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CSI-AstroQuest: "ideas are a dime a dozen"

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

On 16 April 09, CSI had a show featuring Star Trek themes, but the underlying murder was about idea-stealing. The guy who says "ideas are a dime a dozen" gets whacked by the idea-originator.

from scifiwire:

We screened the episode and were surprised to see not only Battlestar Galactica cast member Kate Vernon, but also cameos by a couple of other Battlestar players: Ronald D. Moore and Grace Park. Moore even gets a line in the episode rich with irony to anyone who recalls the initial backlash against the reboot of Battlestar.]

CBS, part of the corporation that owns the rights to Star Trek, will go where lots of people have gone before with a sci-fi-themed episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on April 16 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, and you can watch a clip here.

In the episode, Hodges (Wallace Langham) and Wendy (Liz Vassey) run into each other at a science fiction convention for one of their favorite classic television shows that is not Star Trek and end up investigating the murder of one of their beloved actors.

The clip shows a fantasy sequence in which Hodges imagines himself the captain of a starship that's not the Enterprise?though it has the Enterprise's sound effects and background score?who expresses his feelings for Yeoman Wendy, who is not Yeoman Rand, though she shares a similar if not identical hairstyle highlighted by a comparably preposterous hairpiece.

from williamshatner.com:

CBS has been running ads for this week's CSI television show. It seems that the investigators are digging into the murder at a convention. That convention seems very definitely Star Trek-oriented, with costumes, a bridge, and Trek sayings. I'm video-recording it!

Full post as published by IPBiz on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).