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It’s Here! The First Episode of Our Horror Podcast ‘We Don’t Belong Here’

We’re happy to announce the first episode of our genre-bending audio drama podcast has dropped. Listen to the first episode of We Don’t Belong Here — “Three Characters Trapped in a Forest”: Synopsis: It should’ve been a simple hiking trip. Should’ve. But it’s hardly anything but ordinary. Now three friends find themselves lost in an enigmatic forest. And one of them will co...

Enemies Within or What Horror Means to Me

Gnarled, gloved fingers with razor blade tips blossom from the white bed linen. The hand yawns. The unsuspecting teenager, a baby-faced Johnny Depp, nodding off. Then… the hand snatches Depp, yanking him into the bed. Blood sprays from where he once lay. Waves of magenta gushing upward, spraying the entire bed and room around it, like a busted old lawn sprinkler. Johnny Depp is no more. All that r...

Brown Geek Spotlight: Amrit Kaur’s Star Trek

Star Trek is a franchise lauded for its inclusivity and diversity. And it’s worked very hard at that, even when it’s occasionally stumbled. Since 1966, the science-fiction series has featured a multinational crew and a variety of ethnicities were purposefully cast for roles. South Asians were among those featured since the original series. Although there have been a few missteps, ...

Ten Treks That Prove ‘Star Trek’ is a Queer Progressive Utopia

Space… the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise… you know the rest. But the final frontier isn’t all space action-adventure. Although, that’s a huge component of the show. There’s something more at work underneath all the phasers, space battles, fist-fights, and weird alien lifeforms. Star Trek has always represented the hope of a better fu...

Brown Geeks’ Top 10 Space Sci-Fi Shows to Binge

Space. It’s really really big. Gobsmackingly ginormous. 93 billion light years of stuff. Or thereabouts. And the darn thing is constantly moving, expanding. Like a stomach during a holiday feast. Just when you think it can’t get any bigger. It does. So there’s plenty of room for adventure and mayhem. Maybe that’s why a lot of sci-fi shows are set in space. Plenty of univers...

Star Trek Cast and Crew Keep the Dream Alive at Comic Con @ Home

Star Trek isn’t just about spaceships and ray guns. Although, there is plenty of swashbuckling action adventure as the characters planet hop through the galaxy. But there’s always been a spark of optimism and humanity in a franchise that’s spanned five decades and several shows and films. A shining beacon pointing to a better tomorrow. As Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry once s...

The Brown Geeks Are Going to San Diego Comic Con From Our Couches

2020 is a challenging year for all of us. We are living through history at this very moment in a lot of ways. We’ve had to find new ways to gather and connect. Mostly, we’ve gone online to do so. Because it’s important to stay connected even if we can’t physically be together. The organizers of San Diego Comic Con International know this.  For a lot of us, Comic Con is the ...

Is Star Trek’s Diversity in Danger of Going Backwards… ?

55 years ago, NBC passed on the first Star Trek pilot, “The Cage,” and instead ordered a second pilot starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk that eventually sold the show. Now after all that time, the characters from that rejected pilot are getting a series of their own — Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The show will follow the adventures of Captain Christopher Pike, his female execut...

Is Star Trek: Lower Decks… Star Trek?

Every time there’s a new Star Trek production, Trekkies ask the same question: Is it “real” Star Trek? When the original show went off the air and the first movie came out in ’79, they questioned its authenticity. 1987 when The Next Generation premiered… same thing. Rinse, repeat all the way to today with the upcoming animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks.   The trailer for the CBS All Acces...

Superman is Filipino-American…

… Sorta. The Man of Steel will be voice for the first time by a Filipino-American actor — Darren Criss. He’ll make his debut in the animated feature, Superman: The Man of Tomorrow. Fil-Am actor Darren Criss will voice Superman in a new animated movie (Photo Credit: Entertainment Weekly and DC Entertainment) You might remember the half-Filipino/half-Caucasian actor from his ro...

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