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Two Star Trek legends, Gene Roddenberry and Jonathan Frakes, were born on this day in sci-fi history. Different years, of course, but let's not get ahead of ourselves ... because before there was Star Trek, there were space shuttles ... and before that, airplanes.

So, let's go back to the beginning real quick. Because it was on this day in 1871 that Orville Wright was born in Dayton, Ohio. He and his brother Wilbur would later go on to invent the airplane. And we're hoping it was as adorable as this:

Warning: If you haven't watched Wynonna Earp Season 2, Episode 11, "Gone As a Girl Can Get", then I suggest you stop reading and go correct that. This is a TV recap and is therefore full of spoilers. Don't say I didn't warn you.

It's time for the "what if" episode. Every show has one, right? In this case it's what would have happened if Wynonna never existed?

If you haven’t seen eclipse updates everywhere you click by now, you’re probably living in the dark—but besides briefly blacking out anything in the path of totality and being the photo op of a lifetime, it’s also going to have some effect on space weather.

In King Lear, William Shakespeare wrote, "The stars above us, govern our conditions." I'm not sure if the sparkling orbs necessarily rule my destiny, but they sure look swell shining from this beautiful new Stargazer's Watch from ThinkGeek.

Warning: If you haven't watched Dark Matter Season 3, Episode 12, "My Final Gift to You", then I suggest you stop reading and go correct that. This is a TV recap, and is therefore full of spoilers. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Those Netflix Marvel superheroes are back! This time they'll have to work together as The Defenders to save New York City, Finn Jones tells SYFY WIRE in the exclusive interview below. Jones' Danny Rand (aka Iron Fist) is forced to team up with Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Daredevil in Marvel's The Defenders.

The Star Wars franchise is one of the biggest, most popular filming today. So it's no surprise that celebrities are practically lining up for a cameo in Rian Johnson's upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi, even those with royal blood. The first film in the new trilogy, The Force Awakens, featured cameos by Simon Pegg, Warwick Davis, and Daniel Craig, so we're certainly expecting some good ones to pop up in TLJ.

Actor Sonny Landham, best known here for playing badass tracker Billy Sole in Predator, died yesterday in Lexington, Kentucky at the age of 76.

Landham started his career starring in over a dozen adult films. He played a policeman in his first major mainstream role in Walter Hill's 1979 cult hit, The Warriors, and he starred in nearly 50 projects over his career. The Native American actor -- part Seminole, part Cherokee -- was known for his "tough guy" roles, and performed frequently as a stuntsman.

We’ve known for a while that Marvel was reviving the fan-favorite super-ish team Runaways, and now the publisher has dropped a preview showing the team back together after all these years.

I love Garbage Pail Kids. I got my first card around age 6, and I still remember my favorite card: K.O. Kody, a little redhead kid that had had the crap beat out of him. Swollen lumps, black eyes, bleeding cuts ... he was the most explicitly gross card I had, and my parents hated it. I still have all my Garbage Pail Kids cards.

The Caped Crusader is riding into his upcoming Batman: White Knight comic in a new Batmobile, and it’s pretty metal.

The master is finally getting his moment.

Multiple reports surfaced Thursday that a stand-alone Obi-Wan Kenobi film is in the works, and for fans, the news was simultaneously a disturbance in the Force — and far from a big shock.

Matt Reeves' War for the Planet of the Apes was a satisfying conclusion to the rebooted Apes prequel trilogy and now a creative team-up of Andy Serkis’ The Imaginarium Studios and FoxNext Games will further flesh out the saga in a new video game titled, Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier, existing in the narrative gap between Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes.

SpaceX has let a dragon loose, but instead of breathing fire, this particular Dragon is flying an invaluable science payload above the atmosphere.

Game of thrones actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has a solution to the recent HBO hacks and episode leaks. And it’s quite a simple one.

Welcome to the latest episode of Who Won the Week, a weekly podcast in which Syfy Wire staffers Adam Swiderski, Aaron Sagers and Dany Roth look back at the week that was and the stories that are blowing up the geek-o-sphere.

Feeling a little lost in a post Harry Potter-world and searching for a wand-waving comic book title to satisfy those magical urges?

Check out this new bi-monthly series from DC Comics that gathers budding young warlocks, witches, and sorcerers in an academic setting similar to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry or SYFY's The Magicians.

While Stranger Things is undoubtedly the baby of the Duffer Bros., fellow executive producer Shawn Levy, who calls himself their "surrogate older brother," brings his experience to the table. That's especially helpful now, when Stranger Things Season 2 has to battle both a new monster, and the expectations of fans who fell in love with the series last season.

TNT is loading up on a fantastic new sci-fi drama by developing an adaptation of N.K. Jemisin’s intricate Hugo Award-winning novel, The Fifth Season. Still in the early planning stages, the project comes from writer/producer Leigh Dana Jackson (24: Legacy, Sleepy Hollow) with Imperative Entertainment’s (All the Money in the World) Dan Friedkin, Tim Kring and Justin Levy acting as the series' executive producers.

It’s August 18, which in case you didn’t already know, is the drop date for Season 1 of The Defenders on Netflix. It completes Phase One (yes, Marvel's still doing that) of Marvel's TV universe and sets up Phase Two. That’s right, now we can see Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter), and Iron Fist (Finn Jones) fight … ninjas, what else?

The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow has become one of the zaniest shows on television, and work is well underway on Season 3. Turns out the time-traveling adventure will be heading to the 1980s and digging into Ray Palmer’s origin story.

Video game movies do not have a good track record, and that's putting it kindly. Out of around 40 theatrical releases based on video games, only two have grossed more than $100 million dollars in the U.S., and one of those was based on a game about firing birds at pigs with a slingshot.

Shawn Levy, who is signed on to direct an Uncharted film with Tom Holland (Spider-Man: Homecoming) as its young star, knows and acknowledges that.

Do you like TV shows about gladiators? Because The CW is sure hoping you do, as the network is developing an hour-long drama series based on Lesley Livingston’s YA gladiator novel, The Valiant.

If this is actually happening, you know you want to be first in line to see it with popcorn in hand.

Fresh off The Vampire Diaries, Nina Dobrev is trading in brooding bloodsuckers for a different type of undead in the big screen sequel/reboot of Flatliners. Turns out, she was willing to go all in for the project — even when things started heating up a bit too much.

Marvel and ABC have released a new character trailer for their upcoming Inhumans series, putting the spotlight on the characters that will populate the upcoming Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spin-off.

I'll admit I had high hopes for 2010's low-budget sci-fi invasion movie, Skyline, and the trailer delivered some genuinely cool imagery of a Los Angeles assault of otherworldly visitors. Sadly, the actual film didn't deliver on its promise and was filled with cliched dialogue, recycled sci-fi tropes and a shockingly abrupt ending. I'm being kind here, folks!

It is a fact universally acknowledged that director Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four reboot was a hot mess both in front of and behind the camera.

The 2015 superhero movie featuring Marvel’s First Family was a critical and commercial failure that angered fans no end about what had been done to the beloved characters’ origin story.

When you think about science fiction, usually you think spaceships and aliens and monsters and time travel and crazy technology. You think about giant differences between life as we know it and the reality depicted on your screen. But there's this whole set of TV shows where the differences between that reality and our own only vary by a tiny margin, where a single slight change suddenly drops the main character into a whole new world of possibilities. 

Earlier this summer we showed you some electrifying footage from the new Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite title from a gameplay story trailer; then an SDCC promo dropped showcasing Spider-Man and Thanos entering the battle zone against Ultron and his Infinity Stone-gathering plan to unite the universes of Marvel and Capcom.

Our interview with James Cameron continues as we discuss the current cinematic climate of blockbuster franchises being released one after the other. How does one maintain a franchise and make it stand apart in today's oversaturated market?

We also discuss the upcoming 3D re-release of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which prompted some anecdotes about the film's production. Did you know that the span of Cameron printing out the script for the very first time to T2 hitting theaters in July 1991 was about 12 months? Astonishing.

Marvel’s The Defenders is out today on Netflix, and to mark the glorious occasion, the first teaser trailer for The Punisher has dropped. Oh, and guys, Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) is coming to collect.

As one can imagine, when the citizens of Riverdale escape to Pop's Chock'Lit Shoppe to trade stories, they think their secrets remain hidden in the booths of the diner. But Pop is always listening. 

Marvel's The Defenders has finally released, uniting Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist for the first time on the screen. It’s an eight-episode series, but let's be honest here: Some of you have already watched all of it. No judgment here, though: I'm not running on much sleep either.

The costume is a crucial part in the creation process of just about every superhero. The look, especially at the point of inception, almost always becomes a permanent part of that character, ingrained in most fans' memory whenever they think of that hero.

This week's casting rumors about The Orville star Halson Sage possibly playing the "turn sound into light" mutant hero Dazzler in the next X-Men film have put the character back in the spotlight. So we thought we would hit the wayback machine to revisit the long, glorious, and sometimes bewildering origin story of Miss Alison Blaire with one of her creators.

A new player has thrown its hat into the ring of scripted television in regard to a cult-favorite genre TV show. Porn site xHamster has offered a lifeboat for the recently Netflix-canceled show Sense8, in hopes of getting a third season greenlit. Co-creators Lana and Lilly Wachowski were sent a letter by xHamster Vice President Alex Hawkins with an offer to produce the show’s third season and become the permanent home for the series. 

Hear that? It's the sound of at least one glass ceiling shattering.

She's arguably the best part of The Poseidon Adventure, and today would have been 97. On this day in sci-fi history, Shelley Winters was born.

Oh my, this has been quite a week. A lot of poisonous things are happening politically in my beloved country. I am quite politically active — if you follow me on Twitter, Facebook, or read any of my political posts, you know this — and the past few days have been no exception.

Tim Burton's live-action Dumbo is really filling out, and now the Disney flick has added Oscar winner Alan Arkin to its cast.

Flying slightly below the radar, Netflix's Aussie imported supernatural thriller, Glitch, was already given the green light for a sophomore season back last fall, but now we've got an official release date of Nov. 28 and a first trailer to inspect.

Here's the show's compelling synopsis, according to Deadline:

Earlier this week, Hollywood was shocked and saddened by the death of stuntwoman Joi "SJ" Harris during an action sequence on the set of Deadpool 2.

WARNING! Minor Star Wars canon spoilers below! 

Happy Thorsday! I may be in the weeds of my time away from Objects in Space, but that hasn't stopped me from looking for those links for your perusal.

How are you celebrating this, the day of our God of Thunder Thor Odinson? We're due for thunderstorms all day here, so maybe he's on to us.

Robots might make you think of anything from insecure droids like C-3PO to metal machines of mass destruction, but NASA’s idea of how artificial intelligence will rocket into the future is nothing less than mind-blowing.

There are many reasons why Marvel's The Defenders, debuting Friday, August 18, on Netflix, may be the most anticipated superhero TV series of all time. Sigourney Weaver playing the Big Bad is obviously one. But for many fans, seeing two particular characters uniting on screen may be the true highlight: Power Man and Iron Fist.

San Diego Comic-Con may be (long) over for another year ... but love of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man lives on! 

As usual, there was plenty of Spidey cosplay on display at the Con this year, which inspired us to ask all these costumed wallcrawlers what they love the most about their go-to superhero. From being the most "relatable" of heroes to seemingly always coming from the heart, Spider-Man is indeed a fan favorite. 

Watch below. 

The first issue of Mister Miracle, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads, only came out last week! But it's such a good comic, we're already excited to imagine what it might be like as a movie.

Have you ever been a member of the crew on a horror flick, and you suddenly realized all those grisly scenes you’ve been filming were actually real, and that you’ve just been making a snuff film all along? No? Well, hallelujah, because you really shouldn’t get mixed up in such things, but that’s not to say it’s not a great premise for a horror movie.

A television series based on the cult hit sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest was rolling through development a year ago, then hit the back burner in the wake of Alan Rickman’s tragic passing. Now it’s finally back on track.