******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** An ancient Earth space probe, radically upgraded and repurposed by alien technology, now seeks to eliminate Earth’s ‘infestation’ of irrational ‘biological units.’ What sounds like the short synopsis of 1979’s “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” (ST: TMP) also happens to be the plot of a 1967 episode of Star Trek: The Original Series…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, S2.6: Uhura’s backstory gets a little “Lost in Translation”…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** From the previews, it looked like legacy Star Trek character Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) would be facing her personal demons through nightmarish images that may or may not be real. The horror elements from the teasers brought to mind Star Trek: TNG’s “Night Terrors” and The Orville’s “Firestorm,” both of which…
Gorn with the Wind: A personal tour of Star Trek’s famed Vasquez Rocks location…
To Safely Go… During the current COVID pandemic, it’s difficult to find activities that are relatively low-risk for COVID transmission. My wife is fully immunized, but I’ve only had my first COVID-19 vaccination shot, so I’m not quite there yet. That in mind, we were looking for something safe to do during my teacher wife’s…