After “Encounter at Farpoint,” arguably no episode from TNG’s first two seasons proved as pivotal as “Q Who.” Its introduction of Ensign Sonya Gomez as a protégé (and, I suspect, potential love interest) for Geordi…
Ok, it’s probably not as suspenseful as when you watched “The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1” and had to wait out the long summer of 1990 to find out what would happen next. But,…
Like several of Star Trek’s most memorable episode titles, “The Icarus Factor” derives from classical mythology. You probably remember the story of Icarus. His father, Daedalus, designed and constructed labyrinth for King Minos of Crete,…
Star Trek can serve up courtroom drama as riveting as anything the myriad Law & Order series have to offer (without, alas, Mike Post’s musical chung-chung). Captain Kirk took the stand several times (“Court Martial,”…
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- November 1, 2012
- Tagged as: Star Trek
Author, speaker, and film scholar Kevin C. Neece recently invited me to contribute a post to his blog The Undiscovered Country Project, which focuses specifically on the intersections of Star Trek and Christian faith. TUCP…
It’s a shame “The Child” kicked off TNG’s second season in late November, 1988. About a month later would’ve been more appropriate, since this episode is the closest Star Trek has ever come to telling…
If the mainstream press understood the world of superhero comics better, where “game-changing” Events and “earth-shattering” story arcs happen once every six months or so, we probably wouldn’t see as many breathless stories as we…
Rewatching “Skin of Evil” reminded me of an incident from seminary. On the first day of a course about loss and grief, our professor gave us an unusual assignment: he wanted us to plan our…
If you’re a fan of any sci-fi TV show—and since you’re reading this blog I’m going to assume you’re a fan of at least one—you know about The Shaming. The Shaming happens like this: You’re…
Co-written by popular fantasy and science fiction author Diane Duane (and loosely based on her 1983 Star Trek novel The Wounded Sky), “Where No One Has Gone Before” blew my tenth grade mind when it…