• "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a writer." Star Trek screenwriter Robert Orci swears you'll see all the old tropes in the new movie.

• James Cameron talks to Wired about the Terminator films and sounds decidedly skeptical about the forthcoming one.

• The lovely and sensuous Grace Park (Boomer/Athena) answers all your lingering Battlestar Galactica questions.

• One of the finest "Photoshop Phridays" I've seen in quite a while: Star Wars as classic art.

• SF Signal hosts another Mind Meld: Who is the funniest writer in the history of science-fiction?

• The Star Wars cantina theme, sinuously played on a harp!

• io9 nails down Ronald D. Moore on the unfilmed BSG finale.