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'Forbidden Planet's' Warren Stevens Dies At 92

30 March 2012 2:01 AM, PDT | AirlockAlpha.com | See recent Airlock Alpha news »

Warren Stevens, who has appeared in more than 160 television shows and movies over the years -- including "Star Trek" and a pair of stints on "The Twilight Zone" in different decades -- has died. He was 92. Stevens was already a veteran character actor when he played Rojan in the 1968 "Star Trek" episode "By Any Other Name." The episode, written by D.C. Fontana and the late Jerome Bixby, aired in the show's second season, and had Stevens' character along with Barbara Bouchet's Kelinda, commandeer the Enterprise, trying to take the Enterprise to another galaxy. However, Stevens is probably better known to genre fans for playing Lt. Doc Ostrow in 1956's "Forbidden Planet." Ostrow uses the "plastic educator" in the film to help the rest of his crew, but dies in the process. That film also »

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10 (Kind Of) Great Classic Sci-Fi Flicks You May Have Never Heard Of

16 March 2012 11:27 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

We know the greats; movies like Metropolis (1927), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Star Wars (1977).

And there are those films which maybe didn’t achieve cinematic greatness, but through their inexhaustible watchability became genre touchstones, lesser classics but classics nonetheless, like The War of the Worlds (1953), Godzilla (1954), Them! (1954), The Time Machine (1960).

In the realm of science fiction cinema, those are the cream (and below that, maybe the half and half). But sci fi is one of those genres which has often too readily leant itself to – not to torture an analogy — producing nonfat dairy substitute.

During the first, great wave of sci fi movies in the 1950s, the target audience was kids and teens. There wasn’t a lot in the way of “serious” sci fi. Most of it was churned out quick and cheap; drive-in fodder, grist for the Saturday matinee mill.

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- Bill Mesce

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