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December 16, 2002
Issue 295
Vol. 8, No. 51

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INTERVIEW

 Nemesis producer Rick Berman, director Stuart Baird and screenwriter John Logan join Next Gen stars Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner and Marina Sirtis to take fans behind the scenes of the 10th big-screen Star Trek.


LAB NOTES

 In his latest column, Wil McCarthy imagines the future of endless life and asks short-timers the immortal question, "So You Want to Live Forever?"

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Peter Jackson prepares to bid farewell to Middle-earth in his final Lord of the Rings flick, Mel Gibson hits the road again for a fourth Mad Max movie, Sean Astin directs a very special episode of Angel, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Patrick Stewart comes face to face with a fierce new enemy in Star Trek Nemesis, Rob Schneider succumbs to a strange sexual curse in The Hot Chick, and Max von Sydow takes a huge gamble as the god of chance in Intacto.
OFF THE SHELF
 Michael Kube-McDowell cheats death with the magic of science in Vectors, while Stephen Baxter searches for intelligent life in the universe in his newest short-story collection, Phase Space.
GAMES
 Instead of merely watching the new Tolkien tale, pick up a sword and join the fabled quest when Gandalf and Saruman go head to head in the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers tabletop strategy game.
ANIME
 The long-awaited DVD release of Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro may be short on extras, but the story alone is enough to make it all worthwhile.
SOUND SPACE
 The sounds of The Fog, They Live, Halloween and other chilling flicks trick and treat on the Essential John Carpenter Film Music Collection CD.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Sometimes the best science-fiction movies are also the cheesiest, a fact that the dedicated reviewers at Badmovies.org attempt to prove with plot synopses, sound clips and more.
LETTERS
 Readers rise to the defense of Harry Potter, welcome Roswell to the SCI FI Channel, debate the future of Firefly, take issue with alternate history, and much more.

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