In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Yoda taught moviegoers something new about the Sith. There can be only two! Yoda explained that the Sith model was to have a Master and an Apprentice…
Some contributions to fandom cannot be summarized properly by one voice. The Sci-Fi Christian recognizes that one such contribution may be Dark Horse Comics Star Wars number 1. With characters from the original trilogy including…
I hesitate to say I enjoyed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey even more than I enjoyed John Carter, only because I know that won’t sound like high praise to most moviegoers. But if you read…
I’m no fan of snow. Growing up in southwest Texas, where we considered Christmas Days with temperatures in the sixties “cold,” I used to wish fervently for snow. But now that I must trudge through,…
“The people I create in there are more real to me than the people out here.” So Reginald Barclay confesses to Geordi midway through “Hollow Pursuits.” Barclay—Starfleet’s very own Walter Mitty, played to awkwardly painful…
“My father believed… the world wasn’t ready. What do you think?” Hm. The only really “off” moment seems to be Pa Kent considering, even for a second, that Clark should’ve let an innocent victim die…
If this list were a countdown instead of a chronological one, this episode would almost certainly hold first place. A dramatic, smart, and moving exploration of what happens when the Prime Directive is inadvertently broken,…
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,…
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