked with severe gastrointestinal problems, increased drug use, and hair loss. A recent research group tried to cure the first of those symptoms, but stumbled into curing the third. At least in mice. More »
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Commander Riker poses with some cool shades on during the filming of Star Trek: The Next Generation. But what is Number One actually saying here? It's up to you to caption this photo! More »
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You might think Fringe has the strangest love triangle of all time — after all, it just gets more unusual the more we learn about it. But actually, science fiction and fantasy have given us plenty of other freaky love triangles — here are 10 other contenders. More »
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Want to see all the NSFW naughtiness that we couldn't show you from the new Star Trek: The Next Generation porn movie? There are tons of X-rated photos over at our sister site, Fleshbot, including what appears to be a hookup between Geordie and Dr. Leah Brahms... But warning: It's very NSFW. [Fleshbot] More »
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: A XXX Parody is the latest porn movie to bring together science fiction and porn. It's also a loving tribute and unofficial sequel to a classic TNG episode starring some major Trekkie porn stars, not to mention an uncannily convincing Jean-Luc Picard impersonator. More »
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A good opening credit sequence can be more memorable than the TV program it introduces. Luckily, science fiction shows are rife with sleek, quirky, and flat-out bizarre show intros. Here are over 30 of the best. More »
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Are you ready for Battlestar Galactica's Ron Moore to go full-on magical? NBC has ordered a pilot for Moore's Precinct 17, an ensemble police drama set in a world ruled by magic instead of science, in the town of Excelsior. More »
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Steven Spielberg's time-travel-with-dinosaurs show Terra Nova has been drawing plenty of comparisons to Avatar. But when the show revealed its first trailer to critics, the comparison on everyone's mind was television's former mega-hit, Lost. More »
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Screw Sharktopus. Frak Mansquito. This Saturday, Syfy has a planet-sized kaiju: Behemoth! Also, this week's television is weirdly obsessed with mega-earthquakes. Alyson Hannigan joins The Simpsons. Jeff Bridges meets a flying blow-up doll. Plus Adventure Time, V and Clone Wars. More »
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You can't conquer the final frontier unless you can cut an imposing figure. That's why so many science fiction and fantasy characters rock the awesome shoulderpads. Or, as we call them, "swagger pinnacles." Here are science fiction/fantasy's most astounding shoulderpads. More »
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The big event on television this week is the return of Doctor Who, airing in the U.S. and U.K. on the same day. There are also two new episodes of the vastly underrated Tower Prep. Plus some fun marathons! More »
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These days, every cool science fiction universe is a "franchise," meaning that it's a piece of intellectual property separate from any particular creator or even set of characters. It wasn't always that way — everything changed in the 1980s. More »
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No Ordinary Family and Caprica are bringing back teenagers with superpowers and attitude. But the Powell kids and Zoe Graystone would have to work way harder to be among the ten most obnoxious super-teens of all time. Here's our list. More »
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The best science fiction and fantasy television hooks you with endless suspense... including hair-raising cliffhangers. But only the greatest cliffhangers can make you throw your remote at the screen, and keep you wondering for weeks. Here are the 20 awesomest. More »
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There's still only one way to bring a new person into this universe. Many science fiction/fantasy stories have featured the drama of childbirth... and some have done it better than others. Here are the best and worst SF/fantasy childbirth scenes. More »
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Even if you're a massive science fiction fan, there are probably still some great shows you've yet to discover. But for massively long-running shows, where to begin? Here's our guide to how to start watching twenty classic science fiction shows. More »
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