Highlights: George Takei on Facebook, J.J. Abrams and Star Trek’s influence on technology

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George Takei, best known as Star Trek’s Sulu, is still a creative force — helping to inspire a Broadway musical, maintaining a very funny and popular Facebook page, and speaking out for gay rights, in addition to his ongoing acting gigs. He can also pull off a pretty good April Fool’s joke, as he proved earlier today when he… Read More…

Photo Gallery: Weird scenes from Emerald City Comicon

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It’s always the pleasantly strange things at Emerald City Comicon that catch my eye. A wizard eating a burrito.  Darth Vader in a bright yellow kilt. A pterodactyl talking on his cell phone. Saturday drew quite a crowd, and the fun continued with a costume party and nerd rock concert at the Hard Rock Cafe. There… Read More…

Comicon poll: Which superhero would you elect U.S. president?

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Let’s take a pause for a moment from the heated rhetoric and political grandstanding coming out of the Barack Obama and Mitt Romney camps. This country has real problems, problems that only a superhero could help solve. And what better place to find a bunch of superheros (or at the least the people who love… Read More…

William Shatner on his musical classics, Capt. Kirk’s death scene, and living an adventurous life

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At this point, you couldn’t blame William Shatner if he were to just tune everyone out and phone it in during what must seem like an endless stream of nerd-fests. You know, sign hundreds of autographs, take a bunch of pictures, collect his appearance fee, and move on. And maybe there’s an element of that… Read More…