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The hottest stories and best comments of the week

The hottest stories and best comments of the week

Here's a list of our hottest stories and best comments this week (and your comments about the man who taught his son Klingon before he taught him English got quite heated) in case you missed anything. Think of it as a DVR for SCI FI Wire.

Enjoy!


Our story: We review the 2009 sci-fi pilots you'll never see

Your best comment: I have to agree with Rick on this one, if the 9/11 plot was a problem for getting it on the air, why not just rewrite the series and have him supposedly die some other way?

Also in regards to 9/11 itself, between two made for TV movies, a theatrical movie, and various New York centered television shows from NYPD Blue to Rescue Me, it seems to me the subject matter has been covered pretty well already by Hollywood without being offensive or over the top, and in no way have the events been glossed over or forgotten by anyone. "Back" would have been no different.—lindyxmjh


Our story: We've got big spoilers for Star Trek 2! (12?)

Your best comment: How about unbeknownst to Kirk he took more out of the Spock Prime mind fusion than he was supposed? He miraculously gets out of scrapes like Kirk Prime but on a subconscious level he pits Prime's antagonists against each other in accomplishing that. We get mashups:

1. Nomad versus The Doomsday Machine
2. M-5 versus Landru & Baal
3. Norman versus Ruk
4. Khan versus the Kelvins
5. Apollo versus Plato's Stepchildren
6. Talosians versus the Melkotians
7. V'ger versus The Whale Probe
8. Janice Lester versus Marta

Epic confrontations! Twice the BOOM!—Son of a Maui Portagee


Our story: The decade's top films: They're all here, and they're mostly sci-fi

Your best comment: I think it's a matter of what we consider "fantasy" films. This article clearly relies on a VERY broad definition.

I don't think of The Simpsons as a fantasy/science fiction/supernatural movie. But I do consider it pure fantasy that three men could possibly want to sleep with Meryl Streep.—A So Cal Guy


Our story: Dollhouse curse: 16 sci-fi TV shows killed in season 2

Your best comment: It's irksome they kill off these series early, but even more maddening that they leave most of these show in the middle of a cliff-hanger with no resolution. Remember Invasion? Networks- if you're gonna kill the show, at least let the producers resolve everything in a grand finale.—Daniel


Our story: Yikes! The Prisoner ratings drop 56%

Your best comment: There are too many of these depressing dark, grundgy shows on now. They have worn out whatever luster they originally had. Scifi is more about escapism. If people want a Drama, they can watch 24 or some of the other cookie cutter shows they put out today. Scifi has been and always will be a format for escaping from the grim realities of day to day life. A place to imagine yourself in a better place and time. Or a place to watch as heroes we care about actually win every now and then. Very few of todays SciFi genre shows should really be called that. Most of them are the same boring old lame drama shows they have been cramming down our throats for years, but with a robot or two, or maybe a space ship thrown in to call it scifi. How about some decent shows and movies in the same style as Space 1999, or Star Trek. On the movie end you have Star Wars and dozens of others to get basic ideas from. Just stop calling shows like Dollhouse scifi shows.—sparrowlord01


Our story: Man taught his son Klingon before he taught him English

Your best comment: The only klingon phrase he will need to say is,"They kicked my ass at school again,thanks dad!".—malohombre


Our story: V deathwatch: ratings drop another 18%

Your best comment: American TV viewers are basically simpletons! If there are more than 3 main actor and more than a SINGLE plot line they are lost. It is a shame that we seem to have reached where the film Idiocracy suggested we would be. Those of us with a brain long for complexity...those without a brain watch the Brady Bunch and go to McDonalds! Pathetic culture (of those watching TV). —bdaul


Our story: The 12 most gigantic hovering spaceships from sci-fi film and TV

Your best comment: It is generally accepted that most of the giant hovering spaceships in media SF were inspired by the ones featured in Arthur C. Clarke's novel CHILDHOOD'S END—Nyrath


Our story: Has V lived up to the hype?

Your best comment: The only way to make this show semi interesting is to have an immediate one half hour (after the Dancing with the Stars Finale) where two unnamed battlestars jump out of nowhere and obliterate the floating V fleet, causing them to crash into humanity and teaching them a lesson for watching this crap show. MorAnna, of course, will escape in her shuttlle and return to the Serenity firefly (piloted of course by a very alive Alan Tudyk). NOW THATs Storytelling!

Oh,, and I can't forget Captain Castle Browncoat Tightpants and Terminator Dollhouse Glau— Nid celle


Our story: The 8 greatest Star Trek cameos ever

Your best comment: Going sorta in the opposite direction, wasn't there an episode of Magnum PI where I think at least 4 ST actors appeared - at least 2 of them before their Trek series ever existed? I remember seeing this episode on syndication a few years ago and going WTF?—Basara549


Our story: Stargate's Shanks as Smallville's Hawkman (pic)

Your best comment: Really, that is the costume? What 1980s Flash Gordon was having a sale on Ebay? Hawkmen Die!!!—psyched48


Our story: We've got the scoop on a new Buffy series!

Your best comment: You're thinking along exactly my lines, distancel. 7 television seasons is about as far as you can stretch an actor as non-aging vamp. If you decided to use the humans, you'd have to come up with some major story arc about why the vampires are slowly aging at the moment!—ageless


Our story: The Times asks, if aliens exist, what would Jesus do

Your best comment: @Thundr

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke."

The only problem I have with alien visitations in the past is the question of why.

Why would aliens come here of all places in the universe, specially in the past to influence primitive man?

If we think of aliens as scientists and primitive man as a rat in a maze, the idea would be that the aliens/scientists are making the rat run through the maze/influencing the evolution of man for a purpose, an ultimate reason.

Did we fail the experiment and that is why the aliens no longer care what happens? Or have they gone from taking an active interest (i.e. posing as Gods, like those of any number of pantheons) to becoming passive observers?

What does that say of man destroying those ancient pantheons and replacing them with the "one true God"?

Does it mean that one alien destroyed all others and assumed the position of God, or does it mean that man himself created God to replace the void left when the aliens stopped their influence and became passive observers?

Is that what they are observing, how man behaves when left to his own devices?

Did the Inquisition, the Crusades, the conquest of America, slavery of the Africans, and all other historical attrocities prove to them that man was not worth their attention?—Michael Sacal


Our story: Times are tough! Creditors try to repossess Galactica

Your best comment: Stupid collection agency guy, Apollo flys Vipers not Raptors.

Duh?!?—nilus

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By nilus at 7:32 PM ON 11/20/09

Wow this is the 2nd time I showed up on one of these things. Either I am way funnier then I think or I post way to much crap on Sci-Fi wire.

By superfly at 8:39 PM ON 11/20/09

Michael Dorn as Worf owns this blog now. Nothing you write can match his greatness. Posting images of him will not allow you to harness his power.

By shadow at 12:05 PM ON 11/21/09

Your a mean one, Mr.Worf
You really are a heel
Your as cuddly as a cactus
Your as charming as an eel, Mr. Worrrf

By John Duncan Yoyo at 12:36 PM ON 11/21/09

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