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Star Trek

  • Culture

    June 29, 2000

    The Final Frontier

    Sci-fi conventions are where movie stars go to burn brightly one more time

  • Film

    November 21, 1996

    Boldly Going

    The latest voyage of the Enterprise is a trip worth taking

  • Film

    April 9, 1998

    Do the Time Warp

    Lost in Space is dumb -- but it's a good dumb

  • News

    January 21, 1999

    News of the Weird

    Lost in Space is dumb -- but it's a good dumb

  • News

    February 5, 2009

    Star Trek for the Ages

    From West U to deep space

  • Music

    May 15, 2008
  • Calendar

    December 21, 2006

    Off Trek

    From West U to deep space

  • Home Entertainment

    November 23, 2006

    Bad News With Al

    From West U to deep space

  • Home Entertainment

    November 16, 2006

    When the Stars Came Out

    From West U to deep space

  • Home Entertainment

    August 3, 2006
  • Home Entertainment

    November 3, 2005

    The Force Runs Its Course

    From West U to deep space

  • Home Entertainment

    October 6, 2005
  • Home Entertainment

    September 29, 2005
  • Film

    May 12, 2005

    Color Bland

    South Korea's first anime feature is beautiful, but not much more

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Video Store

    South Korea's first anime feature is beautiful, but not much more

  • Film

    November 6, 2003

    Silly Humans, The Matrix Is for Kids!

    Revolutions runs a playful joyride through a nifty vision of hell

  • Film

    July 26, 2001

    Aping an Icon

    Tim Burton monkeys around with the original Planet of the Apes, but is it evolution?

  • Culture

    February 8, 2001

    Back to the Future

    Robert Wise finishes Star Trek: The Motion Picture--22 years later

  • Film

    December 23, 1999

    Warp Factor Ten

    Galaxy Quest is an exhilarating and affectionate parody of all things Roddenberry

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    The Yenta

    The nice Jewish boy of my mom's dreams-for a hundred bucks?

  • Film

    November 24, 1994

    For Generations To Come

    The nice Jewish boy of my mom's dreams-for a hundred bucks?

  • Calendar

    January 6, 1994

    Picks

    The nice Jewish boy of my mom's dreams-for a hundred bucks?

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Five Reasons Not To Be Geeked About The Upcoming Star Trek Movie

    Anyone who's been to the movies in the last month or so has seen the trailer for the upcoming Star Trek movie, which apparently involves people driving motorcycles over cliffs in order to avoid speeding tickets.If you happen to be attending the kind of movie that attracts the wrong kind of fans ... More >>

  • Film

    May 7, 2009

    Warp Factor 10

    J.J. Abrams's Star Trek: proof that a franchise can live long and prosper.

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Regrettable Star Trek Moments (Original Cast Only)

    In case you've spent the last six months in the Vault of Tomorrow with a crate of Romulan ale, there's a new Star Trek movie coming out. And after 20-odd years of dealing with the Enterprise-D and dry Next Generation-style shenanigans, it's nice to see the old crew, even if it is in name only. This ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 21, 2009

    Hit Hermann

    In time for summer, the park's had a facelift.

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2009

    Music of Star Trek™ & More Sci-Fi

    The Houston Symphony beams some Deep Space sounds

  • Calendar

    July 23, 2009

    Not So Final Frontier

    Aurora Picture Show hosts some enterprising fan fiction

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    Friday Night Noise: Murex and Noveller

    ​Murex "Eventual Railways": Houston's Murex has some sorta connection to the larger In The Land of Archers axis. If we can take "Eventual Railways" as a guide, though, Murex - man, woman, vegetable, some combination, we dunno - prefers a waaaay less ninth-circle-of-Hades approach. Have you ever se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    Crypticon Countdown: Michael Berryman On Star Trek, Motley Crue And Brandon Lee

    Photo courtesy Crypticon​There's no mistaking horror-movie stalwart Michael Berryman. The actor suffers from a rare condition called hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, which is characterized by few or no sweat glands and lack of hair or fingernails. However, Berryman's distinctive appearance has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Pop Rocks: V For Valiant

    Photo courtesy ABC​I've been watching V: The Series, more out of nostalgic fondness for the original than any hope the remake would be worth a damn (and I prefer a long-haired Morena Baccarin anyway). Despite solid efforts by Elizabeth Mitchell (Agent Evans) and Alan Tudyk (whose recent stri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Win A Free Public Enemies DVD; Check Out Five Other "Enemy" Movies

    Johnny Depp is the "sexiest man alive." I know this because it's what I've been told by People magazine, my wife, all my wife's friends, my sister, and that girl I dated in college who used to make me watch 21 Jump Street before she'd allow me to get her clothes off.He's also the star of Public Ene ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    All I Want For Christmas Is No More 'Twas The Night Before Christmas Parodies

    ​It's the night before Christmas!! If only there was some kind of poem about it.Not only is there a poem about it, it's one that someone, somewhere, feels the need to parody every year. It could be a sportswriter hard up for a column, it could be someone wanting to share inside jokes about their p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    Pop Rocks: Win A Couples Retreat DVD, And Discover The Five Best Paradise-Gone-Bad Movies

    ​A tropical retreat sounds pretty good right about now, as Houston begins yet another in a seemingly unending series of cold (well, relatively), rainy weeks. Unfortunately, in this economy the odds are slim that any of you can afford to just drop everything and jet off to Antigua for a weekend.As ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    4 Summer-Movie Soundtracks We Already Hate

    ​Last week, we told you of some upcoming summer-movie soundtracks that look like they're going to be fantastic. If positivity is your thing, go read that article. This one is going to be all about the upcoming soundtracks that make us wince so hard it feels like someone's chopping our balls with a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    Accessories Houston Rappers Don't Leave Home Without

    fashionbombdaily.comSlick Rick: The ruler's back at Reliant Arena, November 6​Rappers have always been obsessed with accessories. It's mandated in rap contracts, right next to girl songs and Bun B collaborations. The tradition dates back to hip-hop's early days. Before Kanye popularized shutte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    "I'm On A Boat" Gets Steampunk Makeover, Boba Fett

    ​Rocks Off is quite keen on steampunk, which is basically when you take a bunch of clockwork technology and shoehorn it into Victorian times. It's a small subset of geekdom, but growing quite a bit in popular literature. So as long as we're transporting modern improvements into the past, why ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 25, 2010

    Big Stars of Comedy

    ​Rocks Off is quite keen on steampunk, which is basically when you take a bunch of clockwork technology and shoehorn it into Victorian times. It's a small subset of geekdom, but growing quite a bit in popular literature. So as long as we're transporting modern improvements into the past, why ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2011

    Discovery 's Last Take-Off: Some Wild Views

    NASA has put together an impressive montage of the last take-off of the space shuttle Discovery, using a wide range of cameras on the launch pad and the vehicle. There's about five minutes or so of preflight stuff here, so fast-forward if you prefer.

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Space Cowboys: Big Head Todd Serenades Shuttle Crew

    ​If someone woke Rocks Off up at 2:30 in the morning with a Big Head Todd & the Monsters song, even the band themselves, we might have a few choice words for them. But we suppose it's a little different when you're 220 miles above the Earth. That's what happened earlier today (way earlier tod ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    William Shatner's Greatest Hits: The Man Transformed

    ​Rocks Off would like to wish a very happy 80th birthday to the one and only Mr. William Shatner. He may not be the best actor out there, or the best singer, but he is without a doubt the best William Shatner there ever was or ever will be. The way he has totally erased the line between sincer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Photos: Anvil's First Annual Enthusiast Cocktail Competition

    Photo by GroovehouseChuck Cook made a Star Trek-inspired Mon Capitan cocktail.​Customers from all walks of life -- from IT professionals to aerospace engineers -- competed last night in an unusual twist on a cocktail competition at Anvil Bar & Refuge. Although they were all cocktail enthusiast ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Astronaut Plays Jethro Tull Flute In Space

    Rocks Off has been trying to come up with a "space rock" joke all day, but we can't, so we'll just say this is pretty cool. Today we got an email from Austin nonprofit Dart Music International with a link to the above video, which premiered during SXSW. It's astronaut (and musician) Cady Coleman ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Pop Rocks: Twilight vs. Harry Potter And 9 Other Geek Throwdowns

    Still the only crossover I'd pay to see.​Anyone watch the MTV Movie Awards? Anyone? I didn't think so, mostly because I suspect the majority of Hair Balls/Art Attack readers are over the age of 12. And while I have no intention of revisiting the whole "'Music?"Television line of jokes, I did ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    In Run-Up to Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch, NASA Allows Rare Peek Behind Mission Control Curtain

    Photos by Troy Fields​Check out our pictures of the final round of space shuttle simulation training at NASA's Mission Control. Space. If you are anything like me, you've probably started to take it for granted. Save for disasters like the Columbia explosion in 2003, the country as a whole no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Best Apps For Cheating On Your Spouse, Or Finding A Cheater: Apps of the Week

    It was easier to keep secrets in the 1800s.​As long as there have been relationships, there has been infidelity. There are even times in our collective history when taking a mistress was commonplace. In the last 100 years, however, the notion of love and marriage and its role in the long terms ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Pop Rocks: Season of the Witches -- 10 Shows That Keeping Up with the Kardashians Outlasted

    Over half a decade of quality programming.​In the course of writing Pop Rocks, I'm often exposed to information so horrific, so atrocious, so...repugnant it defies human comprehension. I first stumbled upon this particular tidbit several months ago, but only now has my sanity recovered from t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    Comment of the Day: Establishing Your Trekkie Geekness Hard

    ​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 15, 2011

    Do Mexicans Hate Puerto Ricans?

    And do matanzas only happen in New Mexico?

  • Culture

    September 29, 2011

    Three to See

    Robert Pruitt, Gabriel Dawe and Tierney Malone are killing it in their respective local shows.

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