Leonard Nimoy tweeted this set photo from The Big Bang Theory, showing the first-ever meeting of Mr. Spock and Star Trek uberfan Dr. Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons).
After five years of trying to land Nimoy as a guest star, Big Bang Theory co-creator Chuck Lorre says, "He finally gave up. We caught him."
Nimoy will haunt Sheldon's dreams in an episode entitled "The Transporter Malfunction," which airs on Thursday, March 29th.
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The DeRose Family has a history of bringing awesome projects to Maker Faire, including a fire-breathing dragon, a potato gatling gun and a replica of the Metroid Varia Suit. This year, they've outdone themselves by creating a working flight simulator based on the Colonial Viper fighters from Battlestar Galactica.
The DeRoses and their collaborators built the cockpit, controls and various blinking lights, and wrote custom software that's displayed on three screens in front of the pilot to create an immersive experience.
The finished product can rotate 360 degrees on two axes, creating the potential for a pretty wild ride.
The Viper will be on display at Maker Faire Bay Area, which kicks off on May 19th.
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The Mystery Machine, the famous van used by Scooby, Shaggy and the gang, is up for sale on Craigslist. And it's not the newfangled thing from the movies with a CGI Scooby-Doo, either.
A Bay Area man is selling a 1969 Dodge A100 painted up like the iconic vehicle, and complete with a California vanity plate reading "jenkies" ("jinkies" must have been taken). The asking price is $3200, and the van reportedly "drives good."
Meddling kids in search of a sweet ride should contact "Ray," who, if past Scooby-Doo adventures are any indication, will probably turn out to be a guy using a monster suit to scare people away from a local business.
Just days after Battlestar Galactica fans had their spirits lifted by the WonderCon debut of the first footage from proposed BSG spinoff Blood and Chrome, SyFy has announced it won't be airing the show, but may consider launching it at as a web series.
Blood and Chrome, which started as a TV proposal back in 2010 and has been discussed as a web series since last year, follows the adventures of a young and rebellious William Adama during the early days of the Battlestar.
"Though the vision for Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome has evolved over the course of the past year, our enthusiasm for this ambitious project has not waned," said SyFy programming chief Mark Stern.
"We are actively pursuing it as was originally intended: a groundbreaking digital series that will launch to audiences beyond the scope of a television screen."
There is some good news, though: Stern promised that the 90-minute pilot for Blood and Chrome would still air on SyFy in the future.
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The first set photos from Elementary, CBS' modern update of Sherlock Holmes may not do much to dispel the impression that the show is attempting to piggyback on the success of the BBC's Sherlock.
Jonny Lee Miller, who plays Holmes, was spotted walking with Lucy Liu's Dr. Joan Watson, and the outfit he was wearing had quite a bit in common with Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock wardrobe -- particularly in the scarf department.
Of course, the BBC can't copyright the idea of wearing a scarf -- they can't even copyright Sherlock Holmes, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories and characters are now in the public domain -- but that doesn't make Sherlock showrunner Steven Moffat any less peeved at CBS.
"It isn't a version of our show," he said. "They've just decided to go off and do one of their own, having been turned down by us to do an adaptation of our version. So how do you think I feel about it? Annoyed is in there."
Moffat admitted that "we don't own Sherlock Holmes" and that updating the legendary detective has "been done before," but he's still on the lookout for anything in Elementary that copies the new elements he and Mark Gatiss have introduced to the Holmes story.
"I hope they know their Sherlock Holmes very, very well indeed because we know what's in our show and wasn't in the original. So if we did discover our material had made it into somebody else's show we would have a problem with that," he said.
On a more positive note, Moffat said that Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch is keen to continue playing the lead role, which bodes well for a fourth series of the BBC show.
The wait to meet the Doctor's new companion is almost over. The BBC has announced that Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat will hold a press conference tomorrow to introduce the person who will be taking Amy and Rory's place after their exit from the show.
Mark Jeffers of the Daily Mirror says he heard from a source at the BBC that the new companion will be female, and will be "pretty" but "not a household name."
If that's true, it rules out rumored new companion Miranda Hart, whose starring role in the popular BBC comedy series Miranda qualifies her as a "household name" but leaves previous Doctor Who guest star Sophia Myles (Underworld) in the running.
Bleeding Cool reports that the latest hot rumors point to Aisling Loftus, who is currently appearing in Death of a Superhero with Andy Serkis.
Although the next series of Doctor Who won't air until the fall, the early announcement seems to have come about because the new companion is about to appear on set, and the information would get out one way or another.
AMC's The Walking Dead has cast Danai Gurira (Treme) as Michonne, the sword-swinging, zombie-slaying heroine who plays a major role in Robert Kirkman's comic series. The character made her debut in the show's season finale, and Kirkman says she'll be a big part of season three.
Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara says the TV version of Michonne won't be exactly the same as she was in the comics.
"We know that she's a loner, we know she kicks ass. But we have some other traits about that her that are not in the comic book that we'll deviate," he said, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Mazzara said Michonne would be sticking around as a major character, presumably to help the group battle the evil Governor (who, it was recently revealed, will be played by David Morrissey).
Kirkman has also published a 6-page comic telling Michonne's origin story in the April issue of Playboy, which came out last Friday. The first two pages are online.
Season 3 of The Walking Dead begins production this spring.
