Resistance is Futile, Hello Kitty will assimilate you!

GorT is a science fiction fan and grew up with a variety of science fiction shows. These include some pretty bad ones like Automan, Battlestar Galactica (the bad one), V, and Space: 1999. Of course, Star Trek was a big part – aliens, phasers, space battles – lots of action wrapped around pretty simple story lines. Some were campy (“I, Mudd”) and others just plain weird (“Turnabout Intruder”), but there were stand outs like “Mirror, Mirror” (evil Spock with the beard), and “Balance of Terror” (Star Trek’s take on “The Enemy Below”). In general, though, science fiction shows since Star Trek have enjoyed limited success. In my personal opinion, the new Battlestar Galactica (into its 4th season) and Firefly are two exceptions besides the one I’ll go into depth on below. Please note, I’m limiting this scope to mostly the space/futuristic shows as opposed to Heroes, X-Files, etc. for this post.

Star Trek, taken as a whole across all the various incarnations has enjoyed decent success. Well, Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, former Star Trek series writer) wants to dip back into the Star Trek galaxy and create another series in that universe. In general, I’m in favor of this. Berman and others took an alternate take on the Star Trek universe with Star Trek: The Next Generation (with ‘Puter’s favorite: Wesley Crusher), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (with Volgi’s favorite Hawk…”Spenser!”…oh I mean, Capt. Sisko), Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise (I think the Czar has a soft spot for Scott Bakula). None of these, I would argue, really measured up to the original – sure there were good storylines (and plenty ‘o bad ones) and better special effects but the pure adventure of the original Flash Gordon and Buck Rodgers (think comic books not the TV series). Fuller wants to bring it back to the original series. With J. J. Abrams movie coming out later this year, maybe the timing will be right. Here’s a little of GorT’s optimism hoping that we’ll get another decent science fiction show on the small screen. As long as they have another version of “Mirror, Mirror” I might be hooked. I’m sure Bryan Fuller is looking for the green painted ladies and torn shirts. So either it’ll live up to expectations…..or else.

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.