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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Vue Exeter has chosen the smallest screen possible to show The Voyage Home and I was sadly unable to get tickets. So I’ll be celebrating Star Trek’s 60th anniversary by starting Voyager for the first time instead 🖖

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

'Myth and Magic - A Century of Fantasy Cinema' My new exhibition opens at Exeter Picturehouse on 21 September for six weeks. If you're in the area, do come along. Admission free! 22 original paintings by me, celebrating the mythical monsters and legendary heroes of the silver screen. Please share!

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Last night’s classic sci-fi viewing

Title card for The Day The Earth Stood Still

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Breaking my absence on here to report that I’m currently watching Deep Space Nine for the first time. I’m halfway through season four and ready to declare this as the greatest Trek show. I’ll be shocked if a future holodeck episode can best Our Man Bashir.

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Around The Universe In 16 Days @aroundtheuniverse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Scroll on to read more about "Around The Universe In 16 Days', an unofficial travel guide about the history of #DoctorWho filming locations.

A photo of Portland Square, Bristol, which is captioned 'Around The Universe In 16 Days: An Unofficial Doctor Who Travel Guide'

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Pluribus is terrific television. The wait for series two is going to feel very long indeed.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

It’s been 50 years since The Android Invasion (not that I was around back then so I can’t reminisce). Here I am pretending to be Tom Baker at East Hagbourne back in April whilst wearing a franchise inappropriate T-shirt.

A photograph of me at the monument from ‘The Android Invasion’ in East Hagbourne village

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I’m back in Britain. Weather is abysmal. All my fault again, sorry about that. Won’t happen again if I can help it.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

And they call this ‘Spring’ Down Under? I’ve got red hair. I’m going to die.

The weather in Sydney over the next few days. The temperatures are equitable to Mordor and reach 37 degrees.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Rewatching The Sontaran Experiment tonight for some Devon comforts. I visited Hound Tor myself back in July and took some photos. Styre had clearly popped out for the day and was nowhere to be seen.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Just booked my ticket to see Katy Manning interview Carole Ann Ford in Parramatta this weekend. Very much looking forward to it.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Accommodation contract issues means that in the month of December I would be homeless on the streets of Sydney for three weeks between flats. My hand has been forced to fly home for Christmas (yay!). My carbon footprint is gonna be larger than that of Taylor Swift.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

On season 2 of my The Next Generation journey and the bangers are starting to come more and more consecutively. The Measure of a Man is truly one of the greats.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

To the disgrace of my cinephile self, I’ve never seen Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. I made a vow recently to always try and read a King book before watching the adaptation (already broken with The Long Walk) so, having started the book yesterday, I’ve now begun my journey to the Overlook Hotel.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Rewatching Arc of Infinity today. I love Borusa’s disbelief at the thought of a traitor on the Gallifreyan High Council knowing full well that when he gets home he’ll be reworking his diary to push back his Death Zone plans.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Met a local celebrity today on the steps of the Opera House

Benny the Seal, on the steps of the Sydney Opera House

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Very sad to hear we've lost Christopher H Bidmead. Always struck me as a very genial chap who took his work seriously but not himself. Hard to over-express my admiration for Frontios, and the ideas in Logopolis and Castrovalva, where mathematics is treated as where philosophy and poetry meet.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The novelty of seeing exotic birds as part of daily life in Australia is something I thought would never quite wear off whilst I’m here. But the shrieking noises the flocks of cockatoos make every night at 1am has me down to my last nerve.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Finished reading ‘Salem’s Lot for the first time today. Excellent, what a classic. Time to watch the 1979 miniseries and see how it fairs - I’m told it’s very good. I really should read Dracula now, ashamed that I’ve not got around to it yet.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The shopping centre near me closes a new escalator everyday without fail. The supermarkets are on the top floor. Getting myself up there and subsequently leaving the building with a litre of milk is an experience I imagine can only be comparable to that of navigating Castrovalva.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Watching The Next Generation for the first time to procrastinate work and wait out the rain. Yikes, the show had a rocky start. Not many highlights so far, convinced that if it wasn’t attached to the Star Trek brand then it wouldn’t have been renewed beyond the first season.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I’m very sorry to the people of New South Wales, I have just come from Cardiff (officially the UK’s wettest city) and I’ve clearly brought the weather with me. I can only apologise to everyone as this is entirely my fault.

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Ben Cogan @bencogan1.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I will not stand for Stones of Blood slander Daniel 😤

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