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Or, “When Star Trek Went MAD…Again” Mad Magazine (or MAD) was infamous for its impudent take on… well, everything. It spoofed, satirized, and skewered politics, social issues, fads, celebrities, music, etc., plus movies and TV shows. MAD took its first shot at Star Trek in 1967, at the start of...

While doing some research for an article, I bumbled into what may be the first Star Trek sendup on television, or at least network television, right at the start of Trek's second season. Sketch begins at 8:48 in the video if it doesn't automatically play from there. Around the same time MAD...

We're back! Okay, albeit in a fairly limited capacity due to complicated real-life concerns. For those who might not know what Fact Trek is, it's a project that began in 2020 as a spin-off from Michael Kmet's American Press Institute-twice-recommended Star Trek Fact Check Blog and moved from...

Stories change over time and with repetition, so it’s important to preserve early accounts wherever possible. Case in point, a radio interview with Gene Roddenberry recorded only 4.5 years after the Star Trek went off the air, and only months after the premier of its Saturday morning follow-up...

I'd not thought about this episode in years, but somehow it popped to mind last night and I realized something about the ending. Picard decided to investigate Admiral Jarok's claims about a Romulan base on Nelvana III, and gets confronted by two warbirds, but susprises the Romulans when...

Today is San Francisco Pride and given the recent SCOTUS decision implications I got thinking of the first two shorts I helped make/made for the 48 Hour Film Contests in 2007 and 2008. Both films were gay-themed, the latter, politically so. 2007's Secret Identity Crisis was the first: directed...

This is sorta a fanfilm of a different stripe. The year after Top Gun came out actual F-14 crews made a parody of it, apparently in glorious VHS. Is it good? Ha! What do you think?

Peach Wookie directed @Jeyl over here to share video of tweaks done to some TMPDE stuff... ...so I dug up some tests I did messing with the theatrical cut from 2016, below: 2016 Rough experiments carried out on there theatrical cut of ST—TMP. Titles messed with (experiment of a burn in...

Albeit these are not fan-films per se, they are send-ups of genre films, I thought they were interesting/charming in a Super 8 fashion, having been made by teens in the era of that film. And relevant in the aftermath of Yorktown. The editing/sound gets incredibly rough in places. In fact, in the...

A fan film portraying events aboard the Constellation and its encounter with the Planet Killer. I wish I'd known they were making this because I could have told them the details of that encounter spelled out in Spinrad's story outlines. Some really preposterous scaling issues, with the titular...

Let’s be blunt. Did NBC give Star Trek the finger? On September 16, 1968, four days before Star Trek’s third season premiere of “Spock’s Brain,” the second season opener of NBC’s Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In featured the very first Flying Fickle Finger of Fate award. That dubious honor—which...

As usual, @Harvey and I (with the able assist of @Ryan Thomas Riddle) are giving TrekBBSers an advance peek at our latest blog post, where we take to task the historicity of the debut episode of The Center Seat. Below are a few of excepts. If you find it compelling, you can read the entire and...

Missed this before, but over on HeroCollector Rich Handley recently posted a detailed review/overview of @Mark 2000 's Star Trek The Webcomic, covering the entire series to date, concluding with: IDW, take note: if any fan-made comic has ever deserved print publication, it would be this one...

Mostly @Harvey and I post over in The Original Series forum as our FACT TREK project mostly focuses on that series and the movies with that cast, but occasionally we do a piece of broader Trek franchise focus, and this is one of them, so I'm posting here. EMBLEM-ATIC (link) Nothing symbolizes...

The episode was posted over in the "Farragut Forward" is back on (and soon the "Starship Farragut" finale "Homecoming") thread, but as we've often had Grading & Discussion threads for episodes of major fanfilm releases, complete with a poll, I figured I'd do one here. ¡¡¡SPOILER ALERT!!! You...

The above image started floating around social media in May. That article, from April 1963, dates from almost eleven months prior to when Gene Roddenberry pitched Star Trek to Oscar Katz at Desilu. Yes, it's authentic. We did our own research—as did Snopes—and that's a genuine article. We...

Just put out our latest bit o' Fact Trekking here (link)... Leonard Nimoy is so firmly associated with the character of Mr. Spock that it’s difficult to imagine anyone else originating the role. This remains so even in the wake of Zachary Quinto and Ethan Peck’s interpretations of the...

Omega IV, July 4... coincidence? ;) Anyway, looking at the scripts the Constitution as mangled by the Yangs doesn't start "E Plebnista," as fans often say/write, but is written out sans L as "Ee’d pebnista nordor formor pur fektunun…” I still think this episode feels like the Bird trying to...

OTD 7 years ago the full Starship Exeter: "The Tressaurian Intersection" fanfilm was finally released. Since that time—and sans any love from the sites which heavily promoted New Voyages and Continues—it's exceeded 1.16 million views to date, and the viewership remains steady and has yet to go...

January 1972 saw the first large Star Trek convention, Star Trek Lives!, held at the Statler-Hilton Hotel in New York City. It was the first Trek-focused con to have people from the show actually in attendance, and on Saturday the 22nd these special guests did three panels. The first we...