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Discovery‘s “Stormy Weather” in Review

Jonathan Frakes returns to the Director’s chair for a lower-key but much more focussed episode – which is appropriate, considering the subject matter, and plays as if it’s, in some

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Those Troublesome Tribbles

Almost everyone knows those little, lovely, fluffy balls that multiply whenever they can. The first time we saw Tribbles was in “The Trouble with Tribbles”, the fifteenth episode of Season

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Discovery‘s “The Examples” in Review

Examples, eh? Good examples to set, or bad examples? That’s the obvious question to instinctively ask, and, as it turns out, the answer is a mixture of both. As you’d

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Star Trek Online (STO) Review

A lot of Trekkies and Trekkers who are also gamers will doubtlessly be eager to play any Star Trek games. Today, I’d like to talk to you about one of

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Reaching for One Another: What Discovery‘s “Choose to Live” Can Teach Us About Connection

“Sometimes, the most important thing we can do is to reach for one another.” — Mister Saru When we first got the news that Doug Jones had shaved his head

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Producing Star Trek‘s 2nd pilot

The making of “Where No Man Has Gone Before” was an eventful period. Not only was the episode’s casting process officially a “go” from 11 June 1965 but so was,

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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier review

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier caused me some angst at the time of its release. As a young fan who only ever wanted to see Star Trek on the top, particularly

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The Fire and the Rose: A Reflection on Oblivion’s Gate

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave erelong. — Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 Very late last night, I read the last

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Star Trek Federation – The First 150 Years Review

A Suggestion for Your First Star Trek Book Books, books, books. So many books about Star Trek, from technical manuals to novels to short stories to comics; it is all

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Playing the Hand You’re Dealt: James Blish’s Adaptation of “Balance of Terror”

“Gene rewrote everything, but the original writers got the credit.“ So said Star Trek: The Original Series producer Robert Justman, according to Marc Cushman in his first volume of These

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