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Farscape : A Clockwork Nebari

May 31, 2014 in Farscape by Firebird

Aeryn and Rygel bring onto Moya two Nebari survivors of a Peacekeeper attack, Varla and Melak. Despite their weakened state, the ruthless Nebari manage to mind-cleanse the crew, and in the end only Crichton is unaffected, his mind protected by the Scorpius Clone. Crichton presses Chiana as to the motivations of Varla and Melak. It turns out that Nerri, the brother Chiana though lost, is very much alive, and is now the leader of the Nebari Resistance Movement. The Nebari Establishment knows this, and intends to capture him using Chiana as bait.

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Sapphire and Steel : Assignment 6

May 29, 2014 in Cult TV, Guest Blogs by GuestBlogs

A Guest Blog by Hevy782

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From an old house to an abandoned railway station. From a futuristic time vessel then to a modern day apartment. Now from a 1930’s style dinner party to our final destination, a seemingly abandoned roadside café where time has stopped and the only clue is two humans who claim to be from 1948. This is it, the final assignment for Sapphire and Steel. Series creator P J Hammond returns to write this final four part story. Unlike the other assignments, this one directly relates to Sapphire and Steel and where they come from. While we are still left basically in the dark at the end of this story we do get more tantalising hints as to who they really are in this than in any other story.

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Doctor Who : The Lazarus Experiment

May 28, 2014 in Dr Who by Firebird

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The TARDIS arrives at Martha’s flat the morning after she’d left. She’s a little surprised, but the Doctor did say “just one trip” even if it sort of escalated. On TV Martha’s sister Latisha is standing behind an old man who boasts that he’s going to change what it means to be human. The after they say goodbye the TARDIS dematerialises and then a couple of seconds later returns because the Doctor can’t ignore that sweeping statement on the TV.

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Star Trek : For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky

May 26, 2014 in Guest Blogs, Star Trek by GuestBlogs

A Guest Blog by Mindless-Droid

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This week’s classic Star Trek episode is For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky. The episode synopsis is here once again the official site omits this episode.

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Doctor Who Monsters A-Z : Urbankans

May 25, 2014 in Dr Who, Guest Blogs by GuestBlogs

A Guest Blog by Hevy782

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The Urbankans were a race of frog-like bipeds from the planet Urbanka. While they were once organic and still appear that way, they are actually androids controlled by silicon chips which are more complex than a human brain. They are made by created by recording the memory of the original being and then disposing of the body while imprinting their memories onto a chip. This would mean that they could live forever. The same process was also performed on some humans who the Urbankans collected in their previous visits. There were different groups from different religions and times, such as Ancient Greeks and Mayans, all living together on this one vast ship for thousands of years. Only the leaders of the ethnic groups remained unaltered, the rest were limited and became nothing more than simple workers. As a form of entertainment, each ethnic group would perform different dances and rituals to each other.

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Farscape : The Ugly Truth

May 24, 2014 in Farscape by Firebird

Crais invites Crichton, Aeryn, D’Argo, Zhaan and Stark on board Talyn, and announces that he is going to remove the young gunship’s weapons and replace them with a non-lethal Plokavian weapon called a ‘Dampening Net’. When the Plokavians arrive with the device, Talyn suddenly targets and destroys one of their vessels! Crichton and the others are captured after Crais starbursts away with Talyn, and their situation becomes a desperate ‘whodunnit’. Each is interrogated in turn by the Plokavians, who intend to execute the person they deem responsible.

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It may not be the full meaning of the title, but after taking a look at the Plokavians it’s hard not to think that ‘ugly’ means them.

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Sapphire and Steel : Assignment 5

May 22, 2014 in Cult TV, Guest Blogs by GuestBlogs

A Guest Blog by Hevy782

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After ghost stories and futuristic tales, we finally get onto Sapphire and Steel’s take on a murder mystery, where a bargain with Time could lead to the destruction of the entire human race. This fifth assignment is six parts long and is written by Don Houghton and Anthony Read, making it the only story not to be written by the series’ creator, P J Hammond. Some may remember these from their writing credits on Doctor Who, with Don Houghton writing stories such as Inferno and Anthony Read being script editor for a while. There are some distinct differences in the writing from previous stories with the most prominent being the fact that Sapphire and Steel are undercover, which works for this story given the style of the murder mystery. Still it very much feels like Sapphire and Steel despite these differences and Sapphire and Steel are quite possibly at their best here, although I’m not sure as to how much input P J Hammond actually had in this story.

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Doctor Who : Evolution of the Daleks

May 21, 2014 in Dr Who by Firebird

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Dalek Sec announces that the humans present will become like him, turned into Dalek hybrids. Before that can happen the Doctor makes his presence known. He tries to convince Sec that humans aren’t the war-like, Dalek-like species that he believes using music as an example but this is all a prelude to escaping with the prisoners. They run through the tunnels pursued by Daleks and pig guards. When they succeed in getting away two Daleks stop to discuss their opinions of Sec, they have doubts.

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Star Trek : Day of the Dove

May 19, 2014 in Guest Blogs, Star Trek by GuestBlogs

A Guest Blog by Mindless-Droid

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This week’s classic Star Trek episode is Day of the Dove. For some reason the official site skips this episode in the video section so here’s a link to the episode synopsis.

The Enterprise responds to a distress call from a colony on Beta XII-A. Upon beaming down to the surface there is no evidence of an attack or even the existence of a colony. Just then a Klingon battle cruiser arrives. Sulu reports that the Klingon ship is heavily damaged. A landing party from the Klingon ship arrives on the planet and Kang the commander accuses Kirk of a sneak attack. Kirk blames the Klingons for the destroyed colony which Kang claims to know nothing about. All the while an alien entity looks on. The alien entity gains control of the Enterprise and manipulates each side into fighting the other as it feeds off their negative emotions. Kirk and Spock discover the alien and after convincing Kang it is the alien they should be fighting they ”Bury the hatchet” as Kirk says and cease hostilities. With no negative energy to feed off the alien flees the ship.

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Doctor Who Monsters A-Z : Terileptils

May 18, 2014 in Dr Who, Guest Blogs by GuestBlogs

A Guest Blog by Hevy782

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Terileptils are bipedal reptiles with a love of art and beauty who banish their criminals to the prison planet of Raaga where they toil away in the tinclavic mines for the rest of their lives. A small group of these criminals stole a ship and escaped from Raaga, but crashed landed on Earth in the seventeenth century. Only four survived the crash and one died following it, leaving only three still alive. Teileptils naturally breath soliton gas (which is extremely volatile when mixed with oxygen) but can survive in Earth’s atmosphere. Nevertheless, the Terileptils on Earth still create a soliton gas generator to create an atmosphere more suitable for their lungs. Unable to return to their home planet, the Terileptil convicts intend to make Earth in their new world, but they must first wipe out the native population.

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