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Faith of the Heart: What Enterprise‘s “Observer Effect” Taught Me About Compassion

I consider the Season 4 Star Trek: Enterprise episode “Observer Effect” my favorite episode of the most underrated series in the Star Trek franchise. Enterprise‘s fourth season is full of

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Discovery‘s “…But to Connect” in Review

Following on from the last couple of episodes, the crew of Discovery are faced with deciding how to handle the future of Zora, the ship’s increasingly self-aware and emotionally-engaged computer.

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What Discovery‘s “All Is Possible” Can Teach Us About Reconciliation

“He can’t do this alone. None of us can.” — Captain Michael Burnham There is nothing so unifying, and so divisive, as a widespread crisis. In season four of Discovery,

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Star Trek Generations review

With Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s series finale “All Good Things…” having carried with it the promise of forthcoming silver-screen action for TNG’s main cast, a lot of my friends

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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country review

When I first heard there was going to be a sixth film with the original cast of Star Trek, I must admit to having winced somewhat. Would the visual flavor

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Interview with Tara Rosling – Ni’Var President T’Rina

How did you get the job of playing T’Rina on Star Trek: Discovery? My agent called me in the fall of 2019 and told me I had a “self tape”

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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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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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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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