First it was my totally drop dead drum and bass favorite of the moment Spor that did it.
Then it was designers Laura and Kate Mulavy of Rodarte talking on Style.com about the influence of Star Wars on their Spring 2009 ready-to-wear collection at London Fashion Week.
Reinforced up by the look Hussein Chalayan showed at the same event:
Then to seal it, there's the opening titles sequence to X Factor:
There's a sci-fi bling thing going on...
...the dark, spiky turn-on of "somewhere else".