Tag: Star Trek
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STAR TREK REWIND: “The Jihad”
“My people are cautious, what you would call ‘cowards.’” The Soul of Skorr sounds like a talisman in a video game, a Myst-like (remember Myst?) connotation that requires the unlocking of boxes, scanning of maps in order to locate the lighthouse that reflects the Sun’s rays to pin-point the exact location of the Ark of…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Tomorrow is Yesterday”
“The truth is, I’m a little green man from Alpha Centauri. A beautiful place. You ought to see it.“ Time travel. We hinted around with it in “The Naked Time,” flirted with it a little, but the top-notch science fiction writers of the time knew that theme could be a crutch if over-used. The majority…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Brother”
“This is the power of math, people!” Let’s be honest. There’s only one reason anybody would be interested in continuing to watch Star Trek: Discovery, and it has nothing to do with this assortment of characters, nor Burnham, nor Georgiou, nor visual effects, battle scenes, or Klingon sex. It’s about the promise of Spock. Spock.…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Shock Wave, Part I,” “Shock Wave, Part II”
“We’re going to stumble, make mistakes – I’m sure more than a few before we find our footing. But we’re going to learn from those mistakes. That’s what being human is all about.” The trouble with the “Tinker Bell” character (though originally written as a stand-alone construct) is that it too often becomes a crutch…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Strange New Worlds”
“Hit it.”* SPOILERS ABOUND! BEWARE! If you remove all of the random details of “Strange New Worlds,” the pilot episode of the eponymous series (this latest entry into the Star Trek franchise), and concentrate on the story alone, this is not a terrible episode. A planet in a first contact situation is revealed to have…
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SHIP TO SHIP: A Star Trek Podcast “Hump or Death”
SHIP TO SHIP: A Star Trek Podcast “Hump or Death” https://archive.org/download/ShipToShip208Complete/Ship%20to%20Ship%20208%20Complete.mp3 As logical, as progressive, and enlightened as Vulcans are depicted, they must surrender themselves to bizarre backward traditions and biology. Tonight, we discuss three key episodes from The Original Series and Star Trek: Voyager: “Amok Time,” “Blood Fever,” and “Body and Soul.” Our YouTube…
Misadventures in Blissville 