Writer’s strike be damned. While the “real” writers were out there protesting, Michael Bay was sitting at home writing the script for “Transformers 2″. Sort of. Bay says he writes all the scripts to his movies, and it’s from that template that the paid writers write the final script from. But never mind that. What does Bay have planned for “Transformers 2″, ass-kicking robot-wise?

I must admit to having a bit of a warped perspective on William Shatner. You see, every now and then I’ll see Shatner show up on my local TV channel doing advertising for a local law firm. Yes, William Shatner is now doing TV commercials for local law firms. Anyhoo. William Shatner apparently doesn’t think too highly of himself, either. Or at least, his acting.

This is news to me, but then again, I don’t really keep up with the Star Wars universe nearly as much as I should, because for me it’s kind of been played out, and I’m not really that interested in heading back to “a galaxy far, far away”. But according to this USA Today story, George Lucas isn’t just releasing “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” as a new TV series, but he’s also releasing it as a feature length movie.

Pushing Daisies fans rejoice, because your show is coming back for a second season. ABC has just released their list of shows that have been renewed for an additional season, and Pushing Daisies was among them. No surprise, Lost was also on the list, since that’s pretty much the only show ABC has in its stable that people actually bothers to talk about.

This is strange news. Everyone has expected that Eric Bana’s Romulan villain, Nero, would have a big role in J.J. Abrams’ Trek 11, otherwise why would they cast such a big name for such a small role? But according to Bana himself, his role is only “a cameo”. But, he adds, “It’s a good cameo!” Is he messing with us?

When you’ve starred in one science fiction show, it’s almost a given that you can waltz into another science fiction show without any background check. Once you’ve been on one show, you can go to another without a problem, because even though something like Firefly was lowly rated and barely seen, you’ve still got sci-fi cache. Which explains why Jewel Staite easily jumped from the cancelled Firefly to the running Stargate: Atlantis, where she’s just nabbed a regular starring role. Jewel Staite is our Sci-Fi Babe Spotlight of the day.

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A second trailer for Pixar’s animated “Wall-E” has arrived online, and it fleshes out (no pun intended) the storyline some more. We learn that Wall-E is a robot sent to Earth to clean up the mess humans left behind after we have abandoned the planet entirely; but something happens and Wall-E develops a “personality”, turns out to be very curious. Later, a second robot, Eve, shows up, and Wall-E falls in love. He ends up hitchhiking on her ship as she rockets off Earth and, presumably, that’s where the story continues in the movie.

Joshua Jackson is headed for the fringes of TV — J.J. Abrams’ upcoming sci-fi show Fringe, to be exact. The former Dawson’s Creek star has joined the Abrams show, about FBI agents investigating paranormal and unexplainable whatevers.

Tricia Helfer hasn’t quite become a bona fide sci-fi babe, but what the hey, she’s one of the stars of, probably the most high-profile sci-fi show on TV at the moment, Battlestar Galactica. Tell me that show would work better without Tricia Helfer’s uber sexy Number Six. You know what would have added to Tricia’s sci-fi bonafides? If her show Them, a sci-fi/aliens invasion show, had gotten on the air. But oh well. BSG alone more than qualifies.