startrek

Where No One Has Gone Before (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 5) Wes’s warp-drive guru helps him save all the crew (he’s an ensign)

Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. While I wouldn't say this was a strong episode, of the first season episodes…

6 years ago

The Last Outpost (ST:TNG Rewatch. Season 1, Episode 4) Riker shouts from a cliff while Ferengi use whips, that’s a-facepalm

Rewatching ST:TNG after about a 20-year break. This odd episode introduced the Ferengi, a parody of the capitalist patriarchy. I…

6 years ago

Code of Honor (ST:TNG Rewatch — Season 1, Episode 3) Rehashed Amok Time plot that gets racist a lot, thats a-ffensive

Rewatching TNG after almost 20 years. (Yes, I know the show is older than that.) When the show first aired…

6 years ago

The Naked Now (Season 1, Episode 2: ST:TNG Rewatch) When a script that blows chunks makes the crew flirt like drunks, that’s a-rehash

With a large ensemble, we saw many scenes of one person infecting another, which got predictable after a while. Even after…

6 years ago

Encounter at Farpoint (Season 1, Episode 1: ST:TNG Rewatch) Picard gathers his crew, hates on kids, and meets Q, that’s a-pilot

Rewatching ST:TNG after almost 20 years. The series pilot Encounter at Farpoint reads as obviously padded. Yes, the ship was new…

6 years ago

Apparently, I needed to watch a supercut of doors and corridors from Star Trek.

I did in fact search YouTube for videos featuring corridors on the starship Enterprise. And I found this bizarrely satisfying…

7 years ago

STAR TREK’s Still as Relevant on the 50th Anniversary

In situations of change, it is natural for human beings to look for touchstones. As a human being, I had…

8 years ago

Franz Joseph and Star Trek’s Blueprint Culture

In 1977, when I was about nine, I saw the original Star Wars, and I certainly enjoyed it, but unlike…

8 years ago

Nerd Break! Listening To: Wilhelm Scream / Castle Thunder / Amen Break (While Watching Lights Blink in an Oft-recycled Sci-Fi Prop)

In order to provide some context for a blog post on a blinking lights prop we've all seen in dozens of…

9 years ago

The Geekling Worked a Shatner/Nimoy Tribute into Godspell

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…

9 years ago

Computer Interfaces in Star Trek’s “Assignment Earth”

I was watching classic Star Trek with my son a few days ago when I came across this scene, from…

10 years ago

Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first…

10 years ago

Desiderata (Nerdy Inspiration)

This is a little story about an inspirational prose poem from the 1920s, a repeatedly unsuccessful US presidential contender from…

10 years ago

Fun with Kirk and Spock

See the Enterprise. See the Enterprise go boldly. Go Go Go, Enterprise! Go Boldly! Join Kirk and Spock as they…

10 years ago

My geekling is not just pretending to be Spock…

...she's pretending to be "Spock in a Tree on Omicron Ceti III."

11 years ago

Proto iPads and Paper Coexist in Classic Star Trek

Rewatching the classic Trek episode "The Conscience of the King," which features a Shakespearean acting troupe. In one scene, McCoy…

11 years ago

Tweet: So proud…my eagle-eyed tween noticed the “James…

So proud...my eagle-eyed tween noticed the "James R. Kirk" tombstone in "Where No Man Has Gone Before." #startrek #tos #geeklings

11 years ago

An alternate universe

My plans to use a Chromebook over the weekend didn't go as well as I had hoped... In between family…

12 years ago