For the uninitiated, First Contact Day is a holiday in Star Trek. It celebrates April 5th, 2063, the day that aliens (namely the Vulcans) make first contact with us. To the rest of us, it represents one of the most important future dates in human history. I believe that there is life elsewhere in the…
I’ve been a Star Trek fan my whole life. My mom was a fan in the sixties and we used to watch the original series together on reruns when I was little. I watched The Next Generation and Deep Space 9 faithfully. When Voyager came out, I tried to watch when I could, but it…
I saw The Photograph recently. I liked it: solid story, likable characters, good acting. I recommend it. One thing about it jumped out at me. Somewhere about midway through the movie, one of the characters swore. He used the F-word followed shortly thereafter by the D-word. I can’t be sure, since I don’t have a…
I recently re-watched Star Trek The Next Generation (aka TNG). I enjoyed the experience. I hadn’t seen many of the episodes since they originally aired. It’s interesting how differently I view the show now. It was a formative show for me. I was twelve when it debuted. There was a lot that went over my head…
There’s a great scene in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine where our heroes (Captain Sisko and his officers) are battling the villains (the Jem’Hadar), and offer them the chance to surrender: That phrase, “The order of things,” has stuck with me since I first watched this episode all the way back in 1997. For the Jem’Hadar,…
Today is the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek, which is a good time to ask a basic question: What is Star Trek? As humans, we haven’t even been able to venture beyond our own moon in our hundreds of thousands of years of existence. Our human brains are limited- there are sounds that we can’t hear,…
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I have been using Netflix to re-watch Star Trek. And I mean all of the Star Treks. I’ve already completed DS9 and the original series. Both were excellent. I just finished the animated series. I had never seen any of the animated series before, so I figured I’d give my impressions. For starters, it was…
I just finished watching all three seasons of Star Trek on Netflix. It seems to be becoming a tradition to record my thoughts when I finish a series, so here goes. Star Trek was a really great show. Not every episode was great, but every episode was trying for something. I’d always rather watch people…
I’m sure you have heard that Leonard Nimoy died. I, like almost everyone else, will forever think of him as Mr. Spock. And I, unlike most people, will forever think of Mr. Spock as my first philosophy teacher. Of course everyone associates Spock, and all Vulcanians (that’s what they were called in the original TV…
