Michael S. Poteet is a teaching elder (ordained minister) in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a freelance writer-researcher and wordsmith. His most recent publication is the youth study guide for Half Truths (Abingdon Press). Follow him on Twitter (@WriterMPoteet).
I never followed the Star Wars Expanded Universe (now “demoted” to “Legends” status), but I have been following the Disney/Lucasfilm story group’s efforts to create a coherent pre-Episode VII canon, at least in the Marvel…
Emma Watson was big news in my neck of the woods this week. According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the University of Pennsylvania’s independent student newspaper, the 24-year-old star of the Harry Potter film franchise had…
Today would have been Leonard Nimoy’s 84th birthday. When he died last month, news outlet after news outlet, in its search for appropriate footage, seemed to reach for Spock’s death scene from the end of…
I confess: Today, I’m cheating. Instead of sticking to one great Shatner and Nimoy Star Trek moment, I’m recommending three. Watch these clips one after the other, and then we’ll talk (sans “colorful metaphors”). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPztpGBrfD8…
It’s the episode that established the goatee as the tell-tale facial hair of evil doppelgangers everywhere! An ion storm causes the transporter to swap Kirk and the rest of his landing party with their sinister…
In “This Side of Paradise,” scripted by the incomparable D.C. Fontana, alien spores infect the crew, enticing them to abandon their posts for an idyllic but stagnant life on a failed Earth colony. Not even…
I’ve always thought the cosmic coincidence that William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy were born only four days apart—March 22, 1931 and March 26, 1931, respectively—ought to be cause (or excuse) enough for some sort of…
When Leonard Nimoy died two weeks ago, I felt sad, of course, as many did. I also felt surprised at the outpouring of grief, admiration and affection that flowed from the general public. I’d always…
At dinner a few nights ago, my seven-year-old daughter stopped singing “Let It Go” long enough to ask, “Dad, who’s your favorite Disney princess?” She didn’t think I’d have an answer. But I did. “Princess…
Did you miss(y) her? The BBC has confirmed, via a deliciously clever video, that Michelle Gomez will be returning to Doctor Who as the Master in series 9. Request permission to squee? I doubt the…
