Daily Scan for 05.13.09 – Orci Describes Trek‘s Shatner Cameo, Lost Finale Clips Go Online
• Lost is hurtling towards its Season 5 finale, which will culminate with the notorious Dharma Initiative “incident.” Five clips from the finale are now online.
• Speaking of Lost, a producer says any Lost movie won’t feature the original cast of characters.
• The next Philip K. Dick novel to hit the screen will be Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
• Star Trek screenwriter Robert Orci gives the exact breakdown of the Shatner cameo, which director J.J. Abrams first described to AMCtv.com. It sounds best left on the cutting room floor.
• Rick Vietch talks the issue of Swamp Thing that wasn’t: What if Swamp Thing met Jesus?
• SF Signal experiments with a special effects mind meld.
• Topless Robot lists the eight most underrated Doctors from Doctor Who. God, have there been that many?
• Phil Platt, the Bad Astronomer himself, gives a rundown of the bad astronomy and physics in Star Trek.
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