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Appreciations for important science-fiction series have something of a tradition for me. After the two Star Trek series "Next Generation" (TNG) and "Deep Space Nine" (DS9), as well as "Babylon 5" and its spin-off "Crusade" it's "Voyager" (VOY) to celebrate...
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is 25 years Today we can celebrate the 2nd of 3 major science-fictions-series anniversary within 5 months:On 3rd January 1993 made it's fist appearance in US television.DS9, as the series is abbreviated, was the 3rd Star-Trek...
Star Wars turned 40 years in 2017 I have to admit: I'm not the big Star-Wars enthusiast, I'm more in favour of Star-Trek. Nonetheless I really like these movies as well. And I feel it as a kind of personal duty, devoting Star-Wars a tribute in this big...
On 8th September 2016 time has come: Star-Trek – or how is it called in German „Raumschiff Enterprise (Starship Enterprise) has celebrated its 50th anniversary. On 08. September 1966 the series was primarily aired in the United States. And though I haven't...
April-Fool-Jokes have a centuries old tradition, the term as such already exists since the 19th century. And of course I know this tradition since my childhood – and in recent years I have also regularly fallen into it. But no more so around the last...
On 6th June 2013 Edward Snowdens revelations about electronic mass-surveillance have been published – and have changed the world. Both the person Snowden as well as his revelations were already in 2013 highly controversial and are still today. Why Edward...
2016 is the year the first USS Enterprise-NCC and the entire Star-Trek-universe celebrate the ultimate anniversary: The probably most influential science-fiction-series ever gets 50 years old. And today it's exactly 3 months until anniversary-day. And...
The new spaceship Enterprise turned 30 Today exactly 30 years ago, on 28th of September 1987, a very important event for Star Trek, for the science-fiction-genre and even for TV-series overall took place: The 1st airing of „Star Trek: The next Generation“,...
A quarter century of Star Trek TNG On September 28th 1987 the 1st episode of "Star Trek - The next generation" (TNG) – in German-speaking countries "Raumschiff Enterprise – Das naechste Jahrhundert", has been on air in the United States. Around 21 years...
20 years Star Trek: Enterprise My last blog about Star-Trek is only a few weeks old, due to the 55th anniversary of the original-series. But my last big anniversary-tribute was a few years ago. And for the 4th Star-Trek real-series, Enterprise (ENT),...
55 years ot Star-Trek Exactly today 55 years ago, the “original” Starship Enterprise flew for the first time on US-television-screens. Star Trek is probably the most famous science-fiction-series ever. The franchise exists up to now and especially in...
Who doesn't know Star Wars? It will not be more than a few people, solely the currently ongoing almost unbelievable public campaign makes it almost impossible, to miss at least some information about it. I'm more a Star-Trek and Babylon-5 fan, however...
US-elections-2020 Today on 03rd November 2020 there are several important elections in the USA. In addition to a new president, the members of the House of Representatives and a part of the Senators are also elected. On the occasion of this, I would like...
I have been dealing with AMD a couple of times in my blogs, in my German one as well as in my English one. Up to now I mostly have put my focus on technical aspects of the US semi-conductor company. In late November this has changed: After around 2 months...
The US presidential-election 2016 is now several weeks ago, but just because of the disemotionalisation related to this fact a a sober look at it's result now is possible. And – though resulted by the fact, that I didn't have time, created my articles...
25 years Star-Trek-Voyager Regular readers of my blog know that there are 2 things I like very much and adress regularly: Anniversaries Science Fiction Series. For several Star-Trek-series, especially for "The Next Generation" and "Deep Space Nine", as...
15 years NCIS Exactly today 15 years ago on 23rd September 2003 the 1st episode of the most successful TV-series in the world, if not the most successful TV-series ever, was aired in the USA on CBS: NCIS or it's called at us in the German-speaking countries...
25 years Babylon-5 On 22nd of February 1993 the steeped in history but widely unknown science-fiction-series Babylon-5 (B5) made it's debut at US television-station PTEN.Unfortunately, I did not make it on time for anniversary-day writing my big tribute-blog-post....
In Vienna at the Donauinsel (Danube-Island) from 28th of July to 6th of August (so this week) the beachvolleyball world-championship takes place. So in the true sense of the word a major-event takes place in my backyard – I live only a 10 minutes walk...
There are many content management systems (CMS) existing. To most famous belong WordPress, Joomla and Typo3. But all of them require an MySQL-database of the server. And above all the installation and the adaptation of the systems to your own needs is...
Today on 23th January 2017, the people-initiatve (Volksbegehren) "against TTIP, CETA and TISA" is launched in Austria.The 3 trans-atlantic "free trade agreements" for 2-3 years are under massive criticism from a myriad of sceptical organizations – and...
Exactly 1 year ago, the two 70s cops Starsky & Hutch have celebrated the series 40th anniversary. And this "birthday" for me was the reason paying tribute to this ground-breaking television series with a big anniversary-article. Interestingly, when it...
4 ½ months ago my favorite series of the 2000s celebrated its 10th anniversary: "Life on Mars" from the UK, named the same as the title track song from the great and unfortunately already deceased David Bowie. "Life on Mars" has got a successor: The BBC-series...
Obama against Romney - this has not been a choice but pure show. And the big winners of the United States presidential-election have had been certain long before election day: Goldman Sachs and the high-finance. Graphically it can’t be expressed any better...
An open letter to the President of the United States, Donald Trump: Dear Mr. President Trump! Early in the morning at 7th of April, you as President ordered to attack an airbase of the Syrian army with cruise-missiles type "Tomahawk". Much is uncertain....
