The new stills are from Christina Aguilera's upcoming greatest hits album, Keeps Gettin' Better - A Decade of Hits, and she's rockin' all sorts of sexy space woman shots.

Perhaps this new found pop love of all things scifi is due to the culture's ability to foresee the trends, and with J.J. Abrams' super optimistic Star Trek themed undertaking maybe it's time for everyone in Hollywood to start donning the pointy ears and learning how to "hug it out" Klingon style.

I personally welcome the happy pop-go-lucky scifi trend because look what it gives you:

Nicole Richie made her crazy-faced butt kicking chica scifi debut on Chuck this week, and even though she was all bullets and fists, it's Chuck, the "aw shucks ain't he cute," of science fiction shows.

Paris Hilton has brought her sexy swagger and "singing voice" to the freaky scifi musical Repo! The Genetic Opera, and while it's about harvesting organs off the living, it's still a musical with a pretty happy beat.

Janet Jackson is working a fierce Ms. Tron get up on her brand new tour.

Always the trend setter, Beyonce has been rocking a cyborg arm in her new music video "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)":

"Scary Spice" rocks the alien get up, what's not to love when you've got scifi fashion on the red carpet.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Now that Britney Spears is back to working with the Joseph Kahn (of Toxic fame among many others) in her new Womanizer music video, I think it's safe to say that we can only expect great scifi things from our pop princesses.

If only we could teach George Takai and William Shatner a little bit about J.J. Abrams' optimistic scifi message, those two could stop fighting like little babies and get with the new trend that is happy-go-lucky science fiction:

The big-eyed Richie episode of Chuck premieres on October 20th.

Every week the story gets a little more confusing and a little less interesting: someone bad is stopped by Chuck's spy-computer brain and inherent geekness. The characters are so one-dimensional it's sad, and not even cute lederhosen can save them. Granted I was partial to Captain Awesome in the first episode but his shtick got old, fast. But there are more questions I have for Chuck and his buddies.

How does this world actually function without imploding with its own illogic? Every week, there's a new character that adds little to the plot and just seems like bells and whistles trying to take the audience's attention off the terrible story line. For example, look at Rachel Bilson, she's hot. Never mind the terrible Russian arms dealers' accents. or the ridiculous Ninja fighting. Give us character development please or at least some meat on those plot lines.

The show's one saving grace is Adam Baldwin as John Casey. He's a great character and completely and totally believable. Who else was standing in their seat clapping when Jayne, sorry Casey, suited up in Buy More gear?

But in general, the way things are going with Chuck, he may not want to quit his day job at the Nerd Herd.