It’s hard to believe that Star Trek is 45 years old. Looking back at everything that’s influenced me over the years in a creative sense, it was Star Trek more than anything that drove me as far back as I can remember.
Sometime around July I wanted to make a list of the changes to the Star Wars Trilogy that I thought were good and bad. I decided to wait until the Blu-Rays were released before creating this list. Now that the Blu-Rays are almost here, some eager beavers were diligent enough to discover what the new changes are and post them on the internet. Listed below in no particular order are those changes.
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As listeners to the Geekistry podcast know, I am a die-hard Marvel comics universe fan – my favorites being Captain America, The Avengers and X-Men titles. As much as I love keeping up with this colorful, super powered soap opera I often find myself going long stretches of time between story arcs. Lack of money, lack of time, and combinations of the two derail my efforts – and when I get the opportunity to get back to the books, I find that I’m 3 epic crossovers and 7 storylines behind the curve and have no idea what’s going on. Where’s Hulk? Luke Cage is back? Spiderman is NOT married to Mary Jane? WTF?
Growing up with an avid interest in astronomy, it was disappointing that there were no television shows about the universe. Oh sure, there was “Nova” and other shows, but they didn’t have the heart or sense of wonder that “Cosmos” had. “Cosmos” was an award winning television show by astronomer Carl Sagan which took the viewer on a journey across the stars, and back into our own world. Who are we? What’s out there? Where did we come from? Where are we going? For 1980, these questions were profound. Coming out of the age of disco, Watergate and the oil crisis, watching an hour long show about the universe was special, and there hasn’t been a show on television since that has captured the sense of wonder, excitement, and freedom of the human spirit that “Cosmos” did. “Cosmos” also had a beautiful soundtrack with works by Vangelis, Synergy (Larry Fast), Tomita, and classical composers Pachelbel and Vivaldi. It was the soundtrack to this television show that introduced me to electronic music.
