Posts Tagged ‘Sci-Fi’

It was back in the mid-nineties that I discovered I was short-sighted. It was when I was at a Star Trek convention with my cousin Samantha.

That’s right, you read correctly, a Star Trek convention.

I discovered that I had poor vision when we were sat in a hot, sweaty conference room with a few hundred fellow Trekkies at the Leicester Holiday Inn. We were sat listening to various luminaries giving entertaining talks about their time in the Star Trek universe. The charming George ‘Mr. Sulu’ Takei was present, as was the rather witty Max Grodénchik (Deep Space Nine’s half-wit Ferengi ‘Rom’) who had managed to win the audience’s adulation with a comedic re-enactment of Ferengi mating rituals.

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If you haven’t seen the new Star Trek movie I suggest you do so immediately. If you have seen the new Star Trek movie, read on…

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We’ll find out next week…

We were promised that Battlestar Galactica would have an emotional ending. And it did. Despite the years of doom and gloom, death and destruction we have what can almost be called a happy ending.

The fleet find Earth, our Earth. People die, people live and the union of Humans and Cylons go on to form what we know as the human race today. Most plot points are resolved and many questions are answered, although one major character’s origins are never revealed. In the end we are left to question whether the remaining plot points conclude in a scientific or spiritual realm.

I do feel the episode ended at the wrong point. It had the chance to end on a beautifully sad moment, at the point where Adama sits on a ridge having just buried his lover, the recently-passed Laura Roslin.

Instead we are shot 150,000 years into the future, to Times Square in New York. There we see the face of the series creator, Ron Moore, reading an article in the National Geographic on the subject of Mitochondrial Eve (the “mother” of the human race who turns out to be the child of a Human/Cylon union).  To those who know what he looks like, Ron Moore’s sudden appearance loses the show a bit of credibility; he might as well have been winking to the audience.

Overall it was a satisfying ending, even though you could’ve concluded the story with the line, “God did it!”

I’ve just watched the last ever episode of Battlestar Galactica. I’ll save comment until after Tuesday when it is broadcast proper on UK television.  In the meantime all I will say is that as far as final episodes go, you will not be left disappointed.