The often scary realistic and prophetic science fiction series 'Black Mirror' continues to deliver dystopian visions of the future, including robotics. In “Metalhead,” dog-like…
The 1982 film Blade Runner was set in a dystopian 2019 Los Angeles. A timely gathering is in order. Three futurists sit down for…
Hard to believe that Minority Report is from 2002. More than fifteen years later, the film continues to influence the technology we use and…
The year is 1997 and James Bond has... a mobile phone! In the mid-1990s, there were three cell phone makers dominating the world market;…
NASA economist Alexander MacDonald shows how 300 years of sci-fi tales -- from Edgar Allan Poe to Jules Verne to H.G. Wells and beyond…
The Intrepid-class starship that was launched in the latter half of the 24th century by the Federation was no match for the much more…
The original sci-fi-fantasy epic 'Highlander' starred Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod, a Scottish man who finds himself immortal, Sean Connery who plays a swashbuckling…
The Death Star of Star Wars is a colossal weapon. Not only is it the size of the Moon, but with a single blast,…
The USS Discovery was a Crossfield class type of Federation starship in service during the mid-23rd century. "Be bold. Be brave. Be courageous. Black…
Following the success of the Terminator (1984) and Aliens (1986), the Abyss (1989); James Cameron wrote, produced and directed the 1991 sequel to the…
Deep Space Nine is a space station located near a stable wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy. The…
The Milano is an M-ship class used by the Ravagers but customized by Peter Quill and the Guardians of the Galaxy. As Star-Lord, Quill…
There’s no denying the awesome power of V’Ger. Taking the form of a mysterious, menacing, luminous cloud the size of a solar system, V’Ger…
Chappie followed a naive, artificially intelligent robot (Sharlto Copley) that gets separated from its creator Deon (Dev Patel) and is raised by gangsters to…
In draft scripts for the film that would become Star Wars 'A New Hope', the term "Stardestroyer" refers to two-man fighters flown by what…
The Scimitar was a massive, heavily-armed warship of unique Reman design. It is a variation on the classic Romulan Warbird that appeared in the…
The Voth are a bipedal reptilian species who are distant kin to Humans and had evolved from the dinosaurs of their shared homeworld of…
The Krenim weapon ship was a weapon developed by the Krenim Imperium sometime around 2174. Its design and construction were spearheaded by Annorax, a…
Dwarfing the Earth Spacedock, this unknown cigar-shaped probe came to Earth in order to contact members of the long-extinct humpback whale species in the…
In the Star Trek Enterprise episode 'Silent Enemy', the Enterprise NX-01 is attacked by an unknown alien starship, as Archer orders the crew to…