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Some more seaQuest DSV trivia from various sources.

Seaquest was shot at Universal Studio's stage 28 in Hollywood. This was where the opera box seats still were from the classic Lon Chaney film &q ...

Dick Van Dyke was a fan of seaQuest and visited the set. He was fascinated by how the visual effects team used CGI on the production. In time, Dick Van Dyke started experimenting with CGI on his pc. ...

More "The Slaver Weapon" trivia, Wikipedia.

D.C. Fontana approached well-known SF author Larry Niven about writing an episode for the animated show.

LN won the Hugo Award, Nebula Awar ...

Mr. Sullivan did indeed a fine job with his article. Some journalists that write up such a profile can show a condescending attitude about science fiction. They like to take some sneering digs at it; ...

Thanks for posting these marvelous trailers, Bruce. They really capture the cinematic era they are supposed to be taking place in.

Catwoman & Poison Ivy could make a good man go bad.

Excellent point, Bruce. Some of the best scenes filmed of the Seaview were the ones as she plowed along the surface.

If the budget allowed it, the VFX team should have constructed a miniature mode ...

Although Seconds is now a respected cult classic movie; when it was shown at the Cannes Film Festival the critics were very hostile to it. There was some booing at the conclusion of the film.

Scre ...

seaQuest DSV was going to utilize traditional model work for the visual effects for the series. Production Designer Richard Lewis convinced Producer Steven Spielberg to allow a CGI test to see if the ...

Article about Trek's debut in 1966 from a Hollywood newspaper and written by Joseph T. Sullivan.

Science fiction, with the exception of Lost In Space and a few episodes on The Twilight Zone, has f ...

Wikipedia.

Released on August 5, 1955.

Filmed on the Morava River near Bzenec Town, Czech Republic. The Slovak River.

Winner of awards at the Film Festivals of Venice and Mannheim.

The p ...

Youtube has posted an edited scene from this film: ST: TMP Deleted Memory Wall scene Restored.

We learn that Captain Kirk followed Mr. Spock inside V'ger.

Kirk is attacked by a swarm of crystal ...

Thanks so much for posting these memories for me, Bruce. As an avid comic book collector I recall each and every single one of these ads. Don't believe I ever ordered any of 'em, but who knows, I migh ...

This episode was originally pitched by David Gerrold for the third season of ST: TOS. It was scrapped by producer Fred Freiberger because he wasn't a fan of the "The Trouble With Tribbles." ...

While this film remains one of my fave of the Trek feature films, I have read other folks criticisms of it that appear noteworthy.

Chekov tells Captain Kirk & Dr. McCoy about the alien slug c ...

"The trick of the show is to put the unreal in the midst of the real," said Joe Stefano. "I try to invent convincing people and put them into real houses, to build reality into other a ...