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Stop The Prequels

Video: Prequel Pain - Star Wars Parody Vid. Using time travel to stop George Lucas from making the 3 Star Wars prequel movies.

And What The Frak is this? Caprica (TV series)
Set on the fictional planet Caprica, approximately fifty to seventy years before the events depicted in the re-imagined series, Caprica is described as “television’s first [...]

The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone (1983) movie is based on Stephen King’s 1979 novel and it is in the horror-suspense genre.
Johnny has visions of the past and future after an accidental brain injury activates the dormant “dead zone” in his brain.
Video: Dead Zone movie clip
Dr. Weizak wants to treat Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken)
The Dead Zone TV [...]

The New Spock

Zachary Quinto looks like an excellent sparring target for the new Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban). I hope Quinto masters the unilateral eyebrow maneuver, the obligatory response seen whenever Dr. McCoy annoys Spock. The Vulcan hand salute is not as important.

Video: Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy - the new Spock and the vintage Spock talk Trek.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) is a small town doctor. Many of his patients apparently have the paranoid delusion that their loved ones are impostors.
Dr. Dan Kaufman (Larry Gates) is the town psychiatrist and his diagnosis is mass hysteria.
Dr. Bennell latter discovers that the Earth has been invaded by an [...]

Brainstorm

Brainstorm (1983) movie
Dr. Michael Anthony Brace (Christopher Walken) and Dr. Lillian Reynolds (Louise Fletcher) perfect a virtual reality machine. It can record a person’s thoughts and perceptions and can then be played back for others to experience.
Video: Brainstorm Heart Attack Scene
Dr. Reynolds records her death experience. Is there life after death?

Brainstorm
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The Andromeda Strain

The Andromeda Strain movie (1971) is based on the 1969 novel by Michael Crichton.
Dr. Jeremy Stone (Arthur Hill), Dr. Charles Dutton (David Wayne), Dr. Mark Hall (James Olson) and Dr. Ruth Leavitt (Kate Reid) investigate a deadly disease caused by an alien organism. They must discover why an infant and an alcoholic man are [...]

Star Trek Movie 2009

Too much Star Trek? I don’t think so!
Star Trek episode and movie count on Wikipedia:
TV Series:
Original Series · 80 episodes
Animated Series · 22 episodes
Next Generation · 178 episodes
Deep Space Nine · 176 episodes
Voyager · 172 episodes
Enterprise · 98 episodes
Movies:
The Motion Picture
II: Wrath of Khan
III: Search for Spock
IV: Voyage Home
V: Final Frontier
VI: Undiscovered Country
Generations
First Contact
Insurrection
Nemesis
Star Trek [...]

The Omega Man

The Omega Man (1971) is set in 1977, 2 years after a biological war.
Robert Neville (Charlton Heston) is a military research doctor who apparently is the last normal survivor on earth.
Video: Omega Man - News Report - How the world ended
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Medical Advertising In Children Of Men

Children Of Men (2006)
It is the year 2027 and an infertility pandemic threatens the survival of the human race.
Medical advertising from the future:

Feeling Old? Forever Young - medical surgery group.
Happiness In A Pill. Bliss.
The Ultimate Climax. Niagra.
The British ORGAN market. KIDNEY £3000.

Video: Advertising in Children Of Men

Children of Men
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Star Trek Parody on The Carol Burnett Show

Star Trek is often parodied and has inspired many popular culture references. Here, the crew is baffled by a strange medical condition.
Dr. McCoy: Damn it Jim! I’m a doctor not a… [hesitates] well, I guess I am a doctor.
Video: StarTrek TOS - Parody - The Carol Burnett Show
See Spock perform the bilateral Vulcan nerve pinch.
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