Making Contact. In late November of 1996, I took my non-Trekkie sister with me to see the new Star Trek movie, “First Contact.” I salute my sister for her open-mindedness since 1994’s “Star Trek: Generations” received a lukewarm response, despite my own fondness for it ( In defense of “Star Trek: Generations”). For “First Contact,”…
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Stardate: February 16th, 2008. “Star Trek: The Exhibition” in Long Beach, California…
For 22 years (off and on) “Star Trek: The Exhibition”, a traveling museum of Star Trek props, costumes, recreations and interactive displays, has quietly toured around the world; beginning in Mosney, Ireland in 1994 and ending in Shanghai, China in 2016. I was lucky enough (living in California) to have seen it on two separate…
The issue of Star Trek and its continuity….
Since the debut of the CBS-All Access series “Star Trek Discovery,” I’ve read a lot of concerns on Twitter and message boards with some Trek fans having a hard time reconciling the various inconsistencies within the 51 year canon of Star Trek lore. In particular, the new series is drawing ire from fans who…
Musings of a Middle-Aged Geek 