For an episode in which the audience hears that everything is all wrong, “Yesterday’s Enterprise” gets almost everything right. The premise is high science fiction, marking, as far as I can recall, the first time…
Enter the SFC’s Tolkien-Lewis Writing Contest! (Deadline: March 1, 2013)
- January 23, 2013
- Tagged as: C.S. Lewis, Contest, Sarah Arthur, Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were both scholars of language and literature, Oxford professors, Christians, and friends. They might both also be considered the original “sci-fi Christians,” since both men used their considerable literary talent…
“The Hobbit:” One Sci-Fi Christian’s Review (with spoilers)
- January 3, 2013
- Tagged as: The Hobbit, Tolkien
I hesitate to say I enjoyed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey even more than I enjoyed John Carter, only because I know that won’t sound like high praise to most moviegoers. But if you read…
I’m no fan of snow. Growing up in southwest Texas, where we considered Christmas Days with temperatures in the sixties “cold,” I used to wish fervently for snow. But now that I must trudge through,…
Retro Reading for Christmas Eve: “The Silent Night of the Batman” (Batman # 219, February 1970)
- December 24, 2012
- Tagged as: batman, Christmas
I’m hoping to share a lot about Superman with my fellow sci-fi Christians in 2013—but here’s one last Bat-offering for the Dark Knight’s big year, while it’s still 2012, in the spirit of the season! “So…
“The people I create in there are more real to me than the people out here.” So Reginald Barclay confesses to Geordi midway through “Hollow Pursuits.” Barclay—Starfleet’s very own Walter Mitty, played to awkwardly painful…
“My father believed… the world wasn’t ready. What do you think?” Hm. The only really “off” moment seems to be Pa Kent considering, even for a second, that Clark should’ve let an innocent victim die…
If this list were a countdown instead of a chronological one, this episode would almost certainly hold first place. A dramatic, smart, and moving exploration of what happens when the Prime Directive is inadvertently broken,…
“So… shall we begin?” Yes, please. There will be plenty of time for theologizing, sci-fi Christian style, about this in the days and weeks ahead. For now… Great Bird, but this looks so cool! Bleak…
Where has all the lens flare gone? (“Star Trek Into Darkness” teaser poster)
- December 3, 2012
- Tagged as: Star Trek
So, the first poster for Star Trek Into Darkness has arrived. What do you think? I’ll reserve judgment until I see the movie, of course, but the image seems very bleak in a kind of…