The third part of the Mirror-Verse story was on DC Comic racks for February 1985. Mike W. Barr continues delivering a solid script, while Tom Sutton handles pencils, and Ricardo Villagran handles inks. The pair also deliver the issue’s cover. Stardate: 8217.2 The splash page shows the two Kirks confronting each other, with the Prime…
Tag: invasion
Star Trek: Prophet of Peace (1976)
August of 1976 saw issue 39 of Gold Key Comic’s Star Trek series on comic spinners. Titled Prophet of Peace, it was written by Arnold Drake and featured art by Alden McWilliams and Jose Delbo, with yet another cover painting by George Wilson The splash page shows the aft section of the Enterprise as Kirk,…
Stargate SG-1 (2006) – Flesh and Blood, and Morpheus
The final season of Stargate SG-1 began on 14 July, 2006 with the episode, Flesh and Blood. Written by Robert C. Cooper, the episode picks up with the Ori arc right away. The Ori invasion continues, a large portion of the human fleet has been destroyed. Vala (Claudia Black) delivers her baby, who grows at…
Stargate: SG-1 (2005) – The Powers That Be, and Beachhead
Vala (Claudia Black) and SG-1 head to a planet that has reported seeing Ori Priors. What Vala hasn’t told Cameron (Ben Browder) and the rest is that this is the planet she ruled over when she was held by the Goa’uld and ruled as Qetesh. The Powers That Be was written by Martin Gero and…
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) – John Rawlins
Nazis, I hate these guys. Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes leaves behind the trappings of the 19th century for this 1940s adventure, based loosely on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tale His Last Bow. A radio broadcast from Germany is threatening destruction on England, and it gleefully predicts and calls out each moment of destruction with eerie…
Dark Skies (1996) – Moving Targets, and Mercury Rising
So after the Kennedy assassination and their options off the table, what do Loengard (Eric Close) and Kim (Megan Ward) do in the first episode following the pilot movie? They become Moving Targets. Written by the series creators, Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman, this episode was first broadcast on 28 September, 1996. Loengard and Kim…
Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 3: Fire (2007) – The Runaway, The Puppetmaster, and Nightmares and Daydreams
Toph (Micheala Jill Murphy) and Katara’s (Mae Whitman) relationship becomes even more strained, when Katara disapproves of the group’s way of making some fast cash, scheming local con artists out of their money by using their abilities, and even doing some con work themselves. After much bickering, the pair come up with a way to…
Star Trek: Invasion! First Strike (1996) – Diane Carey
Diane Carey launched a cross-generational story that swept through all four of the then-existing series, The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. Each novel featured a standalone story that connected with the other tales, and the first featured Captain Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise. Set a very short…
Empire of the Sun (1987) – Steven Spielberg
Spielberg’s next project was an adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s memoir of his time as a boy growing up in Japanese occupied China during World War II. Christian Bale, in one of his earliest roles, plays young Jamie Graham, an arrogant young English boy who is fascinated by planes, and whose life is upended in the…
The Faculty (1998) – Robert Rodriguez
A Kevin Williamson script, a Robert Rodriguez film, and a cast back to the rafters including Elijah Wood, Salma Hayek, Josh Hartnett, Jordana Brewster, Piper Laurie, Famke Janssen, Jon Stewart, Robert Patrick, Usher, Bebe Neuwirth, and Daniel von Bargen. Sounds decent right? Honestly, it ends up being a pretty solid science fiction film, giving a…
The Mind Reels 