It’s my first guest post! Wilko is a friend who I met through this blog and happens to live in a country where The Avengers was already released. Read his spoiler-free reflections below and check out his blog TheGamingChristian.com. There are several reasons why I think I’m blessed to be living in Namibia, this thirdRead more
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Like the Hulk, I’ve turned green. While he turned green from rage and gamma radiation, I have turned green from envy. This past weekend, in seemingly every other country but the one in which I live, The Avengers was released. The movie made almost $180 million around the world, breaking records in many foreign markets.Read more
I don’t really understand Star Trek’s universal translator. I know that it’s used to translate various languages to make communication possible among Star Trek’s numerous species. It doesn’t always translate, though. Captain Picard would often speak in Klingon but it wasn’t translated to English. And sometimes the universal translator would just break down and soRead more
Someone’s making an Avengers porn. What the crap? I read that news yesterday and couldn’t help but shake my head. It shouldn’t be all that surprising. There are porn parodies of lots of different nerdclinations, including Star Wars. I suppose if people are excited about seeing the Avengers battle Loki and his secret army, thenRead more
A popular sci-fi trope is malfunctioning cryogenic sleep systems. Nothing ever good happens when the cryogenic system fails and the travelers wake up earlier than they’re supposed to. In spite of the apparently unavoidable problems, I wouldn’t mind curling up inside a cryogenic chamber for a few weeks or years.Read more
I recently watched the trailer for Trek Nation, a documentary about the impact of Star Trek and Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future. Gene Roddenberry was a secular humanist and believed that through our own efforts, humanity could fully achieve a utopian society free of war, disease and brokenness. I love Star Trek but IRead more