7+ hour, 47+ min ago   (333+ words) In 1968, American television boldly went where it had never gone before, broadcasting what's claimed to be the country's first interracial kiss in a TV programme. The moment of passion was between Captain Kirk of the starship USS Enterprise and communications…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (306+ words) Hundreds of Star Trek fans are set to gather at London's Science Museum to try and break the Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous Vulcan salute. The gesture, made famous by Leonard Nimoy's character Spock, involves raising the hand…...

5+ mon, 5+ hour ago   (607+ words) Award-winning Cornish director Mark Jenkin said he watched the science fiction TV series Quantum Leap as part of research for his new time travel film. Jenkin and co-writer Mary Woodvine's film, Rose of Nevada, tells the story of a fishing…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (289+ words) Sixty years ago, anthology series Out of the Unknown premiered on the BBC. It served up serious, one-off sci-fi dramas exploring our relationship with technology, among other things. The series began broadcasting in 1965, with its first story, John Wyndham's No…...

10+ mon, 3+ day ago   (462+ words) French actor Tchéky Karyo, who had a starring role in the film Nikita and the TV series The Missing, has died aged 72. Karyo, who was born in Turkey but grew up in Paris, died of a cancer on Friday, AFP…...