1+ hour, 37+ min ago  (472+ words) Giant Freakin Robot From the very beginning, Star Trek embraced progressive ideals that risked angering the more conservative audiences of the time. The Original Series, for example, made a Black woman a main character at the height of the Civil…...

1+ hour, 47+ min ago  (459+ words) Giant Freakin Robot One of the questions I frequently find myself coming back to is who the scariest villains in all of Star Trek are. The Borg are an obvious possible answer. As robot zombies, their very existence is kind…...

22+ hour, 36+ min ago  (391+ words) Giant Freakin Robot In the history of the world, nothing has united people or divided people, like religion. It can bring peace and meaning to one person's life while destroying another's. To say that discussing religion in public is controversial,…...

22+ hour, 34+ min ago  (650+ words) Giant Freakin Robot Sci-fi shows need time. More so than any other genre, sci-fi needs to take the early episodes to introduce the strange new world viewers have been dropped into and then, gradually, peel back the layers of the…...

22+ hour, 31+ min ago  (548+ words) Giant Freakin Robot Last Fall, long-suffering Stargate fans were finally able to celebrate with the grand announcement that the franchise's long-time writer and director Martin Gero was going to be spearheading a new revival series on Amazon Prime. On June…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (479+ words) Giant Freakin Robot Part of what makes The X-Files so fun is that the show focuses so much on fantastic threats. Sure, the series may be grounded in the real world (the heroes are, after all, FBI agents), but the…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (714+ words) Giant Freakin Robot As a franchise set in the far future, you might expect Star Trek to make some definitive, sweeping statements about the use of AI. However, various shows and movies have presented this technology as something of a…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (355+ words) Giant Freakin Robot Whatever the fandom, these arguments all have something important in common: the collective belief that only an established franchise expert would be able to successfully run a genre show. However, the biggest counterargument comes from two of…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (650+ words) Giant Freakin Robot When you think about it, Rambo is one of the craziest franchises ever made. The first film was adapted from a novel and served as a poignant commentary on America's treatment of soldiers returning from the Vietnam…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (694+ words) Giant Freakin Robot If you didn't already know, Star Trek has had some truly weird team-ups with Marvel over the years. In Star Trek/X-Men, we got a one-shot comic in which Charles Xavier's band of merry mutants crossed through…...