what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “Out here on the edge of the universe who you are and what you believe is everything, so it’s up to you to decide if this is a blessing or a curse.” In “Trial and Error” Young has vivid recurring dreams about the same situation but no matter what choice he makes the ship […]
{4.5/5} “What do you propose I do about it? Do you expect the warrior caste to intimidate the local star into better behavior?” The starship Titan under the command of Captain Riker has discovered evidence that an ancient civilization had technology like the Genesis device to convert planets from lifelessness to life. Meanwhile the Gorn […]
{3/5} “‘What, did they run out of U’s on your name plate?’ ”I dunno, did they run out of jokes at the Interesting Joke Store that you shop at?” A few years ago Larry was a night guard at a museum in New York when a strange thing happened — all the exhibits came to […]
{4.5/5} “‘In Simon Says, the losers don’t get shot in the head.’ ‘They do in the original Klingon version.’” Dr. Julian Bashir has been recruited for a dangerous mission — infiltrate the Breen and sabotage their development of the slipstream drive. His accomplice is Sarina Douglas, who works for Starfleet Intelligence — Bashir has met […]
Locus is going to do a poll to find out what science fiction and fantasy novels and stories are the all-time best (they’ve done this a few times before but not in years). The categories are science fiction novel, fantasy novel, novella, novelette, and short story. They’re also diving the poll into 20th century (10 […]
{4/5} “I dimly recall that I inhabit a sty and devour the coarsest of food — but the subjective reality is that I inhabit a glorious palace and dine on splendid viands among the princes and princesses who are my peers. It is explained thus: the demon Underherd looked from the sub-world to this one; […]
{5/5} “‘I’m going to France.’ ‘I’m from the future. Go to China.’” Time travel hasn’t been invented yet but it will be in 30 years. In the future a criminal organization uses time travel to dispose of people they want killed — they hire loopers in the current time to kill the people that show […]
{4/5} “It isn’t that much money, so it’s kind of halfway between a game show and a sitcom, and what you’re hoping is that people are going to keep tuning in to see their favourite panelists make the kinds of jokes that they make.” — Seán Cullen Match Game is a game show that’s been […]
{4.5/5} “A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge. Once it was a tall world of cloudy mountains and bright rivers, and the sun was a white blazing ball. Ages of rain and wind have beaten and rounded the granite, and the sun is feeble and red. The continents have sunk and risen. A million cities have […]
{4.5/5} “We can’t all be Mozarts, right? Some of us are Salieris. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I… I like Salieri.” In “Darkness” the Destiny experiences a severe loss of power — lights go out, and basically everything except life support is nonfunctional. Then the ship enters a solar system — but it’s […]