Special Guest Stars Christopher Nolan as Himself (Director / Producer) Steven Spielberg as Himself (Director / Producer) Ridley Scott as Himself (Director / Producer) George Lucas as Himself (Director / Producer) Guest Stars Lisa Yaszek as Herself (Professor of Science Fiction Studies - Georgia Tech) Gary K. Wolfe as Himself (Author - How Great Science Fiction Works) Amy Nicholson as Herself (Film Critic / Host - The Canon) Adam Rutherford as Himself (Science Journalist - BBC Radio 4) Annalee Newitz as Herself (Senior Tech Culture Editor - ARS Tecnica) Sidney Perkowitz as Himself (Physicist / Science Writer - Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and The End of The World) Elliott Kalan as Himself (Head Writer - Mystery Science Theater 3000) Whoopi Goldberg as Herself (Actor - Star Trek: The Next Generation) Sigourney Weaver as Herself (Actor - Alien Franchise / Avatar) Alec Gillis as Himself (Creature Effects Designer - Alien Franchise) N.K. Jemisin as Herself (SF Author) Dean Devlin as Himself (Producer / Screenwriter - Independence Day) Jeff Goldblum as Himself (Actor - Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1978)) Veronica Cartwright as Herself (Actor - Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1978)) Will Smith as Himself (Actor - Independence Day) Keanu Reeves as Himself (Actor - The Matrix Trilogy) Douglas Trumbull as Himself (Visual Effects Director - Close Encounters of the Third Kind) Sean Lennon as Himself (Musician) Paul R. Frommer as Himself (Linguist - Avatar) Jack Horner as Himself (Paleontologist / Advisor - Jurassic Park) Aaron Sims as Himself (Concept Artist - Stranger Things) Blair Davis as Himself (Professor / Author - 1950's Hollywood and The Rebirth of Low Budget Cinema) Nalo Hopkinson as Herself (SF Author) Ken Liu as Himself (SF Author) Nnedi Okorafor as Herself (SF Author) Paul W.S. Anderson as Himself (Director - AVP: Alien vs. Predator) DJ Spooky as Himself (Composer / Multimedia Artist) Zoe Saldana as Herself (Actor - Avatar) Carl Sagan as Himself (Astronomer (archive footage)) Bob Balaban as Himself (Actor - Close Encounters of the Third Kind) Ray Bradbury as Himself (The Merv Griffin Show (1978) (archive footage)) Terri Tatchell as Herself (Screenwriter - District 9) James V. Hart as Himself (Screenwriter - Contact) Ted Chiang as Himself (SF Author - Story of Your Life) Vivian Carol Sobchack as Herself (Professor of Film and Television - UCLA) Caprice Spenser Roth as Herself (Movement Choreographer - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial) Carolyn Porco as Herself (Planetary Scientist / Consultant - Contact) Eric Heisserer as Himself (Screenwriter - Arrival) Roland Emmerich as Himself (Director / Screenwriter - Independence Day)
Sidney Perkowitz as Himself (Physicist / Science Writer - Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and The End of The World)