A collection of holiday specials in a YouTube playlist. These feature short and long Christmas adventures for the whole family.
Continuing our exploration through Trek jargon. We only have a few entries left and I want to save the weaponry for the next installment. Weaponry is the next section by the way. Tonight we’ll learn about tractor beams, transporters, turbolifts, tricorders, and warp drive. Won’t that be exciting?
There are only two more sections after this, the aforementioned weapons and a section about the ship’s computer. There is also a section about science terminology, but it’s real-word science like what a planet is. If they got that part wrong they shouldn’t be doing modern science fiction. This means we’re almost done with this series, so let’s get going.
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“That’s what we forgot, our space helmets!”
Robotech: Metal Swarm
(also written on the cover and publishing info as “MetalSwarm”)
Academy Comics, Ltd. (December, 1995)
WRITER: Bill Spangler
ARTIST: D.S. Villalovos
I kind of wonder if this was planned to be another issue of Warriors that for some reason became this one-shot. It teases another story for next issue, and Metal Swarm would have been an odd name unless the same threat somehow showed up again. It doesn’t matter since we’ve reached the first comic ended by Academy losing the Robotech license.
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In a previous video I posted from the YouTube channel Midnight’s Edge we heard about decisions made by CBS considering Star Trek that are making a negative impact on Paramount’s own Star Trek movies. This might be confusing since I’m sure most of you thought Paramount owned Star Trek. It was right there in the credits. Paramount and Paramount Home Video distributed the various Star Trek movies. Why wouldn’t they be the rights owners? Basically it comes from a rather bad decision, the same kind of anti-sci-fi bias that killed Doctor Who despite both being successful worldwide, and corporate shenanigans.
In THIS video from Midnight’s Edge, the team looks at those licensing issues and how Lucille Ball, Viacom, a well-meaning split of companies that didn’t take into account who had which license, and genre hatred has led to the strange licensing issues Star Trek has and why CBS owns Star Trek but Paramount still has their own Star Trek. It should be less confusing if you pay attention.
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“I want a refund on this mosquito repellent!”
Transformers: The Reign Of Starscream #1
IDW Publishing (April, 2008)
WRITERS: Chris Mowry & Chris Ryall
ARTIST: Alex Milne
COLORIST: Josh Perez
LETTERER: Chris Mowry
EDITOR: Denton J. Tipton
