Ladies and gentlemen, my Star Trek post. Thanks to everyone who suggested episodes!

Nice viewing there. I can't believe you didn't succumb to watching everything.

Mirror, Mirror - Kirk, Scotty, McCoy, and Uhura end up in a parallel universe. Evil Spock! Evil Sulu! Evil Chekov! Spock's evil goatee was not as evil as I expected, sadly, but Evil Scarface Sulu was pretty awesome. And Marlena was pretty hot. Oh, and Uhura got to be badass! A-

I think the interesting thing in this episode was that Alterna!Spock wasn't really any different. And that the Vulcans would concede it was logical to fall in with the dominant power at the time instead of rebelling.

However, this 'verse gets REALLY interesting during DS9. Nana Visitor blows everybody else out of the water in terms of who played an evil version of themselves.

Also, in retrospect, it's really interesting to note that A) Odo was also close to the being exactly the same on the other side, much like Spock, and B) NV's alternate was highly offended by his death (given their "our 'verse" eventual romance).

I can't believe you didn't succumb to watching everything.

Well, I have, just not in a mainlining fashion. I wanted to get through all the good and important episodes first so I could grok the discussions. Now I can watch all the others at my leisure.

That was cool, P-C!

It's easy to see why the show is a classic, and its influence on all sci-fi television following it is undeniable.

I can't objectively judge it, because I loved it so as a child....

I was interested in it as a cultural text, but I wound up enjoying it as a television show.

Cool.

Not to change the subject, but this movie looks, if possible, to be even more awesome than 2012 or that giant shark vs. giant... squid, was it? Anyway, you gotta see this preview, and tell me that I'm not crazy when I say this preview is really... something....

RoboGeisha trailer is awesome, includes weaponized tempura shrimp

There is no part of this trailer that is not made of awesome. A robot geisha transforms into a tank. Two robot geishas (I guess) spew poison milk (don't ask) out of their titties at an opponent. A girl gets stabbed to death in the butt with a giant sword. Robot girls make giant swords pop out of their butts, presumably with which to stab other people in their butts. "Bust Machine Gun." And a dude is blinded with tempura shrimp.

All this and more in the trailer for Noboru Iguchi's new film RoboGeisha - you may recall his similarly-themed films Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police. According to the website, the film will be "in theatre fall 2009."

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The "so bad it's good" award has at least one strong entry this year. Winning scene for me? Buildings spewing blood after being crushed by a giant robot. The robo-sword pants makes for a close second, though.

I feel dirty now.

Reminds me of this f***ed up movie I watched when I was wee with this guy who chops off these two girls heads and switches them and then rapes them.

That...was amazing. WHY DO THE BUILDINGS BLEED?

Another board is having their "question of the day" being all about movies, specifically "What is your favorite movie about dance, whether it's a musical or just a movie about dancing in general?"

I mentioned a bunch of classics, but ended up settling on All That Jazz, especially pointing out the "Take Off with Us" number that steals the show, ending with Sandahl Bergman taking off her bra and being the center of a pseudo-orgy of writhing dancers. I also loved the finale of "Bye Bye Life" with Ben Vereen and Roy Scheider.

"What is your favorite movie about dance, whether it's a musical or just a movie about dancing in general?"

Probably Strictly Ballroom. I also really like Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, which is Jacques Demy's dancing companion to the singing Les Parapluies de Cherbourg. It stars Catherine Deneuve and her sister Françoise Dorléac, as well as George Chakiris and Gene Kelly.

Strictly Ballroom for me as well. One of the things that I especially love is that when showing a super awesome king of the world dancer/dance, they goof it right the frig up, rather than a dance that inadvertantly sucks but was supposed to rock.