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Of Invincible Aliens that were Easily Vanquished

by storiesbywilliams on February 26, 2013 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged achilles heel, alien invasion, Battle: Los Angeles, Battlefield Earth, battleship, borg queen, captain picard, h.g. wells, Independence Day, John Travolta, Kang and Kodos, L. Ron Hubbard, locutus, M. Night Shyamalan, martian tripods, martians, Paul Verhoeven, Q, rihanna, science fiction, scientology, signs, Star Trek, Star Trek TNG, the borg, The Day of the Triffids, the simpsons, The War of the Worlds, Transformers, uss enterprise, USS Missouri, uss voyager

If there’s one thing that’s become an annoying cliche in commercial science fiction movies, and even some novels, it’s the idea of a super-advanced alien race that come to Earth, proceeds to kick ass, but then gets beaten by a ragtag bunch of superheroes by the most implausible means. You know what I’m talking about, […]

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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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Cool Cyborgs (updated)!

by storiesbywilliams on May 24, 2012 in Cool Stuff, Movies, Series and tagged 8 man, alex murphy, arny, assimilation, Blade Runner, cyber terrorists, cyber warfare, cyber-conversion, cybermen, cybernetic, cyborgs, cylon centurion, cylon raider, darth vader, ghost in the shell, hybrid, jedi, lightsaber, luke skywalker, more human than human, Motoko Kusanagi, National Public Safety Commission, nexus 6 replicant, OCP, robocop, robocop 2, roy batty, sarah conner, Section 9, skin job, Star Wars, t-1000, t-101, t-800, Terminator, terminator 2, the borg, tyrell corporation, you will be assimilated

8 Man: Always good to start with a classic, don’t you think? Especially one that really doesn’t get the attention it deserves. In addition to being Japan’s first cyborg superhero, this 60′s anime character was also the inspiration for Robocop. You heard me right! Apparently, the main character was a Detective who was murdered by […]

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Cool Ships!

by storiesbywilliams on April 29, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged Alien, aliens, b5 crusade, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, book, building better worlds, cache weapons, captain sheridan, cat, chewi, cheyenne dropship, cloaking device, colonial marines, commander adama, companion, conestoga-class, corellia, corellian ships, cylons, deep space nine, defiant-class, delenn, drakh, dropship, firefly, firefly-class, han solo, hegazi, hell-class weapons, hoben washburne, ilia volovya, inara serra, interstellar alliance, j michael straczynski, jabba the hutt, jayne cobb, kaylee, kessel, kessel run, lighthugger, lister, malcolm reynolds, melding plague, millennium falcon, mimbari, phasers, president roselyn, quantum torpedoes, red dwarf, religious caste, revelation space, rimmer, river tam, romulans, sajaki, secret compartments, serenity, shepherd book, simon tam, spice, star trek ds9, Star Trek TNG, the alliance, the borg, the defiant, the dominion, the empire, the excalibur, the galactica, the pegasus, the rangers, the sao paolo, the twelve colonies, the valiant, the victory, the white star, ultranauts, ultras, uss nostromo, uss sulaco, wash, Weyland Yutani, white star destroyers, white star fleet, xenomorphs, zoe, zoe washburne

God, what an obvious extension of the whole conceptual sci-fi thing, I can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner! After all, what is a sci-fi franchise without some cool spacefaring vessels? Sometimes, these come in the form of exploratory ships that chart the unknown regions of the galaxy. Sometimes they are battleships which kick […]

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The Alien Graph

by storiesbywilliams on March 21, 2012 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, alien graph, alien versus predator, aliens, arachnids, Avatar, AvP, Babylon 5, cardassians, centauri, contact, Covenant, drac, enemy mine, ferengi, firstborn, goa'uld, halo, kilrathi, klingons, na'vi, narn, Predator, protoss, romulans, science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, starcraft, stargate, starship troopers, the borg, the dominion, the inhibitors, the mimbari, the ori, the Q, the shadows, the vorlons, vegans, vulcans, wing commander, xenomorphs, zerg, zombie graph, zombie movies

Behold! After a few days of contemplating what I said in the Ancient Aliens post – you know, about how alien’s technology and moral capacity are often interrelated in sci-fi – I realized I needed to put it into graphic form. And as I said in that post, if we are to consider technological advancement […]

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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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