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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

Five Leadership Lessons From James T. Kirk – Forbes

Both Spock and McCoy are frequently at odds with each other, recommended different courses of action and bringing very different…

13 years ago

Soon I’ll start live-tweeting part 2 of #BuckRodgers , “The Plot to Kill a City”

Soon I'll start live-tweeting part 2 of #BuckRodgers, "The Plot to Kill a City" Opening chase in a cubicle farm without…

14 years ago

Star Trek The Exhibition at The Franklin Institute

Set phasers to "meh"! My wife arranged a visit to The Franklin Institute a couple of weeks ago. We didn't…

15 years ago

Star Trek Review (brief, no spoilers)

Last night, I went to see the new Star Trek movie with a member of the computer science faculty. A…

16 years ago

‘Star Trek’ Fans Put Kirk’s Command Chair in Their Homes

THERE is nothing particularly unusual about the living room of the two-story town house that Scott Veazie shares with his…

16 years ago

Ricardo Montalban will always be Khan to me

Ricardo Montalban (1920-2009). My kids know him as the grandfather in Spy Kids 2 and 3.Let's hope they lay him…

16 years ago

Analytics According to Captain Kirk

Besides not beaming down, another factor that showed to increase the survival rate of the red-shirts was the nature of…

17 years ago

Shakespare and Star Trek

With all the gratuitous use of Shakespeare language and imagery in the series (including its four spin-offs, a successful franchise…

17 years ago

Damn Vulcans, ruining this federation…

Consider their treatment of Mr. Spock. Almost every episode, Dr. McCoy heckles him over his logic and even uses "green-blooded"…

18 years ago

Leonard Nimoy (Spock) – Music Video

--Leonard Nimoy (Spock) - Music Video (YouTube) Watching this video caused me so much deep pain that the only way I…

18 years ago

When Should You Tell, Not Show?

Writers are always beaten over the head with the admontion "Show, don't tell." It's not bad advice by any means.…

18 years ago

Captain Kirk reveals he won't go boldly into space

The 75-year-old actor said: "I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my…

18 years ago

My Love Affair With Star Trek

There was no separating the two Treks, the vacuous and the visionary. It's no coincidence that one of the most…

18 years ago

Trekkies have a new leader: 'Star' treatment for J.J.

Project, to be penned by Abrams and "MI3" scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto OrciRoberto Orci, will center on the early…

19 years ago

Up With Grups — The Ascendant Breed of Grown-Ups Who are Redefining Adulthood

Also known as yupster (yuppie + hipster), yindie (yuppie + indie), and alterna-yuppie. Our preferred term, grup, is taken from…

19 years ago

Spock the Sith Slayer

As befits its beginnings, the genre is planted firmly in pop culture's nerd division. The films most often given the…

19 years ago

Star Trek Personality Test

--Star Trek Personality Test Apparently I'm the middle-aged, toupee-sporting movie-era Kirk, though I'm 36 now, which is about the age…

20 years ago