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FeatureIt's Your Turn To Speak

SciFriday with Michael Hinman

Every once in a while, especially if I get flooded with a bunch of e-mails that I think are good enough for publication here, I like to do SciFriday's version of "Open Line Fridays."It's a feature that seems to be real popular with Rush Limbaugh's radio show, or so I hear, so why not here?But before ...

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FeatureLooking Beyond The Possibilities

The Trek Within with Brian Meskimen

Everything that can be invented, has been invented.Those infamous words were uttered by Charles H. Duell in 1899, which, in case you are a little behind in your history, was before the radio, television, airplane, computer and just about anything else many of us consider creature comforts.And even t ...

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FeatureLet Me Know When He's Really Sorry

COMMENTARY: Adding Washington is bad move by NBC

Before I climb onto the ranting soap box, let me share a few words spoken by the subject of this commentary.The "F" word to me, at that particular time, before this took off in this other direction in terms of sexual orientation, it meant something -- it meant to me, someone who is being weak ... a ...

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FeatureWant To Run A Campaign? Then Don't Do This

SciFriday with Michael Hinman

I have something to say about campaigns. And relax Hillary, Barack and Mr. McCain ... I ain't talking to you guys.Every once in a great while, you'll open up Airlock Alpha and see us talking about some fan campaign somewhere. It could be efforts to bring closure to "Farscape," or some fleeting attem ...

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FeatureEnvisioning A Better Trek World

The Trek Within with Brian Meskimen

As I was sitting watching the obligatory fireworks last week at the end of a hot, sunny Fourth of July in rural Minnesota, I began to think about what the anniversary of the independence of the United States meant to me. The more I thought about it, the more dissatisfied I became.Now dont get me wro ...

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FeatureIt Can't Be! Catherine Tate The New Companion?

SciFriday with Michael Hinman takes a strange turn

The following story contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the third season finale and parts of the fourth season of "Doctor Who."Now before I get an angry e-mail from one of Britain's most cherished comediennes, I just want to say for the record that I really like Catherine Tate's work. I think she is absolut ...

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FeatureThe Future Of Reporting The Future Begins Here

SciFriday with Michael Hinman

There is a lot of debate on whether or not the future of media will be found almost exclusively on the Internet.As Airlock Alpha gets ready to enter its 10th year of existence, I have personally watched the Internet grow from the few country roads of news and opinion to the media powerhouse it is to ...

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FeatureHeres To 10 Years!

Alan Stanley Blair bids farewell to Stargate SG-1

The following column contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the series finale of "Stargate SG-1."Who could have imagined that back in 1994, the underrated feature film about a piece of alien technology found in Egypt would become such an overwhelming success? The lofty concept may have failed to make waves on ...

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FeatureCain Likes Girls ... So Frakkin' What?

Michael Hinman returns to SciFriday

The following column contains MINOR SPOILERS for the upcoming "Battlestar Galactica" telemovie "Razor."After touching on issues like abortion, stem cell research, suicide bombers and various aspects of morale ambiguity, it appears that "Battlestar Galactica" has finally found a subject that some say ...

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FeatureIs Reboot The Answer For Star Trek?

Brian Meskimen shares the Trek Within

So Ill be the first to admit that since, oh, Season 2 of "Star Trek: Enterprise, I have been a pretty bad fan. I remember my earlier days where I literally lived and breathed Star Trek.Okay, maybe not that bad, but you get the point.I still have several containers of paraphernalia in storage  ...

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FeatureImages Of 'Batman: The Animated Series'

Wayne's Worlds with Wayne Hall

Last time, "Batman: The Animated Series" was about to debut on Fox.Monday, Sept. 7, 1992. I lived for that date. That was the day the first episode was set to be broadcast.As I mentioned last time, I had seen a preview of the show at a local Star Trek convention, and I was stoked! It looked great, a ...

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FeatureWhy Do Endings Always Have To Be Happy, Tidy?

Michael Hinman asks the big question

The bell on the door jingles as it opens. Journey is playing in the background and Tony Soprano looks up from his plate of food at the little New Jersey restaurant before the screen cuts to black and there's 10 seconds of silence followed by the ending credits.That's the last "The Sopranos" fans wil ...

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FeatureIs Star Trek Really Dead?

Alan Stanley Blair beams into this week's SciFriday

Space : the final frontier : .There was once a time when these words carried so much weight that they would have people humming the opening notes to the Star Trek theme with utter delight.But no more. After five spin-offs and a collection of movies, Star Trek came to an end with the cancellation of ...

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FeatureYou Win Some, You Lose Some, You Go Nuts

SciFriday with Michael Hinman

Right after I turned 9 years old, a tornado devastated a town neighboring my northcentral Pennsylvania home.At the time, I didn't really know that much about tornadoes or what they did, outside of the true science-fiction classic "The Wizard of Oz," and as we toured this community that day back in 1 ...

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FeatureWhere Have All The Real People Gone?

The Trek Within with Brian Meskimen

As anyone with a bit of military knowledge might know, the officer-enlisted personnel ratio in any type of military operation leans quite heavily toward the enlisted side. However, in the world of Star Trek, the vast majority of the time all viewers seem to run into are officers and other important ...

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