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There are a lot of stories looking back Trek TOS floating around because of the 50th anniverseray. My favorites are:

Lucile Ball was the first trekkie. Yes, Lucile Ball, your new geek overlord.

MLK said he was a Trekkie. Wouldn't let Michelle Nickhols leave the show. MLK, blerd before it was cool.

http://www.blastr.com/2015-9-2...

...Day of the Triffids?

http://www.blastr.com/sites/bl...

SyFy has a Childhood's End series in development.

The question is, will it be BSG quality or Riverworld quality?

Waterworld is a guilty pleasure of mine. I watch it every time it's on TV. It's everything I love about bad 90s movies.

Long, boring, dull, with obvious smarmy references to current ecological catastrophes, and ending with the obliteration of Dennis Hopper?

Waterworld is important for that one character - Dennis Hopper was friggin great.

4. The economy recovers, because all this stuff has much the same effect on the world economy as WWII had on the US economy, but without the millions of people dying.

(Note: not entirely my idea)

There is at least one major drawback to this working in the same way. A significant portion of what made the US economy so powerful post-WWII was the fact that in the process of prosecuting that conflict a healthy chuck of the manufacturing capability of the rest of the world was reduced to rubble.

I just don't see how this has any importance, whatsoever, because I don't see how it can have any measurable effect on any decision made by anyone on this planet in the foreseeable future.

Here's an interesting way it could have an effect:
1. US Government discovers habitable planets within, say, a century of here.
2. US Government scares the population of Earth by pointing out that this habitable planet might be filled with evil aliens who want to take over Earth.
3. US and foreign governments and UN all scramble to do whatever is necessary to take on the aliens, pouring massive amounts of cash into R&D, engineering projects, construction of defensive tools, space launching capabilities, and even pure research.
4. The economy recovers, because all this stuff has much the same effect on the world economy as WWII had on the US economy, but without the millions of people dying.

(Note: not entirely my idea)

All related links! All SFW!

Failbook
Star Trek TNG
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Climbin' in yo mansion...

(This is what happens when you hide evidence - mindless link propagation.)

There is a romour that hollywood wants to make a doctor who movie. J depp is named as a dr who actor (I think Depp would fit the role of the bad guy better, but who am i).

But if Matt were to play the Hollywood doctor ...