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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock review

As eager as anyone for the Star Trek adventure to continue, I remember getting really excited by a phone conversation with my dad about the upcoming third Star Trek film.

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Making Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

One of the things Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan always gets praised for is how it was done largely by people who had never done anything with Star Trek before.

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan review

It’s largely accepted that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan has withstood the test of time so well that it’s still the benchmark by which all the other films

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Am I a Moron or Did I Make a Star Trek Discovery?

Picture it… Genesis cave… 2285. A marooned faction of Starfleet crew, led by the intrepid Admiral James T. Kirk, are sitting around, awaiting their fate. With them are brilliant scientists,

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture review

The year was 1979. I was five years old, my parents had gotten divorced in June, and I had just started Kindergarten. However, I still had my bi-weekly weekend visits

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture Theatrical Release Overview

What were the precise conditions, the cinematic environment, that led to the release of the first Star Trek feature film, 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture? That’s the question I

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This Simple Feeling – A Love Letter to Star Trek: The Motion Picture

I will never forget the way I felt when I saw The Motion Picture for the very first time. I was absolutely swept up in the world of the starship

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The Readiness is All: Growing Into Appreciation of Star Trek VI

“There’s another way to survive: mutual trust and help.”  — Jim Kirk to Science Officer Mara, TOS: “Day of the Dove” Of all the Star Trek films, The Undiscovered Country

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Discovery‘s “Choose to Live” in Review

Following what was effectively a two-part opener to the season, the third episode has a fairly standalone main plotline, and B and C plots with some closure and some changes

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Sitting with Pain: What “Anomaly” Can Teach Us About Grief

“If loss has taught us anything, it is that each of us must sit with pain in our own way.” – Mister Saru, “Anomaly” Nearly two years into the pandemic,

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