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…
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono The third installment of our Sci-Fi News trilogy, in which we learn of another person possibly entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono What are the Top 5 things that are low quality, but have influenced us on some level? How did they change the way we think about a character…
Deep Space Nine frequently comes under fire from Star Trek fans for being “too dark,” “too militaristic,” “too grim”—in other words, too far from Gene Roddenberry’s bright, shining vision of the future. I used to…
What’s your favorite Christmas movie? Chances are your choice is self-evident—a seasonal standard like Miracle on 34th Street or A Christmas Story. Not many people would pick either of two science fiction films that debuted…
Despite the cautionary proverb about books and their covers, I not only judged but promised myself I’d buy David Mack’s Second Nature, the first entry in Pocket Books’ new Star Trek: Seekers series, as soon…
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