SciFi Saturday News – Star Trek’s Marta, Star Wars VII Favorite Characters And More

By Cynthia Sax on August 22, 2015

I always privately track SciFi developments (a requirement for any SciFi erotic romance writer). I was chatting with a reading buddy this week and she mentioned that she’d love to know about them also.

So I’m starting a weekly round up on my blog with some of the SciFi news I found especially interesting.

RIP Yvonne Craig

Others might remember Yvonne Craig as Batgirl. She will always be Marta, the green slave girl on Star Trek to me. A trained ballerina by training, she enthralled Captain Kirk with her sexy dancing. Though it never took much to do that. (grins) Captain Kirk hit it with every female alien he met.

More Star Wars Trailers

OMG I can’t wait until Star Wars – The Force Awakens releases and the studio is killing me slowly with the trailers.

Here’s a link to one…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCc2v7izk8w

You had me at “The Force is strong in my family.”

Favorite Star Wars VII Character

Still on the topic of Star Wars, J.J. Abrams, the director, talked about his favorite character.

“I can only say that Gwendoline Christie is my favorite. She just killed it. You think, “Well, what? It’s wearing a costume.” But it’s a lot to wear and to have a performance when you’re wearing that requires a different kind of skill set and an additional talent, and she’s got it. It’s an incredible thing to work with her. I am glad that a character has been designed that is visually as stunning as that is, because she deserves it and the fans do to. When I first saw that design my mind was blown because it looked so undeniable.”

Did I mention how excited I was about this movie?

Mars Rover Selfies

Curiosity, that playful Mars Rover, has jumped on the selfie trend. His latest photo was taken at Buckskin, one of the rock targets.

As Jonathan Amos shares, “Curiosity manages this smart piece of planetary photography in the same way that any human would take a selfie – by holding a camera at arm’s length and framing its own form.”

Space Elevators

Some crazy Canadians are working on a space elevator.

As Andre Mayer shares, “The classic conception of a space elevator is a giant cable tethered to the Earth’s surface near the equator, with a counterweight out in space beyond geostationary orbit (approximately 36,000 kilometres up).”

On a side note: The inventor of the latest space elevator is kind of cute.

Aurora Borealis From Space

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly snapped some great photos of Aurora Borealis (aka Northern Lights) from the International Space Station.

What SciFi news did you find interesting this week?

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