Star Trek

In college, Ronald D. Moore’s Captain Kirk dorm room poster prompted teasing, but his passion for the original “Star Trek” has paid off. A few years ago he transformed the sci-fi TV genre when he reimagined the cheesy 1980s “Battlestar Galactica” into a gripping allegory for the War on Terror. Weigh in: Has a work […]

Ronald D. Moore has one of the coolest jobs in Hollywood — he gets to play god in science fiction worlds that he creates. Before ‘re-imagine’ and ‘reboot’ were buzzwords, Moore re-invented the cheesy 1980s TV show “Battlestar Galactica” as an allegory for the War on Terror. His new series on the Syfy Network is […]

I knew nothing about the first woman in space — I didn’t even know her name. That is, until “Orange is the New Black” sent me into a research wormhole. 

The concept of the multiverse has long captured the imaginations of science-fiction writers. Now, some physicists are starting to believe.

The Starship Enterprise takes its rightful place — right up there with the Apollo capsule and the Wright brothers’ plane — at the National Air and Space Museum.