Special Guest Stars Steven Spielberg as Himself (Director / Producer) Ridley Scott as Himself (Director / Producer) George Lucas as Himself (Director / Producer) Christopher Nolan 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) Sigourney Weaver as Herself (Actor - Alien Franchise / Avatar) Whoopi Goldberg as Herself (Actor - Star Trek: The Next Generation) Alec Gillis as Himself (Creature Effects Designer - Alien Franchise) N.K. Jemisin as Herself (SF Author) Veronica Cartwright as Herself (Actor - Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1978)) Jeff Goldblum as Himself (Actor - Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1978)) Will Smith as Himself (Actor - Independence Day) Keanu Reeves as Himself (Actor - The Matrix Trilogy) Dean Devlin as Himself (Producer / Screenwriter - Independence Day) Douglas Trumbull as Himself (Visual Effects Director - Close Encounters of the Third Kind) Sean Lennon as Himself (Musician) Ken Liu as Himself (SF Author) Paul R. Frommer as Himself (Linguist - Avatar) Blair Davis as Himself (Professor / Author - 1950's Hollywood and The Rebirth of Low Budget Cinema) Jack Horner as Himself (Paleontologist / Advisor - Jurassic Park) Aaron Sims as Himself (Concept Artist - Stranger Things) Nalo Hopkinson as Herself (SF Author) Nnedi Okorafor as Herself (SF Author) DJ Spooky as Himself (Composer / Multimedia Artist) Paul W.S. Anderson as Himself (Director - AVP: Alien vs. Predator) 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)) Eric Heisserer as Himself (Screenwriter - Arrival) 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) James V. Hart as Himself (Screenwriter - Contact) Terri Tatchell as Herself (Screenwriter - District 9) 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)