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Pixel Scroll 10/13/26 Lord Of The Files

(1) DROPPING A DEUCE. [Item by Chris Barkley.] Let the record show that I understood Starship Troopers pretty damn well the first time around; an inept, ignorant, overblown and unm...

Pixel Scroll 9/8/26 I’ll Get You, My Pixel, And Your Little Scroll Too!

(1) STAR TREK AT SIXTY AND BEYOND. [Item by John A Arkansawyer.] “60 years and ‘Star Trek’ continues to ‘live long and prosper’” reports NPR. 60 years ago, NBC aired the first epis...

A Star Trek Favorite Returned 34 Years Ago, And Delivered the Crossover Fans Were Hoping For

By 1992, Star Trek: The Next Generation had become a hit in its own right, but fans still had a soft spot for Kirk’s original crew. And who better to bring back than Scotty? James...

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

On this day in 1964, the anthology science fiction show The Outer Limits showed what television science fiction could be when it treated the genre as serious dramatic literature ra...

Pixel Scroll 9/18/26 File The Dishes And Scroll The Plates, That’s What Bilbo Baggins Hates

(1) A SECOND OPINION. Yesterday’s Scroll included the BBC’s “Invitation to Tender: Doctor Who”. Filers might also like to hear what David Tennant said about the matter on his Faceb...

“Johnny Randall’s Body”: The Unknown Inspiration for Anne McCaffrey’s “The Ship Who Sang”

By Gary Westfahl: Anne McCaffrey’s 1961 story “The Ship Who Sang” was the first of five stories later assembled as The Ship Who Sang (1969). These stories related the space adventu...

Pixel Scroll 9/16/26 You Hailed Lieutenant Worf — And Frequently

(1) STURGEON SYMPOSIUM INFO. Registration is open for the 2026 Sturgeon Symposium to be held October 15-16. The J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction i...

PROJECT HAIL MARY Writer Andy Weir’s Next Sci-Fi Novel May Take on Artificial Intelligence

58 Years Later, Captain Kirk's Best Star Trek Quote Hits Harder Than Ever

Captain Kirk's speech in 'Return to Tomorrow' says more about what Star Trek stands for than any other line in the original series.

The universal language of space is... Star Trek? Mais oui.

"Science fiction imagines the future. We build it."

Pixel Scroll 10/22/26 I’m Using My Kwisatz Haderach Abilities To Predict What The Rest Of The Pixel Scroll Items Are

(1) EYE ON THE PRIZE. John Scalzi’s When the Moon Hits Your Eye is one of the 2027 Thurber Prize in Writing Semi-Finalists. The winner will be revealed at the 2027 Thurber Prize Aw...

‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Lifts the Lid on Its Second Season

Bill Nighy and Rosemary DeWitt will appear as guest stars on the 'Star Trek' series when it returns in March.

NYCC ’26: STAR TREK Universe panel shows off STARFLEET ACADEMY, William Shatner, and a Gorn head

Bjo Helps Dedicate Galileo Shuttle’s New Home

Bjo Trimble joined several Trek cast members at Trekonderoga Weekend to christen the USS Galileo’s new home at the Star Trek Tour Set in Ticonderoga, NY. She broke it on the ship m...

Pixel Scroll 10/6/26 Pixels Against Humanity

(1) UKRANIAN PROTAGONIST FEATURES IN SCHROEDER COLLECTION. Richard Horton reviews Karl Schroeder’s new collection, all of his stories about Gennady Malianov: “Heavy ‘light stories’...

Gifted Outcasts: More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

A powerful, poetic work that explores what it means to be human. The post Gifted Outcasts: <i>More Than Human</i> by Theodore Sturgeon appeared first on Reactor.

5 Sci-Fi Shows Walter Koenig Appeared In (That Aren't Star Trek)

Walter Koenig may have been a late addition to Star Trek as Pavel Chekov, but that didn't stop him from building a strong resume of TV sci-fi roles after.

What ‘Three Laws’?

By Rich Lynch: The “Killer Robots and Rogue Computers in SF” was a popular enough topic at LAcon V that there were more than 70 people in the audience.  The panelists mentioned man...

Pixel Scroll 9/17/26 If You Can’t Scroll Anything Nice, Come Pixel Next To Me

(1) WILL SOMEONE SAVE ‘WHO’? “’Doctor Who’: BBC Calls On Producers To Pitch ‘Brave’ Vision For Show” reports Deadline. The BBC has fired the starting gun on the regeneration of Doc...

Pixel Scroll 9/29/26 Sliding Into The Scroll In Swirl Of Pixels, He Dusts Himself Off And Salutes The Filers In The Stan...

(1) MURDERBOT GRAPHIC NOVEL KICKSTARTER. Those who have signed up for pre-launch news about the “Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel” Kickstarter today received this foretaste of th...

Pixel Scroll 10/3/26 Hexapixelry Is The Key inScroll

(1) SHARP CRITICS. [Item by Steven French.] Russell T Davies is interviewed in the Guardian and talks about stepping away from Doctor Who: “’One person turned up at my house’: Russ...

Interview: CHARLIE JANE ANDERS on hope versus paranoia in STAR TREK: ZERO POINT

Comics Beat catches up with writer Charlie Jane Anders to learn more about the upcoming Star Trek: Zero...

Pixel Scroll 10/17/26 Through Dangers Untold And Pixels Unnumbered, I Have Fought My Way Here To The Castle Beyond The G...

(1) HOW DARE YOU. Fans have spent decades going down rabbit holes in the attempt to define science fiction. Now it’s Jordan Spalding’s turn: “The Plague of Sci-Fi Window Dressing”...

Star Trek Creator’s Forgotten TV Show Premiered 26 Years Ago With a ’90s TV Favorite in the Lead

Image Courtesy of Sci-Fi Channel Gene Roddenberry will always be best known for Star Trek, the franchise he created and wrote for. After starting his career as a freelancer who wr...