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Technology in the Star Trek Universe (updated!)

by storiesbywilliams on May 30, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged 1984, aldea, Alien, aliens, battletech, beam me up, beaming, bone knitter, cloaking device, custodian, deflector shields, dilithium chamber, Dune, dystopian, George Orwell, holodeck, hypospray, matter anti-matter, matter-energy transporter, medical tricorder, phaser banks, phaser cannons, phaser rifles, phasers, replicator, science fiction universes, Star Trek, star trek ds9, star trek the original series, Star Trek TNG, star trek voyager, star trek: insurrection, Star Wars, technology in the star trek universe, Terminator, the aldeans, the borg, tricorder, uss defiant, uss enterprise D, utopian, warp bubble, warp drive

I’ve wanted to do a post like this for awhile, ever since my conceptual post on Galactic Empires in fact. After doing my research on what distinguished one from the other, I noticed just how central technology, or the perception thereof, is to it all. And let’s face it, Star Trek has had a lot […]

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Dystopia – Final Word

by storiesbywilliams on March 31, 2012 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged 1984, 2019, A Clockwork Orange, A Little Princess, A Scanner Darkly, Akira, Anthem, anthony burgess, art deco, ayn rand, beethoven, Biopunk, Brave New World, children of men, clive owen, console, custodian, cybernetics, cyberpunk, cyberspace, cyberspace deck, cyberspace jockeys, deck, deep sleep operatives, Dieselpunk, dystopian, dystopian literature, Elfpunk, fritz lang, future noire, ghost in the shell, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, human project, jessica 6, Katsuhiro Otomo, lastday, lifeboat britain, logan 3, logans run, margaret atwood, mega city one, metropolis, molly millions, Motoko Kusanagi, nanomachines, Nanopunk, nanotechnology, National Public Safety Commission, Neal Stephenson, neo-tokyo, Neuromancer, new wave, new-path, omegas, p.d. james, palm flower, pavlovian conditioning, pavlovs dog, Philip k dick, PKD, postcyberpunk, runners, sanctuary, sandman, sandmen, Sci-Fi, science fiction, Section 9, sleepshop, slow death, stanley kubrick, Star Trek TNG, steampunk, substance d, tessier-ashpool, The Diamond Age, the droogs, the handsmaid tale, tower of babel, V for Vendetta, virek, We, William Gibson, Y Tu Mama Tambien, yakuza, yevgeny zamyatin

Well, after many, many suggestions on how my list of dystopian franchises could be augmented – this mainly consisted of poeple asking me “what about (blank)?” – I decided there were a few that I really couldn’t proceed without mentioning. This will be my last tour of the dystopia factory, lord knows that place gets […]

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Of Galactic Empires

by storiesbywilliams on March 9, 2012 in Sci-Fi, Series and tagged arrakis, Babylon 5, babylon 5 movies, battletech, Butlerian Jihad, centauri, custodian, dark ages, decline and fall of the roman empire, Dune, earth alliance, edward gibbon, foundation, foundation series, fremen, galactic empire, gene roddenberry, george lucas, hari seldon, history of the decline and fall of the roman empire, house atreides, house corrino, house harkonnen, in the beginning, interstellar alliance, Isaac Asimov, j michael straczynski, kaitan, league of non-aligned worlds, legends of dune series, mech warriors, mimbari, narn regime, narns, old republic, padisha emperor, Paul Atreides, planetkillers, planets, psychohistory, selusa secundus, Star Trek, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, the borg, the first ones, the shadows, the spice, thinking machines, united federation of planets, vorlons

Hello again, fellow sci-fi fans! Today, I thought I’d write about something conceptual, something that is intrinsic to so much science fiction and keeps popping up in various forms. It’s something that has appeared in countless serials, novels, tv shows, movies, and RPG’s. I am referring, of course, to the concept of the Galactic Empire, […]

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