Aram Zucker-Scharff

Starships! from bironic on Vimeo.

For Club Vivid 2012. Details & embed at bironic.livejournal.com/290689.html. Now cross-posted to YouTube at youtube.com/watch?v=bTGdGKEEiYE

Sources include: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien/Aliens, Apollo 13, Archer, Battlestar Galactica (2004-8), Cocoon, Community, Doctor Who (2005-), Dune, Farscape, The Fifth Element, Firefly/Serenity, Forbidden Planet, Futurama, Galaxy Quest, Independence Day, The Muppet Show, Odyssey 5, Planet of the Apes (1968), Spaceballs, Star Trek (TOS, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager; movies II, IV, VII, VIII and XI/Reboot), Star Wars IV & V, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Sunshine, Superman (1978), Toy Story 2, Virtuality, WALL-E.

NOTE, APR 2013: Since comments have been coming in about being sad or irritated that a particular movie or show wasn’t included in the vid – I agree with you! This vid was made in a week and a half of evenings and weekends for a con deadline; words cannot describe the scramble to get enough source, and up to the last minute, I was still trying to get more clips and was tugging at my hair about how there’s no Babylon 5/Red Dwarf/Andromeda/etc., not to mention anime and other non-Western source. If there’d been more time, there would have been more breadth.

“Representation and diversity in comics is something that’s important to me, and I also think it just makes a more realistic universe when you’re constructing a brand-new world and you want it to feel authentic. Most of the people on Earth are not white. Why would this galaxy be?”

– Saga and Raising Hazel.

The Family Dollar deal embodies everything wrong with American capitalism:

The French economist Thomas Piketty could not have dreamed up a better illustration of the problematic and growing income inequality in the US than the Family Dollar-Dollar Tree combination. Let’s start with the backdrop: Essentially, the lower-income Americans that are the target customers of dollar stores have gotten too poor to buy anything other than food 

The Family Dollar/Dollar Tree merger is occurring because the average American is TOO POOR FOR THE DOLLAR STORE and as a result these two companies can no longer stand alone.

But hey the deal will likely earn Family Dollar’s CEO $180 million. I’m sure that’ll trickle down somehow. Right?

“Even on their worst day, the Israelis act with greater care and compassion and self-criticism than Muslim combatants have anywhere, ever. […] What do groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda and even Hamas want? They want to impose their religious views on the rest of humanity. They want stifle every freedom that decent, educated, secular people care about. This is not a trivial difference. And yet judging from the level of condemnation that Israel now receives, you would think the difference ran the other way.”

– “Why Don’t I Criticize Israel?” by Sam Harris.