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Here's an idea: what if the Federation sucked? What if it became an oppressive regime that crushed dissent, and the heroes were among the last holdouts who lived life at its fringes, trying to eke out a living as best they can without arousing the attention of the beast?
Oh, wait - they did that series.

Yes, they did.

They need to go forward. REALLY forward. Five hundred years beyond TNG. Build an absolutely perfect Federation and then hurl seriously gigantic threats at it. Go to the limits of current science fiction and use the cream. Transhumanism and stuff!

Tsunami stations are all well and good, but will they continue to operate after the mega ice storms freeze the entire ocean solid the Day After Tomorrow?

Perhaps the money would better be spent installing giant space heaters, especially along the northern border states.

http://www.foxhome.com/replacement/

Dood ... they missed one of the very best skiffy shows EVAR, Kolchak: The Night Stalker . X-Files creator Chris Carter cites Kolchak as key inspiration ... run down the five-DVD set, turn off the lights, and prepare to be creeped out, starting with the scariest theme song in the history of TV.

I know that EA, for instance, will sell you a replacement CD of the Battlefield 2 game for the PC if you can prove you bought it, but I've never heard of similar service from any music publisher/distributor.

At least 1 hollywood studio will do this. Ah here we go, quick google for 'dvd replacement' turns up everybodys favorite, Fox. Costs $7 (admin fees, the physical product and shipping is my guess).
http://www.foxhome.com/replacement/

Disney (cost, $7): http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/dvdsupport/faq.h tml

Haven't found much info about any others.

A trend right now? Trilogies have been "the trend" in Hollywood for decades. Raiders of the Lost Ark? Star Wars? The Godfather? They've just gotten more shrewd about keeping options for trilogies open when launching a movie with possible trilogy potential.

Personally, I think they should stuff the whole "trilogy" concept where Firefly is concerned .. just keep making movies, a la Star Trek, as long as they bring the money in. Who cares how many there are?

Btw, wouldn't it be cool to have a scene where the Serenity crew meets up with The Betty for some kind of caper?

The problem isn't raw materials for construction. We're literally swimming in 'em. The problem is going to be energy production. Oil and coal will be around for a little bit longer, but 50 years down the line when the rest of the 3rd world (and all of China) is turning on their lights at night, and you're talking about serious energy concerns. "Alternative" isn't an option, it's going to be a necessity.

The other problem is that NASA is dealing with space exploration in the completely wrong way. I wish they were bigger Sci-Fi geeks, because just about every single example of our future's spacecrafts are designed and built in space. It's stupid to be expending this much effort to go up and down when you could be having interstellar flights lasting months for the same amount of energy.

What the X-Prize is really all about is that we need to be able to get into space reliably and back again, it should be cheap, and it should be relatively safe. NASA has been spending a large part of its dough in past years to develop something that is fully capable of being produced by commercial interests today. But for real space travel, you need scientists on board for long periods to work "in-the-field" so to speak. If you need them to go to the surface of a planet, you just use shuttle craft.

What annoys me is that they (NASA) should be putting their cash in interstellar space vehicle design, in-space production, and power requirements for these ships. There's no reason we can't have people studying Mars while orbitting it -- if you need food for three months, you just tack on an extra cargo hold to your ship and have only the mass / energy considerations to think about.

Nowadays the primary concern is "I've only got so much payload because this thing has to break loose of the Earth's gravity intact." So they're flinging satellites to the far edges of our solar system, keeping their fingers crossed for the sometimes decade-long wait to find out if their fragile, expensive equipment functions correctly.

Why does NASA ignore what is so obvious to the rest of the imaginative world? Most sci-fi and anime fans already knows there are escape velocity/atmosphere vehicles, and interstellar vehicles (and know that the two don't mix very well with each other).

Titan AE - which wasn't that great a movie, used a cell shader for the entire movie, not just the human (and alien) characters...

Given the flurry of fan activity over Joss Weldon's last show, Firefly, and the subsequent snubbing by the other networks when they wanted someone to pick up the show... the cynic in me wouldn't be surprised if this show also fades into oblivion.

Stewie lives, but his campaign for governor didn't work out.

according to the fox videos home page

they are releasing the complete series of firefly on 12/9

i can't wait

Does that clip remind anyone else of Young Frankenstein? Add some people waving torches at him.

Mwaaaaaaaaah!