Scottish Star Trek

It’s the year 2345 and the Star Fleet Academy have opened a branch in Scotland. The first recruits have just qualified and are ready to set out on their first mission.

Warning: contains dialogue in strong Scottish accents which some viewers may find impossible to understand.

Steam Trek

Time for another parody and this time the folks over at The Website at the End of the Universe have unearthed the long forgotten short silent movie classic Steam Trek: The Motion Picture.

Richard Morgan interview

There’s a very good interview with acclaimed SF writer Richard Morgan from August 2007 over on the Vector Magazine website.

(Link via SF Signal)

Camping on the Moon

NASA have developed an inflatable tent to potentially provide astronauts with living and working accomodation on future expeditions to the Moon or Mars. Check out the BBC report here.

Star Trek and the Holy Grail

More people with too much time on their hands putting together parodies for our entertainment. This time it’s the cast of the original Star Trek performing Monty Python’s Knights of the Round Table.

(Link via SF Signal)

Fiction or prediction?

An article by Brian Aldiss published last month in the Times Online where he assesses some of his and his fellow SF writers foretellings of the future and how right or wrong they got it.