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‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ season 5 episode 8 flips the script and visits the ‘Upper Decks’

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The latest “Lower Decks” episode, “Upper Decks”, reveals what the command crew gets up to when Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford, and T’Lyn aren’t hogging all that main character energy. So, as the lead quintet gets busy “mutilating gourds” for Halloween — everyone but T’Lyn would describe it as carving pumpkins — “Upper Decks” shows that the bridge crew doesn’t just “fade into the background” when the junior officers are elsewhere. It turns out that alien invasions, potential engineering disasters, and metaphysical crises are all in an average day’s work, in…

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How ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ uses Spielberg magic to capture the spirit of the original trilogy

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All those spaceships, droids, lightsabers, and scoundrels had a big part to play in capturing the imaginations of a generation back in 1977. Even so, there’s a much subtler moment that arguably defines the original ‘Star Wars’ movie better than any other. Young farmer Luke Skywalker, told by his uncle that he needs to stay on Tatooine for one more harvest, steps outside the homestead to stare at a gorgeous binary sunset. It’s a moment that captures the feeling that your current humdrum existence is preventing you from experiencing the…

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Handle on history: Knives embedded with rocket parts honor 45 years of Ariane launches

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A French company that crafts knife handles from leftover rocket metal and the wood from trees surrounding the rocket’s launch pad has created a limited-edition piece celebrating the anniversary of Europe’s venerable expendable heavy-lift vehicle. SpacePep’s has introduced its “45 Years of Ariane” folding knife. Each of the 100 individually-numbered knives is made with metal from the production of an Ariane 5 rocket, which is embedded in the snakewood handle. “It was indeed on Dec. 24, 1979, that the first Ariane launcher in history took off from the ELA1 launch…

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Cyber Monday Meta Quest 3 deal: Get a free Batman game and a three-month trial of Meta Quest Plus.

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There’s a Cyber Monday Meta Quest 3 deal available and you’ve still got time to get it: A free game and a free three-month trial of Meta Quest+ included. We love the Quest 3 and it sits at the top of our best VR headset deals guide. Get Batman: Arkham Shadow and a three-month free trial of Meta Quest+: Included with the Meta Quest 3. You can check out our Meta Quest 3 review for a more in-depth look at it but we found that it’s the best overall VR…

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Huge PSVR 2 headset Cyber Monday deal: Save $200

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You can get a sizable saving of 37% on the PSVR 2 headset this Cyber Monday as it’s now its lowest-ever price and it features in our best VR headsets guide. Save $200 (37%) on the PSVR 2 headset when you grab it from Amazon this Cyber Monday. You can get it for the same price at Best Buy and Walmart too. If you own a PlayStation and you want to explore the world of virtual reality, this is definitely the Cyber Monday deal you’re searching for. In our PSVR…

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‘Silo’ Season 2: ‘That Thing He Does’: Who is Silo 17’s mystery man in the vault?

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Lies and their deployment as weapons of deceit is explored in “That Thing He Does,” the third episode in the second season of Apple TV+’s dystopian sci-fi series, “Silo.“ While the first two chapters of creator and showrunner Graham Yost’s (“Speed,” “Justified”) post-apocalyptic Apple TV+ show split their minutes between Juliette seeing the graveyard of bodies and exploring Silo 17’s tomb-like interior before discovering a lone survivor, and the repercussions of Silo 18’s citizens witnessing Juliette strolling over the hill to germinate seeds of rebellion, this episode shifts back and…

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Best mech games of all time

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Mech games are too often viewed as clunky or aimed at niche sci-fi communities of players, but there’s plenty of variety in the genre. Beyond the big names you’ve heard of, such as Titanfall or Armored Core, an entire genre awaits new pilots, and we’ve collected the very best Mech games with this ranked list. The term “mecha” was first used in Japanese after shortening the English loanwords “mechanism” (mekanizumu) and “mechanical” (mekanikaru). The earliest history of mechs sends us back to 1868 and 1880, when Edward S. Ellis and…

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Warm up this holiday season with NASA’s new SLS rocket engine fireplace (video)

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NASA is inviting you to sit by a homey, rocket-powered hearth this holiday season. The space agency created a virtual fireplace lit by the engines of its huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which sent the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the moon in November 2022. “Just what you need for the holidays — the coziness of a crackling and roaring rocket engine!” NASA wrote in a description of the eight-hour-long fireplace video, which it posted on YouTube on Tuesday (Nov. 26). NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace – 8 Hours in…

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‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ season 5 episode 7: How does a certain ‘Next Generation’ character cross paths with the Cerritos?

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The USS Cerritos crew has encountered plenty of dimensional fissures this year, but the latest rupture in space and time carries the most unlikely of guests to the Alpha Quadrant. In “Lower Decks” season 5 episode 7, “Fully Dilated”, Captain Freeman and her crew encounter a purple version of the USS Enterprise-D — and there are much bigger questions to answer than whether the carpets match the hull. Spoiler warning! Caution advised if you’re yet to watch this week’s episode. Lieutenants Beckett Mariner, D’Vana Tendi, and T’Lyn are sent on…

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Act fast! Hulu and Disney+ bundle for just $2.99 a month for a year with this Black Friday deal

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Top Streaming Offers Here, you can find the best Black Friday streaming deals as several services offer big discounts ahead of the annual sales event. It’s always worth checking out what content is available where before choosing your next subscription, so it could be worth checking out our best sci-fi movies and TV shows on Disney Plus, Amazon, Netflix and Paramount Plus guides. Below, you’ll find the best Black Friday streaming deals as there are huge discounts, bundles and free trials available. You can take a look at our Black…

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