******FESARIUS-SIZED SPOILERS!****** As a kid watching Star Trek out of broadcast order in reruns during the 1970s and 1980s, I could always tell earlier episodes by their ‘growing pains’; uniforms without black collars, different paint/layout scheme for the ship’s interiors, Spock’s makeup tweaks, various terminology differences (“United Earth Space Probe Agency,” “Vulcanian” ), etc. First…
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s “Past Tense” Parts 1 & 2 foretells a future-present…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine two-parter “Past Tense” debuted 29 years ago this month (January 5th and January 12th, 1995), and it was set in the then-near future of 2024, which is now. The episode itself forecast a dark, vaguely fascistic era where homeless people are rounded up en masse and placed…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S2.8: “Under the Cloak of War” commits a few atrocities…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Last Time on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds… Forgive me for being so late with this column, as my wife and I have been battling matching cases of COVID since returning from San Diego Comic Con 2023 over a week ago. Even vaccinated, it’s been rough (I’m still not quite over it, as…