Are you one of those folks who can’t afford to attend a Star Trek convention, or for whom traveling to one is physically challenging or prohibitively expensive? Well, actors/hosts Ryan T. Husk and Cirroc Lofton from “The 7th Rule” podcast (link: The 7th Rule on YouTube) have got you covered with Virtual Trek Con 5,…
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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…
Log entry for Star Trek Las Vegas 2022, aka “The 56-Year Mission”…
The Search for Space? The annual Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, renamed ‘the 56-Year Mission’ due to a lost license with Paramount/CBS, has returned to Las Vegas, has returned to the strip, but in a different venue this year–Bally’s Hotel and Casino–due to the refurbishment of its traditional host, The Rio, just down the…