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  Also, "long-termism" sounds like the sci-fi version of the prosperity gospel. 

Via CNN : A US fighter jet pilot rescued by special forces after being shot down over Iran in April described a shocking sight before ejecting from his aircraft: multiple Iranian drones hovering in the air, moving as one, in a formation that resembled a jellyfish, according to four sources familiar with the matter. The account, which has not been previously reported, was shared by the F-15 pilot with intelligence officials during a debriefing after the incident. It immediately set off a firestorm of debate within the US intelligence community that has yet to be resolved. If the airman really saw what he described — a formation moving in unison — it would be an alarming advance in Iranian drone capabilities. “Multiple drones interconnected and moving as one with smaller drones below the bigger drones like legs,” one of the sources familiar with the pilot’s witness account told CNN. “Real alien sh*t.” Another source told CNN the pilot described witnessing a “minefield of drones” in the a...

A fan convention in London will have all five TV-Enterprise captains together for the first time since, well, ever.

...because apparently IDW has a mega, inter-dimensional crossover where uber-zombies invade the universes of Transformers, G.I. Joe, Ghostbusters and Star Trek (TOS, pre-reboot). Each group deals with this issue in their own way, and from what I can tell the crossover is the product of a vampire becoming a zombie (wait; what?). But how did that happen, you ask? Typical industrial-military complex nonsense: some dumb-ass general decides to invade a zombie world, eradicate all the zombies, and use the resources of that "Earth" for their own. Seriously . I'm not sure what's worse; that a character, even in a comic, actually thought that such a plan would be successful or my feeling that there's a good chance some yahoo would probably want to do this in real life.

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This will be funny for a loooong time. Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'

The Old Spock will still be involved in the latest Star Trek movie.