Results tagged “startrek”

We just spotted this clip on YouTube. Bill Shatner was heading to Microsoft to visit some "Star Trek geeks" and he decided to stop off at Pike Place Market downtown. Immediately the free sample people descend upon him. No wonder he's pushing portly. He also buys some nuts. UPDATE: They've set the video to private, even on The Shatner Project. Not sure what the deal is. Thank god I described it in detail for everyone. I know, it's like you were there.

It was our second play at the Rep in as many months, so we know: a gay character in a Seattle Rep performance this season has about the same odds at survival as a redshirt on an away team mission did in the original Star Trek. That is to say, he dies. Apparently that's how you illustrate "families being torn apart" or something these days.

As we were saying the other day, the Seattle Rep is producing a play next season by playwright (actor, screenwriter) Robert Schenkkan, who lives in Seattle and whom we first met at Victrola. (You know him for authoring the magisterial The Kentucky Cycle, or from his appearance on Star Trek: TNG or in Pump Up the Volume.)

The title is a little pun about the Dyson sphere, Freeman Dyson's main claim to fame and the source of his name-check in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Town Hall kicked off its Science Lecture Series last night with a talk by particle physicist Lawrence Krauss on Einstein's "biggest blunder."

Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A Peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, "TATER TOTS OR FRIES?" Also, FEMA wants it's money back.

This video shows us how great the world will be in 2055 after we turn around this whole global warming thing and finally get down with some clean energy. As you can see in the capture above, monorails will be whisking by, cars will be hovering and our cities will be massive and dense. Substitute yesterday's vision of clean fuel (nuclear) for today's (hydrogen, biodiesel, wind, solar) and this could have been produced in 1955. We'd also like to take issue with the Star Trek casual wear on everyone and the McCain/Obama ticket. No way Barack would let McCain VP on his 2008 bid.

As Seattlest was just saying, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku was at Town Hall last night, giving a talk on parallel universes and string theory. We prefer to get our science fix from people who don't sound like they're physicists "in theory" (or who advise the Star Trek franchise), but we keep an open mind.

Do you remember the episode of Star Trek where Spock and Kirk had to fight to the death? Sure, it had a bit of a cop-out ending, but the theme to which they fought has ingrained itself into pop culture, as has the vision of these two friends fighting in an unwinnable fight (although Spock won). So what does bringing up this extraordinarily geeky moment have to do with Seattle? Not much to be honest, but the Second Annual Laptop Battle Championship is tonight, and while there likely won't be any spears, ripped shirts, or faked deaths, the music and competition should prove to be no less thrilling.

Halloween isn't until Monday, but everyone's going out to celebrate this weekend. So after you put the final touches on the ultimate scary costume (be it a Katrina victim, avian flu, or even *shudder* Harriet Miers), hit the town for one of the many Halloween-themed movies showing on the big screen.

You never know who your neighbors are until something tragic happens. Yesterday we discovered the sad news that actor James Doohan, Scotty from TOS, has died of pneumonia and Alzheimer's complications, but also that he was a Washington State resident, making his home across the puddle in Redmond. He originally hailed from Vancouver, B.C.