Warp Factor Trek

The Star Trek Fan Website

Editor of WarpFactorTrek, Dan is an avid Star Trek fan who lives in Aberdeen, Scotland. Dan has loved Star Trek ever since discovering it in his childhood. He worked as an administrator, for six years, on the encyclopedic Star Trek website Memory Alpha, which involved studying the making of the various series and films. He has also written for the official Star Trek magazine, Star Trek Explorer; has qualified from a Star Trek course taught at Glasgow Clyde College; and coordinated the SubSpace Chatter (formerly The Scotch Trekker) YouTube channel, which regularly featured live interviews with the cast and crew of Star Trek.

The Animated Series’ “The Infinite Vulcan” in Review

Owing to budgetary limitations, Chekov wasn’t included in the cast of characters which transitioned from The Original Series to The Animated Series, instead replaced by Arex at the navigation station.

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The Animated Series’ “The Survivor” in Review

Seeing only this episode’s title, one might be fooled into thinking it’s the TNG episode “The Survivors”. It’s about an alien trying to fool the Enterprise crew. When it comes

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Star Trek: Holo-ween, Issue 2 in Review

This second issue follows up on issue 1’s climax that saw a partly Borg version of Redjac, from the TOS episode “Wolf in the Fold”, wreaking havoc on the crew

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Star Trek: Countdown in Review

This four-issue IDW comic prequels the 2009 Star Trek film, follows Star Trek: The Next Generation (particularly relevant to “Unification II” and Star Trek Nemesis), but conflicts with Star Trek:

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Star Trek: Holo-ween, Issue 1 in Review

In this debut issue of a new four-part TNG comics mini-series by IDW, fear starts to consume the Enterprise-D. Is this issue bloody fang-tastic? Summary In her log, Counselor Deanna

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The Animated Series’ “More Tribbles, More Troubles” in Review

Here’s a sequel to “The Trouble with Tribbles”. Does it measure up to its enormously popular progenitor? Are there any tribbles — I mean troubles — with this episode? Let’s

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very Short Treks’ “Walk, Don’t Run” in Review

Even though this might not be the most popular opinion, I’ve genuinely loved very Short Treks. Each episode has kept the viewer entertained while shedding new light on strange new

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The Animated Series’ “The Lorelei Signal” in Review

This episode is inspired by an alluring mythological figure. But is the episode itself as appealing? Summary Travelling through a mysterious sector where starships have disappeared, the Enterprise receives an

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The Animated Series’ “One of Our Planets is Missing” in Review

Here’s a predecessor to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. In this episode, an intergalactic cloud serves as a conceptual precursor to V’ger and Spock has a bizarre mind meld… Summary

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The Animated Series‘ “Yesteryear” in Review

Of all the episodes from Star Trek: The Animated Series, this installment has been discussed the most. I guided its Memory Alpha article to “Featured” status. Here, I’ll share my

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