Tag: Star Trek
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Singularity”
“You’re lucky you’re a decent engineer because you obviously don’t know anything about writing.’” The galaxy is a death-trap, filled with pockets of space, nebula, and gas giants that drive ordinary, well-mannered humans nuts. This being a large galaxy, there’s a whole variety of mental conditions to be derived from spacial events. In “The Tholian…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth”
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” I remember reading an article in the old Trek fanzine published and then re-printed for a paperback compilation in which writer Russell Bates was required to defend himself on charges of stealing the central idea of the second season episode, “Who Mourns…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “The Muse”
“Before I met her, my world was… a much smaller place. I kept to myself, I didn’t need anyone else, and I took pride in that. The truth is, I was ashamed of what I was, afraid that if people saw how truly different I was, they would recoil from me. Lwaxana saw how different…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “A Night in Sickbay”
“I’m told I’ve offended these people twice. Once for eating in front of them. The second time, I don’t even know what for. But if their carelessness has hurt Porthos or God forbid ends up killing him, they’re going to find out what being offended is all about!” Curiously, this is one of the most…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Albatross”
“Jim, if I’m ever in jail again, don’t send that Vulcan to release me. Just let me rot!” I love how the inhabitants of Dramia wait for the Enterprise to finish delivering necessary medical supplies before they put McCoy under arrest for charges equivalent to genocide. Pretty sneaky, Sis! This brings out the anger in…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “The City on the Edge of Forever”
“I am my own beginning. My own ending.” I dreaded writing about “The City on the Edge of Forever” not only because it is considered the greatest single episode of Star Trek, past and present, ever made but also because so much has already been written. Harlan Ellison himself wrote a book on the subject.…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “First Con-tact”
“The sand is dancing.” When we last left the Ferengi (Deep Space Nine’s series finale, “What You Leave Behind”), it seemed they were on the cusp of a grand experiment. The experiment involved the liberation of females. Sorry if I’m spoiling a 23-year-old episode for everybody but Grand Nagus Zek (played by Wallace Shawn) retires…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Crisis Point”
“You don’t create “hero”-types and then make them completely unlikeable and unrelatable unless you have an ax to grind like say Rebecca Sugar, the creator of Steven Universe. It becomes an even bigger problem when you use your writing as a form of personal therapy.”
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Veritas”
“Hey! What are you two doing back here? You’ve drawn my attention.” Is there something wrong with me? Is there … something I’m just not getting about Lower Decks? Has humor evolved to such a point that you have to be of a certain age to understand it? Is it that the new crop of…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Evolution”
“I’m not sure I’d want my mother flying through space with me. No, I take that back. I am sure. I wouldn’t want her.” The Next Generation’s second season ended with a whimper after the Writer’s Strike of 1988 necessitated truncating television seasons. The show came back strong in September of 1989 with “Evolution,” a…
Misadventures in Blissville 