Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. While I wouldn't say this was a strong episode, of the first season episodes…
Rewatching ST:TNG after about a 20-year break. This odd episode introduced the Ferengi, a parody of the capitalist patriarchy. I…
With a large ensemble, we saw many scenes of one person infecting another, which got predictable after a while. Even after…
Rewatching ST:TNG after almost 20 years. The series pilot Encounter at Farpoint reads as obviously padded. Yes, the ship was new…
I did in fact search YouTube for videos featuring corridors on the starship Enterprise. And I found this bizarrely satisfying…
In situations of change, it is natural for human beings to look for touchstones. As a human being, I had…
In 1977, when I was about nine, I saw the original Star Wars, and I certainly enjoyed it, but unlike…
In order to provide some context for a blog post on a blinking lights prop we've all seen in dozens of…
My geekling daughter, who in Willy Wonka flashed Mr. Spock's Vulcan greeting during Veruca Salt's contract-signing scene, also worked a Star Trek reference into…
I was watching classic Star Trek with my son a few days ago when I came across this scene, from…
Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first…
This is a little story about an inspirational prose poem from the 1920s, a repeatedly unsuccessful US presidential contender from…
...she's pretending to be "Spock in a Tree on Omicron Ceti III."
Rewatching the classic Trek episode "The Conscience of the King," which features a Shakespearean acting troupe. In one scene, McCoy…
So proud...my eagle-eyed tween noticed the "James R. Kirk" tombstone in "Where No Man Has Gone Before." #startrek #tos #geeklings
My plans to use a Chromebook over the weekend didn't go as well as I had hoped... In between family…