Made by Star Trek fans for Star Trek fans I’ve been a fan of writer Mark Altman since his days at Cinefantastique magazine, which was a must-read for me in my twenties and thirties. I’d later buy Altman’s books, including “The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek,” which he cowrote…
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Retro-Musings: Gene Roddenberry’s “The Questor Tapes” (1974)…
******CYBERNETIC SPOILERS!****** After the original Star Trek’s premature cancellation in 1969, its creator/producer Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991) whipped up a slew of sci-fi TV movie pilots he’d hoped would sell as a series. Several of them involved a cryogenically frozen 20th century man named ‘Dylan Hunt’ (Alex Cord/John Saxon) waking up in a dystopian future. The…
Star Trek: The Original Series; examining “Metamorphosis,” 55 years later…
*****55-YEAR OLD STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** The Star Trek Original Series (TOS) episode “Metamorphosis” was first broadcast via the NBC network on November 10th, 1967. This was a heady time for the sophomore series, with creator Gene Roddenberry producing, along with some terrific writing talent attached to the show, including script editor Dorothy Fontana (1939-2019), and prolific…