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As a student journo, naturally I covered the visit from Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in 1989

I recall just sort of telling the editors that I would be taking this story, thank you very much. I…

4 years ago

Sarek (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode 23) Aging with Dignity and Vulcan Mind-melds

Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. The Enterprise-D ferries Spock's father to a diplomatic meeting that will define his career…

4 years ago

Captain’s Holiday (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode 19) Picard’s Archeological Romance

Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. In the comic first act, the crew conspires to send a grumpy Picard on…

4 years ago

“This Is Probably Going to Kill Us:” How First ‘Star Trek’ Movie Avoided Disaster

This article left out someone important! Reassembling the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise (Shatner as Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Spock, DeForest…

5 years ago

Set Phasers to Teach!

Fans of Star Trek have thus already been introduced to the plays of William Shakespeare, and experienced intertextual analysis in action as…

5 years ago

Heart of Glory (TNG Rewatch, Season 1 Episode 20)

Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation after a 20-year break. In "Heart of Glory," we get our first real exploration…

6 years ago

Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch

I was in college and grad school during the original run of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994), and followed…

6 years ago

Lonely Among Us (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 6) Crew-posessing spark roams and a droid cosplays Holmes, that’s a-homecloud

Conflict between two species who petition for membership in the Federation turns out to be the B-plot. On its way…

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

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