Blog Archive: October 2021

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Prodigy Preview and Cast

Fresh from Star Trek: Prodigy's Comic Con panel come several interesting new pieces of information and another short preview clip.

I'm Kathryn Janeway, your training advisor. I'm a hologram based on one of the most decorated captains in Starfleet history, programmed to assist the Protostar's crew on their journey back to Federation space.

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Davies Under Fire

Russell T Davies is presently under fire in the media over remarks he made about UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries and it is being associated with Doctor Who.

For example, DailyMail have published an article titled:

Dr Who writer Russell T Davies launches a foul mouthed rant at new Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries and calls her a 'big f*****g idiot' after BBC nepotism comments.

To begin with, this incident has involved no direct communication between Davies and Dorries.

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Galactic Attraction

In the categories of things which can you make feel small and something cool you don't see every day, we have this image from NASA's Hubble Telescope of two galaxies interacting with the collective designation of Arp 91.

Astronomers believe that such interactions will eventually result in the formation of an elliptical galaxy over a period of hundreds of millions of years.

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Discovery Season 4 trailer

Adding to our very long list of new trailers to have dropped recently is Star Trek: Discovery's season 4.

This season brings us Burnham in the captain's chair, facing down a five light-years wide spatial anomaly which threatens all life in the galaxy.

Sounds like a typical day for a Starfleet captain.

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Freema Agyeman on Racism

After delightfully reading about and reporting on all the delicious teasers in the lead up to Doctor Who's season 13's release, it was very sad to discover this Independent article and short video clip.

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The Flux is Coming

So says Doctor Who, with her trademark ominous gravity in a new trailer which appears to be a more complete version of last week's one.

And they're not alone:

The Flux is coming. It’s bringing with it the Sontarans, Weeping Angels, creatures known as The Ravagers and enemies from across the universe. This is the fight of our lives.

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The Expanse Season 6

The Expanse has released their first teaser trailer for season 6, along with a much welcome release date - December 10.

Officially at this time, season 6 will be its last.

Though SyFy cancelled it once and Amazon gave it new life.

Showrunner Naren Shankar and several of its main cast have also hinted that the end at Amazon needn't be the end.

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Blade Runner Trailer

A new trailer has been released for the upcoming animated series, Blade Runner: Black Lotus.

It includes many elements we'd expect.

Cyberpunk city visuals with Japanese ads heard playing in the background and seen in the foregrounds. Flying cars. Philosophical musings. Robots being mistreated. And it ends with a bloody, "I'm going to kill them all."

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Disney Among the Stars

Disney's Among the Stars is now available in Australia on Disney+.

It's a 6 part documentary following a mission to repair a malfunctioning $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an astronaut being appointed to command the International Space Station.

Then training in Russia, Japan and Germany, launching during COVID and joining the station. As the sole representative of America and its partners.

Also covering the arrival of SpaceX and discussing the future of space travel with commercial partnerships.

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NASA Podcast - Lucy

NASA's latest Small Steps Giant Leaps podcast is available, along with a transcript.

In this one, Lucy Deputy Project Systems Engineer Mike Sekerak discusses the imminent 12 year mission to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

They discuss a range of first and challenges, including the fact this solar powered mission is going out past Jupiter where sunlight is only about 3% as bright as it is in Earth orbit.

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