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Tom Hanks Says He’s Not Paying Jeff Bezos $38 Million for a Few Minutes In Space
Academy Award winner Tom Hanks has taken millions of viewers on fictional journeys to space through his performances in Apollo 13, and Cloud Atlas, but when offered a chance to experience the real thing on a Blue Origin rocket, the 65-year-old actor said he’d pass.
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Star Trek: Lower Decks Reforges Its Strongest Relationships, With Model Kits and Bubble Bath
Kirk and Spock. Burnham and Georgiou. Janeway and Tuvok. The list of Star Trek duos whose relationships define so much of the emotional cores of their series goes on, and on, and on. In a pairing like Boimler and Mariner, Lower Decks is no exception. But this season has seen the pair shift and shuffle…
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Spock’s Famous Gesture Imagined Like Never Before in this Star Trek Time-Lapse
August 2021 is a big month for Star Trek fans. Yes, your favourite Paramount+ shows are slowly beginning to trickle back onto the service (Lower Decks returns Augsut 12), but beyond that it’s the 100th anniversary of something even more special: the birth of Gene Roddenberry. Star Trek’s creator was born on August 19, 1921,…
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Nichelle Nichols’ New NASA Documentary Is as Unflinching as It Is Romantic
Early on in the new documentary Woman in Motion, Star Trek legend Nichelle Nichols discusses the idea of the blurred lines between the fantastical and the real in her job as Lieutenant Uhura, a character in equal parts history-making and yet also held back by the harsh realities of the era her character was made…