In our last installment we began looking at terminology for Star Trek as planned for season 1. We continue that today. While there is still more about life in the 24th century most of it is still about the gear and science used on The Next Generation. There’s a separate section for weapons, one for the computer, and a bunch of other terms. I just thought “technobabble” fit best since there’s a lot of it involved.
In this section we’ll look at food, force fields, another visit to the Prime Directive and a bunch of other stuff. But most of it should be technobabble.
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“No, the CG effect we put in later is…will one of you look in the right direction?”
Transformers: Movie Adaptation #3
IDW Publishing (June, 2007)
STORY: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, & John Rogers
SCREENPLAY: Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman
ADAPTATION: Kris Oprisko
ARTIST: Alex Milne
COLORIST: Josh Perez
COLOR ASSIST: Lisa Moore
EDITOR: Chris Ryall
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Detective Pikachu is one of the many Pokémon spin-off games. Instead of collecting and trading Pokémon for boxing matches (I keep seeing people likening it to cock fights and stuff but these aren’t fights to the death…in-universe anyway) you use them to perform other tasks to help you progress through the game. In this game’s case you play a kid who can understand the title Pikachu (chosen because Ash’s “God-Chu” has elevated that species to popularity even if you don’t play any of the game series) and together you have to solve a mystery. It’s this game that has led to a movie adaptation.
A live-action…movie adaptation.
Live-action video games movies are terrible adaptations. Some of them aren’t even good movies, but that’s a different discussion. Hollywood doesn’t seem to know how to translate a video game to a movie, even if the video game already has a deep story and lore as well as cinematic cutscenes. They keep wanting to make it a loose adaptation but sometimes it’s so loose that it barely resembles the game in question. It’s like not-stalgia movies in that way. And they’ve got Ryan Reynolds playing Pikachu and Justice Smith as the kid. (I haven’t played the game but apparently the kid is supposed to be…let’s be honest, not “white” but Japanese. It’s Japan. Black people are rarer there than any joke you can make about a US town. But I bet nobody complains they didn’t get a Japanese teen to play him.) Could this be the game that finally gets a proper live-action adaptation? My guess is no but let’s look at the trailer anyway.
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“It’s not MY fault my logo is in your way!”
Doctor Who #11
Marvel Comics Group (August, 1985)
US COVER ART: Dave Gibbons
REPRINT COLORIST: Andy Yanchus
COVER COLORIST: George Roussos
Doctor Who: “The Deal” and “End Of The Line” part one
(originally presented in Doctor Who Weekly #53)
WRITER: Steve Parkhouse
ARTIST: Dave Gibbons
EDITOR: Alan McKenzie
“Star Tigers” part three
(originally presented in Doctor Who Monthly #s 44-45, I think…this issue didn’t list them so I’m guessing based on a wiki entry)
WRITER: Steve Moore
ARTIST: Steve Dillon
EDITOR: Dez Skinn
