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Well as someone old enough to remember Jon Pertwee as the Doctor, and I've also read Tom Baker's autobiography, I can safely say he [Tom Baker] was unknown by the general public (and certainly by children) until he became the Doctor.

Just finished reading So Say We All, the unofficial BSG book as told by interviewing the cast of the original series and the remake. Not my usual kind of book but some interesting titbits. Just about to start Sapiens, which was recommended by a friend at work.

On reflection, I think this is much more straight forwards and links into the premise that Vulcan's never lie. That is, Khan takes Spock literally because he is a Vulcan. Savik addresses this directly with Spock. The dialogue is something like: Savik "You lied?" Spock "I exaggerated." I...

While this is clearly handwaved I think the idea is that it would’ve burned up in the atmosphere of an ordinary planet but survived because the atmosphere was just forming on the Genesis Planet. I think David mentions this in Star Trek III ...

And a couple more: 4. How did Khan recognize Chekov (as he stated when they met at the beginning of the movie) when Chekov wasn't even part of the USS Enterprise crew at the time of "The Space Seed," the episode which introduced Khan and his genetic supermen? Remember the Enterprise is a big...

OK - my take on it below: 1) Sensors are inoperable due to the Mutara Nebula. They don’t know where each other are. Why not Just look out the window? Clearly sensors are worse at "sensing" than basic eyesight is. Look! There they are! I interpret this as long range sensors being inoperable -...

Hmm ... I have a distinct memory of stormtroopers taking Leia down in Episode IV by setting their blasters to stun. Mind you, it never happens again in any other SW film!

I could be wrong but I think that’s how Star Trek was originally sold not Star Wars ...

From the trailers I went in worried about the comparison with Firefly (which I also like) but it didn't really jar at all. Similarly, you've hit the nail on the head of our initial confusion with Darth Maul (i.e. as he's dead from Episode I this must be before Episode I and so how is Han so...

Had similarly low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. I’ve only watched the live action films and so Darth Maul was a bit of a curve ball given that he died in Episode I. (And wouldn’t Palpatine have known if his apprentice had survived??? Given that we know he’s not going to discard an...

Very hard to say from the snippets we see posted but I have to say that each time I see one I can't help but wonder how Pathfinder 2E is going to be significantly better than Pathfinder 1E as opposed to just different . . .

As an aside, didn’t the 1E Druid have to defeat the current incumbent at higher levels? You could easily adapt something like that for any class that exists within a formalised structure or institution. Although “defeat” could mean something very different from class to class.

Ironically the more I hear about Pathfinder 2E the more it makes me appreciate D&D 3E!

I know of Conan and Elric; perhaps Conan slightly more. I’ve read a reasonable amount of REH and Moorcock but there’s a whole host of similar characters that I’d think of in a similar light (just look at 1E DMG Appendix N for most of them). I’ve heard of Drizz’t and Geralt but, based on what...

I’ve read some of the details about Pathfinder 2E and it made me wonder whether there’ll be a split between 2E and 1E? While Pathfinder has always been consider a way to keep the D&D 3E ruleset “alive”, it’ll be interesting to see if the new edition is seen as a further outgrowth of 3E or “new”...

I wonder if this is a problem some people have with Luke in TLJ? We see Luke grow as a Jedi in the original trilogy to where, after facing Darth Vader again, he is a Jedi Knight. But being a Jedi Knight is still quite a step away from being a Jedi Master. And I’m not sure TLJ really showed us...

Not to derail the current conversation but, if this trilogy is to wipe the slate clean (or more generously complete) the Skywalker saga presumably because Skywalkers are uber powerful with the force, then isn’t that to a degree derailed if Rey is stronger with the force than Luke? And so equal...

Interesting, my first thought was it being used like a long-handled club rather than a blunt spear ...

Well I prefer TOS films to any of the others and generally prefer the uniforms to the other incarnations of Star Trek. Mind you, I never had a problem with the supposed more "militaristic" elements of the TOS films either . . .

The internet yes, just surprised to see it on EN World ...