****GUARDIAN OF FOREVER-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!**** “City on the Edge of Forever” is a highly praised episode of the original Star Trek series (TOS). It’s the episode that usually makes many fan favorites’ list. Is it one of my personal favorites? Yes, absolutely. But could it have been better? That’s debatable. For much of my Star…
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“Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” (1986); the ‘one with the whales’ is still seaworthy…
34 years ago this November, I went to see “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” with my Trekkie sister over Thanksgiving weekend. I was a month shy of my 20th birthday, and still filled with much of the optimism for the years ahead that is often reflected in the Star Trek universe. Star Trek III…
The case for a possible Captain Pike “Star Trek” series…
****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Captain Christopher Pike. With Star Trek: Picard on hiatus and Star Trek: Discovery‘s 3rd season slated to return (sometime?) this year, I thought it might be a good opportunity to explore the prospects for a possible new Star Trek series, headlined by none other than Captain Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter/Bruce Greenwood/Anson Mount), the…
San Diego Comic Con 2020 has been cancelled. Here’s to Comic Cons past…
San Diego Comic Con 2020 is cancelled. It’s only been a little over a month since my state went on self-isolation status during the pandemic, and remembering things like going to the movies or going out to eat are beginning to look like grainy silent footage of flapper parties and speakeasies from the 1920s. As…
“Star Trek: The Motion Picture” (1979), back on the main viewer…
Return to Tomorrow… Sunday, September 15th, 2019. A few months shy of the 40th anniversary of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”’s debut (Dec. 7th), and my local AMC Theatre chain in coordination with Fathom Events had a special weekend screening of this film that I last saw theatrically about 37th years ago (on a double-bill…
Star Trek III: 35 years of “The Search For Spock”…
The end of my high school junior year (June of 1984), a question long simmering in my Star Trek-obsessed brain was about to be answered; will the late Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) come back from the dead in the new Star Trek movie? Of course, even at 17 I knew the obvious answer was yes….
“Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” throws a nice retirement party…
“Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” (TUC) was something of a redemption for the Trek franchise after the drop (both in quality & box-office) of “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.” The production team had a mere 18 months to put together a movie in time for Star Trek’s then-25th anniversary in 1991. That team…
Trekker Treat? Star Trek TOS: “Catspaw”…
I absolutely adore Halloween. It is easily my favorite holiday. See: This is Halloween: 25 years of “The Nightmare Before Christmas”… I also love Star Trek (that’s fairly obvious if you’ve seen the rest of this site). Like Halloween, I’ve loved Star Trek since I was a kid. It is one of my all-time favorite entertainment franchises,…
“Have you ever piloted a Star Trek out of spacedock?” Taking a look at the Star Trek TV pilots, Part 1….
“Star Trek” is a television phenomenon that, like legendary Vulcan Surak’s katra, refuses to die. It’s seen many incarnations. It constantly changes, yet remains somewhat familiar. The mythology/history of the Star Trek universe has, over the course of 50-plus years, become dense enough to make newcomers more than a bit wary. This is…
Bad Robot Trek movies part 2, “Star Trek Into Darkness” (2013)…
Continuing from Part One of this series of posts, it’s time to discuss… … and I’ll be completely honest; “Star Trek Into Darkness” is my least favorite of the Bad Robot-produced Star Trek movies. In fact, it’s one of my least favorite Star Trek movies of the entire Star Trek movie series. After the wild, unexpectedly…
Musings on the Bad Robot Star Trek movies, part 1: “Star Trek” (2009)…
It occurred to me recently that I’ve not yet done a post on the three Bad Robot-produced “Star Trek” films. I’ve discussed them so often with friends, random strangers at conventions and in online message boards that I feel like I’ve already covered them extensively. Initially I was going to do a single post…
“Shall we give the Enterprise a proper shakedown?” Re-evaluating Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released in December of 1979 and, while financially successful, it was critically panned within an inch of its life. The critical reception was so bad that, for awhile, the newly-resurrected Star Trek franchise seemed unsure of how to go forward. Its 1982 sequel, “The Wrath of Khan”, was…