Meet the Virtual Family. Star Trek has been (“and always shall be”) a part of my life for as long as I can remember, and for the foreseeable future. To varying degrees, I enjoy the show in all of its incarnations, past and present. I’m as old as The Original Series (both of us debuted…
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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…
In defense of “Star Trek: Generations”
Twenty three years ago, on a brisk November night (brisk for California, anyway) a friend and I went out to the first night’s showing of Star Trek Generations (GEN). The theater we saw GEN in was a relatively new multiplex only about a mile and a half from my old apartment, alongside the train…
Happy Life Day! The holiday season in fandom…
I’m of a certain generation (Gen Xers) who remember the Charlie Brown “Peanuts” holiday specials (with the Christmas and “Great Pumpkin” specials being standouts), and the stop-motion Rankin-Bass produced Christmas specials such as “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”, “Little Drummer Boy” and others. These were fond childhood memories of TV…