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This is an essay I wrote just because: "That green-blooded son of a bitch! It's his revenge for all the arguments he lost!" --Dr. McCoy, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Star Trek fans don't just watch a lot of Star Trek. We read a lot of it, too: novelizations of episodes and movies...

For all the noise made about Cumberbatch as an actor, I think Bana managed to be more interesting in what was a terribly underwritten part. Though much of his performance was generic sci-fi villain, he did have moments like "Hi, Chris. I'm Nero." Cumberbatch was NOTHING but generic sci-fi...

For that matter, would he have followed through and destroyed the Enterprise had Kirk not bluffed? I think the answer is no, to both questions. He probably thought Kirk's transparent ruse was cute. Likewise, he probably had no intention of killing anyone, he just wanted to see the funny...

For decades, this bugged me: "This death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world; a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one..." Spock didn't give his life to protect the Genesis Planet, I...

It always puzzled me: Vulcans turned to logical non-emotionailty because, we've been told, the other option was passionate self-destruction. However, the Romulans didn't follow that path and they--right up until the Hobus supernova (and that wasn't self-inflicted)--seem to be doing just fine...

"It knows only that it needs, Commander. But, like so many of us, it does not know what." --Mr. Spock Much has been made of Star Trek: The Motion Picture's debt to the second season Star Trek episode "The Changeling." The basic outline is all but identical: earth space probe encounters advanced...

I want to preface this by saying I really like the last two Trek movies--they are in the the 3 and 4 slots after TMP and TWoK. And, while I don't view them as anything other than complete reboots, with more in common with the off-Trek of my childhood--the Gold Key Comics, the Peter Pan story...

I always thought Chekov should have been Sulu's exec. That's all, really.

Correct me if I'm wrong--please--but isn't there dialogue in the film where the crew considers the possibility B-4 is Lore and Data says B-4 is too primitive to be Lore or did I imagine it? Lore is mentioned in the movie, right?

I recently wrote this essay for a group project and figured, since I post here so rarely, I should maybe share it here, too: If it seems churlish not to spend this post celebrating any one of several excellent teachers I had in high school and transcendent professors I had at Rutgers-New...

I've noticed that, in pop culture depictions of trekkies, the fan will often name an episode by first giving its production number, e.g.: "In Episode Number 2, 'Where No Man...'" Does anybody do this in the real world? I was watching an episode of Frazier when I noticed this, but it was also in...

http://blip.tv/evilolive3000films/country-cooking-the-unauthorized-fandaptation-2891299 Friends of mine did this. Don't blame me.

Anybody else find this exchange in "The 11th Hour" to be a little chilling. It seems as if the 11th Doctor, unlike 9 and 10, is fully embracing his good fortune in being the last of his kind. I know this comes right on the heels of "The End of Time" (more or less) but it still had a creepy...

In the TOS episode "The Ultimate Computer," Dr. Daystrom says of the M-5 "I created it!" with almost identical inflection as what Benny gives the line in "FBtS." Wicked coincidence* that, since, like Benny, Daystrom is a frustrated black genius. Anyway, I like the idea that the ultimate Trek...

That's because Spock and Nero did not travel into their own past. They instead travelled into the past of an alternate universe, much like the Defiant did when it slid out from "The Tholian Web" and into "In a Mirror Darkly." That explains all the implicit pre-existing discrepancies between...

Ironic that this film would choose a tagline barely altered from a late 80s/early 90s campaign for Oldsmobiles which had spots starring both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy (and their respective daughters). As we know, Oldsmobile is still going strong! Um. Never mind.

As in Chuck Cunningham, that is. In early episodes of Happy Days, Richie had an older brother named Chuck. As the show went on, the character disappeared, his elder brother duties taken over by an increasingly cuddly Fonz. By the time the show ended, it was as if he never was, with Howard...

To understanding the movie's philosophy, that is. The red matter of the movie looks llike like nothing so much as red gumballs (particularly in that one delightfully surreal sequence where the screen is filled with out-of-focus globules of the stuff), signalling us that this movie is a bubblegum...

Even when I was a kid, I never understood how Trek squared its "we humans have learned to live together as peaceful beings and put aside our savage tendencies and thus we have reached the stars" pollyannaism (expressed even more strongly with the Vulcan variant of "we learned to completely...

http://www.ifilm.com/video/2910042?cmpnid=746&pt=if&lkdes=VID_2910042 If this guy doesn't post here, he ought to.